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

Last week it was suggested by ormondroyd that Brentford v reading should be included, as it is a virtual promotion play-off, with the winers being promoted. This seemed a damn good idea to me, and I poerused the fixture lists and league tables in the Daily Mail to come up with some vital promotion clashes in the other divisions. There are six fixtures this week, and there will only be four on FA cup final weekend to even the total up.

Some background:

DIVISION ONE:

Man city are champions. 2nd placed West Brom have 86 points, 3rd placed Wolves have 85 points. Wolves are away to Sheff Wed, West Brom home to Crystal Palace

DIVISION TWO:

Brighton are champions. 2nd placed Reading have 83 points, 3rd placed Brentford have 82 pointS. Reading are way to brentford

DIVISION THREE (3 automatic promotion places):

Plymouth and luton are promoted. Cheltenham are 3rd with 77 points, and have two games left. Mansield (4th) have 76 and Rochdale (5th) 75, both with one game left.

Cheltenham are away to Carlisle on tuesday (victory means promotion), and then away to plymouth on Saturday, when Mansfield are home to carlisle (who could play a big part in the promotion chase, despite being 17th), and Rochdale home to Bristol Rovers.


SO, THE ACTUAL FIXTURES ARE:

SATURDAY:

Div 2:
Brentford v reading

Div 3:
Mansfield v Carlisle
Plymouth v Cheltenham
Rochdale v Bristol R

SUNDAY:
Div 1:
Sheff Wed v Wolves
West Brom v Crystal Palace

BONUS POINTS:

Also say who you think will be promoted out of:

1a) West Brom
1b) Wolves

Out of:
2a) Brentford
2b) Reading

And out of:
3a) Cheltenham
3b) Mansfield
3c) Rochdale

DIVISION THREE VOTES VOID IF CHELTENHAM WIN ON TUESDAY

3 BONUS POINTS FOR EVERY PROMOTED TEAM CORRECTLY GUESSED

re: GreyDesk's five 0-0s last week. This kind of prediction IS legitimate, if rather silly.

re: Gianluca Festa's own goal. If an own goal is the first goal (ie festa in the Boro-Arsenal game) then points for goalscorer WILL be given to any player who guesses the player who scored the own goal (in this case Festa) or to anyone who correctly guesses that the first goal will be an own goal, as long as they state which team the goal will count for (i.e. Own Goal (arsenal) in Festa's case)

DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

Please post your predictions under this heading, and any questions regarding the rules I set out in the last two posts under "policy statement". This just makes it easier for me to decide what to ignore.

The fixtures, for those of you who couldn't work it out from the sprawling first post are

Brentford v Reading
Mansfield v carlisle
Plymouth v Cheltenham
Rochdale v bristol Rovers
Sheff Wed v Wolves
West Brom v Crystal Palace

and who will get the last automatic promotion spot in each division (DIV 3 will become void if cheltenham win tomorrow)

Nice ideas, Egon!

Cheltenham have drawn 0-0 tonight, so they still need to get a result at Plymouth on Saturday, and predictions as to who goes up from Division Three are still needed. A draw at Plymouth will be enough for Cheltenham to be promoted - unless Mansfield win by nine or more goals! But if Plymouth beat Cheltenham then either Mansfield or Rochdale could nip in and grab the last promotion place.

My predictions:

Brentford 1-0 Reading (Rowlands)
Mansfield 3-0 Carlisle (Greenacre)
Plymouth 0-0 Cheltenham
Rochdale 2-0 Bristol Rovers (Simpson)
Sheffield W. 0-2 Wolves (Sturridge)
West Bromwich 1-0 C. Palace (Taylor)

Promoted: West Bromwich, Brentford and Cheltenham.

Brentford 1-0 Reading (Owusu)
Mansfield 2-1 carlisle (greenacre)
Plymouth 1-5 Cheltenham (Duff)
Rochdale 0-1 bristol Rovers (Thomas)
Sheff Wed 1-3 Wolves (Sturridge)
West Brom 4-0 Crystal Palace (Taylor)

PROMOTED:
Div 1- West Brom
DIv 2- Brentford
Div 3- Cheltenham

Brentford 3-2 Reading (Burgess)
Mansfield 4-0 carlisle (Greenacre)
Plymouth 1-1 Cheltenham (Alsop)
Rochdale 2-2 Bristol Rovers (Toner)
Sheff Wed 1-3 Wolves (Sturridge)
West Brom 1-0 Crystal Palace (Taylor)

West Brom, Brentford and Cheltenham to go up

Brentford 2-2 Reading (Forster)
Reading to go up.

Mansfield 2-1 Carlisle (Greenacre)
Plymouth 1-1 Cheltenham (Friio)
Rochedale 3-0 Bristol R (Platt)
Cheltneham to go up


Sheff Wed 0-2 Wolves (Blake)
West Brom 2-1 Crystal Palace (Taylor)
West Brom to go up.

It's crunch time!


SATURDAY:

Div 2:
Brentford 2 Reading 2 (Forster)

Div 3:
Mansfield 2 Carlisle 1 (Greenacre)
Plymouth 1 Cheltenham 1 (Alsop)
Rochdale 2 Bristol R 1 (Townson)

SUNDAY:
Div 1:
Sheff Wed 1 Wolves 2 (Sturridge)
West Brom 3 Crystal Palace 1 (Morrison)

BONUS POINTS:


West Brom
Reading
Cheltenham


Otto.

Everton for the Intertoto!!

Brentford 2-1 Reading (Burgess)
Brentford to go up

Mansfield 2-0 Carlisle (Disley)
Plymouth 1-1 Cheltenham (Friio)
Rochdale 1-0 Bristol R (McCourt)
Cheltenham to go up


Piggies 0-4 Wolves (Rae)
West Brom 1-0 Crystal Palace (Taylor)
West Brom to go up

I also think Crewe are going to play a blinder against Rotherham today, and there is a good chance that Wednesday will go down despite the current 9 goal difference.

Oh, and I don't really want Wednesday to go down as this would mean we don't have the big pay day derbies next season

Oh I was about five minutes away from a full house at Brentford, and ing Reading have equalised!

Brentford 1-1 Reading (Rowlands)
Mansfield 2-0 Carlisle (Corden)
Plymouth 2-0 Cheltenham (Stonebridge)
Rochdale 2-1 Bristol R (Thomas)
Sheff Wed 2-2 Wolves (Cameron)
West Brom 2-0 Crystal Palace (Moore)

Promoted:

Div 1- West Bromwich Albion
Div 2- Reading
Div 3- Mansfield

AND THE POINTS ARE:

Ormondroyd 8 points (Brentford scorer, Mansfield result, Rochdale result, West Brom result, West brom promoted)

Me 7 points (Mansfield result, Bristol R scorer, West brom result, West Brom promoted)

Great western Lettuce 5 points (Mansfield result, west Brom result, West brom promoted)

vogonpoet 10 points (Brentford, Mansfield, Rochdale and West Brom results, West Brom and reading promoted)

Otto 12 points (Brentford, Mansfield, West Brom results, Rochdale result and score, West Brom and reading promoted) (WEEKLY CHAMPION)

GreyDesk 7 points (Mansfield result and score, West Brom result, West Brom promoted)

Ardzil, APR and FWD 2 points each (two draws)

Ah well, you never know - three full houses in the last week and I might *just* catch Otto...

What d'you mean last week? We're gonna keep going till the end of the Premier League season.

Yay! I shouldn't have assumed that this would be a 10 week season just because the last one was! Suits me!

To the end of the what?

*shrugs*

The Premier League.

C'mon, you must remember it. Remember when Sheffield United were good? Come on, rack your brain. Remember it? brian Deane and Vinny jones?

Oh, sorry, I suppose no-one can be expected to remember that far back

Oh yes the Premier League. Thats the one where Manchester United isn't doing quite as well as expected isn't it?

There must be such wails of disappointment and the gnashing of teeth amongst the 10 year olds of Basingstoke and the Home Counties

Yep, and the rest of the country's loving it...