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| roonaldo | Apr 1 2009, 09:34 PM Post #1096 |
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Dirk Kuyt
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Cafu would have done tho
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| AntMcfc | Apr 1 2009, 09:37 PM Post #1097 |
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POTY
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But this isn't a big game, nor is it a small game. IT'S MADE UP!!! P.s. Cafu will have Pires in his pocket, and that's surely the point of this game! If you picked the 4 greatest defenders of all time in your team, you should be able to look at your side and say ''In a game, teams would find it incredibly hard to score against this team''. That's why we're here picking a team, and not just 11 individuals, as you should know looking on the amount of thought gone into your side. On the flip side, if a player picked the greatest 3 strikers ever in their side, they should be able to say ''These strikers would be able to score against any defence ever created'', and then you'd have a real battle on your hands as to who you'd vote for. Then you'd look at intricacies, the finer points. If team A had a poor RB and Team B had the best ever LW you'd say ''Team A will be exposed here and I can see them getting goals down the left wing, team B wins it for me''. That's why we're building a side, writing a paragraph about how they'd work, and then putting it down to the vote. |
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| AntMcfc | Apr 1 2009, 09:38 PM Post #1098 |
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POTY
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Wow that's the longest P.S. of all time! Roonaldo Yessss, great minds. Cafu will eat up most LW's.
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| roonaldo | Apr 1 2009, 09:40 PM Post #1099 |
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If everybody judges it along these guidlines i don't think we will go far wrong |
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| Cull58 | Apr 1 2009, 09:48 PM Post #1100 |
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Just forget about drawing the against eachother an have people vote on whos is the best team overrall |
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| Scholes | Apr 1 2009, 09:52 PM Post #1101 |
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Nothing's as it seems
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Yes, everyone will be writing a paragraph minimum to try and convince everyone their team is great, and will work, correct, but are you for the idea of for instance, you and I get drawn against each other, and we each write a few paragraphs explaining how our sides will line-up, how they will react in certain situations, and how we will exploit each other's weaknesses? It becomes VERY complicated if we do that and it becomes almost a managerial game whereby we are comparing 4-4-2 formations with 4-4-3 etc, which players press, which players make forward runs...etc. It all becomes very complicated like that and some people would be uncomfortable arguing their point. We should keep this as simplistic as possible, where we write one piece describing our team and what makes them great as a side. For example, think of Chelsea from 04-06. I'm sure someone could write an article on how good they were and why they were so effective, but they would be talking generally, because between that period they won 80 odd football matches, against many different sides. That's what we should consider for the teams we're making. Judge them with regards to how great a team you think they'd be over a period of 9 months...you don't have to be pedantic and think, hmmm...they would reach the semis in Europe, win the imaginary league by 6 pts etc....no need to get technical, just picture a side and consider how great they'd be, and then when teams are drawn against each other, you vote for the team you think would achieve more... Your idea has too many flaws and stumbling blocks. The big game player debate would be totally unfair on those that have picked their side on an overall scale, like I said we would be doing, and we'd get people saying 'Costacurta would have Drogba in his pocket' etc...that wouldn't lead to anything useful as it's pure speculation. I'm totally for the idea of judging each team on an individual basis. |
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| AntMcfc | Apr 1 2009, 09:53 PM Post #1102 |
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POTY
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The thing I don't like about that is people see attackers as more of a reason to vote for a better team. When you think of great teams over the years all you hear about is free flowing, total footballing sides who swept the world with beautiful football and goalscoring. Good defensive sides wouldn't be appreciated. And secondly, if team A has the greatest ever LW and Team B had a poor RB, it will be because team A made it their priority to get a great LW, so he risked losing other players by going for this LW first. Team B on the other hand saw it important to go for players in other positions, and then left the RB til last. This was his fault for leaving RB until last, which in turn made his team vulnerable to conceding. I'll emphasise again, that we're building a team, and picking the players we are for a reason, that reason being so we can beat any one of 15 picks that we could potentially get drawn against. |
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| Scholes | Apr 1 2009, 09:54 PM Post #1103 |
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I can see exactly why you're saying that, but teams will be drawn against each other like the last 16 of the CL. It'd be a bit too muddled putting every team, and every speech abut each team in the same thread, and it'd be easier doing two at a time, and whittling it down to a final. This would also spark more debate and discussion too. |
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| Cull58 | Apr 1 2009, 09:57 PM Post #1104 |
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How much longer is there to go with this until all the picks are finished? |
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| Kem | Apr 1 2009, 09:57 PM Post #1105 |
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Liam Ridgewell
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i agree with everything, however unlike the last 16 of the CL, once teams lose can we still have the losing teams face each other or have some sort of round robin. I will just feel like i wasted alot of time if we are going to be one and done with this lol. I would like to see different teams face each other. |
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| Cull58 | Apr 1 2009, 09:59 PM Post #1106 |
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You COULD have a league table an every team play eachother? Be kinda cool |
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| AntMcfc | Apr 1 2009, 09:59 PM Post #1107 |
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POTY
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Maybe we should go a Euro 2008 style tournament then, 4 teams in 4 groups, top 2 go through to the last 8 knockout phase? |
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Apr 1 2009, 10:00 PM Post #1108 |
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Danny Dyer
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Cafu have Pires in his pocket
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| Scholes | Apr 1 2009, 10:01 PM Post #1109 |
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Who's everything? Yes Kem, good idea. I will make sure that happens
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| Scholes | Apr 1 2009, 10:03 PM Post #1110 |
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Yes, could do Ant...but do you agree that judging on an individual basis is best? And I'll reiterate, think about the Juventus side of the 90s, and the Madrid Galacticos...how would you compare their greatness? You would not pictue them playing each other would you? |
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Yessss, great minds. Cafu will eat up most LW's.




2:40 PM Jul 11