Categories Draft

[Bjornebye]

Not done a categories one for a while. 

 

All must have made their debut on or after 1/1/1990

 

• A Capped Scotland player
• A Flamengo player 
• A Parma player
• An Everton player
• A Leicester player
• An Atletico Madrid player
• A Lyon player
• A Capped Germany Player
• A Capped Turkish player
• A Newcastle player
• A Pompey player 

 

I won't start it until later in the week and a decent number for this would make it better/harder

 

7 in so far:

 

Stig

Alex

Elite

Ardja

Lifey

No2

Dynamite 

[Lee909]

Go on

[Bjornebye]

Stig

Alex

Elite

Ardja

Lifey

No2

Dynamite

Lee

[Sugar Ape]

When are you starting it? I might play but the Turkish capped player is putting me off. Sure we had a Turkish one in a previous draft and it’s very slim pickings. 

[Allan]

47 minutes ago, Sugar Ape said:

When are you starting it? I might play but the Turkish capped player is putting me off. Sure we had a Turkish one in a previous draft and it’s very slim pickings. 

Yeah. Maybe keep the Turkish theme for the category, but have it be a Besiktas, Galatasaray or Fenerbahce player instead of Turkish national player?

[Bjornebye]

Yeah happy to change that rule. 

 

All must have made their debut on or after 1/1/1990

 

• A Capped Scotland player
• A Flamengo player 
• A Parma player
• An Everton player
• A Leicester player
• An Atletico Madrid player
• A Lyon player
• A Capped Germany player
• A Besiktas, Fenerbache or Galatasaray player 
• A Newcastle player
• A Pompey player 

 

@Sugar Ape Probably kick it off lunchtime on Thursday? Hoping for around 10/12 for this. Between 10 and 14 always guarantees a decent draft. 

[Sugar Ape]

Sound count me in. 

[Bjornebye]

Stig

Alex

Elite

Ardja

Lifey

No2

Dynamite

Lee

Rapey

 

 

Not hard to add your names to the fucking list is it you lazy bastards 

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Sugar Ape said:

Sound count me in. 

Good man

[Guest Alex_K]

@John102 @MegadriveMan

[lifetime fan]

Can a pick have made their debut for a different club/country before 1990 to which you’re selecting them? 
 

e.g. Player A made his debut for another club in 1988 but made his Portsmouth debut in 1992? 

[Bjornebye]

4 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

Can a pick have made their debut for a different club/country before 1990 to which you’re selecting them? 
 

e.g. Player A made his debut for another club in 1988 but made his Portsmouth debut in 1992? 

No. His professional debut for anyone has to have been 1990 or after 

[lifetime fan]

Just now, Bjornebye said:

No. His professional debut for anyone has to have been 1990 or after 

Fair enough. 
 

Ruled out a couple of sly picks I was hoping for. 

[Bjornebye]

7 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

Fair enough. 
 

Ruled out a couple of sly picks I was hoping for. 

Don't worry., I'm sure Rapey or someone is trying to find the most obscure pointless bend in the rules just to be a cunt as we speak. 

[lifetime fan]

4 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Don't worry., I'm sure Rapey or someone is trying to find the most obscure pointless bend in the rules just to be a cunt as we speak. 

You need a bit of that. 

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

You need a bit of that. 

Tru dat 

[No2]

6 hours ago, Sugar Ape said:

When are you starting it? I might play but the Turkish capped player is putting me off. Sure we had a Turkish one in a previous draft and it’s very slim pickings. 

Is that not the point of these? Deciding between Shearer, Romario or Tuguy for first pick. If you leave the Turkish lad until last how much damage does he do? Willian was picked at left back in the draft just done, I don't think I'm stretching it to say Moreno would have gone down better.

[Sugar Ape]

1 minute ago, No2 said:

Is that not the point of these? Deciding between Shearer, Romario or Tuguy for first pick. If you leave the Turkish lad until last how much damage does he do? Willian was picked at left back in the draft just done, I don't think I'm stretching it to say Moreno would have gone down better.

There is no defined ‘point’ of these drafts, but personally I prefer some picks to be hard but not to the point where it’s not enjoyable because all the options are shite.
 

Assuming we’ll have ten players then there are already a lot of hard picks such as Scotland, Pompey and of course Everton. It wouldn’t surprise me if some of the people playing couldn’t even name ten Turkish players. Additionally I’m sure we’ve already had a draft that had a Turkish pick in it so running over old ground.
 

Obviously this is all subjective, and there is no right or wrong, however I’m definitely right. 

[Guest Alex_K]

@No2 If we were in a backs-against-the-walls job I'd rather have Willian than Moreno at full back. I'm being serious about that. One is a professional who typically raises his game in the big matches & is v tactically disciplined, the other was a lunatic bottler for whom no act was beyond the realms of possibilities.

 

RE: omission of Turkish international - to be honest I agree with that too. I personally find it hard differentiating Turkish players from each -- clearly that's not the most politically correct stance, but they all kind of blur into hardy fiery sorts who do a job in Turkey then typically get blitzed whenever they play outside the country. The Gala/Fen/Besiktas clause at least allows some interesting foreign names alongside any Turkish players you could have wanted

[Megadrive Man]

Fuck it I'm in.

 

Stig

Alex

Elite

Ardja

Lifey

No2

Dynamite

Lee

Rapey

Megadrive

[No2]

2 minutes ago, Sugar Ape said:

There is no defined ‘point’ of these drafts, but personally I prefer some picks to be hard but not to the point where it’s not enjoyable because all the options are shite.
 

Assuming we’ll have ten players then there are already a lot of hard picks such as Scotland, Pompey and of course Everton. It wouldn’t surprise me if some of the people playing couldn’t even name ten Turkish players. Additionally I’m sure we’ve already had a draft that had a Turkish pick in it so running over old ground.
 

Obviously this is all subjective, and there is no right or wrong, however I’m definitely right. 

You make a fair point, I prefer the hard ones, a team with Messi or Maradona in them makes them incredibly hard to beat. The teams here have enough about them to form decent sides with only a couple of world beaters in there. The draw will be crucial unless ardja get a first pick and chooses Steven Naismith.

[Lee909]

Trying to pick the 12th best pick from Portsmouth should be er fun I guess

[Bjornebye]

3 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

Trying to pick the 12th best pick from Portsmouth should be er fun I guess

Er, I'm far more worried about the Everton pick after about 4 rounds 

[Guest Alex_K]

@Bjornebye - how are we treating Germany? Year of first cap for unified Germany team, or year of first cap for East/West/Unified?

[lifetime fan]

Reckon it’s either German national team.