Boards.ie Euro 2008 Fantasy Football

Xavi6

Following on from some discussion in the Premiership Fantasy Football thread, I thought it might be best to give the Euro 2008 edition its own one.

You can sign up here and Invincible has kindly set up a boards league. The code is 39952-5618. Deadline for teams is May 23rd so get on it!

There's a few people in it so far but the more the merrier etc.

Also, any chance of this being a sticky?

Dont be at yourself

Brendangerous are registered and ready to do a Greece.

Was very hesitant to include Italian, Dutch or French teams because of the group of death.

Germany, Portugal and to a lesser extent Spain could fill their boots. It's a lottery guessing on Spain's starting line-up, but the likes of Ballack and Ronaldo could rack up points in the group stages.

Peyton Manning

Klose must be a certainty for every team, will do very well in the group stages. Also a good tip, Palyuchenko (or however its spelled) for Russia. Only costs 6.0, and has had a magnificent season for Zenit so will definitely be starting up front.

Xavi6

My provisional team so far is -

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Casillas

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Corluka

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Carvalho

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Cannavaro

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Heitinga

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Modric

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Xavi

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Ronaldo

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Torres

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Klose

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Arshavin

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Sub: Fernandes

That'll be changing over the next week or so though no doubt.

gucci

Stupid work firewall *shakes-fist*
Take it I can register a team up until the day before kick off?

KevIRL

Xavi6 wrote: »

Following on from some discussion in the Premiership Fantasy Football thread, I thought it might be best to give the Euro 2008 edition its own one.

You can sign up here and Invincible has kindly set up a boards league. The code is 39952-5618. Deadline for teams is May 23rd so get on it!

There's a few people in it so far but the more the merrier etc.

Also, any chance of this being a sticky?

Joined up

The deadline of May 23rd is only for the little pre-tournament they are having with the international friendlies. I wouldnt worry too much about that.

eddiehead

edsbesteleven -
GK - Cech
DEF - Zambrotta, Mertesacker, Heitinga, Evra
MID - Malouda, Iniesta, Ballack, Camoranesi
ATT - Huntelaar, Klose

SUB - Torres

Chardee MacDennis

theprincexi

Buffon
Thuram, Gio, Carvalho, Puyol
Ronaldo, Silva, Krankjar, Quaresma
Torres, Babel

Mutu on the bench - i can guarantee you it will be over-tinkered with in the next nine days...

estebancambias

Xavi6 wrote: »

My provisional team so far is -

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Casillas

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Corluka

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Carvalho

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Cannavaro

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Heitinga

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Modric

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Xavi

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Ronaldo

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Torres

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Klose

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Arshavin

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Sub: Fernandes

That'll be changing over the next week or so though no doubt.

Xavi just to warn you, Arshavin misses the first two games.

Vokes

Why is the deadline so soon?


Anyway, as said before, Klose must be a shoe-in for goals!

Smegball

Hildrebrand
Bosingwa, Puyol, Abidal
Ronaldo (C), Modric, Van Der Vaart, Ballack
Torres, Klose, Palyuchenko

Spud83

El Winnerinos

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Cech

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Puyol---Lahm---Bosingwa--Carvalho
-Ronaldo(c)-Kranjcar--Modric--Ballack

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Benzema---Torres

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Bench: Klasnic

One question why is the next deadline for Matchday 2?
When was matchday 1?

EDIT: Bosignwa dropped to bench for Klasnic.

I'm sure many changes will happen.

Charlie

Locksy's Yankees

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Coupet

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Zambrotta

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Sagnol

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Van Bronckhorst

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Oddo

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Modric

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Ribery

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Schweinsteiger

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Huntelaar

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Villa

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Arse-shavings----

SUB: Emre

I'll probably have an aul tinker with it over the next week.

EDIT: The tinkering has already begun. Podolski, Ronaldo, and Mellberg out. Villa, Schweinsteiger, and Zambrotta in.

Vokes

So it looks like the fantasy football started with the March friendlys? And the next matchday is the international friendly week in 2 weeks time?

Evil_Clown

I'm in go Bombers:

Lehmann
Bosingwa Mellberg Jansen Puyol

Ribéry Fabregas Ballack Quaresma

Huntelaar Torres

joker77

Was just looking at the rules - it seems this Fantasy football league is only for 3 matchdays leading up the Euros - the warmup friendlies.

Dancor

C'mon team sexmachine (I dont in anyway consider myself a sex machine, just a name)

cech
cannavaro (c) ferreira larrsson senderos
ronaldo fabregas malouda
v nistelrooy pedolski torres

Bench: kovac

kaimera

debonair united
343

lehmann
mexes, pyuol, cannavaro
simao, van der vaart, srna, ballack
torres, klose, pavlyuchenko

bench: Kadlec

Panels are finalised yet for euro2008. It's only for friendlies at the minute but no harm in thinking ahead.

genericgoon

Rolly United: GK: Cech DF:Mellberg, Kovac, Senderos MF:C. Ronaldo, Kranjcar, Ballack, Srna FW: Torres, V. Nistelrooy, Klose Obviously Ive sacrificed some top defenders for a great midfield and a world class forward line. Expecting big things from Ronaldo and Ballack and at 9.5 I would reckon Ballack is good value considering his return to form at Chelsea.

Bubs101

Bubsies Babes

GK. Zuberbuhler

DF. Senderos, Carvalho, Lahm

Mid. Scweinsteiger, Ronaldo, Fabregas, Joaquin

Att. Quaglierella, Klose (c), Torres

sub. Degan

~Marky~

Team naame: ireland


1: Lehmann
2: Arbeloa 3: Puyol 4: Mellberg 5: Kadlec
6: Ballack 7: Van der Vaart 8: Cristiano Ronaldo (c) 9: Malouda
10: Torres 11: Klose

Sub: 12: Pavlyuchenko

flanzer

I'm in

Team Name: Euro Trash

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Lehmann

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Metzelder--Puyol--Bosingwa--Ferreira
Ronaldo---Ballack---Modrić----Iniesta

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El Nino

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Huntelaar

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SUB:Tuncay

estebancambias

My team is amach as an domhain.

KevIRL

joker77 wrote: »

Was just looking at the rules - it seems this Fantasy football league is only for 3 matchdays leading up the Euros - the warmup friendlies.

Yep thats just the warm up tho...

It starts again for the actual Euro's

OPENROAD

So with that in mind deadline is not in May then?

Invincible

gucci wrote: »

Stupid work firewall *shakes-fist*
Take it I can register a team up until the day before kick off?

You can,just if you do it before the friendlies,you'll be able to keep an eye on your selection and have more fun!:)

Invincible

SofaK wrote: »

Why is the deadline so soon?


Anyway, as said before, Klose must be a shoe-in for goals!

They have the deadline to include the international friendlies.

Invincible

joker77 wrote: »

Was just looking at the rules - it seems this Fantasy football league is only for 3 matchdays leading up the Euros - the warmup friendlies.

I suppose they're including the friendlies to accomodate people that might'nt be familar with the format of Fantasy Football.

OPENROAD

So for the purposes of the league will players scores count from the friendlies?

Necronomicon

Joined!

Silence Of The Lahms:

Cech

Lahm
Thuram
Puyol
Corluka

Ronaldo
Modric
Ballack
Kranjar

Torres
Klose
(Pavlyuchenko)

ibh

GK: Cech

RB: Zambrotta
CB: Puyol
CB: Carvalho
LB: Lahm

RM: Ronaldo
CM: Camoranesi
CM: Kranjcar
LM: Robben

CF: Torres
CF: Benzema

Sub: Nihat Kahveci

KERPAL

Casillas
Simunic-Lahm-Bosingwa-Evra
Ronaldo-Modric-Ballack
Benbenbenzema-Klose-Petric
Barnetta on the bench

Im banking on germany going all the way, only to be pipped by a Ronaldo hattrick in the finall.....

Invincible

OPENROAD wrote: »

So for the purposes of the league will players scores count from the friendlies?

If you read the "Tipster" section,they state "There will be three rounds of international friendlies to prepare your fantasy football team for ahead of the final tournament in June" "Do not forget that you will also be able to participate in the final tournament fantasy football game when this is launched, so playing the friendly international's warm-up game is the perfect way of preparing for the footballing climax of the year".

It's vague in that it does'nt give a definate answer,I'd think all scores will revert to zero for the start of the championship proper.

OPENROAD

Tks

GBX

GBX79 registered:
Cech, Carvahlo, Bruno Alves, Abidal, Jankulovski, Ronaldo, Modric, Jones, Polak, Torres (C) Huntelaar, Podolski,

Peyton Manning

Cech

Ujfalusi
Mertesacker
Gallas
Materazzi

Ronaldo
Krancjar
Ballack
Ribery

Klose
Baros

Sub:
Harnik

Dont be at yourself

Materazzi? Madness. Italy are bound to ship a few goals, considering the group they're in. Materazzi is also prone to moments of absolute madness in big games - giving away penalties, getting sent-off and so on. He'll cost you more than he'll earn!

Peyton Manning

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

Materazzi? Madness. Italy are bound to ship a few goals, considering the group they're in. Materazzi is also prone to moments of absolute madness in big games - giving away penalties, getting sent-off and so on. He'll cost you more than he'll earn!

Italy have a solid defence, Im confident they wont concede much. He's also likely to grab a goal or two, he's a huge threat from corners.

Xavi6

Archimedes wrote: »

Italy have a solid defence, Im confident they wont concede much. He's also likely to grab a goal or two, he's a huge threat from corners.

He certainly is. Just ask Juan Sorin....

Bubs101

He also took penalties for perugia so you never know

Dont be at yourself

He took Inter's last penalty... skied it and has possibly cost them the title. He wont be taking penalties for Italy. Couple that with the real possibility of Italy finishing third in their group, and he doesn't look like a good deal!

Peyton Manning

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

He took Inter's last penalty... skied it and has possibly cost them the title. He wont be taking penalties for Italy. Couple that with the real possibility of Italy finishing third in their group, and he doesn't look like a good deal!

Fine then, nobody agree with me - it'll be great with me being the only one with the balls to pick him and then he'll finish top scorer and I'll win. Mwa ha ha - thats logical, right?

ibh

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

He took Inter's last penalty... skied it and has possibly cost them the title. He wont be taking penalties for Italy. Couple that with the real possibility of Italy finishing third in their group, and he doesn't look like a good deal!

There is also a real possibility of France not getting out of that group instead but that hasn't stopped people snapping up Frenchies for their team.

I think out of all the teams in group C i would be picking defenders from Italy rather than France, Holland or Romania.
Time will tell.

I think Archimedes is on the right track. Cannavaro is a quality defender but doesn't offer a goal threat like Mattarezzi. He is however a hateful cnut, thats why he isn't in my team!!

Peyton Manning

ibh wrote: »

I think Archimedes is on the right track. Cannavaro is a quality defender but doesn't offer a goal threat like Mattarezzi. He is however a hateful cnut, thats why he isn't in my team!!

Thank you - someone finally agrees!

Another word of advice to others entering - pick a Spanish midfielder at your peril! Selection headache right there with Xavi, Iniesta, Alonso, Fabregas and Silva.

OK, never did this fantay football thing before, so I'll give it a lash...

whynoirishgranny?


1: Reina
2: Mertesacker
3: Abidal
4: Evra
5: Huth
6: Cristiano Ronaldo
7: Ben Arfa
8: Fabregas
9: Deco
10: Villa (C)
11: Klose
12: Vennegoor

I'm sure that this will change with time.

Peyton Manning

Papa Smut wrote: »

OK, never did this fantay football thing before, so I'll give it a lash...

whynoirishgranny?


1: Reina
2: Mertesacker
3: Abidal
4: Evra
5: Huth
6: Cristiano Ronaldo
7: Ben Arfa
8: Fabregas
9: Deco
10: Villa (C)
11: Klose
12: Vennegoor

I'm sure that this will change with time.

2 French left backs mate, Id change one of those for starters. It'll probably be Abidal that will play unfortunately. And if possible, Id lose Ben Arfa. Hasnt been playing much at all for Lyon and probably wont see much action for France. Even Samir Nasri would be ahead of him.

eZe^

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Casillas

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--Corluka

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Carvalho

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Puyol

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Abidal---

-Ronaldo

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Deco

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Rakitic

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Modric----

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Klose

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Villa

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Sub: Angelos Charisteas


Solid enough to be honest...

Attractive Nun

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Cech

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Thuram--Puyol--Mertesacker--Bosingwa

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Bilyaletdinov

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Pirlo

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--Ronaldo

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Ribery----

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Torres----Klose

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Sub: Pavlyuchenko

Russia for Euro 2008!

Green Giant

Come on Fr. Jack Hackett!! :pac:

GK: Buffon
DF: Lahm, Sergio Ramos, Seitaridis, Jansen
MD: Kranjcar, Veloso, Fabregas, Sneijder (in for the injured Rosicky)
FW: Ibrahimovic, Torres
Sub: Babel

Two Spaniards and two Germans...ideal for the teams I expect to play in the final

Invincible

Hi lad's,
I hate to put the cat amongst the pidgeons,regarding ye'r team selections,but I've noticed,unlike the premierleague.com rules,looking at the rules here,under transfers,they state "unlimited squad transfers can be made without penalty",so you could change your team by more than one player per transfer without loss of points.I saw somewhere else that if teams end on the same points,the team with the least amount of transfers is the winner.

kaimera

Invincible wrote: »

Hi lad's,
I hate to put the cat amongst the pidgeons,regarding ye'r team selections,but I've noticed,unlike the premierleague.com rules,looking at the rules here,under transfers,they state "unlimited squad transfers can be made without penalty",so you could change your team by more than one player per transfer without loss of points.I saw somewhere else that if teams end on the same points,the team with the least amount of transfers is the winner.

I thought maybe that's just for the friendlies before the tournament starts but it doesn't seem to state that.

Kinda sucks.