Following on from trees post, I was bored yesterday and stuck a fiver on the 4 teams I think will win each division next year.

Man utd
Qpr
Peterborough
Fleetwood

Got just over 2000/1

What's your choices?

Snowy will be along shortly to say "how do you know?"

I fancy Chelsea now that Mourinho is back, Wigan because I think Coyle's made some good signings (although a few more may leave), Preston as Grayson has the knack in League One and I agree on Fleetwood as they have also bought well.
Will have to check out the odds!

Then dibble n monty to come along n say how clever he is n thick everyone else is.

Oh the irony!

ps

chelsea
bolton
wolves
pools (we can dream)

Chelsea
QPR
Wolves
Fleetwood

How have Fleetwood been signing?

How or who?

I think Chesterfield will win our league.

At the moment they have signed - Steven Schumacher (Bury, undisclosed), Liam Hogan (Halifax, free), Matty Blair (York, free), Stewart Murdoch (Falkirk, free), Jeff Hughes (Notts County, free), Antoni Sarcevic (Chester, undisclosed)

It was the Schumacher, Blair and Hughes signings that caught my eye. Hogan is apparently decent as well.

At a rough guess, this is the sort of reply Snowy was looking for (ref above posts).
I think he meant, 'how do you know, when we haven't finished signings yet."

We don't have to be so keen to trip each other up, do we?

A prediction can be made at any time though and can be made with whats currently at our disposal, not what could be signed upto the deadline.

Not really sure what you are getting at but I have already had £5 on Pools to win the league at 20/1 in case we make some decent signings. Nothing to fear in League 2

Sorry, that reply was in relation to what Grabec said

True, but there's no point in making a prediction unless there's a point in making the prediction, especially if you know the circs are probably going to change any minute.

or snowy could simply stop being a twat?

It's OK. Just pointing out that you'd thought about the ins and outs before making your prediction. The poster being discussed (can't remember who he was now) hadn't.

The circumstances change at any time, whether signings, injuries, players being sold etc etc. On that basis you could never make a prediction.

That wasn't a paraphrase of what I said, no.

Nice one grabec, no worries. I just cut and paste it from a file we have at work.

There are known unknowns and there are unknown unknowns. A wise man knows the difference

I wonder if double decker has had a bet on us to go down?

I would predict that he has.

Fleet wood isn't a bad shout, also Portsmouth, scunthorpe and chesterfield will be ip there
If we don't sign anyone we will be bottom 6 but optimistically not in the bottom 2

double decker you remind me of my uncles who no matter how well Pools do they always see the bad. Like when we went up to League one they said every year we would go back down and "loosing at Cardiff was a good thing as we would have only gotten beat each week in Championship".

They also say that our best ever team was with Watty Moore and Leo Harding etc and when I point out that the last 10 or so years have been Pools best ever season they just say "pfff well the chairman in those days didnt want us to get promoted as they couldnt afford it" which is clearly bollocks.

I cant see why you think Pools will be in the bottom 6?

Excuse me? I think you will find that we were referring to you only.

Damn you beat me to it.

Come on now Grabec you can't just make rash predictions like that without any basis.

I just thought I'd have a little try, to see what it was like. I'm not too proud to learn from anyone.

Well lets see who we sign, hopefully dumping Howard will help free up the budget, but it's doubtful anyone is stupid enough to take him off our hands

Man Utd
Wigan
Sheff Utd
Hartlepool

Man City

Peterborough (Wish I put Bristol C now)
Portsmouth