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This Week's Fixtures

Week 17
Perth Morning Glory  v Melbourne City
Melbourne Victory  v Sydney FC
Brisbane Roar  v Adelaide United
Newcastle Jets  v Wellington Phoenix
Western Sydney Wanderers  v Central Coast Mariners
 

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This Week's Key Deadlines

- 2 new Lawyers drawn on Tuesday
- Injuries drawn Wednesday
- 2 releases per week max
- Tactics due Friday

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Links

https://www.twitch.tv/hero606v2

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VM9eIonYMyXCXpQOBjAJylh3wihazcw8RKtLLHiD8HI/htmlview#gid=1996389080

Team	_________	Manager
Adelaide United	_________	Hero
Brisbane Roar	_________	Miky
Central Coast Mariners	_________	Olly
Melbourne City	_________	Twist
Melbourne Victory	_________	Afro
Newcastle Jets	_________	Nadz
Perth Glory	_________	Marky
Sid Knee CF	_________	Nando
Wellington Phoenix	_________	Bam
WS Wanderers	_________	Tino

Match	_________	Transfer	_________	Other
Fixtures/Results	_________	Lawyers	_________	Rules
Table	_________	Foreigns	_________	Youth Rules
Injuries	_________	Releases	_________	Press Conferences
Tactics	_________	Confirmation	_________
	_________	Loans	_________

30 mins left for sheep

Purely due to it being FIFA based however much I enjoy a draft (I love a draft!) it's a damn sight easier to start with prebuilt clubs. Drafts and FIFA result in having to send all the players to free agents at a given club, this has to be done in bits and bobs as it has a minimum number of outfield players a squad can have so you have to bring some in as you go along and then ship more out. It's rather time consuming!

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:Oh also reboot discussion wise, i always enjoyed the draft style (ie. pots of GKs, pots of RBs etc) - i'd be happy to help draw up stuff like that - and you could do it snake draft order, so whoever got 10th pick of GKs got 1st pick of RBs so on and so forth

Could also do it auction style - NFL fantasy type of thing

If people want drafts/auctions I will do it, just be aware though that it would take several hours prep time to put it together.

Didn't actually consider the time it would take you to put together, but that makes sense

ah i forgot fifa has that squad minimum thing, makes sense to leave it with pre squads if it happens then

Sheep results coming

1. Name me a variety of biscuit

Bam - Digestive
Trebs - Rich Tea
Hero - Hob Nob
Marky - Bourbon
Fluxy - Custard Creams
Nads - Digestive

Bam - 2
Trebs - 1
Hero - 1
Marky - 1
Fluxy - 1
Nads - 2

2. Name a member of England WC Squad

Everyone said Kane

Bam - 8
Trebs - 7
Hero - 7
Marky - 7
Fluxy - 7
Nads -8

3. Goalscorer from FIFA games

Bam - Umtiti
Trebs - Umtiti
Hero - Willian
Marky - Matuidi
Fluxy - Umtiti
Nads - Isco

Bam - 11
Trebs - 10
Hero - 8
Marky - 8
Fluxy - 10
Nads - 9

4. Kanye West song

Everyone said Gold Digger

Bam - 17
Trebs - 16
Hero - 14
Marky - 14
Fluxy - 16
Nads - 15

5. A politician slagged off by Trump

Bam - Hillary
Trebs - Hillary
Hero - Hillary
Marky - Kim Jong Un
Fluxy - Obama
Nads - Putin (you drunk?!)

Bam - 20
Trebs - 19
Hero - 17
Marky - 15
Fluxy - 17
Nads - 16

6. Name a bra size

Bam - 34D
Trebs - DD
Hero - 36C
Marky - 36DD
Fluxy - 36DD
Nads - XXXXL

Bam - 21
Trebs - 20
Hero - 18
Marky - 17
Fluxy - 19
Nads - 17

7. Laurel or Yanny

Bam - Yanny
Trebs - Laurel
Hero - Yanny
Marky - Yanny
Fluxy - Yanny
Nads - Laurel

Bam - 25
Trebs - 22
Hero - 22
Marky - 21
Fluxy - 23
Nads - 19

8. Isreal or Palestine

Bam - I
Trebs - I
Hero - P
Marky - P
Fluxy - I
Nads - P

Bam - 28
Trebs - 25
Hero - 25
Marky - 24
Fluxy - 26
Nads - 22

9. African nation at the WC

Bam - Nigeria
Trebs - Egypt
Hero - Tunisia
Marky - Egypt
Fluxy - Nigeria
Nads - Egypt


Bam - 30
Trebs - 28
Hero - 26
Marky - 27
Fluxy - 28
Nads - 25

10. Variety of shoe

Fluxy - Oxfords
Everyone else - Trainers

Bam - 35
Trebs - 33
Hero - 31
Marky - 32
Fluxy - 29
Nads - 30

Well done Trebs.

As we all know, winning a game of Sheep that you collated the results for means nothing.

I'm shocked people chose Israel instead of Palestine. Olly didn't even type it properly ffs

#freeisreal

One of the things I'd like to change for season 2 of Fifa is to increase game time.
Think currently it's a little short and forces teams to go high pressure to go for the wins when it's not always favourable tactics.
Obviously it's dependent on how time I have in evenings but I'm happy to look at making the games longer.

Team of Week 7

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Cheers Bam....
But apologies, I had to redo the Nadz v Nando match last night as I cocked up on Nadz's keeper.

Ah bollox

Updated

Need to end this undefeated streak of Melbourne City this week.

Soon as injuries are out I'll get cracking on a masterplan

Marky wrote:Need to end this undefeated streak of Melbourne City this week.

Soon as injuries are out I'll get cracking on a masterplan

Will do mine as soon as lawyers and injuries have been announced. Good luck in advance though mate

Couple of big games for you Twist to really see if you've got real title credentials

Think it's great though that one of the teams that isn't full of Galacticos like mine/Afro/Nando is the trailblazer. Think from week 1 you'd embraced the custom tactics and it's certainly worked, played 7 games undefeated and only having conceded 2 goals.

Custom tactics definitely made a difference for me, since week 4 when I started using them, I've got 3 wins and a draw against Twist

I didn't even realise we could use custom until a couple of weeks ago. Hero had publicised it, but it completely went over my head.

So now I'm playing catch-up a bit.

Yeah I've used custom tactics from the off and it's only been from my own downfall that I've tasted defeat and gone too OTT attack with them.

Did try a game last night of longer halves and it ended up a 4-0 result.

I wonder if longer halves should wait until the new season to implement.

I'd say so

Hero wrote:Couple of big games for you Twist to really see if you've got real title credentials

Think it's great though that one of the teams that isn't full of Galacticos like mine/Afro/Nando is the trailblazer. Think from week 1 you'd embraced the custom tactics and it's certainly worked, played 7 games undefeated and only having conceded 2 goals.

Indeed. I have coped alright but some big strikers are going to test that GC. I believe it is all about find a way of playing that suits the important players in your team. If I take credit for anything then it is how Balde and Willian have played - 3 goals each and a few assists. I have it step up to play to their strengths and it has worked. Not sure why I am so defensively sound though - I do think Torriera, Dendoncker and Partey work really well as 2 player combination in whatever order so that might be it.

If I do win the league, and it is a big if, I wouldn't go overboard about it. A lot of people have been finding their feet early on. I just did my research as usual and plodded along really.

Have to say, even if i was last, I have really enjoyed the league. I think we can all say it has worked.

Ronaldo 1 goal in 1 appearance so far. It was a belter of a goal aswell. It looks like he's bought some winning mentality over here at Jets.

I was so hoping FIFA would sub him off for the 60 rated player.

Shows a level of randomness on Fifa (which I like).

In the first run of the game, with the same sets of tactics, Ronaldo was gash.

New PC up

https://www.606v2.com/t67566-week-8-press-conference#3706777

Im enjoying the league id have preferred to reset from the beginning though can do injuries if need be

Feels weird that we're already at wk8, has flown by which I'm taking as the league has been fun so far rather than dragged.

Really enjoying it.

I get through one game and I'm already itching for the next game, to put into practice what I think I've learnt from the game before.

Yep

The usual weekly process of lawyers and injuries is dragging too much for my liking

I would like to trial injuries/cards in a few test games if possible for season 2. I know people were hesitant to it but think it adds another layer onto the games.

Yeah I was slightly disappointed there weren't injuries/red cards at the start but if you can trial it out and make it work, it'll only benefit the league more imo.

We'll have ages between the end of this league and FIFA 19, so we can try out the things we've been talking about, longer halves, cards/injuries etc

We can do custom tactics? Wtf how did I miss this lol

Classic Olly

Morning all, I can do lawyers and injuries this morning if you're willing to risk the health of your teams

Want me to do yours?

Sure

Do Nads injuries too so he can't complain when Ronaldo gets crippled

Okay...

Injuries for you:


[*]Adrien Rabiot - £40.5m - 82 (PSG)

[*]Taison - £9.9m - 82 (Shakhtar Donetsk)

[*]Benjamin Henrichs - 10.8m - 76 (Bayer Leverkusen)

I had to screenshot this...

Can I also have some lawyers for Phoenix please

You could give him the choice between the top 3 or the bottom 3

Watch the race to offer Nads a half season GK loan for 10m