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World Cup Draft Discussion Thread

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  • #332
    Peyton Manning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    Cambiasso's a great player, but I was so sure eagle eye would pick Essien that I had Cambiasso marked as my pick. Delighted to get Essien. My midfield is looking good.


  • #333
    Peyton Manning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    Necronomicon wrote: »
    In the PL draft, only the votes of other contestants counted.

    If that's how this works, then great. I wasn't around for the last one so didn't know that :o


  • #334
    Frisbee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,579 ✭✭✭✭Frisbee


    Only the other contestants get to vote in it afaik?


  • #335
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,530 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Archimedes wrote: »
    Who's judging this though? If it's just a majority of users, then Reina will go down as a good pick, despite the criteria as I have a feeling international form will go largely ignored to many. :(
    But you picked Malouda just before me. Class when he does play for France but he rarely starts for them. Just like Reina but when he does play he is superb for them as usual.


  • #336
    Necronomicon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,589 ✭✭✭✭Necronomicon


    Archimedes wrote: »
    If that's how this works, then great. I wasn't around for the last one so didn't know that :o

    It isn't as things stand; Voltwad said in the OP that we're at the mercy of the entire forum.


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  • #337
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,530 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Archimedes wrote: »
    Cambiasso's a great player, but I was so sure eagle eye would pick Essien that I had Cambiasso marked as my pick. Delighted to get Essien. My midfield is looking good.

    Problem with Essien is that he hasn't played for ages.


  • #338
    Bounty Hunter
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 23,152 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bounty Hunter


    phew assumed id pick 2 terrible players whilst drunk but im happy with my Gattuso Riquelme partnership


  • #339
    Necronomicon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,589 ✭✭✭✭Necronomicon


    Bounty Hunter wrote: »
    phew assumed id pick 2 terrible players whilst drunk but im happy with my Gattuso Riquelme partnership

    Fair play for having the presence of mind to log in and take your pick. From your post earlier I thought you'd be swinging off a lamp-post or something now, and we'd be done with picks until tomorrow :pac:


  • #340
    Bounty Hunter
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 23,152 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bounty Hunter


    Necronomicon wrote: »
    Fair play for having the presence of mind to log in and take your pick. From your post earlier I thought you'd be swinging off a lamp-post or something now, and we'd be done with picks until tomorrow :pac:

    thanks as i kinda am quite close to pulling the hottest spanish girl ive ever met and we havent spoke one word either could understand all night and im almost finished my second whiskey bottle too. woot onlu a few spelling mystakes


  • #341
    _blank_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Bounty Hunter wrote: »
    i kinda am quite close to pulling the hottest spanish girl ive ever met

    not that close if you are partaking in internet games tbh


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  • #342
    Bounty Hunter
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 23,152 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bounty Hunter


    tb h she is reccomeneding picks one of the only things we can convers about except through facial expressions making fun of each other and others :pac: this is a fun night.... i shouldent be able to post now


  • #343
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Bounty Hunter wrote: »
    tb h she is reccomeneding picks one of the only things we can convers about except through facial expressions making fun of each other and others :pac: this is a fun night.... i shouldent be able to post now
    One might question your current posting ability :)

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #344
    Bounty Hunter
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 23,152 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bounty Hunter


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    One might question your current posting ability :)

    ONE MIGHT BUT... I SHOULD NOT BE POSTING.... ooo caps lock... hmmm

    Casillas



    Gattuso
    Riquelme

    higuain


  • #345
    Bounty Hunter
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 23,152 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bounty Hunter


    1. Necronomicon - Messi, Diego Forlan, Lahm
    2. SlickRic - Xavi, John Terry, Anelka
    3. Whatawaster - Ronaldo, Yoann Gourcuff, Evra
    4. Gillington - Villa, Dani Alves, Robinho
    5. Frisbee - Rooney, Piqué, David Silva
    6. MNG - Drogba, Carles Puyol, Walter Samuel
    7. Mr. Guappa - Fabregas, Chiellini, Ashley Cole
    8. Redzerdrog - Torres, Schweinsteiger, Per Mertesacker
    9. Xavi - Lampard, Lucio, Diego Milito,
    10. Voltwad - Iniesta, Yaya Toure, Sergio Aguero
    11. Minto - Van Persie, Gianluigi Buffon, Joe Cole
    12. BigBenRoeth - Palacios, Nemanja Vidic, Miroslav Klose
    13. Mitch Connor - Sneijder, Danielle De Rossi, Di Natale,
    14. Curry-muff - Julio Cesar, Steven Gerrard, Luis Suarez
    15. LuckyLloyd - Kaka, Mascherano, Ricardo Carvalho
    16. Titan18 - Fabiano, Maicon, Marek Hamsik
    17. Bamboozling - Eto'o, Ribery, Pepe
    18. Bounty Hunter - Casillas, Higuain, Gattuso, Riquelme
    19. Archimedes - Robben, Pirlo, Malouda, Michael Essien
    20. Eagle eye - Alonso, Tevez, Pepe Reina, Esteban Cambiasso


  • #346
    Peyton Manning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    Very happy with my team so far considering my position in the draft.

    1276401285316178.jpg


  • #347
    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,740 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    What's the story with this round? We can only pick players who aren't currently a member of a 23 man WC panel? :confused:


  • #348
    Peyton Manning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    LuckyLloyd wrote: »
    What's the story with this round? We can only pick players who aren't currently a member of a 23 man WC panel? :confused:

    Yup, anyone who isn't a member of the current panel. They can have been called up but removed since.


  • #349
    titan18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,065 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    Archimedes wrote: »
    Yup, anyone who isn't a member of the current panel. They can have been called up but removed since.

    Can they be players for teams who haven't qualified?


  • #350
    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,740 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    titan18 wrote: »
    Can they be players for teams who haven't qualified?

    Oh surely yes, otherwise it's a pretty silly round, no?


  • #351
    The Volt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,957 ✭✭✭The Volt


    Of course they can. As long as they're not retired, they'r valid.


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  • #352
    bamboozling
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭bamboozling


    Delighted to have got Ibrahimovic. I was certain he'd be the first to go in this round. Is it too early to start debating the merits of each other's teams? Because mijne is UNREAL!!:D


  • #353
    titan18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,065 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    Kinda wanted Ibra, but one thing to worry about is that a lot of people don't rate him or like him.

    Dzeko might have been a bit early in this round, but he'd definately have gone sometime.Too much choice in this round, and I'd have much preferred to be at the end of the round.


  • #354
    Gillington
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,555 ✭✭✭Gillington


    I take it you didnt score her then Bounty Hunter if you were posting at 4am!?


  • #355
    The Volt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,957 ✭✭✭The Volt


    Damn I was praying Dzeko would go under the radar.


  • #356
    Frisbee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,579 ✭✭✭✭Frisbee


    Gillington wrote: »
    I take it you didnt score her then Bounty Hunter if you were posting at 4am!?

    He's in Tokyo iirc so he definitely did and posted that while sitting on the couch horribly hungover.


  • #357
    Bounty Hunter
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 23,152 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bounty Hunter


    Frisbee wrote: »
    He's in Tokyo iirc so he definitely did and posted that while sitting on the couch horribly hungover.

    Taiwan and lying in bed (about 11am my time) hungover after she left :pac: hmmm the next morning was awkward... neither of us could understand a word either of us said to each other and now apparently im supposed to be in consideration to teach her english. fun times, she was a fan of Riquelme

    happy to have gotten that pair Gattuso/Riquelme considering the state i was in as they really do compliment each other very well (obviously akin to Gattuso/Pirlo).

    Can a mod edit the list of picks i keep updating into the OP of the picks thread


  • #358
    curry-muff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,418 ✭✭✭curry-muff


    Picked and PM'd, glad to have Ferdy on board as we are fast running out of top class centre backs :(


  • #359
    Frisbee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,579 ✭✭✭✭Frisbee


    Bounty Hunter wrote: »

    Can a mod edit the list of picks i keep updating into the OP of the picks thread

    Donezo.

    You dirty dog.


  • #360
    Bounty Hunter
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 23,152 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bounty Hunter


    Frisbee wrote: »
    Donezo.

    You dirty dog.

    :D

    cheers ill try and update that list every round or so


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  • #361
    Mr. Guappa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,086 ✭✭✭Mr. Guappa


    curry-muff wrote: »
    Picked and PM'd, glad to have Ferdy on board as we are fast running out of top class centre backs :(

    I thought Rio was only eligible in the regular rounds since he was named in the original 23?


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