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kinveachyaddick
kinveachyaddick Posts: 3,972
edited April 2012 in General Charlton
Can anyone find the thread from pre-season when they tipped us to finish bottom?
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  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,261
    edited April 2012
    The CAFC official twitter has uploaded it I think. Someone else tweeted it too.
  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,878
    Bottom? It was 18th
  • I've got a picture of it here but can't work out how to post the bloody thing! Won't let me do it!

    Anyway here is the FourFourTwo prediction for League 1 which was part of their pre-season preview in August...

    1. Huddersfield
    2. Sheff Wed
    3. Preston
    4. Leyton Orient
    5. Scunthorpe
    6. Carlisle
    7. Sheff Utd
    8. Chesterfield
    9. Bournemouth
    10. MK Dons
    11. Brentford
    12. Stevenage
    13. Colchester
    14. Wycombe
    15. Hartlepool
    16. Walsall
    17. Exeter
    18. Charlton
    19. Oldham
    20. Yeovil
    21. Tranmere
    22. Notts County
    23. Rochdale
    24. Bury



  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,435
    That's embarassing.
  • 18th!! Ridiculous
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,261
    Notts County fans must be equally bewildered.
    To be fair, most of it is about right.
  • Its_Hamer_Time
    Its_Hamer_Time Posts: 1,565
    Orient 4th??? 4-4-2 are clueless
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,102
    Sheff Utd ?
    Chesterfield?
  • Orient, Preston, Sheff Utd, Wycome, Scunthorpe, Chesterfield, Charlton, Notts County are all way off.

    The only excusable one in that list is Preston, who I think we all thought would do better.

    I know if everyone on here came up with a prediction before the season there would no doubt be some big differences from the end result, however to have us finish 3 places above relegation to League 2 is embarrasing.

    I heard somewhere that when they published this online a week or two later, they had revised it and had us for a much higher finish (probably on the back of the many signings we made).
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,990
    They might just have got Carlisle and Rochdale spot on.

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  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    we should do a Charlton Life one for the Championship next season
  • Can't wait to see 4-4-2 's prediction for next season!
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,509
    we should do a Charlton Life one for the Championship next season
    Good idea.

    Everyone predicts the Championship finishing positions 1 to 24.

    winner is the person with the smallest variance from the actual. ie Charlton this season would have scored 442 17 points

    £5 or £10 per person. 25% to winner, 15% to runner up 10% to third. Remainder goes to paying for the CL servers.

    Just need someone with spreadsheet skills to volunteer to update every week.
  • olster
    olster Posts: 1,405
    edited April 2012
    i have spreadsheet skills...doesnt have to be updated every week tho does it? monthly?
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,102
    we should do a Charlton Life one for the Championship next season
    Good idea.

    Everyone predicts the Championship finishing positions 1 to 24.

    winner is the person with the smallest variance from the actual. ie Charlton this season would have scored 442 17 points

    £5 or £10 per person. 25% to winner, 15% to runner up 10% to third. Remainder goes to paying for the CL servers.

    Just need someone with spreadsheet skills to volunteer to update every week.
    I was thinking the same thing - unfortunately not got the requisite skills.
    Agree monthly update probably best.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,398
    Its all well and good slating them now. Fact is we finished 13th the season before and was in absolute freefall. We had dropped half a division every year for about five years up until that point.

    Not a single Charlton supporter had us down to absolute storm to 1st place.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,509
    Its all well and good slating them now. Fact is we finished 13th the season before and was in absolute freefall. We had dropped half a division every year for about five years up until that point.

    Not a single Charlton supporter had us down to absolute storm to 1st place.
    Sorry but I and many others slated them when it was published and quite a few had bets on us to win the league

    http://www.charltonlife.com/discussion/42371/fourfourtwo-season-preview-charltons-predicted-finishing-place

  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    i have spreadsheet skills...doesnt have to be updated every week tho does it? monthly?
    monthly's enough I'd have thought, possibly submit in secret - email or whispers?
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,184
    Its all well and good slating them now. Fact is we finished 13th the season before and was in absolute freefall. We had dropped half a division every year for about five years up until that point.

    Not a single Charlton supporter had us down to absolute storm to 1st place.
    HA HA!
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,992
    Its all well and good slating them now. Fact is we finished 13th the season before and was in absolute freefall. We had dropped half a division every year for about five years up until that point.

    Not a single Charlton supporter had us down to absolute storm to 1st place.
    Ask Paddy Power How much he going to pay me and my boy are picking up if we win the league, so yes there where Charlton supporters who realised that Charlton where going to take the league by storm, he's already paid out on getting promotion.

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  • delroofer
    delroofer Posts: 857
    I'm all for the Championship Predictor, and agree that proceeds should go to Admin. I think it must be money up front, and multiple entries should be allowed at the agreed fee per entry to increase the prize fund - and the donation to the cause.
  • Addickforlife
    Addickforlife Posts: 2,102
    Its all well and good slating them now. Fact is we finished 13th the season before and was in absolute freefall. We had dropped half a division every year for about five years up until that point.

    Not a single Charlton supporter had us down to absolute storm to 1st place.
    My Will Hill betting slip disagrees with this post.

  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    i have spreadsheet skills...doesnt have to be updated every week tho does it? monthly?
    monthly's enough I'd have thought, possibly submit in secret - email or whispers?
    @olster Are you taking this on? I don't mind doing it if not
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,505
    My dad runs a competition like this every year. Has done for the past 8ish years.

    @Medders has played in the past, and this year @Plaaaaayer joined in. It costs a fiver and you predict where all the prem and champ teams will finish so its a one off thing that you don't have to look at it regularly like other fantasy football things. it costs a fiver to join and the money goes to charity after prizes are won. he did include League 1 the first year Charlton went down but then he got the hump seeing that we weren't going up so back to just the 2 leagues for the past 2 seasons.

    I could ask him to send me the spreadsheet with the calculations with the templates etc if you like?
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,195
    would be good to do more leagues as just for champ you would have a lot of people getting it correct.
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,505
    you think that, but you'd be surprised.
  • Davey
    Davey Posts: 191
    Am up for the champs-predictor, and will also be picking up a nice little pot should we be crowned champs. For once, it might quite literally pay to believe!!!
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,509
    Olster is going to take this forward, hopefully alongside Salad.

    I've done it before and as Suzi says it is a lot harder to get all the teams right than you'd think.

    Only takes a couple of Blackpools to mess up your scores completely.
  • If they predict us to be high up next season then i will be very very worried indeed!!
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,398
    Its all well and good slating them now. Fact is we finished 13th the season before and was in absolute freefall. We had dropped half a division every year for about five years up until that point.

    Not a single Charlton supporter had us down to absolute storm to 1st place.
    My Will Hill betting slip disagrees with this post.

    There is a big difference in putting some money on your own club to do something and genuinely believing they are going to be the top team after just finishing 13th the season before.

    I can imagine the odds to bet on Charlton were healthy enough to tempt many to put a bit of dosh on the line just in case.

    Had many been asked at the start of the season "who is going to win the league?", I guarantee you that very, very few would have put us down.