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Now that all the Division 1 matches have been played, the play-off picture becomes clearer [ ]


Crystal Palace v Sunderland
Ipswich v West Ham

Hartlepool v Bristol City
Swindon v Brighton & Hove Albion

Lincoln City v Huddersfield
Northampton v Mansfield


Note. There is talk of some of these games being played on FRIDAY 14th May, so I'd advise getting your predictions in sooner rather than later. I will of course come back and post the official thread closing time when the fixture dates have been confirmed

And as always, the best of luck to you all

I'll post some predictions later, but can I just say: Did anyone else see Jeff Stelling's furry monkey on sky sports news yesterday?

Hangus? Aye, I saw it...

Did he get it out again then? Because I thought you were at the Leeds game when Hartlepool secured the playoff place?

He had it just as I was putting my trainers on before I went to the match. Right at the start of Soccer Saturday wasn't it?

Oh, I didn't see the start. When the hartlepool result came in, and they were guaranteed a playoff place, he whipped it out from under the table, held it aloft and shook it, going "YES!!!!! They've done it! Fantastic!" while Rodney MArsh et al had hysterics in the background.

I don't know, the thread's less than 20 minutes old and already it's full of topic drift

By the way, what on earth are you talking about

Sky Sports NEws live latest-scores-and-results show is presented by Hartlepool fan Jeff Stelling. Yesterday, if reuslts went the right way, Hartlepool would get a division 2 playoff place. Things went the right way, they got a playoff place, and Jeff celebrated by whipping his monkey out- Hangus the Monkey,a small, cuddly replica of Hartlepool's Mayor and football mascot, Hangus the Monkey (because of the old Monkey Hanging thing). Apparently he had already whipped little Hangus out earlier in the show while psyc was watching but I wasn't. Clear?

Heh, 'whipped little Hangus out'

Oh right. So this is the sort of thing I miss out on in not handing over cash to Murdoch then. Hmmm...

You don't have to hand over money to Murdoch. Sky Sports News is on freeview.

Not on my version it isn't

But then again, I haven't really explored much of what Freeview will do, other than finding out which button is for BBC4, so it might be there.

Channel 43 on mine.

Crystal Palace v Sunderland 1-2(srewart)
Ipswich v West Ham 2-1(kugki)

Hartlepool v Bristol City 0-1(miller)
Swindon v Brighton & Hove Albion 1-2(knight)

Lincoln City v Huddersfield 1-2(yeo)
Northampton v Mansfield 0-0


andy

As promised, I'm back to tell you the timetable for getting your predictions in.


It will be 8pm on FRIDAY 14th of May.


Got that? Yes? It's Friday *NOT* Saturday.

well mines all done so hurry up evryone

Crystal Palace 1-1 Sunderland (Johnson)
Ipswich 2-1 West Ham (Bowditch)

Hartlepool 1-2 Bristol City (E. Williams)
Swindon 2-1 Birghton (Parkin)

Lincoln 1-3 Huddersfield (Booth)
Northampton 1-1 Mansfield (Mendes)

Crystal Palace 1-3 Sunderland (Kevin kyle)
Ipswich 2-1 West Ham (jermaine Wright)

Hartlepool 1-1 Bristol City (Adam Boyd)
Swindon 1-0 Brighton & Hove Albion (Sammy Igoe)

Lincoln City 1-3 Huddersfield (Andy Booth)
Northampton 4-2 Mansfield (Eric Sabin)

Crystal Palace 1-1 Sunderland (Andy Johnson)
Ipswich 2-1 West Ham (Bobby Zamora)

Hartlepool 2-1 Bristol City (Eifion Williams)
Swindon 1-1 Brighton (Leon Knight)

Lincoln City 1-3 Huddersfield (Andy Booth)
Northampton 1-2 Mansfield (Liam Lawrence)

Crystal Palace 0-1 Sunderland (Kevin Kyle)
Ipswich 1-1 West Ham (Bent)

Hartlepool 2-0 Bristol City (Paul Robinson)
Swindon 0-0 Brighton

Lincoln 2-1 Huddersfield (Fletcher)
Northampton 1-1 Mansfield (Richards)