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Game uses FIFA 19 version as at 10/01/2019
https://sofifa.com/?v=19&e=159334&set=true

Week 20
Cambridge v Morecambe
Macclesfield v Forest Green
Exeter v Grimsby
Crewe v Carlisle
Lincoln v Mansfield
Colchester v Cheltenham

Match - week to be confirmed
Mansfield v Macclesfield

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Links

https://www.twitch.tv/hero606v2

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rzMxThEbVCIiOq_gKOmMqH7WgcsIpYxleuPOWIzg-4Q/edit?usp=sharing

Team	_________	Manager
Cambridge Utd	_________	Dolph
Carlisle United	_________	Fluxy
Cheltenham Town	_________	Twist
Colchester	_________	Azzy
Crewe Alexandra	_________	Nads
Exeter City	_________	Trebs
Forest Green	_________	TAB
Grimsby Town	_________	Fernando
Lincoln City	_________	Bam
Macclesfield	_________	Hero
Mansfield Town	_________	Rof
Morecambe	_________	Afro

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Matches	_________	Transfers	_________	Other
Fixtures	_________	Lawyers	_________	Rules
Table	_________	Foreigns	_________	Press Conferences
Injuries	_________	Releases	_________
Tactics	_________	Confirmation	_________
Results	_________		_________
Cards	_________		_________

5. Which Premier League team, will miss out on European Football next season?

West Ham - Azzy
Everton - Afro
Arsenal - Tab
Wolves - Bam
Most of them - Marky

You get a point, you get a point, a point for all... 

Scores:
14 - Bam and Tab
13 - Afro
11 - Marky
5 - Azzy

6. France registered Lightsaber dueling as an official sport, but what current sport should be de-registered as an official sport?

Soccer - Azzy
Darts - Everyone else

Scores:
18 - Bam and Tab
17 - Afro
15 - Marky
6 - Azzy

7. Name a team left in the Europa League, last 16?

Chelsea - Bam and Tab
Arsenal - Afro and Marky
Dinamo Zagreb - Azzy

Scores:
20 - Bam and Tab
19 - Afro
17 - Marky
7 - Azzy

8. Finally, you are stranded on an island and could only eat one food the entire time. Which would you choose?

Corned beef - Azzy
Capital Spare Ribs - Afro
Chicken - Tab
Cheese - Bam
Steak - Marky

Scores: 
21 - Bam and Tab
20 - Afro
18 - Marky
8 - Azzy

What happens in the event of a tie   - tie breaker question?

I'm happy to have TAB as my queen

I say BamBam is the winner, because he's so good they had to name him twice #TabTab

Had a bit of a tidy of the Scorers and Assists lists yesterday. My file looks up on name and I had chucked a couple of typos in so some players appeared more than once. In fact Nando's Uche appeared 3 times, as I had misspelt once and then chucked a random space after his name another time!

BamBam wrote:I'm happy to have TAB as my queen

In your dreams bamalam!

I think we established who's king in that spanking you got last week!

Thanks for drawing lawyers and injuries Dolph.

Got quite a bit on this morning, so will draw the outstanding ones, plus do the lawyer values later, unless someone else can help?

Anyone interested in Anuar? I got a lawyers for him but he played very well against Madrid at weekend. Just wondering what his going rate on here would be as I build for next season

Plus Nasser Al Shamrani is up for sale too. Looking for a CB

Added Bury and Cambridge injuries

Bury and Cambridge both need lawyers too

Matt Clarke - £198k
Hlompho Kekana - £693k


Not going to bother for Bury as they have no manager

Still on the look out for a CB with a high rating and high potential if anyone is selling?

Does anyone have any complaints if I stop tracking yellow cards?

The only way I have of tracking it is to watch every game. I thought it would show me a card against anyone on the stats at the end of the game. It does for those still on the pitch, but not if they have been subbed off.

And they are so few and far between that it feels a bit pointless

Afro wrote:Does anyone have any complaints if I stop tracking yellow cards?

The only way I have of tracking it is to watch every game. I thought it would show me a card against anyone on the stats at the end of the game. It does for those still on the pitch, but not if they have been subbed off.

And they are so few and far between that it feels a bit pointless

No issues here at all. What's the average, one yellow every 10 games? Seems pointless.

No don't worry about it.....it is extra work that has no benefit in continuing.

Anyone interested in Mahachi or Kim Seung Dae for cash

What's wrong with Dae man....he is great!

The problem is his first name isn't Matt.

TwisT wrote:What's wrong with Dae man....he is great!

Same issue as you. Can't get a tune from him that lives up to his stats. Not sure he fits my formation and tactics

How much for Dae out of interest?

On a separate note I may be open to selling Rhian Brewster if anyone is looking to bring in a future star

I would take £400k for him. Its a little above his £383k TM value, but just under the £411k I paid for him

Afro wrote:

TwisT wrote:What's wrong with Dae man....he is great!

Same issue as you. Can't get a tune from him that lives up to his stats. Not sure he fits my formation and tactics

He is skilled in a lot of areas but not a master of 1. Still very good backup at 400k though

Afro wrote:

TwisT wrote:What's wrong with Dae man....he is great!

Same issue as you. Can't get a tune from him that lives up to his stats. Not sure he fits my formation and tactics

I've had the same with a couple of players - their stats say they're great, but they've been outplayed by a 61-rated guy. Really odd.

TwisT wrote:

Afro wrote:

TwisT wrote:What's wrong with Dae man....he is great!

Same issue as you. Can't get a tune from him that lives up to his stats. Not sure he fits my formation and tactics

He is skilled in a lot of areas but not a master of 1. Still very good backup at 400k though

I've got one more idea, which I am going to try this week (unless I get an offer) and if not, I'll go for my foreign target instead

Whoever came in with a bid for Salva Sevilla before: my door is open.

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:10. WOW! MAKE YOUR OWN QUESTION SPECIAL: ANSWER A QUESTION OF YOUR OWN WRITING! WOW!
Rework the fixture list, give wins to all players against managerless teams.

Seriously on this, if we wanted to do this then the time to do it would be in two weeks time as we will then be halfway through and have played everyone once

Any thoughts?

It would be dropping Bury and Newport, possibly MK Dons? Also Exeter if Trebs was still looking to quit?

I have continuous free time, Afro, want me to have a look?

Definitely think Newport and Bury should be dropped

Has Olly been noncing again? We either drop two or four obviously

Afro wrote:

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:10. WOW! MAKE YOUR OWN QUESTION SPECIAL: ANSWER A QUESTION OF YOUR OWN WRITING! WOW!
Rework the fixture list, give wins to all players against managerless teams.

Seriously on this, if we wanted to do this then the time to do it would be in two weeks time as we will then be halfway through and have played everyone once

Any thoughts?

It would be dropping Bury and Newport, possibly MK Dons? Also Exeter if Trebs was still looking to quit?

I have no problem with that. Would that also mean dropping these teams for the second half and cutting the season down by 3 games?

Also, what have I missed? When did Trebs say he may quit?

Trebs has been hinting at it in Press Conferences for weeks.

If he doesn't want to, then great, but if he does then this is an opportunity

It would be drop the teams from the second half and have less weeks. Whether you expunge the results relating to those teams or give everyone 3 points is up for debate, but the net result is the same all round.

Would be simple for me to remove their results from results page and table. Assists and scorers less so, but still straight forward.

Seems silly Hero having to run the games involving those teams each week.

Yeah I'm happy to get rid of at least Bury and Newport

Other question is what happens to their squads, and whether its just a free for all

Ah I see, sorry I haven't had time to be really involved so haven't watched other games or read press conferences.

Cutting it down would mean the season would finish more or less at the end of the PL season? Might be a good time to pause, maybe see if other people want to come in before we do an update and start season 2. I am really enjoying the fifa league so wouldn't want it to finish totally. I agree it seems silly for Hero to run games.

I would say all results need to be expunged rather than giving everyone 3 points. As for squads I would say those players aren't available until season end.

I'd be the opposite, think the players should be available. Maybe not immediately, but 2 weeks (is that how we do it with released players?)

Its a month for anyone released / lawyered out of the league

My opinion is:

Play next two weeks as it stands to get to half way point
Drop Newport and Bury definitely
See whether Trebs wants to carry on, and make decision on MK and Exeter based on that
Expunge results
Players are effectively released, so are off limits for 1 calendar month

Most of the decent ones at Bury have also gone over the 70 cap too.

Hero wrote:Most of the decent ones at Bury have also gone over the 70 cap too.

Or gone up in TM value

Well, Olly is pretty much out.

Hey guys, looking at what's been said....

I've complained at times (tried to keep it to a minimum believe it or not) but the rules problems aren't the end of the world.  I just don't get the same enjoyment over writing a set of fifa tactics compared to old school, or in doing transfers for players based off FIFA ratings and hoping for TM boosts (I even thought to myself that I'd only do domestic transfers and ban myself from foreigns to make it more fun).

Anyway, I've been as committed as possible - watching the games every week, keeping Exeter a competitive side, getting tactics, PCs etc in on time every single time. My thoughts were that I would stick it out to the end of the season.

I must say that Olly must be noncing about - he can't be taking it seriously. I'd be ashamed of myself if it was me, sat with MK Dons in the bottom half of the table.

Trebs wrote:Hey guys, looking at what's been said....

I've complained at times (tried to keep it to a minimum believe it or not) but the rules problems aren't the end of the world.  I just don't get the same enjoyment over writing a set of fifa tactics compared to old school, or in doing transfers for players based off FIFA ratings and hoping for TM boosts (I even thought to myself that I'd only do domestic transfers and ban myself from foreigns to make it more fun).

Anyway, I've been as committed as possible - watching the games every week, keeping Exeter a competitive side, getting tactics, PCs etc in on time every single time. My thoughts were that I would stick it out to the end of the season.

I must say that Olly must be noncing about - he can't be taking it seriously. I'd be ashamed of myself if it was me, sat with MK Dons in the bottom half of the table.

Definitely no questioning your commitment mate and it is appreciated.

I was just aware that it wasn't your bag compared to old style and that you were only seeing out the season, so if you had had enough, this is a chance to call it a day. You can still join in the banter, without having to worry about keeping a team ticking over.

If you want to keep going until the end of the season, then that is great and you are always wanted. We then keep MK Dons and revisit at the end of the season

If Trebs stays ill be duplicate Olly for the reason of season just sending tactics in if want?

Fernando wrote:If Trebs stays ill be duplicate Olly for the reason of season just sending tactics in if want?

Why would we want MK suddenly winning games?

I was gonna say, I’m a person with nothing but free time as the Aussies dislike me, so I can easily do Olly’s team.

Lee Martin £225k 64
Aaron Martin £180k 64
Both getting reeleased unless any wants them?

Afro wrote:

Trebs wrote:Hey guys, looking at what's been said....

I've complained at times (tried to keep it to a minimum believe it or not) but the rules problems aren't the end of the world.  I just don't get the same enjoyment over writing a set of fifa tactics compared to old school, or in doing transfers for players based off FIFA ratings and hoping for TM boosts (I even thought to myself that I'd only do domestic transfers and ban myself from foreigns to make it more fun).

Anyway, I've been as committed as possible - watching the games every week, keeping Exeter a competitive side, getting tactics, PCs etc in on time every single time. My thoughts were that I would stick it out to the end of the season.

I must say that Olly must be noncing about - he can't be taking it seriously. I'd be ashamed of myself if it was me, sat with MK Dons in the bottom half of the table.

Definitely no questioning your commitment mate and it is appreciated.

I was just aware that it wasn't your bag compared to old style and that you were only seeing out the season, so if you had had enough, this is a chance to call it a day. You can still join in the banter, without having to worry about keeping a team ticking over.

If you want to keep going until the end of the season, then that is great and you are always wanted. We then keep MK Dons and revisit at the end of the season

Join in with the banter? I'm here to win a league.

No worries - it looks like it's for the best that I remain for now. Unless we can come up with a Malthouse compromise?

If that is the alternative, you're staying whether you like it or not!!

So the proposal is:

• Play the next two round of matches as they stand
  
• After those games, we drop Newport and Bury
  
• Results for those games are expunged from the table
  
• Fixtures for the second half of the season will be redone to exclude those teams.
  
• Players from those teams are all released and are therefore off limits for 1 calendar month (which I make to be 26th April)
  
• After 1 calendar month they can be signed from foreigns providing they fulfil the rules on foreign signings i.e. the 70 rating cap
  
• I will not redo the scorers or assists list, as it is a bugger doing it (esp assists as I don't have a record of which games the assists were from
  

Any objections?