Clyde1998

Thanks - it's up there now

I'm going to assume that not many people are interested - or maybe haven't seen this. We've got 372 entries from 32 forums (plus two non-affiliated). SWANSEA – Planet Swans 34 HULL CITY – Not 606 Hull board 29 (32, but includes 3 incorrect at present = 29) NORWICH CITY – Not 606 Norwich Board 23 LEICESTER – Foxes Talk 22 WATFORD – WFC Forums 20 DERBY – DCFC Fans Forum 18 DONCASTER – Viking Chat Forum 17 LEEDS – Dirty Leeds forum 17 NEWCASTLE - The Toon Forum 16 FULHAM – Friends of Fulham 14 BARNSLEY – Talk of the Tarn Forum 13 BRIGHTON – North Stand Chat 12 LIVERPOOL – Liverpool FC Forum 12 QPR – Not 606 QPR Board 12 LEEDS – LUFC Talk 11 READING – Royals Rendezvous 11 BLACKPOOL – Back Henry Street Forum 10 CRYSTAL PALACE – Holmesdale Forum 9 PETERBOROUGH – The Official Posh Forum 8 Talk Of The Terrace (National Forum) 7 CHELSEA – Chelsea FC Forums 7 (8, but includes 1 incorrect at present = 7) EVERTON – ToffeeTalk Forum 7 WBA – BaggiesZone 6 WBA – WBAZone 6 BLACKBURN – Roverstalk 5 (6, but includes 1 incorrect at present = 5) BURNLEY – The Longside 5 CARDIFF – Cardiff City Forum 5 WIGAN – This Northern Soul 5 CRAWLEY TOWN – CTFC Net 4 SUNDERLAND – Black Cat Chat Forum 3 Individual Non-affiliated Entries 2 MANCHESTER UNITED – United Lounge Forum 1 NOTTINGHAM FOREST – The A Block 1 We're aiming for 500 entries - so have a go!

There's footage - http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/8833216/celtic-win-at-brentford

Entries so far: HULL CITY – Not 606 Hull board 25 SWANSEA – Planet Swans 18 NEWCASTLE - The Toon Forum 16 FULHAM – Friends of Fulham 14 BARNSLEY – Talk of the Tarn Forum 13 BRIGHTON – North Stand Chat 12 DONCASTER – Viking Chat Forum 10 READING – Royals Rendezvous 9 WATFORD – WFC Forums 7 CARDIFF – Cardiff City Forum 5 BLACKPOOL – Back Henry Street Forum 5 Talk Of The Terrace (National Forum) 4 LEICESTER – Foxes Talk 3 DERBY – DCFC Fans Forum 4 WIGAN – This Northern Soul 3 BLACKBURN – Roverstalk 3 LIVERPOOL – Liverpool FC Forum 3 BURNLEY – The Longside 2 CHELSEA – Chelsea FC Forums 2 EVERTON – ToffeeTalk Forum 2 WEST BROMWICH ALBION – WBAZone 3 NORWICH CITY – Not 606 Norwich Board 2 CRYSTAL PALACE – Holmesdale Forum 2 MANCHESTER UNITED – United Lounge Forum 1 WBA – BaggiesZone 1

This was what I went for: 1 - Chelsea 2 - Manchester City 3 - Arsenal 4 - Manchester Utd 5 - Liverpool 6 - Tottenham Hotspur 7 - Everton 8 - Fulham 9 - West Bromwich Albion 10 - Newcastle United 11 - Swansea City 12 - Norwich City 13 - Sunderland 14 - Aston Villa 15 - Stoke City 16 - Cardiff City 17 - Crystal Palace 18 - West Ham United 19 - Southampton 20 - Hull City

Inter-Forum ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Positions Game 2013-14 Organized by Sunderland’s Black Cat Chat, Reading's Royals Rendezvous & Talk of the Terrace Forums This game is already well established, several seasons running now. And dead easy! You simply guess ONCE (now!) what you think will be the final league positions for the Premier League 2013-14 (that’s all teams, in order 1st to 20th), leave them on this thread, and then sit back and enjoy! The Sunderland ‘Black Cat Chat’ forum does the rest all season. I am the representative from the Reading forum Royals Rendezvous, and last season we also had a strong Liverpool group too. But this season we’re going big time – let’s try to get over 20 forums involved. Talk of the Terrace are also going to be a point of reference for all. Why the attraction of all this you may well ask?! Well, it’s now some time since we had those great days of the BBC 606 fans forum service – alas, most will remember it closed in June 2011 – so this is an ideal way to keep us all together still. This game will initially take you a couple of minutes, and then enjoy without having to make updates at all, all season. Here right below are the current 20 Premier teams in alphabetical order – simply copy these onto your PC and re-arrange them in your finishing order come the end of the 2013-14 season: Arsenal Aston Villa Cardiff City Chelsea Crystal Palace Everton Fulham Hull City Liverpool Manchester City Manchester United Newcastle United Norwich City Southampton Stoke City Sunderland Swansea City Tottenham Hotspur West Bromwich Albion West Ham United According to your choices you score lots of, or better still few, points. And how do you score points? Scoring is as follows: For each team you score one point for each place away from its predicted position. Example - if you predict Sunderland to finish 9th and they finish 9th, you score 0 points (excellent predicting). If they finish 13th you score 4 points or if they finish 7th you score 2 points. Therefore, the nearer you get to the exact position and have less points mounting up the better of course. I will endeavour to make updates at the beginning of every month during the season out of interest, but all leaderboards during the season are given for interest. IMPORTANT - The big winners are the people who have LEAST points after the final game has been played. The table positions won’t change position so much in the later stages of the season so … how can we maintain interest you might be thinking?! Well, this season we have MONTHLY rewards for those in the top positions! For example, rewards for high positions at the end of every month (say, calculating from the REAL table on the 31st at 11.59pm!!). Here's the idea: 1st - take off 5 bonus points from score of best, so score dips even lower 2nd - take off 4 bonus points 3rd - take off 3 bonus points 4th - take off 2 bonus points 5th - take off 8 bonus point Bonus Points for the most successful - Positions 1 to 5 (on points so there may well be far more than 5 people involved) will have from 5 to 1 point deducted - further helping their score. Their position for the deduction will be based on their (true) score, not taking any previous deductions into account. Also, where forums have an entry of a minimum of five people there will be a ‘board average’ too, thus you’ll be able to see how your forum copes against many of the others. I believe it’s an average set against a yardstick of averages and not a simple add up and divide, but the order of forums will always be correct. We’ll also have some notable entries from media, press and public figures to spice it up too. And any individual can enter too, without being affiliated to any football forum, no problem there. In that case please leave your entry on THIS THREAD where just in this section any non-registered member is able to post. Just one plea - Please use the team names given above, it's a pain in the a**e translating entries from WBA or W.B.A. or West B,A. etc. so that the Sunderland automatic process stands some chance. And although you may know who the **** are, the computer doesn't! Thanks!! And enjoy it! But think hard before committing pen to paper, this selection will last you all season!! (If you change opinion and ideas, then please make a new post and not simply edit, in case I don't get to read your change). ALL entries in before kick-off day (and if possible don't leave it to the final day, it will strangle us!!!).

Ported from Royals Rendezvous:

Won today Best performance of the season, shame we're already down.

Another World Record Attendance

I hope that's a joke

Main Three: Reading - relegated from the Premier League (20th) Rangers - promoted from Scottish Division Three (1st) Linfield - Irish Premiership (3rd) Others that I have a soft spot for: Basingstoke - Conference South (14th) Bournemouth - promoted from League One (2nd) Brentford - play-offs in League One (3rd) Crawley - League One (10th) Maidenhead - Conference South (19th) Wimbledon - League Two (20th)

I voted yes, only because it would help fast-track us back to where we should be. I would prefer a move to the English leagues though...

18.5% is dreadful for a European final...

As a Reading fan, I'd love to be in it - even if it means we'd start in the first qualifying round in late June(?). I don't know why clubs would veto the opportunity to play in Europe. Europe is an honour, not a chore. I don't care if we play TNS or Barcelona in Europe - being in Europe is all that matters. Reading are in contention to be in Europe - if England are in the top three - especially if Liverpool and Southampton veto a place in Europe. We could be next in line. I'm holding out...