Surveillance Draft

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More sideways moving at my end. I suppose it's the same for all, you find a player who would be great... but clashes with a key player. Nedved and RVN seem to jointly rule out most of the great players in the pool that aren't R1-2 picks.

At least I now have full flexibility at the back. Even picked an injured player to mimic Joga's Carvalho injury situation. Not even sure I have possible improvements any more, once he recovers.

Shadowwanker 1. Nedved 2. Schweinsteiger 3. van Nistelrooy 4. Ayala 5. Petrescu 6. Essien 7. McManaman 8. Benarrivo 9. Moller 10. Van Persie 11. Bonucci 12. Torricelli 13. Kewell 14. Navas 15. Laudrup 16. Srna 17. T. Silva 18. Abidal


Subs: Torricelli, Petrescu, Srna, Kewell, McManaman, van Persie
Injured: Thiago Silva
 

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Even picked an injured player to mimic Joga's Carvalho injury situation.
That should mean one of Bonucci or Ayala (one of your starting centre-backs) should be injured right? Meaning, you won't be able to pick Thiago without cover for your centre-backs, unless you play Abidal as a centre-back with one of your FBs coming in, which isn't ideal.
 

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That should mean one of Bonucci or Ayala (one of your starting centre-backs) should be injured right? Meaning, you won't be able to pick Thiago without cover for your centre-backs, unless you play Abidal as a centre-back with one of your FBs coming in, which isn't ideal.
TBH, in-game dynamics like that don't quite work as I don't get to submit squad numbers for randomisation, etc.

I guess if Ayala were injured I would have gone for Campbell instead of Thiago. It's not like I will get to the final anyway :p
 

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I suppose it's the same for all, you find a player who would be great... but clashes with a key player.
Aye :lol:

TBH, in-game dynamics like that don't quite work as I don't get to submit squad numbers for randomisation, etc.
Definitely but it makes more sense to 'injure' one your first XI if you'd like to mimic the Carvalho injury situation, instead of drafting in an injured player (who had nothing to do with your side or the afflicted injury) with your first team being untouched injury wise.
 

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The thing is, I built a very flexible side bar the RvN/Nedved picks. It doesn't seem to make any difference whatsoever as the greats I could draft in with no clashes are all R1-R2 players. Those which are R3 and on don't improve you all that much so there's no real reward, which is disappointing.
 

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It doesn't seem to make any difference whatsoever as the greats I could draft in with no clashes are all R1-R2 players. Those which are R3 and on don't improve you all that much so there's no real reward, which is disappointing.
Indeed. The pool post round 2 does suffer a bit of dip and most of em block a fair bit of players too which is a double whammy.
 

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Indeed. The pool post round 2 does suffer a bit of dip and most of em block a fair bit of players too which is a double whammy.
My point is I could pick up about half the R1-2 players with no changes and a few more as double deals (e.g. getting Ronaldo/Bati frees up United...). Other managers probably can't pick half of the greats I can, which goes to show the R1-2 block ran counter to the spirit/challenge of the draft.
 

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It's so much work carrying two babies around with all their just in case stuff... Good thing is they sleep through fireworks, singing, etc. as if nothing were happening :cool:
 

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Merry Christmas too!

It's so much work carrying two babies around with all their just in case stuff... Good thing is they sleep through fireworks, singing, etc. as if nothing were happening :cool:
Enjoy it whilst it lasts. Things always change with kids and not always for the better
 

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This thread was started November 20 and it's at semi final stage. :lol:
 
Teams through to the Final

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Pat Mustard/Sjor Bepo 1. Redondo 2. Figo 3. A. Cole 4. Ferrara 5. Gascoigne 6. Villa 7. Petrescu 8. Boli 9. Larsson 10. Lloris 11. Tugay 12. Yaya Toure 13. Nani 14. Kuffour 15. Vidal 16. Candela 17. Vidic 18. van Nistelrooy

Tuppet 1. Zidane 2. Schweinsteiger 3. Stam 4. Ibrahimovic 5. Luis Enrique 6. Forlan 7. Panucci 8. Kompany 9. Cech 10. Ince 11. Leonardo 12. Bonucci 13. Francisco Arce 14. Emil Kostadinov 15. Evra 16. Paulo Sousa 17. Brian Laudrup 18. Fabio Cannavaro
 
Reinforcement Pool for the Final

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Physiocrat 1. Thuram 2. Modric 3. T.Silva 4. van Nistelrooy 5. Sol Campbell 6. G. Signori 7. Serginho 8.Kanchelskis 9. O.Kahn 10. De Rossi 11. Riquelme 12. Geremi 13. Baines 14. Jorgenson 15. Brian Laudrup 16. D.Silva

VivaJanuzaj/EAP 1. P Lahm 2. L. Suarez 3. Effenberg 4. Shearer 5. Overmars 6. Pires 7. Abidal 8. Hyypia 9. Senna 10. Sergi 11. Cambiasso 12. Pepe 13. Peruzzi 14. Valencia 15. Chiellini 16. Z. Boban

Skizzo/Annah 1. Ronaldinho 2. Lizarazu 3. Robben 4. G. Neville 5. Guardiola 6. Simeone 7. Gamarra 8. Baraja 9. Buffon 10. Miranda 11. Cavani 12. J. Heinrich 13. Cazorla 14. Elber 15. Giggs 16. N/A

Sir Scholes/The Stain- 1. Cristiano Ronaldo 2. Batistuta 3. Iniesta 4. Mauro Silva 5. Sagnol 6. Popescu 7. Terry 8. McManaman 9. Jarni 10. Abbondanzieri 11. Pirlo 12. Okocha 13. Solskjaer 14. Sinisa Mihajlovic 15. Hierro 16. Cannavaro

DavidG - 1. Ronaldo 2. Godin 3. Bergkamp 5. Veron 6. Conte 7. Ledley King 8. Albelda 9. Mostovoi 10. Escobar 11. Ivanovic 12. Salihamidzic 13. Jardel 14. Keylor Navas

Raees/Invictus
1. Nesta 2. Davids 4. Ribéry 5. Chiellini 6. Essien 7. W Samuel 8. J Lehmann 9. Giuly 10. Šuker 11. Zamorano 12. Valerón 13. Ziege 14. Juanfran

Bleezy 1. Sammer 2. R. Carlos 3. D. Alves 4. Torres 5. Ballack 6. Del Piero 7. Petit 8. Sneijder 9. Couto 10.Falcao 11. Radebe 12. Zabaleta 13. Aimar 14. Friedel

Mazhar/Enigma
1. Desailly 2. Zanetti 3. Giggs 5. Shevchenko 6. Raúl 7. David Silva 8. Wörns 9. Pessotto 10. Klos 11. Mark van Bommel 12. P.Cocu 13. T. Linke 14. Djalminha

Downcast 1. R. Baggio 2. Kaka 3. Etoo 4. Ayala 5. Maniche 6. Xabi Alonso 8. F. De Boer 9. Camoranesi 10.Barthez 11. Bierhoff 12. C. Bravo 13. Brolin 14. Ferrer

P-Nut
1. R. Keane 2. Vieira 4. Rui Costa 5. Puyol 6. Barzagli 7. Carrick 8. Ginola 9. Garay 10. Handanovic 11. Basler 12. Robinho 13. Gattuso 14. Carragher

Aldo/prath92
1. Totti 2. Rivaldo 3. Vidic 4. Hierro 6. Z. Boban 7. Deco 8. Ljungberg 9. Julio Cesar 10. Juan Pablo Sorin 11. Babbel 12. Klose 14. Srna

Joga Bonito/Gio 1. Xavi 2. Nedved 3. Seedorf 4. Carvalho 5. Deschamps 6. Lucio 7. Benarrivo 8. Neuer 9. van Persie 10. Möller 11. Grosso 12. Park 13. Rooney 14. W.Brown 15. Scholes 16. Stephane Chapuisat 17. Popescu 18. Babbel

OneNil - 1. Maldini 2. Ferdinand 3. Henry 4. Mendieta 5. Mascherano 6. S. Ramos 7. Marchisio 8. Caniggia 9. Maicon 10. Litmanen 11. Salas 12. Graeme Le Saux 13. V.Baia 14. Nakata 15. Montero 16. Drogba 17. O.Kahn 18. P.Cocu

Reinforcement pool plus unpicked players but remember picks 1 and 2 are ineligible. Red means they miss the final.