The 606v2 Fantastic Fantasy Football Homepage XXV

by sodhat Thu 09 Aug 2012, 11:17 am

First topic message reminder :

606V2 EURODivision

Announcements

Important End of Season information -- please read

STAR PLAYER BIDS ARE OPEN

Star Player bids will commence Wednesday (15th), and run to Friday (17th) at midnight, when bidding is closed. Who got who will be posted on Saturday all being well - and assuming it can't be done earlier. If you miss out initially, there will be a second round bidding process and you may make another bid on a player. All bids will be sealed and PM'd to Hero and sodhat. It should be made clear that you cannot make a big bid on a Star Player, and then not have the cash all at once. All money must be paid immediately, or you miss out. We aren't doing IOU's on it, and that applies to everyone.

To qualify for the second round you must have submitted a first round bid - you can't just wait and see what's left. If there are exceptional circumstances as to why you missed the deadline you may appeal to the runners, but these circumstances absolutely do not include "I was playing Ultimate Team for 4 days with the curtains closed."

Sign up now for the Euro Division Telegraph Fantasy Football League!

Participants: Olly, T5J, Twi5t, 5odhat, Ru55, Nando, Marky (if we spoon feed him), Greger5

Telegraph League Details:
606v2 Euro Division
PIN: 8008569

Prize money for this season (for both leagues)

1st £15m
2nd - 4th £10m
5th - 8th £20m

Everyone in Premier League (who votes on Championship) send their results to:
TwisT and Sodhat

Everyone in Championship (who votes on Premier League) send their results to:
Hero and TSC

To Qualify for the £2M Bonus, teams need to post their tactics by Midnight on Wednesday and PM their results by Midnight on Friday

Premier League

Real Ale Sociedad - TwisT

Tactics

The London Silly Nannies - Sodhat

Injuries

AC ALittleSilhouetteoOfAMan (AC ALSOAM) - Marky

Lawyers

Viva City - VivaPaulScholes

Fixtures

Holton FC - ollyrules

Results

Barearselona - fernando

Table

Real NADrid©®™ V2 - Nadeem

Neymar FC - cherriesfan

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Championship

Athletico Bilbao Baggins FC - Hero

Tactics

Jacamos United - TSC

Injuries

Hangover 69 - Gregers

Lawyers

Substandard Liege - Afro

Fixtures

Treble's Revenge - onlytreblewinners

Results

Go Ahead Eagles - Russell_Elmo

Table

Straight-Edge United - TheBrahmaBull

City Of Norwich FC - ncfc_Tooze

by sodhat Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:17 am

He should have been but I think the ref wanted to avoid more problems after Ivanovic. Kompany got booked for an identical offence though, so it looks stupid...

I thought Chelsea were acquitting themselves well in the first half until the red card. They looked a match for City, but once it was 10 v 11 it wasn't going to happen.

by Marky Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:19 am

I'm presuming it's the end of Season 2 as the Cup final has taken place (as was mentioned last week), so players sold to lawyers in Season 2 are now eligable to be signed right?

by TwisT Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:26 am

I thought it was when Season 3 actually starts, as what happened last season.

by sodhat Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:28 am

The page says they become available in the same week of star players being available

Which makes sense actually, otherwise no one would be able to sign Falcao, for example

by Gregers Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:41 am

Morning all, two quick questions.

What do we do with star player bids?

When are end of season lawyers?

Anyways, is everyone alright/had a good weekend? Its moving flat weeks for me this week so very excited :-).

by Marky Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:47 am

Worth a punt signing players from "sold to lawyers".

Best case: Toulalan and Di Natale added to my squad for £18.3m

Worse case: Chuck them back and nothing's changed

by sodhat Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:48 am

Gregers wrote:Morning all, two quick questions.

What do we do with star player bids?

When are end of season lawyers?

Anyways, is everyone alright/had a good weekend? Its moving flat weeks for me this week so very excited :-).

Both things are being discussed and hopefully I can post something up soonish that is definitive. I think it will both be this week though.

by Bull Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:49 am

so are they open then>?

by Gregers Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:51 am

Think I got a bargain this morning (providing they are open which going on what people said I presumed they are).

Moses for £5.7 million is a bargain

by Bull Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:53 am

i dont rate moses tbh

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:08 am

Marky wrote:Worth a punt signing players from "sold to lawyers".

Best case: Toulalan and Di Natale added to my squad for £18.3m

Worse case: Chuck them back and nothing's changed

Bugger I was going to sign Toulalan. Time to go to Plan B Cool

by Gregers Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:12 am

TheBrahmaBull wrote:i dont rate moses tbh

Can I ask why? Or alternatively who do you rate?

If Moses moves to Chelsea (which is all but done) his ratings will go up. Either way he's eligible for the cup next season and is a good backup to Reus on the right

by The Special Juan Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:14 am

"Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain ruled out of England friendly against Italy with ankle injury; Jolean Lescott called up"

What position does Lescott (yes I know the first name is spelled wrongly, I copied it from the BBC site) play these days?

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:16 am

TSJ, I think Hodgson realised he was short in defence, so just called up another defender, as we have plenty of cover for The Ox in the squad. Hopefully with Hart out, Ruddy will start The 606v2 Fantastic Fantasy Football Homepage XXV - Page 9 3933776953

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Also Moses is decent, don't see why Chelsea are signing him, won't ever be good enough for them

by Bull Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:18 am

i just dont think he is that good and he wont get any playing time at Chelski

by Gregers Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:20 am

Moses has impressed me a lot whilst at wigan, was linked with Chelsea/united/arsenal before he went to wigan.

I guess it could be a case of becoming better by having better players around you. Chelsea are a touch light on the right wing anyways so he'll get opportunities.

Either way £5.7 isn't too much of a gamble for a back up player

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:22 am

Nah it's not too much of a gamble Gregers, but I just think he fails with the end product a lot

by Gregers Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:23 am

TheBrahmaBull wrote:i just dont think he is that good and he wont get any playing time at Chelski

I'd suggest you haven't seen that much of him, towards the end of last season (when wigan had the form of champions) he was immense. I reckon he'll get quite a bit of playing time as we lack a genuine right sided winger:

Moses - Mata - Hazard

And olly if worst comes to worst then I'll sell him back to lawyers and make a profit

by Bull Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:23 am

Im not sure if i wait of sign a player from the lawyers.

darn! i can only sign one of them though.

by The Special Juan Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:25 am

Gregers wrote:
TheBrahmaBull wrote:i just dont think he is that good and he wont get any playing time at Chelski

I'd suggest you haven't seen that much of him, towards the end of last season (when wigan had the form of champions) he was immense. I reckon he'll get quite a bit of playing time as we lack a genuine right sided winger:

Moses - Mata - Hazard

And olly if worst comes to worst then I'll sell him back to lawyers and make a profit

Poor old Marko shafted already?

by Gregers Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:29 am

Marin is left sided tsj, which unless Hazard is going to play on the right means he will be rotated. It's hardly shafting him as I fully expect rdm to rotate our attacking players. I mean we could go:

Hazard - Mata - Marin

Moses - Mata - Marin

Moses - Hazard - Marin

Moses - Mata - Hazard

Hazard - Oscar - Marin

Moses - Oscar - Mata

Hazard - Oscar - Mata

Etc

by Marky Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:29 am

I don't think Moses is good enough for Chelsea and won't play very much, but Gregers has signed him for about half his real life fee so worst case scenario is he gets sold on at profit.

by The Special Juan Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:34 am

That works. Mata is the best player out of all of them though so he'd be the automatic starter for me. I just can't see Moses getting a game; I've not seen anything special from him at all. Perhaps he'd be better with a clinical striker in front of him though.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:35 am

True TSJ, Di Santo and Rodallega are hardly that clinical lol

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 13 Aug 2012, 11:51 am

https://i.imgur.com/bKCUN.gif

Boris is such a legend

by Marky Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:00 pm

Olly wrote:
Marky wrote:Worth a punt signing players from "sold to lawyers".

Best case: Toulalan and Di Natale added to my squad for £18.3m

Worse case: Chuck them back and nothing's changed

Bugger I was going to sign Toulalan. Time to go to Plan B

You can't sign Plan B, he's a rapper/singer.

by The Special Juan Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:00 pm

Diving ref!

http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/oddballs/908322-referee-accused-of-taking-a-dive-after-luisao-knock-down#ixzz23NI8ls7l

by Marky Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:02 pm

Assuming these deals are done (i'm sure we'll get full confirmation later) my central midfield options are;

Khedira (Real Madrid), Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich), Toulalan (Malaga (for now)), Essien (Chelsea), Asamoah (Juventus) and Ambrosini (Milan)

Will listen to offers for Kwadwo Asamoah and Massimo Ambrosini though, cash or trade.

by sodhat Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:08 pm

Ok. To clarify:

End of season lawyers will go up tomorrow, so you have until the end of tonight to confirm the three you wish to receive offers on. You will receive two random lawyers on top of these, for a total of five.

Star Player bids will commence Wednesday, and run to Friday at midnight, when bidding is closed. Who got who will be posted on Saturday all being well - and assuming it can't be done earlier. If you miss out initially, there will be a second round bidding process and you may make another bid on a player. All bids will be sealed and PM'd to Hero and myself. In the interests of not cheating, I will make a bid tomorrow and PM to Hero so I can't just undercut everyone, Hero will do the same. It should be made clear that you cannot make a big bid on a Star Player, and then not have the cash all at once. All money must be paid immediately, or you miss out. We aren't doing IOU's on it, and that applies to everyone.

by sodhat Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:09 pm

P.S. Players sold in lawyers are now open.

by sodhat Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:15 pm

Sorry for making the announcement so huge on the homepage up there ^^ but I don't want anyone missing it...

by Gregers Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:21 pm

Sod, does that mean I can remove Shawcross from my lawyer offers and put in someone else (as I sold him). Sorry if I'm being thick

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:22 pm

Quality stuff. Now need to decide if I am going for a star player or not

by sodhat Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:23 pm

Gregers wrote:Sod, does that mean I can remove Shawcross from my lawyer offers and put in someone else (as I sold him). Sorry if I'm being thick

Yes please, saves us having to check through everyones squad to make sure they are still there!

by Gregers Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:27 pm

In that case can I ask for peoples opinions on:

Christian Ansaldi
and
Yoann Gourcuff

by Marky Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:40 pm

Gourcuff is a player I like but he's not rated particularly well. Ansaldi, no real thoughts on.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 13 Aug 2012, 1:10 pm

So then guys what did you think of the Olympics?

I thought they were amazing, only wish we would have got tickets, or I would have been old enough to volunteer. Maybe they'll be back in my lifetime, I hope so, they are great

by FIFA Diva Mon 13 Aug 2012, 1:19 pm

Ansaldi is a good player I'm a fan of him but the question is will he get rated despite the best players in Russia not getting rated as they should. Don't think so.

Gourcuff is a no from me.

Olly they were beautiful, I didn't think I would like it but I was blown away.

Well done to everyone who made it a great event.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 13 Aug 2012, 1:21 pm

I always look forward to the Olympics. I always love it every 4 years

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 13 Aug 2012, 1:35 pm

According to the Scottish Sun Norwich have launched a bid to sign Emilio Izaguirre.

I take that with a pinch of salt, but TSJ what's he like? I ain't seen much of him, but have heard he is pretty decent

by Marky Mon 13 Aug 2012, 1:37 pm

I think Izaguirre is a decent LB, depends if he's better than what Norwich already have at LB (my guess is yes).

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 13 Aug 2012, 1:39 pm

Well we only have Tierney at LB, since we let Drury go. Also have The King of Spain Simon Lappin. Never lost a Premier League game when Lapps has been playing. Only played 4 though lol.

So we are lacking at LB in terms of depth, I thought we might try get a loanee tbh as Tierney is decent

by sodhat Mon 13 Aug 2012, 1:47 pm

Why is he called the King of Spain?

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 13 Aug 2012, 1:52 pm

Because he looks Spanish.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 13 Aug 2012, 1:58 pm

I must say as much as a prospect that Jack Butland is, the fact he could make his England debut on Wednesday before he makes his Birmingham debut is a bit weird

by **Hero** Mon 13 Aug 2012, 1:58 pm

Is Ozil the King of Bug Eyed Monsters then?

by sodhat Mon 13 Aug 2012, 2:04 pm

Ozil is King of the World!

by The Special Juan Mon 13 Aug 2012, 2:20 pm

Izaguirre is alright. Had one great season, was linked with Man Utd, had his ankle snapped (possibly by Whittaker) and Charlie Mulgrew took his place. Best player to come out of Honduras since David Suazo.

by Gregers Mon 13 Aug 2012, 2:29 pm

Gourcuff up for lawyers based on him not being rated

by Gregers Mon 13 Aug 2012, 2:34 pm

Something for Cherries

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