2015-16 BigFooty Premier League Predictions

[jod23]

Ranieri was a dodgy appointment. The history with teams who come up and survive but then often struggle in the sophomore year. Average squad with no huge signings, Cambiasso left. The writing was on the wall.

Everyone was wrong.

It's crazy, but I love it.

 

[Fryer Tuck]

If I recall correctly (and I'm sure SM can confirm), I was the only one that backed the belief that we'd finish top 10 (had them 9th) on the basis we'd see more good Leicester and the finer margins would go our way.

Now I'm going to be extremely disappointed if we finish 9th from here, lol. (I really should've backed a Leicester player for the top scorer, pity I got the wrong one).

I will admit that Watford prediction was more down to my annoyance with them and the hope that Deeney and Ighalo weren't all that in the PL, and wanted them to fail to reach the hype. Fair play to them, they're going about business how I hoped we would do ours in the first season.

Can we get an Xmas update please SM ?

 

[Jatz]

Ranieri was a dodgy appointment. The history with teams who come up and survive but then often struggle in the sophomore year. Average squad with no huge signings, Cambiasso left. The writing was on the wall.

Everyone was wrong.

It's crazy, but I love it.

Ranieri wasn't a dodgy appointment at all. Greece was a debacle but outside of that, he's got PL experience and experience at other major clubs.

The squad isn't 'average' per se. Average compared to Arsenal or City? Sure. I don't think we were ever relegation favs though. Don't forget the run we went on at the back end of last season. They've proven they can play very good football.

I'll easily concede no body thought we'd be where we currently are though.

 

[jd2010]

What was Ranieri's success like after Chelsea? I thought it was a bad a choice how wrong was that!

 

[Jatz]

What was Ranieri's success like after Chelsea? I thought it was a bad a choice how wrong was that!

 

[jd2010]

So pretty good at Roma and average elsewhere? I know the Monaco win % looks good but a lot of that would have been in Ligue 2 when they first got bought out and spent big to go up. He like Vardy and Mahrez really have taken themselves to new heights

 

[HODGEYROAD]

This Leicester season is just nothing short of amazing...

 

[Jatz]

So pretty good at Roma and average elsewhere? I know the Monaco win % looks good but a lot of that would have been in Ligue 2 when they first got bought out and spent big to go up. He like Vardy and Mahrez really have taken themselves to new heights

Juve was alright. That would have been around the time they were punished for match fixing right?

The other thing to notice, he wasn't at most of those clubs for very long. Roma and Juve were the longer term appointments.

I don't know if it's new heights for him. He did well at Chelsea as well.

 

[jd2010]

Juve was alright. That would have been around the time they were punished for match fixing right?

The other thing to notice, he wasn't at most of those clubs for very long. Roma and Juve were the longer term appointments.

I don't know if it's new heights for him. He did well at Chelsea as well.

By the looks of it he found himself in sackable situations a few times around February. This is a massive improvement on that!

 

[Jatz]

By the looks of it he found himself in sackable situations a few times around February. This is a massive improvement on that!

Well yes, I certainly hope he isn't getting the sack by February

 

[jd2010]

Well yes, I certainly hope he isn't getting the sack by February

Clubs are a fickle lot nowadays. Relegation zone February 2017 and he's probably in trouble

 

[Jatz]

Clubs are a fickle lot nowadays. Relegation zone February 2017 and he's probably in trouble

Please, we aren't that other blue team.

If Ranieri has a racist son though, watch out!

 

[Zidane98]

"That other team in blue". Oh how the mighty have fallen.

 

[Benno_900]

I just realised I never put my predictions in so I think it is only fair that I do so now ...

1. Manchester City
2. Arsenal
   
3. Manchester United
4. Tottenham
5. Leicester City
   
6. Liverpool
   
7. Everton
8. Chelsea
9. Crystal Palace
   
10. Stoke City
11. Watford
12. Southampton
13. West Brom
    
14. West Ham
    
15. Swansea
16. Newcastle
17. Norwich
18. Sunderland
19. Bournemouth
20. Aston Villa

FA Cup: Chelsea
League Cup: Manchester City
Champions League: Barcelona
Europa League: Borussia Dortmund
Top Scorer: Romelu Lukaku
Promoted from Championship: Middlesbrough, Hull City, Brighton & Hove Albion

 

[jd2010]

I'll give it another go post Boxing Day. One of the toughest seasons to predict ever

 

[Jatz]

I have Watford coming 20th

Also, obviously no one tipped Leicester but Dirty Bird was kind of on the money...

I think Southampton is in the 10-15 range.

I think Leicester has a greater chance of making it to Europe than them.

 

[NUFC Tiger]

First 3 pages no ones had Leicester higher than 13th.

We are all s**t pundits

Would like to hear Owen's thoughts on Leicester and Watford this season.

 

[Flameboy]

I have Watford coming 20th

So do I haha. And Leicester 14th

 

[SM]

I'll post an updated table after tomorrow's game.

 

[SM]

Rank Name Score

1 Hatchy1992 76

2 roo2macca 76

3 HolyRioli 76

4 LFC2010 80

5 NinjaSwan 80

6 SloaneysDanger 80

7 Fryer Tuck 80

8 Christ_JM 80

9 Cristiano Ronaldo 82

10 crowsarethebest 82

11 Flameboy 82

12 typeclub 82

13 WorldCup2022OZ 82

14 kangaspurs 82

15 madman 84

16 Ashton Agar 84

17 NSFB 84

18 timskul 84

19 jd201084

20 Dirty Bird 84

21 Bojan KantKick 86

22 Thomas9 86

23 Jack 86

24 Northalives 86

25 Butters 86

26 LP04 86

27 Gedge86

28 A Bit High 88

29 Klim 88

30 Koze 88

31 Jatz 88

32 sverik25 88

33 Cruyff14 88

34 Loonerty 88

35 Spitter9 88

36 Alex/SM 88

37 Ratts of Tobruk 88

38 Moomba 90

39 Papermate 90

40 Chef 90

41 thetradesman90

42 Hank Scorpion91

43 pieman123 92

44 Keuuuzeurns 92

45 FAITH 92

46 Milang_Panthers 92

47 RossFC92

48 jod23 92

49 Redalert 94

50 Average Bigfooty 94

51 Rough_Edges 94

52 Thistle94

53 Dutchy94

54 100volt1 96

55 Ed 96

56 pantskyle 98

57 Sozabarus 98

58 Misha 98

59 NUFC Tiger 98

60 NFGKizza 98

61 WealstoneRaider 98

62 ADL9798 98

63 Swarles Barkley 98

64 Nel Mangle 98

65 szhengd 98

66 elhadjihenry 98

67 BluesMan 100

68 freofan_mundy 100

69 SayWhatAgain 100

70 daannn277 100

71 Hough 100

72 Borderline 100

73 go you pups 104

74 joop 106

75 knife 106

76 Bloomberg 210

 

[jd2010]

Leicester for relegation maybe even in 20th really hurts my score

 

[SM]

Leicester for relegation maybe even in 20th really hurts my score

Don't worry, you only had them in 18th.

 

[WealstoneRaider]

Dreadful predicting by me. Nothing new there though

 

[Ratts of Tobruk]

I don't mind being wrong on Watford. I only ever catch the very end of the Championship and only put Bournemouth up the ladder because the fans were so up for it. Leicester I assumed would struggle because they changed manager. I still don't quite understand the reason for that after the way the Foxes finished last season. I thought it may be due to internal battles, which is never good (see NUFC, CFC and to a lesser extent LFC).

Anyway, the odd thing is how people still say they expect LCFC to drop off. Winning it is a way off, but top 4 is definitely on. The one thing to consider, however, is something I just posted about in the LFC thread (below). Out of last season's top 6, in 12 months LCFC have won only once - v Mourinho:

[Leicester's] record for last 12 months in EPL: Played 38 Won 20 Drew 9 Lost 9 (69pts, 1.82 avg). In that time they have only had one bad run during the FA Cup 3rd to 5th rounds (they won twice in that before losing to Villa). So you could argue it showed they didn't have great squad depth.

However...in that bad run they mostly played top teams: Stoke, Man U, Palace, Arsenal, Everton, City, (Hull) and Spurs...their record against the top 6 of last season is poor: Leicester v Man U, City, Arse, Chelsea, Spurs and Liverpool in last 12 mths: Played 11 Won 1 Drew 3 Lost 7 (6pts, 0.55 avg).

 

[kangaspurs]

Sorry if you've already explained this SM but how is the score calculated?