Super6 Week 24 Predictions and post-cut round-up Abu Dhabi

Oh, the best laid plans of mice and men.  In good faith I promised the rest of our Super 6 predictions in the middle of the week.

With snow, scaffold, workmen and disruption we were no sooner getting the rest of the predictions on for Week 24 than any other week.

At least the delay has presented the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone: the rest of the Super 6 predictions and a round up of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship after Round 3.

Let’s start with the predictions of the rest of my Motley Crew (you can find my week 24 predictions, here). Herewith:

Ken’s @soccersatsuper6: LIV 2-2 NOR, MNC 3-1 FUL, NEW 1-1 REA, SWA 2-1 STO, WHA 1-1 QPR, WGN 2-1 SUN sky.me/Super6 #Super6 GG=9 383/1

— Jason Darrell (@JasonDFeckTVcom) January 19, 2013

Pat’s @soccersatsuper6: LIV 1-2 NOR, MNC 3-1 FUL, NEW 1-1 REA, SWA 2-1 STO, WHA 1-0 QPR, WGN 1-1 SUN sky.me/Super6 #Super6 GG=7 630/1

— Jason Darrell (@JasonDFeckTVcom) January 19, 2013

Mick’s @soccersatsuper6: LIV 2-1 NOR, MNC 3-1 FUL, NEW 1-1 REA, SWA 2-1 STO, WHA 1-1 QPR, WGN 2-1 SUN sky.me/Super6 #Super6 GG=4 87/1

— Jason Darrell (@JasonDFeckTVcom) January 18, 2013

Les’s @soccersatsuper6: LIV 3-1 NOR, MNC 2-0 FUL, NEW 1-2 REA, SWA 2-3 STO, WHA 2-1 QPR, WGN 1-0 SUN sky.me/Super6 #Super6 GG=12 104/1

— Jason Darrell (@JasonDFeckTVcom) January 18, 2013

Jord’s @soccersatsuper6 LIV 2-0 NOR, MNC 3-1 FUL, NEW 0-1 REA, SWA 2-1 STO, WHA 0-1 QPR, WGN 0-2 SUN sky.me/Super6 #Super6 GG=7 201/1

— Jason Darrell (@JasonDFeckTVcom) January 19, 2013

How unreal is this? Micky D and Ken remarkably predicted 5 of the six same scores. The only difference was the Liverpool v Norwich game.

Ken predicted 2 – 2, Micky D predicted 2 -1. The shock was not in the fact that Micky D predicted Liverpool to win a game, but the difference in the accumulator odds purely down to that one differing prediction.

Ken’s odds with SKY Bet returned at 383/1 for all six results; Micky D’s was just 87/1. I was amazed. No wonder the missus only gives me 50p e/w to bet at a time.

So there’s our predictions for Week 24 on the Super 6; now, how is Team Ten Tee 20 Vision faring at the National Golf Course in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship?

Rory & Tiger fail to make the cut in Abu Dhabi

I’m guessing there were plenty following the Woods/McIlroy/Kaymer pairing over the first two days. Of the three, only the 3-time winner of this event, Martin Kaymer, progressed.

Surprised? I’m not.

Of the ten golfers who make up the first Ten Tee 20 Vision Fantasy Race to Dubai team of the 2013 European Tour season, only two have failed to make the cut.  And they’re not Rory McIlroy or Tiger Woods.

¿Que, Señor? I dain’t pick ’em for my team, amigo.

One word – pressure.  McIlroy’s under £80M pounds worth to prove to Nike he’s worth the investment.  Tiger Woods wants desperately to be Official Golf World Ranking’s top dog, again.  Both blew it.  Tiger missing the cut by 3 shots, McIlroy by 6.

Factor in that Rory’s got to get used to his new Nike golf clubs and that he and Tiger were head-to-head in every tee box, you didn’t have to be Nostradamus to foresee their failure.

Martin Kaymer progressing to the weekend golf action, however, was a banker.  Confident, on a roll, thrice winner at the National Course in Abu Dhabi – the German making the cut was a dead cert.

The two golfers who’ve let our side down the first week of the Fantasy Race to Dubai are Ireland’s Paul McGinley and Italy’s Franceso Molinari.  Both missed the weekend action by carding rounds of 149 after the first two rounds, the cut being 144.

Our team’s best chance of glory going into the fourth and final day in Abu Dhabi is, of course, Justin Rose.  Doesn’t he always get off to a blinder?  He sits two shots clear at the top of the Leaderboard on -12 for the first three days, brandishing the UK Golf flag, heralding the 2013 challenge.

The Leaderboard with the all remaining eight golfers from the Ten Tee 20 Vision team is as follows:

Race To Dubai – Week 1 R3 – Ten Tee 20 Vision

The fourth and final round kicks of at 3:29 am Sunday morning (GMT) with coverage on SKY beginning at 8:00 am.  Justin Rose tees off alongside Danish golfer Thorbjørn Olesen at 8:50 to hopefully bring back the bacon for England, UK Golf and our Fantasy Race to Dubai team.

Results for the Super 6 will be in the comments, later after 5pm today.  See you on Tuesday next week for a preview of the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters, which starts on Wednesday 23rd.  Fantasy Teams will have to be in by Tuesday 22nd midnight, latest.  Best of British, in both

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Super 6 predictions, Week 24 – Darrell Super 6

A very good arfternoon, tee-totallers.

With Micky D recovering in hospital following by-pass surgery and my good lady wife booking tomorrow off to thwart the forecast blizzards, we may get the old Super 6 predictions on a little earlier this week.

Jay’s @soccersatsuper6: LIV 2-0 NOR, MNC 4-0 FUL, NEW 1-2 REA, SWA 2-2 STO, WHA 1-0 QPR, WGN 1-1 SUN sky.me/Super6 #Super6 GG=6 172/1

— Jason Darrell (@JasonDFeckTVcom) January 17, 2013

I’ve already tweeted mine (left) and once Micky D has been ‘drained’ [?], his will follow shortly.

The League looks a bit like this, at the minute. Bear in mind our points system differs slightly, but the nett effect is pretty similar:

Darrell Super6 League, end Week 23

Super 6 Jackpot Doubled, Week 24

The jackpot(s) for this week’s Gillette Soccer Saturday Super 6 have been doubled as a one-off special.

Instead of the usual £100k if someone predicts all 6 correct results or £5k for the closest should no one produce a Mystic Meg moment, the prizes are £200k and £10k respectively.  Better than a kick in the ‘nads.

As and when the folks in our Darrell Super 6 league get back with their predictions, they’ll be tagged on to the bottom of the post.

Week 24 Super 6 games

The featured Barclays Premier League games this week are as follows:

1. Liverpool v Norwich
2. Man City v Fulham
3. Newcastle v Reading
4. Swansea v Stoke
5. West Ham v QPR
6. Wigan v Sunderland
   • Golden Goal

Are there any bankers in that lot?  City should do a job on Fulham and Liverpool are favourites at home to Norwich, certainly as far as the bookies are concerned.

But I’ve got to admit, the only stonewall certainty there (if there is such a thing in the Prem) is the game at The Etihad.

Are there any stand-out games for you?  Dead certs or potential banana-skins?  Drop your comments or predictions in the comments below and we’ll all have a laugh appraise them accordingly.

‘Til next time, keep in touch with yourself. x

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UK National Media Manager for FeckTV.com

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Fantasy Race to Dubai tees off in Abu Dhabi tomorrow

Tell you what, I nearly said ‘kicks off’, then.  Hang on.  Switch modes…zure-wep……golf-mode assimilation complete.

Good evening my little tee-totallers!  It is the eve of the first golf tournament in the 2013 Race to Dubai.  That’s right, luv-a-ducks, tomorrow we’re off to sunnier climes to follow the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship.

Continuing where we left off last season, I’ll be posting my weekly team.  Change of name, this year.  Out goes Zebedeerox Teetotallers (because I think that describe you, dear readership, way better).  Instead, we have Ten Tee 20 Vision.

Ten Tee 20 Vision – Week 1

Nike investment repayment begins in Abu Dhabi

No doubt Rory McIlroy will want to start paying Nike back some of that £80M sponsorship deal signed earlier this week.  Can you believe that?  He truly is among sport’s elite, now.  And at 23.  Wow!

What better way has Rory of proving his worth than in the pairing he’s been drawn with for the first two days in the U.A.E. – you couldn’t make it up.

Joining McIlroy on the first tee of what promises to be a spectacular golf season are none other than Tiger Woods and Martin Kaymer.  And, yes, you’d be forgiven for thinking Woods is the main challenger to the OWGR number one.  Think on.

Martin Kaymer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Martin Kaymer, Rory’s Ryder Cup fellow team member (and indeed the golfer who sank the winning putt and the Yanks in one fell swoop on an amazing last day in Medinah last autumn) has won the Abu Dhabi Championship no less than thrice already.

The last time was in 2011, when he pipped a then 21-year old McIlroy to the title.  Rory finished runner-up again last year, behind Robert Rock, and is hoping his new Nike golf clubs will take him one step further this year.

Rory McIlroy looking to “go one better” in U.A.E.

In an interview with the European Tour earlier this week, Rory underlines exactly why Martin Kaymer may well be the main threat again, this year:

It’s a place I have done well. I think one problem for me the last few years has been Martin Kaymer.
He’s played really well around here and won it a couple of times – three times I think – and I always came up second best.
It would be nice to go one better this week and obviously that’s what I’m aiming for.”

And he’s in the best company in the world to do just that.  Last year, he partnered Tiger Woods not just for the first two, but first three rounds here at the National Golf Course in Abu Dhabi.

All that nonsense towards the end of last season about rivalry between the two was all in the minds of the media.  Although, I can see a lot closer battle between Woods and McIlroy this season.

The winners are, of course, the golf fans.  With Westwood, Rose, Poulter and Donald waiting in the wings with the English challenge the Race to Dubai, if not the OWGR, is going to be closer than ever.

You’d be silly not to put money on either Woods or McIlroy finishing on top of the pile, though.  The Northern Irishman is way out in front points-wise; Tiger clawed a huge number back towards the latter half of 2012 to leapfrog Westwood then Donald to finish in number 2 spot in the official world golf rankings.

Woods & McIlroy Nike Golf Advert reflects mutual respect

And I know they didn’t film the new Nike Advert together, but you don’t need Rory to emphasise the respect he and Woods have for each other.  If you’ve not seen the McIlroy/Woods/Nike Golf advert yet, here it is:

Coverage of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship begins in the wee hours of Thursday morning on SKY Sports 1/HD at 3:30am (GMT).  Woods, McIlroy and Kaymer tee off at 7:40am (GMT).

Friday, we hop over to SKY Sports 2/HD and begin at 6:00am.  Saturday and Sunday we’re on SKY Sports 3/HD, coverage starting at 9:00am and 8:00am respectively.

Over to you:

• Can Martin Kaymer win this event an astounding fourth time, or will one of his paired duo stop him?
• Who’s your tip for the Race to Dubai and/or OWGR top spot for 2013?
• And, £80M – is anyone worth that much in investment for their endorsement, really?

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Week 23 – Darrell Super 6 Predictions

Well, a very grand afternoon t’y’all. All reacclimatised after the shock of getting back to work? Bully for you.

Fantasy Race to Dubai preview (credit: European Tour)

The first tell-tale signs of winter floated down from the skies over the Black Country this morning at around 9am. That’s all the more reason to stay here, with Thet Watson, and let me entertain you over the next couple of parky months, here in the UK.

Obviously, you can follow our Super 6 league, but first off this week, The European Tour is back! That’s right, all you golf fanatics. Not only will we be pitching our wits against Gillette Soccer Saturday’s team of experts, but also going up against the whole of Europe in The Fantasy Race to Dubai.

It’s been a while since we posted anything golf, here from Darrelldoo Towers. But with the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship marking the start of the European Tour’s Race to Dubai, we’ll write that wrong with a summary of who’s going to do what both on the PGA and European Tours.

But back to today and the six predictions that make up our Darrell Super 6 league. Remember, we only give 3 points for a correct score and 1 for a correct result. The SKY team give 5 and 2 respectively – I still maintain they nicked the idea from us, last season.

Anyhoo, direct from Twitter, here are Jord’s, Les’s, Micky D’s, Ken’s, Pat’s and my own forecasts for this week’s six chosen games. All from the Premier League and, I must say, none of them are what you’d call bankers.

So, without further a Darrelldoo, herewith this week’s predictions, in no particular order…

Jay’s @soccersatsuper6: AST 3-2 SOU, EVT 1-0 SWA, FUL 2-2 WGN, NOR 1-1 NEW, REA 1-2 WBA, STO 3-1 CHE sky.me/Super6 #Super6 GG=2 408/1

— Jason Darrell (@JasonDFeckTVcom) January 12, 2013

Les’s @soccersatsuper6: AST 2-1 SOU, EVT 2-1 SWA, FUL 0-1 WGN, NOR 0-2 NEW, REA 1-3 WBA, STO 2-4 CHE sky.me/Super6 #Super6 GG=11 205/1

— Jason Darrell (@JasonDFeckTVcom) January 12, 2013

Jord’s @soccersatsuper6: AST 2-0 SOU, EVT 1-2 SWA, FUL 1-0 WGN, NOR 1-1 NEW, REA 2-0 WBA, STO 0-2 CHE sky.me/Super6 #Super6 GG=11 522/1

— Jason Darrell (@JasonDFeckTVcom) January 12, 2013

Ken’s @soccersatsuper6: AST 2-1 SOU, EVT 2-1 SWA, FUL 1-1 WGN, NOR 3-1 NEW, REA 1-1 WBA, STO 1-1 CHE sky.me/Super6 #Super6 GG=9 320/1

— Jason Darrell (@JasonDFeckTVcom) January 12, 2013

Pat’s @soccersatsuper6: AST 1-0 SOU, EVT 2-1 SWA, FUL 1-1 WGN, NOR 2-1 NEW, REA 0-1 WBA, STO 1-1 CHE sky.me/Super6 #Super6 GG=7 226/1

— Jason Darrell (@JasonDFeckTVcom) January 12, 2013

Micky D’s @soccersatsuper6: AST 1-1 SOU, EVT 2-1 SWA, FUL 0-1 WGN, NOR 2-1 NEW, REA 1-2 WBA, STO 1-2 CHE sky.me/Super6 #Super6 GG=4, 179/1

— Jason Darrell (@JasonDFeckTVcom) January 12, 2013

And that brings you bang up to date with all of our predictions. Check back here at around 5:30pm today where the results will appear, as if by magic, in the comments box, below. Over the course of the week, I’ll endeavour to bring the league and cup up to speed, too.

I’ll also unveil my first Fantasy Race to Dubai team.  Anyone fancy going head-to-head, you can create a mini-league on the European Tour site itself.  It would add a bit of spice. I mean, Laura Kennedy won it last year – can’t let a girlie girl win again, can we?  C’mon, fellas – let’s have a craic!

Have you had a go on this week’s Soccer Saturday Super 6? Why not let us know who you’ve plumped for, who you support, where you’re from? A bit of banter on match day is always welcome. I’ll even give your predictions a tweet to all of our FeckTV followers – you can’t say fairer than that, can you?

Keep in touch with yourself,
Thet Watson.

Week 22 Darrellsuper6 predictions

Left it a bit late this week – didnae get the chance to tweet the predictions as normal.

Therefore, it’s back to the old-fashioned way we used to do it on the old Google site – uploading a screen-shot from excel.

Without delay, here is this week’s set of predictions from the DarrellSuper6 League:

week 22 darrellsuper6 predictions

 

As you’ll see, the golden goal has already been banged in on 12 minutes – no takers from our League, but Les was closest with a-lemon. Let’s hope we get the final scores a bit closer, eh?