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Don't forget to take part in the Euro 2012 sweepstake! If you want to take part then please take £1m off your team budget and let the runners know you are taken part by Monday 11th. Draw is as follows, which will be updated when managers confirm they are taking part:

Winner - £6m (WINNER: Russ)
Runner up - £3m (WINNER: Cherries)
Semi - £2m (WINNER: TwisT)
Semi - £2m (WINNER: Sodhat)
Top scorers - £2m (WINNER: Russ)
Worst record - £1m (WINNER: AFRO/TSC)


Everyone in Premier League (who votes on Championship) send their results to:

TwisT and Sodhat

Everyone in Championship (who votes on Premier League) send their results to:

Hero and TSC

Premier League

Real Ale Sociedad - TwisT The London Silly Nannies - SodhatAC ALittleSilhouetteoOfAMan (AC ALSOAM) - MarkyViva City - VivaPaulScholesCunning Canaries FC - ollyrules
AFC Swamp Donkeys - fernando

Table

Borussia Munchingballsack - Sainty


FC United of Bournemouth Town and Boscombe City Wanderers Athletic Football Club - cherriesfan


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Championship

Athletico Bilbao Baggins FC - Hero

Tactics

Jacamos United - TSC

Injuries

Hangover 69 - Greggers

Lawyers

Sporting Sideburns FC - Afro

Fixtures

Treble's Revenge - onlytreblewinners

Results

Go Ahead Eagles - Russell_Elmo

Table

Straight-Edge United - TheBrahmaBull


City Of Norwich FC - ncfc_Tooze

Viva hits the nail on head too.

It's not about how good the players really are, it's their ratings on here which are heavily influenced by how much they are watched. If someone has a sky high rating, and they are not watched that much, they will continue to be high even if they have a stinker. Someone in the Premier League who we see week in, week out, the opposite could happen.

Balasz Dzudszak is a prime example. Brilliant, brilliant player, but not watched that much, so has never had any rating in any of these games.

It's part of your job as manager to get your players ratings up, whether deservedly or not.

It's true, yes.

But, does that mean I have to know the German, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish etc. leagues inside out, no.

In the foreign leagues, you have to go on CL/Internationals because it's all you see of them

...which takes me back to Gary Medel.

Given the fact that he is not already in the league, I would guess that he is not as widely known as he could be. If he was in the Premier League, he would have been snapped up in the drafts.

Check out the pitbull. The wikipedia quote about nullifying Messi particularly stands out, as does the quotes from the coach of the national team that also contains Sanchez, Vidal, Isla etc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Medel

http://www.goal.com/en/news/1699/chile/2012/03/26/2993069/borghi-medel-is-indispensable-to-chile

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/gary-medel-to-real-madrid/topic/ansicht_343_79_page1.html

onlytreblewinners wrote:It's true, yes.

But, does that mean I have to know the German, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish etc. leagues inside out, no.

In the foreign leagues, you have to go on CL/Internationals because it's all you see of them

Agreed.

In the ideal world, you raise the profile of your players and then hope noone sees them that often in order to prove you wrong.

Mighty you don't need to know them leagues inside out but to be a good manager or knowledgable you need to have some understanding on those leagues. No one can watch the French, Spanish, Italian, German, English and the smaller leagues all the time if they say they do they are lying or an undercover scout for a Football team I don't believe Jesus Christ Fan watches all the matches he claims to.

I try to watch as many matches as I can but it's not possible to watch every single one, so what I do is read on these teams and players, I go on specific club forums and read what the posters say, I follow people with good knowledge on Twitter such as a Twitter account for Schalke FC only. I read books, I read about tactics.

I want to get the book Inverting The Pyramid its about tactics a few years old but I've never got round to buying it. Anyone read it?

An sometimes I think I know more then some of these real life managers because I have heard of so and so. Then I've read a piece by that manager I laughed at and it shows how much they know about Football, things that I wouldn't think of but it's the basics to them.

I love Football.

I'll be honest with you Afro, I've never heard of Medel until now

And yeah, I think even someone rubbish like Terry Connor knows a heck of a lot more than all of us.

onlytreblewinners wrote:I'll be honest with you Afro, I've never heard of Medel until now

And yeah, I think even someone rubbish like Terry Connor knows a heck of a lot more than all of us.

I would think that many would say the same thing. He's not the biggest name Chilean and has only been playing in Europe for a little bit. But he has played almost week in, week out for Sevilla since he joined them. My job now is to highlight how good he is.

I imagine that not many, if any, would have heard of Vidal until Fan started pointing him out. Medel is similar to that really.

What little of Medel I've seen I've been impressed with, I saw him man mark Messi out of the game which was very impressive

A lot of Football pundits know eff all though, I get embarassed for them when they start thier biased Premier League crap and talk down other leagues or thier lack of knowledge on some of the big names outside England.

Shearer in 2010 was brilliant, "How many German players will make the England side?" before the second round match between England and Germany

How am I not in the top 20 posters today? I've posted a lot showing my old form when I first signed for 606v2 in June 2011.

Combined England and Germany XI;


And I think I'm being generous with Lescott and Rooney. Shearer is a rubbish pundit anyway.

Lescott?

I think Hart is just as good as Neuer, and Rooney is world class, has to be in there. I'd maybe put Gerrard over Schwein based on the Euros, didn't think he was that good while Khedira was excellent.

If we are going to do it based on the Euros Rooney would be nowhere near it

Did you lot see the clip of Casillas saying to the linesman to finish the game and show respect to Italy cause they were losing 4-0 and even when the final whistle blew he didn't run around like a maniac. Big respect for Cas we don't have many players that respect the game.

Sky have announced the first Live games of the season. You will get the delight of seeing Norwich twice.

1st game - 15th September (day after my bday) - Norwich v West Ham - Saturday Lunchtime game, obviously caught wind of Me v Soddy

2nd game - 28th October - Villa v Norwich - Sunday game, really wanna go. Obvious reasons why this is chosen.

Also 2 ESPN games for Norwich.

1st game - 20th October - Norwich v Arsenal - Saturday teatime, after a belter like at The Emirates.

2nd game - 17th November - Norwich v Utd - Saturday teatime, can see the shock on the cards obviously.

VivaPaulScholes wrote:Did you lot see the clip of Casillas saying to the linesman to finish the game and show respect to Italy cause they were losing 4-0 and even when the final whistle blew he didn't run around like a maniac. Big respect for Cas we don't have many players that respect the game.

Respectful or patronising?

If you were an Italian player, could you interpret that as "stop the game early so we don't score another goal"

Olly wrote:Sky have announced the first Live games of the season. You will get the delight of seeing Norwich twice.

1st game - 15th September (day after my bday) - Norwich v West Ham - Saturday Lunchtime game, obviously caught wind of Me v Soddy

2nd game - 28th October - Villa v Norwich - Sunday game, really wanna go. Obvious reasons why this is chosen.

Also 2 ESPN games for Norwich.

1st game - 20th October - Norwich v Arsenal - Saturday teatime, after a belter like at The Emirates.

2nd game - 17th November - Norwich v Utd - Saturday teatime, can see the shock on the cards obviously.

Must make a note to do something else on those days

sky said on the site the first games will be City,United,chelski games.

BigFellasAfro wrote:

Olly wrote:Sky have announced the first Live games of the season. You will get the delight of seeing Norwich twice.

1st game - 15th September (day after my bday) - Norwich v West Ham - Saturday Lunchtime game, obviously caught wind of Me v Soddy

2nd game - 28th October - Villa v Norwich - Sunday game, really wanna go. Obvious reasons why this is chosen.

Also 2 ESPN games for Norwich.

1st game - 20th October - Norwich v Arsenal - Saturday teatime, after a belter like at The Emirates.

2nd game - 17th November - Norwich v Utd - Saturday teatime, can see the shock on the cards obviously.

Must make a note to do something else on those days

Don't you want to see Norwich lose? We never win when we are on Sky. I think we played 9 games on Sky or ESPN last season and only won 1

BigFellasAfro wrote:

VivaPaulScholes wrote:Did you lot see the clip of Casillas saying to the linesman to finish the game and show respect to Italy cause they were losing 4-0 and even when the final whistle blew he didn't run around like a maniac. Big respect for Cas we don't have many players that respect the game.

Respectful or patronising?

If you were an Italian player, could you interpret that as "stop the game early so we don't score another goal"

You've got a point I didn't see it like that.

Sky also announced Crawley Town v Portsmouth, Sunday 9th September 3:30pm KO (International weekend)

Bigger than any Naaarrrrrriiich games.

I dunno what to spend my last £50,000 on. There is no-one really in TM.

Anyone wanna do a bet?

Sure TwisT. What on?

Marky wrote:Sky also announced Crawley Town v Portsmouth, Sunday 9th September 3:30pm KO (International weekend)

Bigger than any Naaarrrrrriiich games.

Big game that

Olly wrote:Sure TwisT. What on?

Erm.....to the nearest million, the transfer fee that RVP goes for.

I am going to say £21m. Bet you £50,000

Ok I will say £15m TwisT. Bet is on.

Also bet they say undisclosed fee

RVP wont go for 15m!

Hero, I hope you see this:

Mac Town v Ebbsfleet - 17th Nov
Ebbsfleet v Mac Town - 2nd Feb

Olly wrote:Ok I will say £15m TwisT. Bet is on.

Also bet they say undisclosed fee

If it is 18m then we are both stuffed

TheBrahmaBull wrote:RVP wont go for 15m!

More likely £15M that £21M in my opinion, he's only got 1 year left on his contract and he could very easily go for £15M than Arsenal losing him for nothing at the end of the season.

Assuming it's a case of whoever is closest? I would have said 20.99m just to be a troll.

RVP to go for 24m

Will never go that high Bull. Arsenal have no bargaining tool here. RVP is in the final year of his contract, so if they won't to sell him they will have to for a cut price. Teams won't pay too much, they will just wait till next summer to get him on a free if need be

Olly wrote:Will never go that high Bull. Arsenal have no bargaining tool here. RVP is in the final year of his contract, so if they won't to sell him they will have to for a cut price. Teams won't pay too much, they will just wait till next summer to get him on a free if need be

Kind of agree, but I don't think many clubs will risk him then. He will be 30, injury prone, and commanding huge wages. I think the best bet is buy now, and get a good season out of him.

Olly wrote:Will never go that high Bull. Arsenal have no bargaining tool here. RVP is in the final year of his contract, so if they won't to sell him they will have to for a cut price. Teams won't pay too much, they will just wait till next summer to get him on a free if need be

Like with Nasri. How much did he go for?

Don't forget to get your votes in lads.

http://www.republic.co.uk/men/t-shirts/beck-hersey-fairly-hip-crew-neck-t-shirt-75160/

Yes or no?

Who do cup votes go to and how much detail is needed?

Votes sent to hero and cherries

Viva, are you the model in that

You send votes to Cherry and Hero. Put down the result, the goalscorers and about three to four lines of description on what you thought it was a win, lose or draw for them.

onlytreblewinners wrote:Viva, are you the model in that

I was on about the shirt not the model, nah thats not me but he is preety but I prefer my men more manly and rugged with a stubble, what do you think?

I didn't think descriptions were necessary in the cup? I usually do longer analysis in the league games though.

And viva, I could see you wearing something like that, I wouldn't personally though

Mighty

As Cherries never sends reasons when he does votes for the league, I haven't given reasons either

TwisT wrote:As Cherries never sends reasons when he does votes for the league, I haven't given reasons either

#yougogirlfriend

I might do that too, mainly because I can't be arsed with the cup

If Cherries never sends reasons and neither do you and you're still getting the £2m bonus even though I put reasons I'm going to stop giving reasons too

Think twist was referring solely to the cup, because he does give reasons for the league. Everyone but cherries does in fact, so he better pull his finger out or we will take Neymar away for re-homing.