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Please note - we have another EARLY closing date for this selection due to one game being played on FRIDAY evening -- albeit being played on the other side of the Atlantic, so the closing time isn't that much earlier than usual.

Anyway, the matches...

Silkeborg IF v Brondby
Mallorca v Malaga
River Plate v Gimnasia La Plata
Toronto Croatia v Hamilton Thunder
Stabaek v Rosenborg

...these are being played in Denmark, Spain, Argentina, Canada and Norway respectively.


The closing date for all selections is 1am on Saturday 21st June.

OK - I'll get my predictions in early this time to prevent controversy and making-up-of-first-scorers...

Silkeborg IF 1-3 Brondby (Wieghorst)
Mallorca 0-1 Malaga (Manu - Well, they seem to score quite a lot )
River Plate v Gimnasia La Plata (Cavenaghi)
Toronto Croatia 2-0 Hamilton Thunder (Dikic )
Stabaek 2-3 Rosenborg (Nevland)

B

And Cavenaghi will be scoring how many, and for which team

It seems that the Argentina Football site -- http://www.futbolargentino.com.ar/torneos/clau-03/tc-f17.html -- is lying to me about the fixtures for weekend of the 21st/22nd June.

***River Plate is NOT playing Gimnesia La Plata that weekend***

When I checked with the Gimnesia site -- http://www.gelp.com.ar/ -- they said that they would be playing some side by the name of Arsenal (no not that one, but another one that's not based in North London). And the soccerage site confirmed that River Plate would next be playing Racing -- http://www.soccerage.com/en/02/00208.html#nextM

I'm not sure what to do


I think in the short term I will exclude this Argentina match from the selection, and get back to you all later with an alternative match.

OK, here it is. The revised list of five games for this coming weekend:

Silkeborg IF v Brondby
Mallorca v Malaga
Toronto Croatia v Hamilton Thunder
Stabaek v Rosenborg
Bradford v Wigan

Note - that Bradford game is Rugby League. The scorer point and 1st scorer bonus will be awarded for try scorers only.

The closing date and time remain the same.

With the carry forward of the Real Sociadad match from the Week Five listing, this week's list of games is as follows:


Real Sociedad v Atletico Madrid
Silkeborg IF v Brondby
Mallorca v Malaga
Toronto Croatia v Hamilton Thunder
Stabaek v Rosenborg
Bradford v Wigan


The closing date remains the same at 1am on Saturday 21st June.

Real Sociedad 2-1 Atletico Madrid (Alonso)
Silkeborg IF 1-2 Brondby (Jonson)
Mallorca 2-0 Malaga (Eto'o)
Toronto Croatia 0-2 Hamilton Thunder (Thomson)
Stabaek 1-3 Rosenborg (Brattbakk)
Bradford Bulls 26-18 Wigan Warriors (Paul)

howdy all.

Silkeborg IF 2 - Brondby 1
Mallorca 1 - Malaga 0
Toronto 1 - Hamilton 2
Stabaek 0 - Rosenberg 0
Bradford 15 - Wigan 30

can i please have pools panel next week as i'm off on holiday on wednesday. yiippeeeeee. end of exams

- GD this is turning into a bit of a farce, you know that?

Right - how many of my original predictions can I salvage?

Real Sociedad 2-1 Atletico Madrid (Kovacevic)
Silkeborg IF 1-3 Brondby (Wieghorst)
Mallorca 0-1 Malaga (Manu)
Toronto Croatia 2-0 Hamilton Thunder (Dikic - still a funny name)
Stabaek 2-3 Rosenborg (Nevland)
Bulls 20-12 Warriors (Vainikolo)

B

Because Rugby League scores are, by nature, harder to predict than football scores, would it make sense to award points for the correct _winning margin_, rather than the correct score?

B

I'm accutely aware of the farcical nature of the last two weeks. But in fairness I can't be blamed for external websites deciding that they've got the details wrong and changing them.

What I shall do for forthcoming weeks is to check with a second or even third source for confirmation - ie more work for me

I'm not going to monkey around with spread scoring for Rugby games that go into the mix. I don't see the point as the correct score is the one thing so few people get right anyway.

* shrugs *

Real Sociedad 3-1 Atletico Madrid (Alonso)
Silkeborg IF 1-1 Brondby (Foldgast)
Mallorca 1-0 Malaga (Pandiani)
Toronto Croatia 0-2 Hamilton Thunder (Bizera)
Stabaek 1-0 Rosenborg (Wilhelmsson)
Bradford 22-10 Wigan (Forshaw)

pools panel plus cary forward my prediction from last week please.

Sociedad 2 v 0 Atletico (Kovacevic)
Silkeborg 3 v 4 Brondby (Jonson (Brondby))
Mallorca 0 v 0 Malaga
Toronto Croatia 5 v 2 Hamilton Thunder (Bizera)
Stabaek 0 v 2 Rosenborg (Brattbakk)
Bradford 31 v 27 Wigan (Paul)

sorry posted at 1:36 so I guess I get disqualified then

Um... if you'd posted at 1:36am on Saturday morning, then yes. But as you posted at 1:36am on THURSDAY morning, I'll let your selection stand

OK been off all week, got the days mixed up

Just to remove any possible ambiguity, my nominated scorer for the Silkeborg v Brondby game is Mattias Jonson of Brondby.

I thought I'd better clarify that after the way Kiltedjedi gave his scorer as 'Jonson (Brondby)' - although, as far as I can make out, Silkeborg have a Jensen but not a Jonson.

We don't want any more confusion around here, do we?

I can't wait for this season to end, and then I can go back to dealing with sensible sounding named players and clubs like van Nistelrooy and Aston Villa...

Oh, GD- the norweigan league- could we have a Lyn game sometime? It's just I really want to predictEldar Hadzimehmedovic as first scorer...