h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

That should of course have read 'Helguson'. Amusingly, Watford have a keeper on loan from Chelsea who goes by the name of Leonard Pidgeley - he's clearly destined for non-league with a name like that

Or maybe he fell through a time-warp from the fifties.

Leeds United 0-2 Arsenal (Henry)
West Brom 2-1 Sunderland (Hughes)
Watford 0-0 Rotherham
Plymouth Argyle 2-1 Oldham (Friio)
Swansea City 2-1 Bristol Rovers (Durkan)

Leeds United 0 Arsenal 3 (Henry)
West Brom 2 Sunderland 1 (Hulse)
Watford 1 Rotherham 1 (Fitzgerald)
Plymouth Argyle 2 Oldham 0 (Evans)
Swansea City 2 Bristol Rovers 1 (Trundle)


(Otto)

I always sign Lenny pidgely on champ manager- purely for the name, he's a crap keeper.

Leeds United 0-2 Arsenal (Pires)
West Brom 0-0 Sunderland (--)
Watford 1-0 Rotherham (Fitzgerald)
Plymouth Argyle 3-0 Oldham (Evans)
Swansea City 2-1 Bristol Rovers (Tait)

Leeds United 1-3 Arsenal (Henry)
West Brom 1-0 Sunderland (Hulse)
Watford 1-0 Rotherham (Fitzgerald)
Plymouth Argyle 2-0 Oldham (Friio)
Swansea City 1-0 Bristol Rovers (Nugent)

Hi Greydesk,
Will be in touch early next week for Week 14. Things are v. hectic with my move imminent.
Here's this week's slightly unusual set of predictions

Leeds 2 Arsenal 1 Smith
WBA 2 Sunderland 1 Hulse
Watford 2 Rotherham 1 Gayle
Plymouth 2 Oldham 1 Keith
Swansea 2 Bristol Rovers 1 Trundle

Can't be any worse than last week!!
SBE

since i'm late, can i just have pools panel results for all the games that haven't yet started?

Sure thing, no problem

...and spook's Pools Panel Picks are:
Leeds United 1-0 Arsenal
West Brom 0-3 Sunderland
Watford 0-0 Rotherham
Plymouth Argyle 1-1 Oldham
Swansea City 2-1 Bristol Rovers
with no scorer points.

Much like Wenger, without Henry we would be nowhere. A total of 9 out of the 17 players this week had Henry to score first in an Arsenal victory, thus bagging themselves 4 points in the process. Sadly no one got the scoreline right so there were no full houses awarded for that game.

However there were 3 full houses in other games this week. Special mention must go to me[Andy]g for getting a "scoring" full house with the Watford game - I do so prefer those to the nil-nil version. They're much more aesthetically pleasing.

Also special commiserations should go to poor old spook. The one week he doesn't have a bash with his usual 'low scoring' result, and along come TWO nil-nils! Never mind sunshine

Finally I turn my atention to the top of the table where things are getting interesting. For the last five weeks Ormondroyd has been putting in a solid set of results and has closed the gap on Number Six from a frankly enormous 15 points down to only 3. Could there be a change at the top in the closing weeks of the season?

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The Results:

Leeds United 1-4 Arsenal (HENRY, Pires, Silva, Smith)

West Brom 0-0 Sunderland (--)

Watford 1-0 Rotherham (WEBBER)

Plymouth Argyle 2-2 Oldham (BEHARALL, Wotton, Evans)

Swansea City 0-0 Bristol Rovers (--)

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The Points:

creachy - 12 points (Leeds result, scorer & 1st scorer; Baggies result; Watford result, scorer & 1st scorer; Swansea result)

Egon - 7 points (Leeds result; Swansea full house )

GreyDesk - 12 points (Leeds result & scorer; Baggies full house ; Watford result & score; Plymouth scorer)

Kiltedjedi - 8 points (Leeds result, scorer & 1st scorer; Baggies result; Watford result)

loosehead - 9 points (Leeds result, scorer & 1st scorer; Baggies result; Watford result & score)

Lord Smooth - 4 points (Leeds result, scorer & 1st scorer)

Master B - 4 points (Leeds result; Baggies result)

me[Andy]g - 7 points (Leeds result; Watford full house )

Number Six - 4 points (Leeds result & scorer; Plymouth scorer)

Uncle Heavy - 6 points (Leeds result, scorer & 1st scorer; Watford result)

Ormondroyd - 7 points (Leeds result, scorer & 1st scorer; Watford result & score)

Otto Fisch - 5 points (Leeds result, scorer & 1st scorer; Plymouth scorer)

owlatron - 6 points (Leeds result, scorer & 1st scorer; Swansea result)

spook - 2 points (Plymouth result)

summerbayexile - 3 points (Leeds scorer; Watford result)

The Snockerty Friddle - 7 points (Leeds result, scorer & 1st scorer; Watford result & score)

OB1 Knordic - 7 points (Leeds result, scorer & 1st scorer; Watford result & score)

Tonto, robin & werekitty - gone away

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WHich means that this week's joint winners with 12 points a piece are creachy and myself

Can somebody please tell me why I'm crap at this game. 'Cos I really, genuinely haven't worked it out yet.

B

i seem to usually score around 10 points on average, yet i suck also

That post is a contradiction in itself. If you did average ten points a week, you'd currently be topping the table by four points.

B

i missed the week before last and i think i only scoredlike 7 or 6 for a couple of weeks. but normally i get a good 10, unless i am entirely wrong which would explain why i am 6th

creachy: 12, 9, 2, 7, 7, 10, 6, 8, 11, 6, awol, 12

Master B: 7, 6, 4, 11, 5, 4, 5, 5, 6, 4, 2, 4

Conclusion - Master B is strangely absolutely pants at this game

oooh, i only got 2 points one week what happened there

well, that means i average 7.5 points a week so i was wrong and overly confident.

but Master B on the other hand was right. averaging only 5.25 points per week, you really do suck

I do find Master B's performance bizarre. I mean the chap talks knowledgably and confidentally about football - far more so than I for example. Yet can't get it together to predict accurate scores.

I guess it's just one of those mysteries of our modern world...!

Can anyone explain my falling-off in form of late, then

no, but my form is starting to get better despite missing a week completely. i reckon i could win the second part of this league

Yes, I would like an explanation of your dip in form as well. You're starting to cost me money now


Um creachy... there are no prizes for half a season's performance you know