StarkMallard

Sad about two Notts-free weekends? The prediction league knows no international break and is here to soothe your woes. Round: 8 Kick-off: Saturday 26 September, 3pm Don't forget your joker! Cambridge United v AFC Wimbledon Wycombe Wanderers v Reading Fleetwood Town v Rochdale Rotherham United v Crewe Alexandra Shrewsbury Town v Colchester United Altrincham v Hornchurch Scunthorpe United v Hartlepool United Sutton United v Florist Green Rovers

I am the god of hellfire, and I bring you ... last Saturday's scores! Our reigning champion @william1984 was the only player to break double figures this round, an honourable mention also goes out to @menzinho! @Paris Sandwich Man stays top of the leaderboard with @william1984 catching up fast and @4everapie making up the top three. The next round is on Saturday, and in the next few minutes I will scrape together eight fixtures that are actually going ahead and will post them here. Thanks for playing and see you over there!

@Fan of Big Tone the club posted it on their official Facebook page just before they announced his contract extension, so you'll have to scroll back a bit.

Sigh. Such a frustrating watch. We had a lively start and created quite a few openings by pressing Reading in their own half. But when we won the ball, none of our forwards seemed to know what the others were doing. Reading struggled to get anything going and it made for a very scrappy first half. The cross for their first was first class, but the second looked embarrassingly simple and Longelo got skinned like a banana. I thought Mustapha and Finneran struggled too, but that can happen with younger players. There's still a fair bit of learning to be done. Luckily we've now got some time to look at this performance in detail and learn the lessons from it, because that wasn't good at all.

Thanks for the late three points @super_ram!

Burnley 1-1 Derby County Portsmouth 2-1 Blackburn Rovers Blackpool 0-2 Plymouth Argyle Luton Town 0-2 Bradford City Accrington Stanley 1-0 Newport County Northampton Town 1-1 Rotherham United (joker) Eastleigh 1-2 Carlisle United Halifax Town 2-0 Sutton United

Round: 7 Kick-off: Saturday 19 September, 3pm Don't forget your joker! Burnley v Derby County Portsmouth v Blackburn Rovers Blackpool v Plymouth Argyle Luton Town v Bradford City Accrington Stanley v Newport County Northampton Town v Rotherham United Eastleigh v Carlisle United Halifax Town v Sutton United

Fair enough @Robbie. Preston and Burnley could blow us out of the water financially and pay any compensation we demand, but I can't really see Burnley wanting him at this stage. It's probably more about securing his services for the time being and putting us in a better position to benefit financially if and when he does leave (hopefully not soon).

The results: @ARLukomski and @theAnticlough take the glory this round! Honourable mentions too to @cheeky~k8 and @Paris Sandwich Man. There's change at the top! @Paris Sandwich Man overtakes @4everapie to claim top spot, while @ARLukomski goes third and I surge into a glorious seventh place, which is much cooler anyway. I'll post Saturday's fixtures on Wednesday (tomorrow at the time of writing). Thanks for playing!

Good news, I think! He's done a fantastic job for us and deserves this. But I've got my cynical hat on today - Preston have sacked their manager and Burnley are bottom of the table, both former clubs of his. Is this a Langstaff-style extension - designed to get us a good fee if/when he moves on?

It's disappointing to lose as I felt we had the edge in the first half, albeit without creating many chances. Bradford started the second half more aggressively and their goal seemed to knock us out of our stride. We CAN create lots of chances - witness Burton at home last week - but this weekend we had stronger opponents plus the precision was lacking at times. At times you can see the players aren't yet used to playing together, particularly when we had that three-on-three break and were unable to carve out a chance despite the three Bradford players almost standing on top of each other. Oh, and the last-second equaliser didn't look offside to me. But that's the way it goes sometimes, let's beat Reading instead.

All the players who dragged us out of the National League are heroes in my book, that season and in particular that day against Boreham Wood were pivotal to our club. Although I don't believe the brothers would have given up on us, it was our fourth NL season after all. We remodelled our defence when he left and upgraded massively, which built the foundation for our later success.

Middlesbrough 2-1 Norwich City Preston North End 0-1 Lincoln City Cambridge United 1-1 Reading Plymouth Argyle 3-1 Barnsley Colchester United 2-0 Crewe Alexandra York City 1-1 Swindon Town (joker) Halifax Town 1-2 Hornchurch Yeovil Town 2-1 Fylde

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Onto round 6 and I've decided to pick harder fixtures as you're all getting too many points. So dig out your crystal ball, ouija board (not recommended) or horse and give it your best shot! Round: 6 Kick-off: Saturday 12 September, 3pm Don't forget your joker! Middlesbrough v Norwich City Preston North End v Lincoln City Cambridge United v Reading Plymouth Argyle v Barnsley Colchester United v Crewe Alexandra York City v Swindon Town Halifax Town v Hornchurch Yeovil Town v Fylde