Barrow 0 vToronto 62
Dews 16 v London 12
Fev 14 v Toulouse 24
Fax 8 v Sheff 22
Leigh 16 v Batley 16.
Swinton 22 v Rochdale 20


Bonus 3


(2 tries Hall - 1 d-j)

Well Pop Pickers, it looks like Hornets are not going to participate this season until March at the earliest. The same adaptation to the rules that was posted last week would have been applied (Bongser will suitably edit the rules/scoring scheme at the top of this thread) though it again would not have mattered as noooobody saw the Barrow v Teronno result coming, did they?!

Welcome Mr Diggle (Heritage # eight). Sadly JACK scored exactly that.

Bongser will not abide this and, in the Olympian spirit of de Coubertin (it is not the taking of performance enhancing drugs that counts, but the taking part) will award one point for each entrant each week (this will also be retrospectively applied, and the header criteria further edited).

So to the remaining four matches. All the other entrants this week selected the correct victor (8 points apiece) though nobody predicted a bang on winning margin. Regarding the whacky (wacky?) bonus question, here are Leigh's scorers (with squad numbers appended) in alphabetical order:

Acton (10)
Crooks (3)
Dawson (2)
Larroyer (11)
Mason (1icon_cool.gif
Reynolds (6)
10+3+2+11+18+6=50

Both Atomic & Zulu were within five and so gain a further 2 points. Only one poster, embarrassingly, got the shirt total bob on and (to paraphrase Jafar in Disney's "Aladdin"icon_wink.gif "Hmm. Interesting! That would be Bongser." So he gets a 5 point bonus.

So, in the words of Everard's friend, Larry, "Let's look at the scores on the doors" (with retrospective attendance bonus already applied). Reverse order this week for dramatic effect:

8th - Jack Diggle - 1pt (still in the Qualifiers - yed deauwn, keep gooin'!)
7th - Cokey - 7pts (where did ya go, Joe Dimaggio)
5th (Joint) - Vancouver Leyther & westleighjim - 9pts
4th - Atomic - 18 (hit the post Mick Burke style)
3rd - Zulu01 - 20 pts (hit the other post, ffs)

Rustle, rustle, riffle as the envelope is opened:

Top o't pops - Chuckle Caroli - 46pts (second week at Nº1 (so far)) where he is this week joined by your host with the (joint) most.

NB Folks : The first match this week is on Saturday afternoon!! Entries by 2.30pm, please.

Seconds out. Round 3:

Toulouse XX-XX Sheffield
Barrow XX-XX Leigh
Halifax XX-XX Toronto
London XX-XX Featherstone
Rochdale XX-XX Dewsbury
Swinton XX-XX Batley

Less quirky bonus this week: Within a hundred either way (for two points), fifty either way (three) or twenty five each way (five) what will the attendance at Craven Park (LA14, capacity 7,600) be this Sunday?

Rules & scoring system at the head of this thread. Good luck!

Toulouse 46-12 Sheffield
Barrow 14-22 Leigh
Halifax 10-26 Toronto
London 18-16 Featherstone
Rochdale 26-14 Dewsbury
Swinton 8-14 Batley

Attendance at Craven Park 2140

Late in joining but plenty time left to catch up lol

Tolouse 52 Sheffield 16
Barrow 8 Leigh 22
Fax 16 Toronto 28
London 18 Fev 26
Rochdale 8 dewsbury 22
Swinton 18 batley 24

Att, 1,897

Ok guys you've all had a start. I'm coming to get you. Onwards and Upwards

Toulouse 34 - 12 Sheffield
Barrow 12 - 32 Leigh
Halifax 12 - 28 Toronto
London 16 - 12 Featherstone
Rochdale 10 - 18 Dewsbury
Swinton 18 - 20 Batley

Att 2038

Tolouse 54 Sheffield 10
Barrow 6 Leigh 26
Fax 26 Toronto 18
London 28 Fev 14
Rochdale 10 Dewsbury 26
Swinton 12 Batley 34

Att.. 1650

The more the merrier, I love a bit of competition.

Barrow 14 v Leigh 28.
Toulose 42 v Sheff
Fax 16 V Toronto 24.
London 24 v Fev 18.
Rochdale 16 V Dews 24.
Swinton 14 v Batley 20.


The attendance for the Leigh game 1952.A vintage.

Tolouse 36 Sheffield 12
Barrow 10 Leigh 32
Fax 6 Toronto 24
London 14 Fev 16
Rochdale 6 Dewsbury 26
Swinton 10 Batley 36

Att.. 1089

Toulouse 42 v Sheff 10.

Toulouse 42 v Sheff 10.

Bongser "heard" you the first time, Charlie (Heritage # 3)!

Tolouse 42 Sheffield 12
Barrow 10 Leigh 22
Fax 16 Toronto 28
London 20 Fev 16
Rochdale 10 Dewsbury 16
Swinton 12 Batley 22

Att.. 2,200

Toulouse 46-12 Sheffield
Barrow 14-22 Leigh
Halifax 10-26 Toronto
London 18-16 Featherstone
Rochdale 26-14 Dewsbury
Swinton 8-14 Batley

Attendance at Craven Park 2140

Toulouse 42-12 Sheffield
Barrow 10-28 Leigh
Halifax 14-26 Toronto
London 18-16 Featherstone
Rochdale 10-20 Dewsbury
Swinton 14-22 Batley

Att: 1912

Thanks for return entrants and a warm welcome to The Publican (good British name, good British name), LeytherX111 & SaBadSel.

The rule amendments mentioned during the week have now been edited into the OP. Bongser previously stated that it was great being a ref “unless you’re in McNally’s way”. This he will now amend to “unless you’re in Houston’s way”.

Good luck everyone!!

Toulouse 42 Sheffield 14
Barrow 10 Leigh 26
Fax 16 Toronto 34
London 20 Fev 18
Rochdale 8 dewsbury 20
Swinton 16 batley 26

Att, 1,650

As the Toulouse versus Sheffield match is now underway, any further entrants this week will only be marked on the remaining five fixtures. Still lots of points to play for, and what do points mean? Errrm,.....still working on that.

Go Leythe tomorrow!

Barrow 12 Leigh 24
Halifax 12 Toronto 34
London 24 Featherstone 16
Rochdale 10 Dewsbury 18
Swinton 12 Batley 20

Att 1,875

Barrow 10 v Leigh 32
Fax 12 v Toronto 28
London 18 v Fev 20
Rochdale 16 v Dews 20
Swinton 12 v 20

Up the Comics

Barrow 2 Leigh 14
Halifax 22 Toronto 20 (going to this)
London 10 Featherstone 18
Rochdale 12 Dewsbury 14
Swinton 14 Batley 32

Att 1,953 a great vintage

Okey-dokey. Top turn-out of a dozen good souls this last round. A belated but warm welcome to Wanderer who joined us for the last five matches and a welcome back to Cokey & Vancouver Leyther after a week’s absence. Also finally deigning to grace us with their presence were, a quinzejour later than advertised, The Hornets (much good did it do them!)

For the third week of three there was one result that caught everybody out and sadly, for the second time amongst those, Leigh have ended up at the smelly end of the stick. So no Pokemon “Gotta Catch ‘em All” bonus for anyone. Also yet to be awarded, after 128 predictions, is an exact score bonus. Perhaps the points return for these hen’s teeth should be revised upward?

Atomic got off to a flyer in the Toulouse game with this week’s only correct margin.

The attendance at Barrow was 1,991. No one guessed within 25 of that but LeytherX111, Charlie Caroli & Jack Diggle got within 50 and The Publican & Bongser within 100.



Well true to his word, LeytherX111 was both biggest climber & joint weekly winner alongside Charlie (14) and so it’s 25 extra points each for that. So to the standings: Threatening to overhaul Elvis for most weeks at Nº1 it’s

1. Charlie Caroli – 85, then
2. Bongser - 59
3. LeytherX111 – 39
4. Zulu01 – 31
5. Atomic – 30
6. (Joint) Cokey & Westleighjim – 18
8. Vancouver Leyther - 16
9. The Publican – 11
10. (Joint) Jack Diggle, SaBadSel & Wanderer – 9

If (reminiscent of HRJ revealing his hairiest surface at The Turnpike) you find the visualisation of Charlie streaking out in front of you as abhorrent as does your correspondent, remember to tune in for the next thrilling instalment of Weekly Prediction League. Due the the bonus Bongser has in mind, next week’s posers will be published after the 19s for the Toulouse match are.

Charlie knows,Cokey knows nowt.

Leigh 19 for Sunday:

2 Matty Dawson Jones
3 Ben Crooks
4 Peter Mata’utia
6 Ben Reynolds
7 Drew Hutchison
8 Paterika Vaivai
9 Daniel Mortimer
10 Jamie Acton
11 Kevin Larroyer
12 Bodene Thompson
13 Harrison Hansen
14 Liam Hood
15 Jordan Thompson
17 Kyle Lovett
18 Nathan Mason
19 Jack Owens
20 Greg Richards
25 Ilias Bergal

Well, this Sunday Les Olympiques come to LSV. Will Leigh’s season go further downhill with another toe-curling defeat or will our boys repeatedly slalom through their defence? Here are this round’s puntables:

Batley XX-XX Barrow
Dewsbury XX-XX Swinton
Featherstone XX-XX Sheffield
London XX-XX Toronto
Rochdale XX-XX Halifax
Leigh XX-XX Toulouse

Bonus Question: At the END of the match, thirteen of the seventeen will be occupying playing positions be they on the field, in the bin or in the “early bath”. Name the other four for two points a pop, get them all and receive another five points. Four names only per entrant, please.

Entries before 3pm on Sunday!
Go Leythe!!