The Homeless SZS fantasy league thread

[ChiangMai noon]

sheesh, you guys would put a glass eye to sleep, that and a forum

i want to change aguerro right now...i'm sure he looked proper broken yesterday but the fantasy site has him at 50/50 with a calf injury
presume they are making it up

[cyrille]

Yeah, I'm concerned about that too. Hopefully it might be just a game or two out.

[Dillinger]

Put your SZ league up on here fellas.
Here's Teakdoor's and my aptly named team highlighted

[ChiangMai noon]

top 20 odd here

[ChiangMai noon]

looks like we are better than you

[Dillinger]

looks like we are better than you

I dunno, I'm beating Bruce and his mariners this week

[ChiangMai noon]

i'm getting quite excited about this evening's action

hope rooney draws blank and yellow

mignolet clean sheet with suarez points a plenty

think norwich will draw with swansea...1-1

[NickA]

with suarez points a plenty

how many people haven't got suarez as captain though?

[ChiangMai noon]

how many people haven't got suarez as captain though?

most everyone in our league

2 of the 3 teams above me and most of those below me have had their captain already
most went for aguerro or lukaku...zen went for hazard

[ChiangMai noon]

hoping to break into the top 50,000 tonight

[ChiangMai noon]

poo went with bale again

[ChiangMai noon]

i was on the wba forums last night to see the reaction to the cardiff defeat

they are now closed to non registered guests
presumably flooded after the clarke sacking

what's the word cy

surely peace has a replacement lined up..or not?

[cyrille]

with suarez points a plenty

how many people haven't got suarez as captain though?

You asked a few days ago why anyone wouldn't have suarez as captain ... and then didn't pick him as captain.

Now you're asking how many people don't have him as captain when the answer is that most people in the szs league don't have him as captain.

Seems a bit puzzling.

If it's such a no brainer to have suarez as captain to you then ... umm ... why isn't he your captain?

[ChiangMai noon]

i think liverpool will struggle tonight,,,they are nowhere near as effective away from home and that lukaku, aguerro and hazard will prove to have been better picks with 5 each

if that happens, it's only a marginal loss

[ChiangMai noon]

why isn't he your captain?

he is

[cyrille]

i was on the wba forums last night to see the reaction to the cardiff defeat

they are now closed to non registered guests

Not sure which forums you're talking about there. Do forums get 'flooded' these days?

what's the word cy

surely peace has a replacement lined up..or not?

I very much doubt there is someone already waiting in the wings. JP is the league's most parsimonious chairman, and my guess is that it particularly grates with him that he's paying circa 60k a week for the clearly not up to it Anelka, and more generally that this is Albion's highest wage bill ever by some margin.

And, put simply, Clarke's record for 2013 has been shit. OK so it's just a shit latter half of one season and a shit first half of another, but still....

I think maybe outsiders think just surviving in the prem is success for West Brom but those closer to the club, rightly or wrongly, are in many cases expecting more.

This comment from the Birmingham Evening Mail is puzzling me.

“Absolutely shocking – great manager. West Brom were not a Premiership team but he made it so,” said Welsh Baggies fan Gareth Davies.

Steve Clarke sacked: How the footballing world reacted to West Brom's decision - Birmingham Mail

What on earth is Mr Davies on about? Does he think premiership football was brought to West Bromwich by Steve Clarke?

Chris Lepkowski is generally considered by Albion fans to be on the ball...

Has Steve Clarke been sacked? Yes, Chris Lepkowski gives his thoughts on the West Brom decision - Chris Lepkowski - Birmingham Mail

I think he has it right here...

There is a bigger picture here. Sixteen points between January 1 and the end of last season, from 18 games. This season it was three wins from 16 games, with six draws. Take those 34 games into context. It becomes seven wins, 10 draws, 17 losses - 31 points over 34 games. You don't need me to explain the maths.

Pretty simple stuff really.

[cyrille]

why isn't he your captain?

he is

That question was directed at Nick.

I don't get why he's insistent that Suarez was the inevitable choice for captain this week, but he doesn't have him as captain.

( He wasn't my captain because Liverpool's record away from home against stronger teams is very poor. They even got soundly beaten by Hull a few weeks ago. Also I think they'll miss Gerrard, and both Aguero and Hazard at home looked better picks. It seems most in the szs league agreed.)

[ChiangMai noon]

Not sure which forums you're talking about there. Do forums get 'flooded' these days?

this one

That question was directed at Nick.

i know

this nick is tristram not the other nick

[ChiangMai noon]

Pretty simple stuff really.

i think so too

was listening to 606 last night and a fair few west brom fans were demanding clarke's head on a plate

that host fletcher was absolutely adamant that peace wasn't the sort of bloke that would react so soon and there was absolutely no chance the fans would get their wish....savage concurred
3 hours later he was gone just in time for lineker to announce it on motd

[cyrille]

this nick is tristram not the other nick

Oh I see!

Doh!

In that case I'll rein in my expectations.

I just read an Arsenal fan on af comparing the Man City Arsenal game to the 'Holmes v Hagler fight'.

Say fucking what?

[ChiangMai noon]

In that case I'll rein in my expectations.

lol


surely you noticed southampton's lack of mention

[cyrille]

was listening to 606 last night and a fair few west brom fans were demanding clarke's head on a plate

The problem is always, of course, when you look around at the alternatives.

[ChiangMai noon]

West Brom defender Steven Reid on Match of the Day 2 EXTRA: "There is a shock, sometimes in a dressing room you get a sense a change is coming but this has come as complete shock.

"In recent weeks we can only put the results down to a drop in confidence - in the Premier League when you go on run of three or four games without a victory it can affect confidence of the lads and then you are looking at ways you can get back on track."

[helge]

think norwich will draw with swansea...1-1

Right

i think liverpool will struggle tonight,

Wrong (so far)

[ChiangMai noon]

^
yes

the scouse have battered them and now spurs are down to ten men

very impressed with liverpool tonight and i don't want to be
always disliked them