The Premier League Draft.

[turienzo's lovechild]

nice job taking my first two choices for midfield gnlf!

i'll ignore midfield for the minute then and complete my front line with the best striker about today. Two league titles to his name with plenty to come

Sergio 'kun' Aguero

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

i hand back to [MENTION=6505]Foolg[/MENTION] and sit back until my next go (in about a week!)

 

[Shatner's Bassoon]

Dear fellow managers,

Not a pick has gone by that hasn't made me genuinely angry. I'm going to have to insist that people stop picking players that I want. Is that so unreasonable?

Sincerely,

Shatner's Bassoon.

 

[Worthingite]

I have an utter belter in mind but I bet he goes before I get my pick.....

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

i reckon the first few rounds are frustrating but you still have a lit of top players knocking about. The tough bit is the last 2 or 3 rounds when you're scrambling about for quality, all the time knowing that theres probably a complete diamond lurking about that you've missed

 

[Shatner's Bassoon]

i reckon the first few rounds are frustrating but you still have a lit of top players knocking about. The tough bit is the last 2 or 3 rounds when you're scrambling about for quality, all the time knowing that theres probably a complete diamond lurking about that you've missed

I actually think it gets slightly easier towards the end (although obviously you have to have an eye on the categories). In the first couple of rounds you really want to get as many of the genuinely 'elite' players as you can, whereas for me there are a lot of pretty good players to be picked up towards the end.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

nice job taking my first two choices for midfield gnlf!

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you're welcome! It was too good a midfield pairing to pass up.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

And there i was hoping beyond hope that my 2 preferred central midfielders (Vieira and Keane) would go unpicked before my next turn, some hope and with my preferred strikers (Shearer and Henry) and Goalkeeper (Schmichael) also gone, there isn't much left from my best starting XI and we have only just reached the start of the 2nd round of picks and still a long way to go before my second choice

 

[Lurchy]

There is an alternative way to do the picks in future if everyone feels the current way takes too long or/and is inflexible.

Next time someone could act as the main player registrar. Managers could blindly submit their player wished for before a given deadline / cut off point per selection round. The players that do not have more than one manager vying for them automatically gets assigned to a team, but when a duplication occurs, the managers then make another blind choice (the player is still technically available, so could be re-selected), this goes on until each team has a full squad. Would certainly make things a little fairer.

 

[moggy]

There is an alternative way to do the picks in future if everyone feels the current way takes too long or/and is inflexible.

Next time someone could act as the main player registrar. Managers could blindly submit their player wished for before a given deadline / cut off point per selection round. The players that do not have more than one manager vying for them automatically gets assigned to a team, but when a duplication occurs, the managers then make another blind choice (the player is still technically available, so could be re-selected), this goes on until each team has a full squad. Would certainly make things a little fairer.

We've done a couple of drafts already and it's worked well. No need to change the format at all

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Did [MENTION=3744]Horshamgull[/MENTION] pick earlier?

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

Did [MENTION=3744]Horshamgull[/MENTION] pick earlier?

Doesn't look like it

 

[Horsham Gull]

Nope sorry missed it due to being in Blackpool/ My pick was in the middle of the night..

 

[Horsham Gull]

Can i make my pick then



David Robert Joseph Beckham

 

[The_Viper]

[MENTION=6505]Foolg[/MENTION] is out of time right?

So he can pick as can [MENTION=225]Hamilton[/MENTION]

 

[shaolinpunk]

Nope sorry missed it due to being in Blackpool/ My pick was in the middle of the night..

If you miss your go, it doesn't mean you lose it. It just means the next person can go. You can make your pick as soon as you are online - the penalty is that the player you wanted may have been picked by the next person/people

EDIT: Ignore, I didn't see you'd picked in the next post so you clearly already knew

 

[Horsham Gull]

Thanks! looking forward to the next pick

 

[Hamilton]

He wasn't here for long, but he kick started the Premier League era of genuine world star signings being a regular occurrence. He had such skill, commitment and would do anything to win advantage. Divides opinion, but in my view a class act...

JURGEN KLINSMANN

http://cdn.fansided.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/208/files/2012/07/CeleKlinsmann_450x425.jpg

 

[Hamilton]

[MENTION=1284]moggy[/MENTION] you are up next

 

[Rohana]

Can i make my pick then

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David Robert Joseph Beckham

FFS! He was going to be my pick for playing against Brighton.