Being played on Saturday June 12th
Portugal v Greece (prediction help)
Spain v Russia (prediction help)
Please make your predictions for these 2 games in this thread. See the link on my sig for the league table website.
Let the game begin.....
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Being played on Saturday June 12th
Portugal v Greece (prediction help)
Spain v Russia (prediction help)
Please make your predictions for these 2 games in this thread. See the link on my sig for the league table website.
Let the game begin.....
OK, I'm going first to show how to predict :sad:
My guesses are.....
Portugal 0 Greece 0
Spain 2 Russia 2
Wooohooo.Quote:
Originally Posted by gazzak
Portugal 2 Greece 1
Spain 1 Russia 2
Finally
Portugal 2 Greece 0
Spain 2 Russia 1
...and before anyone asks, yes 2 people can predict the same result for any game!
Two/one, both matches, in favour of each 'home' team.
(I thought we were making these public polls ???)
Another WotPP moment : Can we do a 'player of the championship' thread as well ? Nominating your 'best/ worst/most over-rated or most surprising' players ? - somesuch ! A thread just for player performance anyway, for the really ardent followers & perhaps one too for 'worst refereeing performance' :D ?
Or how about.... "other Windrivers member making suggestions to increase padding and workload of member setting up Euro 2004 competition?" competition :pQuote:
Originally Posted by confus-ed
I think you're winning 2:1 at the moment
When posting the thread this morning I went through a few formats and stuff, and decided it was easier to make one thread per day for the matches taking place 2 days later. For a poll I would have had to make 1 thread for every match and so running the risk of upsetting non football (soccer) fans and confusing Fantasy Football players, and clogging up the lounge with double the amount of threads. So it just seemed common sense to start one thread per day with match numbers for the games. Maybe this will evolve as the tourny progresses, we'll see.Quote:
Originally Posted by confus-ed
However, feel free to pad away with anything you'd like to talk about during Euro 2004 in any of the prediction threads or start some polls if you wish. Whatever you do though -ED don't forget to make your score predictions!
Trust me, I'm as happy to post as Adept!! I want to get to 2000 before the end of the tournament, that's the whole reason for the competition ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by corturbra
Stupid me, just read your post properly -ED and you have predicted, as usual in a slightly confused way but I get the picture!!! DOHQuote:
Originally Posted by gazzak
...and for our U.S. / Canadian players the home team in all instances in the first team mentioned.
Shock horror!Quote:
Originally Posted by gazzak
There was me thinking you were a dedicated Football supporter, starting a thread to share your enthusiasm and widen the knowledge of the game to our American posters.... :p
I'm going for:
Portugal 2 Greece 0
Spain 2 Russia 1
(same as Techz)
John
Welcome to the competition Atodini.
It's interesting how nobody seems to be giving Greece much of a chance. When you consider the opening games of major tounaments in the last decade I don't think the favorite has EVER won the first game, (hence the reason for my own 0-0 prediction). Also in every main football championship there is always one dark horse who wins a group at ridiculous odds. It's spotting them that's the hard part! I may have a small bet on Bulgaria to upset a few big names.
Did you get it all ? he says having a wotpp .. we need to teach all the finer points like hating the referee too :D - I mean that other football 'pussy/pad ironstuff' is pooh, we have to teach them the 'right way' don't we ? :D & one way is of course as good as another, so it might as well be a wotpp way :eek2:Quote:
Originally Posted by gazzak
Imagine if we couldnt make the same predictions, we wouldnt have that many members playing :)
Whaddya mean? I've given them a goal.... how about giving me an extra 2 points if I correctly predict Greece to score first before half-time?Quote:
Originally Posted by gazzak
Indeed, but we are not talking the tourney favorite here, but the real home team. And the host teams always seem to play exceptional and Portugal and their "golden generation" are due (at least to make it into the semi's).Quote:
Originally Posted by gazzak
Predictions:
Portugal 3-1 over Greece
Spain also wins big 3-1 over Russia
Dark Horse prediction:
CZECH REPUBLIC
Quote:
Originally Posted by TripleRLtd
Oooo dark horse? I say Denmark.
Yeah, everyone seems to be waiting to see if the Danes have another miracle fever run in then. That is one tough group they have to get out of though.
Thats what I'm counting on.... usually the big boys relax and think, yeah breeze it while the underdogs up their game....Quote:
Originally Posted by TripleRLtd
But looking at the other teams, I'd say only Italy are tough opposition really. Sweden failed to impress me that much even when they played England, and Bulgaria are possible dark horses I guess....
Can't wait, fridge is already stacked and local pizza shop is on notice.... :thumbs:
portugil 0 greece 2
spain 2 russia 1
win and win m'er f'ers!!!
With competitions like these, you usually find that us so called experts rarely get a correct result. Who'd have thought that France would exit the World Cup in the 1st round with zero goals scored in 2002, along with Argentina and Portugal.
That's why we need more none footy (soccer) people playing to upset the rest of us when their wild predictions are spot on.
Are you asking for Ya_know to participate?
BTW, yeah, they were the usual upsets, but, after all when all was said and done, who won it all? A pre-tourney favorite.
I'd like everyone to participate for fun. After all I know almost nothing about American Football but if you lot were having a similar competition to predict results I think I might just have a go. I'd love to lord it up for beating the experts when I knew virtually nothing about the sport, so this is a great chance for anyone on these forums to have a go.
Everyone is welcome to play, abuse or pad.
So that's just an invitation of course to write any old tripe .. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by gazzak
What's to know ? .. pad up extra safe :D, throw ball to other padded up or padding bloke, he either catches it clean & runs into another padded bloke or scores or if he fumbled, all the other padding blokes crash in their pads into each other & they start all over again - sounds like windrivers & wotpp to me :D
No arguments to be started here -ED, we've been there and done it and I don't want to alienate the whole of the U.S. just yet!
..Oh Yeah ! That's right, teach them about the 'beautiful game', not mock their ugly one .. :devil:
You may just be surprised how many of us know about the "beautiful game" already.
From here:http://www.ussoccer.com/about/conten...tompageid=8246
In 20 years you all may just start bemoaning the juggernaut that the US has become and crying: unfair!!!https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2006/04/1.gifQuote:
To that end, the sports growth in the past 15 years (in the US) has been nothing short of remarkable. The most recent example of that progress was the opening of U.S. Soccer's National Training Center at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. This state of the art training facility and stadium encapsulates perfectly U.S. Soccer's focus on facility and player development in the new millennium.
FAVOR THE BOLD
The strongest evidence of the mark U.S. Soccer is making worldwide can be seen in the fact that the U.S. Soccer National Team programs have qualified for 19 consecutive FIFA outdoor world championships (a number currently surpassed only by Brazil). In 2002, U.S. Soccer was the only federation in the world to lay claim to three major international championships, with the U.S. Men’s and Women’s Teams sweeping their way to CONCACAF Gold Cup crowns and the U.S. Under-19 Women’s National Team winning the inaugural FIFA U-19 Women’s World Championship
The U.S. Men’s Olympic Soccer Team shocked soccer followers at the 2000 Sydney Games, finishing fourth, drawing with eventual champion Cameroon and lasting longer than traditional powerhouses such as Nigeria and Brazil. For the U-20 MNT, similar success awaited them at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship in the United Arab Emirates. The team was seconds away from a semifinal berth, but had to settle for a fifth-place finish in the tournament after stoppage time and overtime goals from Argentina ended the squads record-setting run. Also in 2003, the U-17 MNT matched their U-20 counterparts with a fifth-place finish at the U-17 World Championship in Finland behind the inspired play of Freddy Adu, who appeared in both world championships for the U.S.
More predictions lurkers please :thumbs2:
Make your first post here a good one :thumbs:
.. that should be their goal ! :rolleyes: :D
Looks like John Terry will be missing from the defense after all, with Ferdinand out too I'm very worried about conceding goals. Dammit!
In the other thread I asked about just that. Geesh: we cannot get into a shootout with France: this does not sound good.
Any more takers? These 2 matches are played Saturday evening (euro time) so you still have plenty of time to think of a score. Don't be shy, have a go.
I've only just got up - therefore these are completely "blind" predictions but here goes:Quote:
Originally Posted by gazzak
Portugal 2 Greece 0
Spain 1 Russia 1
Cheers :thumbs:
I think we need to badger some of the regulars into getting on the bandwagon.
NooNoo, get some predictions in to give it the seal of approval.
You're right there Gaz... I'm surprised that fellow WOTPP adherants aren't jumping all over these threads - if nothing else it'd make certain that the posts stay at the top of the page :thumbs:Quote:
Originally Posted by gazzak
I'm going over to their thread right now to suggest just that, cheers!Quote:
Originally Posted by Titchski
It would be nice if NooNoo could make the prediciton thread a sticky thread (fixed at the top of the page)
Please
I think that would need a lot more players to make happen, so keep recruiting and buzzin the other side of the pond.Quote:
Originally Posted by TechZ
Try the wotpp method ... Bump!
Takes work, but achieves the desired effect if only briefly ! :D
3 to 1 PortugalQuote:
Originally Posted by gazzak
3 to 2 Russia