OT: soccer thread

Post #661 » by **Walt Cronkite** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 4:50 am

You guys are going to kill me. I recognize about 40 players names.

Det the Threat · Post #662 » by **Det the Threat** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:50 am

fatlever wrote:OK, i created a league on yahoo. i really couldnt find a league system that i loved. espn, sky sports and the official epl site have similar leagues with similar scoring. but their scoring is so limited and basic, just goals, assists and clean sheets. that gets boring. yahoo has tons of scoring categories, but their league allows you to make unlimited transfers during the year. i wish i could combine the two types, yahoos scoring + espn other rules.

anyway, i went with yahoo. here is the league.

http://uk.premiership.fantasysports.yahoo.com/

· Group ID#: 8773

· Group Name: realgm

· Group Password: bobcats

I'm in, but I don't really like those kind of managers.

I'd rather play something like this.
http://www.pl-manager.co.uk/?language=en_US
http://www.pl-manager.co.uk/demo.phtml

It's pretty much like those yahoo basketball or football games, but you get a couple of players(purely on luck and not all of them are good) and 20 mil english pounds to buy some others on the transfer market. You can also sell your players as well.
The good thing about it is, that no teams are identical, because the players are only there ones and can only change managers on transfer.

BTW: Real Madrid just oficially made a bit for Mesut Oezil, but Werder Bremen turned it down. Bremen wants at least 15 million euros for Oezil and Real most likely didn't offer anything close to it.
Still, there's 17 days left in the transfer window and Murinho wants Oezil as a replacement for Kaka, who's injured and will miss at least 4 months.

Thaliontil · Post #663 » by **Thaliontil** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:53 am

I don´t know why they are pursuing Ozil,I mean he is good but they have just signed Canales who is 6 years younger and has been playing well,if they don´t give a chance to their younger players they´ll stuck hiring players every year instead of letting them develop.I hope they don´t trade for Ozil.

And my dear Valencia is suffering the loss of Villa more than I thought,we are having serious problems to score,however I hope its just a matter of time till we play better to grab a champions league seed this year.

Post #664 » by **fatlever** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 2:00 pm

so joe hart gets the start today for man city. no way given sticks around to be his backup. where does he land? please dont let him go to arsenal. haha.

on watching this man city vs tottenham on dvr. tottenham is all over man city in the first 15. hart already has 3 incredible saves. i really love watching tottenham. they are fun. bale and lennon are fantastic on the wings.

Post #665 » by **Walt Cronkite** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 2:14 pm

OMFG Howard.

Post #666 » by **fatlever** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:15 pm

Walt Cronkite wrote:OMFG Howard.

you get fox soccer plus? do you have cable or satellite? or are you watching streams?

Post #667 » by **fatlever** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:20 pm

how did tottenham not score in that game? they had like 97 shots on goal.

Fred Williamson · Post #668 » by **Fred Williamson** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:41 pm

umm, why did Agbonlahor not play today?

Thaliontil · Post #669 » by **Thaliontil** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:45 pm

Given is a great goalkeeper,he was just fantastic,I pick him and all of a sudden they decide to choose Hart as their starting keeper ¬¬?By the way I loved the guy,he was fantastic

Post #670 » by **Walt Cronkite** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 4:46 pm

fatlever wrote:
Walt Cronkite wrote:OMFG Howard.

you get fox soccer plus? do you have cable or satellite? or are you watching streams?

Fox soccer plus on cable.

Post #671 » by **fatlever** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 10:26 pm

not fair. i want fox soccer plus.

chelsea 6 west brom 0 - ho hum. just like last year. feasting on the minnows. drogba with a hat trick in the first game. i guess he really was worth 20 mil in the yahoo fantasy league. i just couldnt justify spending 20% of my budget on one player. stupid me.

Det the Threat · Post #672 » by **Det the Threat** » Sun Aug 15, 2010 8:50 am

The season in Germany starts this WE as well, with the first round of the German Cup.

We've had one of the toughest draws with Erzgebirge Aue of the 2nd Bundesliga, but managed to win 3-1.
Goals have been scored by Michael Bradley, Mo Idrissou(Cameroon International) and Marco Reus(he's a 21 year old winger that has already been called up twice for the German NT).

The only big surprises so far(only half of the games are played at this point) have been Chemnitz(4th division) beating St. Pauli(Bundesliga) 1-0 and Elversberg(4th division) beating Hannover(Bundesliga) on penalties.

http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/dfbp ... eltag.html

BTW: Blackpool won 4-0 at Wigan.

Sure, Wigan isn't all that great, but Blackpool is a team of nobodies that pretty much no one is given a chance to survive in the Premier League...

Post #673 » by **fatlever** » Sun Aug 15, 2010 2:57 pm

wigan's last 2 PL games they have combined to lose 12-0.... and yeah, blackpool, shocked the world yesterday.

det - its great to see our boy bradley off to a good start in germany.

stuart holden got the start yesterday for bolton. thats great news for him.

half the players on my fantasy team did start yesterday. i've got some changing to do.

Post #674 » by **fatlever** » Sun Aug 15, 2010 3:31 pm

this is why robbie findley sucks and shouldnt be anywhere near the USMNT

http://www.mlssoccer.com/videos?catid=114&id=7843

Fred Williamson · Post #675 » by **Fred Williamson** » Mon Aug 16, 2010 7:11 pm

watching ManU - Newcaste right now.

Rooney is sooooo overrated...

Post #676 » by **fatlever** » Mon Aug 16, 2010 7:37 pm

this made me laugh

Post #677 » by **fatlever** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 2:31 am

there are some good early champions league games on tomorrow on FSC. ajax plays at 2:30 and tottenham is on tape delay at 5.

Det the Threat · Post #678 » by **Det the Threat** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:58 pm

fatlever wrote:there are some good early champions league games on tomorrow on FSC. ajax plays at 2:30 and tottenham is on tape delay at 5.

The "best one" should be Werder Bremen vs. Sampdoria Genua.

The interesting part should be Mesut Oezil playing or not. If he does not play, then he'll probably sign with Real Madrid very soon and if he does play, then he'll probably stay in Bremen for this upcoming season.

Edit:
Just as a I wrote it, Kicker(pretty serious and huge soccer mag from Germany) has the news of Oezil signing with Real Madrid.

Oezil signs with Real

Post #679 » by **fatlever** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 2:11 pm

looks like i will have to hate ozil. thats a shame. he was fun to watch.

so what does this mean for the long term future of kaka at real? i could see him leaving next summer.

Post #680 » by **fatlever** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:07 pm

joe cole, red card in his first liverpool game. suspended for 3 games. i guess he is getting cut from my fantasy team.

can we fire bob bradley already or give him an extension. this limbo crap is bs.

still no place to play for adu, beasley, demerit and jozy?

the neymar to chelsea saga is ridiculous. move on already. let the kid stay in brazil. he isnt worth that kind of money... at least, not yet.

where does van der vaar end up now that real has ozil?