Hello again everyone. A real shame both our sides endured a ⦠well, sorry to say deserved relegation. But things are still positive, never mind ... and as often is the case you are strong candidates to go up this year. Inter-Forum PREMIER Positions Game 2013-14 organized by Sunderlandâs Black Cat Chat, Reading's RR, and TOTT forums The game that I've titled is already well established, several seasons running now. But this season weâre going big time â should be over 30 individual club forums involved. The Sunderland âBlack Cat Chatâ forum does the real work all during the season. I am the representative from the Readingâs Royals Rendezvous, and we also have had a strong Liverpool group too helping out too. Talk of the Terrace are also going to be a point of reference for all this coming season. And itâs dead easy! You simply guess ONCE (now!) what you think will be the final league positions for the Premier League 2013-14 (thatâs all teams, in order 1st to 20th), leave them on this thread, and then sit back and enjoy! Nothing more!! Why the attraction of all this you may well ask?! Well, itâs now some time since we had the days of the BBC 606 fans forum service â most will remember it closed in June 2011, and still missed despite the fact we sometimes went over the top â so this is an ideal way to keep us all together still. This game will initially take you a couple of minutes, and then enjoy without having to make updates at all, all season. Right, below are the current 20 Premier teams in alphabetical order â simply copy these onto your PC and re-arrange them in your finishing order come the end of the 2013-14 season: Arsenal Aston Villa Cardiff City Chelsea Crystal Palace Everton Fulham Hull City Liverpool Manchester City Manchester United Newcastle United Norwich City Southampton Stoke City Sunderland Swansea City Tottenham Hotspur West Bromwich Albion West Ham United According to your choices you score lots of, or better still few, points. And how do you score points? Scoring is as follows: For each team you score one point for each place away from its predicted position. Example - if you predict Sunderland to finish 9th and they finish 9th, you score 0 points (excellent predicting). If they finish 13th you score 4 points or if they finish 7th you score 2 points. Therefore, the nearer you get to the exact position and have less points mounting up the better. I will endeavour to make updates at the beginning of every month during the season out of interest, but all leaderboards during the season are given for interest. IMPORTANT! - The big winners are the people who have LEAST points after the final game has been played. The table positions wonât change position so much in the later stages of the season so ⦠how can we maintain interest to the end you might be thinking?! Well, this season we have MONTHLY rewards for those in the top positions! Thatâs points rewards for the highest positions at the end of every month (calculating from the REAL table on the 31st at 11.59pm!!). Here's the idea: 1st spot - take off 5 bonus points from score, so score dips even lower / 2nd - take off 4 bonus points / 3rd - take off 3 bonus points / 4th - take off 2 bonus points / 5th - take off 1 bonus point Bonus Points are for the most successful - Positions 1 to 5 â and includes tied points so there may well be far more than 5 people involved. Their position for the deduction will be based on their (true) teams' score, not taking any previous deductions into account which you do keep all season of course on your overall total . Also, where forums have an entry of a minimum of five people there will be a âboard averageâ too, thus youâll be able to see how your forum copes against many of the others. I believe itâs an average set against a yardstick of averages and not a simple add up and divide, but the order of forums will always be correct. Weâll also have some notable entries from media, press and public figures to spice it up too. And any individual can enter too, without being affiliated to any football forum, no problem there, in which case go to Royals Rendezvous in "Rivals, but Friends" where just in this section any non-registered member is able to post. But over 90% of entries will probably come from well-known sites like yours ... which is what I encourage. Just one plea - Please use the team names given above, it's a pain in the a**e translating entries from WBA or W.B.A., or putting Manure or Chelski or worse etc, so that the Sunderland automatic process stands some chance. Although you may know who the **** are, the computer doesn't! Thanks!! And enjoy it! But think hard before committing pen to paper, this selection will last you all season!! (If you change opinion and ideas, then please make a new post and not simply edit, in case I don't get to read your change). ALL entries in before kick-off day in the Premier which is 17th AUGUST 2013 (and if possible don't leave it to the final day, it will strangle us!!!). daib0
Itâs dead easy, as I said. Hereâs my entry ⦠Manchester City Chelsea Manchester United Tottenham Hotspur Liverpool Arsenal West Ham United West Bromwich Albion Everton Sunderland Newcastle United Fulham Stoke City Norwich City Swansea City Cardiff City Crystal Palace Hull City Southampton Aston Villa Your post will look like this, but with your order. Please copy and paste the teams so the spelling is similar, this is a plea from the organizers! Please donât get offended with my selection, whether a team too high or too low, every place has to be occupied with a team, itâs never personal! OK, get them coming in lads ⦠we do all the rest! Plenty of time yet, the premier season doesnât start till the 17th August!! But weâve already started - already nearly 100 guesses in from a dozen club forums in a couple of days ⦠looking most promising. Top entries so far are from â HULL CITY â Not 606 Hull board 19 NEWCASTLE - The Toon Forum 14 FULHAM â Friends of Fulham 12 BARNSLEY â Talk of the Tarn Forum 10 READING â Royals Rendezvous 9 CARDIFF â Cardiff City Forum 5 Talk Of The Terrace (National Forum) 4 BLACKBURN â Roverstalk 3
Manchester City Manchester United Chelsea Tottenham Hotspur Arsenal Everton West Bromwich Albion Liverpool Swansea City Newcastle United Norwich City Sunderland Aston Villa Southampton Cardiff West Ham United Hull City Crystal Palace Fulham Stoke City
Arsenal Aston Villa Cardiff City Chelsea Crystal Palace Everton Fulham Hull City Liverpool Manchester City Manchester United Newcastle United Norwich City Southampton Stoke City Sunderland Swansea City Tottenham Hotspurs West Bromwich Albion West Ham United I'm feeling lucky, put a lot of thought into this.
Chelsea Manchester United Manchester City Arsenal Tottenham Hotspur Liverpool Everton Swansea West Ham Southampton Newcastle Aston Villa Fulham Sunderland West Brom Norwich Cardiff Stoke Hull Crystal Palace
Manchester City Chelsea Manchester United Tottenham Hotspur Arsenal Liverpool Everton Swansea West Ham Aston Villa Fulham Sunderland West Brom Southampton Norwich Cardiff Stoke Newcastle Hull Crystal Palace
perfectly done, thanks guys. But the most original choices of any board so far! Keep 'em coming in, plenty of time yet.
Chelsea (unfortunately) Manchester City Manchester United Tottenham Hotspur Arsenal Liverpool Swansea City Everton West Bromwich Albion West Ham United Southampton Newcastle United Sunderland Stoke City Fulham Aston Villa Hull City Norwich City Cardiff City Crystal Palace
Manchester United Chelsea Arsenal Manchester City Tottenham Hotspur Liverpool Everton Swansea City Fulham West Bromwich Albion Norwich City Stoke City West Ham United Southampton Newcastle United Aston Villa Sunderland Cardiff City Crystal Palace Hull City
My offering. Chelsea Arsenal Manchester City Manchester United Tottenham Hotspur Liverpool West Bromwich Albion Newcastle United Swansea City Everton Fulham Southampton Stoke City Sunderland Aston Villa Cardiff City West Ham United Norwich City Crystal Palace Hull City
Can't agree with that. Will enjoy MOTD without the pain of watching us lose week in week out. I will enjoy the slick play from the top teams. If I'm honest, I will also enjoy seeing whoever takes our place scarbbling around at the bottom and be happy for Col if that happens to be Norwich!!
My Offering Manchester City Chelsea Manchester United Arsenal Tottenham Hotspur Liverpool Everton Swansea City West Ham United Newcastle United Fulham Southampton West Bromwich Albion Aston Villa Sunderland Cardiff City Norwich City Stoke City Hull City Crystal Palace
Chelsea (though it pains me to say) Manchester City Manchester United Arsenal Tottenham Hotspur Liverpool Aston Villa Fulham West Ham West Brom Swansea Everton Southampton Newcastle Norwich Crystal Palace Hull Stoke Sunderland
Chelsea Manchester City Arsenal Manchester United Liverpool Tottenham Hotspur Everton West Bromwich Albion Newcastle United Fulham Aston Villa Swansea City West Ham United Sunderland Southampton Cardiff City Stoke City Norwich City Crystal Palace Hull City
Well, there is a team in on this or it would be nigh impossible, already over 275 in for it from 30 forums! I pass them over to the Sunderland Black Cat Chat forum where three of them are entering everyone's order into the big computer. But still plenty and plenty of time for more guesses (only one prediction per member of course). When it gets going I'll do at least monthly updates on points, and probably twice monthly: once with all the top 25 or so nationally, and another with all your members progress here. But I'll link in a couple of sites so that members can check every single entry at any moment if they wish! Cheers, great work guys and lasses! Still a few regular 'suspects' I haven't seen around yet! ...
Manchester City Chelsea Manchester United Tottenham Hotspur Arsenal Liverpool Everton Swansea City West Bromwich Albion Newcastle United West Ham United Aston Villa Fulham Southampton Sunderland Norwich City Stoke City Cardiff City Crystal Palace Hull City Although I have no real interest in the PL here is my take on things......
