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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Sept 18, 2008 13:12:29 GMT
I'd forgotten the 2 player restriction I like your updates, they're funny. Win your games in hand, and you're flying. I think, if you look at the other league in the division, they've got something like 18 teams. I could never understand that. Random sentences forming a paragraph here. KUTGW! Yep, the other division has 17 teams, while this one has 13. Makes sense really.
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Post by Boony on Sept 18, 2008 13:18:05 GMT
With 30 teams, it's best to split them unevenly, so there's an even number of teams in each league and they can all play every week.
Oh, hang on...
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Sept 18, 2008 13:22:06 GMT
If they were really clever, the two without partners each week would play each other in inter-division play. Then the points from those games would go to a third outside league offering another set of lines to confuse people.
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Post by Boony on Sept 18, 2008 13:24:23 GMT
another set of lines to confuse people. Come dancing :thumb:
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Post by Sonic on Sept 18, 2008 13:34:20 GMT
January went right over my head, but the rest has been a hoot.
The table looks interesting, as we could easily end up in a promotion spot.
Nice work :thumb:
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Post by Boony on Sept 18, 2008 13:47:04 GMT
The picture was of the telly test card. Over here in the UK, when telly wasn't a 24 hour phenomenon and the BBC had a period in the small hours of the morning where no programs were being broadcast, they'd shove that picture up there so we knew the telly was working, and so we could adjust the colour, brightness, etc, if required.
When I was a kid, I'd wake up early on a Saturday morning, watch the testcard to see if they ever moved, before the kids tv stuff started. I can imagine stoners doing much the same :thumb:
Stu put it up there because nothing happened in January - after December, his next game was in February...
Does that help?
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Post by floplexter on Sept 18, 2008 14:04:03 GMT
Quilmes were a favourite of the original poofs over at that place of poofs that I can't remember, where GA and BiB lived. Mainly because they were GR (or whatever it was called there- Llamas or something) and it is one of Argentina's most popular beers. In fact, we have a can of Quilmes in the bar here at work, along with many other "exotic" beers.
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Post by floplexter on Sept 18, 2008 14:06:04 GMT
I used to think that the green clown's body was a luminous green skull watching what the girl was writing on the board. Thought that until I was about 17 actually.
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Post by floplexter on Sept 18, 2008 14:07:29 GMT
With a purple nose and two "light reflection" patches on the head, if you need help to see it.
Not sure why I just assumed there would be a disembodied clown's head floating above it, mind. Maybe thought the clown's body was behind the skull.
Hmm.
[/random nostalgic musings]
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Post by Moo on Sept 18, 2008 14:09:20 GMT
You're nutso, Pops.
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Post by Sonic on Sept 18, 2008 14:24:11 GMT
The picture was of the telly test card. Over here in the UK, when telly wasn't a 24 hour phenomenon and the BBC had a period in the small hours of the morning where no programs were being broadcast, they'd shove that picture up there so we knew the telly was working, and so we could adjust the colour, brightness, etc, if required. When I was a kid, I'd wake up early on a Saturday morning, watch the testcard to see if they ever moved, before the kids tv stuff started. I can imagine stoners doing much the same Stu put it up there because nothing happened in January - after December, his next game was in February... Does that help? Yes. I figured it had something to do with the fact that January contained much tumbleweededness, but didn't put the picture to the TV out-of-hours image. I did think some of the things around the centre picture where familiar looking, but the clown thing weirded me out.
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Post by Boony on Sept 18, 2008 14:38:32 GMT
I'd never noticed the green skull before, Pops, but it's obvious now. If I ever have kids and they ever bring back the test card (I assume it's not on anymore - anyone seen it recently?), I'll point it out to them... Kudos to your warped brain.
The girl and the disembodied clown's head are shit at noughts and crosses, too. Always start in the middle!
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Post by Moo on Sept 18, 2008 14:49:44 GMT
Only if you don't want to lose. If you want to win, you start in a corner.
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Post by Boony on Sept 18, 2008 14:55:46 GMT
No man. You start in a corner, I'll go in the middle. Show me how to force a win there. The *only* way to win at noughts and crosses is to start in the middle, and hope your fool opponent goes on a side, not a corner. Stupid fecking game anyway. Connect Four is much better :thumb: Ooh look, Cuba!
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Post by floplexter on Sept 18, 2008 15:11:22 GMT
Even when I did see it as a clown, I thought it pretty pointless. I mean, look at the clown's arms. No way it would reach the board with those tiny arms. She's blatantly cheating.
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Post by hornet on Sept 18, 2008 16:00:09 GMT
I chose the team because Moo told me to. Or rather, because he was amused by the fact that the team had apparently vanished already. It turns out that it didn't, rather it collapsed in a financial mess and was reformed under a new name. This is the exact same thing that happened to Lokomotiv Chita after the Divots' challenge there. Perhaps we should take this as a sign and be more careful. With moderate power comes moderate responsibility. Can we play as Chelsea for the next challenge? Top stuff, s1utster. I've just almost choked to death trying to dodge IGFLITO. That takes me back. No, man. You start in a corner, I'll go in the middle. Show me how to force a win there. You can't force a win from anywhere. Good God, haven't you seen War Games? The only way to win is... not to play.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Sept 18, 2008 17:01:28 GMT
With a purple nose and two "light reflection" patches on the head, if you need help to see it. Not sure why I just assumed there would be a disembodied clown's head floating above it, mind. Maybe thought the clown's body was behind the skull. Hmm. [/random nostalgic musings] It's a luminous green skull with a purple nose and a clown balloon, obviously. That lass has been in therapy ever since. " The Skulls! The skulls want me to rub their balloons!"
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Sept 18, 2008 19:09:34 GMT
February 2001 I could have used January to play friendlies and mess with tactics and squad lineups and so on, but when my starting 11 is picked by injuries every week and I only added a paltry two new players, I couldn't see the point. As we hit the turn in the new season we had a gaping hole at AM left by the pouting Eighth Wonder and the perpetual questions up front. The midfield was solid, but thinly manned thanks to the dreadful broken leg suffered by Bernie Clifton's Ostrich which put him out for seven months. Try putting plaster on that. At the back, Judge Pickles was solid, but his partner varied each week because we didn't really have a consistent performer to put alongside. In goal, Cowboy Mask had pushed past Apples for Whisky, when Apples had a wobble in form earlier in the season and had started the last seven games. Really, no one stands out as quality although Pickles is ok and forward Teach a Man to Fist looked promising, before he broke his hip. The month off allowed Fist to get back into training and he'll be back on the bench as we relaunch the season. That relaunch isn't exactly thrilling, as we rack up scoreless draws at the Not The Falklands Stadium against the All Boy lodgers and Tigres. In between, we go on the road to Central Cordoba who look on for revenge for the 1-0 we stuck on them earlier in the season, when they take a 1-0 lead on 11 minutes and hold it through the hour mark. Looking for inspiration I throw on a couple of subs on 66 minutes and just a few minutes later one of them; Mechanical Leg Benders blats in the equaliser and then two minutes later the other; Teach a Man to Fist taps home a second and we've sprung a surprise win. The 2-1 victory snaps a nine game streak in which only one of the two teams playing had scored. Our streak of denied penalty claims continues though and is now up to 18. SAF would have spontaneously combusted by now. Unfortunately, Fist is injured in during the win. Having returned from four months out with a broken hip, he now faces another three months on the sidelines with a torn groin muscle. Physio Water is Wet states that he thinks Fist might be a little prone to injury. So we bring new boy Wrong Number back up from the reserves where he was settling in to the first team for our last game of the month and that proves to be a bad idea. Promotion chasers Platense beat us with two long range free kicks from dead ball-specialist and girly name Miranda, but manage another double, as they injure both new players, Horse Milking and Wrong Number, in the same minute. We lose 2-0 in goals and in injuries. :moop: Still, the board continue to be delighted, possibly because they all work for a medical insurance company. What's left of the team has slipped to the back of the peloton, having broken away with a seven point gap to 9th. --------------------------------------------- San Miguel 0-0 All Boys Central Cordoba 1-2 San Miguel San Miguel 0-0 Tigre Platense 2-0 San Miguel --------------------------------------------- Metropolitan Zone Pos Team Pld Won Drn Lst For Ag Won Drn Lst For Ag Pts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st Pl Quilmes 20 8 1 1 22 9 5 4 1 14 9 44 2nd Ferro 21 8 2 0 16 3 4 3 4 8 10 41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd Platense 20 7 2 1 19 6 4 2 4 12 12 37 4th Banfield 20 7 2 1 18 6 3 4 3 11 12 36 5th Nueva Chicago 20 6 3 1 17 7 3 3 4 13 12 33 6th All Boys 20 5 4 1 16 7 3 4 3 12 12 32 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7th Estudiantes (BA) 21 5 3 2 16 9 3 3 5 12 15 30 8th San Miguel 20 4 5 1 8 4 4 1 5 10 12 30 9th Arsenal de Sarandí 21 5 1 5 11 13 2 1 7 7 18 23 10th Def. y Justicia 20 3 4 3 16 14 0 4 6 7 15 17 11th Tigre 20 1 4 5 6 12 1 4 5 9 17 14 12th Ctral. Córdoba 21 2 3 6 9 16 1 2 7 3 18 14 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13th Porvenir 20 2 2 6 10 17 0 1 9 5 22 9
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Sept 18, 2008 21:37:32 GMT
March 2001 March is a long, slow death. It's the kind of death that's so tiresome that even the victim starts to shout "will you just get on with it!" There's no hiding where the weakness is in our team, but if anyone has missed it, the final month will leave you in no doubt, as we run out March with four draws; three of them of the 0-0 variety. The one game with goals is the trip away to playoff candidates Ferro. Apples for Whisky had developed the UNH before the game and begun to moan about losing his place a couple of months ago, so I threw him back in here, thinking that he was a good keeper, so nothing could go that wrong. I'd changed my mind by halftime when we were 2-0 down and Apples was rating a five. On went Cowboy Mask and up we went to a 4-3-3 and Charity Moped banged in two goals to seal us a point. But in a month where we needed wins to push on for the playoffs, four points from four games was never going to be enough. ------------------------------------------ San Miguel 0-0 Banfield Ferro 2-2 San Miguel San Miguel 0-0 Estudiantes Def y Justicia 0-0 San Miguel ------------------------------------------ So, what I think is the final table, looks like this : Metropolitan Zone
Pos Team Pld Won Drn Lst For Ag Won Drn Lst For Ag Pts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st Q Quilmes 24 10 1 1 26 10 6 4 2 17 10 53 2nd Q Platense 24 9 2 1 25 6 4 2 6 13 16 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd Pl Banfield 24 8 3 1 20 7 3 6 3 12 13 42 4th Pl Ferro 24 8 3 1 18 6 4 3 5 8 11 42 5th Pl Nueva Chicago 24 8 3 1 22 8 3 4 5 14 17 40 6th Pl All Boys 24 7 4 1 20 8 3 5 4 14 15 39 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7th Estudiantes (BA) 24 7 3 2 21 9 3 4 5 12 15 37 8th San Miguel 24 4 7 1 8 4 4 3 5 12 14 34 9th Arsenal de Sarandí 24 5 2 5 12 14 3 1 8 10 21 27 10th Def. y Justicia 24 3 5 4 17 16 1 4 7 9 18 21 11th Tigre 24 1 5 6 9 16 1 5 6 9 19 16 12th Ctral. Córdoba 24 2 3 7 9 19 1 3 8 4 21 15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13th R Porvenir 24 2 4 6 11 18 1 1 10 7 28 14 The schedule says that there are Division 2 games to come, but I presume that that's the playoffs, for people who finished above lines. Only six defeats in 24 games, but the real tale is only 20 goals scored in 24 games. 8 goals at home in 12 games. We are Manchester City, circa 2006.
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Post by Sonic on Sept 19, 2008 2:10:25 GMT
Ah well. It's up to Moo now to get us promoted. He is next right?
I was going to mention all that stuff about the home and away, but since you have already, there is no need. It's almost like the team doesn't like playing in their own stadium.
The transfer window hasn't helped you much either. Funny enough, it's the home draws more than anything that have hurt the team the most. The away form isn't that bad, but turn at least 3 of those home draws into wins and the table looks much more interesting.
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Post by Moo on Sept 19, 2008 7:03:39 GMT
I think that for the first season that it's a pretty damned fine effort. No doubt when I get my hands on this lot they'll concede more goals.
But that's fun, right?
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Post by elth on Sept 19, 2008 8:33:32 GMT
I knew about the telly thing from watching Life on Mars :cool: Nice effort stu, you've set the side up nicely as underachievers which will make DC's inevitable promotion romping all the more impressive
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Post by floplexter on Sept 19, 2008 8:43:11 GMT
Good effort, that man. Not quite mid-table respectability, but.... hey, at least you can reach out and poke MTR.
Which is mice.
KUTHNSIWAGTUW!
(Hopefully Next Season It Won't All Go Tits Up)
:thumb: :pops:
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Post by DC on Sept 19, 2008 8:49:58 GMT
I knew about the telly thing from watching Life on Mars :cool: Nice effort stu, you've set the side up nicely as underachievers which will make DC's inevitable promotion romping all the more impressive I'm worried about this 2 person signing limit. Don't they know who I am?
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Post by Boony on Sept 19, 2008 8:57:53 GMT
Nicely petered out. 8 goals in 12 home games is diabolical. Great defence, though :thumb:
Good luck Dave!
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