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.. a fantastic late run from Mark Embury and Andy Mein's 'Tom Marshall Fan Club' was not quite good enough to pinch top spot in the final round of the TASC Champions League Prediction Competition.

They picked up a magnificent 19 points in the final round of matches courtesy of 4 all correct score predictions, but it wasn't quite enough to dislodge James Hill's 'Rainmans Mugging Devils' who hung on to win by 2 points.

Not only does James win the cash for first place but more importantly gains valuable bragging rights over his father, Mike, whose team 'Rainman's Mugging Foxes' finished well down the batting order in 16th place.

Colin Mitchell's 'Team PSG Womble' slipped from 2nd to 3rd in the final week to finish one point behind the Tom Marshall Fan Club.

Congratulations to all three teams who pick up the prize money and a big thank you to all who took part.

Hopefully we will be able to run another prediction competition in the not to distant future.

The final table looks like this

1   Rainman's Mugging Devils   68
2   Tom Marshall Fan Club   66
3   Team PSG Womble      65
4   Hardly Athletic              63
T5   Parkhill Rangers              62
T5   The Mighty Robins      62
7   United On The Up      61
8   West Vale Wanderers      60
T9   Malchester United      56
T9   Where's Man U              56
T9   Peter Foster              56
T9   No Hopers                      56
12   Shortdean United      55
T13   Female Flagger              52
T13   Snowballers Albion      52
16   Rainman's Mugging Foxes   49
17   George's Megamen      45
18   Martha's Minnions      33


If any of the winners are intending to visit the Community Sports Hall Open Day on Sunday they can claim their winnings from the TASC table. If not we will arrange for your winnings to be forwarded to you.

The first two draws in the this season's TASC Goal Rush scheme will take place live on Radio Robins at halftime of this Saturday's match against Kidderminster Harriers.
 
Both lucky prize winners get the choice of one of three prizes namely
 
1.  Two tickets to a home Vanarama League match of their choice.
 
2.  Free coach travel to an away game for one person on a TASC organised coach trip or
 
3. A signed photograph take with your favourite Altrincham player.
 
If you would like to take part and sponsor the team for any denomination of 25p for each goal scored throughout the season you will still be eligible to take place in Saturday's draws. Each 25p pledged gets you one entry in each draw.
 
If you haven't already entered and would like to help the club please contact myself at paulpsalt@hotmail.co.uk before Saturday's match.
 
For those unable to tune in to Radio Robins, the winners will be announced via the website and here on the fans forum early next week.

.. In The TASC Champions League Prediction Competition.

It's make or break time for Manchester City as they take on defending Champions Bayern Munich at the Etihad stadium on Tuesday evening.

11 out of our 18 entrants reckon on a draw, with 6 plumping for a 2-2 score line which will not be enough for City to progress to the knockout stages. Only two of you reckon City will win.

Not surprisingly 18 out of 18 are predicting Barcelona to beat Apoel away in Group F with only two predicting that the home team will score.

In the same group PSG take on Ajax in Paris with 6 predicting a 2-1 win for the home team, whilst 2 each of you go for a draw and an away win .

Premier League leaders Chelsea travel to Germany to take on Schalke, with a 1-1 draw being the most popular score forecast with 8, closely followed by 6 people predicting a 2-1 win for Chelsea.

The following evening sees the struggling scousers travel to PFC Ludogrets. With all the predictions being made before the first ball was kicked, 15 of our entrants went for a Liverpool away win. a 2-1 win being the most favoured outcome with 7 and a further 5 predicting a 2-0 win. 

In the same group as Liverpool, Real Madrid visit Switzerland to take on FC Basel as clear favourites with only one person predicting a home win and two a draw.

Arsenal will be looking to bounce back from Saturday's disappointing home defeat to Manchester United when they take on Borussia Dortmund at the Emirates Stadium. 8 people have gone for a draw, 1 for an away win, with a 2-1 home win the most popular prediction with 6.

Finally also in Arsenal's group, RSC Anderlecht entertain Galatasary with 12 people going for a draw, and 3 each for a home and away win.

It's all getting close at the top of our leader board, let the battle continue on Tuesday evening.

A full update will follow after Wednesday's results.

     

Matchday 4 in the TASC Champion's League last week saw just one person picking up a solitary point from the Manchester City v CSKA Moscow fixture.

Moscow's surprise at the Etihad victory flummoxed all our entrants with just our youngest entrant, George's Megamen picking up a point by predicting that CSKA Moscow would score twice.

In the other matches played last week, Bayern Munich's 2-0 win over Roma saw the biggest points haul with 35 points being garnered including 3 correct score predictions.

Barcelona's 2-0 win in Amsterdam was also correctly predicted by three entrants.

In total there were only 7 all correct score predictions the other correct prediction being Bayer Leverkusen's 2-1 win away to Zenit St Petersburg.

Biggest movers are Colin Mitchell's, Team PSG Womble who move to the top of the table, and West Vale Wanderers who move from being tied 13th to tied 8th by collecting 11 points each.

Former leaders, Hardly Athletic drop to tied 3rd place having picked up just 6 points.

The full table is as follows

1   Team PSG Womble      45
2   Rainman's Mugging Devils   44
T3   Hardly Athletic              42
T3   United On The Up      42
5   Tom Marshall Fan Club   40
6   Parkhill Rangers              39
7   Malchester United      38
T8   The Mighty Robins      37
T8   West Vale Wanderers      37
10   Shortdean United      36
11   George's Megamen      35
T12   Where's Man U              34
T12   Female Flagger              34
T14   No Hopers                      32
T14   Rainman's Mugging Foxes   32
T14   Peter Foster              32
17   Snowballers Albion      27
18   Martha's Minnions      23

With yet another international break this week the next round of matches takes place 25th and 26th November.   

So with Matchday 3 of the Champions League being overshadowed by Altrincham's the FA Cup exploits it's update time following last week's matches in the TASC Champions League Prediction Competition.

Not surprisingly no one correctly predicted that Bayern Munich would put 7 past Roma in their own backyard.

Arsenal's 2-1 win away at Anderlecht was the most predicted correct result with 7 correct score predictions closely followed by Barcelona's 3-1 home win over Ajax with 5 correct score predictions.

Biggest mover was Rainman's Mugging Devils who picked up a massive 19 points helped by 3 correct score predictions to move into joint second place, just 1 point behind Hardly Athletic.

The full table is as follows

1   Hardly Athletic              36
T2   United On The Up      35
T2   Rainman's Mugging Devils   35
4   Team PSG Womble      34
5   Parkhill Rangers              32
6   Malchester United      31
7   Tom Marshall Fan Club   30
T8   George's Megamen      28
T8   Shortdean United      28
T8   Where's Man U              28
T8   The Mighty Robins      28
T11   Female Flagger              27
T11   No Hopers                      27
T13   Rainman's Mugging Foxes   26
T13   Peter Foster              26
T13   West Vale Wanderers      26
17   Martha's Minnions      21
18   Snowballers Albion      17

The next round of matches takes place next week with the reverse fixtures from Matchday 3 taking place.

Will Real Madrid outclass Liverpool at the Bernabaeu as they did at Anfield last week (without Gareth Bale)?

Can Bayern Munich improve on their 7 goals last time out at home to Roma ?

Can Manchester City keep their fading hopes of further advancement in the competition with a first win in the group stages ?

A full preview of the predictions will follow early next week ahead of the matches on the 4th & 5th of November.

So Arsenal score 4, Liverpool go down 1-0 in Basle and Real Madrid scrape it 2-1 against PFC Lodogorets.

Not surprisingly, none of our entrants correctly predicted Arsenal's demolition of Galatasary, but Zenit St Petersburg's 0-0 draw with Monaco saw four correct predictions.

Congratulations to The Tom Marshall Fan Club for being the only team correctly predicting the Basel's 1-0 win over Liverpool and Martha's Minnions who was the only team to correctly predict Real Madrid's 2-1 win in Bulgaria.

So after all the Matchday 2 results, Hardly Athletic's two correct predictions takes them to the top of the table with the leader board is now being strung out as follows.

1   Hardly Athletic              28
T2   United On The Up      24
T2   Tom Marshall Fan Club   24
4   George's Megamen      20
T5   Malchester United      19
T5   Rainman's Mugging Foxes   19
T7   Female Flagger              18
T7   Parkhill Rangers              18
T9   Shortdean United      17
T9   Where's Man U ?              17
T9   Peter Foster              17
T9   Team PSG Womble      17
T13   No Hopers                      16
T13   Rainman's Mugging Devils   16
15   The Mighty Robins      15
16   West Vale Wanderers      13
17   Snowballers Albion      12
18   Martha's Minnions      12

The next round of matches take place on 21st & 22nd October when Manchester City visit Moscow, Chelsea appear to have a relatively easy fixture at home to Maribor, Arsenal visit Anderlecht whilst Liverpool take on the might of Real Madrid at Anfield.

A preview of the next round of predictions will be published ahead of Matchday 3 in three weeks time
   
 

.. when Boateng's late goal  sunk Manchester City to save a few blushes for the 13 entrants in the TASC Champions League Prediction Competition who predicted a Bayern win.

The first round of matches in the TASC Champions League Prediction competition were completed last night (Wednesday)

After the first 4 of the 8 Matchday 1 fixtures played on the Tuesday evening only 1 person correctly predicted the 2-1 Liverpool result despite 17 out of 18 going for a Liverpool win.

No one correctly predicted Real Madrid's 5-1 demolition of Basel despite 17 out 18 going for a Real victory.

Similarly no one correctly predicted Dortmund's 2-0 win over Arsenal.

The largest number of correct predictions was the 1-1 draw between Galatasary and RSC Anderlecht with 5 people picking up a maximum 4 points.

The Tom Marshall Fan Club took an early lead with 10 points followed by Hardly Athletic on 9 points and United On The Up with 8 points.

The second night of matches saw City and Chelsea joining the action along with Barcelona.

Surprisingly not one entrant predicted an all correct score in the matches played on the Wednesday evening.

Whilst all 18 predicted a Barcelona victory over Apoel no one predicted the 1-0 score line.

Only 1 person correctly predicted Chelsea to draw at home but unfortunately they went for a 2-2 score line.

Athletico Bilbao's 0-0 draw with Shaktor Donetsk again failed to deliver a fully correct score prediction although 6 people went for a score draw.

So after the first round of matches, its the Tom Marshall Fan Club who lead the way with 14 points with three teams tied in second place with 12 points and a further four teams with 10 points each.

The second round of matches take place on 30 Sept / 1 Oct with Manchester City at home to high scoring Roma, Barcelona at PSG, Arsenal at home to Galatasary, and Chelsea and Liverpool away at Sporting Lisbon and FC Basel respectively.

The full leader board is as follows:

1   Tom Marshall Fan Club   14
T2   United On The Up      12
T2   Hardly Athletic              12
T2   Rainman's Mugging Foxes   12
T5   No Hopers                      10
T5   Female Flagger              10
T5   Shortdean United      10
T5   George's Megamen      10
T9   Malchester United      9
T9   Rainman's Mugging Devils   9
T9   The Mighty Robins      9
T9   Parkhill Rangers              9
T13   Where's Man U              8
T13   Peter Foster              8
T15   Snowballers Albion      7
T15   Team PSG Womble      7
17   West Vale Wanderers      6
18   Martha's Minnions      3
  

If you would like to take part and haven't submitted your entry form, entries will be accepted but any matches already played will be null and void.

  

.. to take part in the TASC Goal Rush Competition for the 2014/15 Season

Whilst the season has already kicked off, it is still possible to help the club by joining the scheme and being eligible for the first 10 goal benchmark draw to win one of three fantastic prizes.

The Altrincham Supporters Club (TASC) Goal Rush scheme which was introduced three seasons ago has proved to be a popular and important fund raiser for the club.

The scheme is simple, anyone can sponsor the mighty Robins any amount they wish in multiples of 25p per goal for each goal they score throughout the 2014-15 season in all competitive Conference Premier League and play off matches, FA Cup, FA Trophy and Cheshire Senior Cup matches.

For example – If Altrincham score a total of 75 goals in the 2014/15 season for each 25p sponsored goal you would be paying £18.75 for the whole season.

For every 10th goal scored, each sponsor will be entered into a free draw based on one entry for each 25p sponsored, i.e. If you agree to donate 50p per goal, you receive 2 entries, £2.00 per goal receives 8 entries etc.   

The lucky winner of each draw for every 10th goal will have the choice of one of three prizes. These are (1) TWO FREE TICKETS for a forthcoming home league game, (2) FREE AWAY TRAVEL for one person to any away game on the TASC organised coach or (3) A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH of the winner with their favourite Altrincham player
 
In addition there will be still be the end of the season draw for TWO PRIZES of a signed shirt and matchball.

Should the total amounts pledged exceed £30.00 and Altrincham score 100 goals in the 2014-15 season then the Chairman has again agreed to provide a free season ticket for the 2015-16 season in addition for the end of season draw.

Forms are available from the TASC desk in the Noel White Suite on all match days.

Alternatively if you can leave me your e mail address by way of a personal message on the forum I will happily forward a form to you.