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CUP TACTICS AND VOTES TO MARKY (unless you're in the Spanish group, in which case send your tactics to Afro, please)

Those who voted, and posted tactics can add £2.5m to their budgets.

Those who didn't do both of those things get £1m only.

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Deportivo la Chorizo - Gregers Under Brescia FC - Afro Bratwurst Mannschaft - Treble FC Swag - Cherries Bunga Bunga FC - Olly
Total Juan Carrs FC - Hero

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VFL Bassender - CF

AHAAAAAAAAAA Alan Partridge FC - Tooze


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Bayern My Erch - Fan

After a right back if anyone's willing to sell?

Jenkinson when he returns to me lol

Zinedine_Ze_Zebra wrote:

After a right back if anyone's willing to sell?

Jenkinson when he returns to me lol

#badtiming he'll only be used in the cup anyway

http://bbcsporf.lockerdome.com/articles/105063023

There is the Collymore clip. Got completely OWNED

Have you guys seen that video of "Girl eats tampon"?

No Olly, I haven't seen your family's home movies

Olly wrote:Have you guys seen that video of "Girl eats tampon"?

Like most people she'll be famous for a period of time

End of season I presume they'll be star bids. What's the limit going to be?

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=188_1358675302

Ladies and Gentlemen, "Girl eats tampon"

Gregers, my guess is it'll be decided at the end of the season

Fair enough trebs, just looking on tm for apprentice before having a look at potential targets

I'd be against new Star Players, unless we're forced to accept three of five Lawyers offers, for example.

It's always been the case that we do Star Players at the end of the season

onlytreblewinners wrote:It's always been the case that we do Star Players at the end of the season

So just because it's 'always' been done, that means it should be again? No room for discussion?

It'd be mad not to in my view.

I'm with Trebs

I'm with azzy new wave 4 lyfe

Have received cup votes from: Marky, Gregers, Afro, Viva, Nando, Azzy, Cherries and Trebs. We all get £2.5m for participation (to be added later when someone like Hero says so)

Shame on you for not voting: Hero, Sodhat, Olly, Zebs, CF, Tooze and GSC. You have until midday today to vote and still get the monies (because I'm nice). And in Sodhat's case, vote to avoid being -1 goal in your cup tie.

Fan has left so no blame attached to him.

Oh Poopie, I forgot about penalties!

I deliberately wasn't voting because it felt a bit like I could influence the cup when I was still in it, but I'll do it now.

sodhat wrote:Oh Poopie, I forgot about penalties!

I deliberately wasn't voting because it felt a bit like I could influence the cup when I was still in it, but I'll do it now.

Surely that's the best reason TO vote, no? Try and get your preferred opponent into the final if you make it yourself!

Morning all - back at work, boss in a meeting all day, so I'll be online for most of it and DEFINITELY doing some Realistic League stuff. We won't be starting until after the transfer window closes though.

Suggestive PM for Marky (may contain votes)

morning guys

whats this about star players? remeber i joined midway through the season, so im not sure what that is...

I'm in favour of star player bids again, but I am also in favour of some enforced selling, like Azzy's 3 from 5 lawyers (i'd even go 3 from 4 or 4 from 5).

Actually thinking about my last comment, I would really shake it up.

No new Star Players (on reflection I don't think they are needed and are the reason the last game fizzled out), but keep the enforced sales in the following format:

You nominate 2 players for end of season lawyers, 3 are drawn at random and you have to sell 4 of them!!!

You could also bump the TP limit up a couple of million at the start of the season

what is the star player policy?

We'd have to find a way to make it a bit fairer though, maybe have players you can nominate that cannot be sold. Say I got 5 bids, all for crap players, but Marky got 5 bids all for stars, and we both have enforced sales, he suffers much more than me.

Hey Olly want a week long name bet on the pro bowl for ****s n giggles

Why change it? Star Players have worked fine so far. It aint broke, don't fix it.

CF wrote:what is the star player policy?

At the start of the season every team could bid for one player worth upto £25m (and above the TP limit) - this was their star player?

In past games, each team has got a new star player at the end of each season. What it meant was that over the three seasons the league had 48 star players and I would put my finger on that as why it became stale - people didn't want to trade star players and transfers stalled.

Marky wrote:Why change it? Star Players have worked fine so far. It aint broke, don't fix it.

I don't think it did work in the last league unless you were already one of the teams at the top of the leagues.

Sod - I would keep it completely random - it's luck of the draw, much like in lawyers and injuries. If I get 5 stars and someone gets 5 crappies, it is going to effect me more initially, but I will also get more cash to replace them. Plus it makes it more of a game with random elements and not just an exercise with no risks, of just constantly improving.

In real life, all teams get these set backs where stars want to leave.

Be glad we can't do sigs Olly, as yours would be:

"I thought watching the Patriots was somehow more disappointing than my sexual performance
My sister says they're about the same"

I don't think star players killed the last league early, I think it was discussion about the reboot that did it. People were then more interested in a reboot and wanted to get to it before the season was done.

I am happy enough with the random element if everyone wanted to go down the route of enforced sales.

Do you not think at the end of the last league there was a real dearth of transfers as people were not keen to let any of their hard earned star players go? It is understandable as those players were far more valuable than the rest.

It also got to the point that managers could only improve with star players, so you ended with a stalemate.

Partly it could have been due to slowed down transfers, but I think people just wanted to get to the reboot after it was discussed. Perhaps they go hand in hand, in that lack of transfers made the reboot seem more attractive. I always thought it was just down to impatience to get to the excitement of the draft, personally.

Either way, we are a modern democracy so my vote is No Star Players, up the TP limit a little and 3 or 4 enforced sales

I think with the end of the season coming we need to see who still wants to participate, because there is a noticable drop off from some.

A smaller league with 100% participation is going to be better than a larger one with maybe 66-75%, isn't it?

i will particpate again

i only joined midway through the season, so next season would like to shake up the squad.

Yes, 100% agree with that last comment Sod.

Just a league with the committed hard core

Cut two teams, get El Dios back, and let the good times roll

I'd be all for:

1. Nominating 3 players who can't be Lawyer-ed
2. Nominating 2 players for Lawyer-ing
3. Being given 3 players for Lawyer-ation
4. Having to accept 4 of the 5 Lawyer offers

I don't see the appeal of having another raft of star players.

Azzy Mahmood wrote:Cut two teams, get El Dios back, and let the good times roll

I'd be all for:

1. Nominating 3 players who can't be Lawyer-ed
2. Nominating 2 players for Lawyer-ing
3. Being given 3 players for Lawyer-ation
4. Having to accept 4 of the 5 Lawyer offers

I don't see the appeal of having another raft of star players.

I'll second this notion. Although I wouldn't necessarily be worried about point 1, I can see the purpose and value of it to some managers, and I of course have players I would rather not sell as well

It means we'll all have our 3 favourite players, and I'd be much happier with the enforced acceptance rule if it meant I could protect my three most crucial players. If not, I'd hate to have to sell two of Ba / Ben Arfa / Bonucci! Imagine you having to sell your two other stars just to keep Tevez

im nt selling players unless i want to sorry so you can Frak off if you try that

Fernando wrote:im nt selling players unless i want to sorry so you can Frak off if you try that

Happens to even the best managers. SAF didn't want to sell Ronaldo, Wenger didn't want to sell RVP, Fabregas et al.

The sign of a good manager is when your players decide they don't want to play for you anymore, how you deal with it and move forward still.

I would have a lot of players that I wouldn't want to sell, but I'm more in favour of making it a bit more challenging and not such a straight forward ride.

Also how about making it so that in terms of selling 4 out of 5, the sales can be either to the lawyer offer, or another team in the league

Azzy Mahmood wrote:It means we'll all have our 3 favourite players, and I'd be much happier with the enforced acceptance rule if it meant I could protect my three most crucial players. If not, I'd hate to have to sell two of Ba / Ben Arfa / Bonucci! Imagine you having to sell your two other stars just to keep Tevez

I wouldn't want to do it and it would be a difficult choice, but then I'm not playing the game for an easy life. It is a decision I would just have to make if I wanted to play the game properly

im nt selling 4 out of 5 end of . 2 out of 5 id consider but 4 is too many for the amount of lawyers you get

Thing is Afro, this isn't a realistic league. So no need to try and make it realistic.

I would be 100% against forced sales of players, no matter who it was.

Also, when can we buy players who've been sold through Lawyers? We need those guys to come back into play too.

Really I'm just trying to make it more of a game and a bit more of a challenge than it currently is, not trying to make it more realistic.

It just feels too much of an easy, routine, 'accept lawyers, upgrade in TPs, do a set of tactics, vote, start the cycle again' game atm and I do not see what the harm of making it a bit more challenging.

But I will, of course, go with what the majority want

Seems like there is some middle ground though

Say, 2 of 4 lawyers must be accepted, but you can also nominate 2 or 3 players that absolutely won't get an offer made on.

Fernando wrote:im nt selling 4 out of 5 end of . 2 out of 5 id consider but 4 is too many for the amount of lawyers you get

You are nominating 2 yourself, so it is really 2 out of 3 that you haven't picked, with 3 players protected as well

if you want to make it random why not puts everyones teams in a hat and draw a new one out