Fantasy Tournament: World Cup All-Time All-Stars

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Leónidas da Silva said:
Ezekiel 25:17. "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon you."

Now... I been sayin' that shit for years (:lol:). And if you ever heard it, that meant your ass. You'd be dead right now. I never gave much thought to what it meant. I just thought it was a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfecker before I popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. See, now I'm thinking: maybe it means you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here... he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could mean you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. And I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd.
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That second paragraph sounds like Theon when he is trying to make up his mind between five different teamsheets. (that's a bit of innocent ribbing Theon, no need to get uppity)
 
antohan said:
Mmmm... I doubt Cal would have picked Falcao, but I do see the point in terms of Falcao being hot property for you. Still, restrictions aside, I would have picked Romario.

I was actually baffled he made it all the way back to me. Similar with Cannavaro... Ended up getting a far better quartet than I ever hoped for. I thought I was going to pick the one upgrade and three players to provide flexibility or sit in a "when I get the slot for you" waiting list.
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You're missing the restrictions then if you thought that. We could never have picked Romario. That would have been a waste of a pick since we would have to drop Baggio. A winner from the post-70's. Not an option for us.
 
Cutch said:
I think i've done a marvellous job with that draw if i may say so. Very hard to predict winners in all the games. I'll say for now Crappy and Rpitroda to go through, think one could go all the way to penalties.
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Someone had to honour your great defense to be honest. It was very near that you found a perfect balance between a solid defense and a huge counter-thread. Cafu and Facchetti misses poppa-Cutch they say.
 
Cutch said:
Augh i know, gutted. Just couldn't quite find the right balance in the end
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Always hard to pick up the midfield later on but it was a great idea to sort a real defense to start with. If you'd went through you would have picked up 4 absolute top picks easily considering you'd just want offense/midfielders.
 
Annahnomoss said:
Always hard to pick up the midfield later on but it was a great idea to sort a real defense to start with. If you'd went through you would have picked up 4 absolute top picks easily considering you'd just want offense/midfielders.
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Aye that was the plan, bein so far down the draw to begin meant missing out on the real eye catching first picks, so thought i'd start building from the back. Just couldn't pick up the right CM (shouldn't have picked Monti) by the end, so was hopin just to nick a win and get first pick in the 2nd round. Would have been looking strong then but ah well, not to be.

Re: Cafu. Make sure and remind everyone what he's got that no-one else has. Only man to play in 3 WC finals i believe and no one has won more WC matches! ;)
 
Cutch said:
Aye that was the plan, bein so far down the draw to begin meant missing out on the real eye catching first picks, so thought i'd start building from the back. Just couldn't pick up the right CM (shouldn't have picked Monti) by the end, so was hopin just to nick a win and get first pick in the 2nd round. Would have been looking strong then but ah well, not to be.

Re: Cafu. Make sure and remind everyone what he's got that no-one else has. Only man to play in 3 WC finals i believe and no one has won more WC matches! ;)
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I didn't want to be too harsh in the thread but yeah Monti was a bit of a misfit. On the other hand he was by far the greatest quality you could pick at that point, Monti was a terrific player so I get the pick.

Yeah! Hopefully I get some positive comments on Cafu and Facchetti early on. Especially Facchetti is of course one of the very best LB's but I can see it sliding under the radar unless someone unbiased confirms it.

Not sure how much space I will have left for the two in the presentation as it has to be so short - I'd love to get some sentences in for Facchetti.
 
Annahnomoss said:
I didn't want to be too harsh in the thread but yeah Monti was a bit of a misfit. On the other hand he was by far the greatest quality you could pick at that point, Monti was a terrific player so I get the pick.

Yeah! Hopefully I get some positive comments on Cafu and Facchetti early on. Especially Facchetti is of course one of the very best LB's but I can see it sliding under the radar unless someone unbiased confirms it.

Not sure how much space I will have left for the two in the presentation as it has to be so short - I'd love to get some sentences in for Facchetti.
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Are you kidding me? I've won (and almost won) games single-handedly through Facchetti. Cutch picking him was not random at all, Suurbier's arse is still sore from our last game and the hapless Fifo Eyzaguirre disappeared into a hole never to be seen again after the All-Time final.

Great pair of fullbacks, didn't suit me at all, but if you want much of your width and attacking threat to come from the fullbacks you couldn't get a better pair IMO.
 
Now I think of it, on a World Cup basis Nilton and Djalma may be the better pair though. Just about.
 
antohan said:
Are you kidding me? I've won (and almost won) games single-handedly through Facchetti. Cutch picking him was not random at all, Suurbier's arse is still sore from our last game and the hapless Fifo Eyzaguirre disappeared into a hole never to be seen again after the All-Time final.

Great pair of fullbacks, didn't suit me at all, but if you want much of your width and attacking threat to come from the fullbacks you couldn't get a better pair IMO.
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I've always found these drafts very unpredictable but that is great news then. Some players that are truly great gets underrated a lot and on the other side of the spectrum some gets heavily overrated.

Really glad to find that out!
 
antohan said:
Now I think of it, on a World Cup basis Nilton and Djalma may be the better pair though. Just about.
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Very even between the two pairs but I'd have to agree! I rated Facchetti highest in this draft as he is a non-winner though.
 
Annahnomoss said:
Very even between the two pairs but I'd have to agree! I rated Facchetti highest in this draft as he is a non-winner though.
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His best was outside the World Cup though, which is where Nilton definitely trumps him. Cafú and Djalma both great performers but when you take into account they played together and the balance between them I'd take the Santos'.
 
antohan said:
His best was outside the World Cup though, which is where Nilton definitely trumps him. Cafú and Djalma both great performers but when you take into account they played together and the balance between them I'd take the Santos'.
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I would too like I said! Just in this draft in my team there was no question that the Santos twins couldn't be played. It was either pick the Santos twins and forfeit the draft or pick up Facchetti/Cafu who are not much worse.
 
No need to explain, I would have loved them too but have the same fecking problem!
 
I only want one Santos in my team, so they can't be that good :nervous: .. what a nightmare they are for my tactics, ffs, so please stop bigging them up even further :( . Btw Annah, they aren't twins :D, thought we already cleared that up earlier.
 
Balu said:
I only want one Santos in my team, so they can't be that good :nervous: .. what a nightmare they are for my tactics, ffs, so please stop bigging them up even further :( . Btw Annah, they aren't twins :D, thought we already cleared that up earlier.
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Media bullshit. Antohan already posted their similarities. Same pose, same clothes - just screams out twin-parents dressing them up.

If you think the Santos brothers skin-colour mystery is odd you should google for the djemba twins. Officially always lined up together but only one was ever seen on the pitch.
 
Annahnomoss said:
Media bullshit. Antohan already posted their similarities. Same pose, same clothes - just screams out twin-parents dressing them up.

If you think the Santos brothers skin-colour mystery is odd you should google for the djemba twins. Officially always lined up together but only one was ever seen on the pitch.
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If that
 
Balu said:
I only want one Santos in my team, so they can't be that good :nervous: .. what a nightmare they are for my tactics, ffs, so please stop bigging them up even further :( .
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Would it help if I said I don't think you have a hope in hell? Worked for Annah! :lol:
 
BTW, I don't mean it. Or should I?

Actually, why have we stopped doing jynx threads? They worked pretty well last season. Forget Moyes, the caf should be shouldering the blame.
 
antohan said:
Would it help if I said I don't think you have a hope in hell? Worked for Annah! :lol:
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Honestly I've no clue if I can win, I'm glad I don't have to choose between the teams. Trippy picked brilliantly and basically has no flaw in the team and lots of quality everywhere. I believe the same is true for my team and that I might edge it on cohesion, but I'm not sure many think the way I do about teams, so I'd say he is the favorite.

The most frustrating part would be if we both go out and finally I could have picked Neeskens, if I had won that damn game. I wouldn't care if Pele or Maradona or whoever was available, I want Neeskens !!!!! So if I loose, make sure you go through :lol:
 
But if I go through, it would be so nice of you to go out and leave Neeskens to me. (Pretty sure someone else will pick him just to piss me off then :lol:)
 
antohan said:
You could always get van Hanegem :p
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I love van Hanegem, but he's a bit of a problem, can't play any Germans then and I actually think that Davids is the better player for that DM/box to box role, he played in '74.
 
@Polaroid
@Balu

Sorry boys, I've just had a 16 hour day at work and I'm absolutely shattered. I'm not going to be able to write anything up which is a big shame.

I'm sure I can get a formation sorted and very brief tactics to send to @Polaroid before the game, but I won't be able to contribute massively if at all in discussion =[. Big apology to Balu who deserves an opponent to discuss the pros and cons of the sides in the game.

I'll try and get on to contribute as much as I can.
 
@rpitroda
Do you want to play the game on another day? I don't mind waiting one or two days or play it on the weekend if that suits you better?
 
Balu said:
@rpitroda
Do you want to play the game on another day? I don't mind waiting one or two days or play it on the weekend if that suits you better?
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Unfortunately my busy days at work will continue for a few weeks yet which includes weekends. I think we just go for it tomorrow and ill chip in as much as I can. Can't guarantee big tactical talks but I'm sure I can comment a bit (stomach ache toilet breaks, etc =P).
 
crappycraperson said:
I will be working on my write up tonight.

@Polaroid - the match is happening tomorrow right?
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Yes the game is on later today, would 6 pm GMT 0 kick-off be fine with you as I would be on a plane in the earlier half of the day?
@Anto or Theon, would you mind if we send our tactics for you to:set up the match? Thanks

rpitroda said:
@Polaroid
@Balu

Sorry boys, I've just had a 16 hour day at work and I'm absolutely shattered. I'm not going to be able to write anything up which is a big shame.

I'm sure I can get a formation sorted and very brief tactics to send to @Polaroid before the game, but I won't be able to contribute massively if at all in discussion =[. Big apology to Balu who deserves an opponent to discuss the pros and cons of the sides in the game.

I'll try and get on to contribute as much as I can.
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@rpitroda and Balu, would a 6 pm kick-off be fine with you? If not I can ask someone else to set up the match earlier (I will be on a plane in the earlier half of today)
 
Polaroid said:
Yes the game is on later today, would 6 pm GMT 0 kick-off be fine with you as I would be on a plane in the earlier half of the day?
@Anto or Theon, would you mind if we send our tactics for you to:set up the match? Thanks



@rpitroda and Balu, would a 6 pm kick-off be fine with you? If not I can ask someone else to set up the match earlier (I will be on a plane in the earlier half of today)
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6pm works!
 
I'm afraid I have a meeting 5:30-8:30 GMT, plus driving time to and from...

I could set it up at 5PM at the latest. Maybe someone else can put it on though?
 
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