Toulouse 24 Widnes 20

Barrow 22 Sheffield 18

Dewsbury 12 York 18

Featherstone 28 Batley 12

Halifax 24 Leigh 20

Rochdale 0 Toronto 28

Swinton 12 Bradford 34



BBQ - Leigh not to lead

Ooops missed the Saturday game



Predictions for this week



Barrow 20 Sheffield 28

Dewsbury 12 York 32

Featherstone 32 Barley 10

Halifax 18 Leigh 22

Rochdale 12 Toronto 38

Swindon 14 Bradford 34



Joker - Toronto



Leigh to take the lead 24 minutes

Batley not barley - spellchecker going mad

Dang it - couldn't get online yesterday. Pokemon gone for Bongser & Zools.



Barrow 22 Sheffield 18

Dewsbury 10 York 22

Featherstone 26 Batley 10

Halifax 18 Leigh 22

Rochdale 6 Toronto 40

Swinton 10 Bradford 28



BBQ - 78 mins

Getting in early due to work commitments (Nights)



And



Friday Kick Off





Sheffield 16 - 26 Bulls

Toulouse 42 - 18 Rochdale

Toronto 24 - 12 Widnes

Dewsbury 26 - 12 Swinton

Halifax 32 - 10 Batley

Leigh 18 - 12 Featherstone

York 34 - 18 Barrow



Added:



BBQ - 243610

Jumping in early also in case I miss the Friday game due to time change and work clash.



Sheffield 20 - 26 Bulls

Toulouse 36 - 18 Rochdale

Toronto 16 - 20 Widnes

Dewsbury 28 - 12 Swinton

Halifax 34 - 16 Batley

Leigh 24 - 16 Featherstone

York 32 - 20 Barrow



Back in with the HT ticket number

243623

Up the Comics

Bongser swears his posterior will be in gear soon. Many apologies!



We’ll be running with just the six Saturday & Sunday games this weekend (the pokemon will count on they alone):



Saturday:



Toulouse XX-YY Rochdale

Trannies XX-YY Widnes



Sunday:



Dewsbury XX-YY Swinton

‘Fax XX-YY Batley

Leigh XXX-Y Featherstone

York XX-YY Barrow



BBQ: Serial Number of the winning HT Draw ticket

Good luck!

Toulouse 42 v Rochdale 10.

Toronto 28 v Widnes 22.





Dewsbury 28 v Swinton 14.

Fax 34. V Batley 16.

Leigh 28 v Fev 24.

York 30 v Barrow 16.



Bonus.243416.

Sshffield 12-18 Bradford

Toronto 22-18 Widnes

Toulouse 48-10 Rochdale

Dewsbury 28-14 Swinton

Halifax 26-14 Batley

Leigh 24-16 Fev

York 26-10 Barrow

Joker Toulouse

Ticket number 243447

Toulouse 48 Rochdale 16

Toronto 22 Widnes 24



Dewsbury 18 Swinton 22

Fax 42 Batley 14

Leigh 24 Fev 20

York 28 Barrow 18



Bbq-243682

Toulouse 42 Rochdale 10

Toronto 24 Widnes 20



Dewsbury 28 Swinton 14

Halifax 30 Batley 12

Leigh 24 Featherstone 20

York 24 Barrow 14



BBQ - 243598

Toulouse 34 Rochdale 6

Toronto 25 Widnes 18



Dewsbury 24 Swinton 12

Halifax 36 Batley 16

Leigh 29 Featherstone 22

York 22 Barrow 12



BBQ - 243581



Bongser knows nuffin', John Snow

Late with predictions this week so 2 games wrong already. But here goes



Dewsbury 28 Swinton 16

Halifax 36 Batley 18

Leigh 22 Featherstone 18

York 26 Barrow 14



BBQ 243201

Sunday:



Dewsbury 32- 6 Swinton

‘Fax 36-8 Batley

Leigh 24- 14 Featherstone

York 10 - 26 Barrow

365215

EVVO and Atomic, Bongser is genuinely pleased that you stuck with it despite tardiness. Neither lines nor detentions here.



First round results now edited into page 62 (EVVO you should frame 'em).



Hope to be fully caught up by Tues/Wednesday

ROUND TWO ROUND UP (finally, Bongser hears you sigh):



The early Toulouse vs Widnes match-up was here distinguished by three things. A & B by Bongser & Zools missing this first one and C by Pubbers nailing a correct margin (first of the season). Only three of the remaining forecasters went for the salt miners.



Our glorious Johnny Come Lately leader said in Round One:







Well, Evvo there was a veritable rash of Jokers in Round Two to instruct you how to play a Joker or not.



The main event saw a disappointing result for the Leythers amongst us and, doubly so, for Tommers who scored nul points but played his Joker to double that up to...eerrrrmm...neauwt. Better luck next time. Most, like he, stayed loyal, but Chazzers, Chayders & (unsurprisingly) Donny Juan picked up points. Vanners blew a seven game Pokemon through his loyalty. King in The North!



Chayders played his Joker on The Bulls, called correctly on the winner and doubled his money. Clean sweep from this WPL on that game.



Both Pubbers & Zools cannily played their Joker on The Trannies beating The Hairnets. Clean sweep again!



=#FF0000THAT’S ALL THE INITIAL JOKERS DEALT WITH. THANKFULLY NOBODY SPOTTED THE PROBABLY MOST FRUITFUL USE. AS WE ARE AGAIN A MERE NINE WALKERS, BONGSER HAS EDITED OUT THE POSSIBILITY OF THE “JOKERBON” – NO JOKERS ON THE BBQ PLEASE, LADIES & GENTS





Another clean sweep on the Fev victory. Barrow losing to Sheffield caught most napping (congrats to Evvo, Pubbers, Zools and Vanners – more on the latter later). Chayders blew his Pokemon chance there, hard Chays. Only Tommers’ hunch prevented a clean sweep on a win for York. However Vanners (he again) nailed the correct margin.



As to the BBQ, various sources state that Leythe went 10-6 ahead between the eleventh & twelfth minutes as a player, newly returned to the WN7 fold, Pownded up to the try line and Pownced thereover. Grand Prix Max of 25pts to:







YES – It’s Vannus da Mannus, the Van-Cougar himself. His “great feats of strength” in Round Two (55pts) also see him pick up the WWB of a further 25pts.



Strictly speaking, Bongser just broke user protocol by quoting from a PM but when VL sees the table below, Bongser doubts that the self-deprecating ex-pat will have any quibble (as he polishes his newly burnished Centurions helmet) and expects our lovely moderators to turn a Nelsonesque eye. After all B&B is licking the wounds inflicted by a good spanking by this week’s wooden spoon.







Let’s see how the table has turned: Well for the first time (to Bongser’s recollection) it is



Vanners on 115pts Jj

EVVO on 107 Jj

Pubbers on 80 j

Charlie on 75 Jj

Donners on 65 Jj

Tommers on 63 j

Zools on 59 j

Bongser on 55 Jj

Chayders on 51 j



Tight at the bottom, tight at the top.

As it stands, we have a full seventh heaven Champ games on Sunday so puntabules will be out on Friday #catchin'up

Honey, get out the Brasso

Not wanting to sound like I'm throwing my toys out of the pram already but is that table correct lol. I got the toulouse v Widnes score bang on so surely I should score 65 points just for that one game or am I not understanding the scoring format which wouldn't be much of a surprise really, cheers Wayne

It does look like 65 points for that prediction ... over to B & B ... Not forgetting his decision is final

Honey, put the Brasso away..........

Yes, apologies Vanners. It's time for the new extravaganza "Brasso on Ice"



Looks like Bongser gaffes started early this season. Apologies also, of course, to Pubbers - how the heck Bongser spotted a correct margin without first spotting a correct scoreline is beyond him. All enquiries to Shepherd Neame & Greene King, please.



Revised table for Round Two Catch Up Cock Up:





Pubbers on 155 j

EVVO on 107 Jj

Vanners on 90pts Jj

Charlie on 75 Jj

Donners on 65 Jj

Tommers on 63 j

Zools on 59 j

Bongser on 55 Jj

Chayders on 51 j



That decision is final





ROUND THREE ROUND UP!



Atomic & EVVO wagged the Saturday fixtures the earlier of which saw an otherwise clean sweep for we WPLeaguers as Toulouse beat ‘Dale convincingly. That said, three of our number (Chuck, Pubbers & Juan) were a mere two points out on a relatively high margin. Five points to each of those eligible.



Chayders, you played a joker on that match, but you didn’t have one available having played your only one (so far) in Round 2. Pls see below:





The Toronto game was correctly called as a home win by five of those assembled, with only the two (at different stages) Round Two Weekly Winners (

) disagreeing.



Onto the Sunday games. A hard fought Leigh victory (with Ridy top scoring for his wife against the mistress he took when the former locked him out of the bedroom) was called by all. Tommers & Vanners closest on the margin though one out either side.



Fax beating Batley saw another clean sweep though no one saw the eyebrow raisingly narrow margin of a mere two points.



Dewsbury vs Swinton was a near miss further clean sweep – only one missing out. The tie also saw a curiosity of 4 out 9 nailing the margin (three of them with the same predicted score – no copying please gentlemen or Bongser will have to send invigilators round to your homes). All though failed to convert the try by getting the scoreline. BONGSER HAS CHECKED & DOUBLE CHECKED! Congrats though to Chazzer, Chayders, Wanderer & Zools, 10 additional points apiece.



Which leaves five still in with a chance of a six-tie Pokemon as we look at York vs Barrow. Nobody expected such a tonking for the Cumbrians but four Pokemen (?) were brought home along with the bacon (100 points apiece for Chazzer, Wanderer, Zools & Bongser – and a missed Joker opportunity for three of us).



That leaves the BBQ to separate the three wrestling at the top for the Round 3 WWB (Bongser feels sure that he heard the LCTV commentary mention an hitherto unknown wrestling fed called WWE after Day’d dazed Pownall with an interesting, post tackle manoeuvre that would have seen a Leythe player suspended for seven millennia). After 20 minutes scrolling back through nigh on a week of garbage spewed out by LC Twitter, Bongser found the curiously low HT draw ticket number of 229327. This being his only source of info, he will run with it for now. All out by a country mile with Tommers out (presumably through a typo) by an “inter-continental mile”. EVVO closest but Chazzer (as BBQ runner-up) takes the laurels as the (provisional) WWB winner! Huzzay!!



So the provisional Round Three table looks thus (note that, ominously, neither of the top two have yet to table a Joker, maybe keeping their respective powders dry until the season starts to unfold and we start to see the strengths and weaknesses of each new squad):





Charlie on 233pts Jjj

Donners on 215 Jjj

Zools on 207 jj

Bongser on 197 Jjj

Pubbers on 179 jj

EVVO on 152 Jjj

Vanners on 126 Jjj

Chayders on 101 jj

Tommers on 80 jj

Round FOUR puntables:



Batley XX-YY Rochdale

Widnes XX-YY Sheffield

Leythe XXXX-0 Trannies

Swinton XX-YY Toulouse

Barrow XX-YY Dewsbury

Fev XX-YY Fax

Bradford XX-YY York



BBQ? Leigh have not lost a single game to The Trannies thus far this season! Will the draw of the pretenders attract a bumper crowd to LSV or will the comfort of the armchair or the flow of draught ale keep folk away?



Attendance punts, please, ladies & gents.



As ever, good luck and may the scoring be correct!

Batley 26 - 12 Rochdale

Widnes 24 -12 Sheffield

Leythe 16 - 32 Trannies

Swinton 16 - 26 Toulouse

Barrow 28 - 14 Dewsbury

Fev 24 - 16 Fax

Bradford 26 - 16 York



BBQ: 3111

Batley 32 Rochdale 14

Widnes 28 Sheffield 18

Leigh 16 Toronto 32

Swinton 14 Toulouse 34

Barrow 22 Dewsbury 18

Fev 24 Halifax 20

Bradford 22 York 24



BBQ-3217