The 1 to 24 prediction competition

[Posh Harry]

I was going to back you strongly until you bought flat-track bully, Kyle Wootton, instead of a proper striker...I still might, just a bit less convinced.

Yeah, I agree. Notts fans were bigging him up big style at the start of last season reckoning he was off to the championship for a big fee but I have only ever seen him be bang average.

 

[Limerick Mariner]

Yeah, I agree. Notts fans were bigging him up big style at the start of last season reckoning he was off to the championship for a big fee but I have only ever seen him be bang average.

We had 300+ minutes of game time against Notts and he was ineffective, as I said - flat track bully - will bang them in against the likes of Dover and King Lynn...he got no change from Waterfall and Smith.

 

[chipmunx]

We had 300+ minutes of game time against Notts and he was ineffective, as I said - flat track bully - will bang them in against the likes of Dover and King Lynn...he got no change from Waterfall and Smith.

Waterfall must have improved last season = the season before he would have scored the goals for Wootton

 

[hellogregory]

I am in shock


that only one person so far is tipping Carlisle for the drop. It shows how far we’ve come.

 

[Agombar stool]

I am in shock


that only one person so far is tipping Carlisle for the drop. It shows how far we’ve come.

I haven't done mine yet. Although the way we look in our friendly with Cardiff today I might put us there instead.

 

[Son of Cod]

I was going to back you strongly until you bought flat-track bully, Kyle Wootton, instead of a proper striker...I still might, just a bit less convinced.

Prepared to give him.a chance but no he's never impressed me.

IMO a fully fit and firing Quigley is a better player than Wootton. But we'll see. It's who links up with better with Madden and our midfield more than the number of goals they'll score.

Yeah, I agree. Notts fans were bigging him up big style at the start of last season reckoning he was off to the championship for a big fee but I have only ever seen him be bang average.

We had 300+ minutes of game time against Notts and he was ineffective, as I said - flat track bully - will bang them in against the likes of Dover and King Lynn...he got no change from Waterfall and Smith.

Yeah I said the same at several points last season and the Notts fans always disagreed and said he was decent. He did get into some dangerous positions a few times against us but he missed a golden opportunity in the playoffs when they were 1-0 up I think that would have killed us off for sure.

 

[Hans Depp]

1. Mansfield Town
2. Leyton Orient
3. Sutton United
4. Stockport County
5. Bradford City
6. Salford City
7. Walsall
8. Tranmere Rovers
9. Gillingham
10. Newport County
11. Swindon Town
12. AFC Wimbledon
13. Barrow
14. Grimsby Town
15. Harrogate Town
16. Northampton Town
17. Crawley Town
18. Stevenage
19. Rochdale
20. Colchester United
21. Doncaster Rovers
22. Carlisle United
23. Crewe Alexandra
24. Hartlepool United

I'm editing this list

1. Mansfield Town
2. Leyton Orient
3. Sutton United
4. Stockport County
5. Bradford City
6. Salford City
7. Walsall
8. Tranmere Rovers
9. Gillingham
10. Newport County
11. AFC Wimbledon
12. Barrow
13. Grimsby Town
14. Harrogate Town
15. Northampton Town
16. Crawley Town
17. Stevenage
18. Rochdale
19. Colchester United
20. Doncaster Rovers
21. Swindon Town
22. Carlisle United
23. Crewe Alexandra
24. Hartlepool United

 

[Monkey Tennis]

I am in shock


that only one person so far is tipping Carlisle for the drop. It shows how far we’ve come.

But have you done your prediction yet?

 

[hellogregory]

But have you done your prediction yet?

I will be assessing that later in the week leading up to match day 1.

 

[TaylorBAFC]

Let's give this a go...

1. Mansfield Town
2. Bradford City
3. Northampton Town
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4. Stockport County
5. Leyton Orient
6. Salford City
7. Doncaster Rovers
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8. Swindon Town
9. AFC Wimbledon
10. Walsall
11. Stevenage
12. Gillingham
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13. Crawley Town
14. Crewe Alexandra
15. Newport County
16. Tranmere Rovers
17. Carlisle United
18. Barrow
19. Sutton United
20. Colchester United
21. Grimsby Town
22. Rochdale
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23. Harrogate Town
24. Hartlepool United

 

[dedwardp]

This is hard. There are some teams that have obviously recruited well that should be in the playoff/auto mix. But there's no obvious basket case weak clubs that look like they'll struggle all season. Really I think most of us are a good/bad run of form of 5/6 games from a playoff tilt or a relegation scrap.

1	Northampton Town
2	Leyton Orient
3	Bradford City
4	Mansfield Town
5	AFC Wimbledon
6	Stockport County
7	Swindon Town
8	Tranmere Rovers
9	Walsall
10	Salford City
11	Gillingham
12	Rochdale
13	Stevenage
14	Sutton United
15	Barrow
16	Newport County
17	Grimsby Town
18	Crewe Alexandra
19	Hartlepool United
20	Crawley Town
21	Doncaster Rovers
22	Carlisle United
23	Colchester United
24	Harrogate Town

Think that's a pretty fair summary to be honest. Quite surprised how many have predicted us to finish in the bottom two given our top ten form for the second half of last season under Wayne Brown but, like you say, there are no real standout sides to struggle too much.

I don't think that we'll struggle as much as the past two seasons, but it also wouldn't be a huge surprise if we went down.

 

[GFC4EVA]

1. Stockport
2. Mansfield
3. Northampton
4. Gillingham
5. Bradford
6. Stevenage
7. Leyton orient
8. Crawley
9. Salford
10. Doncaster
11. Afc Wimbledon
12. Swindon
13. Tranmere
14. Newport
15. Hartlepool
16. Grimsby
17. Walsall
18. Carlisle
19. Colchester
20. Rochdale
21. Sutton
22. Harrogate
23. Crewe
24. Barrow

 

[Bone Idle]

1 Bradford City
2 Northampton
3 AFC Wimbledon
4 Swindon Town
5 Mansfield
6 Gillingham
7 Leyton Orient
8 Tranmere
9 Newport County
10 Stockport County
11 Crewe Alexander
12 Stevenage Borough
13 Grimsby Town
14 Walsall
15 Sutton United
16 Doncaster Rovers
17 Carlisle United
18 Crawley Town
19 Rochdale
20 Hartlepool United
21 Salford City
22 Barrow
23 Harrogate Borough
24 Colchester United

 

[Indian Dan]

I never include my own team in these predictions - seems a bit naff. So . . .

Relegated Harrogate and Sutton

Champions - Bradford
Autos - Cobblers Mansfield
POs - Tranmere Orient Donny and Stockport

Dark horse to do well - Colchester

 

[Who Needs Mourinho]

Yeah I said the same at several points last season and the Notts fans always disagreed and said he was decent. He did get into some dangerous positions a few times against us but he missed a golden opportunity in the playoffs when they were 1-0 up I think that would have killed us off for sure.

My hope with Wootton is that our tactics will suit him a lot more meaning those games where he was often ineffective for Notts County, usually away from home, will be few and far between.

For Notts he was often left isolated against two defenders and a high line which didn’t really suit him.

For us he’ll have Madden as a strike partner, a plethora of midfield runners, more direct balls into him as we mix up our approach play and lots of crosses (we attempted more than any other team in the NL last season).

If he can get into double figures goals wise and lead the line really well then that’s job done.

 

[Who Needs Mourinho]

1. Northampton
2. Leyton Orient
3. Mansfield
4. Swindon
5. Stockport
6. Gillingham
7. Walsall
8. Tranmere
9. Bradford
10. Salford
11. Sutton
12. AFC Wimbledon
13. Grimsby
14. Doncaster
15. Barrow
16. Crawley
17. Colchester
18. Stevenage
19. Newport
20. Harrogate
21. Rochdale
22. Hartlepool
23. Carlisle
24. Crewe

 

[The Terminator]

For the first time in a good few seasons, I'm struggling to pinpoint clubs who will likely to go down. Southend, Oldham, Scunthorpe, Notts County, Yeovil, Chesterfield, Grimsby and ourselves all down the years recently have had ownership issues which were quite noticeable and you could see a struggle was likely.

I can't really see that at the moment, apart from maybe Crewe who have a complete novice as a new manager as well.

Hartlepool have taken a gamble down the Scottish League route which could go either way.

Crawley I have no idea what their NFT owners are going to do, an odd recruiting process - signing some big money targets, but then deploying a scatter gun approach with the rest of their signings from Non League. Everything about Crawley right now just seems really odd.

In terms of promotion, IMO again no stand out teams. But I'd expect Mansfield, Northampton, Tranmere, Bradford and Stockport are the standout teams in terms of continuity of their squads, budgets and the quality of their managers. First time as well IMO that Salford aren't favourites - they seem to have knocked big spending transfer fess on the head and signed younger players on free transfers, but probably paying them bigger wages.

We have to be aiming for top 7 - but our squad is still a bit light. Which from January onwards last year cost us a bit. Combined with Kenny Jackett losing the dressing room.

 

[GTFCfish]

Is Wootton the guy with a dead ferret on his head?

 

[hellogregory]

Later this week hellogregory predicts

 

[Son of Cod]

Is Wootton the guy with a dead ferret on his head?

No, that's Kyle Cameron.

 

[Hans Depp]

Think that's a pretty fair summary to be honest. Quite surprised how many have predicted us to finish in the bottom two given our top ten form for the second half of last season under Wayne Brown but, like you say, there are no real standout sides to struggle too much.

I don't think that we'll struggle as much as the past two seasons, but it also wouldn't be a huge surprise if we went down.

How are the finances at Colchester United looking like this season? I remember that your club had some financial issues a few years ago due to covid or something.

 

[Back in the DHSS]

1 Stockport
2 Gillingham
3 Bradford
4 Northampton
5 Swindon
6 Mansfield
7 Grimsby
8 Orient
9 Doncaster
10 Salford
11 Crawley
12 Walsall
13 Wimbledon
14 Stevenage
15 Sutton
16 Newport
17 Tranmere
18 Rochdale
19 Colchester
20 Carlisle
21 Hartlepool
22 Barrow
23 Harrogate
24 Crewe

 

[northstandexile]

1. Mansfield
2. Northampton
3. Stockport
4. Salford
5. Bradford C.
6. Walsall
7. Gillingham
8. Tranmere
9. Swindon
10. Newport
11. Grimsby
12. Sutton
13. L Orient
14. Stevenage
15. Crawley
16. Doncaster
17. Carlisle
18. AFC Wimbledon
19. Hartlepool
20. Barrow
21. Colchester
22. Rochdale
23. Harrogate
24. Crewe

 

[DearneValleyRover]

Absolutely no idea but here goes:
1. Northampton
2. Gillingham
3. Stockport
4. Wimbledon
5. Tranmere
6. Mansfield
7. Donny
8. Orient
9. Bradford
10. Grimsby
11. Sutton
12. Salford
13. Swindon
14. Newport
15. Walsall
16. Rochdale
17. Colchester
18. Crawley
19. Carlisle
20. Stevenage
21. Hartlepool
22. Barrow
23. Crewe
24. Harrogate

 

[joethegill]

1. Swindon Town
2. Bradford
3. Gillingham
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4. Tranmere
5. Doncaster
6. Mansfield
7. Northampton
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8. Salford
9. Leyton Orient
10. Stockport
11. AFC Wimbledon
12. Crawley
13. Stevenage
14. Carlisle
15. Sutton
16. Walsall
17. Crewe
18. Newport
19. Rochdale
20. Grimsby
21. Hartlepool
22. Colchester
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23. Barrow
24. Harrogate

 

[Monkey Tennis]

1. Bradford
2. Mansfield
3. Swindon
4. Northampton
5. Stockport
6. Orient
7. Walsall
8. Doncaster
9. Salford
10. Gillingham
11. Crawley
12. Tranmere
13. Newport
14. AFC Wimbledon
15. Rochdale
16. Colchester
17. Grimsby
18. Stevenage
19. Barrow
20. Carlisle
21. Harrogate
22. Sutton
23. Hartlepool
24. Crewe

 

[E10rifle]

1. Northampton Town
2. Doncaster Rovers
3. Gillingham
4. Mansfield Town
5. Leyton Orient
6. Tranmere Rovers
7. Bradford City
8. Stockport County
9. Crawley Town
10. Swindon Town
11. Newport County
12. Walsall
13. Rochdale
14. Salford City
15. Grimsby Town
16. AFC Wimbledon
17. Sutton United
18. Hartlepool United
19. Stevenage
20. Barrow
21. Crewe Alexandra
22. Carlisle United
23. Colchester United
24. Harrogate Town


Found it incredibly hard this season. Wouldn’t be overly surprised if 2nd to 17th was completely flipped.

 

[saddler78]

1.Mansfield
2.Northampton
3.Bradford
4.Stockport
5.Leyton Orient
6.Tranmere
7.Gillingham
8.Swindon
9.Doncaster
10.Salford
11.Walsall
12.AFC Wimbledon
13.Newport
14.Crawley
15.Carlisle
16.Grimsby
17.Crewe
18.Stevenage
19.Rochdale
20.Hartlepool
21.Sutton
22.Barrow
23.Colchester
24.Harrogate
Difficult and could easily change if some teams make a few more decent signings as it stands though I've gone for this.

 

[Koumas’Right-Boot]

1. Stockport
2. Bradford
3.Tranmere
4. Northampton
5. Mansfield
6. Salford
7. Leyton Orient
8. Crawley
9. Gillingham
10. Newport
11. Swindon
12. Wimbledon
13. Stevenage
14. Doncaster
15. Grimsby
16. Carlisle
17. Hartlepool
18. Barrow
19. Sutton
20. Colchester
21. Walsall
22. Crewe
23. Rochdale
24. Harrogate

Going to tweak this slightly now most teams have finalised their squads.

1. Stockport
2. Tranmere
3. Leyton Orient
4. Mansfield
5. Northampton
6. Bradford
7. Newport
8. Salford
9. Crawley
10. Swindon
11. Gillingham
12. Doncaster
13. Walsall
14. Grimsby
15. Sutton
16. Wimbledon
17. Carlisle
18. Hartlepool
19. Crewe
20. Stevenage
21. Barrow
22. Harrogate
23. Rochdale
24. Colchester

 

[Red Dragon]

1. Bradford
2. Swindon
3. Stockport
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4. Mansfield
5. Tranmere
6. Northampton
7. Wimbledon
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8. Doncaster
9. Salford
10. Newport
11. Gillingham
12. Grimsby
13. Sutton
14. Walsall
15. Crawley
16. Stevenage
17. Crewe
18. Leyton Orient
19. Carlisle
20. Barrow
21. Rochdale
22. Hartlepool
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23. Colchester
24. Harrogate