DamanC Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 As always, we are going to have a little fantasy footie league I have renewed the league up at the normal place; http://fantasy.premierleague.com And the code to join the league is: 20749-6430 Sugestions to make it a little more interesting are welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogmaw Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 Sugestions to make it a little more interesting are welcome How about a Manager of the Month award, with a prize or something for the manager who scores the most points in a calendar month Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
probrox Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 Missed last year, but i'm in now! Prepare yourselves for defeat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiceRocket Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 Missed last year, but i'm in now! Prepare yourselves for defeat. NEVER! My super abundance of footy knowledge will win me the valueless prize Oh yes it will be mine.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted July 9, 2008 Author Share Posted July 9, 2008 You can pre register with any old team. You will be able to make unlimited free transfers right up to the start of the season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogmaw Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Missed last year, but i'm in now! Prepare yourselves for defeat. You'll have to get past me first... it was my first season and I came 2nd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Are we having an entrance fee and prize money this season then? Make it a bit more interesting. Doesn't have to be a lot, say £5 or £10 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havard Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 I always start off with good intentions but then lose my interest in this. I checked once and I was 3rd without making any transfers. More by luck than judgement to be honest. Checked again and I was 12th..... H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 blimey its that time of year again! im in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted July 9, 2008 Author Share Posted July 9, 2008 Are we having an entrance fee and prize money this season then? Make it a bit more interesting. Doesn't have to be a lot, say £5 or £10 ? I think it is a good idea. It will keep people interested. 50 x 10 is £500. You are exempt thou! I would like to try to get it sponsored too, with perhaps some goodies to win. Peoples thoughts? Would you be happy to pay £10 to enter? If there is seroious objection then I cant see any harm in having 2 leagues. 1 for fun and a second with a enterance fee....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted July 24, 2008 Author Share Posted July 24, 2008 Bump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDO Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 don't worry everyone.. I am here to take last place again!.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 Ok, that's the family joined up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSupra Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 I think a fiver would be an adequate amount. Think there were nearly 50 people in it last year so £250 ish is a decent sort of figure to play for! Manager of the month awards would make it interesting too - maybe some sort of prize for this? £5 perhaps - your money back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
probrox Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 I'm all in favour for monthly and full season prizes. Should make things more fun. How would we go about arranging this Daman? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaveriK Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 Having done this sort of thing in a club i can tell you its a pain in the rear to get the money and thats face to face, online i can see further fubars. I am happy to wedge in but playing for pride will keep it friendly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wewsupra Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 im in for a laugh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted August 15, 2008 Author Share Posted August 15, 2008 And so, with deep loaded sighs, it's back. The new Premier League season begins on Saturday and Nuts Magazine (who are strapping, masculine blokes and therefore genetically disposed to loving football even more than they are disposed to loving Keeley Hazel's cleavage, drinking alcohol until they're sick and Top Gear's Power Lap round) can hardly wait, equating this monumental event with 'catching up with an old mate down the boozer'. Presumably that means us and the Premier League are going to be sat opposite one another in a deserted Weatherspoons speaking with overegged jocularity, benign smiles affixed unconvincingly upon our weary faces, fiddling self consciously with the beer mats and hearing all about its new job and the part time evening course it's thinking about beginning at the local community college. Which sounds about right; perhaps it would be easier to ignore The Premiership's phone calls and delete it from our Facebook friends list; a little cruel, maybe, but anything to avoid another nine months of mundane small talk punctured only by the occasional awkward silence. Perhaps some of the more eager members of our group can be forgiven their excitement. There's an episode of 'Seinfeld' where, having being mistaken by a tourist by a woman he's interested in, George comes up with the idea of 'moving in' to his home city and condensing his entire New York existence into a few days time span, reasoning, "if you squeeze all my accomplishment into a single weekend, it doesn't look so bad"; and anybody who has caught any of Sky's 'Premiership Years' shows over the last week will understand his logic. To watch these shows tell it, the Premiership is a constant mass of fireworks and excitement and top of the table clashes. When we're not admiring goals flying in from beyond impossible angles to a soundtrack of mass adulation, we're chuckling heartedly over a playful tussle involving a club mascot and a fourth official. All bright lights and screeching soundbites, Sky have even played a neat trick with the mass brawls that populate many a Premier league clash: replacing the blustering and hysterical hectoring of a summariser demanding the return of the birch with a Dizzy Rascal tune and making a bloody good montage out of things renders the sight of Robbie Savage biting an Aston Villa midfielder's kneecap seem more playful and amusing than malicious. In reality, of course, the Premiership is a slog; a maddening and seemingly never ending traipse through a soporific wasteland of stupid points dropped at home, Saturday morning kick offs and Andy Gray shouting at you. And unless you support Chelsea (and if you do, you have your own problems to consider, namely the fact you go around your life being correctly labelled a 'Chelsea supporter') your team won't win it. Manchester United, minus their coach and their best player until October, are carrying themselves with the same smug and miss-guided cockiness usually associated a newly widowed and fully alibi-ed up member of the Bourgeoisie upon their first encounter with Lt. Columbo and Fergie's fooling nobody with his glib dismissal of Chelsea's chances. At Arsenal, Arsene Wenger isn't so much rebuilding his team as taking a long and glumly concerned stare at it, making no promises about being able to have the new water heater put in by the weekend and Liverpool are substance less to the point of being a gas. A fine player Robbie Keane, but not one who will win you a championship and Rafa's boys will perform their usual trick of hovering around looking a bit interested early on before falling off and struggling in the crucial mid October-late April stage of the season. Villa and Spurs are set to compete in some sort of mildly embarrassed 'race for fifth place', not so much a Clash of Titans as an overheated argument on the way home about the fairest way to split the cost of the taxi. Everton and Newcastle United both have the vague look of 'club in crisis' headlines by mid-October and Manchester City's crisis is arriving armed with rather less subtle nuance, coming, as it is, in the form of arrest warrants and frozen assets (a tragic situation which will no doubt evoke great sympathy from all the Human rights lobbyists dismissed last year by City fans as tiresome spoilsports attempting to take the shine off their bright start under the Shinawatra regime). Portsmouth, Fulham and West Ham will flutter around inoffensively, all bland and inconsequential and 'nice', the type of teams you like but not in that way, and 'Boro will continue to be the subject of one of life's great imponderables: if a tree falls in the forest and only Middlesbrough Football Club are there to hear it, does it still make a sound? Down at the bottom, perennial yo-yo club Sunderland will be looking to scale the same dizzying heights as last year's fifteenth, Stoke will be viewing the notion of 'doing a Derby' as positively romantic and Hull City will be squandering any good will they may have gained from an impressive promotion by allowing Dean Windass to carry on in his campaign as unofficial spokesman for tedious bores everywhere. If you browse around for some of his close season interviews, it becomes grimly obvious Dean has been studying Ian Holloway's 'Bumper Book of Mildly Misogynistic Analogies'. He will no doubt be looking forward to comparing coming off the bench and scoring to 'copping off with a fit girl!', relishing the prospect of equating losing 3-2 after getting back to 2-2 with 'copping off with a fit bird-and losing her phone number!!' and positively salivating at the opportunity to forge a tenuous link between going down on the last day despite winning your fixture as 'copping off with a fit bird-and your missus finding out!!!'. Meanwhile over at Ewood, with The Guv'Nor's body language increasingly screaming "what the hell am I doing here?" Blackburn may well find this year a bit of a struggle. Or they might not. It doesn't really matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 So, everyone having fun yet? I'm in 8th at the mo, waiting for the post Xmas crash that normally pushes me into the bottem half of the table.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 i was 1st a month or so back. now im down to 18th dammit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 I just can't seem to get into it this season. I don't even look at my team from week to week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogmaw Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 I'm well into it, me! Same as my g/f. Still rubbish though despite the effort Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 I had been leading for a good couple of months, gone to pot now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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