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OK, I've set up a league, with the 'quirky' name of ILX World Cup on the Metro site as that seemed to be the most popular on the other thread. You'll need this code to join:

14020-2783

― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

ILE has just eaten all my HTML, and half my message. Anyway, the league is on the Metro website (as that seemed to be the most popular on the other thread):
http://fantasyfootball.metro.co.uk/

...and you'll need this code to join: 14020-2783

― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah! I'm in.

― caek (caek), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah! I am in! I've never done this before!

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah!

Republica Redcliffe are go.

― Ranking Rupert (Ranking Rupert), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

haikunym is in
i am "extremely gruntled"
and ready to win

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

bump

― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

£100m seems like an awful lot of money to spend considering the prices of some of the top players. Not that a team full of top players would have helped four years ago, mind.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Suedey! Thread derail, but have a page or anything for your comics? Always enjoyed the ones you'd post over on the 'lith.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

Buffon
Ferreira
Terry
Heinze
Gallas
Galasek (sub)
Ronaldinho (cap)
Alonso
Julio Baptista
Shevchenko
Messi
Henry

but J Baptista and Galasek probably not first-teamers, hm.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, see what I mean?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

Alonso = not a definite starter either, and Messi is barely fit.....

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

Lehman
Terry, Ferreira, Puyol
Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Cole, Park Ji-Sung
Henry, McBride, Ibrahimovic

― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm. That is ridiculous. Are the prices the same on the Premier League one?

― caek (caek), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in too

― Greig (treefell), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

xpost, No is the answer. The Premier League one is missing most players at the moment. Only one Brazil player, for example. But the Premier Leauge one requires you to buy a manager. Perhaps the low prices now are because they expect them to go up as everyone buys the same players as teams are eliminated.

― caek (caek), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

Buffon
Kucher, Frechaut, Smiljanic, Jop (sub)
Ronaldinho(C), Fabregas, Ballack, Riquelme
Messi, Adriano, Toni

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

I rly should pay more attention.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Allah Frog! I do have a page, it's at www.shotformeat.com. There's a thread on it in ILC and eeeeverything. Also, who are you on the 'lith!?

Lehmann
Eboue Carragher Gilberto Toure K
Ronaldinho Gerrard Fabregas Luis Garcia
Henry (c) Ibrahimovic Van Nistelrooy

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

Buffon
Cannavaro, Samuel, Puyol, Mellberg
Ronaldinho (C), Ballack, J Cole, Park Ji-Sung
Van Nistelrooy, Ibrahimovic

This will almost certainly change before the start of the tournament.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

i might GAMBLE with NO RONALDINHO

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

~~and include walcott~~

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

I just realised I gambled on basically having the recent Aresenal defense.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

GOD IS ANGOLAN:

Van der Sar
Grygera, Terry, Mellberg, Ricardo Carvalho
Cristiano Ronaldo, Rosicky, Gerrard (c), Ronaldinho
Ibrahimovic, Henry

Sub: KENWYNE JONES AND HIS BOOTS OF PUREST GOLD

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

I've also joined the official Premier League one (featuring only Premiership players) even though it is rubbish. I've set a league up. The code is 59059-12445 if you want to join in.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 18 May 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

Me: The Premier League one is missing most players at the moment. Only one Brazil player, for example.

stevem: I've also joined the official Premier League one (featuring only Premiership players)

Me: OIC.

― caek (caek), Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha, it took me a while to work out why there were so many missing too.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Splitter!

― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

OK GREAT i signed up for this even though i don't know anything about football. good way to learn. i'm suspecting though that letting the computer auto-select my team is a bad idea, no?

― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 18 May 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

"bye bye flacker" is in, only a auto-picked team at the mo (except ronaldinho), shall do some work on it over the weekend hopefully.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Where's Scotland? is in for the Premiership one.

Squad =
Howard
Gallas
Huth
Campbell
Heinze
Gerrard
Boa Morte
Ljungberg
Gilberto Silva
Crespo (C)
Henry
Baros

manager = Bruce Arena.

I'll be back some other team with my metro team.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

use Oh, Wrinklescots for the Metro one

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 19 May 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

did this a couple of days ago:

MEMORIES OF FELIX

lehmann
sagnol,zambrotta,terry,marquez
gerrard,ballack,cocu,pardo(s)
shevchenko(c),gilardino,viduka

― danny invincible (michael w.), Friday, 19 May 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thinking of "Oh, Wrinklebaws" as coined on the Scottish Football Predictions thread.

I have no idea where that "oh," came from in my last post. I think I might have meant to type "OK" instead.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 20 May 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Wrinklebaws are go!

Dida
Nesta, Gallas, Heinze, Campbell
Ronaldhino, Luis Garcia, Schweinsteiger, Ljungberg
Larsson, Inzaghi, Zurawski

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 20 May 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in. Edmonds's Power XI

Stojkovic
Kovac R, Nesta,Puyol {Cox sub}
Lampard, Robben, Ronaldinho, Ballack
Raul(C), Zurawski, Santa Cruz

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Saturday, 20 May 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in! With no Brazilians. Fuck beauty!

― Pete W (peterw), Saturday, 20 May 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in:

Henrik's Tongue

Buffon
Salgado Ayala Marquez
Gilberto Silva Gerrard Fabregas Ronaldinho(C)
Saviola Van Nistelrooy Owen

(Mellberg: sub defender)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

my team's awesome

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 25 May 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in, Unterwasser United are ready to rock.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 25 May 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

Bump. About 35 in it now, see first post if you want to join. Only three days to go...

― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

FC Orval are in

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I'm in as the inexperienced yet optimistic "Angoalies".

― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

Moggi Approved are in.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

I should probably drop Walter Samuel, shouldn't I?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

I need to do this later on. The site seems to be down at the mo.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 8 June 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

I did the Metro one today to reflect Ballack not making it for the Costa Rica match, and found three of my defenders didn't actually make their respective squads, so it was worth doing.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 8 June 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

NB Gerrard "only 50-50" for paraguay match...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2006/teams/england/5058442.stm

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

also, blimey, we are up to 40 players! and i haf no idea who half of them are ;)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Totally overhauled my team now. I'm still torn between Lampard or Beckham though. Lampard will take the penalties but Beckham could well set up every single goal.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 90 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Actually, scratch that - I've joined. I'm 12th= of 50. I'm top of my work league!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 30 June 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

Those three Spanish players are gonna do me proud.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Friday, 30 June 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

After sticking with him through thick and thin for the first four games, I dropped Toni last night. For Totti. Clever me.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 30 June 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

he is like one of those people who has a telescope so he can look at what other families are doing.

who says I haven't?

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Saturday, 1 July 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

Through my telescope I spy that there's just one point in it at the top, as always between WBS and CL. Who is Joetex Frimpong?

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Saturday, 1 July 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

at the last minute i swapped my captaincy from zambrotta to rooney. it's my fault and i'm sorry.

― michael wells (michael w.), Saturday, 1 July 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

On Monday the team selected for bye bye flacker was:

Buffon, Ferdinand(Eliminated), Grosso, Miguel, Ronaldinho(Eliminated), Rodriguez(Eliminated), Riquelme(Eliminated), Beckham(Eliminated), Saviola(Eliminated), Klose(Captain), Neuville

With the following substitute:

Yatsenko(Eliminated)

do i get some sort of special prize?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

WBS opens up an 11-point lead.

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Five minutes before the end of that game, my captain Lehmann was on 14 points. Then it all went a bit wrong.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

i'm second in the 0-transfer handicap sub-league.. there's only 5 teams in it though. and orly fc have an 18-point advantage. tomorrow is going to be ricardo vs christiano ronaldo and henry vs zidane.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

I'm leading points scorer for this round so far, 42 ahead of WBS's 41. If only I'd made Grosso captain... anyway, I'm confident Moggi Approved can get a top 15 finish, which mere days ago looked impossible.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

I picked Grosso, but he's my sub. Damn.

― Greig (treefell), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe you should hope for one of your other selections in Fra-Por to be dropped/injured so Grosso pops back in and you get yr 16pts (is it 16?). I profited from Maxi Rodriguez in r2 in this way (cheers, Senderos).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

I got 6 points from Grosso last round 'cos someone didn't play. Can't expect it to happen again.

― Greig (treefell), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Now Charlton Lido storms 10 ahead of WBS. I'm back up to 7th but there's nearly 20 people below within about 25 points.

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Only a point off third now - this one could go right down to the wire. I have a feeling I know what will prove decisive in all this, though.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

well, i had a 13 point lead at one stage, then dropped to 20th due to poor substitutions/player resting band now, thanks to a storming qf/sf run, am back up to 3rd. i think i'd settle for that.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

who is this peter farmer who has just registered himself into a 25 point lead in our league?

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 7 July 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

so do teams play their first string players during the game for third place?

― Sym Sym (sym), Friday, 7 July 2006 04:50 (nineteen years ago)

peter farmer? c0ck farmer MORE LIKE!

25 points from 4 players, blimey i wish i'd been scoring that well all tournament...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 7 July 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

Surely Peter Cockfarmer, like Chelsea, doesn't count?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it's all about the third-place playoff - hopefully a goalfest between two reserve teams.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

hehe!

Please confirm that you want to make the following transfers:

Buffon replaced by Lehmann
Ferdinand replaced by Chimbonda
Yatsenko replaced by Cannavaro
Ronaldinho replaced by Odonkor
Rodriguez replaced by Frings
Riquelme replaced by Pirlo
Beckham replaced by Zidane
Saviola replaced by Gilardino
Neuville replaced by Henry

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

actually that's mental, what do i want chimbonda for???

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

Is the Lehmann selection based on the idea that Kahn's ego won't allow him to play in a consolation match?

I'm waiting until 35min before Saturday's match...

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

more that lehman's ego won't let kahn back in the shirt if he can in any way stop it...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

the way that he couldn't stop those two italian goals lolololololol

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

hmmm, colin meeder over there on the other thread sa ballack out, kahn in...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 7 July 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, who is this Peter Farmer? He's 68th in the whole country! It's just not on, is it? I mean, I can't talk - having joined in the knockout stage - but I knew I'd be just making up the numbers, jostling Dastoor in the upper-mids.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 8 July 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

i think cock farmer must be going round all the leagues implanting himself at the top as an ego boost. we must ignore him as it's gone down to the wire with wbs and gareth.

― michael wells (michael w.), Sunday, 9 July 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

Guess which mug finally dropped Schweinsteiger for Schneider in time for this round?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 9 July 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

me too ,mate, me too

― Porkpie (porkpie), Sunday, 9 July 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

how does cock farmer join our league though without the passcode?

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 9 July 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

He's only in four leagues. I suspect he is a lurker. I for one welcome our new cockfarming overlord.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 9 July 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Only 12 points for Bastian Pigshagger. That second goal wasn't even credited as an assist for him, and he got booked as well.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 9 July 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I swapped in - and then swapped out - Rodsteiger. My late choice Huth was injured in the bloody warm-up, meaning sub Costinha came in - and he got booked and didn't even play the full 90. Rubbish.

I'm 3rd in my work league and 25th (24th excluding Farmerbramovich) in the ILX league. I've stuck with the heavily Azzuri defence throughout the knockout stage but I don't really want any nils tonight.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 9 July 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

RE: cockfarmer - If he's a lurker who's motivated enough to get the code to join the league so that he can win it you'd think he'd be motivated enough to post a comment on this thread. I suspect it's someone's phantom second team, but I might just be projecting my own Machiavellian tendencies. Anyway, it's not me this time.

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Sunday, 9 July 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

do you think cockfarmer would've joined up at this late stage if he'd have beem 30th or something?

― michael wells (michael w.), Sunday, 9 July 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Do you think cockfarmer will ever de-lurk now that we're all calling him cockfarmer?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 9 July 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

where were you when you were crap?

― -- (688), Sunday, 9 July 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Discounting cockfarmer, the winner is Charlton Lido, 12 points ahead of WBS. I got a respectable 8th (which is 7th when cockfarming is taken out of the equation).

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Sunday, 9 July 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

I was shit, but came 19th OVERALL in the Guardian league. 19th! I was four points (one assist!) off winning £1,000. If only I'd gone for Pirlo instead of Maniche. I know exactly how Trezeguet feels. Exactly!

― Pete W (peterw), Sunday, 9 July 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

To answer a question upthread, I'm Joetex Frimpong (another cockfarming lurker).

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Sunday, 9 July 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

so, the final standings are:

[Long list of real names removed - sorry! You'll have to log into view the table but Gareth won.]

i know i shouldn't be so pissed off by the cf but, you know, you can't just rock up after the semis and go "look at me, top of the league!" and then not post a thing on this thread to explain/reveal yourself. (and also i want to finish in the top 3).

― michael wells (michael w.), Sunday, 9 July 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone else think some googleproofing might be in order?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 9 July 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I'm requesting anyway...

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 9 July 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone else think some googleproofing might be in order?

I've just worked out that this refers to the 'long list of names deleted'. Initially I thought you wanted things changed to c0ckf4rm3r, which seemed a bit odd as I doubt this thread is going to attract too many random googlers looking for farmers of cock.

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Monday, 10 July 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, you'd be surprised.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 10 July 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, there was a long list of people's real names since someone "cleverly" cut and pasted the league table.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 10 July 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

hey, now it looks like it was me when all i did was "cleverly" cut and paste a list (removing one name) that was already on the thread!

― michael wells (michael w.), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

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