Never seen the like. Didn't even want Vialli, just picked him cos he was safe, or so I thought
The Second RedCafe Sheep 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?
Aye - and to a large extent the same is true for drafts. Still, there's a difference. If the rounds are very unevenly balanced, for instance (in terms of the quality available), there's less the manager can do.
But all things said and done, a sheep should be a considerable weakness - that's the point of the thing, surely. And who cares about the matches anyway - the fun's in the drafting. If a match or two becomes largely pointless because one of the teams are loaded with crap, that's the nature of the game. It can easily happen in a non-sheep draft too.
They were all too obvious I guess, Armfield in particular. And I did think Cholo had been a safe early choice, but I can't wrap my head around Fernandez.
Willy Waddell didn't get picked in a British draft, so it's understandable.
Names anoto.. Names. They might come up again in other criteria. Why can't you stop my friend. @Skizzo
What do you mean by 'same round of matches'. What if it's during the group stages?
How did Deschamps last till the 3rd round, ffs? You guys are all insane. Also, I know he's not necessarily sheep material, but could we sign Capello as a sheep for @sajeev ? I want to see him defend Capello.
TBH, I'd risk a sheep over Vialli upfront, not too bad an outcome for you.
He didn't - but that was a bit random. It was wingers galore in that draft.
That is a brilliant sheep in my mind at least, someone playable but who never features pretty much. The more the manager likes him the better, it'll mean some great matches. Just boring to see people killed with a Djemba Djemba.
thought him and simeone would have been picked already.
nm getting puskas is the pick of the round.
Criterion is gone, it's now as out of context and irrelevant as people mentioning "the Messi round" before.
Think you're missing the point here
yup Capello is a big no-no for me since he managed Real, and then resigned supporting John Terry
and i think a few of your players are over-rated but yeah an incredible team, i just don't like it
I hate Capello more than you can hate me for voting against him
Think you're missing the point here
Seems harsch then!works for me!
@Skizzo Also, what if say there are three players booked in a match, you pick two and one is blocked. And the third player that was booked has been taken by someone else in the same round. Are you informed of this and told to pick a player from the same round, or are you not told anything and your next pick will be blocked regardless.
Then if you pick a pair of players from group stage match 2, and one is blocked. The other player has to be also from another game from group stage match 2 and was booked.
I like the early Liedholm pick by @NoPace . I'm also glad that Hidekguti wasn't blocked, he deserves a good tournament.
There is one game that's an utter gold mine for this round.
Just to confirm, it can be from match 2 in any of the groups, right?
You wouldn't be informed, it would just show as a "pass" for the other manager who picked them. You won't know who else has been picked.
@Skizzo I assume the third place play off and final are linked as the same round of matches?
Looks like many of you didn't realise only four players had been picked so far.
Correct. First pick 2 booked from same match. If neither is successful, pick different players and different match. If one is successful, pick another from that same match as your successful pick. If no other players in that match were booked (at all, if there were, you have to go with them before trying a different match) then you can pick another player booked from another team in the same round of matches.
To be more generous this round, yes
You gave it away too easily. I expect 7-8 of the managers to start off there or actually ignore it for later rounds.
This is the first time I'm playing BTW. When do we get our sheep assigned? Would help in building the team if we knew ()
)There's multiple such goldmines tbf
Disagree. I think it's a fairly easy round as there are so many games with two or more great players carded, but the game I meant is on another level. It's a fairly obvious one too, so I haven't given much away.
6 managers shot their load on the same keeper! A goalkeeper!
NM wins this round.
I'm still not quite sure how finals and third place games will work. If multiple people all go for the same final and the third place game doesn't have many yellows, there won't be any booked players left to pick for round two.
The goldmine is a tricky one. You might land a good 'un but it's virtually certain the other one will be blocked - and then you have to go fishing in other matches for your second pick (which could easily mean you end up with something far less impressive).
Which means sheep, lots of sheep
. Pick the games wisely, finals & semifinals are obviously a bigger risk than group games or round of 16 games.Picking sheep is a fecking nightmare, I respectfully decline the job offer
. I feel like I've done my share of sheep picking by suggesting Capello for sajeev.I thought that there would be 3-4 bids for Simeone in the 3rd stage. Wow.Wait... so no one went for Simeone or Luis Fernandez?
Hidegkuti, ffs
Very clear and fair - should just stick to this, @Skizzo.
This round has more unsuccessful than successful managers, though - so you can ask around for additional nominations once all the successful managers have submitted their nominations.
The tricky part here will be to keep all the sheep on roughly the same level, quality wise IF there is to be purely comical ones included, that is.
I wouldn't be too arsed about fairness, though, in all honesty. I presume you will throw nine names in the hat in the end and just randomize - so it's a bit of luck involved, which is the way it should be.
Getting a sheep shouldn't be a pleasant thing anyway - just let 'em cry their little hearts out, I say.
Challenge accepted!
Will keep it in line with managers picks where possible. Greedy fecks get the worst sheep! I haven't even looked at who these may be btw.
Yeah it would be randomized. I'm going to have a third party nominate the sheep, I'll make sure they all fly. Then hand them out after the generator randomized.
Haha I'm going to randomize the sheep for the managers. That way there isn't any hand picked ones.
Except Capello for sajeev.