Nostalgia Draft - Winner - Isotope

@P-Nut can we go ahead Monday? I'm going to send some bits to @Physiocrat now but could do with the extra day if that's okay. It's all on my phone as no laptop so a pain!

Monday is fine although please let me know when I can expect the updated version? I'm quite busy on Monday so it will give me an idea when to check.
 
How is the hangover and what did you consume..

I drank about 3 litres of water this morning so I'm not in too bad shape, went through a litre of rum so expected to be much worse
 
P-Nut's writeup is in, EAP has PM'd his already but still wants to edit around a bit.
 
So how does the reinforcements thing work? Do I get to pick one of @P-Nut boys and give them a tour of TRs Theatre of Dreams?

Open pool. Anybody as yet unpicked or anyone from the losing R1 teams except for picks 1 and 2. Note, reinforcements picked this reinforcement round cannot be injured for the QF.
 
I'm quite interested in what happened to Rangers. Was it comparable to Leeds and how did the SFA let it happen to that extreme?
Quite similar. The finances were fine in the 1990s. There some debt built up around 1998 when Walter Smith let a full team age together and only had Ferguson and Gattuso coming through. When Advocaat took over he spent a lot building a strong team, but the debt was manageable. The club (amongst many others) used EBTs to reduce tax payments through the 2000s which created a potential liability of £47m when HMRC started to challenge these practices in football clubs. That in itself wasn't decisive because the legal advice was split and courts still found in Rangers' favour for a few years after the club was liquidated. What was decisive was the sale of the club to Craig Whyte in 2011 who stopped playing bills in an attempt to wind the club up. And that was it. The whole things showed that the governance in place for both clubs and the league was woefully inappropriate. The league was obliged to carry out a 'fit and proper person' test on any takeover, but given the array of shady characters and criminals who have ended up in charge of Scottish clubs, was clearly not carried out in any meaningful way.

Given the fates of various clubs who have trod a similar path, as well as the recent superleague proposals, you just hope that we put in place better protection for fanbases in the future.
 
Gio vs harms
Isotope
vs Joga
Michael vs EAP
Himann
vs Beam
Enigma vs antohan
Sjor vs Physio
TheReligion
vs P-Nut
Skizzo vs Boris

So, what next @Physiocrat ? You reinforce first, right?
 
QUALIFIED FOR QUARTER FINAL

1. Iso 1) Ronaldo 2) L. Figo 3) Kaka 4) C. Ferrara 5) G. Bergomi 6) P. Montero 7) F. Ribery 8) R. Donadoni 9) C. Panucci 10) Y. Djorkaeff 11. P. Guardiola 12) I. Helguera 13) M.v. Bommel 14) A. Zubizarreta 15) T. Ravelli

4. Harms 1) C. Ronaldo 2) A. Iniesta 3) R. Ferdinand 4) N. Vidic 5) Dunga 6) G. Mendieta 7) J. Litmanen 8) P. Cech 9) G. van Bronckhorst 10) C. Tevez 11) R. Koeman 12) Tassotti 13) B. Laudrup 14) A. Köpke 15) J. Capdevila

7. antohan 1) R. Carlos 2) J. Zanetti 3) M. Sammer 4) Luis Enrique 5) C. Puyol 6) G. Chiellini 7) Raúl 8) H. Crespo 9) D. De Rossi 10) G. Pagliuca 11) E. Cavani 12) G. Zola 13) K. Balakov 14) M. Sanchís 15) O. Córdoba

9. TheReligion 1) B. Lizarazu 2) Dani Alves 3) C. Makelele 4) C. Seedorf 5) G. Hagi 6) G. Weah 7) S. Gerrard 8) F. De Boer 9) F. Couto 10) R. Marquez 11) D. Trezeguet 12) Bebeto 13) C. Taffarel 14) M. Scholl 15) R. Recber

10. EAP 1) F. Baresi 2) Cafu 3) J. Kohler 4) R. van Nistelrooy 5) F. Totti 6) M. Essien 7) G. Pessotto 8) I. Casillas 9) Z. Boban 10) R. Prosinecki 11) R. Baraja 12) K. Kaladze 13) Pedro 14) P. Kluivert 15) O. Hargreaves

13. Boris 1) G. Batistuta 2) P. Nedved 3) X. Alonso 4) M Rui Costa 5) S Campbell 6) G. Zambrotta 7) J. Terry 8) S. Effenberg 9) W. Gallas 10) T. Hässler 11) F. Toldo 12) D. Duff 13) J. Sorin 14) M. Senna 15) F. Barthez

15. Himann 1) R. Baggio 2) M. Desailly 3) A.Cole 4) L. Blanc 5) P. Gascoigne 6) R. Gullit 7) H. Larsson 8) S. Reuter 9) E. Cambiasso 10) G. Silva 11) M. Preud'homme 12) Z. Ibrahimovic 13) Y. Toure 14) G. Pallister 15) B. Friedel

16. Physio 1) Rivaldo 2) L.Thuram 3) A. Shevchenko 4) T. Silva 5) C. Vieri 6) A. Benarrivo 7) D. Albertini 8) Jorginho 9) J. Mascherano 10) D. Silva 11) S. Mihajlović 12) P. Aimar 13) Serginho 14) Julio César 15) N. Martyn
 
@Physiocrat your turn.


RELEASED

2. Joga 1) Xavi 2) M. Laudrup 3) P. Lahm 4) P. Evra 5) S. Busquets 6) G. Signori 7) R. Ayala 8) J. Chilavert 9) R. Pires 10) V. Candela 11) G. Popescu 12) R. Bratseth 13) F. Ravanelli 14) S. McManaman 15) B. Illgner

3. P-Nut 1) P. Maldini 2) J. Stam 3) P. Vieira 4) L. Matthaus 5) D. Bergkamp 6) Leonardo 7) Overmars 8) S. Ramos 9) T. Müller 10) J.J. Okocha 11) D. Seaman 12) R. Higuita 13) Nani 14) M. Carrick 15) W. Brown

5. Beam 1) A. Nesta 2) S. Eto'o 3) Maicon 4) W. Rooney 5) A. Vidal 6) D. Drogba 7) J.S. Verón 8) M. Neuer 9) M. Silva 10) T. Adams 11) A. Carboni 12) R. Sensini 13) A. Bokšić 14) A. Möller 15) M. Rapaic

6. Skizzo 1) Z. Zidane 2) T. Henry 3) R. Giggs 4) D. Deschamps 5) F. Hierro 6) P. Schmeichel 7) M. Ballack 8) W. Samuel 9) G. Neville 10) A. Conte 11) C. Chivu 12) JS Park 13) D. Walker 14) P. Reina 15) J. O'Shea

8. Michael 1) F. Redondo 2) J.R. Riquelme 3) F. Cannavaro 4) Del Piero 5) D. Simeone 6) Zé Roberto 7) W. Sagnol 8) C. Gamarra 9) A. Shearer 10) I. Córdoba 11) P. Sousa 12) S. Cañizares 13) D. Forlán 14) S. Barjuán 15) J. Campos

11. Enigma 1) Ronaldinho 2) E. Davids 3) B. Schweinsteiger 4) D. Villa 5) P. McGrath 6) D. Irwin 7) Deco 8) Aldair 9) J. Angloma 10) D. Suker 11) A. Peruzzi 12) V. Kompany 13) B. Schneider 14) C. Ziege 15) S. Klos

12. Gio/Theon 1) Romario 2) H. Stoichkov 3) A. Pirlo 4) F. Rijkaard 5) A. Robben 6) E. Abidal 7) G. Buffon 8) Lucio 9) G. Gattuso 10) P. Cocu 11) B. Ivanovic 12) A. di Livio 13) R. Mancini 14) P. Vierchowod 15) J. Lehmann

14. Sjor 1) P. Scholes 2) R. Keane 3) R. Carvalho 4) D. Beckham 5) A. Costacurta 6) D. Savicevic 7) O. Kahn 8) E. van der Sar 9) E. Cantona 10) A. Ferrer 11) P. Mijatovic 12) D. Petrescu 13) M. Viduka 14) Denilson 15) J. Martinez
 
Ah shite, had compeletely missed the first two being blocked. Completely cocks up my plans going forward :lol:

Not that I wanted to GOATify, just some players were pretty crucial suited to pulling off tactical variations I wanted to do.

Balls.
 
NB. The reinforcement picks cannot be injured for the QFs.

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1. Iso 1) Ronaldo 2) L. Figo 3) Kaka 4) C. Ferrara 5) G. Bergomi 6) P. Montero 7) F. Ribery 8) R. Donadoni 9) C. Panucci 10) Y. Djorkaeff 11. P. Guardiola 12) I. Helguera 13) M.v. Bommel 14) A. Zubizarreta 15) T. Ravelli

4. Harms 1) C. Ronaldo 2) A. Iniesta 3) R. Ferdinand 4) N. Vidic 5) Dunga 6) G. Mendieta 7) J. Litmanen 8) P. Cech 9) G. van Bronckhorst 10) C. Tevez 11) R. Koeman 12) Tassotti 13) B. Laudrup 14) A. Köpke 15) J. Capdevila

7. antohan 1) R. Carlos 2) J. Zanetti 3) M. Sammer 4) Luis Enrique 5) C. Puyol 6) G. Chiellini 7) Raúl 8) H. Crespo 9) D. De Rossi 10) G. Pagliuca 11) E. Cavani 12) G. Zola 13) K. Balakov 14) M. Sanchís 15) O. Córdoba

9. TheReligion 1) B. Lizarazu 2) Dani Alves 3) C. Makelele 4) C. Seedorf 5) G. Hagi 6) G. Weah 7) S. Gerrard 8) F. De Boer 9) F. Couto 10) R. Marquez 11) D. Trezeguet 12) Bebeto 13) C. Taffarel 14) M. Scholl 15) R. Recber

10. EAP 1) F. Baresi 2) Cafu 3) J. Kohler 4) R. van Nistelrooy 5) F. Totti 6) M. Essien 7) G. Pessotto 8) I. Casillas 9) Z. Boban 10) R. Prosinecki 11) R. Baraja 12) K. Kaladze 13) Pedro 14) P. Kluivert 15) O. Hargreaves

13. Boris 1) G. Batistuta 2) P. Nedved 3) X. Alonso 4) M Rui Costa 5) S Campbell 6) G. Zambrotta 7) J. Terry 8) S. Effenberg 9) W. Gallas 10) T. Hässler 11) F. Toldo 12) D. Duff 13) J. Sorin 14) M. Senna 15) F. Barthez

15. Himann 1) R. Baggio 2) M. Desailly 3) A.Cole 4) L. Blanc 5) P. Gascoigne 6) R. Gullit 7) H. Larsson 8) S. Reuter 9) E. Cambiasso 10) G. Silva 11) M. Preud'homme 12) Z. Ibrahimovic 13) Y. Toure 14) G. Pallister 15) B. Friedel

16. Physio 1) Rivaldo 2) L.Thuram 3) A. Shevchenko 4) T. Silva 5) C. Vieri 6) A. Benarrivo 7) D. Albertini 8) Jorginho 9) J. Mascherano 10) D. Silva 11) S. Mihajlović 12) P. Aimar 13) Serginho 14) Julio César 15) N. Martyn 16. F. Rijkaard

@Himannv
 
Why? I was pretty sure they could, one out of two + one coming back is enough to shake things up a bit.

I thought you had originally argued that injuring a reinforcement essentially just means you have one reinforcement? And so was bad?