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  1. Also, I'm changing the race predictions already. I'll leave pole position the way it is because I don't yet think that Verstappen winning every qualifying session is a write-off, but the top three prediction will be a top three without Verstappen for the foreseeable future. We're going to need this prediction league to be interesting to make this F1 season any fun at all .
  2. Looking through the team-mate battle predictions, there are 7 cases out of 10 where everyone, or everyone except one person, has put the same person down. I'm thinking of making a last minute change to this by changing the match-ups to make them a bit more of a 50-50, basing the pairings (mostly) off last season's championship. I think it would make it more interesting. I wish I'd thought to do so before I posted the season predictions but I think doing it after one race is reasonably harmless. Unless anyone objects, I'd like to replace the "team-mate battles" from the season predictions with these match-ups. I'll post them with the Saudi predictions so that you can do them at the same time and not need to be tagged any more times. Verstappen vs Perez Hamilton vs Leclerc Norris vs Alonso Sainz vs Russell Piastri vs Stroll Gasly vs Ocon Albon vs Tsunoda Bottas vs Hulkenberg Ricciardo vs Zhou Magnussen vs Sargeant Let me know if you object but it makes the match-ups a bit more interesting in my opinion. If people don't want it I won't but if I don't hear anything back I'm going for it. @nudge @Whiskey @DeadLinesman @Coma @OrangeKhrush @The Palace Fan @Tommy @MUFC @Stan Results for Bahrain will be up tonight or tomorrow.
  3. Results - Gameweek Three Casualties (2) A relatively strong weekend on the whole sees just two players fall by the wayside. Getafe squandered a 3-1 half-time lead at home to Las Palmas, leading to an elimination for @6666 which certainly has to go down as pretty hard to swallow. @Pyfish is also taken out this weekend as Barcelona were only able to muster a goalless draw from their visit to Athletic Club. Unlucky, folks, you leave this round with 2 points with the outside chance of a bonus point for joint 3rd depending on how the remaining players get on. Survivors (5) We are down to the final five, and @Storts is the first to successfully bet against bottom club Almeria, with Celta Vigo grinding out a 1-0 win through Mingueza's 73rd minute goal on Friday night. The rest of this week's survivors took a similar approach, picking on another La Liga whipping boy in Granada. @Tommy, @Michael, @Lucas and @Stan were duly rewarded with progress to the fourth Gameweek as Villarreal handed out a 5-1 pasting on Sunday lunchtime. Congratulations on progressing, see below for the Gameweek 4 fixtures. Preview - Gameweek Four Remember to double check that you aren't using a team for a second time! Barcelona vs Mallorca Valencia vs Getafe Cadiz vs Atletico Madrid Granada vs Real Sociedad Girona vs Osasuna Deportivo Alaves vs Rayo Vallecano Las Palmas vs Athletic Club Real Madrid vs Celta Vigo Real Betis vs Villarreal Almeria vs Sevilla Good luck!
  4. I had a bet builder with a first half goal, some City corners, some City shots and 11+ City free kicks. All were roughly even odds. First three legs came in before City had their second free kick of the game . It won with a minute and a half to spare at least.
  5. I think Liverpool may well fancy their chances next weekend. Personally hoping for a draw with 5 red cards and 5 injuries each.
  6. DRS and the almost perfect reliability that comes with the sustainability measures that have been introduced have robbed us of probably more than half of the unpredictable results we used to get. That stuff used to be enough to restrict even a Michael Schumacher in 2004's winning probability to about 85% tops. Another unique thing is this particular combination of car and driver. We've seen the best driver in the best car plenty of times but this Red Bull simply doesn't have an achilles heel and just romps 0.5s faster at any track. And Max simply does not have a day off whereas Vettel and Hamilton occasionally did when they dominated. My expectations are probably skewed by the era I got into F1 after Schumacher's era and before Vettel's. 2005 and 2006 both had decent title fights through the year. 2007-8 were two of the most dramatic championships of all time even if the pre-DRS racing was poor at some races (not as many or as poor as some people would have you think). Then 2009 saw a total reset of the competitive order and 2010 had a five way title fight between Webber, Vettel, Alonso, Hamilton and Button. 2011 was the first "dominance" season I'd seen and even 2012 was pretty wild so I could be forgiven for thinking it wasn't the norm for both championships to be a foregone conclusion after pre-season testing.
  7. Here's an idea, how about keeping your big fat mouth shut next time mate? Cheers.
  8. I don't think it's just wishful thinking to say the tide seems to be turning on Luton now. They've been comfortably dealt with by Aston Villa so far. Got Palace away next which is going to be a struggle now that they've been rejuvenated by a new manager. These reports have been coming out that Edwards has had two league tables on the dressing room wall to show the table with an without our points deduction. By focusing on us instead of just accruing as many points as possible, you can't help but feel Everton getting 4 points back is going to come as a bit of a body blow for them psychologically. Cue second half comeback and 3-2 win.
  9. One of the worst things is the pundits and media talking up how much closer the field has got. You can fuck off. That was a carbon copy of practically every race from last year. You can show me as many graphs about the percentage change of qualifying times all you like. Ferrari might nick half a dozen pole positions but Verstappen will easily win nearly, if not all of the ordinary races this season.
  10. xG of 2.7 for us today and 1 goal. xG of 1.73 for them and 3 goals. That's pissed me off the most of any game this season I think. Missed penalty, McNeil find the goalkeeper from 6 yards out. We had half a dozen balls fall to players on the edge of the box ballooned high and wide. Soucek's goal wasn't that much of a better chance and he finds the top corner. Areola played out of his skin but it's beyond a joke now. Our xG underperformance must be hitting all-time records this season, especially at home. We shouldn't need too many more points to survive still but we look more likely to get them on the road than at home even with Burnley and Sheffield United still to come to Goodison.
  11. I had it on the tv and watched the football on my laptop and to be honest a couple of times I forgot the race was even on.
  12. 1-3 on the break. Joke of a defeat against one of the worst teams that have come to Goodison all season.
  13. West Ham scoring a screamer to nick a match in which they've barely existed was the only way this was going to end. We need a whole week of fucking shooting practice before next weekend. Played well, looked only one winner but missed chances, missed chances, missed chances.
  14. Has to be comfortably the most awful era of Formula One and we've got 23 more races this year and all of next year before a meaningful rule change.
  15. Areola about the 6th goalkeeper who's saved his best performance of the season for Goodison Park...
  16. 1-1. Header from a corner. Pickford has had nothing to do as well ffs. We've had plaudits for scoring goals from set pieces but we are garbage at defending them.
  17. Beto scores. Cracking cross from Garner for a free header.
  18. Falkirk 0-0 at half time of course so it's a no. Watch them score 30 seconds into the second half and win 3-0 .
  19. Welcome to the new season. Same as the old season.
  20. Poor game as expected. Beto missing a penalty on the brink of half time. We are an absolute career ender for strikers. Typical us that last weekend we saw an opponent reduced to ten men for the first time all season and then can't see it out with 10 minutes left and then today we get our first penalty of the season and miss it. Hard, hard watch. Both teams there for the taking.
  21. I think you'll be fine. Forest should be getting at least 6 points deducted so you'll be effectively 7 clear of them and 5 clear of Luton and you only have to keep ahead of one of them to survive. I think Luton's little purple patch is fizzling out as well.
  22. Is there worry in the Brentford ranks? I was surprised to see Norgaard and Frank had commented on Everton getting points back. Still don't see a set of circumstances that sees you or Palace in real trouble with Forest having a sizeable deduction coming and Everton potentially as well.
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