Very true. The old Nike Gunner kits were awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by DudyDawg
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Very true. The old Nike Gunner kits were awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by DudyDawg
I might buy the blue one. Gonna go all in w/ Brother Farley.
If you're gonna do it, do it right. If I had gotten Liverpool I would have to get me a King James #6 jersey.Quote:
Originally Posted by hacker
I wish we had separate threads for each team, or its own subforum for these updates, but here's the latest on the Arsenal.
- The coach's ****in' name is Arsene.
- We are looking to swoop up 20-year-old Javier Manquillo from Atletico Madrid.
- We are looking to grab German Sami Khedira from Real Madrid.
- We may let some Egyptian guy come over on trial basis.
So, we have raided the 3 top teams in La Liga in the past week (also Barcelona for Alexis Sanchez). Didn't DudyDawg say La Liga is better?
Seattle and Portland are playing on ESPN2 if anyone cares to watch. First half still
What I'd like to do to Curmudgeon......
http://i.imgur.com/IjKGT4c.gif
Wait wtf? Why are we in Bovine Scatology?
Curmudgeon is why. Damn it is going to be more difficult to add 7 more for the 2nd draft over here but I still feel confident it'll get done. Have over a month left till kickoff.Quote:
Originally Posted by mstatefan91
How much time realistically do you need to fill your spots?
We've had 33 posters join since I put out the idea so it is fine if it's moved over here I will just put a heading for a thread "Looking for 7 posters EPL league" or something like that. August 16th is when the league starts. It's no biggie.Quote:
Originally Posted by I seen it dawg
I'm moving it back. I'm Charlie Brown tonite.
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Originally Posted by hacker
Yes, I did. And the leading scorer of the EPL just moved to La Liga. La Liga has less money (other than Real Madrid and barca), but more talent in the mid and lower level teams. That's why they've been so dominant in champions and Europa league while English teams have had almost no success
Hey guys.... Sign me up! I want in on this.
Nice. LP is in the boat. What's the count 61?Quote:
Originally Posted by LiterallyPolice
I believe that's 14 for the next draft. 6 more left if I remember.Quote:
Originally Posted by DudyDawg
Looks like that makes 34 for this idea and 1 against it. I think the board has spoken, I seen it
When will I know my team? There's research to be done!
We'll select teams once all 20 slots have been filled for Draft #2.Quote:
Originally Posted by LiterallyPolice
I believe dawg61 is waiting until we get the full second batch of twenty so we can do a full draft. So likely pretty soon since we have 14 in the second draft.Quote:
Originally Posted by LiterallyPolice
I'm not 61, but the standard answer is "as soon as we get 20 new owners, i.e. 6 more owners." What's that time frame look like? Can't tell you, but it'll likely be before the EPL season starts in mid-August.Quote:
Originally Posted by LiterallyPolice
That's what I figured... I just saw teams being assigned immediately earlier in the thread (unless I read it wrong).
well that's only if you decide to fall on the grenade (aka get one of the newcomers to EPL)Quote:
Originally Posted by LiterallyPolice
Well, when we started a few of us (ref, myself) volunteered to take a shit team so that others trying to get into the game would get a higher chance of a good team. So we had a few right away but he did a live draft once we got 20
BOOM!!! LiterallyPolice has joined the party!! That makes 14 new owners waiting on just 6 more and we can do a full 2nd draft. I am Literally excited about you joining the league bro.Quote:
Originally Posted by LiterallyPolice
It's more fun for you and everyone else if you can just hold out till the full 20 fill up. Glad you joined the party!Quote:
Originally Posted by LiterallyPolice
Seattle wins 2-0. Good performance by Dempsey
The best part of this whole thing is that Crumudgeons vocal disdain for this thread will make it more popular than it already was and help us to fill the 2nd draft much faster... Marketing genius!
Exciting second half. Those Seattle fans are awesome. They just had 64,000 for an MLS game. And people can't see the growth of the game here....Quote:
Originally Posted by mstatefan91
Haha I was just thinking that myself. He unintentionally poured gas on the fire we have burning, thinking he was pouring waterQuote:
Originally Posted by FatDrunkandStupidDawg
Seattle and Portland have some of the most rabid fan bases in the MLS. Good rivalry too.Quote:
Originally Posted by DudyDawg
People don't want to see the growth even though it's there for whatever reason/insecurity that they have. It will still take some time for the general population of the USA to appreciate and respect soccer as a sport. The World Cup definitely helps and if ESPN would advertise big MLS games then that would help overall too.Quote:
Originally Posted by DudyDawg
Dudy, I gotta disagree with you here. I think at the top La Liga is better, but the BPL is much deeper. For the past 10 years until this one, it has literally been Real Madrid and Barcelona +18 other teams. In that time only Valencia has finished in the top 2 and that was once in 07-08. Also in that time, 5 different EPL teams have finished in the top 2 (Man U, Man City, Arsenal, Liverpool, and Chelsea). There were more players from the EPL than any other league in the World cup by a long shot.
Yup, and with new tv deals w MLS and ESPN/NBC that advertising will start to happen a lot moreQuote:
Originally Posted by mstatefan91
Awesome!!! Welcome to the party preachermatt83!! That makes 15 new owners and we are just waiting on 5 more and we will have a full 2nd draft.Quote:
Originally Posted by preachermatt83
I'm not saying that it's a more competitive league, but it is a better one. In the times the la Liga teams play the EPL ones in Europe, they win. Last year alone, the semi finals of the champions league had 3 teams of four from la Liga. The Europa league also had three la Liga teams in the last four. La Liga has a toooon of young talent that moves from the smaller teams to real Madrid and Barcelona and over seas, but while they are at those smaller teams in La Liga, those teams are good. Look at Valencia. They've recently had David silva, jordi alba, and more that are dominating at big clubs. I kind of look at it like inter conference play. La Liga has dominated it latelyQuote:
Originally Posted by Intramural All-American
Haha so far I have enjoyed at least 3 of your 4 posts very much. Post more often.Quote:
Originally Posted by FatDrunkandStupidDawg
Preacher, I'm totally stealing that Jon Snow GIF. It's awesome.
Jesus Navas, Alvaro Negredo of Manchester city were at Sevilla, a team that was in the semi finals of Europa league a few years back and this year, with 0 EPL teams in it
So far Man U has missed out on two elite players in Angel de Maria and Toni Kroos due to the fact they won't be participating in the Champions League next year. PSG is thought to be in the lead for Angel de Maria now.