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Re: -8 of Internationals draft - Sign up and discussion
« Reply #440 on: April 10, 2022, 12:45:39 pm »
Would anyone be so kind as to rustle something up for me? 4231

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« Reply #441 on: April 10, 2022, 12:46:02 pm »
I’ve only done a handful of these, but you always seem to have a decent side :thumbup

Tell you what though lads, this one came at the right time to keep me somewhat distracted from the build up to this afternoon’s game, although now we’re finished… :rollseyes

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Re: -8 of Internationals draft - Sign up and discussion
« Reply #442 on: April 10, 2022, 12:55:48 pm »
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Alright then Nick City Tigers :D

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« Reply #443 on: April 10, 2022, 01:12:36 pm »
Much obliged!

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Re: -8 of Internationals draft - Sign up and discussion
« Reply #444 on: April 10, 2022, 01:55:11 pm »
Much obliged!

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Re: -8 of Internationals draft - Sign up and discussion
« Reply #445 on: April 10, 2022, 04:12:43 pm »
A few really strong teams picked in this. Should be a good fight to win it.

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Re: -8 of Internationals draft - Sign up and discussion
« Reply #446 on: April 10, 2022, 07:28:34 pm »
A list of notables I don’t think were drafted:

Henrik Larsson, Thomas Helveg, Martin Laursen, Freddy Rincon, Jakub Blacyskowski, Wojiech Sczeszny, Billy Bremner, Archie Gemmill, Cosmin Contra, Umit Davala, Emre Belozoglu, Giorgios Karagounis, Orvar Bergmark, Thomas Meunier, Toby Alderweireld, Jan Vertonghen, Thibaut Courtois, Jean-Marie Pfaff, Michel Preud’Homme, Karel Poborsky, Stelios Giannakopolous, Emmanuel Adebayor, Wilfried Zaha, Abedi Pele, Nolberto Solano, Maynor Figueroa, Edson Alvarez, Carlos Salcido, Cuatehmoc Blanco, Dwight Yorke, Thorgan Hazard, Aaron Ramsey, Kieran Tierney, Rafa Guerreiro, Pauleta, Nani, Maniche, Tiago, Jovetic, Matic etc etc

Most of them are as good as others selected in the draft but there’s definitely a lot more depth in certain positions than others.
That's not too bad of a list. The most surprising omissions for me, given some of the players selected, were:

- David O'Leary
- Łukasz Piszczek
- Johnny Giles
- Ronnie Whelan
- Ryan Giggs
- Dragan Dzajic
- Oleg Blokhin
- Denis Law
- Diego Forlan

Some of those are probably due to being Mancs of course, but Blokhin is the player I'm most surprised rarely gets picked. A rapid, skilful, prolific wide forward, who's also a Ballon D'or winner and had lots of other individual and team honours. When you watch videos of him, he was a seriously exhilarating player to watch. He is also Ukrainian, even though he played for the U.S.S.R, so his omission makes it even more surprising.

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Re: -8 of Internationals draft - Sign up and discussion
« Reply #447 on: April 10, 2022, 07:38:05 pm »
Happy enough with that. Gone for a Klopp style 433. These days I generally just try to check off players I've never drafted before. Recoba and Boban were the two big ones here. Never got Salah before either.

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« Reply #448 on: April 10, 2022, 07:43:20 pm »
I looked up Blokhin but had used Dasayev.

I had this proper class book when I was a kid that was a huge hardback coffee table book that had loads of football legends in there and would give good information on them all. Wish I still had it, I read it cover to cover many times as a kid. Just looking it up, it was called Football: The Beautiful Game. I think it was a Christmas gift when I was 8 or 9. Tangential, but Blokhin was one of the entries.

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Re: -8 of Internationals draft - Sign up and discussion
« Reply #449 on: April 10, 2022, 07:45:11 pm »
Betty, question - was Charles selected specifically to be a Centre Half or did you take him as a good dual-option should you failed to have drafted satisfactory striker/centre back picks?

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« Reply #450 on: April 10, 2022, 07:57:04 pm »
Betty, question - was Charles selected specifically to be a Centre Half or did you take him as a good dual-option should you failed to have drafted satisfactory striker/centre back picks?

One of my grandfathers’ favourite ever players.

Always had him earmarked for my CB role. My aim was to get him and McGrath together actually, but Lastrador just pipped me for him. I got Eusebio early for the striker role and already had Salah, so putting Charles up top would have been overkill I reckon. My 'pa was also a big Charles fan, so it's nice to draft him finally as well.
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Re: -8 of Internationals draft - Sign up and discussion
« Reply #451 on: April 10, 2022, 08:10:28 pm »
Betty, question - was Charles selected specifically to be a Centre Half or did you take him as a good dual-option should you failed to have drafted satisfactory striker/centre back picks?

One of my grandfathers’ favourite ever players.

Isn't he is just a old man's Steven Caulker?

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Re: -8 of Internationals draft - Sign up and discussion
« Reply #452 on: April 10, 2022, 08:11:29 pm »
Isn't he is just a old man's Steven Caulker?

That's what Andy said.  ;D

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« Reply #453 on: April 10, 2022, 08:32:34 pm »
Would anyone be kind enough to excuse my lack of capability (and lack of access to anything beyond my phone presently) and mock me up a graphic in Red kits?

Hope that's all good. Thought I'd make sure no-one thinks you picked Ben Davies  :D

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« Reply #454 on: April 10, 2022, 08:34:06 pm »
Hope that's all good. Thought I'd make sure no-one thinks you picked Ben Davies  :D

After reading that and then seeing the team I genuinely thought he'd picked Arsenal fan and all round arse Alan Davies.
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« Reply #455 on: April 10, 2022, 09:23:48 pm »
Hope that's all good. Thought I'd make sure no-one thinks you picked Ben Davies  :D


Cheers Betty, spot on thank you.
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« Reply #456 on: April 10, 2022, 09:24:18 pm »
After reading that and then seeing the team I genuinely thought he'd picked Arsenal fan and all round arse Alan Davies.
Wouldn’t draft that windmill shagger.
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« Reply #457 on: April 10, 2022, 10:06:28 pm »
After reading that and then seeing the team I genuinely thought he'd picked Arsenal fan and all round arse Alan Davies.

He’s picked a Davies. We just don’t know which one.

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« Reply #458 on: April 10, 2022, 10:11:54 pm »
He’s picked a Davies. We just don’t know which one.
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Re: -8 of Internationals draft - Sign up and discussion
« Reply #460 on: April 10, 2022, 11:12:09 pm »
Look at his face!

That's nice, that's Keegan, that's McDermott and that's a goal...or something like that
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« Reply #461 on: April 11, 2022, 05:08:21 am »
Will go through them all later and get some matches going.
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« Reply #463 on: April 11, 2022, 08:59:42 am »
                       Drogba

Hazard              Deco           Mahrez

                  Nakata    Zielinski

Rodriguez    Agger      Hansen  Ivanovic

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Anyone able to put this together for Andy?
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« Reply #464 on: April 11, 2022, 09:04:59 am »
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« Reply #465 on: April 11, 2022, 09:07:18 am »
Anyone able to put this together for Andy?

If he's being asked to head the ball too frequently - which isn't exactly his specialty - it could affect his ear and cause an infection. Especially if the ball hits him on the ear directly.

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Re: -8 of Internationals draft - Sign up and discussion
« Reply #467 on: April 11, 2022, 02:28:33 pm »
Oh yeah this was my 'short' list

Spoiler
GKS – Baia, Bento, Cordoba, Higuita, Mondragon, Bravo, Chilavert, Campos, Ochoa, Jennings, Elisha Scott, Bonner, Leighton, Goram, Southall, Grobbelaer, Friedel, Preud’Homme, Pfaff, Courtois, Shovkovsky, Cech, Planicka, Grosics, Ravelli, Schmeichel, Recber, Yashin, Dasaev, Beara, Oblak, Tomaszewski,

RB – Joao Pinto, Andrade, Cuadrado, Finnan, Arce, Rice, McGrain, Gerets, Piszczek, Bergmark, Helveg, Davala, Stankovic, Ivanovic, Kuffour, Geremi, Lauren, Petrescu, Contra, Seitaridis, Srna, Hakimi,

CB – Carvalho, Coelho, Pepe, Couto, Nasazzi, Santamaria, Godin, Montero, Cordoba, Yepes, Matip, Agger, Hyypia, Figueroa, Gamarra, Chumpitaz, Marquez, McGrath, Lawrenson, Hansen, McNeill, Charles, Gillespie, Henchoz, Kolo Toure, Wark, Yeats, Vertonghen, Alderweireld, Kompany, Luzhny, Zmuda, Popluhar, Patrick Andersson, Hysen, Mellberg, Martin Olsen, Alpay, Terim, Vasovic, Vidic, Gambetta, Popescu, Radabe, Song, Naybet, Berg, Ronny Johnsen, Manolas, Kovac, Kjaer, Minelli

LB – Robertson, Salcido, Staunton, Irwin, Gemmell, Nicol, Jankulovski, Heintze, Zhirkov, Bjornebye, Riise, Chivu, Ivanov, Alphonso Davies, Alaba, Jarni

DM - Paolo Sousa, Varela, Momo Sissoko, Keane, Molby, Krychowiak, Voronin, Igor Netto, Mihajlovic, Oblak, Mackay, Essien, Mamadou Diarra, Zagorakis, Nakata, Ndidi, Der Elst,

CM – Coluna, Moutinho, Thiago Mendes, Naby Keita, Vidal, Paz, Blanchflower, Whelan, Houghton, Souness, Bremner, Van Moer, Masopust, Bozsik, Bo Larsson, Basturk, Tugay, Altintop, Modric, Boban, Jugovic, Rakitic, Ocwirk, Yaya Toure, Prohaska, Seydou Keita, Foe, Letchkov, Petrov, Brozovic, Sabitzer, Kovacic

AM – Deco, Rui Costa, Francescoli, Schiaffino, Valderama, Romerito, Cubillas, Litmanen, De Bruyne, Scifo, Ceulemans, Belanov, Blokhin, Panenka, Hamsik, Rosicky, Liedholm, M Laudrup, Stojkovic, Savicevic, Prosinecki, Cesar Cueto, Dobrin, Hagi, Okocha, Abedi Pele, Hadji, Balakov, Gudjohnsen, Honda, Dalglish

LW – Luis Diaz, Berger, Mane, Leonel Sanchez, Brady, Heighway, Liddell, Kewell, Hazard, Lato, Nedved, Czibor, Turan, Dzazic, Ilie, Perisic, Simao, Son, Park Ji Sung, Best, Mertens

RW – Figo, Alexis Sanchez, Boniek, Hamrin, Ljungberg, B Laudrup, Simonsen, Kanchelskis, Jose Augusto, Johnstone, Finidi, Salah, Mahrez, Bale

ATT – Ronaldo, Eusebio, Forlan, Falcao, Salas, Suarez, Zamorano, Erico, Hugo Sanchez, Aldridge, Law, Toshack, Rush, Jota, Shevchenko, Lewandowski, Kubala, Albert, Hidegkuti, Puskas, Kocsis, Henrik Larsson, Nordhal, Zlatan, Elkjaer, Sukur, Suker, Pancev, Mijatovic, Boksic, Dzeko, Mandzukic, Alberto Spencer, Drogba, Eto’o, Weah, Milla, Benni McCarthy, Haaland, Berbatov, Stoichkov, Viduka, Aubameyang,
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Betty was right, that Asia/Oceania spot would have been impossible if we'd done a four continents draft.
If he's being asked to head the ball too frequently - which isn't exactly his specialty - it could affect his ear and cause an infection. Especially if the ball hits him on the ear directly.

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« Reply #469 on: April 13, 2022, 12:27:06 pm »
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