So, the ‘Boys in Green’ will say goodbye to Euro 2012 after Monday night’s game against Italy in Poznan. However, it’s far from the end of our Prediction Competition and things are starting to spice up nicely as we enter the final stages of the Group games.
The big news of the last few days hasn’t been that Ireland are on their way home, or that the Dutch might be on there way home too – it’s the fact that Alan Reid has managed to predict his first correct result of the tournament. With no points to show from the opening twelve games, Alan finally picked up his first points at the 13th time of asking by correctly predicating that Italy and Croatia would draw their game yesterday. And not only that, he also correctly guessed that it would be a 1-1 draw. 61 other players also predicated the correct scoreline and receive 8 points, while a further 14 pick up 3 points by opting for the draw on differing scorelines.
The fact that Ireland lost to Spain last night was no real surprise, as 159 of our players had predicated the same in advance of the game. However, no one opted for a 4-0 scoreline and it’s only the second game of the tournament where none of our 201 players managed to pick up the maximum 8 points on offer in a game. Three points though for the 159 aforementioned.
The result also meant that Ireland were the first team that are guaranteed to be going home after the Group stage ends at the start of the week. Seven more will be following them over the coming four days. 105 players had Ireland to progress to the quarter-finals, 49 to the semi-finals, 6 to the final and 5 to actually win the tournament – that’s a lot of points that will be lost as our competition progresses over the next fortnight. A lot more had Holland (who look a good bet to be going home on Sunday) to progress onto being winners, so all is not lost for those who had put their faith in Trap’s Men.
And now, onto this evening’s games. It took a while for the Ukraine / France game to get going, with thunderstorms delaying the game for almost an hour. However, when things dried up a bit the French ran out comfortable 2-0 winners, meaning eight points for 34 players, and three points for a further 115 of you.
England and Sweden brought the curtain down on the second series of games in Kiev – a game which finished in a thrilling 3-2 win to England. It was a great day for Leona Curran, Margaret Gordon and Eamonn Brown who not only were they the only three who correctly predicated the 3-2 victory for England, but also the 2-0 victory for France earlier in the day – meaning a nice 16 points from today’s two games. 109 other players get three points, thanks to the English victory. The result also means that Sweden have only pride to play for against France on Tuesday as they, like Ireland, are on their way home.
So, what has that done to the table. Manus Dunnion remains at the top of the pile and has opened a seven point gap to Colman Byrne who remains second. Colman is joined there by Patsy Lafferty, who moves up twenty-five places for a share of second. Leona Curran, thank to her 16 points today, is the biggest mover and moves from 71st to 24th.
Going in the other direction is Paul McLaughlin and Gerard Gallagher who were sitting joint 1st in our first update last Saturday and now sit 71st and 78th respectively. At the foot of the table, Alan Reid has moved off bottom spot and is replaced there by Trevor Lynch and Noel Crossan who, with just nine points each, find themselves a massive 48 points behind the leader.
Full league table is listed below.
Our next update will come on Sunday evening when some serious points will be dished out for the first time. Not only will the points be awarded for the last round of fixtures in Groups A and B, but we will also be able to allocate 10 points to everyone who correctly predicts who finishes 1st and 2nd in each of the groups (so 40 points on offer there). In addition to that, the first four quarter-finalists will also be confirmed, so there is an additional 15 points per team (another 60 points) for every correct team you forecast to reach the quarter-finals. So, if you have correctly predicated 1st and 2nd in Groups A and B, that’s 100 points you will be allocated on Sunday night.
Position Player Points
1 Manus Dunnion 57
2 Colman Byrne 50
2 Patsy Lafferty 50
4 Paul Kelly (Netherlands) 49
4 Kathleen McGrory 49
4 Paddy Mc Laughlin 49
7 Kenneth Fahy 48
8 Rodney Dullaghan 47
8 Mark Neeson 47
8 Alun McNulty 47
8 Charles McFadden 47
12 Harry Gleeson Jnr 46
13 Damian McDermott 45
14 Shane Sandilands 44
15 Shaun Kelly 43
16 Danny galactico Gallagher 42
16 Paul Kelly (DCC) 42
16 Keith Roulston 42
16 Brendan Walsh 42
16 Neil Campbell 42
16 Eimear McClafferty 42
16 PAUL HUESTON 42
16 FIONA FAHY 42
24 Leona Curran 41
25 Charlie Ferry 40
26 Colin McCann 39
26 Harry Gleeson Snr 39
26 Jack McGarvey 39
26 Derek Stewart 39
26 Donal Murphy 39
26 Sam Hegarty 39
26 GERARD MC HUGH 39
26 Conor Carlin 39
26 Seamus Gallagher 39
26 Dorothy Moore 39
36 Sean Ryan 37
36 Anthony McGrenra 37
36 Michael McElwaine 37
36 Kevin Lake 37
36 Adam Hutton 37
36 Sean Canning 37
36 Seamus O'Leary 37
36 Anne Cannon 37
36 Sean Reid 37
45 Joey O'Leary 36
45 Cam Kavanagh 36
45 Michael Brennan 36
45 Jennifer Mulcahy 36
45 Neil Billingham 36
45 Natasha Fitzmaurice 36
45 David McIlwaine 36
45 Dan Martin 36
45 Mervyn White 36
54 Shane Elliott 35
55 Bridie Campbell 34
55 Damian Patton 34
55 Aidan Smith 34
55 RUAIRI LAFFERTY 34
55 michael lavin 34
55 Michael McDermott 34
55 Thomas Lewis 34
55 Adrian Rooney 34
55 Aidan Campbell 34
55 Aidan McNelis 34
55 Kenny Duncan 34
55 John Mc Carron 34
55 Mark McNulty 34
55 DESPERATE DAN 34
55 Aidan Mc Grenra 34
55 Tim Treacy 34
71 Tony Brogan 33
71 DREW DUNCAN 33
71 Paul McLaughlin 33
71 ADAM CURRAN 33
71 Margaret Gordon 33
71 Eamonn Brown 33
77 David Moen 32
78 DAVID ROBB 31
78 Chuck Bernster 31
78 Sean McKibben 31
78 Darren Foy 31
78 Seamus Campbell 31
78 Gerard Gallagher 31
78 Aisling Campbell 31
78 Monica Henry 31
78 Stephen Fealy 31
78 Patrick Martin 31
78 Allison Feeley 31
78 JAMES KELLY 31
78 Karen O' Loughlin 31
78 Teresa Ruddy 31
78 Joe Doherty 31
78 Johnny Rowley 31
78 MARIAN HENNIGAN 31
78 Dessie Gibson 31
78 John Paul Gaughan 31
78 Stephen Cannon 31
78 Trevor Gordon 31
78 Mary Gordon 31
78 Sarah McGlynn 31
78 Maria Dullaghan 31
78 charlie cannon 31
78 Kevin Foley (Traps mate) 31
78 Shauna Kelly 31
105 WILL DOWNING 29
105 Bartley Ramsay 29
105 CHRISTOPHER DULLAGHAN 29
105 Chris Dunnion 29
105 Senan Campbell 29
105 Daniel Chambers 29
105 Alan Treacy 29
105 Paddy Hannigan 29
113 Bartley McGlynn 28
113 Jacqueline Friel 28
113 Aaron Shongo 28
113 Tommy Patton 28
113 Joe Martin 28
113 Anne McDaid 28
113 Anthony McDaid 28
113 Anita McLaughlin 28
113 Nuala McGlynn 28
113 Justin Thomas 28
113 Richard Gibson 28
113 Emmet Mc Gee 28
125 Fergus O'Donnell 27
126 Dominic Devine 26
126 john sweeney 26
126 AIDAN DOWNING 26
126 Shaun Paul Murphy 26
126 Eunan O Donnell 26
126 Trevor McGrenra 26
126 Paul Lyons 26
126 Sean MacIntyre 26
126 KEVIN MC HUGH 26
126 Conor McKeon 26
126 Mark McLaughlin 26
126 Conor Walsh 26
138 Norman Shongo 25
138 Naoise Farrell 25
138 John Dunnion 25
138 peter hutton 25
138 Kieran aka Fisty O'Leary 25
143 Alan Foley 24
143 Terry McGrenra 24
145 Aidan McNelis (2) 23
145 Alvin Doherty 23
145 Gary Barbour 23
145 Gerard Boyle 23
145 Mark Doherty 23
145 Jamie Gallagher 23
145 Martin Gordon 23
145 Mark Cannon 23
145 Trevor Graham 23
145 Daniel Morrissey 23
145 Shane Lavery 23
145 Martin Harley 23
145 Brian Burke 23
145 Fergus Mc Hale 23
159 Michael Devine 22
160 Karl Doherty 22
161 Bari Duncan 21
161 Stephen Clarke 21
161 Oisin, Darragh & Cian Doherty 21
161 Alfie Bradley 21
161 Frank McGlynn 21
161 Mark Daly 21
167 Jude Conway 20
167 George Clinton 20
167 Paul Lynch 20
167 Paul Mc Crudden 20
167 Glenn Hamilton 20
167 CLARE NEELY 20
167 Ian Lewis 20
167 Michael McGarvey 20
167 Paddy Doherty 20
167 Darragh Cox 20
167 Dan Wilkins 20
167 CAHIR ODONNELL 20
167 Michael Scully 20
167 Andy McGlynn 20
181 Dara Coyne 18
181 Garrett Doherty 18
181 Danny McDermott 18
184 Sadhbh Dunnion 17
184 stephen mc crory 17
184 Darren McElwaine 17
184 Odhran McGowan 17
188 Edel Quinn 15
188 Dieter Garbrecht 15
188 Martin Friel 15
188 Kristian Hutton 15
188 Chris McNulty 15
188 Adrian Ferry 15
188 Naoise O'Fearghail 15
188 Fergus Towey 15
196 Sheila Breen 14
196 Alan Reid 14
198 Aidan Fitzmaurice 12
198 Eoin McAuley 12
200 Trevor Lynch 9
200 Noel Crossan 9
