The Homeless SZS fantasy league thread

[cyrille]

Football isn’t always as straightforward as that though and inferior teams can often overcome their supposed betters if their spirit, character, effort, team work and organisation is better than the oppositions, but the trouble is, Cardiff City have been in decline for a period of more than four months when it comes to those qualities.

Yeah, I made this point a while ago - that what Cardiff needed to do was stand behind the manager and at least create a siege mentality. Blame opponents, blame referees, blame whoever they possibly can outside the club, even if time and time again it's proven that the problem is you're not good enough.

They needed to stand behind Mackay or at least get someone with a proven track record to at least make their home games something that opponents approached with some trepidation as at Stoke or Palace.

Ole just doesn't seem like someone to get the blood pumping, but more importantly the in-fighting has been hugely distracting when unity was needed.

[NickA]

in a similar vein to cy's sig....

"Chelsea's goal attempts? Two. On target? Zero. You simply will not score goals unless you hit the target." - Danny Mills

[cyrille]

Lots more here you may not have read before, Nick:

Football quotes, humour and opinions – dangerhere.com | The Year in Guff – Funniest Quotes of 2013

BBC’s Darren Fletcher: “They lacked steel, fire, desire, confidence; go through the adjectives.”

David Pleat: “In the last year, 46 of the 92 managers have lost their jobs – that’s over half.”

Ronnie Irani gave Vincent Tan a leg-up: “He’s a billionaire – estimated worth around £850million.”

[cyrille]

interesting story on the strange case of ravel morrison.

allardyce and nolan as dodgy characters? not hard to imagine.

Ravel Morrison's unravelling at West Ham United is a tremendous waste | Daniel Taylor | Football | The Observer

[cyrille]

..and what does this say about cardiff?

Oh well, probably Pete just being a bit of a wanker as per...

Peter Odemwingie: Stoke is probably a better fit for me in a football sense. We play the ball to feet more.

PETER ODEMWINGIE - FOOTBALLERS' FOOTBALL COLUMN: The Premier League table is so tight, as a player you find that very stressful | Mail Online

[Bruce Bayliss]

interesting story on the strange case of ravel morrison.

allardyce and nolan as dodgy characters? not hard to imagine.

Very interesting article and Allardyce has a dodgy reputation already.

[cyrille]

was hoping to keep some cash in the bank but i'm bringing in ade while i can afford him with a single transfer

i've bought him
at the very worst he'll stop scoring and cy will stutter

you haven't taken a hit, so unless I've hopelessly misunderstood things the only way you can have got adebayor in is by swapping him for suarez or sturridge.

[cyrille]

...and if you'd done that then your cash would be more than 200k.

so i think i'll stick to hoping jrod draws a blank.

[Jimmy McNulty]

Mind games!

Cardiff lost at home to Wigan. But we looked pretty every now and then. That's nice. We seem especially good at passing it around in our own half while going gradually backwards. Then there's Zaha's thirty stepovers before he's robbed of possession. That nine year old Scandi looks decent though.

[cyrille]

Zaha's thirty stepovers

Yeah, he seemed to be going for some sort of record there.

[Jimmy McNulty]

Got 2 transfers and 4 odd million to play with. Looking at differentials to decrease the distance to those above me. I think I have too similar a side in key areas to Cyrille and CMN. Makes for interesting deliberations. This Fantasy stuff is much more engaging than I'd imagined. Wish the prices I had for long termers in my side more accurately reflected their prices outside of the pool. So loathe to drop Suarez and Coleman as they're so prohibitively expensive to get back in. Hardly seems a reward for not swapping and changing. You get their production for a lower price initially, but you're then hamstrung regarding bringing in others who have had good output.

[NickA]

next few weeks will decide the title

going to be really difficult to get 11 players out after this gameweek

I have a cunning plan

which will almost definitely fail

[reinvented]

no changes this week

[cyrille]

I read a few weeks ago that most of the gameweek 29 games would just be rescheduled for later in the same week.

I assume that's now not going to happen?

[Jimmy McNulty]

The silence is deafening. Have people been banned? The FF site seems has been fucked since last night as well. Is there a connection?? Unlikely.

[NickA]

The silence is deafening.

well, there's nothing else worth looking at on TD

and there hasn't been a fantasy game for a while

they'll all come crawling back to gloat if they do well today

[Jofrey]

I assume that's now not going to happen?

i was hoping the Liverpool game would be on midweek.

if that doesn't happen most people will be fielding 7 or 8..

[cyrille]

yep - that'll be about it for me.

not going to decimate my lovely team with man u trash just for one game.

[cyrille]

Looks like everyone's captained suarez again except me.

Maybe this is the week I get burned.

[Jimmy McNulty]

I couldn't get at my team to even think about changing it. The pick a team page was fucked. That on two different browsers and two computers, Mac and PC. Couldn't do the subs. Though I've just realized that the data view would have been an option. No harm done anyway, it's no change from last week by the looks of it save the one transfer I made.

[cyrille]

Top notch cheating from ramires again.

[Jofrey]

I get burned.

think your luck is still in....got the cleansheet from Kos as he was subbed off at 66 mins.

noon having a nightmare week. 6 players - 12 points......

[cyrille]

6 players - 12 points.

Now 7 players - 13 points.

Oh well.

They all managed to get changed at least.

[cyrille]

Concerned that after tonight even dopey dave will understand that Mata's best position is as the middle of the park play maker.

Like the ..umm..player they've been missing for two years.

[Jimmy McNulty]

remember when Cardiff had less possession but more points?