The picture must be understood from a dynamic perspective.
A defensive strategy requires a collective organisation.
The opinion of Barnes
Synth Draft: R1- EAP/RT vs Ecstatic
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A defensive strategy requires a collective organisation.
There are no longer "penalties" and it isn't necessary to count my minutes to guess who has the edge!OMG, we might have our first draw. Never been more excited for a draft game. Everybody freeze
Not really sure what the point here was. Never said Rush was not a team player or a lazy footballer. He was a poacher who excelled in making runs off the last defender. Has a huge workrate to hurry up defenders and ability to make timed runs to score. He's not the guy to lead the line on his own. He needs a Dalglish behind him to succeed. Gullit is good for the role here....provided he's not expected to provide width on regular basis.
Here he's facing off against Kh Forster and Bergomi, who have the ability to shut him down.
I'm happy with a dynamic win here too!
Don't know who has the edge here as I've haven't paid attention to pick timings or even the pick order this draft. However I prefer to settle this the old fashioned way.
@Chesterlestreet @Balu @antohan @harms Hope one of you is willing to break the deadlock either way! Shame to the loser to go out on some pick timings after such a great match.
In case of draw, whoever has lowest pick timing of the two wins.
@Edgar Allan Pillow Wins with an average pick time of 27.75 mins to @Ecstatic who has a pick time average of 46.1 mins.
Skipping mode picks were given a mandatory 30 min pick time.Skipping mode, do you remember?
Congrats and all the best
Rewarding being an obsessive cnut, in other words.
Well, why not, I suppose.
I like my old idea better, though: In the event of a draw, the team with the most 'tached players go through.
Haha, all those 0s did the trick.
Sneaky, EAP.
Sneaky, EAP.
The missed picks were counted as 30 mins pick. Ecstatic had quite a few long pick times which messed him up.
Old school playoff with mandatory involvement of the other 3 players on bench in starting lineup
I remember there were some discussions on what to do for skipped turns. Don't recall what the outcome was.Skipping mode, do you remember?
Congrats and all the best
Thanks. Would have preferred if someone broke the tie with a vote.Congrats and all the best
Must have missed that. Cool.
Stats.....
EAP (1) (2) 43 (3) 2 (4) 1 (5) 30 (6) 8 (7) 74 (8) 30 (9)3 0 (10) 30 (11) 30Stats.....
Ecstatic (1) 232 (2) 84 (3) 96 (4) 13 (5) 52 (6) 97 (7) 2 (8) 11 (9) 7 (10) 43 (11) 5 (12) 1 (13) 39 (14) 0
Quite ironic that after Gullit did all the heavy lifting to earn the draw, it was his own pick time that lead to the defeat. Ouch!
via Imgflip Meme GeneratorQuite ironic that after Gullit did all the heavy lifting to earn the draw, it was his own pick time that lead to the defeat. Ouch!
FWIW I would have settled it on @Ecstatic fielding Peyreira and Belodideci.
Seriously, how hard is it to spell your players right?
Seriously, how hard is it to spell your players right?
Maybe, I'm becoming dyslexic.
Just curious, what kind of players are they? Who'd you say are closest modern counterparts for comparison sake?
Obviously the voters took a shine to Geroge Weah?
Hell, I didn't think anyone will notice. Was too lazy to rework that
I was wondering if he was a cousin and you were trying to slot in a namealike (like the Maradona and Pele picks).Hell, I didn't think anyone will notice. Was too lazy to rework that
Pereyra srarted off as a #10 at Nacional, was captaining Uruguay as a #8 aged ~20 and was bought by Sao Paulo as a midfielder.
He (and his manager) soon realised he was better and more tactically adept than any Brazilian defender so after filling in a few times ended up playing in the heart of the defence.
Was the best defender in the Brazilian league for a decade or so alongside Oscar. He went on to coach and be in charge of SPs youth setup, with a few stints as caretaker manager.
Many believe he was all Brazil 82 needed to be champions, even more credit him with greatly influencing Brazil's evolution to more defensively robust sides thereafter.
It probably helped he was originally a #10. He was a superb footballer, but still capable of performing the best man-marking job on Maradona in his pomp (1986 WC 2nd round).
@Gio better pick him up in reinforcements to keep him outta reach of others, just sayin...
Good shout on Reaney, and I agree on the rest.
Well my point was that he's seen as one of England's best ever right backs. Bear in mind Pete was a Neville hater who was posting in a forum where multiple posters have claimed that Neville was better than Zanetti, so the hyperbole becomes more understandable...Pff, some of us have had the foresight to pick the mack daddy of Maradona man-markers already.
Absolutely agree he was one of the best right backs, no issue.... remember being made up when we got him even though would've been nicer years earlier (think he was a United fan himself?)Good shout on Reaney, and I agree on the rest.
That guy was obviously a huge Viv fan..... with a slightly rose tinted view (we've all got that on certain players?). Don't know why he'd have a downer on Red Nev.... a very good RB too and if someone said I'd have a Draft team with one of those two, I'd be happy either way.
Neither of them are as good a fullback as Irwin though....
I'd probably hate Neville if I was an Arsenal supporter in fairnessAbsolutely agree he was one of the best right backs, no issue.... remember being made up when we got him even though would've been nicer years earlier (think he was a United fan himself?)
That guy was obviously a huge Viv fan..... with a slightly rose tinted view (we've all got that on certain players?). Don't know why he'd have a downer on Red Nev.... a very good RB too and if someone said I'd have a Draft team with one of those two, I'd be happy either way.
Neither of them are as good a fullback as Irwin though....
. Irwin was a cut above indeed. If I ever find myself composing a Premier League era XI or Fergie era Utd XI or any such hypothetical XI, I invariably stretch the rules and fire Denis in at RB.Ahhhh, an Arsenal fan.I'd probably hate Neville if I was an Arsenal supporter in fairness
That says it all.
(though wonder he didn't consider someone like Lauren)He was an oddball.
Storey, I mean.
Still, he was sound enough in many ways and he usually wasn't miles off in his assessments of English/British players. Very uncompromising, though, like his namesake.
Storey, I mean.
Still, he was sound enough in many ways and he usually wasn't miles off in his assessments of English/British players. Very uncompromising, though, like his namesake.
It kinda feels like a memorial service in here.
Ah, Storey - we hardly knew him.
But he gave us that alternative table thing.
And some genuinely good wumming - different class to the crass rubbish we see these days.
But he gave us that alternative table thing.
And some genuinely good wumming - different class to the crass rubbish we see these days.
Storey was a good poster though and his player assessments had substance as well as being quite fair.
What happened to Storey? Did he leave or get banned?
He had a fine eye for a player and helpfully injected a dose of reality every now and then.
It seems he was aptly named based on the wummery comments hereAhhhh, an Arsenal fan.
That says it all.
The original Peter Storey was quite the character:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2010/nov/28/true-storey-peter-storey-review
To Pete
Aye, he was a fine poster. I think it's the way he could seamlessly shift between sound opinions and wumming that made him such a master of the WUM trade.
Storey was a good poster though and his player assessments had substance as well as being quite fair.
EDIT: Although I'm now wondering how long he actually clung to the Arsenal 5 Year Plan delusion for, if he ever really believed it.