Euro Division LXVI

by **Afro** Fri 27 Sep 2013, 11:55

First topic message reminder :

606V2 EURODivision

Announcements

Event: The great 606v2 meet up extravaganza
Date: Saturday 26 October 2013
Location: London
Venue: TBC, likely a sports bar
Time: 1900 onwards
Attending: Azzy + Viva + Sodhat + Marky + Nando (maybe), Olly, cherries others TBC

Season 1 Starts this week
Tactics due by 11.59pm on Friday 16th August

Tactics are sent to Olly

Votes are sent to sodhat. Votes must be in by 11:59pm on Monday of the appropriate gameweek.

The Enrique & J from 5ive League

FC WHU Do You Think You Are - Gregers

Tactics

Bilbao - Afro

Injuries

Would you dance, if Ajax you to dance? - Sodhat

Lawyers

Southampton FC - Marky

Fixtures

PSV - GSC

Table

Sport Club Corinthians Paulista - Nando

Top Scorers

Lille - Trebs

Glad t'be bach - Hero

FC Basel - cherriesfna

FC ZwagAtletico - Zinedine_Ze_Zebra

The Nodge - Olly

Fool 'em FC - Azzy

by **Afro** Mon 30 Sep 2013, 09:48

Anyone want Iturraspe before I accept his £8m lawyer offer?

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 30 Sep 2013, 09:50

What so I'm not allowed to say what I think?

Sorry Palace are just a great side, quality flowing throughout Rolling Eyes

by **Afro** Mon 30 Sep 2013, 09:50

sodhat wrote:Mark the 30th November in your calendars because that is when Palace play Norwich.

If they win it will be a great belated birthday present.

I went to check when Norwich play Palace too. Laugh

The footballing gods are bound to make that one a Palace win now

by **Afro** Mon 30 Sep 2013, 09:51

Olly wrote:What so I'm not allowed to say what I think?

Sorry Palace are just a great side, quality flowing throughout

You can say they are poor. I'm just saying that you are tempting fate a bit

by sodhat Mon 30 Sep 2013, 09:52

You can say what you think. But everything sets you up for a kicking when it comes back to bite you. Like when I laughed when we let Carlton Cole go. Now look at us.

by sodhat Mon 30 Sep 2013, 09:53

I just realised Olly was up watching the Patriots until 5am, so he's going to be grumpy.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 30 Sep 2013, 09:54

I will be fuming if we lose to them. I'll be fuming if we draw with them in all honesty. They're pants

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 30 Sep 2013, 09:54

sodhat wrote:I just realised Olly was up watching the Patriots until 5am, so he's going to be grumpy.

Euro Division LXVI - Page 4 Footballpatriotsvsfalcbbme

by sodhat Mon 30 Sep 2013, 09:56

Dude looks like such a wrong un.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 30 Sep 2013, 09:58

Yes I have had a very minimal amount of sleep after being up at 6am on Sunday morning all the way through until 5am last night. Feedback while voting later shall be interesting Laugh

by sodhat Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:08

I was up to 12:30am watching Oakland suck completely. Flynn has made so much money for being so average. He was sacked 7 times sure, but even with time all he did was bin it to Jennings for about 2 yards.

by Guest Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:17

Marky wrote:
Olly wrote:What is the point of Palace this year? Absolute whipping boys, anybody that loses to them needs to look at themselves seriously.
They're being sensible. They won the playoffs but knew they had a very slim chance of staying up. So they're fighting with a weak squad and will make the most of the PL money and parachute payments for a few years. Come back in a few years much stronger for it.

Pretty sure WBA did a similar thing, yo-yo'd from Premier League to Championship a few times before they were financially stable. Azzy will no doubt tell me I'm wrong now

Well we did spend some money when we came up, but yeah, the principle is there.

2002-'03 = spent £7.2m, finished 19th. Relegated.
2004-'05 = spent £11m, finished 17th. Stayed up on final day.
2005-'06 = spent £10.5m, finished 19th. Relegated.
2008-'09 = spent £21.5m, finished 20th. Relegated.
2010-'11 = spent £12m, finished 11th.
2011-'12 = spent £10m, finished 10th.
2012-'13 = spent £4m, finished 8th.
2013-'14 = spent £12.5m, finished 1st. Champions.

That doesn't show all the incomings (which I think balance the outgoings and more), but Palace haven't spent the money. They've no chance of staying up. Judging by Albion's history, they have a chance to consolidate a PL place in 2024-25.

by sodhat Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:42

Is this guy the worst football fan ever?

Poor performance all over the pitch, no plus points, hard to see where we will improve and cl qualification looks improbable.

Moyes out, I never wanted him and he's been terrible never mind out of his depth.

With the squad left and the amount of experienced winners in it - is moyes the worst manager in the pl?

I usually like to hear from Viva on United matters because he is a balanced fan. You do wonder whether some of the United fans are spoiled by success and unable to accept that you may not actually win every game...

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:44

These sort of losses happened under Fergie too. I remember them losing at home to Steve Kean's Blackburn for crying out loud

by Guest Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:45

Moyes hit the nail on the head I thought. To win the CL you need 5/6 world class players, in times gone by United had Van der Sar, Vidic, Rio, Evra, Scholes, Giggs, Rooney. Now it's just RVP + Rooney, as the others are no longer the players they once were.

Tbh, the likes of Evans and Buttner are not good enough for United, nor are Nani, Valencia, Young, Welbeck, Cleverley. Just look at the Dortmund side - even having lost Gotze - and you see just how far behind United are.

It was all down to Sir Alex Ferguson that United continued winning games, long after their players were good enough to do so. Best manager of all-time.

by Guest Mon 30 Sep 2013, 10:58

Tactics sent Euro Division LXVI - Page 4 3559488474

by **Hero** Mon 30 Sep 2013, 11:14

Anyone wish to better the lawyer offer for Fischer?

Fischer, Viktor - £7m

by **Afro** Mon 30 Sep 2013, 11:18

Barzagli, £12.5m...tempting.

Anyone interested?

by sodhat Mon 30 Sep 2013, 11:22

Siem de Jong for 10m is interesting. But I can't lose my spine of de Jongs.

by Guest Mon 30 Sep 2013, 11:23

Hero wrote:Anyone wish to better the lawyer offer for Fischer?

Fischer, Viktor - £7m

I don't have the cash, but am interested Smile

by Guest Mon 30 Sep 2013, 11:23

Afro wrote:Barzagli, £12.5m...tempting.

Anyone interested?

Me. But I don't have much cash.

by FIFA Diva Mon 30 Sep 2013, 12:18

Thank you Sodhat xxx

Firstly I am in the Moyes camp and I have 100% faith in him. A lot of United fans wanting him out after 6 games is mind blowing, this is a man who was given a 6 year contract the long term future of the club not a quick fix like Mourinho.

I can accept the fact we may not win things for a few years, like Afro said this United side is not as strong and has been reliant not on ability but Sir Alexs winning mentality rubbing of the players. Moyes needs time to mould this United team into his own.

If these so called fans are not happy that United may not be winning trophies for a few years or even longer they should ho and support another team. Now is not the time for negativity.

by Guest Mon 30 Sep 2013, 12:25

A good summary Viva, you should be applauded for your long-term view. Even Sir Alex couldn't win the league EVERY year, and I think even he may have struggled this season in view of Arsenal, Chelsea, City, Liverpool and Spurs all strengthening their sides.

Moyes has never had such good players at his disposal, it will take him some time to get used to such quality. He's only really ever had Baines + Fellaini as top, top players, and he's taken one of them with him. I reckon a summer of signings next year will see Moyes return United to the top 3 next season.

He just has to hope he can finish top 4 this season, imagine United not being in the CL or being able to sign top quality players Shocked

by FIFA Diva Mon 30 Sep 2013, 12:38

I have to disagree with you about Evans Mr Afro, last season and the 10/11 season he was our best CB. I'd like to see he become our first team CB.

by **Afro** Mon 30 Sep 2013, 12:44

I can neither take credit for saying the United team isn't as strong (although it isn't), nor for the comment about Evans.

That was Azzy. I think Evans was one of your top performers in defence last season wasn't he?

by FIFA Diva Mon 30 Sep 2013, 12:56

Oh was that Azzy hahaha. Yeah Evans was the best performer at the back last season.

by Guest Mon 30 Sep 2013, 13:00

He's a marginally better version of John O'Shea. Homegrown, talented, can put in a shift, but will never be world class like Rio and Vidic were. And Stam before them. And Bruce and Pallister before him.

by sodhat Mon 30 Sep 2013, 14:24

Iain Dowie's niece isn't nearly as unattractive as you might expect given her gene pool. I would.

by Guest Mon 30 Sep 2013, 14:49

Lads just an FYI, last week my work changed web filter and we lost a whole ton of websites. Now today I've found even more have been banned - including two other websites that use this same forum design. Therefore it may only be a matter of time before this too is banned at work.

If that happens I'll have to quit as manager - but will try on occasion to log on in the evenings.

Hopefully they see what an important contribution I'm making to the history of the internet here, and leave it alone Euro Division LXVI - Page 4 3559488474

by sodhat Mon 30 Sep 2013, 15:01

Lay a bit low for a couple of days Azzy.

They might be monitoring usage of sites in the immediate aftermath of the filter update so if activity here is negligible it may be spared the axe.

Although my understanding is that sites are mostly banned based on their classification. This surely makes this one harmless.

by Guest Mon 30 Sep 2013, 15:02

You say that, but 606hl is a hockey fans site I used to use, and that's banned. It uses the same forum template as this.

Fingers crossed eh? Smile

by sodhat Mon 30 Sep 2013, 15:04

I guess it depends. I mean was that site as well regulated as this in terms of adverts? Did it have a proper URL or was it one of these www.forumotion.606hl.com kind of things?

by **Afro** Mon 30 Sep 2013, 15:06

You never know, they might have spotted your latest injuries and decided to keep it available just for the laughs.

by Guest Mon 30 Sep 2013, 15:08

I think it's just 606hl.com - I only checked this morning and quickly closed all the windows down!

I also want the banners at the top to stop trying to sell me stuff I've already bought from Argos Laugh

by sodhat Mon 30 Sep 2013, 15:08

Or maybe they're just waiting for the point that you quit. No need to ban the site then.

by Guest Mon 30 Sep 2013, 15:14

So by the end of the week then...

by FIFA Diva Mon 30 Sep 2013, 15:18

Show us a picture of her Soddy.

I want to see Moyes daughter.

by **Hero** Mon 30 Sep 2013, 15:19

The Filipina girl is back sat behind me this week, immediately websites are telling me about Filipina girls to marry!

by sodhat Mon 30 Sep 2013, 15:20

I can't do pictures because I'm a simpleton. But her name is Natasha Dowie.

Kenny Dalglish had an attractive daughter too. And she didn't even get that Glasgow accent.

by FIFA Diva Mon 30 Sep 2013, 15:29

She's not bad but Lauren Moyes is better.

by Guest Mon 30 Sep 2013, 15:31

Kelly Dalglish is still in my top 10 celebrity women. She is everything a man could want.

by FIFA Diva Mon 30 Sep 2013, 15:35

I just googled her. Oh dear you make some bizzare choices Mahmood. She looks very simple and has big teeth no thank you even if she was the last female on earth I'd rather get assaulted by a panda.

by **Hero** Mon 30 Sep 2013, 15:37

What about 20 pandas the size of domestic cats?

by Guest Mon 30 Sep 2013, 15:45

How dare you Viva furious

Kelly is beautiful, sophisticated, clever, and has a wonderful smile.

by sodhat Mon 30 Sep 2013, 15:46

Cracking set of lungs an' all.

by FIFA Diva Mon 30 Sep 2013, 15:54

I reckon I'd be able to take on the 20 mini pandas, they're slow and stupid. Fighting one big one would be much harder.

Azzy I'm young, maybe when I hit my 40s I'll appreciate women like Dalglishs daughter or more then likely I never will. Then again there's women like Carol Voderman who I find attractive. Dalglishals daughter is too plain and sensible for me.

by **Afro** Mon 30 Sep 2013, 15:57

sodhat wrote:Cracking set of lungs an' all.

Alice Eve. Now that is the standard bearer for lung ratings....

by Guest Mon 30 Sep 2013, 16:00

Are you kidding? It's the plain and sensible ones that are the dirtiest in the bedroom, everyone knows that. Girls that are all shy and retiring are bondage monsters, girls that are outgoing give rubbish head. I know this from experience, as does Afro.

by FIFA Diva Mon 30 Sep 2013, 16:05

by **Afro** Mon 30 Sep 2013, 16:09

I can't argue with any of that. There's Viva trying to sound like it's a case of lowering standard, when the reality is, he is showing himself to be a bit inexperienced and niaive with ladies that he doesn't know the ways of the world.

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