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Remaining budget + 25m for player drafts (max of 10 players allowed to be brought in each to have a max TM value of 10m). Players from English Premier League, Spanish La Liga and German Bundesliga are NOT allowed to be picked.

Then another 25m for the star player draft for a player worth a max of 20m on TM, any player upto this value is allowed

Gregers wrote:Are people wanting a third draft?

If so deadlines as follows:

2nd drafts in: 18:00 Tuesday 18th Feb
2nd draft results: "Evening" Tuesday 18th Feb
3rd drafts in: 18:00 Thursday 20th Feb
3rd draft results: "Evening" Thursday 18th Feb
Star Players in: 18:00 Friday 21st Feb
Star Players results: "Evening" Friday 21st Feb

Start league Monday 24th Feb

No. Stick with 2, which is what it said on the original plan.

Ganso is a Santos legend!

If no third draft then star players in by thursday

From the outside looking in, it feels like it has become a competition on who can draft the best "unknown" future star, rather than who can get the best players to build a team.

It has gone a bit overboard on signing players who will be good in a year or so's time.

Is there any update on my 1st draft because id like to do a 2nd if have money.

sodhat wrote:Morning kunchers

Anyone seen that Rowan Cheshire skier girl with her face all smashed up? I still would.

This is where I miss Azzy most. He'd have been all over this.

It has all the ingredients; 18 year old female, sport, battered face.

Yes there is nando will pm you at lunch (meant to send last night)

1. Which player were you gutted to miss out on that you lost on a bid (if you did indeed lose)?
Lucas Piazon

2. Which player were you most happy to get?
Tied between Wallace and Fernando

3. Which player that someone else got were you most jealous of?
CF getting Pirlo, I didn't bid because I went for Ganso who is cheaper.

4. Which player that someone else got had you totally forgot about and regret it?
No-one really, didn't forget anyone.

5. Which player purchase had you scratching your head wondering why?
None really, who am I to question another manager's judgement?

6. Which manager did the best from the first draft?
Hero

Sent nando

Cheers Gregers that seems more like it

Announcement


Due to one of the runners being a touch incompetent Nando's bids have been revised (back to what they actually were!)

Darijo Srna - £9.2 million - STILL Nando's player
Gianluigi Buffon - £5 million - NO LONGER TOP BIDDER, VIVA can confirm for £6 million if he wishes 
Andrea Pirlo - £8 million - STILL CF's player

His remaining bids were correct, the only player this changes is BUFFON

Any chance of doing the rebids next? Me v Miky for Maxwell, and you v Bianco for Motta.

2nd draft is in

It has been noted by the Euro Division Protection Society that there is far too much football talk than is healthy for this league.

We offer the benefit of a doubt that this is an oversight, but to encourage proper Euro Division debate, we offer the following question:

Which would make a better variation of Curling. Replacing the stones with a) snow mobiles or b) dwarves?

Dwarves wouldn't really change the game much. Snow mobiles is just silly.

They should have various powerplay stones, like one which sticks in place, one with rocket boosts, swapping the opponents stone with a glass one

Also the brooms are set on fire as the stone is released

And holes in the ice.

I'm the Barry Hearn of curling

GSC wrote:Dwarves wouldn't really change the game much. Snow mobiles is just silly.

They should have various powerplay stones, like one which sticks in place, one with rocket boosts, swapping the opponents stone with a glass one

Snow mobiles is really variable as whoever drives the last stone, should always win. Dwarves could change the game if they were allowed to move. You'd have to get agreeable dwarves, rather than cross ones who would just get up and walk off.

But I like your idea. You could have an exploding one that just destroy all other stones in a certain radius

What about if the rink(what do they call it?) is on a kind of see saw and you had to balance it as much as you could

And Cheerleaders.

The final stone counts as double points, like a wild card stone. And dwarves would be funny for about 10 minutes, then it would just be curling again.

To decide who gets to throw last, team members have a race to down a pint for each end

So you just have dwarves for the warm up before introducing the holes and exploding stones for the actual match

For my alternative Winter Olympics, I'd also introduce Snow Mobile Slope Style

For Ski Jumping, they'd be jumping over an AA gun

GSC wrote:For Ski Jumping, they'd be jumping over an AA gun

You know that Cross Country skiing with shooting.

Would it be too much to make them do it in the dark and put the crowd behind the targets?

Marky wrote:Any chance of doing the rebids next? Me v Miky for Maxwell, and you v Bianco for Motta.

Motta - 
Bianco - £12.5 million
Gregers - No rebid 

Bainco's players at £12.5 million

Maxwell -
Marky - £3.7 million
Holymilky - £6 million

Milky's player at £6 million

I've done curling whilst in Munich, it's about as much as watching it.

Gregers wrote:Maxwell -
Marky - £3.7 million
Holymilky - £6 million

Milky's player at £6 million

Blimey. I thought £3.7m was over the top

Congrats Miky

Hero wrote:I've done curling whilst in Munich, it's about as much as watching it.

With or without holes/exploding stones/dwarves?

Just the plain version, I didn't pay for it though and jumped the queue to take part (there was a 2 day queue!)

I just want a pair of the shoes

For bobsleigh, you get chased down by a Polar Bear

GSC wrote:For bobsleigh, you get chased down by a Polar Bear

Use the bobsleigh track to stage a new Winter sport which is basically Temple Run on ice.

Rather than the skeleton and bobsleigh crap they should have proper old school sledging, everyone at the top of a big hill, dustbin lids, binbag and boxes and just go for it trying to avoid the dog eating snowballs on the way down.

Snowball fights should also be a Winter Olympic event. Dodgeball style rules.

Just to clarify:
My visualisation above has a dog that eats snowballs.
Not a number of snowballs that eat dogs.

But that would make it more awesome.

I'll take Buffon for 6m if I can.

Hero wrote:Rather than the skeleton and bobsleigh crap they should have proper old school sledging, everyone at the top of a big hill, dustbin lids, binbag and boxes and just go for it trying to avoid the dog eating snowballs on the way down.

"And here come the German two-man team, with their recycling bin lid"

Marky wrote:Snowball fights should also be a Winter Olympic event. Dodgeball style rules.

There's always the one kid who gets hit in the face with the iceball and ruins it with his broken teeth and fractured eyesocket and the H&S brigade get involved.

Marky wrote:

Gregers wrote:Maxwell -
Marky - £3.7 million
Holymilky - £6 million

Milky's player at £6 million

Blimey. I thought £3.7m was over the top

Congrats Miky

Thanks mate, i bid £6m because i thought you would go in at around £6m also.

Glad to get a bit of experience into the midfield with Motta.

How about with the Speed Skating, they have to do it in slippers?

And the half pipe, they have to land on their heads...oh wait, Rowan Cheshire's already done that

Replacing the dancing on ice with a snow angel competition.

And the shooting in the cross country ski with whoever can pee their name into snow fastest

What superpower would you most like to have?

I always thought flying, but being able to see through walls would be quite entertaining

The ski/shooting thing should be more like The Hunger Games/Battle Royale, last man standing, winner takes all.

Afro wrote:What superpower would you most like to have?

I always thought flying, but being able to see through walls would be quite entertaining

Time control.

What superpower would you most like to have?

Ability to see into the future. Id be a multi-millionaire within a weekend of football.

I would like to be able to just think and pop up where i wanted to go

Viva would be elasticated so he could grope around corners.

Fly or invisible, I'm not sure I need time to think. Nick is doing back to the future stuff. 

Who wants to hear my story about me and the taxi driver last Friday night.

Did it involve a lobster, inflatables and a tube of KY jelly?
If so you've told us before.