Well what a final week! Huge scores in all 3 games and this meant some even bigger scores in our prediction league as no one could have predicted such a free scoring conclusion to the 6 Nations. The high scores saw some unprecedented leaps in places in the overall standings.

First, as usual, we will address the weekly winner. This year so far the highest weekly winning total has been 24, this week it was just short of 40 points more, however this still appeared a great score compared to many others, as only the top 9 managed to score less than 100! The winner this week is new to the league this year, so congratulations to John Rawson you had a comfortable 8 point winning margin, please let me know how I can get your £10 winnings to you. Chris could have done with your score this week! Other notable mentions should go to Eric Alty and Andy Finn who came 3rd and 4th respectively, while Rick Maudsley finished second for the second week in a row and he managed to achieve a first in my memory by predicting an exact score as he predicted the Scotland v Ireland result, well done Rick. At the other end of the table Marc Maher continued his usual form and racked up an impressive score of 176.

The teams in this seasons 6 Nations totalled 660 points, yet our top 4 predictors were only separated by 3 points! Unfortunately for Chris Rawson, last week’s leader, he slipped down to third place. Another first this year is that after all these points we have a joint overall winner! The first of these just wanted to beat his brother, in doing so he managed to beat all but one other predictor, so the first of our joint winners is Nick Westhead, well done Nick, let me know how I can get your share of the winnings to you. The winner of the remaining £50 came from nowhere, normally the winner comes from the top 10 after the fourth week, however our other joint winner was in 24th place last week! The man behind this incredible leap is a 1st XV stalwart, well done Rick Maudsley a truly amazing result! To cap everything off, another 1st XV player had the unenviable honour of winning this year’s wooden spoon, sorry Marc Maher but you won this with ease.

Well that is it for this year, thank you to all who took part, hope to see you again in 2016!

Predictions League Week 5 Results
1 John Rawson 63
2 Rick Maudsley 71
3 Eric Alty 75
4 Andy Finn 86
5 Nick Westhead 89
6 Tony Thoma 2 93
7 Margaret Dearden 96
8 Tony Thoma 1 96
9 Dave Mansfield 99
10 John Dickinson 102
11 Matt Hughes 102
12 Mark Briggs 103
13 Chris Rawson 105
14 Leon Fifield 105
15 Paul Westhead 106
16 Mark Briggs Brother 107
17 Gillian Parker Evans 109
18 Richard Mellor 110
19 Rob Melling 111
20 David Scott 112
21 Sam Parkinson 112
22 Anton Garcia 113
23 Zac Child 113
24 Brian Maudsley 114
25 Craig Aikman 114
26 Gary Parkinson 114
27 Cath Gregson 115
28 Martin Harvey 115
29 Simon Birbeck 116
30 Albert Snr Thundercliffe 118
31 Mark Bullen 118
32 Michael Evans 118
33 Robert Scott 118
34 Alistair Reay 1 119
35 Hannah Johnson 119
36 Josh Thundercliffe 119
37 Jane Thundercliffe 120
38 Tony Farley 121
39 Sean Hall 122
40 Paul Gregson 123
41 Marc Maher 3 124
42 Susan Scott 124
43 Peter Clancy 125
44 Freyja Gregson 127
45 Barry Hadwin 129
46 Niamh Gregson 130
47 Alistair Reay 2 131
48 Duncan Isherwood 131
49 Austin Clarke 132
50 Ross Johnson 133
51 Alex (Panda) Evans 134
52 Marc Maher 2 146
53 Ray Pemberton 154
54 Matthew Birbeck 158
55 Ian Stuart 159
56 Marc Maher 1 176

Final Overall Standings
1 Nick Westhead 229
2 Rick Maudsley 229
3 Chris Rawson 230
4 Eric Alty 232
5 Zac Child 241
6 John Rawson 242
7 Mark Briggs 250
8 Richard Mellor 250
9 Gillian Parker Evans 251
10 Michael Evans 255
11 Dave Mansfield 257
12 Duncan Isherwood 257
13 Alistair Reay 1 258
14 Sam Parkinson 258
15 Jane Thundercliffe 261
16 Leon Fifield 263
17 Tony Farley 263
18 Rob Melling 267
19 Anton Garcia 268
20 Sean Hall 268
21 David Scott 270
22 Josh Thundercliffe 270
23 Barry Hadwin 273
24 Marc Maher 3 273
25 Mark Bullen 274
26 Andy Finn 277
27 John Dickinson 279
28 Brian Maudsley 281
29 Simon Birbeck 281
30 Albert Snr Thundercliffe 282
31 Hannah Johnson 282
32 Mark Briggs Brother 282
33 Matt Hughes 282
34 Martin Harvey 284
35 Susan Scott 285
36 Cath Gregson 287
37 Gary Parkinson 290
38 Paul Westhead 293
39 Tony Thoma 2 293
40 Freyja Gregson 294
41 Peter Clancy 294
42 Margaret Dearden 295
43 Robert Scott 295
44 Alex (Panda) Evans 298
45 Ross Johnson 299
46 Tony Thoma 1 299
47 Alistair Reay 2 302
48 Craig Aikman 311
49 Austin Clarke 320
50 Marc Maher 2 326
51 Niamh Gregson 331
52 Ray Pemberton 339
53 Paul Gregson 341
54 Ian Stuart 367
55 Matthew Birbeck 391
56 Marc Maher 1 426