Ye, i'm not accusing you of anything just pointing out the facts. At the end of the day everyone is entitled to think which side should win and not be accused of tactical voting, that is all. I had predicted GS to win even before a single match was played and i had no links to his players. I only got 5/8 correct though...
I know, I've been laughing my arse off since I decided to go down this path. At one point I thought I should just skip him altogether and play Altafini but this was too good to give it a miss. I think those Swedes deserve a good run for once as well.Whoever is going to play you is so quoting from that thread
I voted against anto in that game
It was definitely a tough draw for us early on, specially as anto's strategy was leaving the Brazil, Argentina and Germany picks for late on hoping to grab the big guns in the reinforcements. so we really needed that first win and then expectedly we welcomed players like Beckenbauer, Pele and Maradona through the course and win it in the end. ('we' is being generous, it was 99.9% anto). The one player per nation is my favourite format so far, won the one in newbs and then won as AM in the mains.
Unlucky.As I said, I wasn't pointing any fingers, just saw a pattern which ran counter to how the rest of the vote was going and thought it was a bit stupid and unfair on mazhar that I was withholding my vote when everyone else was voting against him. I had already done enough by not interfering or helping him argue his case.
I dont mind if you want to send this good work to me
No prob, that's what you get for holding your vote to so late hehe
That was an amazing draft, everything fell into place almost perfectly. People keep moaning about how lucky we were but fact is that, differently from others, we took the risk in not having the headache of picking -say- Maradona at the cost of a Redondo-sized hole in midfield.It was definitely a tough draw for us early on, specially as anto's strategy was leaving the Brazil, Argentina and Germany picks for late on hoping to grab the big guns in the reinforcements. so we really needed that first win and then expectedly we welcomed players like Beckenbauer, Pele and Maradona through the course and win it in the end. ('we' is being generous, it was 99.9% anto). The one player per nation is my favourite format so far, won the one in newbs and then won as AM in the mains.
I also think it was the ones after the 70s one here, where anto had Vieri and spent the draft till the final bigging him up (the infamous GaryKellanazo) so the Vieri on steroids comment by Gio surely provoked anto.
I think half his ode is probably about the player next in line. The one MJJ would surely call Paolo.
I remembered something when Anto was quoting Gianni Brera earlier. There are some nice quotes about him gliding and creating as though he were a professional dancer which I worked into it. I'm not giving it all to you because you'll end up beating me with it in the next round and I'll feel worse than when I lashed 5 penalties on the bounce at Shay Given.
Finally someone is as pissed off as I was. Or was it you? That would be too funny, but no, it was @Joga Bonito
No it wasn't me. I blocked Seedorf and someone else I can't remember.
Far too versatile both role and position wise (which is critical in this draft) and some nice juicy links. All that without considering his individual quality, so was a no-brainer to me really.
I wasn't.
Very calculated.
Me! And I'm not even playing.
That's no way to make friends with @diarm
I didn't even care much until I kept bumping into him when looking for links. Boy did he have a stellar career!Very calculated.
I've just decided that every time we nominate a block, I'm picking Thuram. Never had him in a draft myself...and it always seems to piss someone off
Although I might just pick Maldini from now on @Edgar Allan Pillow
I love how popular Bernd has become @Chesterlestreet (that's my new drool by the way, post has feck all to do with you mate).Balls anyway. Fabulous player but I'm not sure it's going to help me with what I need.
I pick Bernd Schuster (Völler - Bayer Leverkusen 1994-95)
Yeah I didn't realize it myself until he cropped up everywhere! I'd like to say it was great planning on my part to block a versatile pick...But nah.
He is hogging all the central playmakers
Yeah. I decided if nobody was going to let me have any wingers I'll just hoover up every fecker I can find who can pass a ball in the middle of the park!He is hogging all the central playmakers
Think Falcão left just before Boniek came to Roma. Played as a CM too and it would have been great to see them together.
No idea. If you have Suárez there I could say almost every single fecker who played for Uruguay and understood what that meant. Enzo makes the cut, without a shadow of a doubt.
I was thinking along the lines of Juve player => Boniek => Conti => Falcão => Figueroa => Manga => Jairzinho/Gerson => Carlos Alberto (NT)...
Mentally of course he was bit of a nutter but tactically he was quite malleable imo. The star of the team, yes, just like Suárez was, but fairly accommodating on the pitch tactically, imo. Perhaps Falcão would have been a more suitable choice there.
He is underrated but Luisito Suárez is the standout in that team for me.
I'm not sure even Schuster's mother would call him selfless! Wonderful player but a bit of an all round prick by most accounts!
Hmmmmm... Malleable yes, but prone to hold a grudge if he isn't happy with it. With Maradona he obviously knew he was dealing with a great of the game and adapted to that, but you must have missed his sour grapes at Matthäus performance during Euro 80s. He pretty much accuses him of single-handedly putting that campaign in jeopardy.
I rate Müller higher myself.
Aye, not exactly someone whom you could call an ideal team-mate but perhaps a bit of bias there on my part. Can't deny his all-round game and malleable game-play though.
Fair enough but Suárez for me is an all-time great who was integral to two of the greatest team of the 50-60s and perhaps in the history of the game - the latter team at least. He was arguably the crown-jewel, alongside Kubala, of the gung-ho and adventurous Barca side which won 2 la ligas and 2 Copa del Reys against di Stefano's Real and made the European Cup final. They unfortunately lost that against Benfica - Suárez was the best player on the pitch after Coluna imo. It would take Barcelona another 25 years to make the European Cup final again, with Schuster at the helm.
.Tough one, will have a go too, seems difficult. Pires definitely shouldn't be in there considering he was given permission to not work hard defensively because Vieira and company knew he'd make up for it offensively.
