Dugout Discussion – France vs Germany

There's always going to be more pressure on Ronaldo though, if you look at the two teams. If Muller doesn't perform, there are plenty of guys with the quality to step up (clearly not tonight). But with Portugal all eyes are on Ronaldo. He hasn't been great, but definitely pulled them through that decisive game vs Hungary.

Oh yeah you're right he did! Post and crossbar against Northern Ireland. The guy is usually such a goalscorer from any position, really surprised me he has been so, so poor, but it's probably been discussed plenty of times here already haha.

Giroud and Greasman.

This but after today is Pogba better choice than Payet?

Thanks for reminding me that it's possible to play with a 5-2-3 formation.

Nope, missed the deadline.

(c) stayed with Bale. 😆

The what now? 😕

Awesome! Thanks.
I really thought that I could wait at least until the Euros are over before starting to work out my FPL rotations... How wrong I was.

Nidge they're great craic. 10-20 of you in a league taking players one by one but each player can only be picked by one manager. So only one gets Zlatan, one gets Aguero, one gets Hazard etc. then in the later rounds somebodys nicked the Chelsea and United defences and you're fighting over Craig Dawson and John Stones.

Pretty much, every manager in your league picks a team of 'unique' players in The Draft. Only one player can be picked by each manager, so Hazard's exclusive to you & Costa tō me. It's turn-based with each manger picking a player every round until everyone has a full XI. Throughout the season you can trade your players with other managers (there's no budgets btw, it's up to you to decide whether Siggy + Firmino is worth a trade for Payet) & pickup players that everyone ignored called free-agents.

You have to pick an XI each week & it's pretty much like FPL with formations & benchings (no captaincy, usually). Your league Admin makes all the rules also & whether you have 6 players starting or 9 all depends on how many managers there are as by the time you get to final round in The Draft you run the risk of running out of players to pick from 😆

Rest are rules varying between each league bar a few things pointed out. It's a lot of fun mate, definitely should be on the lookout for any. Also, The Draft takes place during a certain time your league decides & you may get 2 hours, or 12 hours to pick your unique player.

I've been playing draft for years KN, somewhat underground are these leagues, Fantrax based is what I'm familiar with and like the posts say 15 players is nice-it normally happens in an email thread and done during the first international break as drafting which is awesome an take easily up to a week, there will be lots of controversy and craic along the way that's for sure-keep your eyes peeled mate.

What platform are the draft leagues run on?

Have played plenty of baseball fantasy on espn, is there a site which works the same way for football?

A film, about robots, AI and stuff.

Are we expecting a sequel?

Why not? Feels like Ava and Caleb's relationship can grow some more.

just with a Microwave I guess? I'm worried I'm gonna get a bout of food poisoning for some reason

LOL

I can if I keep one german 🙂

hmmm might load up on Portugal then

I want to have only 3 POR. Ron,Nani/and between those choices.

Yeah, I guess Matuidi is the next best choice. No stranger to the odd attacking point here and there.

Yeah! would need more participants though

Fair play. Sky Sports made it out to be the semi thing

What a series that was. The atmosphere inside the grounds, all brilliant test matches, happy days.

Yeah considering le donkey. Cheers.

Nice! well done

Seems every point counts!
59 places of a drop for a 1point difference!

UK time?

Nice captain rotation. 🙂

Sorry,... Not including those.

Strikers will massively depend on price.

Shaw would be a nice pick if he can stay fit.

Was thinking of Azpilicueta myself, especially if he ended up playing as wingback.

Agree should have added a point on WC, 1 may be even too much, the game needs an overhaul for the World Cup-my 7 year old could play this comfortably.

Many of us have found no use for the wildcard for sure.

True this. Now the wildcard was in fact pretty much worthless after the group stage.

Agree.

If you've spread yourself too think and only have 8 or 9 for the final, tough luck!

So much this, I've been able to hedge my 'bets' all the way and now have 5 Fra, 3 Por with 6ft!
Simple maths allowed me avoid having to predict results.
What annoys me most is they introduced price increases which allowed for the minnows but never really used it, I mean 0.1/0.2 rises when form players emerged?
I suggest most on here could run a better format for a Euro fantasy game.

Yup, that price change thing was a complete joke! I'm sure I'm not the only one who actually laughed when seeing the changes.

But did we actually expect this to be a well designed game? It's always kinda sheet.

Oh wow! 😯

Also Lloris (c) for Penaldo save points? 😉

Wait. What £30M? Who did Everton buy?

Everton will get £50M-£60M when Pep buys Stones, now that Laporte chose to stay at Athletic. Pep is rumoured also to make City pay another £50M-£60M to Juve for Bonucci, while putting all of Kompany, Otamendi and Mangala on sale. 😆

Just read this morning that Newcastle have told that if Spurs want Wijnaldum, the price is £25M. Which for me suggests that Spurs have been looking to buy Wijnaldum, because it would be a tad odd to tell the price to them otherwise. But maybe they're just calling each PL football director, chairman or manager individually, trying to sell them a bargain only available if ordered by phone.

How much did they pay?

He has a contract worth 3.5m a year for the next 4 years playing in his home country's biggest team and reigning champs.. Manchester isn't that appealing imo. If he leaves it could be for the Pep factor.