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2014/15 Prediction League - Game 25 v Bury FC (home)

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2014/15 Prediction League; Game 25 – Bury (home)

August 30th 2014; Kal Naismith gives us a 1-0 lead at Gigg Lane :) (where the Shakers have played since they were founded in 1885), but they get two, and we’re bottom of the League with one point from 5 games :o .......Three weeks later Bury beat Burton Albion (then under Gary Rowett) 3-1, to go top......their record is 6 wins, 2 draws, and a single defeat – 1-0 at home to Cheltenham on the opening day ;) ; we’re now in the land of the living, with 10 point from 9 games :D .........they’re out of the Carling, 3-2 at Bolton; they’ve done Morecambe 2-1 in the PaintyThingy Cup first round ..............scroll forward to the beginning of November, and they beat Hemel Hempstead Town :rolleyes: 3-1 in the FA Cup Round One; three days later they lose 2-1 at home to Tranmere in the PaintyThingy Second Round ..........and then it goes TU big style :p:p:p ......... Of their next 8 League games they lose five :eek: (3-1 at home to Newport, 2-1 at Oxford, 1-0 at Morecambe, and twice to the Daggers, 2-0 at home and 1-0 away); they draw one (2-2 against York), and win just twice – 3-2 at Northampton on Boxing Day, and 2-0 against Mansfield at home on 28th December); P8 W2 D1 L5 GF9 GA13 for 7 points :D:o .........if you add in the Cup games (they lost 1-0 at Luton in a replay after a 1-1 home draw in the FA Cup), in their last 12 games it’s 3 wins, 2 draws and seven defeats .......... and this despite their much-vaunted strike force of Nardiello, Ryan Lowe, Danny Rose and Danny Mayor; after 9 League games, 20 points (2.22 points per game); the next seven bring them 3 wins and a draw, plus 3 defeats (including a 5-0 stuffing at Shrewsbury, who’ve just extended Bobby Grant’s :D loan to the end of the season – and did you see Billy "Stocky" Kee, having not started a single game or scored a single goal for the Iron, is now at Mansfield on loan? ;) ) ..........10 points in 7 games = 1.43 points per game; the next eight bring a further seven points from 8 games = 0.875 points per game; overall, P24 W11 D4 L9 GF35 GA30 for 37 points and 8th place (1.54 points per game). And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, isn’t promotion form – indeed currently it’s bottom of the table form .................:o:o:o

Bury FC joined the Football League in 1894, giving them the third longest ongoing (continuous) League membership, behind PNE and Notts County ...they played their first game under floodlights on 5th November 1889, losing 5-4 at home to Heywood Central (I imagine the floodlights being either sparklers, or the glow of 6,000 blokes all smoking pipes :) – romantic notion or what?) ........Their record loss appears to be a 10-0 defeat by Blackburn Rovers in the FA Cup First Round in 1887, and the height of their achievements in League terms (we all know they won the Cup twice) was 1925/26, when they came 4th in the old Division One :D with 47 points from 42 games, behind Huddersfield (57 points), Arsenal (managed by one Arsenal Wenger) and Sunderland. Those, of course, were the glory days of goalscorers, and Bury’s season included home wins by 8-1 over the Dingles :D, 6-5 against Man City (who were relegated, presumably for the want of loads of Italian and Spanish imports :confused:) and 7-4 against the Blades, but also a 6-1 defeat at the Gunners ............Burnley’s 8-1 defeat wasn’t actually their worst result of that season either :cool: – as well as shipping 6 at Blackburn, Man U and the Blades, they lost 8-3 :o at Man City (see “relegated” above), and 10-0 at Villa :p ..........but did beat Birmingham City 7-1 away! :)

They signed some at the start of the season (“there’ll be some coming in, and some going out”), including James Poole (ex Hartlepool) on non-contract terms, who’s now plying his trade at Dover (and playing football at the weekends :D), and Joe Widdowson (Grimsby, Rochdale, Cobblers), who signed on 6th August, made such an impression that on 29th August he went out on loan to Morecambe for two months :confused:, and on 27th November went out again, this time to the London Borough of Barking Stadium :confused::confused: ..............I can’t help thinking his days are numbered - probably in single figures! :D ..... More recently (ie just now) they’ve LoanSigned Charlton GK Nick Pope (22, 6’ 3”, and one of the few GKs in the League who hasn’t been injured playing for us this season – and Cashy, the answer to your forum question “Who’s going to start in goal for us on Friday?” is “You are!” :p:p:p); they’ve also brought in Bristol City and ex Brighton (300 games between 2003 and 2014) Egyptian international defender Adam El-Abd (30) – Egypt, by the way, are currently 62nd in FIFA rankings, which puts them about 180 places above England :o. As well as those, they ProperSigned Everton’s 20 year-old forward Hallam Hope on New Year’s Day on a 3 ½ year contract; Manager David Flitcroft said of him, “ ...his potential is frightening”; well, maybe it is, David, but not as frightening as the speed with which you’re tumbling down the League :( ....................Famous ex Managers, for your edification, include the Inevitable Neil Warnock ;) ("I’ve been everywhere, Man, I’ve been everywhere ...”), Bob Stokoe (twice), Martin “Burnley” Dobson, and – who remembers him? – Jim Iley, who played over 550 games for Sheffield Wednesday, Spurs, Notts Forest, Newcastle and the Posh as a Left Half :D (this week’s starter for 10 – what number shirt did a left half wear?)

45 goals in all competitions, in 30 games; leading scorers are Daniel Nardiello (ex Red Devil, Exeter etc) with 9, Daniel (Danny) Rose – never been on Broadway in his life, I believe – who came in the summer from Barnsley and has 8, as has Ryan “Methuselah” Lowe :) (who arrived this time via Tranmere; MF Daniel (Danny) Mayor has 6 (is there a naming pattern developing here, do we think? ;) ) ........skipper Craig Jones, Andrew Tutte and Tom Soares have 3 each from MF ..........goals, as they say, from all over the pitch.

Last season it was a goalless draw at ours and a 3-0 embarrassing at theirs; this season they’ve won one out of one against us, but in 2015, as you’ll have noted, we’ve won 100% of our matches :D, and they’ve lost every single game they’ve played :p, and haven’t scored either :p:p:p .............Despite that, they’re 5-4 with William Hills, we’re 2-1, and it’s 11/5 the draw .............but what do they know? :)

Deadline for entries is, as always, scheduled kick-off time, which is 7.45pm on Friday 9th January; it’s a while since we beat them, but we can, in truth, beat anybody in the Division, as can everybody else (except Hartlepool, Tranmere and Carlisle, who are still propping up the League despite having “seasoned” managers – Ronnie Moore, Mickey Adams and Keith Curle ..........goes to show – it’s not your name or your reputation that makes you a good or a bad manager – it’s your results. Isn’t it DAV007? :D

Good luck to everyone! .............. Keep the Faith! .......... And thanks for playing! :)

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Re: 2014/15 Prediction League - Game 25 v Bury FC (home)

3-0 to the Stanley please.

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3-2 to the Stanley please D3N. :)

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:) Accrington Stanley 2 - 1 Bury��Please for me

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Sorry guys and gals, it has to be 2-1 Bury. I do of course hope it is the other wayround.

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Stanley 1 Bury 1 please

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Nobody has answered your starter for ten Divvy, so I will - it's no.6, from the days before bewildering squad numbers.
3-2 to Stanley.

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Originally Posted by Redraine (Post 1128900)

Nobody has answered your starter for ten Divvy, so I will - it's no.6, from the days before bewildering squad numbers.
3-2 to Stanley.

Aye n left winger was No 11, so much simpler back then.

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Originally Posted by Redraine (Post 1128900)

Nobody has answered your starter for ten Divvy, so I will - it's no.6, from the days before bewildering squad numbers.
3-2 to Stanley.

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Originally Posted by cashman (Post 1128903)

Aye n left winger was No 11, so much simpler back then.

I liked it when the outside right wore No 7, the centre half wore 5, and the goalie didn't have a number - you knew who he was by his green jumper ...................

Divvy????? :D

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Accrington 3 - 1 bury

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Accrington Stanley 1 - 2 Bury, please.

Whilst we're on about shirt numbers what's one of these new fangled number 10s? You often here about a player who should be playing in the no.10 position. In days of old a no.10 was an inside left.

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Stanley to win 1 0 in a scrappy game

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1-2 to the bad guys :(

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Time to sort out the goal difference: 3-0 Stanley

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4 - 2 to Stanley please

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Accrington Stanley 2 - 0 Bury please

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Stanley 0 Bury 0 please

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STANLEY 2 - 1 BURY and three more points for us!!!

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Can I change my prediction to P-P? :p

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Originally Posted by StanleyAccrington (Post 1129030)

Can I change my prediction to P-P? :p

You can change your guess any time you like (up to kickoff obviously ;)), but we don't score the game until after it's actually been played :D.

So if you change to P-P and it is played tonight - nul point!

Edit - read threads in wrong order - now know it won't be played tonight :o

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4-2 to Stanley please

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3-1 to The Stanley, please.

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Bump.

Since the postponement, they've drawn with Wycombe 1-1 and beaten Carlisle 2-1; we've lost 3-0 at Tranmere and 2-1 at the Wombles. They're 7th, we're 15th. The good news is that there isn't any more bad news.

Keep your prediction, or change it if you want. Kick off Tuesday 27th at 7.45

:p:p:p

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I sticking, seems stupid, but stick.:eek::D

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Accrington Stanley 2 - 0 Bury ....but God knows we're the goals are coming from possibly no.1 with a flukey clearance.

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I hope we beat Bury, but judging by their pickup in form, they're gonna be a tough test indeed.

We definitely need to up our game from our last 2 games, hopefully we will....so i'm going for Accy Stanley 1-1 Bury

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I will stick to my original prediction and pray it is wrong.

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I'll stick, though 3-0 Stanley seems a bit optimistic now, and no longer enough to sort out our goal difference.

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Stanley 1 Bury 1 please D3N.

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For the record I am staying with my previous prediction but I am getting a bit concerned having reached the heady heights of 4th.

Do I go with superstition and predict a loss knowing I either get points or Stanley do, do I go with tradition and go 2 1 for Stanley like I have done 99% of the time I have played this or do I take it serious and actually try to predict the correct result?

Well it's not going to be option 3 is it :D

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Accrington Stanley 2 Bury 1, please

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2-2 please Kai and Rob !!!

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Stanley 2 Bury 2 pleas

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Shakers come to bury Stanley, not praise them.:mad:
1-2.

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Stanley 1 Bury 2 sadly

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2-1 to Bury unfortunately. I'm not letting Nige know my predictions early, he copies!

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one all draw for me please

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Bs Consolidate Grip on Table with Continued Accurate Pessimism

We were doing rather better when this fixture was first due :rolleyes:, which may explain the excessively optimistic 24 for us, 8 for them and 7 on the fence in the final entry list. But a number of our frontrunners got it right, although the only spot-on was recent joiner StanleyAccrington (aka CFSA) who thereby leapt up the table :) on to the tail of those who have been playing regularly, but unsuccessfully :p, from the start of the season.

The top of the table sees the Bs pulling clear with 3 points each. Ange is 5 ahead of Nige, having worked out that by going after him and making the same prediction he can never close the gap (well that's the way it's worked out the last few weeks :D). Deeayess and Outback Ozzy, also with 3 each, have closed in on Tommy McQueen in third spot but remain a couple or three points adrift of him.

I've cut down to a single table again this week, as the Top 40 now contains all those currently playing regularly. Redraine joined us for the first time this season, being unable to resist calling our organiser a Divvy (Scouse term of endearment, sort of ;)in response to his starter for 10 about left halves, but as his entry was before the postponement and he's not participated in the games since, I'm not counting him as regular at the moment. His 3-2 prediction scored nul points, so he sits 51st and last equal.

I've had enough of Stanley losing and website bickering for a bit :mad:, so I'm off and away for a fortnight from tomorrow :D. So the next table won't appear until after the Southend game, by which time Stanley will have 12 more points :), and Dav007, Chubbyman and Cashman will have stopped clogging up every thread (except this one and Guess the Gate) by exchanging pointless insults :eek:. Well, I can dream, can't I? I wonder which is less likely?

My predictions for my absence:
Stanley 2 Cobblers 1
Plymouth 2 Stanley 2
Stanley 4 Oxford 0
Southend 2 Stanley 1

Roll on the lot of 'em. On Stanley On!!