Rucksackfranzose

Bluewolf's perfect Kiel 4-0 Osnabrück score is prediction of the matchday. Also remarkable Stan's the first player this season  to score 8 points on a matchday without a single perfect score in this league.

                                                                                                  Matchday 29

1) Bluewolf                                                  10 points

2) Stan                                                          8 points

2) Tommy                                                    8 points

4) Coma                                                       7 points

5) CaaC(John)                                            6 points

6) Michael                                                   5 points

6) Rucksackfranzose                                5 points

8- Viva la FCB                                             4 points

The 2 leaders now are feeling  the hot breath of the midtable players in their necks.

                                                                                Table after 29 matchdays

1) @Michael                                            180 points

2) @Viva la FCB                                       177 points

3) @Bluewolf                                           174 points

4) @Coma                                               172 points

4) @Tommy                                             172 points

6) @Stan                                                   171 points

7) @CaaC (John)                                      170 points

8- Rucksackfranzose                                   147 points

9) @londonerlilie                                       122 points

9) @nawoo                                                122 points

1 hour ago, OrangeKhrush said:

I think the solution to the problem is a lot easier than made out to be,  it just needs strong leaders to take it down that path. 

I'd rather say this obsession with strong leaders and strong leadership is a part of the problem rather than its solution, to be absolutely honest. If neither the former and reigning israeli PMs nor the former and reigning Palestinian representives had always been so  busy to demonstrate "strong leadership" a compromise could have been found decades ago.

On 13/04/2024 at 21:02, 6666 said:

You really have a difficult time avoiding getting rattled and emotional when in this thread.

Stopping Israel is a positive. All these nations need to feel like there are consequences. At the moment Israel feels it has none and behaves the way it does and has done for a long, long time. That needs to change. If Israel didn't have immunity from sanctions and ridicule from Western nations then there could've been another way but unfortunately Western nations hold Israel up instead.

If just the threat of an attack from Iran can get other nations to behave in a less genocidal manner then obviously that'd be better but Israel's belief they have the God given right to kill Palestinians makes that unlikely.

Your answer leads to the next intriguing question. If it is justified to kill univolved Israelis to stop Israel, why shouldn't it be justified to kill uninvolved Palestinians fron Gaza to stop Hamas? And no, because I've sided with the latter isn't an acceptable response. A human life is a human life and all humans have the same raison d'etre, after all. 

5 minutes ago, 6666 said:

Where did that come from? You're a bit too deep into your hate for Iran that it seems to have made you lose all perspective and it makes you say wild things that don't apply to make others seem extreme.

Israel attacked Iran and more importantly for me, they've been scum for decades for the way they've Palestinians so Iran attacking Israel and providing some consequences would be positive. Notice I said Israel and not Jews and have always done so? No need to make things up like most pro-Zionists. This idea Israel wouldn't be the ones that started another war is also very consistent with how Israel's actions get ignored. They're just randomly being picked on...

And I know you've said the IDF are war criminals but I thought I'd ignore that and make up my own narrative. Give you a taste of your own medicine. Thought I'd be a liar like you.

Please be so kind and explain how extending a war and producing an ever bigger bloodbath in the process can be seen as positive? Genuine curious?

Matches played from 19th to 21st of May:

Nürnberg - Paderborn

Elversberg - Schalke

Düsseldorf - Fürth

Lautern - Wehen

Osnabrück - Braunschweig

Hamburg - Kiel

Karlsruhe - Hertha BSC

Hannover - St Pauli

Rostock - Magdeburg

Matches played from 19th to 21st of May:

Frankfurt - Augsburg

Wolfsburg - Bochum

Köln - Darmstadt

Hoffenheim - Gladbach

Heidenheim - Leipzig

Union - Bayern

Bremen - Stuttgart

Dortmund - Leverkusen

Freiburg - Mainz

5 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Yeah I think an Assyrian population in Iran too - I do think it's significantly less than the populations of Syrian/Iraqi Assyrians though. I'm not sure about that. Tbh, I forgot they're Christians too - looking at the numbers though, they're an extreme minority even compared to Armenians living in Iran.

Just googled it: according to "Open Doors" there're a bit less than half a million Christians in Iran a county of 88M inhabitants. Not even 1%, millions my arse.

8 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

There's actually a decent sized Christian population because there a decent number of Armenians in Iran - and people living in Esfahan take advantage of the fact there's many Christian Armenians who are allowed to buy/sell wine by making friends with them so they can skirt the alcohol ban. But you're right that Christianity has a pretty minor history in Iran, outside of Armenian-Iranians... I don't know of any other Christian Iranians. But there's enough of them that it's one of the 4 protected religions in Iran - along with Islam, Zoroastrians (even though they've faced persecution lol), and Jews (same lol).

Might be wrong here, still seem to remember an also autotochtone so called Assyrian Christian church does exist, as well?

Game 123: 55th min

Game 124: 43th min, please

2 minutes ago, Stan said:

You really don't like English football or media do you .

@Michael was only making a point about Leverkusen pretty much securing the league this weekend. Nothing about inevitability before the season or comparing to a result against Arsenal...?

He used the word inevitable in context of his prognosed result, didn't he? Just gave a few examples of inevitability in football, one from very recent times, the other from my own club. What did you expect would be on top of my head?

2 hours ago, Michael said:

Bayer Leverkusen will win the Bundesliga title on Sunday, it's inevitable given the form they are in.

As invitable as Bayern's title was supposed to be by English bookies before this season? May I remind that FCS has a infinite percentage better win ratio against Bayern than Arsenal this season, although played them in the same amount of matches versus them? Just one of uncountable examples for in evitability in football. Could also name Heidenheim winning versus Bayern whilst the club on top of that league the British media can't stop wanking about could only muster a draw against them just three days later.

@Michael, @Bluewolf, @londonerlilie, @nawoo

Lat reminder!

@Michael, @6666, @Bluewolf, @nawoo

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Newcastle 2-3 Tottenham

Brentford 1-0 Sheff Utd

Burnley 0-3 Brighton

Man City 2-1 Luton

Nottm Forest 2-4 Wolves

Bournemouth 1-1 Man Utd

Liverpool 3-0 Crystal Palace

West Ham 2-1 Fulham

Arsenal 2-0 Aston Villa

Chelsea 0-0 Everton

@Stan Perhaps adjust thread's name to Premier Prediction League?

@Michael, @Viva la FCB, @Coma, @Bluewolf, @Tommy, @Stan, @londonerlilie, @nawoo

Your weekly reminder!

@Tommy, @Stan, @Viva la FCB, @Michael, @6666, @Bluewolf, @Coma, @nawoo

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Hertha BSC 2-1 Rostock

Fürth 1-1 Lautern

Paderborn 3-2 Karlsruhe

Kiel 4-3 Osnabrück

Wehen 1-4 Düsseldorf

Schalke 2-3 Nürnberg

St Pauli 1-2 Elversberg

Magdeburg 2-1 Hamburg

Braunschweig 2-1 Hannover

Augsburg 2-1 Union

Bayern 2-2 Köln

Leipzig 3-0 Wolfsburg

Mainz 1-2 Hoffenheim

Gladbach 2-4 Dortmund

Bochum 1-3 Heidenheim

Stuttgart 3-2 Frankfurt

Darmstadt 1-3 Freiburg

Leverkusen 2-0 Bremen

Sydney 3-1 Western Sydney

Atletico Madrid 1-2 Girona

Birmingham 2-2 Coventry

Motherwell 1-2 Hibernian

Torino 0-0 Juventus

DC United 2-1 Orlando City

Braunschweig 2-1 Hannover

Tottenham Women 3-0 Leicester Women

Clermont 0-1 Montpellier

Vasco da Gama 2-1 Gremio

Drexler is the second player with a bit of a reputation, who's degraded into second team after Baumgartl, now. Apparently Geraerts is a friend of taking tough action. Either that, or Schalke are in panic mode.

Heiko Butscher takes over. It's as inspiring as it's risky to appoint a U19 coach without managing experience, apart from 2 matches as care taker, as new manager instead of one of the usual suspects in the table situation Bochum are in.

After Bochum won 1 point out of their last 6 matches, and were going down from 11th spot to 15th with only being 3 points clear of the relegation play off spot in the course of that streak, this has to be expected. That said I'm not fully convinced Thomas Letsch is responsible for that development. Their performances reflect the squad's quality fairly correct, in my honest opinion.

4 hours ago, CaaC (John) said:

Mainz - Hoffenheim
 

You oversaw this fixture.

Game 121: 14th min

Game 122: 31st min, please

Scores were a bit better than last matchday, still not good.

                                                  Matchday 28

1) Stan                                       7 points

2) 6666                                      6 points

2) Tommy                                 6 points

4) Bluewolf                              5 points

5) Coma                                   4 points

5) Michael                               4 points

5) Viva la FCB                         4 points

8- Rucksackfranzose            3 points

9) CaaC(John)                       1 point

Our first participant took the 200 points hurdle.

                                                    Table after 28 matchdays

1) @Tommy                        201 points

2) @Stan                            199 points

3) @Viva la FCB                 194 points

4) @Michael                      190 points

5) @6666                          186 points

6) @Bluewolf                     183 points

7) @Coma                          173 points

8- Rucksackfranzose            156 points

9) @nawoo                         149 points

10) @CaaC (John)             148 points