What, Bertrand involuntarily metamorphosed into a string of text???? Really?

Poor old Bertrand.

Oh, now I see it. I had to copy and paste the text into the address bar. What's that about?

someone has to bump this thread prior to every deadline... seriously.
i keep forgetting to make transfers and switch my injured/suspended players. this is already the 3rd time or so that i knew in advance that my captain wouldn't be playing but forgot to replace him in time. :(

I will try and remember. Promise.

sticky the fucker chris h! sticky it!!!!!

D Day - 1.

A tip for those who can't see the games : on http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/ , Sport Latest, you've got accounts of the games, and team schemes (answers questions like where on the field does midfielder X play?).
It's far from being as good as watching the game, of course, but at least you get to see whose names are frequently dropped, for good or bad.
Live Now speaks for itself.
Once the game is over, its live transcription and comments goes to the Results part, where it stays 24 hours.

thanks for bumping. i'll remember to make some changes later today.

one way of watching live football online is via
http://livefooty.doctor-serv.com/
you'll need to install additional p2p software though, like ppcast.

Oh dear... not a good week for me to have two Manchester City players in my defence. Winners Blues' plummet towards relegation begins here.

i almost had tevez as captain this round, as man utd had an easy game against middlesborough.

but i finally got my hands on fabregas (after forgettting/missing the deadline transfer a couple of times) and couldn't resist making him captain. i doubt that against liverpool he's going to get me as many points as tevez has though. anyway, it's a good weekend for anyone with man utd and chelsea forwards in their team.

My centre forwards have been fackin useless, so Andy Johnson and David Healy are OUT, Kenwyne Jones and... someone else, i forget, are in.
ALSO, Nigel Reo-Coker - worst idea ever. Owen Hargreaves back from injury so in he goes for next week. I also forgot to update before this weekend, shite.

same here mate, although i think i did a trifle more pitifully than your good self if that's any consolation . . . i got minus points this week . . . rock bottom.

oh yeah, my captain just scored from an assist by hleb, who's also in my team. so far i have 4 goal scorers this week, scoring 5 goals in total, plus a clean sheet for czech. hopefully i'll be moving up the ranks a bit today.

Well well well...
I don't know if I'll bump this thread next week, considering pokkeherrie was rude enough to get as much points as he could, which isn't quite polite, I'd say.

Sorry, I had to make up for leaving an injured captain in my team last week.
But yes, looks like I have the highest score for October. I was surprised to be up to 5th now... at the start of this month I was only 13th or so. Watch out, Bertrand!

I could be your father and that's how you treat me...

I'm still 100 points away... I'll need another 2 similarly good months at least.

An update. Hurrah.

1 Gerbils FC 582
2 Durban Poison XI 509
3 Winners Blues 499
4 os transgénicos 491
5 Ball and the Header 481
6 Ecclesiasticus 469
7 the world looks red 467
8 fauxhemians fc 467
9 FC Portogal 465
10 Sonic All-Stars 463
11 Feltham Probationers 457
12 FC Foster's 433
13 bola na rede 430
14 FC Barcelona 427
15 downhill fc 396
16 Napalm Death 380
17 FC Plecewice 376
18 Kelly Greens 358
19 Dream/Aktion Unit 338

mid table is close! i just need consistency. im getting great scores one week and shite the next! also need to build up some savings too before the xmas period!

Bump

The form guide for October only:

1 Ball and the Header 75
2 the world looks red 70
3 os transgénicos 46
4 Sonic All-Stars 50
5 Ecclesiasticus 27
6 Durban Poison XI 44
7 FC Portogal 25
8 Winners Blues 34
9 Gerbils FC 52
10 FC Barcelona 44
11 downhill fc 59
12 fauxhemians fc 51
13 Feltham Probationers 47
14 FC Plecewice 18
15 bola na rede 34
16 FC Foster's 22
17 Kelly Greens 36
18 Napalm Death 42
19 Dream/Aktion Unit 28

that's not the score for october but just for last weekend. thanks for making me look good though. :)
i'll post october's score as well because i really don't know if i'll ever be top of the month again this season.


1 Ball and the Header 192
2 the world looks red 179
3 os transgénicos 158
4 Sonic All-Stars 156
5 Ecclesiasticus 147
6 Durban Poison XI 146
7 FC Portogal 142
8 Winners Blues 139
9 Gerbils FC 132
10 FC Barcelona 129
11 downhill fc 127
12 fauxhemians 124
13 Feltham Probationers 123
14 FC Plecewice 115
15 bola na rede 108
16 FC Foster's 107
17 Kelly Greens 94
18 Napalm Death 93
19 Dream/Aktion Unit 86


oh, and thanks again for the bump, i really would've forgotten again. i just found out that player values are variable prior to the deadline as well, so that it's best to make transfers early in the week. the transfer i had in mind costed me 0.1 more now than it would've done a few days ago... and my team is already worth less than 100.0.

sweet late equaliser for arsenal.

bump for pokkeherrie.

hadn't forgotten about it this time... but hadn't yet seen that petr chech was injured either, so thanks.

Decent old weekend for me this time, Berbatov came good, Lennon got a goal, my Mcfadden transfer paid off, who knows i might catch that Gerbil bloke eventually

No premiership this weekend. Do internationals count towards this?

It would have if we had made a fantasy league for that.

(they still indirectly count as players can excel or get injured in internationals, influencing their premier league fantasy value as well)

yeah like robbie keane!

How will the internationals react?
What will the crowd do when Carson's shot at, and so on?
Answers tomorrow, on the pitch.

whats the difference between lewis hamilton and the english footie team...


hamilton stil has mclaren!!

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

So last week I got more than 100 points, and it makes me feel kinda sick.
I won't have 5 players playing two games the way I did with my Villa and Rovers team this week though.
Arsenal and Newcastle play twice. But how interesting is Newcastle? I dumped both players I had last month - the coach didn't use them as much as he should (as far as Milner is concerned, that is).
Keep in mind that there's a game that hasn't been played yet. It was supposed to be included in GW2, and it's West Ham vs Liverpool (or vice versa). So if you don't know who to transfer in the future, think about these teams carefully, the player you pick might play twice for you. But I don't know when.

IM FUCKED. MY TEAM JUST AINT SCORING MUCH AT ALL. IM ON A DOWNWARD SLOPE..
got rid of fabregas and got in gerrard, i picked petrov instaed of elano and ukata instaed of benjani... i need a kick ass score this week boys!

Ive turfed out Carvalho cos he keeps getting injured, i put in a Pompey defender i think - So i have 3 pompey defenders in total, therefore if they get stuffed so do i.
Maybe i could give Harry a ring, see if he can fix something up for me?

Edit - Ive added Gareth Bale, just to keep my spurs Quota at is deserved level

when i checked on your team last week i thought "daaaammmmmn!".

i was wondering if you had it all thought out long in advance to have 3 players of each aston villa and blackburn in order to score extra points with their double games or whether it was coincidence. if it's the first then i congratulate you. i only bought agbonlahor as an extra next to laursen who i already had. wasn't a bad buy though.

this afternoon i was still busy adjusting/transferring my team when it reached the 12:30 deadline. oh well, at least i still had time to buy one arsenal player and make him captain.

It had been on my mind since gameweek 2, when I saw that I would have to make one transfer in order to get 11 players whose teams played that day.
Whenever I had to transfer a new player afterwards, I checked Villa, Blackburn, Newcastle and Arsenal (letting West Ham and Liverpool aside, the latter too expensive, its turn over making it too unpredictable).
It was quite a bet, and it worked too well to be fair. I couldn't make my mind when I picked my captain yesterday and nearly apologized by nominating a one-match guy.
But regrets won't last.
More reasons to be afraid of rodents in the following weeks...
Eh eh eh...

terrible terrible performance. ive now lost a decent goalie..... seroius points sacrifice to be made........

all i can say is a double hatrick for robbie this evening will do nicely....
ive only scored 9 points for yeasterdays games!!!!! im still 11th tho.

keane got 2 against birmingham.. yay!!!! then got sent off!!!! my team is royaly screwed.. i now have to hope for a tevez hatrick tomorrow, and that sickens me!

So Bertrand, are you going to stick to the five-defenders-and-one-goalkeeper-each-from-different-teams technique this week? :D

Now that I was less than 80 points away from you, plus hopefully steady in 2nd place (and also because it's almost christmas) I've allowed myself the luxury of some extra transfers. I had to revise my team anyway, plus I can no longer allow myself to lose money on players or to have my bench players be crap ones. I'll also have to free up funds because I'm poor. All that costs me 8 points this gameweek and I want to get rid of more. I've been thinking about trying to compensate that by temporarily getting Ronaldo or Lampard in my team, but I'm really not so sure about them performing in the big games this weekend.

Grrr, when Arsenal had their double game week I managed to have three Arsenal players in my team with ALL of them injured.

Oh dear. Currently:

1 Gerbils FC 896
2 Ball and the Header 818
3 Winners Blues 9 765
4 Sonic All-Stars 763
5 Durban Poison XI 757
6 FC Portogal 737
7 os transgénicos 736
8 Ecclesiasticus 701
9 fauxhemians fc 697
10 the world looks red 688
11 Feltham Probationers 678
12 FC Foster's 673
13 FC Barcelona 661
14 downhill fc 625
15 Kelly Greens 598
16 Dream/Aktion Unit 553
17 Napalm Death 521
18 FC Plecewice 506

Dear pokkeherrie, do you happen to have French blood in your veins ?
You're a nice fellow and you know you'll feel sorry for teasing a sick man, don't you ?
You're gonna lose points on that, thinking you did something wrong, and unwillingly selecting the wrong player...

Last week's unfruitful 5-3-2 option I had was only due to the suspension of a midfielder who's gonna score thrice this afternoon, and the injury of a guy whose name will be given to a football stadium in your hometown.

My latest moves didn't give me much satisfaction. Ronaldo I brought on just to show off I could afford him and create panic actions among the contenders (but sonicl is really cool-minded it has probably not worked on him and Danny hasn't budged an inch from the beginning), I don't like the Portugese diver as much as the players he replaced, I'm already trying to choose the proper day to kick him and one of my forwards out in favor of a more balanced mid-forward couple (and bring back a former team member to create the illusion of a real team too).

Bravo for your second seat (and the 50 points gap behind you).
But I'd say bravo to anyone still enjoying the party our Priest invited us to.

some good work from my spurs players today, i seem to have been falling off the pace recently though.

i am spurs less until robbie comes back... by the way guys.. remember the african nations!!!!!!!!

1 nil to the tottenham, ill take that every week thank you!