So it should no idea where that came from specsavers for me

a) Crowd (Belle Vue Stadium, Capacity 9,333): 4,140 (3,890-4,390)
b) Score and Winning team: Wakefield 23 v 36 Warrington
c) First try (Wire player): Murdoch Masila
d) Time of first try: 4 mins
e) Last try (any team, player not time): Atkins
f) Kicks over the sticks (combined): 10 kicks

g) St Helens v Castleford St Helens by 26
Wigan v Hull FC Wigan by 2
Catalans v Huddersfield Catalans by 10

Decent win away at Wakefield never straightforward over there. However what was straightforward was a very TIMELY return to form for our persistent high flyer the boards' very own 'Roger Bannister the 4 minute wonder Rugby who raced home with 28 points to retake top spot

Results

38pts Rugby
24pts Hicks is a God
18pts Wanderer
16pts Moving Forward, CW8, Builth Wells Wire
14pts karetaker
12pts Old Man John, rubber duckie
10pts eddieH, Wire Weaver, Moving On, Wire n Steel, Uncle Rico, Shazbaz, Walter Wizard, Johnkendal, Fatbelly, hot currie masila, Bent & Bongser
8pts Hatfield Town Wire, MorePlaymakersNeeded, AC Wire
6pts Sir Adrian Morley
4pts matt6169

STANDINGS

1 Rugby :349pts
2 Hicks is a God :337pts
3 AC Wire :333pts
4 Wire Weaver :322pts
5 Bent & Bongser :315pts
6 Wanderer :308pts
7 Hatfield Town Wire :305pts
8 Uncle Rico :295pts
9 Builth Wells Wire :293pts
10 Old Man John :291pts
11 CW8 :287pts
12 Shazbaz :283pts
13 Wire n Steel :280pts
14 eddieH :271pts
15 kirtonLyndseywolf :269pts
16 Alffi_7 :265pts
17 Johnkendal :260pts
18 karetaker :255pts
19 Walter Wizard, Moving Forward :246pts
20 rubber duckie 238pts
21 matt6169 :233pts
22 Sir Adrian Morley :228pts
23 Moving On :205pts
24 hot curie masila :183pts
25 easyWire :173pts
26 Fatbelly :154pts
27 Iv Div :139pts
28 Longbarn Wire :131pts
29 vespid wire :116pts
30 Gaz3376 :110pts
31 marshaman777 :73pts
32 ScouseWire, MorePlaymakersNeeded :52pts
34 Dean Richmond :31pts
35 Matt King's cat :30pts
36 Steve 51 :25pts
37 Wire Flyer :24pts
38 MikeyWire :20pts
40 Barbed Wire :19pts
41 Asgardian 13 :12pts
42 Lebron James :11pts
43 Lord Tony Smith :9pts
44 Wires71, Thelonius :5pts
45 Big Dave 3 :3pts

a) Crowd (totally Wicked Stadium, Capacity 18,000): 12,309 (12,059 - 12,559)
b) Score and Winning team: St Helens 13 v 18 Warrington
c) First try (Wire player): Hughes
d) Time of first try: 41mins
e) Last try (any team, player not time): Lineham
f) Kicks over the sticks (combined): 9 kicks

g) Wigan v Castleford Wigan by 14

"We are the best in the league, we have beaten St Helens, St Helens birthplace of giants!! Lebron James, Saddened, Judder Man, AS 108, the Yellow Giraffe, St Pete, everyone on Red Vee"

"Johnny Vegas, can you hear me? Johnny Vegas your boys took one hell of a beating"

Anyway, here goes with this week's results and there's no stopping 'our Rugby' again despite being off with their try timing. Double/double points on offer and a brilliant 32 points gained surely puts Rugby in an unassailable lead? Although there's triple points on offer next week

42pts Rugby
28pts eddieH, Wire n Steel
24pts Moving On
20pts karetaker
16pts AS108, MorePlayMakersNeeded
12pts Sir Adrian Morley, Hicks is a God, Shazbaz, Uncle Rico, Hatfield Town Wire, Bent & Bongser, rubber duckie
8pts Fatbelly, Johnkendal, hot currie masila
4pts Wire Weaver, matt6169, Moving Forward, CW8, AC Wire, Builth Wells Wire, Wanderer, Walter Wizard
0pts Lebron James, Old Man John

1 Rugby :391pts
2 Hicks is a God :349pts
3 AC Wire :337pts
4 Bent & Bongser :327pts
4 Wire Weaver :326pts
5 Hatfield Town Wire :317pts
6 Wanderer :312pts
7 Wire n steel :308pts
8 Uncle Rico :307pts
9 eddieH :299pts
9 Builth Wells Wire :297pts
10 Shazbaz :295pts
11 Old Man John, CW8:291pts
12 karetaker :275pts
13 kirtonLyndseywolf :269pts
14 Johnkendal :268pts
15 Alffi_7 :265pts
16 Walter Wizard, Moving Forward, rubber duckie :250pts
17 Sir Adrian Morley :240pts
18 matt6169 :237pts
19 Moving On :229pts
20 hot curie masila :191pts
21 easyWire :173pts
22 Fatbelly :162pts
23 Iv Div :139pts
24 Longbarn Wire :131pts
25 vespid wire :116pts
26 Gaz3376 :110pts
27 marshaman777 :73pts
28 MorePlayMakersNeeded :68pts
29 ScouseWire :52pts
30 Dean Richmond :31pts
31 Matt King's cat :30pts
32 Steve 51 :25pts
33 Wire Flyer :24pts
34 MikeyWire :20pts
35 Barbed Wire :19pts
36 AS 108 :16pts
37 Asgardian 13 :12pts
38 Lebron James :11pts
39 Lord Tony Smith :9pts
40 Wires71, Thelonius :5pts
41 Big Dave 3 :3pts

cant see The Duck in there.

He's got overexcited wanting to telepathically connect with Johnny Vegas.
Once the tablets kick in he'll duly amend the standings, RD.

oh he's in there level with Walter Wizard and Moving Forward you can't delete our latex friend

Im in the league but not credited with my semi results.

There's a Carry On film script building in this thread!

Infamy infamy...
They all have it in-fa-me

Ahhh perhaps a bit more information than you can't see yourself in there might have given yours truly a clue as I knew I'd moved you up the league. I will edit but rest assured your on the back of my envelope at Prediction Competition Headquarters.

Carry On Cabby, or Carry On Up the Khyber I'm not sure what's more appropriate but rest assured it's all Carrying On at Your Convenience

I see what you did there, UR. If only I had Sid James' budgie for the punters page!

a) Crowd (Old Trafford Capacity 74,994): +/- 1,000 64,892 (63,892 - 65,892)
b) Score and Winning team: Warrington 4 v 12 Wigan
c) First try (Wire player): Charnley
d) Time of first try: 12 mins
e) Last try (any team, player not time): Manfredi
f) Kicks over the sticks (combined): 0

Well one thing's for sure my lucky undercrackers and socks aren't as lucky as I thought although I did see one Wire fan wearing a Wires at Wembley 2018 Tee Shirt and thought might not have been seen again in Uncle Rico's household save for a duster or two.

As far as this weeks competition goes a bit like the goal kicking, quite a few nil points, perhaps a case of hearts ruling heads and a bunch of if only's? Well done CW8 and Wanderer who came out top of the heap the rest of us were down in the dumps as follows,

34pts CW8 Wanderer
18pts Hicks is a God, Builth Wells Wire
12pts Fatbelly, kirtonLyndseyWolf, KingRoss11, MorePlaymakersNeeded, Johnkendal, Rugby, Bent&Bongser
6pts Sir Adrian Morley, matt6169, Moving Forward, Walter Wizard
0pts Old Man John, eddieH, Wire Weaver, Moving On, Wire n Steel, karetaker, rubber duckie, AC Wire, Uncle Rico, Shazbaz, Hatfield Town Wire

FINAL STANDINGS

CONGRATULATIONS to this year's CHAMPION RUGBY A great effort

1 Rugby :403pts
2 Hicks is a God :367pts
3 Wanderer :346pts
4 Bent&Bongser :339pts
5 AC Wire :337pts
6 Wire Weaver :326pts
7 CW8 :325pts
8 Hatfield Town Wire :317pts
9 Builth Wells Wire :315pts
10 Wire n steel :308pts
11 Uncle Rico :307pts
12 eddieH :299pts
13 Shazbaz :295pts
11 Old Man John :291pts
12 kirtonLyndseywolf :281pts
13 Johnkendal :280pts
14 karetaker :275pts
15 Alffi_7 :265pts
16 Walter Wizard, Moving Forward :256pts
17rubber duckie :250pts
18 Sir Adrian Morley :246pts
19 matt6169 :243pts
20 Moving On :229pts
21 hot curie masila :191pts
22 Fatbelly :174pts
21 easyWire :173pts
22 Iv Div :139pts
23 Longbarn Wire :131pts
24 vespid wire :116pts
25 Gaz3376 :110pts
26 MorePlaymakersNeeded :80pts
27 marshaman777 :73pts
28 ScouseWire :52pts
29 Dean Richmond :31pts
30 Matt King's cat :30pts
31 Steve 51 :25pts
32 Wire Flyer :24pts
33 MikeyWire :20pts
34 Barbed Wire :19pts
35 AS 108 :16pts
36 Asgardian 13, KingRoss11 :12pts
37 Lebron James :11pts
38 Lord Tony Smith :9pts
39 Wires71, Thelonius :5pts
40 Big Dave 3 :3pts

Thanks again Uncle Rico, great competition you do , very much appreciated

I echo HTW vote of thanks, cheers UR for all your effort.

Thanks for running this UR, much appreciated. Congratulations to rugby, won at a canter.

Thank you UR and Mrs UR too.

:Well done Rugby, and thanks for another great season of Prediction Comp UR

As per other posters, thanks UR for the time you spend on running this, a nice bit of light hearted fun for us all !

I'll take 10th place from my debut season, see if I can do better next season. Not sure yet as to the best strategy - predict with my head or my heart - go for surprise results that others then miss out on the points when I've guessed it right, or predict surprise results and watch everyone else pick up the points for "form-results"...………


Well done to Rugby too !

Cheers Rico thanks for all your efforts , pleased to finish in the top 5, hit the top at one point
but bit like the Wire didn't have that final finish , congrats to Rugby and special mention to
Matt 6165 for finishing in the top 20 looking forward to seeing who your try scorer is next year,
all the best to everyone , and to Irish Wire enjoy Aus.

Thanks to UR for running this, really enjoyed it and very pleased with a top 3 finish. Congrats to Rugby, well played!

Big thanks to UR for running a great competition again this year. I can console myself with winning the prediction competition after our Grand Final loss on Saturday. After topping the prediction league last year too, I am aiming for a hat-trick in 2019

Thanks for all your efforts this year Uncle Rico. Really enjoyed the competition. My best ever finish as well.

Many thanks uncle Rico for the effort and time you put in....well done to rugby a deserved winner...stroll on next season when hopefully it will be our year

Rico, thanks for running the comp again. It's taken me a week to get over the disappointment...... 13th ! Must do better next time. Am sure everyone else appreciates the hard work to run it roll on next year

Many thanks uncle Rico for the effort and time you put in....well done to rugby a deserved winner.I finished just 8 points behind you hope you will be running next as I enjoy it every time even not going to good this year.