lawro – Under The Hammers

The Lawro Challenge – Week 10

We show the BBC pundit just how match predictions should be done.

Lawro Crystal Ball I am confident that I can still win this. The race is far from over and there is still a long way to go. My shrewd predictions have suffered more than most to the vagaries of contentious refereeing decisions and unfortunate injuries. Adjusting the results to account for these anomalies and it would still be pretty much neck and neck. These are sure to even themselves out over the course of the season.

I am also convinced that Lawro is copying Rich’s predictions in many cases. It is type of thing he would do; looking over someone else’s shoulder while shielding his own working’s out with his forearm. This week’s predictions are below (remember 1 point for a correct result and a further 2 for a correct score) and I can sense better times ahead.

Last week, Lawro’s 9 points just shaded it over Rich’s 8 while Geoff picked up a plucky 5 points in third place.

	Rich	Geoff	Lawro
Total after 8 weeks	67	49	58
Score in week 9	8	5	9
Total after 9 weeks	75	54	67

Predictions – Week 10
	Rich	Geoff	Lawro
SATURDAY
Sunderland v Arsenal	0-3	1-3	1-2
Man.Utd. v Burnley	3-0	3-1	2-0
Middlesbrough v Bournemouth	1-1	1-2	1-0
Tottenham v Leicester	2-0	2-0	2-1
Watford v Hull	2-0	3-0	2-0
West Brom v Man.City	0-2	0-2	0-2
Crystal Palace v Liverpool	1-2	1-1	0-2
SUNDAY
Everton v West Ham	1-1	1-2	1-1
Southampton v Chelsea	2-1	1-1	0-2
MONDAY
Stoke v Swansea	2-1	2-1	2-0

The Lawro Challenge Week 3

We continue to do battle with the thatch headed one.

Lawro Crystal Ball Lawro may be “steamrollering” his invited guests, band members, comedians etc. (none of whom seem to be particularly skilled in the art of predicting football matches) in the first two weeks of the season but he’s not having his own way against us. This week on the BBC website he faces Laura Trott, the well-known football tipster.

Early days of course, but last week’s scores were Rich 8, Lawro 8, and Geoff 5.

This makes the cumulative totals after two weeks, Rich 17, Lawro 14, Geoff 13.

This week’s Lawro:-

SATURDAY	Rich	Lawro	Geoff
Tottenham v Liverpool	2-1	1-1	2-1
Chelsea v Burnley	3-0	2-0	3-1
Crystal Palace v Bournemouth	1-0	2-1	2-2
Everton v Stoke	2-1	2-0	2-0
Leicester v Swansea	2-1	2-0	2-0
Southampton v Sunderland	2-0	1-1	1-0
Watford v Arsenal	1-2	0-2	0-3
Hull v Man Utd	1-3	0-2	0-2
SUNDAY
West Brom v Middlesbrough	1-1	2-0	2-1
Man City v West Ham	4-1	2-0	3-1

The Lawro Challenge Update 1

The first update to the season long challenge sees Lawro bring up the rear.

Lawro Crystal Ball It is just possible that maybe this predictions malarkey is not as easy as it might at first seem if the first week’s attempt is anything to go by. Naturally, we both did better than the luckless Lawro but that really isn’t such a proud boast is it? We have to believe that our indifferent performance was a down to an interrupted pre-season causing a lack of match fitness and that we will be far sharper in the coming weeks.

Below is the current state of play based on our own scoring system of 1 point for the correct result plus 2 bonus points for the correct score. As you can see we all got at least half the games completely wrong although Rich has managed to sneak into an early one point lead

	Lawro	Geoff	Rich	Actual	Lawro	Geoff	Rich
Hull v Leicester	0-2	1-2	1-2	2-1	0	0	0
Burnley v Swansea	1-1	2-1	1-1	0-1	0	0	0
Crystal Palace v West Brom	2-1	3-1	2-1	0-1	0	0	0
Everton v Tottenham	1-1	0-2	1-1	1-1	3	0	3
Middlesbrough v Stoke	1-0	1-1	0-0	1-1	0	3	1
Southampton v Watford	2-1	1-0	2-0	1-1	0	0	0
Man City v Sunderland	2-0	4-0	3-0	2-1	1	1	1
Bournemouth v Man Utd	0-2	1-3	0-2	1-3	1	3	1
Arsenal v Liverpool	1-1	2-2	1-1	3-4	0	0	0
Chelsea v West Ham	2-0	2-0	2-1	2-1	1	1	3
					6	8	9

New TV scheduling means that the weekend starts here on a Friday evening this week with the Zlatan circus at Old Trafford and ends on Sunday with the Hammers hoping to find 11 fit players to put out against Eddie Howe’s Bournemouth. Worryingly, all three of us are forecasting a home win to christen the league debut at the Olympic/ Tesco/ London stadium.

		Lawro	Rich	Geoff
Friday 19th August	Man Utd V Southampton	2-0	2-1	2-1

Saturday 20th August	Stoke V Man City	1-2	0-1	0-2
	Burnley V Liverpool	0-2	1-3	1-1
	Swansea V Hull	2-1	2-0	0-0
	Tottenham V Crystal Palace	2-0	2-0	3-0
	Watford V Chelsea	0-2	1-2	1-1
	West Brom V Everton	1-1	1-1	0-1
	Leicester V Arsenal	1-1	2-2	1-3

Sunday 21st August	Sunderland V Middlesbrough	1-1	1-1	1-0
	West Ham V Bournemouth	2-1	3-1	3-1

Our Challenge Lawro-athon

Our own season long Lawro challenge. Who will win?

We all know that Lawro is a thatch headed, know nothing West Ham hating Muppet who couldn’t predict the sequence at a set of traffic lights, right? After all based on his predicted results last season we would have finished in 17th place having avoided relegation by just a single point.

Well time for us to put our money where our mouths are as we kick-off our season long Lawro challenge. Every week we will go head-to-head with the much maligned pundit in the field of guesswork to see if we know better than him. Our own scoring system will be one point for getting the correct result and three points for getting the correct score and result.

Predictions for the opening weekend are below and there is in not much optimism as far as the Hammers are concerned with none of us expecting Stamford Bridge to fall down on Monday night. Personally, I would be more than happy to be wrong here but in such situations my “hope for the best, prepare for the worst” philosophy tends to take precedence.

	Lawro	Geoff	Rich
Hull v Leicester	0-2	1-2	1-2
Burnley v Swansea	1-1	2-1	1-1
Crystal Palace v West Brom	2-1	3-1	2-1
Everton v Tottenham	1-1	0-2	1-1
Middlesbrough v Stoke	1-0	1-1	0-0
Southampton v Watford	2-1	1-0	2-0
Man City v Sunderland	2-0	4-0	3-0
Bournemouth v Man Utd	0-2	1-3	0-2
Arsenal v Liverpool	1-1	2-2	1-1
Chelsea v West Ham	2-0	2-0	2-1