The Lawro Thread

[TallBlokePH]

There was a shot of the current Lawro table vs the League table posted in the 'This Thread is useless without pics...' thread, so I thought I'd have a look and see who Lawro seems to get most wrong.

I've had to wind back a week on the Lawro table as it included his current predictions (whereas obviously the actual table doesn't yet have this weekend's results), and it seems coming second to his beloved Liverpool in the most wrong on points stake is, surprisingly, Everton. He has them on 12 extra points to Pool's 14 extra.

In terms of most under-rated teams, they're actually 3rd and 4th in the wrong-ness stakes, with him expecting both Wet Spam and Swansea to have 11 less points than they actually do.

We seem to be mid-table on 7 points less than we have picked up, along with West Brom. Where he's actually fairly good though is Stoke, Villa and QPR, where he's only one point off in either direction depending on the team. Sunderland is his next best, having picked up only 2 points less.

Looking at positional wrong-ness, Swansea are top, being 8 places higher than Lawro would predict. Everton are second here too, being 7 places lower than his predictions place them. Being remarkably consistent, we're mid-table again, this time in 10th, with a not so bad 2 places out - although in typical Lawro style, if things went as he predicted those 2 places would move us lower rather than higher.

He's done a lot better on positions in general, and actually has 4 teams correctly placed - Chelsea, Man City, QPR (again!) and Leicester. Although he's got Leicester correctly bottom of the pile, he's still been quite harsh on them prediction wise, expecting them to be on only 9 points after the 20 games played. Still, he's been nice to them this week as he's got them beating Villa.

Here's some tables for anyone who likes that sort of thing...

 

[goughie1966]

Geeezzz..... he actually predicted Liverpool to have 43 points at this stage. Shouldn't someone tell him that Suarez has gone?

 

[TallBlokePH]

Geeezzz..... he actually predicted Liverpool to have 43 points at this stage. Shouldn't someone tell him that Suarez has gone?

His table would end up really distorted in terms of points - Chelsea would have 56 (only dropping 4 points out of a potential 60), and Man City on 54 (dropping 6 out of 60). You'd then get Arsenal, Liverpool and Man U on 43 points - only 3 points below what Chelsea and Man City have actually achieved - followed by a 10 point gap to Everton in 6th on 33. Unbelievably, you'd then see another 6 point drop before us in 7th.

All of that means that instead of being 2 points off 4th as we are now, we'd be 16 off after just 20 games. To put how ridiculous that is into context we're currently only 12 behind Chelsea and Man City at the top of the table, and 16 points off the current 4th placed team (Southampton) takes you down to Sunderland in 14th. Essentially, if you're not one of his favourites he predicts you're going to pick up less than 50% of the points available to you, whilst his 'top 5' pretty much batter everyone!

 

[spurslenny]

'You're just a shit Barry Chuckle, shit Barry Chuuuuuckle, you're just a shit Barry Chuckle. SHIT BARRY CHUCKLE....... (etc)'

 

[Good Doctor M]

Can't wait to come on here and gloat when we only lose 1-0. Boy will Lawro's face be red.

My bad...

 

[SteveH]

My bad...

Mark always says we will loose........so has to get some right.

 

[Norwegian Spurs fan]

 

[ibbz]

Lawro seems to be on some Metric crusade of sorts, I reckon he's under the pay of the European Commission or whatever Orwellian department is responsible for metrification. He insists on saying words like "He passed that about twenty odd ya...I mean metres". He stumbles over his words like an imbecile.

 

[ExpatFan]

Even by Lawro's own perverse logic, his prediction for tomorrow's cup tie against Leicester takes some beating:

"... because it will be the last thing both sides want, I am going to go for a draw."

Top that Merson!

 

[nightgoat]

Even by Lawro's own perverse logic, his prediction for tomorrow's cup tie against Leicester takes some beating:

"... because it will be the last thing both sides want, I am going to go for a draw."

Top that Merson!

What he means is;

"... because it is exactly what I want, I am going to go for a draw."

And Leicester to win the replay, too.

 

[spurslenny]

He might as well just copy and paste 'I hate Spurs, therefore they'll lose/draw' every week.

 

[tototoner]

West Brom v Tottenham

West Brom have made a strong start under new manager Tony Pulis.

Callum McManaman is available for this game after joining from Wigan, and is a decent signing - Pulis will have the rest of his team wondering whether they fit into his plans, so they will be playing for their futures.

Tottenham have reached the Capital One Cup final which is a good achievement for their manager Mauricio Pochettino, but the Pulis factor will make the difference for the Baggies here.

Lawro's prediction: 2-1

 

[Tit&Ham]

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West Brom v Tottenham

West Brom have made a strong start under new manager Tony Pulis.

Callum McManaman is available for this game after joining from Wigan, and is a decent signing - Pulis will have the rest of his team wondering whether they fit into his plans, so they will be playing for their futures.

Tottenham have reached the Capital One Cup final which is a good achievement for their manager Mauricio Pochettino, but the Pulis factor will make the difference for the Baggies here.

Lawro's prediction: 2-1

agree for once... We Always get beaten after a positive experience

 

[yiddopaul]

Lawro seems to be on some Metric crusade of sorts, I reckon he's under the pay of the European Commission or whatever Orwellian department is responsible for metrification. He insists on saying words like "He passed that about twenty odd ya...I mean metres". He stumbles over his words like an imbecile.

Sorry, ibbz. Didn't mean to spam you. Not sure how to remove it. I'll balance it with a big fat 'winner!'
edit: undone!

 

[robbiedee]

Well...Merson reckons this one has 0-0 written all over it....

West Brom v Tottenham

This screams goalless draw to me. Tony Pulis will set up his team to defend well and be organised, as all his teams are.

Tottenham will almost certainly be tired after their Capital One Cup game, and, let's be honest, if Mauricio Pochettino does play Roberto Soldado, he doesn't score a lot, does he?

PAUL PREDICTS: 0-0

 

[tottenmal]

The guys articles are written as if the BBC have an intern follow him around and just type out his mumblings while sitting in the cafeteria. Probably drinking a hot chocolate in his Liverpool mug.

 

[Mr Pink]

I think it will be a draw as well in all honesty.

But Jesus, in terms of Lawro, we'd be on about 14 points thus far going on his predictions lol.

 

[chinaman]

Another narrow victory for us. Kane will score.

 

[tippspur59]

Another narrow victory for us. Kane will score.

Hopefully he does score,he's hit a bit of a dry patch lately even though he's playing well.

 

[Styopa]

If Lawrenson has predicted we will lose, then we probably won't. He only correctly predicts about 40% and he doesn't seem to have noticed that we actually have a fairly decent record away from home. Of his 13 failed predictions, we won 7, drew 2 and lost 4. and 5 of the victories were away: West Ham, Aston Villa, Hull, Swansea, Leicester.

Personally, I feel much more confident going into this game than I would if we were playing them at White Hart Lane.

My prediction: 2-1 to us.