FA Cup Upsets Game – Round 3 (Jan 2016)

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!

 

Exeter v Liverpool
Wycombe v Aston Villa
Eastleigh v Bolton
Man Utd v Sheff Utd
Oxford Utd v Swansea

 

that's the stuff! Already half a dozen forums back, and Newcastle taking it seriously!!

 

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

 

You're new at this aren't you VOR?

 

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

 

** 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

 

Shouldn't there be 3 asterisks between Wycombe and Villa?

 

Villa gon bak 2 championship mate

 

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 !

 

** 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

 

Whf? Wtf?

Edit: Why has this all gone lower case?

 

I was just working too fast and on too many fronts! But delighted your your entries lads ...

 

Birmingham v Bournemouth
Colchester v Charlton
Eastleigh v Bolton
Northampton v MK Dons
Peterborough v Preston

 

Should we not ensure that (as a forum) we cover every match ...... :naughty: :naughty: :naughty:

 

nope, this is not like the Premier Positions Game, this is all individual, it's "Friends but Rivals" here !! :]]

 

Ah. In that case I'm going to edit my predictions and submit 6 like Legskeattch.

 

dead right, a rap on the fingers coming his way by PM!

 

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 !!