2024/25 Season Predictions

Blatantly copying this format from @simpleMASH

League position: 15th
Promotion: No
Player of the Season: Giorgi Chakvetadze
Top Scorer: Rocco Vata (11)
Best newcomer: Rocco Vata
Flop of the season: Antonio Tikvic
Worst disciplinary record: Ryan Porteous (2 Red Cards, 17 Yellows)
FA Cup: 4th round
League Cup: 2nd round
Number of head coaches: 2
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: March
Will we score a direct free kick?: Yes (Giorgi Chakvetadze)

 

Haha, I blatantly copied it when I posted last year!

League position: 21st
Promotion: No
Player of the Season: Dan Bachmann
Top Scorer: Tom Ince (7)
Best newcomer: Moussa Sissoko
Flop of the season: Giorgi Chakvetadze
Worst disciplinary record: Ryan Porteous
FA Cup: 3rd round
League Cup: 2nd round
Number of head coaches: 3
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: October
Will we score a direct free kick?: No

 

League position: Bottom
Promotion: HAHA
Player of the Season: N/A
Top Scorer: N/A
Best newcomer: N/A
Flop of the season: Cleverley
Worst disciplinary record: Porteous
FA Cup: 3rd round
League Cup: 2nd round
Number of head coaches: 3
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: August
Will we score a direct free kick?: By mathematical odds yes

 

League position: 20th
Promotion: No
Player of the Season: Giorgi Chakvetadze
Top Scorer: Giorgi Chakvetadze (9)
Best newcomer: Moussa Sissoko
Flop of the season: Yasser Larouci
Worst disciplinary record: Ryan Porteous
FA Cup: 3rd round
League Cup: 1st round
Number of head coaches: 2
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: December
Will we score a direct free kick?: No

 

League position: 21st
Promotion: lol
Player of the Season: Rocco Vata
Top Scorer: Rocco Vata (10)
Best newcomer: Rocco Vata
Flop of the season: Ryan Porteous
Worst disciplinary record: Mileta Rajov…only joking, Ryan Porteous (1 red, 14 yellows)
FA Cup: 3rd round
League Cup: 2nd round
Number of head coaches: 3
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: January
Will we score a direct free kick?: Yes

 

It would be great to have two long Cup runs like that!

 

League position: 18th
Promotion: No
Player of the Season: Giorgi Chakvetadze
Top Scorer: Rajovic (10)
Best newcomer: Someone we haven't signed yet
Flop of the season: Someone we haven't signed yet
Worst disciplinary record: Ryan Porteous (1 red Cards, 15 Yellows)
FA Cup: 5th round
League Cup: 2nd round
Number of head coaches: 1
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: N/A
Will we score a direct free kick?: No

 

League position: 22nd
Promotion: No
Player of the Season: Vata
Top Scorer: Rocco Vata
Best newcomer: Rocco Vata
Flop of the season: Sissoko
Worst disciplinary record: Ryan Porteous
FA Cup: 5th round
League Cup: 1st round
Number of head coaches: 3
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: November
Will we score a direct free kick?: Yes

 

League position: 20th
Promotion: No
Player of the Season: Chakvetadze
Top Scorer: Baah (8)
Best newcomer: Larouci
Flop of the season: Bayo
Worst disciplinary record: Bachmann
FA Cup: 3rd round
League Cup: 2nd round
Number of head coaches: 2
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: January
Will we score a direct free kick?: No

 

League position: 22nd
Promotion: haha
Player of the Season: Daniel Bachmann
Top Scorer: Bayo 8
Best newcomer: Rocco Vata
Flop of the season: ?
Worst disciplinary record: Ryan Porteous (3 Red Cards, 12 Yellows)
FA Cup: 4th round
League Cup: 1st round
Number of head coaches: 3
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: November
Will we score a direct free kick?: Yes

 

League position: 22nd
Promotion: this should not even be on here
Player of the Season: Sissoko
Top Scorer: Bayo (9)
Best newcomer: Vata
Flop of the season: Pollock
Worst disciplinary record: Porteous
FA Cup: 3rd Round
League Cup: 4th Round
Number of head coaches: 2
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: March
Will we score a direct free kick? No

 

League position: 20th
Promotion: Nope
Player of the Season: Hoedt if he stays
Top Scorer: N/a
Best newcomer: Vata
Flop of the season: Bayo
Worst disciplinary record: Ryan Porteous
FA Cup: 3rd round
League Cup: 1st round
Number of head coaches: 2
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: January
Will we score a direct free kick?: No

 

NTT20 have us in last place. Those guys are probably the most knowledgeable EFL podcasters out there. They actually know what they’re talking about instead of just making clickbait content.

 

League position: 22nd
Promotion: No
Player of the Season: Ngakia
Top Scorer: Rajovic
Best newcomer: Vata
Flop of the season: Sierralta
Worst disciplinary record: Pollock
FA Cup: 3rd Round
League Cup: 4th Round
Number of head coaches: 2
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: February
Will we score a direct free kick? Yes

 

The only people getting clapped are Watford players

 

League position: 12th
Promotion: No
Player of the Season: Chakvetadze
Top Scorer: Doumbia
Best newcomer: Vata
Flop of the season: Tikvic
Worst disciplinary record: Porteous
FA Cup: 5th round
League Cup: 2nd round
Number of head coaches: 1
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: N/A
Will we score a direct free kick?: Yes

 

The thinking is, again, sound, but in danger of being derailed as a serious enterprise altogether solely on the strength of this:

 

League position: 12th
Promotion: No
Player of the Season: Chakvetadze
Top Scorer: Vata
Best newcomer: Vata
Flop of the season: Pollock
Worst disciplinary record: Porteous
FA Cup: 3rd round
League Cup: 3rd round
Number of head coaches: 1
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: N/A
Will we score a direct free kick?: No

 

League position: 20th
Promotion: No
Player of the Season: Struggling with this one
Top Scorer: Struggling with this one
Best newcomer: Struggling with this one
Flop of the season: One from many
Worst disciplinary record: Duxbury
FA Cup: 5th round
League Cup: 2nd round
Number of head coaches: Struggling with this one
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: Yes
Will we score a direct free kick?: No

 

League position: 6th
Promotion: Yes
Player of the Season: a German
Top Scorer: a Russian
Best newcomer: a Belgian
Flop of the season: NA
Worst disciplinary record: that Scottish fella
FA Cup: QF
League Cup: WIN
Number of head coaches: 4
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: September
Will we score a direct free kick?: 5

 

League position: 14th
Promotion: No
Player of the Season: Kayembe
Top Scorer: Bayo - 6
Best newcomer: Vata
Flop of the season: Lamouchi
Worst disciplinary record: Porteous (who else)
FA Cup: 3rd round
League Cup: 1st round
Number of head coaches: 1
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: NA
Will we score a direct free kick?: Yes, at Millwall

 

League position - 13th
Promotion- no
Player of the Season - Chak
Top Scorer - Baah
Best newcomer - Vata
Flop - Porteus
Disp record - Porteus
FA cup - 3rd round to non league club
League Cup - 2nd round
Head Coaches - 2
Cleverley sacked - January

 

Prediction number one pre transfer window closing

League position: 20th
Promotion: No
Player of the Season: Sissoko
Top Scorer: Bayo (8)
Best newcomer: Vata
Flop of the season: Tikvic
Worst disciplinary record: Ryan Porteous
FA Cup: 4th round
League Cup: 2nd round
Number of head coaches: 2
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: Jan
Will we score a direct free kick? No

 

League position: 24th
Promotion: No
Player of the Season: N/A
Top Scorer: Pollock (2)
Best newcomer: loan player
Flop of the season: loan player
Worst disciplinary record: Ryan Porteous (12 Red Cards, 19 Yellows)
FA Cup: 3rd round
League Cup: 2nd round
Number of head coaches: 1
Pozzo will sell the Vic and move us to Cassiobury park. He will then go back to Italy so won't be around to fire anyone!
Will we score a direct free kick?: Yes (I once scored a cracker of a direct free kick at Cassiobury park!)

 

League position: 2nd
Promotion: yes
Player of the Season: Ken Sema
Top Scorer: Rajovic (19)
Best newcomer: Vata
Flop of the season: Sierralta
Worst disciplinary record: Hoedt
FA Cup: quarter finals
League Cup: 4th Round
Number of head coaches: 1
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: May
Will we score a direct free kick? Yes

 

League position: 17th
Promotion: No
Player of the Season: Vata
Top Scorer: New-comer
Best newcomer: Rocco Vata
Flop of the season: Antonio Tikvic
Worst disciplinary record: Porto
FA Cup: RO16
League Cup: 2nd round
Number of head coaches: 2
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: February (Early)
Will we score a direct free kick?: No (Adam Masina is gone)

 

League position: 17th
Promotion: No
Player of the Season: Chakvetadze
Top Scorer: Rocco Vata
Best newcomer: Rocco Vata
Flop of the season: Pollock
Worst disciplinary record: Porteous
FA Cup: 4th round
League Cup: 3rd round
Number of head coaches: 2
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: Feb
Will we score a direct free kick?: Yes

 

That may be true but how accurate have their predictions been in the past?

 

Fairly. Obviously it’s almost impossible to predict, especially with the window still open and teams like QPR last season making big managerial upgrades mid-season. They got most teams in the right quarter last season.

 

At a granular level, the amusing/alarming answer to this is that last season, they got us exactly dead-on

 

League position: 22nd on GD
Promotion: No
Player of the Season: Andrews
Top Scorer: Bayo
Best newcomer: Vata
Flop of the season: Ince
Worst disciplinary record: Porteous
FA Cup: 3rd
League Cup: Out to MK
Number of head coaches: 1
Month Tom Cleverley will be sacked: Won't be so they can say "you lot wanted continuity"
Will we score a direct free kick?: Nope