Topic: All-time Football Draft - Groups A, B, & C - Matchday 3

[Betty Blue]

Welcome to RAWK's second ever restrictionless all-time football draft (the last one was 7 years ago!). Each drafter was tasked with building a team in their own image by picking their choice of any players to have ever played football.

Please judge the following matches on which team you believe would win in a 90 minute game of football, rather than on individuals -

____________________________________________Group A_________________________________________________________________

Samie & Prof                                       V                                           Xxavi

                         

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vivabobbygraham                                          V                                      Djozer         

                     

_____________________________________________Group B_______________________________________________________________

  XabiArt                                            V                                              Lastrador   

                         

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  Nick                                                 V                               KingLuis   

                         

___________________________________________________Group C_________________________________________________________


Hazell                                              V                                         Betty Blue   

                     

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Trendisnotdestiny                                       V                                           Chakan

                         

[Prof]

No love for adventure I see?

  

[vivabobbygraham]

Ah, well, some obviously didn't get Hidegkuti's influence on my attack and thought it weak. Seems like you need a more modern headline act so will bear in mind for the future. Enjoyed it immensely though. Well done all

[Samie]

No love for adventure I see?

  

How badly are we losing mate? 

[Samie]

Ah, well, some obviously didn't get Hidegkuti's influence on my attack and thought it weak. Seems like you need a more modern headline act so will bear in mind for the future. Enjoyed it immensely though. Well done all

Don't worry mate the best things about the drafts is the shite talk and the team building, the games are are an afterthought. 

[Djozer]

Ah, well, some obviously didn't get Hidegkuti's influence on my attack and thought it weak. Seems like you need a more modern headline act so will bear in mind for the future. Enjoyed it immensely though. Well done all

Still time for you to turn it round in this match, mate. Your lads are a good outfit, though I'd like to think my boys have a touch more about them and can see this one out.

[PhaseOfPlay]

Ah, well, some obviously didn't get Hidegkuti's influence on my attack and thought it weak. Seems like you need a more modern headline act so will bear in mind for the future. Enjoyed it immensely though. Well done all

I gave you that game because Dunga would physically destroy Platini. Plus you had Crazy Horse. And Hagi + Gazza would probably get the better of Davids and Edwards (Hagi was a tough nut). John Charles at the back is the weak spot in Djozer's team, though. That's a hipster pick I just couldn't get on board with

[Djozer]

I gave you that game because Dunga would physically destroy Platini. Plus you had Crazy Horse. And Hagi + Gazza would probably get the better of Davids and Edwards (Hagi was a tough nut). John Charles at the back is the weak spot in Djozer's team, though. That's a hipster pick I just couldn't get on board with

John Charles the weak spot? Mate. I'm not denying my team's without it's weaker points (though I have full confidence in each and every one of the lads etc etc) but Charles is not one of them. Mind you, I would expect no less from a man who took Bodo Illgner as his first round pick in an all time draft. I'm not angry, PoP, but I am beyond disappointed. Tsk.


In fairness, I reckon Bobby's side would give us a good game but I think we could take them over the 90. Juventus' greatest ever foreign player would be imperious at the back and score a couple of meaty headers from set pieces just to put the naysayers like yourself back in their boxes.

[PhaseOfPlay]

Yeah but it's 1940s/50s John Charles, against Hidegkuti, the first False Nine

I think he'd have had the same problems as Billy Wright did for England

If you'd stuck him up front though, I might have given you that game

[Samie]

That will be PoP's legacy on RAWK. Not the great post's or the informative training methods he spoke about but picking Bodo Illgner in Round 1 of an All Time Draft. 

[PhaseOfPlay]

That will be PoP's legacy on RAWK. Not the great post's or the informative training methods he spoke about but picking Bodo Illgner in Round 1 of an All Time Draft. 

A gorgeous Goalkeeper.

Yous are all philistines.

[Betty Blue]

That will be PoP's legacy on RAWK. Not the great post's or the informative training methods he spoke about but picking Bodo Illgner in Round 1 of an All Time Draft. 

Almost as good as Carlos Alberto with an A.

[Prof]

Is this a good time to make our confession?  We were trying to go for the famous championship manager Italia 94/95 edition, 2-3-1-4 formation.  But Samie got cold feet and bottled signing our intended third striker, Jimmy Greaves, and went with Jimmy Johnstone instead.

Imagine that front three... Muller, Batigol, Greaves.  The best strikers ever from Germany, Argentina and Britain.  Supported by Gento (best left winger ever) and Kaka with our midfield three of two all round playmaker/controllers and Mascherano to protect the imperious back three of Neuer, Wright and Schwarzenbeck.

It's a bit disappointing no one took the time to even give us feedback as we felt we'd built the perfect 2-3-1-4 (can we pretend it's Greaves through the middle instead of Johnstone on the right?)

[Chakan]

Is this a good time to make our confession?  We were trying to go for the famous championship manager Italia 94/95 edition, 2-3-1-4 formation.  But Samie got cold feet and bottled signing our intended third striker, Jimmy Greaves, and went with Jimmy Johnstone instead.

Imagine that front three... Muller, Batigol, Greaves.  The best strikers ever from Germany, Argentina and Britain.  Supported by Gento (best left winger ever) and Kaka with our midfield three of two all round playmaker/controllers and Mascherano to protect the imperious back three of Neuer, Wright and Schwarzenbeck.

It's a bit disappointing no one took the time to even give us feedback as we felt we'd built the perfect 2-3-1-4 (can we pretend it's Greaves through the middle instead of Johnstone on the right?)

I would have voted for you had you taken Greaves.

[Prof]

I would have voted for you had you taken Greaves.

See Samie?  When you go all out attack, you have to go with everything and not hold back.  Imagine Klopp putting a side like that out!  It'd be like a whole new level of heavy metal football.  Like Disaster Area from the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy 

[Sheer Magnetism]

If nothing else, I'd like to see what Jonathan Wilson and Michael Cox would say about the return of the 2-3-5.

[vivabobbygraham]

I gave you that game because Dunga would physically destroy Platini. Plus you had Crazy Horse. And Hagi + Gazza would probably get the better of Davids and Edwards (Hagi was a tough nut). John Charles at the back is the weak spot in Djozer's team, though. That's a hipster pick I just couldn't get on board with

Praise indeed coming from you, PoP. I'll take that

[vivabobbygraham]

Don't worry mate the best things about the drafts is the shite talk and the team building, the games are are an afterthought. 

I've loved the craic mate. As you say, it's the best part of it

[vivabobbygraham]

That will be PoP's legacy on RAWK. Not the great post's or the informative training methods he spoke about but picking Bodo Illgner in Round 1 of an All Time Draft. 

Bold move. Set the tempo for the banter at the very least

[vivabobbygraham]

In fairness, I reckon Bobby's side would give us a good game but I think we could take them over the 90. Juventus' greatest ever foreign player would be imperious at the back and score a couple of meaty headers from set pieces just to put the naysayers like yourself back in their boxes.

Baresi would have dealt with that, crazy horse would have cracked a few welsh gags and Puyol would have just chinned him on the qt

[PhaseOfPlay]

If nothing else, I'd like to see what Jonathan Wilson and Michael Cox would say about the return of the 2-3-5.

Well seeing as they got the "decline of the back three" spectacularly wrong, I'd say they would say some nonsense about it that doesn't have any connection to the actual game

[Djozer]

Baresi would have dealt with that, crazy horse would have cracked a few welsh gags and Puyol would have just chinned him on the qt

Na man, Baresi's a living god, but he wouldn't have touched Il Buono Gigante in the air and if Puyol tried it on then Davids and Di Stefano would just kick him a few times until he stopped moving. Gazza might have been an issue if he fancied it, but Platini would be dancing a jig around Dunga before feeding it through to my front three, no worries.

Mind you, seems like you've got your concubines in on the voting act so this one might end up being pretty tight...

[vivabobbygraham]

Na man, Baresi's a living god, but he wouldn't have touched Il Buono Gigante in the air and if Puyol tried it on then Davids and Di Stefano would just kick him a few times until he stopped moving. Gazza might have been an issue if he fancied it, but Platini would be dancing a jig around Dunga before feeding it through to my front three, no worries.

Mind you, seems like you've got your concubines in on the voting act so this one might end up being pretty tight...

Outrageous slur. You will hear from my lawyers. I take great pride in being one of the least popular posters on RAWK, a reputation I have cultivated over the years and this hint of popularity and self promotion in the positive cannot be allowed to go unchallenged, D.

[vivabobbygraham]

No love for adventure I see?

  

The fix was in early in this group; to be expected in a group containing a Barca fan