In Off The Jumper

This week I am able to post the picks, guesses, and results all in one giant post.

Your Comments

LJ: “I was actually a bit late to get the Watford game in so I put an outlandish 9-0 and I was almost correct”

I think that was a reasonable pick. The way they wanted to run up the score they might have done it with another 20 minutes.

JE: “Got United winning but again I doubt it as our cb’s and cm’s will be sh*t today. Ronaldo will go on a major strop thinking what am I doing here. Prob the same as what dvb and Sancho are thinking. I genuinely can’t see ole staying if the football is as sh*t as this all the time. I would also jettison pogba as he wants too much money and doesn’t really contribute. A strutting peacock. Anyway no comments on other clubs this week!!!!.”

You sound like every other person stuck supporting the wrong team near Manchester. #OLEOUT

ME: “Villa v Wolves is a good bet for a draw…1 each it is then.
Almost had Brentford down for a win… i think the quality of Chelski will win in the end… good game predicted!
Not sure which flavour of crisps will turn up or which Man U side will pop up (Iknow they have lost their two main defenders)… I am going for Leicester to win by the odd goal with Vardy scoring the winner.
Man City will cruise through their game against Burnley with at least 3 goals.
Norwich and Brighton is a difficult one but Norwich aren’t really good enough…
Southampton are a difficult side to assess and this week I have them losing to Leeds by the odd goal.
Sorry John, as much as I would like your team to win.. it is Liverpool who are playing reasonably well again and should nudge Watford to one side.
Everton and the Hammers will provide an entertaining draw.
Newcastle will eventually be reinvented but for now they wll be headless chickens. C’mon you Spurs.
Finally it’s the gunners v an old gunner’s team. As much as I like what Viera is doing at Palace I think Arteta should have enough to see them home.”

Results

Here are everyone’s picks and their points for each pick:

This was a terrible week for picking and guessing. Before it started I told KMFE that it was a challenge to pick outside of Liverpool and Citeh. CS took this as a challenge and managed to pick just TWO games correctly. Liverpool and Citeh! To be fair, he actually picked Watford to win with a ridiculous score because he was late. I decided to give him the gimme.

Low scoring week this week with only TWO exact scores in total across all the picks. A single digit winner is a bad week but at least one of the winners is yours truly.

This week I am able to post the picks, guesses, and results all in one giant post.

Your Comments

JE: “All picked by H although I had to influence her to change 1-1 to 1-0 for united! 3-4 is an interesting score line and prediction!!!”
I think 3-4 was over-optimistic for a bit of excitement but 1-1 for the Trafford lads against the Toffee men seems quite a good pick in hindsight.

ME: “Not sure whether the wifi connection will stay up…down in West Pentire…So I will quit now while I’m ahead.”
Got your picks and all is well. I know you’re ahead of AM and the chances of him catching up are small but you still have to complete the season!

AA: “❤️”
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Results

Here are everyone’s picks and their points for each pick:

No real susprises this week outside of the normal over-expectations that #OleOut needs to win every game. Chelsea benefited from a very iffy red card, Watford got what looked like a goal taken back were some moments to think about. Norwich failing to score, Newcastle failing to win are all things we can expect to happen again.

Average week for yours truly and a good week for LJ who finished top of the humans. The Super Computers continue to do well. Mark Lawrenson is doing surprisingly bad – I’ll have to check that I captured his points correctly.

Overall, the leaders have flip-flopped and CS has taken the lead. I’ll do a biographical summary of all the players soon so we know who they are. The gap between ME and AM was also narrowed so I should be careful what I say in the comments moving forward!

I don’t know if you’ve read the headlines but “Claudio Ranieri Fired In Christmas Shocker!” has been predicted for the Hertfordshire Gazette as Watford chase success with their manager merry-go-round.

Thanks Xisco! you were good until you weren’t.

Just a quickie update.

The weekly points.

I’m still winning but it’s early doors. CS is quickly positioning himself as a contender what is LJ doing? More incorrect than anyone!

The picks that people have made this week

More to post tomorrow…..

This week I didn’t post the picks in a timely manner and for that I apologize; however, I did post the results in a timely-ish manner. Looks like I bookended my picks with a couple of exacts allowing me to lead the way with BE, CS, and JE.

The points this week see a tight top.

I don’t think I should comment on the bottom.

ME is already creating a lead against AM.

Will post more but just wanted to get this out there.

The results are in and it looks like a good week for yours truly.

The predictions:

Your Comments

JE: Some random results picking from Jim and Hannah this week! It’s puppy picking up day! And then puppy pop picking up day for the next month!

I know your strategy is guessing. Next week have Bertie pick his own scores and I’ll have him go up against Cliff. He usually picks Wolves because they are his relatives and the rest are just random – except he picks against Chelsea because “black dogs matter”. He also goes for Aberdeen every week.

ME: I think Arsenal will finally haul themselves from the bottom. Another opponent of quality this week would have really started the Arteta out movement… however, if they lost…..
I think Arteta has a few weeks – they were quite good at the end of last year almost qualifying and he needs to have a few weeks where he has his “first” team playing. I’m picking them to win comfortably but I am discounting the lack of first team confidence. Will probably be a tight affair.

ME: Brentford have started well will have a chance against Brighton but I am guessing they will share the points.
It’s hard to know. A win on the opening week against an Arsenal and that leads to the started well type chatter – a loss today and it will be “started ok” and that’s where we will end the day.

ME: Chelski will continue their form and breeze past Villa, although only two nil.
Not sure it will be a breeze but sounds about right.

ME: Watford and Wolves haven’t quite shown their potential yet and both will walk away scratching their heads as to why they didn’t win.Leeds will give Liverpool a bit of a fright but will lose to a very late Salah goal.

Watford have shown their potential – to win and lose but mostly lose. Wolves should have put four or five past Spuds last week but didn’t and this week I expect that drought to end.

ME: Burnley who will fight to the end haven’t quite got it and will lose to a more polished performance from Everton.

I want to believe that Burnley will keep up this year but the start of the season shows them playing a little rough and that’s a sign that they don’t think they’re good enough. See them going down with Newcastle and Norwich with Watford, Brentford, and Leeds making up the bottom six!

BE: I really should put 0-0 for the Arsenal against  Norwich, but my heart says the Gunners should be able to shoot canaries.
Thank you for trying to add some much needed humour to the site… lol

The results are in:

And the total points:

After Matchday 2 I was concerned that AA was heading towards another cellar dwelling season but she turned things around this week with another performance. It may just be an anomaly week though because AM and BE are also in the Top 5.

A week off now!

The predictions:

I think this marks me as “caught up”. Now I can get back to writing silly posts!

I’ll start by using the comments from the first three weeks to point out how how we all know nothing!

Another week down and the results are as follows:

And the net points: