modric will be no risk move. he is a fine signing. as for keano, i reckon he will score tonnes at the pool. him and torres upfront, they could be leathal this year.... my fear is that we wont keep berbatov and we will have to let him go to the man u bench and then what will we do? there is reports of podolski coming to spurs but that now looks unlikely!

another reminder bumpage.

Yes, less than ten days before the first game...
Anyone doubting their ability to pick a player can PM me for tips...
I have a degree in tipsology, so it wouldn't be bollocks.

cmon guys.....we need at least 7 or 8 more to make this real fun!

Hooray! I'm in.

Ecclesiasticus to win, I think.

Awesome !!!!

One more !!!

ok i signed up, but where the hell is the private league page?

so i pick a team first, and then i join the league?

ok i'm in... Bat Chain Puller

Hosannah ! The Priest is back !
Looks like a good day started !

It's great to see you still here Bertrand. You're something of a star at these fantasy games, if I recall correctly.

hey hip preist..... good to see ya back!

Thank you. I'm in.

come on people... 6 days left and only a relative handful in the official sonic league???? ive got almost 50 in my own one!!!

Kick off on saturday.
Come on, boys and gurlz, everybody's got their chances :

Ronaldo's injured, Fabregas too, Gerrard's toe is about to fall like a leaf in october...

It's up to those who are not best known, you'll buy the big names once they're fit and cheaper.

I've been rearranging my team again and again, to the point that I can't tell you if I'm gonna stick with my three forwards or dump two of them.

Add to that that transfers are not over - will Berbatov move? why does Santa Cruz stay? will Anonymous Player be sold or not (AP is/was in my team last season for a long/brief spell)?

Will Liverpool reach third?
Will Wigan's Michael Brown receive more than 10 yellow cards?
Will the Hammers sink?

How exciting...

im in the same boat bertrand.. i cant settle on a team at all apart from my defence which i am very happy with.. im totally unsure how to play it...

if any of you care to enter my league as well as the sonic league you are more than welcome... i have 55 players in my league now so its competitive... the code is
14915-95252
this league will close for entries at 12:45 tomorrow (saturday 16th august)

the sonic league code again is
14915-4774
this league will remain open for entries throughout the season!


time to go back and think about my team big style... berbatov wont go.. although allegedly he has made a deal with united for £28million plus saha!

spurs. will they now get back into the race for arshavin?? i hope not. 27 years old, had a couple of good games and never played outside a pretty poor league.. smells of a sergi rebrov to me! as for paulychenko.. id take him for £16million.... but why do that when darren bent is playing real well pre. we just dont have any reserve stikers at all!!!!!

juande at a time....sweet ramos...thats all we ask of you...

mid table medicraty for me.... bertrand off to a flyer as expected........
panic subs done, next week io got a 12 point deduction for the essentail substuitutions so in 2 weeks expect me fighting the french for glory!

Same as myself Pauly - I wonder which Fauxhemian side will rise to the top!

It's a league within a league :D

I went a bit over the top with panic buys - used my wild card and everything :/

wild card!!! ma you could live to regret that and the transfer window aint even done yet???????

i took a 9 point i think loss for the next round so im banking on the week after (the picnic weekend) to come out trumps) although now ive picked up an injury so one of my subs wont be scoring.......

you picnicing this year dave?

I've no doubt I'll live to regret it - but after I made the transfers it said the point deduction was in the 30's!

Panic

I've never actually entered one of these yokes before

Oh well...

I've got a good subs bench

Also - yeah I'm hitting the picnic this year

Basically going for MBV and to catch up with old mates!

excellent.. catch you around at some point im sure.... go to see large mound on the saturday afternoon... worth checking out....

3rd place, yeah, not bad...

Just joined the Sonic league--had thought that the liquid one was the Sonic one. Oh well. I'd be in joint third if I'd have started on time.

Welcome !
As we don't know each other yet, I shall avoid asking you to kneel down and lick my toes, but it's pretty hard...

Im after yr crown Bertrand! My first week was pretty good, but watch everyone swap anyone and everyone for Deco now. I had 6 or so changes this week, and Hull's Giovanni was only 5 points to buy so i guess we'll all have him now

hey bertrand... semperet is in the liqid league too!!! the irish now almost have a minor hold of that league!!!

to pick berbatov or to stick with my guns and boycott the whinging bastard for the season..... im unsure!!!!!!

So who's at the top right now?

It's probably for the best I'm not participating this time because I haven't seen a minute of PL football yet. It's no longer broadast on a public station here and I never get to see it at the BBC either.

Well Hip Priest is #1.
It only happened this week-end, so it shouldn't be considered that important; things will revert to normal later.

If anyone's interested, there a fantasy game concerning the Champions League; the rules are slightly different when it comes to scoring, but the European cup is more widely aired than the Premier League, still with "obscure" clubs involved (Cluj anyone?).
I haven't started a league but created a team.
So if there's someone else, we could start this too.
And this is here : http://uk.fantasy-europe-cup.yahoo.net/

ok, put in a team and created a league!

eurosonic league!

search for it in leagues.. no administration code or anything.. its a strange one this!!!

Gasp !
Something's wrong and I can't figure out what it is : I tried to join and received an error message stating I "got the wrong favourite club to become a member of this fan league".
Looking above and beneath, I saw some leagues are accessible to all clubs, some to specific clubs fans. But for the one and only interesting one, there's nothing noted and there's a (1-134?) between the brackets.

To see what it does, you can pick eurosport too, just above, the problem's the same.

I created another league just in case, called Podezreni, opened to all clubs.
I wanted to see if it had the same aspect but but but as you can't join the league you've created, you're not shown anything.
How embarrassing.
Well, see if you can join Podezreni - which stands for Suspicion in Czech - not that I speak the language, I picked it up in a dictionnary, I didn't want no English or French word.
I'd delete the league if I can reach the one with the sonic part in the title though. I'll try joining it again tomorrow.

ok.. i joined up. i HAD to give a favourite team so i picked someone at random, st petersburg!!!! i could not pick no team...

this is strabge

io found the ponderoza one (sorry, thats a song isnt it) Podezreni... thats it! i found that and is in it as they say...

man i dunno about this one, it looks very shitty to be honest... might try the offcial uefa site maybe....

Still can't join above.

Tried the uefa spot.
The rules are simpler and look like the ones we know. It could have been good but I couldn't create anything...
http://fr.uclfantasy.uefa.com/
I might be dumb but after checking every link on the page, I wasn't able to find anything near the creation of a team. No team, no league - I'd have liked to see if we could have started getting points from the second games (the first are tonight, they come too soon).

looked at it too.. not a clue!! im gonna give up i reckon, to close to the start of the competition, on the champions league.. the premiership is enough for me!

Wise decision - you addict.

Ha, I haven't seen any of the Champions League football this week either, but I'd be up for a CL fantasy competition if there's interest. That Uefa one looks decent enough.

long ttime no bump....

well done bertrand....sonic league champion...
ithinkimissyou 2nd
and me, the real fauxhemians..... 3rd.... for the second season in a row

only 10 players this year, i may incorporate the league into my own next year as half of ye were in it anyway.......

now go on barca!

Thank you.
I'm going to miss ManU-Barca due to earlier commitments; how fool I was.