RandoEFC

I like Discord but I didn't find it great for what I like about the forum. The games, long posts and stuff. Glad the forum is back up and running.

I've subscribed, least I can do I think .

Any further predictions made before the forum disappears, I'll do my best but I've got to go out for a few hours now!

I've saved the pre-season predictions and the Bahrain predictions that have been posted here. With the move to Discord, we'll have to see what we can do but I'll definitely try to still run this over there, it should be quite straight forward, just depends how many people make it over there with us. If it gets messy, I'll just have to void the first race weekend and go from there.

I'm halting this for this weekend due to the Discord thing. We'll see what we can do with the numbers that move over there etc. Priority right now is to salvage the Hall of Fame .

Not looking good for us. You'd say 2 wins from 5 for Dyche when we've had Arsenal twice and Liverpool away in those five games is alright but the loss to Villa at home followed by a 4-0 drubbing isn't good mental preparation for this massive away game at Forest. If they beat us they'll go 7 points ahead of us and that's another rival starting to feel out of reach. Even under a new manager who has these players drilled and organised, we've been so poor away from home for years, with the exception of the Covid blip under Ancelotti with no fans, it's just impossible to feel confident. I'm desperate to try and distance myself from it all emotionally. We lost the Villa game for one reason. No striker to suit this system when Calvert-Lewin is injured. When you look at the recruitment systems in place at (with all due respect) relatively small clubs like Brighton and Brentford, and compare it to Everton's inability to sign a backup for Calvert-Lewin when they know he's had a recurring injury for 18 months and you just think, you know what, the people running this club deserve relegation. The only thing that keeps me invested is wanting to see an end to the disappointment and anger felt by all of the Everton fans I'm in touch with in real life and through social media because they deserve better.

Off to France we go! @nudge @Dan @Beelzebub @Tommy @Michael @Redcanuck @Whiskey @Lucas @Stan @Bluewolf @6666 @DeadLinesman @The Liquidator @Viva la FCB @RandoEFC @Rick @...Dan @Pyfish @CaaC (John) @Rucksackfranzose @N U F C @Storts Preview - Gameweek One Games start tomorrow night! Try to be prompt but if you see this over the weekend you can still make a pick from the remaining fixtures if you want to participate. Nice vs Auxerre Lens vs Lille PSG vs Nantes Troyes vs Monaco Montpellier vs Angers Reims vs AC Ajaccio Strasbourg vs Brest Toulouse vs Clermont Foot Lyon vs Lorient Rennes vs Marseille My pick for Gameweek One is PSG. Good luck!

Not tried to watch tonight and not sorry. Whatever happens now happens. No idea when Calvert-Lewin will be back but regardless of manager, it's now becoming clear that if we can't get him fit then the lack of a forward signed in January has killed us. We might yet stay up if Leeds manage to be shitter than us or one of the other teams has a massive meltdown. Forest on Sunday is huge and I don't have a positive feeling about it, not least because we've won about 2 away games since Moshiri bought the club.

A reminder of the scoring rules for race-by-race predictions. Pole position - simply 5 points for a correct prediction and 0 points otherwise. Podium - 5 points for each driver that you get in their exact position, with 5 bonus points (20 in total) if you predict a completely accurate podium. 2 points for any drivers you correctly predicted to finish in the top three but in the wrong position. Random driver - 5 points to anyone who predicts the finishing position exactly right. If nobody manages this, then 2 points go to whoever was closest. Bonus question - varies, usually worth a maximum of 5 points. Can be an all or nothing case of scoring 5 or 0. On other occasions (like this weekend), you could get anything from 0 to 5. In general, the maximum score for each race weekend is 35 points. We had a couple of 30s last season but nobody has yet put together a perfect weekend!

Pole Position - Which driver will set the fastest time in Q3? Max Verstappen Podium - Predict the top three finishers in Sunday's race. 1. Max Verstappen 2. Sergio Perez 3. Charles Leclerc Random Driver - Predict the finishing position of this week's randomly chosen driver, Esteban Ocon. 9th Bonus Question - Which teams will have their cars knocked out in Q2? (Choose two teams and you will receive a point for each car from either of these teams that is eliminated in Q2 - a full house will score you a bonus point, so five overall). Haas and Alfa Romeo

Predictions - Bahrain Grand Prix The first race week of 2023 is here! @RandoEFC @Stan @MUFC @Tommy @nudge @Whiskey @Eco @JoshBRFC @The Palace Fan @DeadLinesman @Coma @OrangeKhrush Below are your predictions for the Bahrain Grand Prix. The deadline for any predictions or alterations is the start of qualifying on Saturday. Pole Position - Which driver will set the fastest time in Q3? Podium - Predict the top three finishers in Sunday's race. Random Driver - Predict the finishing position of this week's randomly chosen driver, Esteban Ocon. Bonus Question - Which teams will have their cars knocked out in Q2? (Choose two teams and you will receive a point for each car from either of these teams that is eliminated in Q2 - a full house will score you a bonus point, so five overall). Good luck!

Okie doke. I won't log any of these predictions until Saturday anyway so please do edit original posts rather than re-posting!

@DeadLinesman assume you're going to be defending your crown? Just need your season predictions then I can post the predictions for Bahrain tomorrow.

Yeah they looked like they were really coming along under Zak Brown, peaking with that 3rd place in 2020 when Ferrari had issues with the engine regulations and dropped back to the midfield. They built a dog last season for the new regulations and 5th flattered them really. It was more about Norris' consistency than them building a much better car. With their resources they should really be ahead of everyone apart from the big three by default but F1 isn't Mclaren's sole focus anymore. They seem happy to be about 4th in the WCC and sell sportscars and put in token entries to a load of other motorsports series to boost their brand. Shame really as it's one of the teams that should be capable of preventing domination at the front by being in the mix. They will develop their way out of being knocked out in Q1 again this season but they should be capable of so much more.

They've just built a crap car this season by the looks of it.

Result - Maidstone v Scunthorpe SCUNTHORPE (2) Number of Goals - Southampton v Grimsby 2-3 (3) Real Madrid v Barcelona - First Goal BARCELONA (2) Napoli to win a 9th game in a row YES (2) Championship Goal Scorer - Saturday 4th NATHAN TELLA (3) Result - Liverpool v Manchester United DRAW (2)

Our second debutant of the year in the Hall of Fame is @Tommy, with the victory in this year's La Liga edition his first ever in Last Man Standing.

An updated table for the 2022-23 season: Another top three finish for @nudge sees her retain a comfortable lead at the top of the table. @Dan manages to close the gap to single figures with a solid 2nd place in Spain. @Tommy shoots up to 4th place thanks to his victory and the sea of 1s and 0s scored by the rest of the squad.

An utterly insane final Gameweek has seen this round draw to a close. @Tommy was up first on Friday, and watched on in horror as Real Betis went 2-0 down to Elche in the first 10 minutes. However, a second half which saw Elche receive three red cards and Betis receive three penalties, one of which was missed at 2-2 in the 88th minute, culminated in a 95th minute decider from another penalty taken by Willian Jose to deliver @Tommy the victory. Saturday, next, and @Dan was the fifth competitor across three separate Gameweeks to be let down by Real Sociedad, as they were defeated 1-0 in their visit to Valencia. The outcome of this round hung in the balance until Sunday night, where Sevilla, backed by @6666, pegged back Osasuna twice at home, before conceding a decider in the 85th minute. No tie break required! @Tommy wins the La Liga 2022-23 edition of Last Man Standing, congratulations! The final scores for this round are as follows: 8 points - @Tommy (5 correct picks + 3 bonus points) 6 points - @Dan and @6666 (4 correct picks + 2 bonus points) 4 points - @nudge (3 correct picks + 1 bonus point) 1 point - @Beelzebub, @Michael, @Redcanuck, @Whiskey, @Lucas, @Stan, @Bluewolf, @DeadLinesman, @Viva la FCB, @RandoEFC, @Rick, @Pyfish and @CaaC (John) (1 correct pick) 0 points - @...Dan, @Rucksackfranzose and @Storts The next round (Ligue 1) will be launched later on this week.

Looks like a rough pecking order of Red Bull Ferrari Mercedes/Aston Martin Alpine/Alfa Romeo Haas Alpha Tauri McLaren/Williams

World Drivers' Champion: Max Verstappen World Constructors' Champion: Red Bull How many different drivers will win at least one race? Five How many different constructors will score at least one podium? Five Which driver will have the most retirements? Kevin Magnussen Team-mate championship battles - which driver will score the most points from each team? Red Bull - Max Verstappen Ferrari - Charles Leclerc Mercedes - Lewis Hamilton Alpine - Esteban Ocon McLaren - Lando Norris Alfa Romeo - Valtteri Bottas Aston Martin - Fernando Alonso Haas - Nico Hulkenberg Alpha Tauri - Nyck De Vries Williams - Alexander Albon

It looks like our field contains @RandoEFC, @Stan, @MUFC, @Tommy, @nudge, @Whiskey, @Eco, @JoshBRFC, @The Palace Fan and @Coma. I'm also assuming we'll see a return from defending champion @DeadLinesman and @OrangeKhrush. With the only pre-season test complete, it's time to make your pre-season predictions. These predictions and scoring will be as follows - please copy and paste the template at the end of this post to make your predictions. World Drivers' Champion and World Constructors' Champion: Each of these predictions are worth 20 points for a correct pick, and 10 consolation points if your pick finishes in the top three of the championship. How Many Different Drivers to Win a Race: 10 points for a correct pick. If nobody gets it spot on, 5 points will go to whoever was closest. How Many Different Constructors to Score a Podium: 10 points for a correct pick. If nobody gets it spot on, 5 points will go to whoever was closest. Most Retirements: Anyone who picks the driver (or one of them if there is a tie) who retires from the most races will receive 10 points. Again, whoever is closest if nobody manages this will get 5 consolation points. Team-Mate Championship Battles: You will pick which driver you think will finish higher in the championship from each team-mate pairing. Whoever predicts the most of these battles correctly scores 10 points at the end of the season. Any team-mate changes throughout the season will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. E.G. if Tsunoda is dropped mid-season because he has 0 points while De Vries has 25, this battle will be awarded to De Vries. However, if Gasly is on 40 points and Ocon is on 45 points, and one of them moves teams halfway through the year or something, this head-to-head will be rendered void. --- Here we go then, please copy the blank predictions below and fill yours in. The predictions for the first Grand Prix in Bahrain will be posted around Tuesday or Wednesday. The deadline for both sets of predictions is the start of qualifying next Saturday. World Drivers' Champion: World Constructors' Champion: How many different drivers will win at least one race? How many different constructors will score at least one podium? Which driver will have the most retirements? Team-mate championship battles - which driver will score the most points from each team? Red Bull - Max Verstappen or Sergio Perez? Ferrari - Charles Leclerc or Carlos Sainz? Mercedes - Lewis Hamilton or George Russell? Alpine - Esteban Ocon or Pierre Gasly? McLaren - Lando Norris or Oscar Piastri? Alfa Romeo - Valtteri Bottas or Zhou Guanyu? Aston Martin - Fernando Alonso or Lance Stroll? Haas - Kevin Magnussen or Nico Hulkenberg? Alpha Tauri - Yuki Tsunoda or Nyck De Vries? Williams - Alexander Albon or Logan Sargeant? Good luck!

Alonso should have a really good chance of podiums early in the year.

Really hoping they've peaked. I genuinely don't think they're much better than Southampton and Bournemouth. It's absolutely nailed on we go there next weekend and play just poorly enough to gift them another 3 points as well. I think those are the bottom three teams in terms of ability and Everton and Leeds aren't far ahead but should slot into 16th and 17th. Leicester, West Ham and Wolves have too much quality to be in the mix at the end of the season. Whether it finishes like that though, I'm not confident, we'll see.

This decision could go either way but what I have a gripe with is how short the time was between the referee blowing for a penalty and it getting taken. It was like they didn't even bother to review the decision. I'm quite happy for VAR to keep their hands off marginal decisions but it does strike me that if this was a Super Sunday game they'd have gone through all of the replays for the benefit of the spectacle and be really anal about it but with these 'last on MOTD' fixtures they actually stick to their high bar for intervention.