For a second I thought this was some old matchthread after seeing the posts count and number of people who have voted. What the flying feck happened here?
The Euro Draft - QF - Team EAP vs Raees
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
Gio was more Paul Bearer than Paul Heyman, he barely interfered. It was a handicap match with Evolution, and Crappy & Anto as Vince n Shane.
Me, CRW and Gio have the same amount of posts. Anto. and crappy were neutral.
If I do get through, all the managers on here will be dying to get their revenge and ensure justice is sought.. so I am sure karma will find a way of levelling things out
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Relax MJJ, it was a joke
I had no problem with you guys posting at all.. it is a shame when AM's who have contributed heavily to the draft picks/tactics can't debate in the match thread so I was cool with it.I for one was uncomfortable with just my name in the thread title when Gio's pretty much picked our formation for this game. I was also going to take Zebec out but he told me to fight it through.
Sorry team EAP, had to go for Raees in the end. Really close to call, and both teams have some really strong arguments to win, but for me it was the Henry-Facchetti wing against a relatively weak side defensively that swayed it.
Ahh shit aldo, thats a killer blow.
I hope they don't. Sort your team out, so many players there deserved to go through and even if it will be difficult I think you should try and just address what has been brought up here. I.e find a way to use Rijkaard/Beckenbauer, which I think Balu already helped you guys with. Just upgrading personnel and playing the same setup would be bad.
Definitely will mate, would be suicidal to do otherwise.
I know its no consolation but I genuinely was troubled by the use of some of my players here due to lack of form/position hence why I was going to change my formation early doors before Gio said he had evidence suggesting otherwise, Rijkaard however wasn't one of them as he clearly played centre mid in 92.
When you are already drowning underwater would it really matter if someone pisses on top? Go on Aldo. lol
EAP seriously am sad to see this match end, it has been a blast.. thanks for being gracious in defeat and hope we pair up again in for a rematch with Balu operating as Don King.
I voted Raees, but I could have easily been swayed if EAP and his fantastic four had went in to depth about breaking down Raees flank with Amoros and where the whole Rijkaard/Beckenbauer debacle was going on as well. There was basically no tactical write-up from EAP and while I assumed Raees defense would look like United the first month under LVG, I assume team EAP would be looking like that but all over the pitch with only very generic instructions. Was a bit like hearing that Giggs "interview" when they were picking players for the team.
The primary job of the managers should be to manage their team, not to call out the opponents players for being bad individuals. If you think Blanc was slow, show some videos of where it troubled him and of your own players providing a similar threat etc, don't just bash the player.
The primary job of the managers should be to manage their team, not to call out the opponents players for being bad individuals. If you think Blanc was slow, show some videos of where it troubled him and of your own players providing a similar threat etc, don't just bash the player.
Thanks a lot the explanation Balu. As Raees said, he has never interacted with me and saw me online and just sent out a pm.
"we middle-earthers need to stick together, drop us a vote haha!"
I did not think much of it, i have never paid any attention to the game and i also just about glanced at the two teams, i saw Henry, Suarez and Beckenbauer and just voted for him. Don't think i even paid attention to the thread title of the game. So maybe that was the game plan and it worked.
I of course would like to take back my vote if possible (won't make much of a difference i guess).
Raees, apologies for causing trouble. May the best guy win.
To be fair I am not to happy about that, I thought you would have at least read it through - i.e. the OP's at least. Did you at least read the second time through when I made it clear about changing your vote to EAP if you liked his side better?
Before your pm, i haven't even opened this thread, not a big fan of "what if" theories. Anyway all the best mate. The caf will be gunning for your now
Thank you Witchking, for wandering into this thread though.
question is have we made you a fan of drafts or scared you away?Before your pm, i haven't even opened this thread, not a big fan of "what if" theories. Anyway all the best mate. The caf will be gunning for your now
Sorry for that, I do that in all games to keep the thread titles short. I usually tag all managers and assitants and think most people know that @Gio was involved in your team. If I started a thread called:
The Euro Draft - QF - Team Edgar Allan Pillow & MJJ & coolredwine vs Team Raees & Gio
most people would have stopped reading long before Gio's name was mentioned.
Nah totally understandable especially against a three-man team, ridiculously long title.
It is like reading a Werewolf game thread
Sadly true.
Anyway this has been a really memorable match up for sure. Both parties went for broke here, trying every trick in the book. Reminded me of my gruesome battle with Brwned a couple of years back. A bit of a shame that the voting got skewed because as stressed as I was after going through that level of intense discussions it was a great triumph to come out victorious.
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/decades-draft-tournament-aldoraine18-vs-brwned.375872/
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/decades-draft-tournament-aldoraine18-vs-brwned.375872/
Quality of those sides is ridiculous - certainly puts the quality of our sides into perspective, was that a semi or a final?Anyway this has been a really memorable match up for sure. Both parties went for broke here, trying every trick in the book. Reminded me of my gruesome battle with Brwned a couple of years back. A bit of a shame that the voting got skewed because as stressed as I was after going through that level of intense discussions it was a great triumph to come out victorious.
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/decades-draft-tournament-aldoraine18-vs-brwned.375872/
It was a quarter final. After the exhausting 24 hour battle with Brwned and the game ending in penalties, my relief ended only a few hours before Brwned took over the team of my semi final opponent who had left and it was back to square one.
By that was an open all time draft with the only restriction being two players per decade (by date of birth) so the player pool was huge.
Checkout Theon's team that thrashed the crap out of mine in the final. https://www.redcafe.net/threads/decades-draft-tournament-final.376954/
Ridiculous.Passarella - Carlos? I bet anto said something
Edit - he didn't
Edit - he didn't
Defense is too weak. Players are too attacking. Suicidal formation. Opponents will have a field day
Even worse, he actually proposed a team with them in it as the best possible in the draftPassarella - Carlos? I bet anto said something
Edit - he didn't
This is what I came up with:
By that was an open all time draft with the only restriction being two players per decade (by date of birth) so the player pool was huge.
Checkout Theon's team that thrashed the crap out of mine in the final. https://www.redcafe.net/threads/decades-draft-tournament-final.376954/
Sounds nuts, especially against an opponent like Brwned. I don't think I would hack it against him or Antohan, I was scared of EAP after his 'Planstil-gate' moment.. he's a tough cookie to beat.It was a quarter final. After the exhausting 24 hour battle with Brwned and the game ending in penalties, my relief ended only a few hours before Brwned took over the team of my semi final opponent who had left and it was back to square one.
Your side wasn't too bad to be fair but his has so much flair feck me senseless.. Bestie, Goofy, Diego and then Fat Ronnie... pure silks. All of them huge fan favourites.
Those drafts are why I talk about how the drafts have improved so much. They used to be quite terrible to say the least.
Good to know mate but I have to say the PM-ing or tagging business in general is a tad bit disappointing and goes against the spirit of the game. The over-competitiveness is something that will always be part of the game and something that I don't quite enjoy but always try to keep my wits about (I do lose them at times, naturally). It's one of the main reasons why I'm starting to lose interest in the draft matches but am still, as always, in love with the drafting process where all the fun and information lies. In fact I enjoy researching for a write-up far more than winning a match, needless to say. Sometimes I stop myself halfway, writing shite about a player that I like and go wtf why am I doing that
? Might as well point out the flaws in the opposing manager's tactics and how I plan to exploit them instead, which in all likeliness leads to a more civilised discussion. If there is one thing I've learnt, it's that managers would much rather have their very own tactics criticised than one of 'their' players .Non sense. I may have even voted for you if not for constant bigging up of henry as a goat.
And yes, sending out pm is pretty much against any draft etiquette. I m in a mega convo with 100 folks or so, if I ask them to vote in any draft thread,vthat will be the end of that.
The one person being put on focus happens a lot in draft threads. All time British auction draft, stob did not even show and I still had to fend off questions from 4-5 people about my team.
The funny thing is I fecking hate Henry in general
12 pages and 59 votes. This should be some sort of record, huh!
I empathise mate. You clearly were at your wits end. As I said earlier, it definitely put me off voting for EAP early on as they seemed to have completely lost the plot and kept carrying on about 2-3 things without even considering their own strengths, which is bad management IMO. I sort of allowed for your Blanc bollocks as a result, but once the strange voting pattern materialised I was less forgiving/neutral and got a bit more errr passive-aggressive.
TBH, I agree with @Balu's point that the best way around this is establishing who you PMd and recalculating as you clearly went for a select few.
I actually brought it up via PM in a later draft when the same thing seemed to be happening and it had to be dealt with somehow. I didn't mention you at all, just that some had reported it.
Why am I not surprised, that @antohan also played dirty
The feck, am I the only one who never even thought about doing shit like that? You guys are all mental.
Disappointing Balu
What I said was in low voting games I used to PM all managers/regulars so they got their arses into the thread and voted. I didn't send individual PMs but group ones, even including the other manager involved. I consider that an above board way of getting people to vote, and it clearly wouldn't necessarily be for me, it's just that sometimes we got games that moved painfully slowly.In any case, what I said was that in this new forum with the tag feature it was no longer required and you could do it on the thread. Still, warned him I had got all sorts of shit once for tagging Arsenal fans when a few were talking bollocks about Bergkamp.
See above. fecking hell.I had no idea either. WTF?
That was hilarious
I do love you though, you know that, right?Disappointing Balu
I don't mind tagging/pm-ing the regulars/managers, I agree with that. Totally different than contacting players who don't show any interest in what we do here.
In case you are wondering, since MJJ now chooses to make completely unqualified throwaway accounts of PMs: that was all legit, it was more a case of the beauty at night not being Boniek but me posting on through the night keeping the thread bumped to get people in there. All while you were