FA Cup Upsets Game – Round Three One-off Weekend Game Here’s a fun competition, and it’s a one-off game, so make a prediction and then sit back and enjoy! It’s been done a dozen times now, so we know it works. It’s a game orientated to a few special friendly forums, namely: Reading - Royals Rendezvous Blackpool - Back Henry Street Peterborough – The Posh Forum Sunderland – Black Cat Chat Newcastle – Toon Forum Watford – WFC Forums WBA – Baggies Zone Leeds – LUFC Talk Liverpool – Talk the Reds Bournemouth - CourtOffside How do I play, you’ll ask?! Well, have a look at the teams on the FA Cup Round THREE programme below - there are Premier, Championship, League 1, League 2, and National Conference teams included on the list. I'd like to invite you to call for FIVE matches where you see a possible upset on the cards! By upset, it must obviously be a lower league side winning (or at least drawing) against a higher league side. You haven't got to give any score, simply guess the match of the successful 'smaller clubs' or ‘minnow’ teams! If you get it wrong doesn’t matter at all, you don’t get awarded points for that particular game or games – and that will surely apply to all of us. So … how do you get points? If in your selected games a lower league side does indeed win you have 3 points. If the lower league side force a replay then it is 1 point (note - doesn’t matter if they later lose the replay). But ... bonus - if you choose an real ‘upset’ (win/draw) – a team from a league TWO tiers OR MORE lower their opponents then those points are DOUBLED. To help you, use the asterisks by the games list to make an easy-peasy selection: one asterisk (*) = one tier difference / two asterisks (**) = two or more tier differences / Meanwhile “ --- ” on the list of matches means this prediction is not valid, don’t include these options as it’s no cup upset if teams are from the same tier league! This is the real betting man's stuff - the more you risk with tier difference the more points you get, but there again, an upset is much less likely!! So you need to weigh things up!! THIRD ROUND DRAW Friday 8th January 2016 ** Exeter v Liverpool Saturday 9th January 2016 ** Wycombe v Aston Villa --- Arsenal v Sunderland * Birmingham v Bournemouth * Brentford v Walsall --- Bury v Bradford * Colchester v Charlton ** Doncaster v Stoke ** Eastleigh v Bolton ** Everton v Dag & Red ** Hartlepool v Derby --- Huddersfield v Reading --- Hull v Brighton ** Ipswich v Portsmouth --- Leeds v Rotherham --- Middlesbrough v Burnley ** Newport v Blackburn ** Northampton v MK Dons --- Norwich v Man City --- Nottm Forest v QPR * Peterborough v Preston --- Sheff Wed v Fulham --- Southampton v Crystal Palace --- Watford v Newcastle * West Brom v Bristol City * West Ham v Wolves ** Man Utd v Sheff Utd Sunday 10th January 2016 ** Oxford Utd v Swansea --- Carlisle v Yeovil ** Chelsea v S****horpe --- Tottenham v Leicester * Cardiff v Shrewsbury Have fun - answers on this thread please - CAREFUL closing time BEFORE KICK-OFF of the first Friday match [8th January] Points and the placings for this comp will appear on this thread within a couple of days after the last match for this round has been played … I’ll give both the complete points for your forum, and the top dozen overall positions on all forums together for even more prestigious bragging rights! Good luck! daib0
My selection is: ** Wycombe v Aston Villa * Colchester v Charlton ** Eastleigh v Bolton ** Northampton v MK Dons * Peterborough v Preston Likewise, you just give your FIVE upsets matches!
Wycombe v Aston Villa Colchester v Charlton Eastleigh v Bolton Northampton v MK Dons Peterborough v Preston
** Exeter v Liverpool ** Wycombe v Aston Villa * Colchester v Charlton ** Newport v Blackburn * Peterborough v Preston
I copied the whole lot down to eliminate down to 5 whilst seeing the whole list Mr Smart Arse :whoosh:
** Exeter v Liverpool ** Wycombe v Aston Villa * Colchester v Charlton ** Northampton v MK Dons ** Oxford Utd v Swansea
* Brentford v Walsall ** Northampton v MK Dons * Peterborough v Preston * West Ham v Wolves ** Oxford Utd v Swansea
** Wycombe v Aston Villa ** Doncaster v Stoke ** Eastleigh v Bolton ** Newport v Blackburn * Peterborough v Preston
** Wycombe v Aston Villa * Colchester v Charlton ** Northampton v MK Dons * Peterborough v Preston ** Oxford Utd v Swansea
** Exeter v Liverpool ** Wycombe v Aston Villa * Birmingham v Bournemouth ** Eastleigh v Bolton ** Man Utd v Sheff Utd
* Birmingham v Bournemouth * Colchester v Charlton ** Eastleigh v Bolton ** Northampton v MK Dons * Peterborough v Preston
Going well on most forums, it's only the Cherries and Leeds without entries so far! Currently 30 in from the ten forums, although as I say, it's basically an individual game for each forum!
* Birmingham v Bournemouth * Colchester v Charlton ** Northampton v MK Dons * Peterborough v Preston ** Man Utd v Sheff Utd
I know they're awful but putting in the Championship already is a bit harsh! Probably gave the Baggies Zone forum a bit of a laugh!
Oh, 2 or more tiers are just **. Apologies, I'll read the rules properly next time! Here are mine: ** Wycombe v Aston Villa ** Doncaster v Stoke ** Northampton v MK Dons ** Man Utd v Sheff Utd ** Oxford Utd v Swansea
yep, first year we did it with every tier difference counting an *, but what happened is that someone with just one lucky game quadrupled won although others hit three or four games correctly but didn't accumulate enough points, didn't seem fair on them !
* Birmingham v Bournemouth * Colchester v Charlton ** Northampton v MK Dons * Peterborough v Preston ** Man Utd v Sheff Utd
** Exeter v Liverpool ** Wycombe v Aston Villa * Birmingham v Bournemouth ** Eastleigh v Bolton ** Man Utd v Sheff Utd
Very pleasing, It's a separate game for each forum but entries well coming in - Reading – Royals Rendezvous 7 Blackpool – Back Henry Street 2 Peterborough – Posh Forum 5 Sunderland – Black Cat Chat 1 Newcastle – Toon Forum 9 Watford – WFC Forums 13 W.B.A. - Baggies Zone 2 Leeds – LUFC Talk 7 Liverpool – Talk the Reds 1 Bournemouth – CourtOffside 2
Birmingham v Bournemouth Colchester v Charlton Eastleigh v Bolton Northampton v MK Dons Peterborough v Preston
nope, this is not like the Premier Positions Game, this is all individual, it's "Friends but Rivals" here !! :]]
but not sure it got through, doesn't show up in my sent box. Ah well, if you spot him, please tell him for me!!
Haha! I tried to sneak it through for the team - not for my own selfish need to win :naughty: Apologies Daib0!
** Wycombe v Aston Villa * Birmingham v Bournemouth ** Northampton v MK Dons * West Ham v Wolves ** Oxford Utd v Swansea
Thanks, last entries TODAY please! Exeter v Liverpool kicks off at 19:55, so posts no later than 7.54pm !!