Watford 2 Bristol City 2 -(Elliot, Davies) - Another exciting game, whcih could have gone either way, but notable feature of the current City side is that even going behind, you still feel there are opportunities and goals in them. Obscure statistics--- Match statistics show why with shots on goal, Watford have the lowest goal conversion rate, and Bristol City the highest goal conversion rate in the championship. With 9 different goal scorers. so far this season,no other club in top 4 divisions can match that. In Bristol City's 7 league games to date- only 6 goals have been scored in the first half and 22 in the second half. * * * * * * Four punters opted for a draw and Ashton Matt predicted the 2-2 score- 6 points. Considering neither Marvin Elliott or Steve Davies, had potted the black for Bristol City this season, there were quite a few who predicted them scoring. ..brooksyboy, Red Robin, banksy, RedorDead and manxrobin -all went for Davies to score ( 5 points) and RedorDead and Prem -went for Marv (5 points). So current table after 8 games is thus..... ...............................prev pts.....Wat v BC...........total pts prem...........................22..............5..................27 RedorDead....................17.............10.................27 Red Robin.....................9...............5..................20 Massive........................20..............0.................20 brookksyboy.................14..............5..................19 manxrobin....................13..............6..................19 Robin unreliant..............16..............1..................17 Shiny...........................17.............0...................17 redmaid.......................15..............0...................15 algenon........................15..............0..................15 Ashton Matt...................8...............6...................14 BCFC Red......................14.............0...................14 tigerwolf.......................12.............0....................12 BrightRedRickster...........12.............0....................12 banksy..........................6..............5....................11 smhbcfc........................11.............0....................11 Jambo..........................11.............0....................11 CaldicotCidered..............10.............0....................10 angelic...........................9.............0.....................9 wings-of-a-crow..............8..............1.....................9 Supcon..........................6..............1.....................7 wiz................................7.............0.....................7 johngalley......................7..............0.....................7 cidered abroad................2..............0.....................2 BCFC dot com.................2..............0.....................2 National N 1...................1..............0.....................1 bcfcredandwhite..............0..............0.....................0 ***Red Robin. i eventually found your prediction on Shiny's thread - Peterboro v Bristo City match thread, so have credited you with 6 points..... ***johngalley- thanks for your input on how to make guessing the scorer more equable. I must admit it was too complicated for my aging brain cellls, though I did try. What I will do is increase guessing the exact score from 5 points to 10 points, to compensate for punters going for 10 scorers. Have to say though that pretty much everyone does enter into the spirit of the competition. I actually feel that predicting your own team's result cannot be an honest objective judgement. Do you go for a half-empty negative prediction because you genuinely don't feel City are as good as they are, and to soften the emotional blow if they don't perform.... or Do you go for a half-full positive prediction because that is what you would like to happen and don't want to be seen to be disloyal or discouraging..... Whatever.....enough pontificating ..... ****** Guess the Score / Scorers / Attendance Bristol City v Leeds Utd ....venue Ashton Gate..........Saturday September 29th k.o. 15.00 ***1 point for guessing the result -City win / draw / Leeds win ***10 points for guessing the exact score i.e. 3-0,2-2, 0-3 ***5 points for nominating each Bristol City scorer. The scorers must match the result. ***5 points for the closest guess for the attendance, 4pts for 2nd closest, 3pts for 3rd closest, 2 pts for 4th closest and 1 pt for 5th closest. ***10 points for everyone who predicts within 50 of the attendance.... Those who have long memories or have a free bus pass or both --- which recall the glory days of the 70's when in Division 1 Bristol City used to get the better of Leeds in the league and some may even recall one epic cup match, when Bristol City beat the then mighty Leeds. This century we haven't had the measure of Leeds, probably due to the fact we haven't adjusted to playing them at a lower level. Hope Saturday will bring a reversal of our current fortune. Lhiats
Here are the half-full predictions from the manx jury...... Bristol City 2 Leeds 2 (Baldock, Adomah) gate 16,336
BRISTOL City 3 LEEDS 1 Adomah, Baldock Davies, 15,289 IMO I think having to match the scorers to the score is a little unfair, ( UNLESS THE POINTS IS SOMETHING LIKE 20) dont really know what is fair...maybe everyone should JUST nominate 3... and if one gets a hatrick fair do's counts 15 pts maybe a bonus for the hatrick?? I will play with integrity whatever THE FORMAT.... When we play Millwall I think we might score 8 or 9 ............lol
City 2-0 Leeds (First clean sheet of the season - has to happen sooner or later!) Baldock, Woolford 15,567
Got a good feeling about this one, I see lots of goals.... City 5-0 Leeds Baldock (2), Pearson, Taylor and Davies 15,548
