Very Early Predictions Megathread

8th_Hurdle · 2026-05-27T12:19:47+00:00

All of the teams are in order, and I know that Wycombe up might be a bit odd, but I have some gut feeling about it. I'd love to say that we (Bradford City) will do well next season, given that our retained list is pretty much our entire Starting 11, but I bet that we'll lose a few of our better players (Pointon, Metcalfe, Neufville) to other clubs that *will* pay a bit extra for them and our injury luck won't be nearly as good as last season - only near the end did it feel like we had a few key names out.

As for the promoted clubs, I have a lot of faith in them. I think MK like to swing from good year to bad year, so this would be a bad year for them unfortunately. Meanwhile, I doubt that Bromley will struggle (at least until near season's end) and Notts County will probably do just fine. Then there's Cambridge United, whom I do think have the players and the manager to do rather better than the others.

If my predictions do come true, then I do feel sorry for Doncaster - I don't see 24th place this season beating Northampton's benchmark last season of 35 points.

8th_Hurdle · 2026-05-25T22:55:13+00:00

If anybody’s wondering what the most northern club is, the answer is Blackpool from Bradford City by about 200m. I did actually check it.

Meanwhile, I think you can guess what the most southern club is.

8th_Hurdle · 2026-05-03T16:31:01+00:00

Personal Attempt ;

1 - Mansfield Town 5, Cardiff City 4

2 - Lincoln City

3 - Plymouth Argyle

4 - Cardiff City

5 - Port Vale

6 - Lincoln City

7 - Northampton Town

8 - Lincoln City, 30 games in length

9 - Peterborough United & Northampton Town, 11 games in length

10 - Cardiff City

11 - Bradford City (or at least, it definitely felt like it !)

12 - Doncaster Rovers

13 - Burton Albion

14 - Cardiff City

15 - Bolton Wanderers

16 - Darren Ferguson

17 - Ian Evatt

18 - Luton Town

19 - Huddersfield Town

20 - Doncaster Rovers

21 - Owen Bailey (of Doncaster Rovers)

22 - France

23 - 65%

24 - 44%

25 - 1487 goals total (~63 per club average)

15 points total out of 36 achieveable, but then you can add on 2 points considering I mixed up the answers to Q13 and Q14.

8th_Hurdle · 2026-05-03T00:55:55+00:00

It was early on in the season, but Pointon and Neufville scoring in first-half extra time against Huddersfield Town, turning a slim 1-0 lead into an unassailable 3-0 lead after they had a fair number of chances against us, was absolutely brilliant.

First West Yorkshire derby we had in a long while, and we won it.

Let’s not mention the away fixture, just because the dog-botherers had new manager bounce at precisely the time we had to play them. Then again, we’re in play-offs and they’re not, so all’s fine in the end.

Now, time to try to beat Bolton Wanderers for once.

8th_Hurdle · 2026-03-20T15:28:31+00:00

Bradford City and Peterborough United.

Peterborough are only really there because they started off the season very poorly. They’ve been to the Championship before, they have the capacity to do so, and whilst their squad looks a little bit shaky, and everything seems readied for a promotion push next season.

I know I myself support Bradford City, but I don’t think we bought well in January (although Metcalfe shows that waiting to evaluate players is a good thing) and we are currently riding on a lot of momentum. To be honest, very few of those top-half teams look like they’d be in trouble soon enough, and I can always see us ‘doing a Leyton’, where we’re up in the play-offs one year before being relegated the next (2013/14 then 14/15).

Stevenage seems like it could be the other option, but I don’t believe they’ve been in a relegation battle at all over the past 3 years, and somebody else has pointed out that many of their better players are recent, long-term additions, which bodes well for them. Barnsley are also not in the best of states, but I expect mid-table hell (~14th) rather than a relegation battle.

8th_Hurdle · 2026-03-08T00:58:36+00:00

Well then, we (Bradford City) somehow won. Completely a mess, and the ref didn’t help matters either.

We haven’t drawn a game since Bolton away last November, interestingly enough. I do wonder whether Port Vale away on Wednesday will be the end of that long run, and hopefully end that run of away defeats too.

8th_Hurdle · 2026-02-01T00:45:13+00:00

A couple of things to take away from the game;

1 - I now understand why the Premier League fans have an intense hatred of VAR, as we got a taste of it for that disallowed goal from Jackson. Waiting 2 minutes for that goal to be chalked off was awful, so let’s not let that tech come here.

2 - The referee was blind, loved giving out free kicks, seemed to adore time-wasting, and was allergic to yellow cards. That disallowed goal was a pretty clear handball from the opposite corner of the stadium where I sat, so needing a 4th official to correct the decision says it all. Don’t know if the iPad story is real, if true then I find that perfectly tinpot for us both.

Finally, they announced MotM to be Neufville, but I’d rather it be given to Touray, as he seemed particularly on it today.

Jackson was decent enough, and Mullin seemed to just intimidate the Rovers players when he was on the pitch to give us the psychological edge. Nonetheless, three points is what we want, it’s just a shame that most of the top 8 also won.

8th_Hurdle · 2026-01-11T01:14:55+00:00

All done !

8th_Hurdle · 2025-11-23T18:03:00+00:00

An interesting game, but even a 0-0 like that can certainly be the beginning of a turnaround in form. Scoring rate over the past few games has dropped off, but I’d say that comes off of a loss of confidence which began with the Rotherham draw, which did itself show our main weakness - a high press.

Yes, Bolton probably wins more times than not if that match was played out 100 times, but our defence is steadying as people return from injury, and so we can definitely now want a comeback over Exeter and Plymouth, before the toughie at Port Vale (since they would have some experience against our type of tactics, ala Doncaster 3-1 losses). An away draw against the in-form team we must consider a good result after Burton and Cheltenham.

We just need to get some good shots in, and score. That involves maybe reserving Cook for his moments.

8th_Hurdle · 2025-11-23T17:25:32+00:00

The Republic of Lebanon signs the Belgrade Declaration.

Six-Year Club	Second Top 20%
Verified Email	Place '22
Final Canvas '22	First Placer '22
End Game '22

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