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In the third "invented in 1992" draft, we bring you the Gazzetta Football Italia edition.

This is a Serie A draft where you can pick any player who graced the league between the 1992/93 season and the present day. No football exists outside of this period.



Rules:

- Performances before the 1992/93 season do not exist. All players are judged on their form while playing in Serie A, that includes domestic cups and in Europe. e.g. If you picked Redondo, you'd get the crocked version not Hazell's flowing haired Real sex beast.

- You may pick no more than 3 foreign players in your side. The rest must be Italian or 'assimilated' (have played 10 consecutive seasons in Serie A). e.g. If Redondo had played for 10 seasons in Italy, without leaving the country, then you could pick him as an 'assimilated player. Meaning you can still pick a further 3 foreign players.

- Each player must have made a minimum of 50 Serie A appearances.

- If any players have been capped for more than one nation, they default to whoever they have the most caps for.

- 2 hours per pick in the first few rounds, then down to 1 hour once we're all up to speed.

- Draft hours are 9am - 11pm GMT

We start on Monday November 11th

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Me
Red1977
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child-in-time
RobbieRedman
Nick
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Draex
Tubby
Lastrador
Sheer
Popcorn
Nicholls
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Bobby
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Can't even be bothered to put up the Goallazo GIF or theme music, yer waste of space.

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Can't even be bothered to put up the Goallazo GIF or theme music, yer waste of space.

I'm saving it for the Selection thread  ;)
"Don’t let your heads drop. We’re Liverpool. You’re playing for Liverpool. Don’t forget that. You have to hold your heads high for the supporters. You have to do it for them." - Rafa Benitez, halftime, Istanbul, 2005.

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Raring to go! Wearing me Ray Wilkins mask and Peter Brackley pants watching Little House on the Prairie and The Ozone

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Any room?

Always Bobby I love your historical picks adds balance to us hipsters :)

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Always Bobby I love your historical picks adds balance to us hipsters :)

Cheers Draex. I absolutely love this era
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And treat those two imposters just the same

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Get a room you old fuckers.

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Raring to go! Wearing me Ray Wilkins mask and Peter Brackley pants watching Little House on the Prairie and The Ozone

Haha Little House on the fucking Prairie and the Waltons. I can't believe I was so bored in those days I would actually watch them. Pre-internet days.

Always Bobby I love your historical picks adds balance to us hipsters :)

Is the 90s historical now? If so I'm fucked.
"Don’t let your heads drop. We’re Liverpool. You’re playing for Liverpool. Don’t forget that. You have to hold your heads high for the supporters. You have to do it for them." - Rafa Benitez, halftime, Istanbul, 2005.

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Think we're at 16 now. Don't mind going over if anyone else wants in though. I know everyone loves Serie A. We don't start til Monday anyway.
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Doing an early skirmish of the land and I know we love talking about this era as  it'sGod tier but they had some absolute shite in there too.  ;D

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Haha Little House on the fucking Prairie and the Waltons. I can't believe I was so bored in those days I would actually watch them. Pre-internet days.

Is the 90s historical now? If so I'm fucked.

Bobby schooled us with the 1966 onwards draft!

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VBG was on the ship that brought over what became a "football" from China.

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Doing an early skirmish of the land and I know we love talking about this era as  it'sGod tier but they had some absolute shite in there too.  ;D

Post 2014 is a wastland of shite
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Having knocked up a shortlist, I reckon we get into the weeds on the Italian players pretty quickly.

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Bobby schooled us with the 1966 onwards draft!

We're going to do an anti-Sky 'football was invented' in 1966 draft next
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Having knocked up a shortlist, I reckon we get into the weeds on the Italian players pretty quickly.

It's going to be tight, but I think there are just about enough of them to go around. The 10 season players will help a lot. Definitely expecting some less familiar names to get picked in this one though.
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It's going to be tight, but I think there are just about enough of them to go around. The 10 season players will help a lot. Definitely expecting some less familiar names to get picked in this one though.

Surely a wildcard final pick of nationality not picked from outside of Italy "special transfer"? :D

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Surely a wildcard final pick of nationality not picked from outside of Italy "special transfer"? :D

Hmmm not sure. We're judging on Serie A, so that would really throw a spanner in the works.
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I PM'd DS but he's nowhere to be found.

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I PM'd DS but he's nowhere to be found.

Max and Lone Star are the only other missing regulars I can think of, but both have been busy lately. We're at 16 now anyway, so we can start on Monday whether more people join or not.
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Apologies for ignoring the summons, I have not been very active on RAWK, amongst things. If there’s space, I’m in. Sucker for the Italians.
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Apologies for ignoring the summons, I have not been very active on RAWK, amongst things. If there’s space, I’m in. Sucker for the Italians.

Yep, nice one. Let's see if we can get to 18, because an odd number is a bit awkward for the voting. Might venture into the Serie A thread.
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How many we need, might be possible to get someone in?

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How many we need, might be possible to get someone in?

Just an even number is generally good, as then no-one is getting a bye into the second round. We're on 17 right now, so one more or three, but not two  :D
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I put the feelers out, see who responds.  :D

One of them is a long time lurker of our draft's but a Tier 2 RAWK poster, not POP level but close enough. ;D

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I put the feelers out, see who responds.  :D

One of them is a long time lurker of our draft's but a Tier 2 RAWK poster, not POP level but close enough. ;D

I'm sure whoever it is is going to love being called a Tier 2 poster  :D
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He's dickhead anyway. If we consider POP ws top tier RAWK then think next level down.   ;D

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We're going to do an anti-Sky 'football was invented' in 1966 draft next

I'm in
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Best crack on mate, all the dickheads are pretty busy this week.  :D

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Best crack on mate, all the dickheads are pretty busy this week.  :D

If someone can work out how to do 17 teams as knock-outs then that would be great, because I’ve been wracking my brains on it all weekend
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If we have 17, I;m willing to play a perliminary round mate.   :wave

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If we have 17, I;m willing to play a perliminary round mate.   :wave

That's not the issue. I just genuinely cannot work out how to make 17 teams go into 8. Giving byes doesn't help as that just put more teams through.
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I don’t mind stepping aside for this one. Recovering from a heavy wedding and given this no thought. Usually a strategy that works well for me, but might be a bit too busy next week to do it justice.

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I don’t mind stepping aside for this one. Recovering from a heavy wedding and given this no thought. Usually a strategy that works well for me, but might be a bit too busy next week to do it justice.

Cheers for the offer, mate. I've worked something out now. It's convoluted, but it wouldn't be the same without your no-thought-yet-still-made-it-to-the-final team anyway  :D
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Fucks sake.

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Fucks sake.

I mean, if you really want the excuse to jump out that's fine also  :D
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I mean, if you really want the excuse to jump out that's fine also  :D

:D All good.

I’m just preemptively cursing as I know I’ll be slack for the next week at work now!

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Draw for the order will be made at midday-ish tomorrow, so if anyone wants any rule changes then speak up before then.

Could change the number of years for assimilated players for example. Or add a wildcard. But this needs deciding before the draft starts tomorrow.

If you all fancy the challenge then we're good as is though.

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