Draft CL Draft Sign-up Thread and Discussion

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Champions League Draft Selection (No Discussions)

The Draft discussions thread https://arsenal-mania.com/forum/threads/cl-draft-sign-up-thread-and-discussion.36173/ Rd. Riou JuanM Beard +Gooner416 A_G jones + albakos pigge Uncle Good+ SA Gunner 1 Emmanuel Eboue (ARS - 2005/06) Cristiano Ronaldo (RMA - 2013/14) Lionel Messi (BAR - 2010/11)...

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Now onto the admin side.

• The idea is to pick a team of 11 players from the Champions League era
• You will be looking to pick the best players you possibly can for your team for all areas: goalkeeper, defenders, midfielders and attackers
• The player is picked based upon their performances at their time for the season you chose him for (i.e. if you pick Andriy Shevchenko for AC Milan, his form at Kiev and Chelsea does NOT come into the equation during the competition).
• You need to select at least one player from the top 5 league in Europe: Premier League (England), La Liga (Spain), Seria A (Italy), Bundesliga (Germany) and Ligue 1 (France).
• For the season that the player is picked, he must have reached at least the quarter final stage of the competition
• Each player, must have played in at least one Champions League final.
• Number 1 gets first pick, Number 2 gets second pick, Number 3 gets third pick and so on....
• When offline, each member will get 2 hours to make their pick, if you miss the window then your pick will be chosen by the Rexdomizer ™.
• If the next picker is online and active in discussion he has only 20 minutes to make his pick
• The game will be frozen each night at 9pm GMT and resume at 9am GMT the following morning. You are still free to make your pick in this period if you want to but are under no obligation to do so.
• The draft order will be drawn at random and will follow the 3rd round reverse snake format. So the same as last time where we flip the order after the second round. This should stop anyone building up an unfair advantage by going first.
• The season of your player must have reached one of the below stages depending on when that season falls...

Prior to 1994-95: Quarter finals
1994-95 to 1998-99: Semi finals
1999-2000 to 2002-03: 2nd group stage
2003-04 to present day: Quarter finals

• AGAIN, You need to draft a starting XI and five outfield substitutes. The 17th round will consist of backup goalkeepers. You have to draft one Goalkeeper in the first 11 rounds.

That’s it for now. The game will hopefully start at 12 noon GMT on Thursday. That should give everyone enough time to figure out the rules and make plans. We may start earlier depending on sign up.

As I’ve said above there will be a definitive result this time! I’ve set up a custom league ready to be simulated, I just have to add your players once selected and fingers crossed we’ll have the results and champion before the Leeds match

Thanks everyone and enjoy the game!

 

[Farzad Stoned]

The randomiser will come out when you Portland hippies get your beauty sleep.

Bro, i wake up at 3 am ready to for battle and got a house full of lethal and non lethal weapons. Guns, knives, pepper spray, tasers, bats , swords and i want to buy a crossbow. Plus not into armpit hair on women. You calling me hippie is about as accurate as @Gooner Zig calling me a CIA dupe

 

[Rex Stone]

Bro BIG mad

Can't get mad at us, we actually try to make it interesting by picking only Muslim players in the holy month of Ramadan. Considering the pool of CL finalists (half of them are gone once you picked a Madrid player) you could cut us some slack here ffs

Just glad you showed your hand as soon as you did...

Had to nip that right in the bud

 

[jones]

What about this new rule? So Ronaldo could be picked now?

Ronaldo never played a CL final. Before it was possible e.g. picking some player who reached a final as a youth player but choosing his best season years afterwards when he reached his prime at a different club even though his team did poorly that season in the CL.

 

[jones]

Just glad you showed your hand as soon as you did...

Had to nip that right in the bud

no biggie I'll find another rule to exploit

 

[Farzad Stoned]

Thanks mate just have

Rexilicious killing it again by shutting down those who wish to gain an unfair edge. Who knew my tough love would turn you into this management guru. Someone elect this guy Prince of Wales, isn’t that how it works over there?

 

[Uncle Good-Advice]

All right, all right, I see. But original Ronaldo must be fuming that he's been left out and his impersonation was taken second!

 

[Rex Stone]

@Oxeki lad you’re getting the randomiser in 10 minutes mate

 

[albakos]

Rex doing some late Calciopoli rule shifts.

No mate, stick to the original rules, because there are many fantastic players who never played finals, so can't twist it now that Iftarsenal is clearly ahead of every other

 

[Farzad Stoned]

Rex doing some late Calciopoli rule shifts.

No mate, stick to the original rules, because there are many fantastic players who never played finals, so can't twist it now that Iftarsenal is clearly ahead of every other

No bro i back Rex, you guys are trying to work on insider info the rest of us don’t have. Beautiful management by Rexy

 

[Rex Stone]

Rex doing some late Calciopoli rule shifts.

No mate, stick to the original rules, because there are many fantastic players who never played finals, so can't twist it now that Iftarsenal is clearly ahead of every other

Well this doesn’t actually affect the players numbers at all maybe just ensures the best of the best are there.

 

[albakos]

No bro i back Rex, you guys are trying to work on insider info the rest of us don’t have. Beautiful management by Rexy

Go to sleep mate

 

[Farzad Stoned]

Go to sleep mate

Sleep is for soft Eurozone posh boys

 

[A_G]

Rex doing some late Calciopoli rule shifts.

No mate, stick to the original rules, because there are many fantastic players who never played finals, so can't twist it now that Iftarsenal is clearly ahead of every other

You tried changing the rules in the last draft by saying people who posted non-WC pictures of their picks should be randomised

 

[albakos]

You tried changing the rules in the last draft by saying people who posted non-WC pictures of their picks should be randomised

You should be randomised for not sticking to topic and talking about a different draft

 

[Farzad Stoned]

I mean @jones is trying to game his fellow Gooners on Ramadan by trading on insider info. He needs to do a hajj to make up for this transgression any good muslim knows punishment for transgressions during Ramadan are double

 

[Rex Stone]

Right @Oxeki we're randomising

 

[Oxeki]

Right @Oxeki we're randomising

I didn't get a notification ffs

 

[Rex Stone]

I didn't get a notification ffs

Ok fine

GO NOW!

You have 10 minutes. I was just about to hit post

 

[Farzad Stoned]

I didn't get a notification ffs

Yeah then give him a chance mate

 

[Farzad Stoned]

This draft Rexy is 50 cent and i am G- unit. He spits the rhymes and i serve as hype-man and back up vocal