So who will win X Factor this time?

C'mon members, now's the time to put forward your suggestions. For the record, I reckon Matt will win!

There you go, you heard it first on POE...

I think the girls have been more impressive overall than the lads on this series. I do wish some of them on their stage performances would stop looking at the floor or keeping their eyes closed while singing; they're detaching themselves from their audience as though they're not there.

If Storm Lee felt he wanted to change his name as he did, Lee Storm would have been a better option I think; at least as a stage name. 

X Factor seems to me a slick, repackaged version of Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts ( 1946-58 ) in the US which discovered such artistes as Pat Boone, Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Connie Francis, Al Martino, Patsy Cline; the list goes on.    

I think the voting system on X Factor is wrong in how it set up and tonight demonstrated it.  We know that each judge is going to vote for their own act and before Katie sung a note on the sing off, she's lost Simon's vote.

Equally, we know Katie will get Cheryl's vote, so it's only really down to Danni and Louis who will stay in. With Danni going for Katie Louis had no option but to vote Katie off to create a deadlock. Great cop out vote and leaving it back to the public vote to decide the outcome.

I think Katie better get used to being in the sing off's while she lasts. For me at the moment, it's a 3 horse race and I think Wagner will be filling out the field for a few more weeks yet. 

Nice to see Bon Jovi with all the contestants, and over on BBC 1 with Strictly, probably Phoenix's best known golfer, Alice Cooper.  

And if you flew British Airways last week into Terminal 5 at Heathrow, you might have had an unusual surprise-- making a T Mobile commercial.  The big guy at 1:20 singing Iggy Pop's The Passenger should be on the X Factor  He's opera singer George Akedaishi.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB3NPNM4xgo

The songs featured-----

 Etta James - At Last ; Mel Torme - Comin' Home Baby ; Mark Morrison - Return of The Mack ; Iggy Pop - The Passenger ; Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town ; Kaiser Chiefs - Oh My God ; Aretha Franklin and George Michael - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) ; Peters and Lee - Welcome Home

While the X Factor contestants joined Bon Jovi singing their  Living On A Prayer,  here's what Australian X Factor contestant Altilyan Childs made of the same song. I think he did brilliant. 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPSGuOyDuHc

I've been waiting for Matt Cardle to blow us away with a U2 number. Beautiful Day, as here, will do for me from him Altiyan Childs opted for.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVOrfutiPqM&NR

Well, I've just sat through tonights show and Wagner goes through to the next round? It's a joke, he asks to be forgiven for his poor English and singing the wrong words! I'm only human he said!! Anybody else in similar circumstances would have been given their marching orders long ago. Matt is still there as I forecast from the start, but I won't be watching it again in protest.

No doubt somebody will let me know that Matt won in a few weeks time?