2021 Sheep Draft R1 - Isotope vs. BorisDeLeFora

With players at career peak, who will win the match?


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Edgar Allan Pillow

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Maldini (senior) in the same role. And Suarez as a left winger. You wouldn't play Maldini as a DM - and definitely not Suarez as a left winger - in a draft.

Again - this is NOT about Germano specifically. It just shows that you can't rely on this sort of thing as a reliable source on the details plane. It's a very good indication that Maldini and Suarez were brilliant players - but a very poor indication that they would be grand choices for the DM and LW positions (in any kind of setup), respectively.



ETA You probably wouldn't want to sell Kopa as a straight-ass right winger either - but there you go.
Maldini has actually played as DM. He's quite comfortable on the ball and reports say he advanced out of defence frequently. So as a centre halfback in 2-3-5, I don't see any problems.
 

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Batty used to stick Luis Suárez, the Inter version, as an outside left :lol:
I wouldn't use him as a source for tactical insight.
 

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Batty used to stick Luis Suárez, the Inter version, as an outside left :lol:
I wouldn't use him as a source for tactical insight.
I don't think his idea was to make it tactically suitable as well. I am assuming he was trying to fit 11 of the best players from the years and it was obviously an attack heavy era.

Even now if you create a thread here and ask people to post their favorite 11 of something (modern or historical), many would go with 5 attackers.
 

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Maldini has actually played as DM. He's quite comfortable on the ball and reports say he advanced out of defence frequently. So as a centre halfback in 2-3-5, I don't see any problems.
Yeah, but you wouldn't use him in a 2-3-5 in a draft, would you? Because you wouldn't opt for a 2-3-5 in the first place, for obvious reasons.

The (possible) fact that he wouldn't look out of place as a CH in a 2-3-5 is irrelevant. The question is how plausible he'd be as a DM in any kind of formation likely to be used in a draft.

If any kind of - what? - pre-70s CB who's "comfortable on the ball" is considered a plausible DM, then why not introduce, say, Rio Ferdinand as a DM in the draft context?

I'm sure he played once or twice as a nominal DM too (if not for United, then maybe for West Ham or Leeds).

Monti (to bring him up again) is a plausible DM because a) his default position is a hybrid one (or could be regarded as such, at least) and b) his individual traits suggest that he's suitable for the role.

A standard central defender in the 1960s is not comparable to a centre half in the 1930s, though - tactically, positionally, and so forth...that role has changed dramatically.
 

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Khoren Hovannisyan randomly showing up for the 85 team when he'd been banned almost the entire year already on a dubious match fixing charge. Brilliant.
 

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I don't think his idea was to make it tactically suitable as well. I am assuming he was trying to fit 11 of the best players from the years and it was obviously an attack heavy era.

Even now if you create a thread here and ask people to post their favorite 11 of something (modern or historical), many would go with 5 attackers.
I don't know. He certainly tries most of the time, but I think sometimes he put players in based on reputation alone without watching them (which is understandable, considering the lack of worldwide TV) and it shows from time to time. I mean, he usually sticks with Garrincha/Gento as outside right/left and uses strikers and inside-forwards quite well when we look at his teams from the 60's.
 

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So his baffling tactical formations, unusual player and positional choices and radical dispensation of wingers and full-backs could either be interpreted as Eric’s idea of the radical surgery needed to shock a dying game back into life, or a recognition there was nothing he could do to revive it – so why not morbidly defile the corpse instead.
:lol:
 

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:lol: . Didn't know football would be 'dying' in the 60s.

Anyway. Thanks for the gamesmanship @BorisDeLeFora . There's none of bickering of players between us.
 

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BorisDeLeFora better team compared to the previous game

Would have gone for Iso whose team is offensively more diversified