Home v Ipswich Town 1979.

Ian,it was against Ipswich Town.

The one that always stuck in my mind was [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FxSKczJprI[u=#FF0000Ernie Hunt[/u[/url

You mean you fancied his Mrs - S Q.

No builders tonight so, despite a half gallon of Abbot in The 'Spoons Under Water, got home in daylight for the first time this week and so here are The Puntables:

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Fev XX-YY Tools
Trannies X-YYY Leigh

SUNDAY

Barrow XX-YY Batley
Dewsbury XX-YY Widnes
'Fax YY-XX York
'Dale XX-YY Bulls
Swinton XX-YY Sheffield

BBQ? Aggregate score across the five SUNDAY GAMES, pretty please, pretties.

For the last time in the regular season, Bongser would like to say,

"Good Luck! We're all counting on you."



Day off tomorrow. Will not be jaunting to Vanners' daemon land but should post the Round 26 Round Up.

Toronto Wolfpack 38 Leigh Centurions 18
Featherstone Rovers 16 Toulouse Olympique 22


Barrow Raiders 18 Batley Bulldogs 28
Dewsbury Rams 16 Widnes Vikings 30
Halifax 22 York City Knights 14
Rochdale Hornets 8 Bradford Bulls 36
Swinton Lions 20 Sheffield Eagles 27

BBQ: 241 (Gone for more points, than my score predictions add up to for Sunday)

Atomic you have FOUR Jokers to play on this round (otherwise forfeited).

EVVO & Zools, you have three each.

Two apiece to Wanderer, Bongser & Chayders.

One each to Vanners, Chazzer & Pubbers.

Sadly, Budge, you just fell short of your first available Joker. That should be worth a badge but isn't. Alas.

Fev 16-24 Tools (J)
Trannies 46-18 Leigh (J)

SUNDAY

Barrow 26-12 Batley
Dewsbury 10-18 Widnes (J)
'Fax 32-16 York (J)
'Dale 0-32 Bulls
Swinton 32-8 Sheffield

BBQ: 218

[uROUND =#FF0000TWENTY-SIX ROUND-UP:[/u
Getting there, ladies and gents, despite the mental torpidity caused by the last three weeks’ late shifts (at least another fortnight to follow).

Okay, Wanderer missed the first game (despite posting his preds (according to the site) two minutes before that kick-off). Sorry, Bongser does his best to play fair and send reminders but, like the Green Cross Man, he can’t always be there when you cross the road!

Four Jokermons played this week. Those by EVVO, Zools, Chayders & Bongser.

Clean sweep on the Tools’ match (barring the absent Donny Mon). Pubbers off to a flier with an exact score line – not for the first time this season. SIXTY-FIVE points to him, five to the other eight present.

Toronto won. Wanderer was by then present, played a Joker on that game to double his score to ten points. Five for all else in a clean sweep. Atomic very close to both margin and scoreline – a season of near misses. Alack!

Yet another unsurprising clean sweep on a ‘Fax win. Charlie was not so much closest as least far out, but well done to him anyway. Huzzay!

Onto the Bat-Fev game and that was where the wheels started to fall off. Wanderer closest on the margin – a mere 44 points out! Budge erred toward the wrong team but 5 pts to all others.

Bulls vs Eagles: eight correct on the winners but two Jokermons blown – those of EVVO & Zools.

Two correct margins in the Vikings/Lions game – Vanners & The Don, 15 to both. Five to five others but zilch to EVVO, Chuckle & Zools.

On to Leigh’s last home game of the season. All went for a Centurions win and got nothing back from the bookie. Wtf! That wasn’t in the script! Leythe seemed to have pulled the game out of the flames late on with a Forsyth try beneath the emptiness of the Eastern wilderness.

The conversion failure (just when Bongser had grudgingly started to accept Ryan again) cost Leigh the two in-game points that would have won us the match, cost two points in The Championship, cost Pubbers & Vancougar 105 WPL points, Bongser 205 and Chayders an humungous 230 points. Bongser could’a been a contender!



Podium places in the BBQ section:

Gold to Don Juan (25)
Silver to Chayders (1icon_cool.gif
Bronze to Vanners (15)

WWB went to Pubbers who therefore garnered a weekly haul of 127 points. Bravo!

[uRANKINGS:[/u

Vandaman 1,917 J
Wanderer 1,812 JJ
Chazzer 1,563 J
Bongser 1,514 JJ

EVVO 1,451 JJJ
Zools 1,447 JJJ
Pubbers 1,427 J
Chayders 1,388 JJ
‘Tommers 926 JJJJ
Zillers 288 jjjj

This before the addition of Time Capsule points that will be added later. Goin’t’cot!

Puntables further up this page for those who haven't yet posted.

Fev 22-18 Tools
Trannies 29-22 Leigh

SUNDAY

Barrow 24-12 Batley
Dewsbury 14-26 Widnes
'Fax 20-27 York
'Dale 6-32 Bulls (J)
Swinton 28-20 Sheffield

BBQ: 209

Saturday

Featherstone 24 Toulouse 26
Toronto 36 Leigh 28

Sunday

Barrow 20 Batley 14 (J)
Dewsbury 12 Widnes 28 (J)
Halifax 12 York 28
Rochdale 12 Bradford 32 (J)
Swinton 24 Sheffield 20

BBQ - 252

Toronto Wolfpack 32 Leigh Centurions 12
Featherstone Rovers 28 Toulouse Olympique 24


Barrow Raiders 18 Batley Bulldogs 28 Joker
Dewsbury Rams 26 Widnes Vikings 38
Halifax 24 York City Knights 30
Rochdale Hornets 12 Bradford Bulls 34 Joker
Swinton Lions 18 Sheffield Eagles 24

Jokermon played

BBQ 250

Fev 28 v Toulouse 18.
Toronto 34 v Leigh 16.

Barrow 24 v Batley 18.
Dews 24 v Widnes 20.
Fax 16 v Yark 32.
Rochdale 10 v Bradford 44. J.
Swinton 26 v Sheff 18.

BBQ.234.

Charlie knows.

Fev 22 Toulouse 34
Toronto 32 Leigh 20

Barrow 18 Batley 16
Dewsbury 18 Widnes 26
Fax 24 York 22
Rochdale 14 Bradford 38
Swinton 26 Sheffield 24

BBQ - 318

JOKERMON PLAYED

Fev 28-20 Tools
Trannies 28-36 Leigh (Rule O applied)

SUNDAY

Barrow 24-18 Batley
Dewsbury 12-24 Widnes
'Fax 18-30 York
'Dale 12-54 Bulls
Swinton 20-27 Sheffield

Bongser backing the boys: DOUBLE JOKERMON played



BBQ? 239 (as posted)

Featherstone 32 Toulouse 22 Joker
Toronto 42 Leigh 16

Barrow 12 Batley 20
Dewsbury 16 Widnes 28
Halifax 12 York 22
Rochdale 6 Bradford 42
Swinton 18 Sheffield 26

BBQ - 208

Jokermon played

Come on Chayders. You were online when Bongser PMed.

[uEXHUMED TIME CAPSULES:[/u

On Page 61 of this thread, competitors were asked to predict the aggregate attendance in Leigh’s 13 regular season home games. This was for Triple Grand Prix points.

A mention in dispatches must be made of Atomic who was a merely 156 shy of the actual total of 42406. This equates to a margin of error of 0.37%. You should be helping Derek with his budgeting, Atomic.







Bongser was the most optimistic (6,594 over), Charlie the most pessimistic (10,261 under)

The same question was posed on page 79, this time for Double Grand Prix points. Most, but not all, stuck to their guns. Pubbers set a new record for optimism (7,133 over), Bongser a new pessimism record (11,405 under). Quite what the latter was thinking (more likely drinking) at the time does not feature in the puntables!

In Atomic to Zools order (ie alphabetical) here was the scoring:

Atomic 75 + 50 = 125
Bongser 18 + 4 = 22
Charlie 6 + 8 = 14
Chayders 12 + 36 = 48
EVVO 30 + 20 = 50
Pubbers 36 + 12 = 48
Vanners 24 + 16 = 40
Wanderer 45 + 24 = 69
Zools 54 + 30 = 84

On the same two pages, for the same respective points, you were also asked to nominate the number of home points that would be scored. Here is the scoring on that:

Atomic 36 + 24 = 60
Bongser 54 + 12 = 66
Charlie 45 + 30 = 14
Chayders 6 + 50 = 56
EVVO 24 + 16 = 40
Pubbers 12 + 4 = 16
Vanners 75 + 36 = Nelson
Wanderer 30 + 20 = 50
Zools 18 + 8 = 26

Let's see how that has skewed the

RANKINGS:

Vandaman 2,068
Wanderer 1,931
Bongser 1,602
Chazzer 1,591
Zools 1,557
Pubbers 1,555
EVVO 1,541
Chayders 1,492
‘Tommers 1,111
Zillers 288

Go The Comics!

Been at test match for 5 days so forgot (currently 127-5 and crumbling to defeat)
Barrow 34-20 Batley
Dewsbury 16-22 Widnes
Halifax 18-24 York
Rochdale 10-58 Bulls (j)
Swinton 22-18 Sheffield (j)
Total points 322

Have faith CL, there is still hope, Josh Butler and Overton look comfortable at the moment.

Ashes retained by the Wizards of Oz but England seem to have made a fist of it on Day Two of the final test.

This, fellahs, is a placemarker for the Round 27 summary - still working stupid hours....watch this space!

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And here's the edit - about two exhausting months later:

[uROUND TWENTY-SEVEN ROUND-UP[/u

Very belated, for which a thousand apologies.

Fev lost at P.Off. Road (bit of Bernard Cribbins in Fawlty Towers – for Vanners). FOURseen by Budge (5pts), ‘Tommers (10pts – Joker played), Zools (65pts – exact scoreline

) & Pubbers (5pts – and his Jokermon alive and kicking). The Jokermons of EVVO, Bongser & Wanderer, however, fell at the first hurdle.

Let’s get this out of the way. The Kanata people continued to put the Indian sign on Leigh. Rule O had been applied and so Bongser zilched out along with the absent CL . Five apiece to all others bar Atomic whose second Joker doubled his score for that match to ten. Pubbers’ Jokermon still on!

Chayders deigned to join us for the Sunday Kos. Barrow beat the ‘Dogs and 5pts went to each of ‘Tommers, Vanners, Zools, Chazzer, Pubbers, Bongser & CL. EVVO’s Joker went for a burton and Wanderer was also nilled. Pubbers’ Jokermon still on!

Widnes triumphed at Dewsbury. This time the two “C’s” scored a duck (ie no points to Eider!). 5 to all else save Atomic & Zools who scored 10 (Jokers played – good round for you two) and Budgie who smuggled out 15pts with a correct margin. Pubbers’ Jokermon still on!

Another away win at ‘Fax where the home side were put to the lance. Atomic failed to convert the fourth out of four on his Jokerfest, also missing out were Budge & Pubbers – the latter’s Jokermon up in smoke. 5pts to the others bar EVVO & Chayders, correct margin 15 apiece.

Full house on The Bulls’ goring Roch-bottom (the latter’s Round One cancellation being one of their top results this season). 5 fer 5, but courtesy of Jokers, 10 each for VL, Zools, Charles, Chayders & Evvo. CL was closest on the margin – a mere 34pts out!!! The only one to predict a nil score for ‘Dale was ‘Tommers.

Lastly we see that The Swine trounced early season high fliers, The Eagles (that failed to Take It to the Limit). Missing out were Bongser, Budge, EVVO & Donnymon. 5pts to the rest bar Chayders whose joker gave him the extra five.

BBQ? 238 was the aggregate score in the five Sunday matches. Salvaging something from a poor round was Bongser who was one out for 25pts, Budgers three (1icon_cool.gif, Charlie four (15). Chayders, 84 out, picks up the singleton.

All of which means that Zools can add a (Canada? – probably won’t need to grouse about that country next season!) WWB of 25pts to his round’s score of 115. Second was Atomic on 53 meaning that Zools effectively had it in the bag after the first Saturday game. This week’s lignified eating utensil goes to a South Yorkshire mantelpiece.

[uJ ARTHURS:[/u

Vandaman 2,169
Wanderer 1,955
Zools 1,697
Bongser 1,647
Chazzer 1,636
EVVO 1,588
Pubbers 1,582
Chayders 1,538
‘Tommers 1,164
Zillers 336

So Zools up into the podium places but, =#FF0000Danger UXB! Time capsules:

The question “Which team will slip out of SL at the end of the season?” was posed twice, the first time for 50pts, the second for 25. All assembled went for London initially and stuck to their guns when cross examined. 75 points to all bar Budge who hadn’t joined us at those points. Commiserations to The Broncos after they made a damn good fist of it in SL (including beating Saints home and away).

No change in positions there then.

The other time capsule that was disinterred after Round 27 did lead to one positional change though. “What position in the table will Leigh occupy after the Championship games?” At first point of asking only Vanners, Wanners & Bongser opted correctly for 4th. 50 points to those three. All then gathered stuck to their guns at the second time of asking bar CL who played Mike Reid’s “Runaround” but didn’t quite jump far enough. A further 25pts to VL, Donners & B&Blitzen.

[uRANKINGS:[/u

Vandaman 2,319
Wanderer 2,105
Bongser 1,797
Zools 1,772
Chazzer 1,711
EVVO 1,643
Pubbers 1,637
Chayders 1,613
‘Tommers 1,239
Zillers 336

Onto the Play-Offs!

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Tools YY-XX York

SUNDAY

Centurions XXX-Y 'Boas

No BBQ, no Jokers, no nonsense and (defo) no John Smiffs.

As ever, Good Luck

Toulouse 28 York 12

Leigh 30 Featherstone 18

Tools 26 V York 18

Leigh 29 v Fev 22

UP THE COMICS !!!

Feeling refreshed after a week in York,here are my predictions.

Toulouse 34 v Yark 16.

Leigh 26 v Fev 20.