Reluctant Hero

First game tonight! Good luck everybody!

Less than 2 weeks to the new season. Get your picks in for Week 1. The Bears favourites against the Packers! Times are changing!

It's back! Congrats again to Steelmen on their victory in 2022. Just over 2 months until kick-off of the 2023 NFL campaign. The 2023 P&B pick'em league is here Password is scotland (all in lower case) Good luck!

We are now up to 25. Think it is going to be as competitive as the AFC West this season! Kick off tonight, so make sure you have your picks in. Good luck everyone

Just over a week to go until the action starts. Anyone else up for joining the league? It is always very competitive.

League is set up again, password is scotland here is the link good luck everybody

Congrats Fuctifano - managed to hold on for the win! Nice final few weeks gc_smfc, just left too much to do. Can't believe the season is over already! September is a long way off... Thanks to everyone for playing, another good season - 16 people seeing it all the way through. Do it all again next year

A really tough week for a lot of people, including myself, with the average score being 6.3, just below 50% correct! No such problems for Prop Joe’s Picks and Lambie’s Pigeon Feed who both scored an impressive 9. But Spread Picks is hanging on at the top of the leader board heading into week 8. Remember that the games start an hour earlier this week, so get your picks in early!

Great week for Spread Picks and The Lichtie Giants with 12 correct each, taking them to first and second in the league respectively. Honourable mention to ESPNFAN39480111 who got 11 correct as nobody else reached double figures. Onto week 5 and we are passing the quarter way point in the season already - doesn't it just fly!

Another tough week - three people scored the top score of 9. Because the worst week is dropped, and because the top score last week was 8, these three people are now top the league. There is a long way to go though - so get your picks in for week 3. I was just part of the crowd this week with 8-8.

Week 1 is in the books and it certainly was a tough week. The top score was 8, which 6 teams got, taking the early lead in the table. Totally agree Cowshed, the layout is terrible, but not sure there is anything we can do. Good luck with week 2

Loads of people joined up already, only two days until kick off if you want to join Good luck!

The pre-season is done and dusted, the cuts have been made and now it is down to business. Just one week until the league kick off, so if you want to join the P&B Pick'em League, sign up now. For those already in, best of luck everybody. Looking forward to another close season.

Anyone else looking to join the pick'em league? Just over two weeks until the first game - an easy opening day win for the Cowboys surely

What's up everybody? With the NFL season just around the corner, the Pick'em site is now up and running again. I have re-instated the Pie and Bovril League, just a reminder it is a spread league and the password is scotland (all lower case). The ESPN layout looks a lot different this year, not sure I like it, but the game will be the same. Congrats again to last year's winner bwalsh67, who made a final week comeback of epic proportions to narrowly edge out Die Hard Doonhamer on the tie-breaker. Link to ESPN Pick'em Hope you all make it to Week 1

20 of us in so far First game tonight - easy win for the Texans

Anybody else looking to show off their NFL knowledge? You have one week to sign up for one of the most unique season's in history

If anyone is interested, I have set up the Pie & Bovril Pick'em League again. The password is scotland (all lower case) You have to create an entry (spread entry) then re-join the league. http://fantasy.espn.com/nfl-pigskin-pickem/2020/en/?adddata=pigskinpickem2020_nfl_web_fantasynav

Walked Airdrie

Nicolson just took Ochil

Turnout is 70.4% in Gordon. This is up on 2017. Which is similar to other Tory seats that have turned SNP, so it could be another gain

Think the overall UK turnout will be around 67%. The early results are low, bit are in line with previous elections, so turnout will be between the 2015 and 2017 figure which I would say is pretty good for a December election. If it matters, then people will turnout.

That is 2015 level turnout. Wonder if it will be the same across Scotland

Barry Gardiner looks broken on Sky News

About 4 hours until we start to get an insight into how this election might go. I couldn’t really care less who wins the race to be the first seat to declare. It is going to be between Newcastle Upon Tyne Central and Houghton & Sunderland South. The winners of the seat themselves will probably not be all that exciting either as Labour should be able to hold on to both of these pretty easily. The real interest in these early results will be in analyzing the share of vote for each party. This will especially be the case in Houghton & Sunderland South. They voted 62% to leave in the Brexit referendum in 2016. In the 2015 GE, UKIP got over 21% of the vote here, so how will the Brexit Party get on? And if they do well, who will they get their vote from? Labour or Tory? This will give an indication of how it might play out across the rest of England and maybe Wales. Then there are other interesting things such as the turnout. Typically, Houghton & Sunderland South polls at 8-10% less than the UK turnout. Newcastle Central also polls below the UK average, although the difference has been narrowing over the last few elections – from a 10% difference in 2010 to a 2% difference in 2017. So, although the first couple of results may not appear exciting on the face of it, there is plenty to look into!