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Oh why won't he tell us what the answer is...
it is because he is a true Twonk
Getting his selections so badly wrong for around 5 of the teams in the PL (effectively this is Leicester, West Ham, Chelsea, Watford, WBA - and we are not the worst of the examples) may just be a reflection of his prejudices (and who, among us, would have predicted, game after game, that Leicester would win enough to be top of the league?
No, I thought not.
But the Twonk's league placings results actually are not very important in terms of the prediction game itself, which is about the weekly results. So he cannot start to predict each game to get this overall League back to some sort of respectability. He predicted us to lose 2-0 and for 20 minutes that turned out not to have been such a bad prediction tbh.
The Twonk is just scoring each game as he sees it. and in fact he actually gets quite a few of ours right- It's very complicated, and maybe I'm not the one to explain this best coming from the Land of Cheese and Chocolate but I hope you understand at least where I am going to. Capisce?
Surely the whole issue with this page is the fact he is so often wrong.
Not sure where you are coming from with that comment.
Not serious ;biggrin
Hamstew - you're wrong in your comment if you think about it carefully, I'm just saying that he has got a few of the ones we lose right, obviously not the ones we win because he never predicts that we do.
His real league table is the one in which every week he is paired with competitors on the scores, and he leads them collectively at the moment. The League of his actual predictions is nothing to do with it or the game.
Would any of us with our predictions have done a lot better? eg with the Leicester scores? I doubt it.
Speaking personally (for I keep a rough note of my predictions) Chelsea are top of my prediction league because through the first half of the season I kept predicting that they would come good that game, and so there was a huge gap.
But I'm not going to start getting it deliberately wrong so that my table is closer to the actual one. In my prediction world they are going to win the League, Liverpool are 14th, Tottenham are 9th and er, West Ham are 3rd. Does that make me a twonk? Dont answer that... ;whistle
Anyway in everyone's League the Villa are bottom... ;lol
He got his knickers in a twist from.the moment we had the front to beat LFC at Anfield, labeling us a poor side. He has barely had us down to win all season, he wants us to lose....simply because he called it wrong......it's not because he thinks we will anymore.
#ThreeTimes and he can't handle it.
And says
" theeees are not the Druids we are looking for"
I mean
Not the scores were looking for
;lol
He thinks we are gonna lose a load more than we have. Also take a look at the goal difference he predicted for its it's ridiculous.
Does anyone out there understand the simple and beautiful truth of what I is sayin'? ;hug ;wahoo ;whistle ;whome ;pray ;cool ;star ;angel ;wink
You can check here:
http://www.myfootballfacts.com/Mark_Lawrenson_Predictions_2015-16.html
Swiss - I sort of see where you are coming from but I do think he seems to totally ignore form when making his predictions and bases his guesses on history and inbuilt prejudice. It is true, at the start of the season, none of my predictions would have been for a Leicester win, but surely, as the season unfolds and we see what they have achieved, their ability to keep key players fit and the disastrous lack of form of some of the 'big boys' such as Man U and Liverpool you have to start modifying your predictions as the weeks go by. Now I would have much more confidence in a Leicester win, especially against the weaker teams, and they would by now be climbing the Loughtonman predictor table for sure.
;wink