Best Of

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Top Twenty for the Total Crowd: [7459]

Many congratulations to @Commoner - a close single digit miss, what will be an interesting entry on the Season's Competition Leaderboard and Forecaster of the Week.

Congratulations to @wwfcblue; the data driven Chat gpt (as, I suspect, ably coached by @manchesterchairboy); @LDF; @our_frank and @BSE all of whom were within one hundred.

Our collective average from 35 predictions was 7785 - out by 326.

Top Twenty One for the Away Crowd: [574]

Many congratulations to @micra for being spot on with the weather prediction and only out by one person for the away crowd, top work.

Lots of the top twenty one have congratulations for being inside 5%, which is 28.7.

Congratulations to the who were fairly sure it was going to be around 560 and tied in 2nd - @Twizz, @DJWYC14, @perfidious_albion and @MindlessDrugHoover.

Congratulations to @mooneyman and @BSE who also tied and were within ten of the exact number of Happy Wanderers and congratulations to @MFH_Blue: @silverfox; @robin; @our_frank; @NewburyWanderer; @Mandown; @wwfcblue; @Forest_Blue;@williwycombe and @ryan_w_kirkby2, who were all within 5%. Pats on the back all round.

Our collective average was 597.

Top Twenty for the Home Crowd: [Calculated 6885]

Many congratulations for the first time to @manchesterchairboy and Chatgpt who were the closest with the home crowd. Congratulations to @wwfcblue, @Commoner, @our_frank, @PJS, @ShitcagoWWFC and @BSE who were all within one hundred.

Ouir average for the home crowd was 7188, out by 303.

I should have the 'Tour de Season' updates done and posted and then the Northampton Match thread started today.

Early days but it seems I was totally wrong about Sonny Bradley. He looks like a proper player. Didn’t see yesterday - it was perhaps the first game I haven’t watched all season. What a dreadful game to miss by the sounds of things.

I think we've got to go external for someone with experience. Let Sam G get on with what he's good at.

Yeah I may have been a bit emotional myself when I wrote that, especially the England part. But he reminds me of the old Spectrum footy games where the ball is attached to his foot, he’s that good on the ball!

Swings and roundabouts isn’t it.

we had three shouts in one move in first half (foul on Lubala and two handballs), all were 50-50 shouts, none given.

Lubala was also denied a cast iron penalty in second half. He had to header over as he was pushed off balance by the defender. That’s not been talked about but both Lubala and Kone protested heavily to ref. I thought ref in general had a good game but that decision was one he got majorly wrong.

Yes, Skura played very well at the end. He barely won a header in the first half though against their admittedly giant forwards, and played a few shaky passes. This will be fantastic experience for him

Brilliant post 👍

The scenes at the end. The turmoil of the last week has brought everyone at the club together even more than before. The culture of this fantastic club lives on. Can't wait for next Saturday.

Funnily enough I can recall several occasions when the Mansfield players fell to the ground and rolled around after being tackled then mysteriously leapt up again when they realised that the referee (who I thought was ok apart from adding an excessive amount of stoppage time) wasn’t going to award a free kick.