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

The latecomers will be pleased to know that there is no connection to be guessed this week, and hence no potential points that you're missing out on by not showing up until Saturday morning, all bleary eyed and hung over no doubt. But don't take that as an excuse to all post your predictions at 10 minutes before the deadline. Please

I think that this list could be a bit tricky. It's the Championship relegation battles - crap teams dragging out do-or-die victories to stave off the oblivion of League One could be the order of the day!


Burnley v Brighton
Coventry v Wolves
Gillingham v Crewe
Reading v Nottingham Forest
Rotherham v Watford


All predictions to be in by 12noon on Saturday, 16th April.

Can I just point out that for some teams, League One is less of an oblivion than a Mecca?

B

And to some others, League One is starting to feel like home.

League One never did to us... we were always almost getting either promoted or relegated out of it over the last 12 years. That's when we weren't *actually* being relegated or promoted out of it, of course.

Hang on, what am I talking about? We got relegated from Division Two to Division Two. Then we won the Division Three play-offs, got back into Division two flirted with promotion and then got relegated back again. Then a couple of the worst seasons ever until we broke the all-time Division Three record to win the title, plus a season hovering around the playoffs in Division Two and winning the thing a year later.

Then we got promoted from Division Two into 'The Championship'.

All this means is that whenever Argyle approach First Division football, they change the name so we can't have it.

Well if you lose the rest of your games you may get it

OY crap teams dragging out do-or-die victories to stave off the oblivion of League One could be the order of the day!

Coventry have been dragged to where we are by however don't take my word for it -

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,1563,1450677,00.html

In early this week (when there's no bonus)

Burnley 1 v 0 Brighton - Bowditch
Coventry 3 v 1 Wolves - MacSheffrey
Gillingham 2 v 0 Crewe - Chris Hope
Reading 3 v 0 Nottingham Forest - Kitson
Rotherham 0 v 0 Watford - Can't see either of these scoring

These are difficult for me, because there's so much riding on them, and I'm involved - however I've also seen 4 of these teams play recently - so surely I can pull in some points

Burnley 2-1 Brighton - Blake
Coventry 1-1 Wolves - McSheffrey
Gillingham 1-0 Crewe - Henderson
Reading 2-1 Nottingham Forest - Kitson
Rotherham 1-3 Watford - Helguson

Bottletop

Burnley v Brighton 2-2(knight)
Coventry v Wolves1-2 (ince)
Gillingham v Crewe 1-2(jones)
Reading v Nottingham Forest 2-1(owusu)
Rotherham v Watford1-1(mcintosh)

Andy

Hiya Grey Desk.

Im just here to pass on a message from Gary (meisere) he cant get into hootoo so has asked me to ask you to email him at [email protected]

Burnley 1-1 Brighton - Akinbiyi
Coventry 1-2 Wolves - Cort
Gillingham 2-2 Crewe - Lunt
Reading 2-1 Nottingham Forest - Kitson
Rotherham 1-1 Watford - Helguson

No last minute panic this time, as my access issues have cleared up.

sprout

Thank you for the message, SSS.

An e-mail has just been sent to Meisere

Burnley 2 Brighton 1 IAN MOORE
Coventry 1 Wolves 0 STEPHEN HUGHES
Gillingham 2 Crewe 3 STEVE JONES
Reading 0 Nottingham Forest 1 ANDY REID
Rotherham 1 Watford 2 DANNY WEBBER

Methinks DD has not been paying attention to the transfer market in recent months...

Ian Moore - Purchased by Leeds for fifty-grand
Andy Reid - went to Spurs with Michael Dawson at £8million for the pair of them
Danny Webber - scorer of 3 goals in the last 4 Sheffield United games.

Burnley 2-1 Brighton (Akinbiyi)
Coventry 2-1 Wolves (McSheffrey)
Gillingham 1-1 Crewe (Steve Jones)
Reading 3-1 Nottingham Forest (Kitson)
Rotherham 0-1 Watford (Helguson)

GD as you know transfer are the last thing on my mind at the moment, unless of course you are talking political defections.

Burnley 2-0 Brighton (Akinbiyi)
Coventry 1-2 Wolves (Cort)
Gillingham 1-1 Crewe (Henderson)
Reading 3-1 Nottingham Forest (Kitson)
Rotherham 0-2 Watford (Helguson)

on lâche rien!

Burnley v Brighton 1-0 (Blake)
Coventry v Wolves 1-1 (Mcsheffrey)
Gillingham v Crewe 2-1 (Henderson)
Reading v Nottingham Forest 2-0 (Kitson)
Rotherham v Watford 1-2 (Webber)

Yakus

Burnley 0-1 Brighton (Virgo)
Coventry 1-1 Wolves (McSheffrey)
Gillingham 1-0 Crewe (Henderson)
Reading 3-0 Nottingham Forest (Kitson)
Rotherham 1-0 Watford (McLaren)