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Tubby vs Nick & Magnetism vs Xabi vs Max

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So, we have another tie so that means one of the semis will have three teams in them. If this occurs in the semi finals I will discount my vote in which ever game it is as a tiebreaker and send the team I didn't vote for to the final ;D

As everyone should know at this stage: please vote for the players based on their full career/prime performance level.

Tubby vs Nick

Tubby



Nick



Sheer Magnetism vs XabiArt vs Max_powers (three-way)

Sheer Magnetism



XabiArt



Max_powers

« Last Edit: October 5, 2021, 09:18:23 pm by Linudden »
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Re: Represented Liverpool in the Premier League Draft - Semi Finals
« Reply #1 on: October 6, 2021, 08:23:45 am »
Seems like I forgot to put an automatic lock on it but will do that at 8.30 pm tonight in order to start the final :wave That will mean polls have been open for 23 hours and 15 minutes which I think should be good enough.
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Re: Represented Liverpool in the Premier League Draft - Semi Finals
« Reply #2 on: October 6, 2021, 08:44:26 am »
Is this the final and then 3rd place play off for the bottom three teams? It should be.

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Re: Represented Liverpool in the Premier League Draft - Semi Finals
« Reply #3 on: October 6, 2021, 08:54:10 am »
What's the precedent for third-place games? I can't recall ever seeing them  :-X
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Re: Represented Liverpool in the Premier League Draft - Semi Finals
« Reply #4 on: October 6, 2021, 09:05:55 am »
Nah we don't really do them, only tends to be if the games are tight to give an unlucky loser a small taste of glory. But if its just an absolute demolition.....
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: Represented Liverpool in the Premier League Draft - Semi Finals
« Reply #5 on: October 6, 2021, 09:06:46 am »
It's perhaps better if three people feel like they finished third :D
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Re: Represented Liverpool in the Premier League Draft - Semi Finals
« Reply #6 on: October 6, 2021, 09:21:47 am »
Tubby's team is solid.  Great having a goalie who was actually very good in his prime for Blackburn, seeing some otherwise decent teams getting let down by reserve keepers.  Tbf not a lot of gk options to pick from.




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Re: Represented Liverpool in the Premier League Draft - Semi Finals
« Reply #7 on: October 6, 2021, 09:25:11 am »
Tubby's team is solid.  Great having a goalie who was actually very good in his prime for Blackburn, seeing some otherwise decent teams getting let down by reserve keepers.  Tbf not a lot of gk options to pick from.


Paul Jones was a very decent Premier League keeper. Just not at Liverpool. :D

Tubbs giving me an absolute dicking here! Thought it might be a close one. Mayne I should have got some current players in.

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Re: Represented Liverpool in the Premier League Draft - Semi Finals
« Reply #8 on: October 6, 2021, 09:33:51 am »
I think the Tubby vs Nick margin is a bit unfair, I think they're two very close teams and I had to think about it for a good minute before I pulled the lever for Tubby courtesy of fancying Friedel over Jones in the penalty shootout I'd expect to happen were these two playing. I think Babbel being the lead centre back rather than on the right will have swayed some votes too. He definitely had the height to play centre back but Liverpool supporters remember him as a full back. Pellegrino and Agger are a lot more adept in those positions and complement each other well. Thiago's playmaking abilities from his time at Bayern can also cover up the technical (Lucas) and physical (Minamino) deficiencies of that midfield.
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Re: Represented Liverpool in the Premier League Draft - Semi Finals
« Reply #9 on: October 6, 2021, 09:49:33 am »
Nick I think is probably suffering from the old recency bias (thats a thing right?). With Tubby the furthest you have to go back really for his players are either the late 90s with Heggem or early 00s with Pellegrino. Nicks got the likes of Whelan and Nicol who were at their best in the 80s, Riedle won the World Cup in 1990, you're looking mid-90s for Babbel as a CB as well as Fowler and Macca at their best. If you're going by each player at their best I think he's probably got the better team man for man, but Tubbys attack would destroy that defence.
« Last Edit: October 6, 2021, 09:57:57 am by fucking appalled »
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: Represented Liverpool in the Premier League Draft - Semi Finals
« Reply #10 on: October 6, 2021, 09:57:53 am »
I feel like Nick has the more adept attack save for Salah but the defence would be a liability. The problem there is that Salah really could expose Aurélio's defensive weaknesses and Matteo being not so great.
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Re: Represented Liverpool in the Premier League Draft - Semi Finals
« Reply #11 on: October 6, 2021, 09:59:53 am »
Liability is a bit harsh, think I have two of the better full backs in the draft and Babbel was excellent defensively and in this match up wouldn’t be dominated aerially. Matteo was one of my last picks so I was always running the risk there. And Tubby’s front three is absolutely rapid.

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Re: Represented Liverpool in the Premier League Draft - Semi Finals
« Reply #12 on: October 6, 2021, 10:05:56 am »
My race is run. :D

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Re: Represented Liverpool in the Premier League Draft - Semi Finals
« Reply #13 on: October 6, 2021, 11:22:20 am »
I went for Nick but 4-4-2s never do well in these competitions unfortunately. Xabi's 4-2-4 looks very unbalanced to me, but I can understand why he's grabbing votes, it's definitely a strong team man for man.

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Re: Represented Liverpool in the Premier League Draft - Semi Finals
« Reply #14 on: October 6, 2021, 11:44:09 am »
Tubs and Xabi, for me.

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Re: Represented Liverpool in the Premier League Draft - Semi Finals
« Reply #15 on: October 6, 2021, 11:46:13 am »
I went for Nick but 4-4-2s never do well in these competitions unfortunately. Xabi's 4-2-4 looks very unbalanced to me, but I can understand why he's grabbing votes, it's definitely a strong team man for man.

I was tempted to get another attacking midfielder instead of Riedle but Benayoun went and the other options weren’t very inspiring.

Not sure it would have made a huge difference here in fairness!

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Re: Represented Liverpool in the Premier League Draft - Semi Finals
« Reply #16 on: October 6, 2021, 06:54:53 pm »
Can’t believe Max is last in the three way. Think he’s quietly got a very tidy side there, it’s only really Igor at centre back that stops it from being more competitive. Nicely balanced otherwise.

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Re: Represented Liverpool in the Premier League Draft - Semi Finals
« Reply #17 on: October 6, 2021, 07:54:20 pm »
Sweet dick nick and max