2018 SBru PLP - FA CUP : Fourth Round FULL TIME Results are in ...

[Mick MacPaddywack]

with the result that we are set for a grand Finale, with two of our long standing members battling it out this weekend in the FINAL ...



This is a heck of weekend, with fixtures running from this Friday 12th (GET YOUR PREDICTIONS IN EARLY!!) through to next Thursday, 18th.

Looking forward to a battle royale !! may the best man win

[murf]

Why can't it start tonight like FISO Goals' week!

I got a correct prediction!

[Mick MacPaddywack]

Why can't it start tonight like FISO Goals' week!

I got a correct prediction!

Don't worry ... Spencer4 probably did too

You're going to have to work hard to win this cup!!

This is going to be like a Madrid derby hopefully ...

[Mick MacPaddywack]

FA Cup Final - Half time results are in ...



Its a close match, with the difference being down to the last match of the day where Spurs beat United ... five more games left to go, so still anybody's game ...

[murf]

Not good

[Mick MacPaddywack]

Not good

I've a feeling the Sheep will show the Puddy cat his fangs pretty soon ...

[Mick MacPaddywack]

FA Cup Final - with 20 minutes left to play (Wednesday Thursday matches remaining) ...

Spencer4 still leads and with murf running out of games to play, he has called on his risky subs ... its all or bust, now ...

[Mick MacPaddywack]

FA Cup Final - Result

Spencer4 wins, despite a last minute goal from murf



results over the week were as follows:

[Mick MacPaddywack]

and so we have a new holder of the FA Cup ... CONGRATS to SPENCER4!!

[Spencer4]

So proud, and to beat the mighty sheepy too, I may need a 26 minute send-off. I'd like to thank...

[Mick MacPaddywack]

So proud, and to beat the mighty sheepy too, I may need a 26 minute send-off. I'd like to thank...

Thank the Lord that Spencer4 was cut short by a communications breakdown,
unlike John Terry on the weekend (bless 'im wudden yer muvver luv 'im)
who got to tell everybody how much he loved them all
each one of them individually,
and was about to thank them one by one
when someone (Conte) grabbed the mike from him ...

BTW I love JT cos I'm a True Blue since I was in nappies ... well, the 1969-70 season actually ...
which culminated in the FA Cup Final ...
which we (about 30 boarders) watched on a B&W TV with a screen about the size of my now redundant desktop screen (20 inch)

Oh those glory days when football only needed a few pullovers for goalposts and a patch of grass if you were lucky,
the school yard if you weren't

Er, was that a bit of a ramble .... oops

[murf]

Well played Sp4. Did you buy your cup like Chelsea???

[Mick MacPaddywack]

Hi All

This year SuperBru have introduced an FA Cup prediction competition (at last) but over the preceding years I have been running an "FA Cup" knockout competition based on the SuperBru Premiership weekly predictions from roughly week 24 onwards to week 37. The thread from last year is below. I will continue this competition for the heck of it, and as we have 33 entrants / competitors in the FISO SuperBru Premiership Prediction league, only one member will not qualify for the Fourth Round which will be based on our week 25 - 30th January predictions.


Previous winners were:
.

2015 : fozzman	2016 : murf	2017 : Spencer4

The rules are (as in previous years):

THERE WILL BE NO DRAWN matches:

I will be taking the combined WP (Win Points) and MP (Margin Points) directly from our FISO League in SB. I will exclude any BP (Bonus Points) or GSP from your scores. This is to reduce the probability of draws. However if a draw does occur, I will use the same countback rule that I've applied in Winter and Spring Cups, namely that:

If there is a draw (same WP/MP combo), there will be a count-back based on:
1) the individual's WP (win Points) of that week
2) the individual's MP (margin Points) of that week
If the two teams are still tied after that, then the count-back will be based on:
3) the combination of WP and MP in the last match of the fixture until one of the two teams scores higher than the other.

[Mick MacPaddywack]

Based on our current, week 23 standings in SuperBru's Premiership Prediction league, which are as follows:



the draw would be thus:




These standings and therefore the draw WILL change this weekend, depending on our predictions, so this draw is purely for demonstration purposes ... Good luck with this weeks predictions!!

[Mick MacPaddywack]

Based on our current, week 24 standings in SuperBru's Premiership Prediction league, which are:



Our FA CUP Fourth Round Draw is now confirmed as:




Our Fourth Round Fixtures are our actual Premiership Prediction for week 25 which is next Tuesday / Wednesday ... Good luck with those!!

[Mick MacPaddywack]

BUMP!! ... get your predictions in for the midweek Premiership matches ...
these midweek predictions will count as our FA Cup 4th round ...

[Mick MacPaddywack]

Are as follows:

(BTW if these images dont always appear - as I have found occasionally - just hit the refresh button and eventually they will appear)




Slow start or some, (two previous Champions, Spencer4 and murf) but nobody left in the starting blocks ... all to play for tonight ...

[Mick MacPaddywack]

and are full of surprises:




Very tight match between your host, MickMacP and hammerddh with the latter edging it by rudely dumping Mick on his ass ... other notable results were highgreenowl beating previous champion and this round's highest scoring loser (scant consolation) fozzman ... and chrismar beating another previous champion and last years winner of almost everything, murf and the dishonour of lowest scoring winner goes to Moist von Lipwig who edges out Mark by the tiniest of margins 0.25 having scored 1.25 to 0 in the final match, Tottenham v Man U ... rotten luck, Mark, but congrats to Moist von Lip ... bitter disappointment for Surprised who arrived for his match against Trampie with only half his team, and who gave up and went home after being served lemons at half time ...

and onwards to the Quarter Finals, which will be played in Premiership matchweek 28 (24th Feb), fixtures to follow ...

[Mick MacPaddywack]

Fifth Round upsets were many ... most notable being No1 seed TheoVodkat losing out to 16th seed royeee and No3 seed Stokie Bloke losing out to a far from easy pushover Yorkshire Dragon


Quarter Finals are scheduled for week 31 - 17th March
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[Mick MacPaddywack]

Quarter Final draw (scheduled for week 31 - 17th March) is as follows: