Nah feck that. Souness and Keano, possibly with Kevin Moran as centre back, for the hardest, most brutal draft team ever.Scholes and Captain Marvel over Souness. Souness was a great player and maybe on par/slightly better than Robson but you gotta go for Robbo due to their respective club allegiances on a vote-based game like this.
Manager draft
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Anything other than a 4-4-2/4-4-1-1 would be punishable by castration.
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would get my vote everytime.
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that gypsy guy-cb-silvestre-de last
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would get my vote everytime.
According to this format the person who gets the 16th pick has the biggest advantage in the first round.
The advantage may well be that he picks 2nd and 3rd before you get the 4th. You never know, depends on the talent pool. It's a risk he should have faactored in anyway.
The beauty is he can literally have Scholes, Giggs and probably Keane as his last picks
Nothing in these drafts can ever really be planned too far ahead. While I appreciate joga's offer, it wouldnt really be fair, or in the nature of the draft to let me pick ahead.
This draft in particular though, like said earlier, favours the guy picking last in the first round at least...but then it evens out again over time.
Yeah good point there, it only occurred to me when I started planning my picks later on.
Thanks for the offer though
Np.Thanks for the offer though
So basically if Cutch stays the only one with SAF, all he needs is to get Ronaldo as first pick than the rest of his picks are uncontested aren't they? He can smoothly pick all of Giggs, Scholes, Keane, Rio, Vidic, Irwin without anyone to contest tem
Is it my turn? Just about to set off for work but will try to check back through day
pretty much.
01. Harms - Trapattoni
02. Stobzilla - Cappello
03. Jayvin - Ancelotti
04. Paolo - LVG
05. Skizzo - Udo Lattek
06. MJJ - Lippi
07. Joga Bonito - Udo Lattek
08. Balu - Béla Guttmann
09. Raees - Del Bosque
10. Cutch - Alex Ferguson
11. Gio - Trapattoni
12. EAP - Capello
13. TRV -
14. DanNistelrooy -
15. Annah -
16. Crappy -
@The Red Viper
It's TRV's turn now and then yours DanNistelrooy. Leave your pick with Annahnomoss or someone who will be online.
02. Stobzilla - Cappello
03. Jayvin - Ancelotti
04. Paolo - LVG
05. Skizzo - Udo Lattek
06. MJJ - Lippi
07. Joga Bonito - Udo Lattek
08. Balu - Béla Guttmann
09. Raees - Del Bosque
10. Cutch - Alex Ferguson
11. Gio - Trapattoni
12. EAP - Capello
13. TRV -
14. DanNistelrooy -
15. Annah -
16. Crappy -
@The Red Viper
It's TRV's turn now and then yours DanNistelrooy. Leave your pick with Annahnomoss or someone who will be online.
If you want to leave your pick for manager, and 2nd round pick, with someone else if you will be gone for a while. That way we can keep it flowing if you aren't around.
TRV then you.
You can pm your pick to me as am going to be online for the next five hours if you want.
there is someone who could be even more legendary on this board. have mentioned it to MJJ. If that the happens this draft will be off the charts as the best ever.
Oh and I am surprised that the manager I would have picked if I was playing conventionally hasn't been picked yet.
Oh and I am surprised that the manager I would have picked if I was playing conventionally hasn't been picked yet.
Me too, I suspect we're thinking of the same lad
I'm a bit of a draft virgin so would appreciate a team member!
It's not that difficult. Just go with the flow and enjoy the game and if you keep Capello, you have wonderful options to build an outstanding team. Not sure if @Annahnomoss allows you to change the manager pick, in case you want to, but Capello is certainly one of the easier picks in the draft.
Very true. It is best to let it stick considering we've drafted around it now.
Yes, the order isn't that important here. Manager A could have a standout marquee player in which case going first is an advantage, or he could have three in which case going second is the advantage. Meanwhile, a handful of managers will bob along without any pressure on their players.
I have no desire to change, but thanks
How often are the rounds?Depends, the deadline will be 8 hours per pick but usually a slow day means one pick per day.I have no desire to change, but thanks
Ah okay, shouldn't be a problem at all, thanks
The two managers who were my 2nd and 3rd choice haven't popped up yet.
Just came online guys. I have hardly done any research. So, give me some time. This will be a nightmare.
Come on, @Annahnomoss . That's not okay, delete that.
I have one doubt. Lets say a manager has managed for a couple of months as a caretaker manager. Is he eligible? If he is, how will be the form of the player under him be viewed as?
He is eligible indeed, the form will be viewed by what they performed but you have to remember that say you take LVG and want to use a United player - then Di Maria has been excellent even if the team in general has been bad.
Then there is the factor that you may play a different tactic than that manager and hence wouldn't suffer from playing player X out of position etc etc. A lot of factors, and you have to choose what you think is correct. If the case is that all the players were shit and never performed then that will be a hard sell and I wouldn't count on those players then.
I also have a question, what if a player is injured under a manager? @Annahnomoss
If he wasn't available at all under the manager, he shouldn't be eligible in my opinion. For example, no Carrick for van Gaal.
Then there is no doubt his level was actually low and there were no tactical reasons and what not to excuse it.
Was thinking more like hargreaves for us, when he played he played at a high level but due to his injuries wasnt really a part of the team.
I've got a question. If a player plays well in international tournaments, does that count towards how well he should be judged in the draft? Or is it purely based on club performances for our chosen manager?
Ahh, he'd be counted as being on a high level. He'd be judged for how he played, rather than his injuries as we don't simulate injuries here. It'd be different if he never played due to injuries, or he was constantly out of form and never reached his peak levels under the manager.
He clearly was a part of the team in '07/'08. Wouldn't see a problem with him.
If a manager managed player X for a year and during that year player X played well at the international level for another manager then it certainly counts for that players level. Of course if the international manager played him as a striker, but the manager you picked played him as a winger - and you play him as a winger, then it is of less relevance.
Got it.
God, I hope people won't overcomplicate the whole performance level thing, that could turn the whole draft into an annoying nightmare. It is of some relevance, but most great players performed consistently well during their peaks no matter who the manager was.
For example, I wouldn't pick van der Sar as the goalkeeper if I picked Ancelotti as the manager, because his spell at Juve sucked, no two ways about it. Such obvious examples should count, but I really hope we won't go into extreme nitpicking.
For example, I wouldn't pick van der Sar as the goalkeeper if I picked Ancelotti as the manager, because his spell at Juve sucked, no two ways about it. Such obvious examples should count, but I really hope we won't go into extreme nitpicking.