[Archived] 2004-2005 Premiership Predictions

[Jan]

I got us in 7th on this prediction thingy!!! (God knows how.) Fulham, Soton and West Brom down. 10 points ahead of Pukea**ehole.

[benhben]

With a now seemingly unbreakable defense and with the imminant arrival of new striking power, Bellamy has been linked again today, i cant see us loosing many games next season. It may be overoptimistic but we could be the next Everton, they were in our position last season. I wonder what the odds would be on us finishing top 10 or even to 8ish next term. It wouldnt be a bad shout for a bet in my opinion.

[PABBY]

Here's the final Premiership table:-

1 Chelsea

2 Arsenal

3 Man Utd

4 Everton

5 Liverpool

6 Bolton

7 Middlesbrough

8 Man City

9 Tottenham

10 Aston Villa

11 Charlton

12 Birmingham

13 Fulham

14 Newcastle

15 Blackburn

16 Portsmouth

17 West Brom

18 Crystal Palace

19 Norwich

20 Southampton

and here's my prediction at the start of the season:-

1. Arsenal

2. Chelsea

3. Manchester United

4. Liverpool

5. Newcastle

6. Middlesborough

7. Aston Villa

8. Birmingham

9. Tottenham

10. Charlton

11. Fulham

12. Manchester City

13. Bolton

14. Southampton

15. Blackburn

16. West Brom

17. Portsmouth

18. Everton

19. Crystal Palace

20. Norwich

I got a grand total of 3 correct placings, but overall I thought my predictions (Everton excepted!) were pretty accurate.

So, how did you do?

[robbojohnno]

not that good although doubt many did better.

[brfcshabba]

1. Man United

2. Arsenal

3. Chelsea

4. Liverpool

5. Newcastle

6. Aston Villa

7. Middlesbrough

8. Blackburn Rovers

9. Tottenham Hotspur

10. Birmingham City

11. Southampton

12. Charlton Athletic

13. Manchester City

14. Bolton Wanderers

15. Fulham

16. Portsmouth

17. W.B.A.

18. Norwich City

19. Everton

20. Crystal Palace

I got 6 out of 20 correct with two out the bottom three correct

I had a quick look at FourFourTwo magazines predictions and they got 3 correct

Edited May 15, 2005 by Cookiemonster

[T4E]

1. Arsenal

2. Chelsea

3. Manchester United

4. Newcastle

5. Liverpool

6. Tottenham

7. Aston Villa

8. Birmingham

9. Charlton

10. Middlesborough

11. Blackburn

12. Manchester City

13. Portsmouth

14. Fulham

15. Everton

16. Bolton

17. West Brom

18. Southampton

19. Crystal Palace

20. Norwich

Pretty impressive - you were the only person to correctly predict the relegated teams, although not in the right order.

[Philly Rover ®]

Thanks T4E... saved me from looking like an arrogant ass by bragging about it myself.

I started figuring out who had the closest table based on the little competition I, um, decreed at the beginning of the season. It'll take a little while to tabulate it all but I hope to have it done sometime tomorrow night.*

*Alright, I admit that I'm bored having finished school for the year and I have absolutely FA to do.

[LeChuck]

1. Arsenal

2. Manchester United

3. Chelsea

4. Newcastle

5. Liverpool

6. Aston Villa

7. Middlesbrough

8. Birmingham City

9. Charlton Athletic

10. Tottenham Hotspur

11. Fulham

12. Southampton

13. Portsmouth

14. Manchester City

15. Blackburn Rovers

16. West Bromwich Albion

17. Everton

18. Crystal Palace

19. Bolton Wanderers

20. Norwich City

Quite happy with mine...go ours spot on and 2/3 for relegation. Bolton, Everton and Newcastle were way off but the rest wasn't too bad.

[neekoy]

I was a little off

1. Chelsea

2. Arsenal

3. Liverpool

4. Middlesborough

5. Manchester United

6. Aston Villa

7. Blackburn

8. Birmingham

9. Newcastle

10. Charlton

11. Everton

12. Bolton

13. Fulham

14. Portsmouth

15. Tottenham

16. Southampton

17. Crystal Palace

18. Manchester City

19. West Brom

20. Norwich

I obviously suck

[Philly Rover ®]

That seemed to be the case with pretty much everyone, LeChuck. No one came even close to getting those three right, whilst Man City and Southampton threw most people off as well.

Some of the things we thought at the beginning of the season seem so stupid now... as BRFC4EVA said, it really is a funny old game. Some of the funnier predictions--from hindsight of course--from this thread (I'm not picking on you, guys):

"An awful lot will depend on the fitness of a few key players, one of those being De Pedro." --Ossydave

"3. Newcastle (after they pick up Beattie in January)" --rebelzero

"Everton, pompey and bolton's squads look pretty thin and i think that once injuries hit they will suffer and finish low mid table." --tcj_jones

"As for the drop - think this is the season we say goodbye to the Toffees as Norwich nick a draw at Fulham and Everton lose at Bolton on the last day of the Season." --CAPT KAYOS

"Still, the season we finished 6th most goals came from midfield. And I can see de Pedro, Ferguson, Thommo, Amo and even Neill contributing." --Lathund

As for the final results of the little competition I announced (check earlier on the thread for an explanation)...

...I'm useless at these things but here's my effort, for what it's worth...

Scotty, you modest guy you.

1. Scotty (40 points)

2. bob fleming (42 points)

2. greggyk (42 points)

4. American Rover (46 points)

4. Tango (46 points)

6. PABBY (52 points)

7. Kremmin (53 points)

8. Blackpool_Rover (54 points)

9. Philly Rover ® (55 points)

10. Baz (56 points)

10. JAL (56 points)

10. laughatthedingles (56 points)

10. The1mattjansen (56 points)

12. ptholt (57 points)

12. nellybc (57 points)

14. rebelzero (58 points)

14. Quack (58 points)

16. benhben (60 points)

16. RevidgeBlue (60 points)

16. samtheozzy (60 points)

19. AussieinUK (61 points)

19. den (61 points)

19. The Dart (61 points)

22. Alan75 (63 points)

22. Seggie (63 points)

22. Tooting Rover (63 points)

25. Cookiemonster (64 points)

25. frosty (64 points)

25. RovertheHill (64 points)

25. tcj_jones (64 points)

29. LeChuck (66 points)

30. CAPT KAYOS (67 points)

30. SouthAussieRover (67 points)

32. moose (70 points)

32. owenrilla (70 points)

32. philipl (70 points)

35. Roaming Rover (71 points)

36. Lathund (72 points)

36. tsnuf (72 points)

38. hanks (73 points)

39. American (76 points)

40. vyeo (77 points)

41. roversmum (83 points) <-- though a lot of those came from picking Rovers first

42. Parasyte (85 points)

43. Wafflewag (88 points) <-- see roversmum above

44. Tom Pringle (104 points) <--just look at his table for an explanation

Also congrats to Scotty, PABBY, Tooting Rover and LeChuck, who were the only ones to correctly predict Rovers' final table position.

Roll on next year... so that we can make more predictions.

[AussieinUk]

Also congrats to Scotty, PABBY, Tooting Rover and LeChuck, who were the only ones to correctly predict Rovers' final table position.

Roll on next year... so that we can make more predictions.

Nice Work Philly!!

[philipl]

Yes, well done Philly and congratulations to Scotty.

I went back to my predictions and thought you had scored my prediction's accuracy wrongly when I looked at the top half- then I saw what I had predicted at the bottom end

[roversmum]

Thanks guys.

Just goes to show, though, how unpredictable things can turn out to be, and I guess is one of the reasons we love football!

Any chance of a weekly 'guess the score' competition of some kind for next season?

[FourLaneBlue]

...I'm useless at these things but here's my effort, for what it's worth...

Scotty, you modest guy you.

1. Scotty (40 points)

2. bob fleming (42 points)

2. greggyk (42 points)

4. American Rover (46 points)

4. Tango (46 points)

6. PABBY (52 points)

7. Kremmin (53 points)

8. Blackpool_Rover (54 points)

9. Philly Rover ® (55 points)

10. Baz (56 points)

10. JAL (56 points)

10. laughatthedingles (56 points)

10. The1mattjansen (56 points)

12. ptholt (57 points)

12. nellybc (57 points)

14. rebelzero (58 points)

14. Quack (58 points)

16. benhben (60 points)

16. RevidgeBlue (60 points)

16. samtheozzy (60 points)

19. AussieinUK (61 points)

19. den (61 points)

19. The Dart (61 points)

22. Alan75 (63 points)

22. Seggie (63 points)

22. Tooting Rover (63 points)

25. Cookiemonster (64 points)

25. frosty (64 points)

25. RovertheHill (64 points)

25. tcj_jones (64 points)

29. LeChuck (66 points)

30. CAPT KAYOS (67 points)

30. SouthAussieRover (67 points)

32. moose (70 points)

32. owenrilla (70 points)

32. philipl (70 points)

35. Roaming Rover (71 points)

36. Lathund (72 points)

36. tsnuf (72 points)

38. hanks (73 points)

39. American (76 points)

40. vyeo (77 points)

41. roversmum (83 points) <-- though a lot of those came from picking Rovers first

42. Parasyte (85 points)

43. Wafflewag (88 points) <-- see roversmum above

44. Tom Pringle (104 points) <--just look at his table for an explanation

Also congrats to Scotty, PABBY, Tooting Rover and LeChuck, who were the only ones to correctly predict Rovers' final table position.

Roll on next year... so that we can make more predictions.

Hey...what happened to mine?

[tcj_jones]

"Everton, pompey and bolton's squads look pretty thin and i think that once injuries hit they will suffer and finish low mid table."  --tcj_jones

Well, I was kind of right about Pompey, although that was largely down to their players leaving as opposed to becoming injured. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. I'll be having a look for your predictions as well, Philly

EDIT: dam, just saw you predicted table...

25.  tcj_jones (64 points)

Well out of 44 that isn't too bad - almost half way, in fact.

Shocks for this season are Bolton, Everton and Newcastle who I thought would fare considerably different.

Edited May 16, 2005 by tcj_jones

[jobo380]

As for 2004-2005 predictions, who'd u think will be manager of the year its getting announced tonight.............my bet is david moyes

[robbojohnno]

he wont win but il say alardyce

[Parasyte]

42. Parasyte (85 points)

What the deuce?

How can this be, I'm usually right on FM2005?

Seriously, thats a crap load of points to have... I'm not American, but I demand a recount

[Philly Rover ®]

Hey...what happened to mine? 

Errr, not sure FLB... I must have missed it when I counted up, sorry! When I figured your table out, it totalled 57 points--good enough for twelfth place. Well done, though I'm the first to admit that a lot of it was crap luck!

And Parasyte, I did yours again and it turned out the same... it seemed a little high to me too, but at least there's nowhere to go but up for next year huh?

I forgot to mention in the original post that Soccernet's predictions would have totalled them 50 points--better than the majority of us but no match for our Scotty, who I've officially dubbed our new Wizard of Table Predicting ©. In fact, 50 points wasn't even good enough to beat bob fleming for crying out loud--and everyone knows that he has no clue what he's talking about.

[bob fleming]

In fact, 50 points wasn't even good enough to beat bob fleming for crying out loud--and everyone knows that he has no clue what he's talking about.

I laugh in the face of Soccernet.

Thanks Philly. I had no chance beating Scotty though. I've heard that he has a room with all the stats of all the Premier League clubs covering each wall, every July he locks himself away in this room and goes into some sort of trance like state, he doesn't sleep, he just stares at the squads, analysing in minute detail the pros and cons of each player (age, previous injuries / hair cuts), manager and team - (a bit like the goalkeeping player manager in Dream Team - in fact exactly like him - but even weirder) he even looks at their horoscopes as well, nothing but nothing, is left to chance.

At the end of July he then puts all the team names in a bag and pulls them out one at a time - first team out wins the league.

As I said - no chance - the man's an absolute genius.