Following on from the successes of previous season's here's your chance to register for next season.
Depending on numbers, the last couple of season's we have hovered around the 30-32 mark, we may have 1 or 2 minor changes.
We will still have the international rounds and european games which proved popular and last season for the first time we had Scottish Championship, world club championship and El classico occassionally.
Again, there will probably be the odd fixture from europe although I draw the line at the League of Wales. We shall continue to feature the Conference when we can.
Every team in the top 4 tiers featured at least once in the predictions, and there were some toughies to predict. Never fear, Local rivals, ex managers returning, relegation dog fights, top of the table clashes will still be given priority.
Will have a look at the number of games required to be forecast each weekend. May possibly cut the number to 10 matches to be predict.
Will also look at divisions (Conferences) which may require a tweak here or there, dependent on number of entries and maybe location of entrant's football team.
On the question of non-predicting entrants, I will have to consider the best way of dealing with it.
The two conference Champions contested the final last season which was a new experience.
Mid-day on saturday will remain as the last time to submit the scores for the weekend.
The cup competition will have a new twist when it comes to drawn matches but that will be explained later. We managed 64 entries last season. Lets hope we can match that again. Its an ideal platform for some members to have a bit of fun without the weekly schedule. I know that there were many of you out there hoping to get Bazza or treble last season.
Deadline for Entries will be August 1st:
This allows me to sort out the fixtures. The whole fixture list will be published before the opening Week 1 fixture.
Let me know before August if you want to enter this years comp.
Everyone welcome. I'll start it off:
1. Sharrowblade (Sheffield United)
2. ManchesterUnitedman1 (Manchester United)
3. PeterE (Aberdeen)
4. Past pirate (Bristol Rovers)
5. Shotsman (Aldershot)
6. Steel City Smoggy (Middlesbrough)
7. BigEarl79 (Scunthorpe United)
8. Martino (Pompey Terrier Channel islander)
9. Pafcprogs (Plymouth Argyle)
10. Kenners46 (Crystal Palace)
11. Mattybatty (Leeds United)
12. Karb (Sunderland)
13. Bisphamseasider (Blackpool)
14. Dysporting
15. Botanybaykid
16. gkb (Sheffield United)
17. Ruudvandriver (Leeds United)
18. Derby1884 (Derby County)
19. Rocky (Middlesbrough)
20. Flackwell Lad (Wycombe Wanderers)
21. NeilP (Hibernian)
22. DannyRoberts (Chelsea)
23. kcs (Leeds United)
24. Greatbarrwolf (Wolves)
25. gfcpaul (Gillingham)
26. Ugarte5 (Wrexham)
27. Sellsell39 (Ipswich Town)
28. Londonlilywhite (Spurs)
29. BennoSpire (Chesterfield)
30. Robbo (Sheffield United)
31. Paul1873 (Rangers)
32. VillaProgs (Aston Villa)
33. Coolascustard (Derby County)
34. JohnnyP (Leeds Utd)
35. Burnley Collector (Burnley)
36. JJprogrammes (Fulham)
37. Wrexham (Wrexham)
38. tufcprogs (Torquay United)
39. Saintclarkie (Southampton)
40. Hammermonkey (West Ham)
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