Not sure I'm the Oracle on this (or anything) but "..if I hadn't stopped going..." makes perfect sense to me.
Not sure if English is one of your main subjects but on the evidence of your posts in general and the occasional “guidance” you offer on punctuation etc I’d be surprised if it isn’t. Appreciate your affirmative response.
The top ten for the week were the ten with sub one hundred predictions. There will be some changes in the 'Tour de Season' Leaderboard.
Many congratulations to @BSE - closest of the week and a personal best of the season with a single figure score - most excellent predicting.
Also our final average prediction wa 4917 - collectively we were only out by two this week!
Top ten for the Total Attendance
@BSE whose prediction of 4907 was out by 8 @floyd whose prediction of 4901 was out by 14 @Commoner whose prediction of 4871 was out by 44 @BlueBoy whose prediction of 4971 was out by 56 @DevC whose prediction of 4851 was out by 64 @micra whose prediction of 4850 was out by 65 @Alexo whose prediction of 4981 was out by 66 @eric_plant whose prediction of 4836 was out by 79 @Forest_Blue whose prediction of 5000 was out by 85 @Manboobs whose prediction of 4821 was out by 9
Top Ten for the Away Crowd
Who would presumably accused us all of cheating if they knew just how well we had their number. Top notch predicting by @BlueBoy and @Manboobs, also by @micra and @wwfcblue.
@BlueBoy whose prediction of 740 was out by 2 @Manboobs whose prediction of 744 was out by 2 @micra whose prediction of 750 was out by 8 @wwfcblue whose prediction of 750 was out by 8 @railwaysteve whose prediction of 721 was out by 21 @eric_plant whose prediction of 771 was out by 29 @twizz whose prediction of 777 was out by 35 @peterparrotface whose prediction of 704 was out by 38 @BSE whose prediction of 702 was out by 40 @perfidious_albion whose prediction of 698 was out by 44
Top Five for the Home Support
which was 4173
@Forest_Blue whose calculated prediction of 4200 was out by 27 @BSE whose calculated prediction of 4205 was out by 32 @bookertease whose calculated prediction of 4222 was out by 49 @PJS whose calculated prediction of 4230 was out by 57 @BlueBoy whose calculated prediction of 4231 was out by 58
Well done to all those with close predictions.
Very poor home turnout today. Really don't know what we have to do to pull in more people. Don't buy the Christmas shopping stuff, you can do that on a Sunday, or online.
I suppose some people might have renewed worries about Covid, but surely if you're out in the open air watching a game, you're as safe as it's possible to be.
Far safer than wandering round the shops I'd have thought.
@NewburyWanderer said:
Well done to all those with close predictions.
Very poor home turnout today. Really don't know what we have to do to pull in more people. Don't buy the Christmas shopping stuff, you can do that on a Sunday, or online.
I suppose some people might have renewed worries about Covid, but surely if you're out in the open air watching a game, you're as safe as it's possible to be.
Far safer than wandering round the shops I'd have thought.
Very easily thrown out comment but what reason is there for today to be considered a very poor home turnout? I’m not sure we’ve had a bigger crowd against Wimbledon before and I think there are many varied reasons for people not going. Plenty have COVID at the moment as one example
Well there you go. Your Christmas shopping theory looks spot on but I still think match day attendance is still very much pandemic related. It can’t be the ‘best stadium in the EFL’ or the much discussed match day experience
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5200 with 700 away
Not sure if English is one of your main subjects but on the evidence of your posts in general and the occasional “guidance” you offer on punctuation etc I’d be surprised if it isn’t. Appreciate your affirmative response.
5100 with 630 wombles
5,578 with 690 away
4907 with 702 wombles
4871 - 640 from Wimbledon
5,087 including 469 away
4,678 with 698 journeying from SW London to acknowledge‘there is only one team in Bucks’.
4971, with 740 in the away end.
5402 with 607 Wimbledon
5,051 with 622 most welcome stalwarts from Wimbledon.
I go 5122 total with 721 hoping Bayo won't score.
Thanks all, so far we now have 32 predictions in saying this on average:
Average for Total Crowd: 4938
Average for Away Crowd 602
Deadline for Predictions - 14:00 - 1 hour before KO
Occasionals and Habituals who I haven't recorded a prediction for yet:
@a40
@bookertease
@eric_plant
@HCBlue
@our_frank
@wwfcblue
@YorkExile
@TheAndyGrahamFanClub
@LDF
@Stoat_Goggles
@oxfordshirechairboy
@Blue_since 1990
@davebevan
I award this one this week's prize for feasible use of words and numbers.
4200 with 300 away.
5250 with 750 Dons
4,836 with 771 away
4567 with 456
A good day for predicting as well as equalisers.
The top ten for the week were the ten with sub one hundred predictions. There will be some changes in the 'Tour de Season' Leaderboard.
Many congratulations to @BSE - closest of the week and a personal best of the season with a single figure score - most excellent predicting.
Also our final average prediction wa 4917 - collectively we were only out by two this week!
Top ten for the Total Attendance
@BSE whose prediction of 4907 was out by 8
@floyd whose prediction of 4901 was out by 14
@Commoner whose prediction of 4871 was out by 44
@BlueBoy whose prediction of 4971 was out by 56
@DevC whose prediction of 4851 was out by 64
@micra whose prediction of 4850 was out by 65
@Alexo whose prediction of 4981 was out by 66
@eric_plant whose prediction of 4836 was out by 79
@Forest_Blue whose prediction of 5000 was out by 85
@Manboobs whose prediction of 4821 was out by 9
Top Ten for the Away Crowd
Who would presumably accused us all of cheating if they knew just how well we had their number. Top notch predicting by @BlueBoy and @Manboobs, also by @micra and @wwfcblue.
@BlueBoy whose prediction of 740 was out by 2
@Manboobs whose prediction of 744 was out by 2
@micra whose prediction of 750 was out by 8
@wwfcblue whose prediction of 750 was out by 8
@railwaysteve whose prediction of 721 was out by 21
@eric_plant whose prediction of 771 was out by 29
@twizz whose prediction of 777 was out by 35
@peterparrotface whose prediction of 704 was out by 38
@BSE whose prediction of 702 was out by 40
@perfidious_albion whose prediction of 698 was out by 44
Top Five for the Home Support
@Forest_Blue whose calculated prediction of 4200 was out by 27
@BSE whose calculated prediction of 4205 was out by 32
@bookertease whose calculated prediction of 4222 was out by 49
@PJS whose calculated prediction of 4230 was out by 57
@BlueBoy whose calculated prediction of 4231 was out by 58
Thanks all.
Well done to all those with close predictions.
Very poor home turnout today. Really don't know what we have to do to pull in more people. Don't buy the Christmas shopping stuff, you can do that on a Sunday, or online.
I suppose some people might have renewed worries about Covid, but surely if you're out in the open air watching a game, you're as safe as it's possible to be.
Far safer than wandering round the shops I'd have thought.
Very easily thrown out comment but what reason is there for today to be considered a very poor home turnout? I’m not sure we’ve had a bigger crowd against Wimbledon before and I think there are many varied reasons for people not going. Plenty have COVID at the moment as one example
@Right_in_the_Middle 5,814 with 600 away, 22 December 2018.
Well there you go. Your Christmas shopping theory looks spot on but I still think match day attendance is still very much pandemic related. It can’t be the ‘best stadium in the EFL’ or the much discussed match day experience