Dan

Extremely unlucky Lucas. Has anyone heard of the SkyBet freeze trick? I've started doing it. Honestly I'm excited at the upside of this. I think it's absolutely mental and I think they're going to end up closing this loophole soon.

I agree on Millwall. They look like they're going to me. 1 point from 7 games and it wasn't even that bad a run of fixtures either. While QPR and Sheffield Wednesday have been basically performing as 12th-15th level sides since Rohl and Cifuentes came in. The fact they've already rolled the dice on a new manager too.

Those games fall within separate weeks sadly.

Honestly, how do I never, ever win?

Just like that there's a decent chance next weekend that our lead at the top is wiped to 6 points. This isn't yet over. I think we'll do it, and I'm not going to go too hard on them over today, but the form of the others means despite our ridiculous form, there is still a race going on here. We blew some ridiculous chances in that game today but we didn't help ourselves. Maresca's subs today were really bad. I felt like we were getting right on top of them and then stuttered our own growing momentum with bad subs. Cannon on the wing?

Would be even more sods law if the penalty was the 3rd minute. Anyway mine this weekend, a bit more drab but I'll take Derby (19/20) and Peterborough (19/20) to win. Both are decent prices in my eyes, both have tricky by League One standard home games which is factored into the price but both of their opposition have their own issues going into it so I think it's worth a go. £10 returns £0 £38.03.

1.11 gonna have to dock you £100 if that loses.

Let the winning machine continue. 80 points by mid February would be frankly ridiculous.

Instinctively went to go against whoever Granada or Almeria had and of course, it's each other. I'm gonna play on the edge here because this is quite frankly one of the toughest rounds I've ever seen for what is an opening week. I'm going to go for Granada.

Cheltenham of course have won both games since I picked them.

WEEK 28 - BUST WEEK 28 STATS Winning bets: 0/5 Winning selections: 2/10 Weekly forum position: -£50.00 (Ranked 23/28) --- OVERALL STATS Winning bets: 46/186 Winning selections: 158/352 Total forum position: -£400.81 In a bit of a rush this week but it wasn't a good one. An absolute shocker all round to be honest with 5/5 players losing and only 2 of those even landing a selection. No change in the table. Reminder for this week to anybody intending to play @Pyfish @Lucas @Machado @Storts @...Dan @Stan @CaaC (John) @RandoEFC

Totally slipped on the table. Will get it updated later on.

I've said ever since Ipswich we'll win the next five at a canter (currently won 4 of 4) and then lose at Leeds, before then going back to pretty much routinely winning. I'd love us to show up in one of these sorts of games. They ended a winning run of 9 games when they came here, I'd love to go there and do similar. I'd not criticise a point in that game though - for me the hardest fixture we have.

I was talking earlier in the day with someone about who I thought would get automatics and I did actually settle on Leeds. I think Southampton's run, while very impressive, was possibly the easiest run of fixtures you could possibly have handpicked and I'm not shocked that it's fallen in a game like Bristol City away. They haven't beaten a top half team since November. They have to go away to Leicester, Ipswich, Leeds and West Brom. The jury is still a bit out on them for me. Leeds on the flip side, famous last words (although it's hardly going to upset me if I'm wrong here is it?) but they're looking like the real deal now. 7 wins in a row in the league and have the best record of anybody against the other teams at the top. I'm increasingly convinced they are the second best side in this division. The greatest praise I'll pay them is that I'd take a draw there next week and nobody gets that treatment from me in this division.

We're too good against 75% of this league to not get automatics. Routine win. Would've been nice if we'd gone for the throat in the second half but it's another job done. First half was probably the best we've played at home all season.

I'm doing similarly. February so far has been simply the worst month I think I've had if you exclude the draw thing I'm doing (which of course I'm on 0/2 for since throwing them into here). There just seems to be so many trends being bucked.

The similarity is that they're both limited players but both seem to have this knack of popping up at crucial moments, seem to have this tendency to score late winners.

I doubt it. I think given how bad we were against them in November without him starting we won't risk it. Inability to really rest him is part of the knock-on effect from the crap January. I'm positive about Leicester at the minute but if he got injured we'd be hit for sure.

McTominay doesn't half remind me of how Fellaini used to be for them. Just annoyingly inevitable.

I do have a record of every table so far so could see what exactly you had. There's so much more luck involved in this than anyone would want to admit. This season has felt particularly tricky - my bad form has stretched to my actual bets now with February looking like the worst month since I've tracked them. But I know of pro-gamblers who are struggling a bit this season. Seems to be so many games that are bucking trends and I don't just mean teams form, I mean high scoring teams games clashes resulting in 1-0s and whatnot. Really has been quite tough of late. A five fold at the lowest price there (5/6) would be around 20/1 yep.

Absolutely wank again. Fuck me.

Nowhere near a vintage performance from us and their gifted goal made the whole thing far harder work than it could've been, but I can't moan too much, I'd say it was deserved on the whole and it's yet another win. It's the wins like this being made routine that has us top of the league because it's the kind of game where Southampton and Leeds have been dropping the odd points while we hardly ever have done. I think we have a real chance of getting the record now.

A ground we traditionally struggle at but I feel a lot of these laws go out of the window this season. You could've said similar of Cardiff, Stoke etc... No Vestergaard for us. I hope he starts Nelson. He's looked really good.

It'd be another like the retrospective diving thing introduced a few years ago. A couple of players would be hit by it and the uproar from it would cause the refs to get back into their shell, and bin it off. The refs are weak in this country. Give decisions based on the fewest repercussions. I don't think there's ever going to be a perfect solution. With the wisdom of time I've come to the conclusion it's always going to be imperfect.