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LuckyLloyd

missingtime wrote: »

Aww you are ruining the surprise with your special mod powers.

Whoops! Sorry about that! Didn't realise the results were hidden. The totals have changed since then anyway!

Rikand

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Whoops! Sorry about that! Didn't realise the results were hidden. The totals have changed since then anyway!

lol, you probably said it out loud so people would get the finger out and change away from Reina

Raskolnikov

ShoulderChip wrote: »

hmm ideas for cb

lots of these are perhaps dodgy, others very dodgy, they seem to be dying off - the great italians anyway

Carvalho, Terry, Bruno Alves, Ferdinand, Vidic, Juan, Raul Albiol, Milito?, Burdisso, Cordoba, Pepe, Cannavaro, Lescott, Hengeland, Carragher, Kompany, Distin, Cris, Chivu, Jakielka or Johnny Heitinga

If you have a sense of humour you can include Ramos, Mexes and Woodgate in there.

Tom10

My opinion about the keepers

- Cech = Undisputed keeper before the head injury, lost something after (I mean other than part of his skull)

- Buffon = Not had a great season from what I saw of him, still great but not on form at moment, missed much of the season through injury so that puts him on the back foot

- Reina = Fantastic goalie, always plays well (can only remember 1 mistake from him this season, chealsea one) but he isn't the best in the world afaik

- Cassillas = Again just a dip in form after being the best player for real and spain in 07/08 but nobody could keep that form up ya know

- Ceasar = Has had a fantastic season for club and country, I mean he is a brazilian keeper so prone to the odd howler but really is so strong and commanding he has to be the best in the world right now

Mr Maroon

Seaneh wrote: »

If Buffon doesn't get this you lot should have your football supporters licenced revoked.

I concur.

Mr Maroon

ShoulderChip wrote: »

hmm ideas for cb

lots of these are perhaps dodgy, others very dodgy, they seem to be dying off - the great italians anyway

Carvalho, Terry, Bruno Alves, Ferdinand, Vidic, Juan, Raul Albiol, Milito?, Burdisso, Cordoba, Pepe, Cannavaro, Lescott, Hengeland, Carragher, Kompany, Distin, Cris, Chivu, Jakielka or Johnny Heitinga

Chiellini has to be there.

IrishIrish

How can peope like lescott and hangeland be anywhere near this list? They aren't even close to best defenders in their league.

Gonna be huge bias towards premier league players if your doing that since you probably dont know spannish and italian league equivelents as pointed out by forgetting chielini.

IrishIrish

I hadn't even finished looking at the list! distin and kompany?? Why not put up Dunne and Brown and a few others. They've had good games in their careers too :pac:

Bobalicious93

So Cassillas wins. I can't believe Cech didn't get one vote

Headshot

Bobalicious93 wrote: »

So Cassillas wins. I can't believe Cech didn't get one vote

before the head injury yes but after that kick to the head just hasnt been the same

titan18

IrishIrish wrote: »

Gonna be huge bias towards premier league players if your doing that since you probably dont know spannish and italian league equivelents as pointed out by forgetting chielini.

That is always going to happen on here.You can clearly see it already looking at the list for the right-backs.

Tom10

Haha I'm tired of people saying how crazy it is that there's a bias towards the premiership, like its something that we should be ashamed of. I watch a lot of football from the big leagues, I read more about it but even in doing that I'm exposed mostly to premiership football (and whats wrong with that its a great league, prefer spain but not disappointed about it).

So odds are that most people here don't have the time to spend every moment watch football and what they see is whats easiest to see and whats wrong with making ideas because of that. Not everybody is going to watch Inter v sampdoria to see how good Maicon is and is he better than sanga. So really just because you know of better players don't degrade others for not being so anal towards football!

Mr Maroon

Reina got 3 times the votes JC got

I think JC is better than Casillas. (yes, I know no one will agree).

Headshot

Mr Maroon wrote: »

Reina got 3 times the votes JC got

I think JC is better than Casillas. (yes, I know no one will agree).

what you'd expect

liverpool fans vote for a liverpool player,it's pretty bad they vote for him over Casillas

and not for 1 minute im saying Reina is a bad keeper

leninbenjamin

Mr Maroon wrote: »

Reina got 3 times the votes JC got

I think JC is better than Casillas. (yes, I know no one will agree).

JCs a good shot stopper, but Casillas is better than him in every other regard imo.

Morzadec

This whole thing would be no fun, and there would be no point in doing it if everyone agreed with each other.

~Rebel~

Headshot wrote: »

what you'd expect

Some liverpool fans vote for a liverpool player,it's pretty bad they vote for him over Casillas

and not for 1 minute im saying Reina is a bad keeper

important addition

s_carnage

ziggy wrote: »

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Seaneh

I would still have Buffon ahead of Iker but in fairness they are pretty much on par and are head and shoulders above the rest on their day, JC would be the closest with Given/the rest not far behind him.

Mr. Presentable

Based purely on stats to 2008 Buffon is the greatest ever according to http://www.iffhs.de/?388d85ff8b00388f05f4cbc0385fdcdc3bfcdc0aec70aeedb88419

Here also are the stats year on year to 2007. Buffon tops recent years also http://www.iffhs.de/?00e41400f82c48d31752d32d0ae43110f32d0e

There are no comparative stats (correct me if I'm wrong) for 2008/9 - so is the vote result based on sentiment?

dor83

nipplenuts wrote: »

Based purely on stats to 2008 Buffon is the greatest ever according to http://www.iffhs.de/?388d85ff8b00388f05f4cbc0385fdcdc3bfcdc0aec70aeedb88419

Here also are the stats year on year to 2007. Buffon tops recent years also http://www.iffhs.de/?00e41400f82c48d31752d32d0ae43110f32d0e

There are no comparative stats (correct me if I'm wrong) for 2008/9 - so is the vote result based on sentiment?

Those links are not based on stats, they are based on a voting system so they mean very little. If you are using them as an argument against Casillas then you should also have a look at the most recent one from 2008.

Mr. Presentable

dor83 wrote: »

Those links are not based on stats, they are based on a voting system so they mean very little. If you are using them as an argument against Casillas then you should also have a look at the most recent one from 2008.

I hadn't seen that one - I doff my cap to you Sir

tdv

It should have been Buffon.

Morzadec

The next position up is Centre Mid/ Defensive Mid. I was planning on putting these two category's together, having multiple voting to choose the 2 players to fill the centre of the pitch.

The alternative would be to split it up and have one defensive midfielder poll and one centre midfielder poll. But this would mean that it would be impossible for, say, Xavi and Iniesta to both make the team.


Which of the two options is better do people think?

JPA

Morzadec wrote: »

The next position up is Centre Mid/ Defensive Mid. I was planning on putting these two category's together, having multiple voting to choose the 2 players to fill the centre of the pitch.

The alternative would be to split it up and have one defensive midfielder poll and one centre midfielder poll. But this would mean that it would be impossible for, say, Xavi and Iniesta to both make the team.


Which of the two options is better do people think?

In a successful 4-2-3-1, the midfield is usually composed of a destroyer, a passer and an attacker eg. Toure, Xavi, Iniesta.

IMO, you should a separate poll for all the positions.