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Is this thread for football talk or some Fifa 13 prediction competition. I assume the former so why don't you lot start a new thread where you can act like 13 year olds (I time when I used to get the occasional pools win, and before my balls dropped).


So for anyone with serious interest in football, where has the romance and crowds gone from the FA Cup?


Only ten years ago 3rd round used to attract big crowds. I see that only 7500 QPR fans turned up yesterday, marginally better than Mansfield where ever they may be. Grounds that are only 60% empty must add to the lack of atmosphere.


Did the loss of the Cup winners Cup start the decline (a proper knockout tournament, playing amongst some of the best in Europe)?


Does this add to the case for binning that pointless League Cup?


What do we reckon wil be the scores in the replays?

Oh dear have I ruffled some feathers? I had hoped for a quality response.


Anyway back to my original question, it appears that this afternoon has answered it. Get rid of the cheats and hand football back to the fans.


Sadly I can't find the excellent Viz paradody when Fulchester United featuring Billy the Fish play against a team with a cheating Maradona look alike (and I am sure this would to be too un-PC for you sensitive lot)

There is merit in having the weekly predictions in a separate thread. In the past they never quite caught fire but they seem well popular now. If I wasn't so lazy I'd want to take part


It's not as if the standard of dialogue in here is so amazing it shouldn't be interrupted but to these eyes the two things (football chat & spreadsheet talk) would be better served in separate threads

malumbu Wrote:

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> Is this thread for football talk or some Fifa 13

> prediction competition. I assume the former so

> why don't you lot start a new thread where you can

> act like 13 year olds (I time when I used to get

> the occasional pools win, and before my balls

> dropped).

>

>

> What do we reckon wil be the scores in the

> replays?


Is this irony?

FA Cup 3rd round scores...


LG - 3 Correct Results + 2 Correct Scores = 9 pts


EP - 5 Correct Results + 1 Correct Score = 8 pts


Mx - 4 Correct Results + 1 Correct Score = 7 pts


OT - 3 Correct Results + 1 Correct Score = 6 pts


AM - 5 Correct Results + 0 Correct Scores = 5 pts

JL - 5 Correct Results + 0 Correct Scores = 5 pts

RD - 5 Correct Results + 0 Correct Scores = 5 pts

SC - 5 Correct Results + 0 Correct Scores = 5 pts


MM - 4 Correct Results + 0 Correct Scores = 4 pts

PD - 4 Correct Results + 0 Correct Scores = 4 pts


?? - 3 Correct Results + 0 Correct Scores = 3 pts

RC - 3 Correct Results + 0 Correct Scores = 3 pts



On current standings MM, PD, ?? and RC would be knocked-out at QF stage...

A real cup competition in that the bottom three in the EDF predictor league are the current top three in the cup prediction stakes -


- obviously (and a prime example of how little respect the poor old FA Cup gets these days) the big names in the EDFPL were resting their best guesses for the resumption of Premiership games.


Poor results may see a change of tactics for the 4th round. B)

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