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Official Football Thread 2006/2007 (Soccer)

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Ok, I've switched things round entirely, I'm happy with my team for now. Never know who's going to be signed of course, could change everything.

You're far from alone in making sure Ronaldo's in your team btw h0pper, a massive 58% of teams have him at the moment.
 
FIRST DEADLINE FOR PREDICTIONS

Sunday, August 5th, 3pm (UK time)

Man Utd - Chelsea

Community Shield (and to remove any ambiguity, it's at Wembley so a neutral location)
 
I'll probably decide right before the match.

I have one player in my team who I'm really on the fence about keeping. He's new to the Premiership this season, so a bit of an unknown quantity, and there's another play in his position who did very well last year and would cost quite a bit less and let me improve elsewhere. It's just this new player...if he can live up to his potential, he could rake the points in.
 
Mama Smurf said:
I'll probably decide right before the match.

I have one player in my team who I'm really on the fence about keeping. He's new to the Premiership this season, so a bit of an unknown quantity, and there's another play in his position who did very well last year and would cost quite a bit less and let me improve elsewhere. It's just this new player...if he can live up to his potential, he could rake the points in.
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Does he possibly play for Liverpool? And does the other play for Arsenal?
 
Mama Smurf said:
FIRST DEADLINE FOR PREDICTIONS

Sunday, August 5th, 3pm (UK time)

Man Utd - Chelsea

Community Shield (and to remove any ambiguity, it's at Wembley so a neutral location)
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Man Utd (2) - Chelsea (1)
 
Nope!

In fact, it get even more complicated because I don't think the new player will always play, but there's also a decent chance the player who got so many points last seaosn will swap positions this year due to signings.

Oh well, there's one free (from losing points) transfer a week, I can always change.
 
Ryck said:
.... I dunno can I do it freelance? My fear of commitment knows no bounds...
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I'd prefer for you to either be in or out. Otherwise, if people are dropping on and off every week, it makes scoring things a pain in the ass.

Wes said:
Can I get in on this prediction league? Or is it too late?
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I added you.

Entrants:
Cornballer
hadareud
mama smurf
psycho_snake
h0pper
lakitu
Fowler
Steroyd
phfresno
Ghost
DCharlie
zoolaga
Ronok
Ryck?
Wes
 
Ok in that case im In. Is it gonna be kept track of by someone on here ? Or is it like the Fantasy league where we sign up to a site?
 
Apparently Gilberto, Toure or...Gallas...will be the next Arsenal captain. Most likely one of the centre backs, as Wenger says that's the best position on the pitch to have the captain.

Arsenal fans may not be happy with a Gallas captaincy after recent comments, but I genuinally think he's the best choice. Mainly because he yells at people. Toure's too nice, so's Gilberto. I saw Gallas get in a yelling contest with Lehmann last year, so nothing intimidates him.
 
The thing is, I don't think I want a captain who's saying stuff that could bring the morale of the team down. In the past 3 months he's said some things that made me want to choke him.

I'm sure on the pitch he'd make a good captain, but off the pitch is another story.
 
Mama Smurf said:
Nope!

In fact, it get even more complicated because I don't think the new player will always play, but there's also a decent chance the player who got so many points last seaosn will swap positions this year due to signings.

Oh well, there's one free (from losing points) transfer a week, I can always change.
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Malouda?

Off topic, I'm excited to see Torres play in England. Would've been nice if he went somewhere besides top 4 though.
 
You should start a separate thread for each week of this prediction league.

"Official GAF EPL Prediction League: Game Week 1" or something. Then have it closed once that week's winner has been determined. It'll leave this thread a lot less cluttered and it ensures you wouldn't miss anyone's scores.

Just my 2 cents.
 
Making the fantasy team is pretty tough. I need to get ronaldo in the team. I was thinking about getting drogba, but he costs too much and he doesnt get as many points as ronaldo, who costs just as much. Ive nearly got the team done, so I'll post it soon. I dont care who sees my team.

Whats the code for our league?
 
Ok Ive joined. I couldnt think of a team name and I was eating jaffa cakes at the time, so Ive decided to call the team jaffa cakes.

This is my team:

------------------------------Howard--------------------

--------Lescot---------Dunne-------Ingimarsson----------Primus

-------Ronaldo--------Arteta---------Cesc----------Perdersen

----------------Berbatov------------Van Persie------------

Subs are Niemi, bikey, teale and carlton cole
 
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my team, though i'll probably change it before the season starts.
 
Also it's half-time in the Newcastle - Celtic game, Newcastle are winning 3-0. And just to underscore how poor Celtic are, as if that wasn't obvious from the score, Luque has scored twice.

Having said that, I saw Celtic destroyed by a United reserve side last summer, yet a few months later they were causing a better United side real problems in the CL.
 
I'm starting to think Drogba isn't as good as an "investment" as I thought. I should really do the math here lol.
 
Does anyone know how many points the winner got last year? I tried to look it up, but I couldn't find anything.

And you guys better pick good teams, there's a table for the private leagues too which we want to top, I assume they take an average of all the teams' points to compare leagues with different numbers in.
 
Mama Smurf said:
Does anyone know how many points the winner got last year? I tried to look it up, but I couldn't find anything.

And you guys better pick good teams, there's a table for the private leagues too which we want to top, I assume they take an average of all the teams' points to compare leagues with different numbers in.
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Yeah I want those tickets to a premiership match of my choice! lol.
 
Does anyone know why my team is so much better than everyone else's? I'm worried I've done something wrong, maybe some glitch let me spend too much.

Let's identify everyone:

Grasshopper--------------Aj 47 Cerebral Assassin
Real United FC------------Jarred Stanford
Hadareud FC--------------Hadareud Van Surname hadareud
Deportivo Cornballio-----Corn Baller Cornballer
Notvery Athletic----------David Crilly MrPing1000
Lakituees Chewies-------Laki Koni Lakitu
Ginger Ales---------------Rafael Osorio Osorio
Chicago Cruz-------------Roberto Martinez Outdoor Miner
Penguin Honor Guard----Penguin King
Ryck FC-------------------Rick Vera Ryck
Ronok FC-----------------Conor Charles Ronok
Joshes Gaudy Misfits-----Josh Butterworth Ghost
Deportivo Sutton---------Gianfranco Zoola Zoolaga
Final Countdown----------David Nolan navanman
H0FC----------------------Chris C h0pper
Red Dragons-------------Steroyd Ishbannedd Steroyd
The Pink Panthers--------Mama Smurf Mama Smurf
Frontline_United----------Sir Win a lot
jaffa cakes----------------Mohammed Cheriet psycho_snake

If anyone wants to change their name to their forum name, you can do. Just go to "My Team", look down for "Admin", click on "User profile" and you can change it.

Tell me if I've made any mistakes above, the rest of you identify yourselves! I could take guesses at some, but there are too many similar. Some clues:

Real United FC------------Jarred Stanford Liverpool, American
Penguin Honor Guard----Penguin King Liverpool, American
Frontline_United----------Sir Win a lot Liverpool, Swedish

That's what I like to see, some good variety.
 
Karakand said:
Negative ghostrider the pattern is full.
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I don't know what that means, but if it's a no then we apparently have two Man City fans.

EDIT: Ok, it's navaman. If you can read this but can't post because you're banned or something, post who you are on the league's forum.
 
Mama Smurf said:
And you guys better pick good teams, there's a table for the private leagues too which we want to top, I assume they take an average of all the teams' points to compare leagues with different numbers in.
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So my American-rich lineup ain't gonna cut it?!? :lol

I've changed my league info:

Team: Deportivo Cornballio
Name: Corn Baller
 
Just a few Liverpool fans left.

My lineup's a secret. I'll tell you I have James in goal though and Ronaldo in midfield, you should be able to work out the rest from that.
 
Sorry is was out at the gym practising for the fantasy football.

Yes The Final Countdownn is my team. Haven't picked my proper team, just let the autofill thing do its stuff. I'll give it a week to see who is going where near tranfer deadline.
 
The European leagues have rejected Platini's proposal to have 3 teams in the CL rather than 4, and to give a place to the cup winners.

I didn't mind the idea, but if I'd realised it was down to the leagues to say whether this was going ahead or not, I'd have known it was never gonna happen.
 
C'mon mama, give us some more hints about who's in your team. I wanna see if its really a lot better than everyone else's
 
Mama Smurf said:
The European leagues have rejected Platini's proposal to have 3 teams in the CL rather than 4, and to give a place to the cup winners.

I didn't mind the idea, but if I'd realised it was down to the leagues to say whether this was going ahead or not, I'd have known it was never gonna happen.
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It was a predictable outcome, but I would have liked to see 3 teams in the CL instead of 4. It have made things more interesting. As things stand, we all know who will be the EPL teams to get CL places. Spurs are close to breaking into the top 4, but I dont see it happening for a while.
 
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