Rays Funds for the CSF with the PUPs Season 17 Week 40

[nutty nigel 7,902]

Welcome to Rays Funds, supported by Turner European Consulting and Cavell Healthcare

We have PUP legend @PurpleCanary picking the final six for this final weekend. Purple’s having another brilliant season with 34/39 87% winning picks. He has five previous wins on Arrdee’s honours board and has been a great supporter of our threads and everything we do. Purple is having his usual brilliant season sitting third in our PUPs league as we go into the final weekend.Purple has five previous final six wins so let’s help him to the 6^th with our very best selections from the games played on Saturday, Sunday and Monday of this weekend that are listed on the Bet 365 web site.

We have another PUP legend in @Pockthorpe making the final selections for what we hope won’t be our final game of the season at Birmingham on Sauturday. Pockthorpe’s a great supporter of all things PUPs and has 2 final six wins to his name on Arrdee’s honours board. Let’s help him add more to the pot with some great options for Saturday from those listed on Bet 365 or Bill Hill.

An anonymous poster who enjoys these threads sent £50 for our presentation pot. What a star. Here are the up to date totals including this…

Good luck to the PUPs involved in the tight finishes to both leagues and the three remaining in the last POTM.

PUP	Wins	Picks	Win%	Profit
Parma	36	39	92%	0.28
Til1010	35	39	90%	1.97

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PUP	Wins	Picks	Win%	Profit
First Wazzock	33	39	85%	10.84
Feedthewolf	30	39	77%	9.67
Littleyellowbirdie	13	24	54%	7.19
NWC	27	36	75%	7.11

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PUP	Wins	Picks	Win%	Profit
Feedthewolf	4	4	100%	3.99
Hissing Sid	4	4	100%	1.87
Diesel Doris	4	4	100%	1.48

And good luck to all you PUPs. We all stand together with the single aim of raising money for the Community Sports Foundation and our fabulous Downs Syndrome and pan-disability boys and girls.

Take it away Purple and Gary the thread is yours…🙂...

On behalf of us all a massive thank-you to our wonderful sponsors Turner European Consulting and Cavell Healthcare also our benefactor PUPanon2. For more information on our sponsors take a look at their websites below :-

http://www.turnereuropeanconsulting.com/

https://www.cavellhealthcare.co.uk/

**Coming soon ‘Kathy’s Famous Euros Sweepstake’ Watch out for the thread.**

 

[KiwiScot 1,684]

Hello from Glasgow

We go again. One last time!

Thanks again Nutty for running this thread all this time from stat master to show runner it's been a pleasure.

Best of Luck to Parma/Til, Wazzock and the Wolf, but most of all to Purple and Pockthorpe to bring home some bacon this weekend.

For Purple - Sporting v Portimonense - Home win. Danger signs as Porti are battling relegation, but Sporting are strong at home and still have not won the league

For Pockthorpe - Birmingham need to win and we don't basically. Reckon we will score, but I suggest a bet builder of under 4 goals over 5 cards, over 8 corners and Stansfield to score. or more positive. Norwich to win by 3 goals.

It's been great being on the thread with all you Pups past and present.

Kiwi.

Edited May 1 by KiwiScot

[PurpleCanary 6,386]

Thanks for the kind introduction, nutty. I won't start looking to make a selection before about 8pm UK time on Friday, so plenty of time for posters.

Edited May 1 by PurpleCanary

[Hissing Sid 160]

A Saturday evening offering from France this week

Brest (3rd, 16-8-7 49-33) v Nantes (14th, 9-5-17 29-49) - Home Win

For the match bet, HT/FT Norwich/Norwich

Best of luck Purple, Pockthorpe, and all you PUPs 

[Pockthorpe 635]

Right then , here we go dear Pups . Lots of suggestions please , let’s see if we can’t go out in style . 
On a personal level , thanks for everything Eddie …. It’s been a blast ! 

[Parma Ham's gone mouldy 2,462]

Thank you @nutty nigel 🙏🏼
 

Parma 

[TheBaldOne66 768]

Greetings all from a very warm Oman!
 

This weekend it’s Ligue One for me and Brest to beat Nantes please.

For our game a red card anytime 

Good luck everyone! 

[Indy 3,471]

Good luck PUPS….

Arsenal v Bournemouth- Home Win

For Norwich Nunez to score.

OTBC

[Leedscanary 389]

Good Luck Purple and Pockthorpe!

Ross County v HIBERNIAN - AWAY WIN

For the Norwich game, a combination of SAINZ / SARA / SARGENT to score anytime, TIL had good success with this laste week.

 

Huge thanks to everyone  ever involved with the Pups, all pickers, the 2 Pupanons, the sponsors and anyone who's ever donated.

But especially @nutty nigel

Leedscanary - Arrdee's Young Gun - going out in a Blaze of Glory

 

[GMF 1,010]

Manchester City v Wolverhampton Wanderers - home win.

Good luck all.

[Feedthewolf 5,885]

I feel compelled to finish the season with a textbook piece of reverse psychology, and pick Ipsh*t to beat as-good-as-relegated Huddersfield at 1/4.

As for the Norwich match, Bill Hill have a nice little match bet of Sargent to score, Birmingham most cards, and both teams over 3 corners at 10/1.

Thanks so much to @nutty nigel for facilitating this magnificent thread so brilliantly for so many years. If there's no way we can resurrect it in some form, I will miss it greatly.

The very best of luck to everyone on this emotional final weekend.

Wolfie x

[Mr Apples 1,407]

Hi PUPs, for the final pick I'll stay in one of my favourite hunting grounds in Turkey with ISTANBUL BASAKSEHIR VS. KASIMPAŞA (home win).

For the match bet I'll go for SvH to score last (again, again, again).

Thanks to Nutty for all the hard work, and all the PUPs participants over the years, it's been a blast and has always been the best thread on the site! 🏆💛💚

Apples

[TIL 1010 5,246]

A very good afternoon to the Living Legend @nutty nigel and good luck to Purple and Pockthorpe not forgetting of course all you other lovely PUPs out there.

My last pick on the best thread to grace this forum is an AWAY WIN in the game Granada Women v BARCELONA WOMEN.

For the City game Sainz to score the first goal of the game.

Merely to say thanks for all you have done over the years @nutty nigel does not seem enough but my lasting memory of your work to raise money is those PUPs evenings at Bayer where that c rap virtually undrinkable lager Taddy was forced upon me.

 

 

 

[dj11 404]

Chelsea Women to beat Bristol City Women. 
 

For Norwich, Sargent first goal scorer. 
 

Very best of luck. 

[Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man 4,616]

I know they've got bigger fish to fry, but I'd thoroughly expect Real Madrid to beat Cadiz at home at 1/3, even with one-and-a-half eyes on the Champions League.

Obviously Birmingham will be far more up for the game than us, so Birmingham most cards at 7/5 looks a good price.

Also, as others have said, if this does turn out to be the final ever weekend, then thanks once again to @nutty nigel for the effort he has put into this over the years.

[Diesel Doris 130]

 Netherlands Eredivisie for me for our final week with:

HERACLES v RKC HOME WIN

Good Luck @PurpleCanary and all you Lovely PUP's

For the Norwich bet, BTTS. Best of luck @Pockthorpe

[Mr Angry 2,017]

For the Final Six, Arsenal to batter Bournemouth.

For the Norwich match, I think it it will be a tight, nervous game so I'm going for a 1-1 draw.

Good luck @PurpleCanary, @Pockthorpeand the rest of the PUPs worldwide.

And a big Thank You to @nutty nigelfor the hard work you've put in over the years, I think I've only done about half the 17 seasons and sometimes it's seemed like an effort to just make one pick a week so I've no idea how you've managed to find the time and the enthusiasm to keep it going! 

[Mandie Moo 94]

Evening all and good luck on the last ever pick on this thread - it’s really been the only one I’ve ever taken any interest in, and we’ve had some cracking times because of it!  As others have said, thanks to @nutty nigel for all of the hard work and effort that has gone into this, you’re a legend 💛💚

MMMK - ARSENAL -v- Bournemouth HOME WIN

MM - MONACO -v- Clermont HOME WIN

For the match bet, BTTS.

[Cosmic Twin 192]

I’m going for a home win for HJK Helsinki v. EIF. 
HJK are W2 D0 L0 F6 A1 at home and EIF are W0 D0 L3 F4 A7 away. 
Good Luck, PurpleCanary! 
 

For the match bet - Sainz to score from outside the box. 
Good Luck, Pockthorpe!

This is the best thread on the site. It has always been so much fun to take part. Thank you so much to @nutty nigel and all PUPs for making this an essential part of my football season routine. 💛💚🐥

[nutty nigel 7,902]

For @PurpleCanary Sunday in Austria where I think...

SK Sturm Graz          v          Hartberg          Home Win

For @Pockthorpe ...

Sarge to score a header

[Duncan Edwards 2,424]

Ipswich v HUDDERSFIELD - AWAY WIN

11/1 on SkyBet (tight) and only because it would be so funny.

For the match bet, over 4.5 goals. They’ll have to set out to win and if we score first they’ll have to really go for it. 4/1. 

[PurpleCanary 6,386]

On 01/05/2024 at 19:37, PurpleCanary said:

Thanks for the kind introduction, nutty. I won't start looking to make a selection before about 8pm UK time on Friday, so plenty of time for posters.

Still oodles of time for new and varied picks. In fact I won't now be looking to make my selection before about 10pm UK time.

Edited May 3 by PurpleCanary

[Kathy 823]

Dortmund to beat Augsburg for me.

For City's match 0-0.

I'm really going to miss this thread and all the banter. 'Thank you' doesn't seem enough really, but thank you Nutty.

 

[Parma Ham's gone mouldy 2,462]

In bocca al lupo 🦮 @PurpleCanary…ed ai tutti i tuoi belli PUPetti 👍💪🏼🙌🦮❤️
 

…. Only one place to go this beautiful, historic, proud week…the sunniest of sunny Spains 🇪🇸 …for:

Granada W vs Barcelona W - Away win 🏆 

For our Norwich bet, a nice outsider for:

BTTS, more than 2.5 goals, Gibbs to score, more than 4 yellow cards 💳 

What a thing you’ve done @nutty nigel 🙏🏼🏆❤️

Parma 

[Parma Ham's gone mouldy 2,462]

…..in fact @nutty nigel look what you have done!

As h the Buddhists say ‘you cannot change others, but you can change yourself. And sometimes, by changing yourself, others around you change’ ❤️🙏🏼🌎

I have just noticed to my complete delight - and to yours and @Kathy ’s eternal credit - that everyone’s beloved @TIL 1010 has developed new found respect, interest and engagement with women and women’s football at this critical juncture!

I can only assume that this is a conversion of Damascean magnitude and we must all rejoice and celebrate this awakening!….💫💫🙌🙌🙌

Parma

[Parma Ham's gone mouldy 2,462]

….but wait! There are naysayers and doom mongers amongst us! Non-believers!

Mx Parma - whilst chatting with Nutty’s neighbour Glad over a milky brew - made the rather unwelcome suggestion that it might be ..’y’know…one o them moind gaymes….’

 

Edited May 3 by Parma Ham's gone mouldy

[Kathy 823]

Just disappointed. I thought you'd make a contest of it.

[Parma Ham's gone mouldy 2,462]

I immediately reassured my beloved that they - for they are a they - that the noblest law-abiding, whither ‘law-enforcing’ citizens are beyond such low-brow cynicism…

…so what to do?

[Parma Ham's gone mouldy 2,462]

Let us - in this final historic week -  take the high road to PUPS heaven by each donating £50 and agreeing to both choose something completely different…

….and let the PUPs gods roll the celestial dice as they may….💫💫💫🏆

What say you @TIL 1010 ?

Here is my £50 💰 

Much ambisex love,

Parma ❤️❤️

Edited May 3 by Parma Ham's gone mouldy

[Parma Ham's gone mouldy 2,462]

3 minutes ago, Kathy said:

Just disappointed. I thought you'd make a contest of it.

Way ahead of you sister 😂

Parma