(fantasy) Premier League roundup
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It's been a really good season, unless you're a Derby fan. Manure won again, but they did play some amazing football in the process. Tough luck Reading and Brum City. 
And congratulations to Jake Shears' Murklemen, on winning the SoulStrut fantasy league. 
Afraid you don't win anything but bragging rights. (Maybe next season we should offer up some raers to the winner.)# Team Manager Gameweek Total1 Shears' Murklemen Jake Shears 51 22182 Justin Fashanu's XI lawrence lord 50 21763 Eggs = Pistols Steve Dalston-Bull 67 21194 TShrt, Jeans & Nikes Sir Oskarinho 50 20375 EssenceOfAMan XI Ali J 42 20116 Jossy's Giants Marc Dos 58 19707 Geoff. geoff p 52 19698 C-Villains Ed Lee 65 19039 The Wizard's Sleeves James Jennett 58 190210 Bendless Flight Dr Bob Bobson 31 188311 Jos?? changed my life Gareth Ward 42 187112 The Invaders Duane Pesante 38 184813 Bottomsborough Ronan Timmins 43 183714 CL Smoothie mark stowell 50 183415 Funky Scouser dj prestige 64 180516 Club Compliance Paul Chase 42 177217 Classic Material robert bluemke 26 173418 Soul On Grass Mack McCoy 65 171319 The Funky 5kulls Ben Tan 43 167320 Watts Riots FC Trilly Ocean 28 166121 grass stains space ghost 26 164522 you_sound_white jonathan lee 37 161023 obeliscs david da costa 43 155924 Deadbeats Zom B 34 147825 Sellers F.C. A Godfrey 22 147326 Ex Spector Ant ben kopsa 38 139427 201 Players Rich Nicholls 33 135828 Dirk Wears Red Sox Paul McGee 33 1352I haven't done a fantasy league since they first came out, when I was but a boy. They're def. a lot better on the internet. I enjoyed geeking out, and getting way to into it.
And congratulations to Jake Shears' Murklemen, on winning the SoulStrut fantasy league. Afraid you don't win anything but bragging rights. (Maybe next season we should offer up some raers to the winner.)# Team Manager Gameweek Total1 Shears' Murklemen Jake Shears 51 22182 Justin Fashanu's XI lawrence lord 50 21763 Eggs = Pistols Steve Dalston-Bull 67 21194 TShrt, Jeans & Nikes Sir Oskarinho 50 20375 EssenceOfAMan XI Ali J 42 20116 Jossy's Giants Marc Dos 58 1970
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Fug a Thaksin. 8-1 was a nice message to him.
Do you think that's what was behind the score line? It would be great if it was.
I think quite a few lost interest, or forgot, there was def a midway slump / drop-off.
Dunne getting himself sent off with 75 mins to go didn't help. But yeah, the players and the fans are really pissed at the situation. It's not like they have anything to play for (no change there) and now there is a sham tour of the far east to come. The decent players all want out.
I wonder if they'll change their minds when Mourinho comes... oops, did I type that out loud?
It's going to be an interesting summer.
Where will Crouch end up? Or Barry? Micah Richards? Dimitar Berbatov? Michael Owen? How many more Arsenal player will get poached by spanish or italian teams?
To be honest, watching these huge balance sheets bruising each other every week on MOTD has been monotonous.
Special mention to the mad hippy professor Wenger - one day, Arsene, one day your pretty butterflies will be the mighty kings of the jungle. OK, maybe not.
No love to Chelsea. The footballing equivalent of papering your spectacular riverside penthouse with og Boscoe sleeves at 400 quid a pop. Rich but tasteless.
No love to Manure - can't stand Ferguson. Or Rio. Or Neville. Or Querioz.
Thaksin - next stop McLaren. You richly deserve each other.
Jaded and grumpy.
I used to go and watch Wycombe Wanderers play when I was a kiddie. But although I grew up there, I haven't lived there for 10 odd years, and my following of their season has slowly, but surely, dwindled to not really giving a shit.
yeah it's been really disenchanting this season. It's bad enough fighting relegation to the netherworld of League 2; add a soul-less ground, dwindling support, owners and board members I can no longer name, and players who are where they are because they are fitter than the parks player. It's as bad as it has ever been round here. Still, come the new season, I'll be ready to start with hope anew.
we need this guy
1 Shears' Murklemen Jake Shears 51 2218
2 Justin Fashanu's XI lawrence lord 50 2176
well done Jake... i was pipped to post after leading for most the year.
Yeah, I was able to stay top ten until the Christmas break, at which point I forgot
about the whole thing and never really got back into it. Spurs having a nightmare
season didn't help hold my interest, although around the Carling Cup I was getting
hyped again, but once they started mailing it in and settling for mid-table complacency,
I watched games but wasn't feeling very passionate.
I'll go again next season - shouldn't be too hard to improve on 18th place
At least the Arse didn't win shit this year
Wasn't in the Soulstrut fantasy league. But this is how I always am with these things, a load of effort into picking the right team at the start and by week 3 forgotten about it!
Might join the Soulstrut one next season and see if I can persevere though.
Still a good season for me as a Man Utd fan and Stockport County fan. A Champions League win and a Stockport win in play off final at Wembley (as long as we perform well at Edgeley in the return leg of the semi) would be an amazing end to the season!
Wenger needs funds he won't get to deepen his bench, there's too much debt tied up with Emirates staudium. He just doesn't have enough #'s to last a grueling season of League, FA, Carling and Euro. Walcott will be a star next season.
I'm extremely pleased to see Scholes and Giggsy still contributing. Perhaps Brown has finally displaced Neville for good at left back.
Gareth Barry will go for big $ this summer.
Neville and Brown are both right backs. I think it is more likely Ferguson will buy someone in to fill right back position, I don't think Brown is good enough to hold it down regularly and Neville is getting no younger and is riddled with injuries.
Ferguson was interested in Bosingwa, but it appears today that Chelsea have managed to sign him - albeit for an inflated price.
And eventho I'm not a ManU fan, I still got a little choked up seeing Giggs score that goal.
I know I will wear some rose-colored glasses, but fools need to chill about the Arsenal impending demise. If anything, just recall the same shit people were saying last year after Henry left. Last I recall, we were supposed to get ousted by the Spurs for a CL spot this season.
Anyway, Cesc dropped his agent because he was apparently sick and tired of continually being linked to Spain. Also, Arsenal apparently have a payment plan that awards results, so a lot of these guys make money on the back end and not so much in the weekly paycheck.
that said, yes, i agree that if Arsenal want to continue to challenge for the League and the CL, they will need to revise their payment structure, especially for players already on the team.
But I still cannot agree at all with the $30M style payments that is used by CFC and the like. Shit, 9 days from now, if CFC lose a game (that is likely fixed), they will have a starting roster that costs around 200M and will have earned them absolutely nothing for the year.
Say what you will, but I see huge flaws with having billionaires run clubs like it's their personal play-toy. CFC have had huge success, but if Abromvich ever got bored with his squad they would be in a situation that Leeds could have only dreamed about. And ManU is now on it's second season with reporting a loss (89M this year). Say what you would like, but if players can get poached so easily, its very risky to take on so much debt just to fill your squad. At least the Arsenal debt is for a stadium, and the Emarites isn't leaving for Italy any time soon.
Arsenal could probably just suck it up and get a Billionaire (red & white) to bankroll their squad, but they would do so at what i see as enormous risk to control of the club. I think it their case, the devil you do know is better than the devil you don't.
agreed. but any thoughts to if he retires on that note? ManU has a shit ton of midfielders who will be clamoring for more playing time next year (me thinks anderson will soon deserve a starting spot). Scholes and Giggsy are looking a little long in the tooth, although it was not too visible yesterday.
Thanks man, first time i paid attention to a Fantasy League all season so glad i won it in the end!
Bit gutting to see Arsenal come close but falter at the end but looking forward to seeing what they do next season, REALLY hope Hleb doesn't leave this summer, such an important player and so creative as well as hard to get the ball off.
On a local tip, really hoping Bristol City do the business in the play-offs and get promoted, would be a good reward for such a strong season just after promotion and would be crazy to see the big teams come to Bristol.
In the real world, obviously over the moon about us retaining the title and Giggs getting the goal to seal it was almost too perfect to not have been scripted. I think we need very few players this summer though gutted about Chelsea pipping us for Bosingwa, one of the few positions we really need to strengthen. Be very interested to see what Chelsea do with signings this summer. Not to mention what route Wenger takes in strengthening his team.
However it's all about the champion's league now - as the match draws nearer my hopes of it being an entertaining game of football are rising.
I don't think finding a right-back will be a problem, Richards would be nice but probably not for sale. Fergie can always dig up some Vidic-esque 5 Mil bargain from somewhere. Failing that Wes Brown has developed as a RB quite considerably and if he can improve his concentration and stop giving away those fouls, there's no reason why he can't be starting next season or at least compete with Neville.
I'm particularly delighted with how we're looking on the wings despite Giggs imminent retirement, we are gifted with three players equally adept on the left and right. A more attacking option with Nani who can run wild with his appalling decision making and the more conservative Park who should be starting every game next season based on current form.
LOL at Chelsea trying to buy Messi for 80 million.
Messi for 80 million is truly laughable - when will they learn?
I can just see Abramovic turning up and acting just like the Paul Whitehouse impersonation. "80 million. I buy. You come Chelski."
80 mil from a club where money isn't an issue seems like good business and isn't comparable to some of their other transfer fiascos. If I was a Chelsea fan, I'd be completely over the moon at the prospect of him playing in the Premier League.
I think that's part of the problem. But I don't see how Messi would fit in the chelsea team, or maybe even in the EPL.
If Chelsea were to end up paying 80 mil for Messi, then it'd be a consequence of their willingness to pay over the odds for players since Abramovich arrived. Their "money no object" approach to the transfer market has resulted in it becoming massively inflated once more when, prior to Abramovich sending market values through the roof, it was beginning to settle at a more realistic level, one at which more clubs would be able to compete and, by extension, benefit from.
Now you'll have to excuse me - I have a wooden spoon which needs varnishing.