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We have a new champion. But first the virtual 'widden spin.' This year the 'honour' is disputed by Bobby S who scored only three but made only fourteen predictions (most made 24 or 25 not counting wild cards) and Bmccoll with four. Scoring five were upthewell, smokiesnwine & lbb. Just above the relegation zone were twice-winner Ramalhete with six and burnie man with seven.

Moving on to the merely mediocre, on nine we have skyline drifter, scottishfa (unlucky not to reach double figures with what seemed at the time the outlandish prediction of Falkirk to win the Scottish Cup) and yours truly.

So to the top three and this is one table where the OF had to settle for the minor placings as Gersman scored 11 and Lisbon 67 managed 12.

But the new champion and winner of the much-prized cyber pint is Alan McCabe with 13. So no need for the wild cards to enter play.

Quite a few made the wrong call in close contests, particularly SPL champions and play-offs and bottom spot in the 1st and 2nd divisions. Most spot-on predictions were - alas - those who said Motherwell and QoS would exit Europe at their respective first hurdles. Each got eight votes. Domestically, the 2nd division polled the most correct results with seven tipping Raith for the title and the same number correctly forecasting Stranraer for the drop.

OTOH not a single poster predicted Airdrie United would win the Challenge Cup.

Okay, let the excuses commence.

[Alan McCabe]

Thanks David.

What a weekend I could have had if my favourites had just managed to get the goal their undoubted superiority meritted! A last-day relegation escape, Scottish Cup & cyber pint treble is a very rare occurrence.

Incidentally, took a few of our travelling group on a wee detour prior to kick-off yesterday and visited the old Hampden, Cathkin Park. What a place and what a great lasting monument to a historic club. Worth a look for those of the ground-hopping persuasion.

On a similar note, The Shire fans in our bus (yes, us Falkirk lads are all one big happy family) were heading to the official closure of little Firs Park last night. The club have decided to vacate the crumbling ground and move to offices elsewhere. It leaves Alan Mackin with a real white elephant as the council have earmarked the site solely for recreational use. Anyone spot the similarities to something I typed earlier?

Poetic justice!

I'm working on retaining my coveted title and can confirm that the cyber pint went down well in tropical Falkirk.

[Skyline Drifter]

[ScottishFA]

[upthewell]

I switched SPL champions around after Rangers started the season in the most atrocious fashion. Ach well - the rest was pretty mediocre - and that's me being generous.

Roll on next season! If I have to read any more guff about Kaka, Kenyon, Ancelotti, Martinez etc etc I'll just switch right aff!

[lbb]

I had a lot of near things - Celtic nearly won the league but didn't; Rangers nearly finished 2nd but didn't; Aberdeen nearly finished 3rd but didn't; St. Mirren were nearly relegated but weren't. I was surprised by the European performances of the Old Firm. I thought they had at least mastered some kind of ability not to lose by much, if nothing else, but both performed miserably this time around. Unfortunately, I wasn't surprised by Motherwell and Queen of the South's exits.

The seemingly imminent collapse of the Setanta deal perhaps means an SPL club will enter administration as the opening shot of season 2009-10 but that's getting ahead of things.

[upthewell]

David, when are you going to open predictions for 09-10? I'm going to wipe the floor with the lot of you this season - just like Motherwell are gonna wipe the floor with Llanneli this Thursday.

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