Literally everything regarding a scenario like that has been addressed in this thread.
Surveillance Draft- Final: Tuppet vs PatBepo
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Cheers guys and great discussion. Really hard luck @Šjor Bepo @Pat_Mustard on the injury. Looking at the score I think you'd have taken this game if there was no injury. Not that I am complaining I always knew that somebody has to go and break an opponents leg for me to get a win in a final/pat's team.
Happy that Zizou got the win, best player of the previous generation for me -
Happy that Zizou got the win, best player of the previous generation for me -
Indeed, we literally replaced a great keeper with an absolutely storming peak in Edwin van der Sar with jack-of-all-trades John O'Shea... and nothing happened, even with Robbie Keane clean through on goal.
I just spent all day discussing this on the phone and wanting to post that scorcher as soon as I got my laptop.
I could also post one of Tito Gonçalves Jr. preserving a 1-0 derby lead for a full 20 minutes.
Good game @Tuppet
Commiserations @Pat_Mustard @Šjor Bepo . The injury didn't do you any favours but that was a mighty fine team.
Commiserations @Pat_Mustard @Šjor Bepo . The injury didn't do you any favours but that was a mighty fine team.
On my way to editing O'Shea's wiki page so that I can pick him as a goalkeeper in the upcoming draft!Indeed, we literally replaced a great keeper with an absolutely storming peak in Edwin van der Sar with jack-of-all-trades John O'Shea... and nothing happened, even with Robbie Keane clean through on goal.
I just spent all day discussing this on the phone and wanting to post that scorcher as soon as I got my laptop.
I could also post one of Tito Gonçalves Jr. preserving a 1-0 derby lead for a full 20 minutes.
I understand your reservations about "anything can happen in football", but that's what makes it the beauty it is. It's a team sport, and in its finest expression, it delivers outcomes whereby team efforts make up and overcome setbacks and weaknesses.
Does the logical outcome happen more often than not? I wouldn't be too sure. Clearly better teams usually prevail, whether reds or injuries go against them (mind, no such disparity is in play here). In fact, it is rare for an injury to make a good strong side capitulate. Red cards are a different cup of tea and have a greater impact making sides dysfunctional, but the delta between an injured player and his substitute is rarely such that everything else a side has going for it goes out of the window.
Actually, it often happens that the rival side loses a lot of what it has going for it by single-mindedly targeting the perceived weakness and becoming one-dimensional in the process. Another Spurs game comes to mind there, one where they stopped trying to elaborate play but just kept shooting on sight assuming DDG was a calamity waiting to happen.
Cheers lads and congratulations Tuppet! Well-deserved victory and a long overdue draft win for you. I'm honestly surprised that the injury didn't make more difference to the scoreline, as you seemed to be a few votes up throughout and the gap didn't widen that substantially after Ferrara came off.
Hard luck @Pat_Mustard . I wondering if it would be you or skizzo who wins their first draft.
Cheers mate! The divorce has been quite kind to both Skizzo and me actually - one final each in two drafts. I've given up on ever actually winning one of these again though
