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Monday

Toulouse 24 Toronto 16
Barrow 20 Swinton 14
Dewsbury 14 Halifax 16
Leigh 18 London 24
Rochdale 12 Featherstone 32
Sheffield 22 Batley 18

Leigh Position in The Championship table on Tuesday = 7th.

Will Leigh make the top four this season = No (sorry guys).

Friday

London 32 v Toulouse 22
Sheff 12 v Rochdale 18
Swinton 4 v Leigh 42
Fev 28 v Toronto 20
Batley 24 v Dews 4
Halifax 32 v Barrow 12

No sin bins / sendings off

Monday

Toulouse 28-28 Woolpack
Barrow 28 -10 Swinton
Dewsbury 22 - 20 Halifax
Leigh 25 - London 24
Rochdale 12 - 28 Featherstone
Sheffield 8 - 32 Batley

Top 4 - Yes
Tuesday - 5th

Friday

London 32-18 Toulouse
Sheffield 14-18 Rochdale
Swinton 12-36 Leigh
Featherstone 26-20 Toronto
Batley 20-10 Dewsbury
Halifax 22-10 Barrow

Sin Bins – 2

J. Acton & A. Bracek

Monday

Toulouse 24-18 Toronto
Barrow 28-06 Swinton
Dewsbury 12-18 Halifax
Leigh 26-22 London
Rochdale 08-32 Featherstone
Sheffield 16-20 Batley

Leigh will be 6th Position Tuesday Morning

Top 4 - Yes

Looks like Barney didn't add the league position for Tuesday, so I will add 5th to the Bonus question.

Not sure that you understand that bit, Charlie, but it won't cost you so Bongser will explain when he sees you on Monday.

Friday

London 34 Toulouse 18
Sheff 16 Rochdale 18
Swinton 10 Leigh 40
Fev 24 Toronto 18
Batley 24 Dews 14
Halifax 24 Barrow 14

No sin bins / sendings off

Monday

Toulouse 28-20 Woolpack
Barrow 28 -14 Swinton
Dewsbury 18 -18 Halifax
Leigh 23 - London 22
Rochdale 14 - 30 Featherstone
Sheffield 16 - 24 Batley

Top 4 - Yes

Have you forgot to predict Tuesday's position? Or have we got it wrong?

This does seem to be confusing some. A poster's predicted position will be the position in which Leigh would find themselves should all that poster's predicted scores come to pass.

Where people have actually posted a position, it'll simply be disregarded. Nothing to worry about. Go Leythe

Then why have you asked us to predict Leigh's position on Tuesday for 5 points?

I appreciate you giving your time for doing this prediction league,but i didn't go to university, or nor do i eat a dictionary or a thesaurus for breakfast. Just make it simple mate,instead of all this confusing twaddle.

Don't worry you have unwittingly done the necessary anyway

As well as making more work for himself, Bongser's Monday bonus question seems to have caused some head scratching, not so much at the answer but wtf is the question. Perhaps this will help.

Bongser made a set of predicted results for Friday's games and another for Monday's games. If he takes the Championship table and imagines that all his predictions were bang on, he could work out that (in that scenario), Leigh would be in sixth position come Tuesday morning.

Were Bongser to do the same with (picking one out of his titfer) Atomic's double set of predicted results, that would see Leigh in fifth position on Tuesday.

Geddit?

He has done it for all your double predictions and here are your (inadvertent in some cases) bonus punts for this weekend's second round:

Leigh in 5th: Atomic, The Publican & Zulu01
Leigh in 6th: Bongser, Charlie, Cokey, Wanderer & Westleighjim
Leigh in 9th: Jack Diggle

It doesn't matter (well, not as far as the WPL goes) what happened on Friday or what happens on Monday (you may gain on a swing but lose on a roundabout), but if Leigh end up in 5th on Tuesday, A, P & Z GET THE POINTS. End up in 6th, it'll be B, C, C, W & W. In 7th or 8th - zilch all round. In 9th and Jack is the scooper and Bongser will be a Dutchman's uncle!

Two quick things:

a) Bongser was not at the Swinton game, can see no word of any cards in the three or four match reports, but would like confirmation that Friday's correct bonus answer should be "none". Wind-ups will earn minus 50 points.



b) Bongser seemingly has/had a (long time dead) distant uncle who was, indeed, a Dutchman!!

Yeah..............I worked it out in the end see.

Good.



Now any news on the sin binnings / sendings off?

Bongser, there were no sending offs or sin bins in the Swinton v Leigh game.

Toulouse 28-22 Woolpack
Barrow 28 -14 Swinton
Dewsbury 16 - 22 Halifax
Leigh 25 - London 20
Rochdale 12 - 28 Featherstone
Sheffield 12 - 34Batley

Top 4 - Yes (I can dream

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Sorry I was giving a UK Yorkshire nephew a taste of West Coast Vancouver wilderness on his visit here, so missed Friday’s round. He’s now gone back to Leeds (yes my brother defected many years ago !) with a great appreciation for Canada and a sound piece of advise to emigrate back to at least Leyth (if not here).

Thanks, Charlie but if this is a wind-up, Bongser hopes that you read the penalty clause?

Running with that, should have the present standings out this evening.

No wind up, I didn't see any sin bins or red cards.

Well Friday’s preds were a bit of a Bertie Bassett. Amongst the matches there were three clean sweeps on the victors (Leigh, Batley & Halifax) and very nearly three total wipe outs in the others. These bus crashes were saved by, firstly, (league leader) Atomic predicting a loss for London, by Cokey predicting a win for the Trannies (in case anyone hasn’t heard and before the lawyers get involved, they are the first TRANSatlantic Rugby blah blah) and by both Charlie & Wanderer opting for a win for the Hornets.

Correct margins were a rarity. Atomic (again) got one in the Batley vs Dewsbury tie and both Wanderer (again) and Bongser in Leigh’s match.

Until the last round when Atomic broke the mould, we’d had no bang-on scores but it seems they’re like buses, you wait forever then yadda yadda....
Bongser got the Leigh score plumb. Like the last game, the last score of the match came a long time before the hooter. Bongser wonders if Atomic was also momentarily torn between the usual “score more Leythe” and slight yearning for the hooter. Bongser made himself think about the possibility of point difference making the difference between top four or a slide into obscurity come the end of the season and opted to shun the dark side. Sadly that put the kibosh on any further additions.

Four of the posters opted for “none” on the bonus question and received 15 pts.
Yours truly is therefore the WW (+25) but that leaves last week’s League Leader, Atomic, still in charge and (acknowledge the crowd) now a double centurion!!

Three maiden centurions in Cokey, Jack Diggle and, eventually, Westleighjim who Syd Rumpo here had down as still blocking and awaiting the right ball as he remained in the nervous nineties (99) until, during a comfort break from Syd’s ramblings and with brain in hand, he realised that he had forgotten to factor in the one point attendance bonus. So three more raises of the bat.

Tonight’s standings then:


1) Atomic – 210
2) Bongser – 197
3) Charlie – 169

Will this continue in alphabetical order? Err, nope!

4) Wanderer – 149
5) Publican – 147
6) Cokey – 117
7) Zulu – 115


Vancouver – 110
9) Jack – 103
10) WLJ – 100
11) LeytherX111 – 94
12) SaBadSel – 16

Vancouver has rejoined us for Monday’s game. His bonus, extrapolated from his Monday preds being applied to tonight’s Championship Table, sees him join the “Leigh in Sixth” club. He cannot now though have a winning bonus trebled.

Let us all hope that Atomic, Publican & Zulu get the bonus tomorrow night. Go Leythe!

Good call on the exact score Bongser lad..

Comfy win in the end and the most important under KP.

However performances on this thread were a bit under par. Ten in attendance from which there were no exact scores, no Pokemons, no correct margins and only westleighjim (take a bow – you deserve more) getting four correct winners. All the other posters got three (bar Wanderer who was only saved from jacking by the Fev result) and so the bonus became all important.

Glad to see Leigh in their highest position this season (5th) but with the Dewsbury vs ‘Fax match being called off, the bonus this week was kinda won by default. As all the correct posters (Atomic, Publican & Zulu, entered before the Swinton game they get a 15 point bonus apiece and furthermore each receives a joint Weekly Winner boost of 25.

Least said about this round the better so, third round on top, it’s Atomic.

1.) Atomic – 257
2.) Bongser – 204
3.) Publican – 194
4.) Charlie – 176
5.) Zulu – 162
6.) Wanderer – 152
7.) Cokey – 124
8.) Vancouver – 116
9.) Jack Diggle– 110
10.) WLJ -109
11.) LX111 – 94
12.) SaBadSel – 16

Controversial and ultimately weather thwarted bonus question this week. Bongser was thinking of appeasing Cokey by setting the below one for the next round (with a 20 point demerit for any poster that mentions squirrels):

Q) What has a hazelnut in every bite?

But as that question would be off =#BF0000TOPIC, he again lays the floor open to the brethren. First reasonable and measurable (though hopefully creative) suggestion will be adopted and next week’s puntables will be posted.

Nice to see most are still beLEIGHving in top four

Squirrel $h!t...............Oops! Av i just lost 20 pts?

Nope, as the question was not actually set though you should learn to step around the stuff in the back alleys of Leythe.

Okay, no takers for this weekend’s bonus ball so you will have to decipher one of Bongser’s. He will however try to make it as CLEAR as possible.

First to this round’s matches:

Please note the first match is on Saturday so, for full participation, preds in by 1pm on that day (tip: Auntie always shows LOCAL time).

Saturday:

Toulouse XX-XX Barrow

Sunday:
Batley XX-XX Trannies
Featherstone XX-XX Dewsbury
Halifax XX-XX London
Leigh XX-XX Rochdale
Swinton XX-XX Sheffield

So on to Bongser’s Bonkers Bonus Bonanza and we’re back to shirt numbers. What’s more we’re at the LSV for the Rochdale game. They were heavily nilled by Fev this weekend but, by many accounts, robbed against Trannies the week before.

Here goes: (10 points for bob on, 5 points for within 5, and 3 points for within 10).

a) What will be the sum of the shirt numbers of the first Leigh scorer (try, penalty or DG) and the last Leigh scorer (try, conversion, penalty or drop). That’s two shirt numbers added together. Should you think that Leigh will score no points, please post: “a) zero” or equivalent and forever hang your head in shame. Should you think that, say, Craig Hall will score the only points for Leigh (therefore first and last), your answer should be “a) two” (1+1, geddit). Were Mickey to score the first points and Craig the last (30+1), the plumb post would be: “a) 31”. Not interested in the interim scorers for the sake of this game.

b) Now (with the same scoring system) do likewise for the Rochdale scorers.

c) Will appear in the next post and, if you have understood the bonus question so far you may read on and know that you need do nothing. If, however, Bongser’s questions confuse you please simply skip through to the first posted answers.

Okay, viewers of a sensitive nature should look away now as this post may contain flash photography, hard core pornography and scenes of extreme violence........or none of the above.

So we get back to section C (C section?).

What punters may have lost on the swings, they may have gained on the roundabouts so, BONGSER WILL TOTAL your answers from sections A and B of the bonus and if that total matches actuality you will score (same margins and points as in the above post).

G’dangit, Cokey! You read on anyway, didn’t you. S’pose it was like putting a big, red, shiny button emblazoned with the words “DO NOT PRESS” before you. Do you have a pal called A Middleton?

Please may Bongser iterate that for Section C you need do NOTHING, NADA, RIEN, ZILCH, NULLA, JACK $H1T, NIHIL, BAHT, NICHTS, DIDDLY-SQUAT, NEAUWT, ZERO, NUL POINTS, NORVEIGE, SWEET FANNY ADAMS, SIT ON YOUR HANDS, NIL, NAVEL GAZE, TWIDDLE YA THUMBS, BE THE RFL and (just for Zulu01) HAKUNA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good Luck!



.....and breathe.