FA Cup Upsets Game – Round 3 (Jan 2016)

[daib0]

FA Cup Upsets Game – Round Three
One-off Weekend Game


Here’s a fun competition, and it’s a one-off game, so make a prediction and then sit back and enjoy! It’s been done a dozen times now, so we know it works. It’s a game orientated to a few special friendly forums, namely:
Reading - Royals Rendezvous
Blackpool - Back Henry Street
Peterborough – The Posh Forum
Sunderland – Black Cat Chat
Newcastle – Toon Forum
Watford – WFC Forums
WBA – Baggies Zone
Leeds – LUFC Talk
Liverpool – Talk the Reds
Bournemouth - CourtOffside

How do I play, you’ll ask?! Well, have a look at the teams on the FA Cup Round THREE programme below - there are Premier, Championship, League 1, League 2, and National Conference teams included on the list. I'd like to invite you to call for FIVE matches where you see a possible upset on the cards! By upset, it must obviously be a lower league side winning (or at least drawing) against a higher league side. You haven't got to give any score, simply guess the match of the successful 'smaller clubs' or ‘minnow’ teams! If you get it wrong doesn’t matter at all, you don’t get awarded points for that particular game or games – and that will surely apply to all of us.

So … how do you get points?
If in your selected games a lower league side does indeed win you have 3 points. If the lower league side force a replay then it is 1 point (note - doesn’t matter if they later lose the replay). But ... bonus - if you choose an real ‘upset’ (win/draw) – a team from a league TWO tiers OR MORE lower their opponents then those points are DOUBLED.

To help you, use the asterisks by the games list to make an easy-peasy selection:
one asterisk (*) = one tier difference /
two asterisks (**) = two or more tier differences /
Meanwhile “ --- ” on the list of matches means this prediction is not valid, don’t include these options as it’s no cup upset if teams are from the same tier league!
This is the real betting man's stuff - the more you risk with tier difference the more points you get, but there again, an upset is much less likely!! So you need to weigh things up!!


THIRD ROUND DRAW

Friday 8th January 2016
** Exeter v Liverpool

Saturday 9th January 2016
** Wycombe v Aston Villa
--- Arsenal v Sunderland
* Birmingham v Bournemouth
* Brentford v Walsall
--- Bury v Bradford
* Colchester v Charlton
** Doncaster v Stoke
** Eastleigh v Bolton
** Everton v Dag & Red
** Hartlepool v Derby
--- Huddersfield v Reading
--- Hull v Brighton
** Ipswich v Portsmouth
--- Leeds v Rotherham
--- Middlesbrough v Burnley
** Newport v Blackburn
** Northampton v MK Dons
--- Norwich v Man City
--- Nottm Forest v QPR
* Peterborough v Preston
--- Sheff Wed v Fulham
--- Southampton v Crystal Palace
--- Watford v Newcastle
* West Brom v Bristol City
* West Ham v Wolves
** Man Utd v Sheff Utd


Sunday 10th January 2016
** Oxford Utd v Swansea
--- Carlisle v Yeovil
** Chelsea v Scunthorpe
--- Tottenham v Leicester
* Cardiff v Shrewsbury





Have fun - answers on this thread please - CAREFUL closing time BEFORE KICK-OFF of the first Friday match [8th January]
Points and the placings for this comp will appear on this thread within a couple of days after the last match for this round has been played … I’ll give both the complete points for your forum, and the top dozen overall positions on all forums together for even more prestigious bragging rights!

Good luck!

daib0

[daib0]

My selection is:

** Wycombe v Aston Villa
* Colchester v Charlton
** Eastleigh v Bolton
** Northampton v MK Dons
* Peterborough v Preston



Likewise, you just give your FIVE upsets matches!

[daib0]

currently it's only the Cherries and Leeds without entries so far!

Now 30 in from the ten forums, although as I say, it's basically an individual game for each forum!

[dlw10]

Wycombe v Villa
Eastleigh v Bolton
Newport v Blackburn
Northampton T v MK Dons
Oxford U v Swansea


and good luck everyone!

[Selby White]

Birmingham v Bournemouth
Colchester v Charlton
Peterborough v Preston
West Ham v Wolves
Oxford utd v Swansea

[NottinghamWhite]

Oxford v Swansea
Peterborough v Preston
Northampton v MK Dons
Cardiff v Shrewsbury
Manchester United v Sheffield United ( pretty please )

[Deleted User 728]

Great idea !

Here's mine :

Wycombe v Aston Villa
Birmingham v Bournemouth
Colchester v Charlton
Northampton v MK Dons
Man Utd v Sheff Utd

[Sheepy]

Ill go for:
Birmingham v Bournemouth
Colchester v Charlton
Ipswich v Portsmouth
Northampton v MK Dons
Oxford Utd v Swansea

[Deleted User 2747]

Great idea. I love prediction games.

** Wycombe v Aston Villa
* Brentford v Walsall
** Eastleigh v Bolton
** Northampton v MK Dons
** Man Utd v Sheff Utd

[LAsouthcoast]

Brentford v Walsall
Ipswich v Pompey
Newport v Blackburn
Oxford v Swansea
Cardiff v Shrewsbury