Barbelith Fantasy Football - the Premiership (aka THE BEST LEAGUE IN THE WORLD!!111)

15:53 / 17.08.06

I have started a league which you should surely join in a bid to waste time pondering important footballing managerial decisions when pondering real important decisions just isn't appealing anymore.

Come forth and join up here: Fantasy Premier league!

Our league be placed here and called The Kings of Lith: 149699-97357 be your code to join up!

15:54 / 17.08.06

PS. Quick quick quick!

23:44 / 17.08.06

plastic palace on board, cap'n...

and aiming for a place in the champion's league!

10:02 / 18.08.06

Well, that makes a mighty two of us!

Roll up roll up?

18:32 / 18.08.06

A glorious three!

18:34 / 18.08.06

...Make that a mighty THREE of us! We’ll be the most exclusive league evah! etc etc

18:39 / 18.08.06

My! What sharp eyes you have, young suedey. ‘Thought I might have sneakily snuck into your league there, but you SAW IT ALL.

Hm. Can I end up being relegated from a league of three, tho?

21:46 / 18.08.06

No, I think we shall all be winners!

00:13 / 19.08.06

...or all relegated!!

i'd chosen blinkin' michael owen - a first transfer of the season, clear out dead wood, eh?

19:56 / 19.08.06

Right, I've given you lads a week's head-start, so you'd best make use of it.

Oh, apparently you have. Anyway, the Red Ultras are in business now, and you want to see the forward line. Tsss.

20:09 / 19.08.06

Balls, now it won't let me sign back in. Apparently you can go 3-4-3, which is a bonus for FF I'd think.

20:15 / 19.08.06

Ah, back on, never mind, rocking a tateful 4-3-3, actually. Will I post again? Who knows?

21:45 / 19.08.06

Way to go team!

GOOD ONE LUCAS NEILL etcetc

01:18 / 20.08.06

How come it sez Bedders is in/from Tanzania, and astro didn't have to choose a team to support?

(My granny lives in Tanzania, so interest is piqued.)

13:09 / 20.08.06

Just picked it out from the Big List Of Countries, is all. It was there, I couldn’t resist. I once had a friend who was always raving on about this, like, totally life-changing maaaan trip to Tanzania that she’d been on, and she had the flag pinned on her bedroom wall. It's a really nice flag.

Er, am I in the lead? That’ll be the lovely Nigel Reo-Coker, then. I always liked him best.

15:17 / 20.08.06

Oh blast, I totally would've repped for TZ or Botswana (where I was born, and a factor which generally means I tend to think my chances of international caps > yours, unless you are actually a professional footballer) if I'd noticed you could do that.

You do lead, yes. Deeply unsurprised by one of yr forwards.

15:37 / 20.08.06

Ah, you can change it. Do you too live for these constant updates?

Anyway, just a tip, Arsenal and Wigan are not playing in gameweek 2 apparently, so I have naturally benched Henry (and McCulloch, but he was there anyway.)

15:42 / 20.08.06

Oh, and astro's literal super-Sunday tips the balance his way. Isn't this fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyone else wants to sign up, g'wan, g'wan, you can do it for the forthcoming week by 7.30pm (BST) on Tuesday.

20:48 / 20.08.06

AAAAAAAAAAACCCK

I felt so positive you know. I think for gameweek two I'm struggling to even have any players who are actually, y'know, playing...

22:00 / 20.08.06

lucas neill and wayne rooney - what a dynamic duo! (i guess i have to manually sub lucas for the next fixture - no tribunal to do it for me, then??

)

i picked 'other' for team to support - they didn't have crystal palace and woe betide them for that, for they get instead, behold! the might of plastic palace...

stupidly, too, had reina in goal and left cech on the bench. derr...

to anyone reading this going 'wha'??!', c'mon in, the water's fine...

13:38 / 21.08.06

Yeah, c’mon kids, join usssssss

(Regarding my first week, in my defence I’ll just say that I’ve never actually played fantasy football before. So, only now do I realise that picking non-injured, non-suspended players is sorta important to the whole game-thing. So, basically, it’s not fantasy fantasy football, then: they can’t play in yr head if they’re currently injured in the real world, gotcha. Likewise, Joey Cole won’t whizz around on a little cloud like in ‘Monkey’, and eeny-weeny ickle Jermain won’t be playing in a dress and fluffy slippers, and Aaron Lennon can't collect swirly power-ups like in R-Type. Oh-kay. Righto. *re-thinks plans for gameweek 2*)

17:46 / 21.08.06

Well, I have played before, but it's all a bit revised and revamped from those years I see from checking the rules; apparently yr captain gets double-points - that'll be a striker, then. Henry, or this week only, Johnson (who's a total snip, reckon,) in my case. And I still cannot work out how defenders are scoring; they used to be subject to a lot of minus points, but I see Friedel's actually second top goalie this week?! Did save a pen, I guess.

22:25 / 21.08.06

i've never fantasised football before, neether, and i am still rather dark on how scoring occurs (i gather scoring a goal is a good thing, thanks wayne) but the rest - i shall have to squirm about the site and get a handle. so, it was all beginners luck plastic palace surging into the lead.)

like the real palace, i'm sure the bubble will burst!

i like the idea of players zooming about the pitch on monkey's cloud - lucas neill to pigsy, passes to sandy, lobs over the defence into the run of tripitaca, scores! gooooaaaaaaaallllllll.....

19:18 / 23.08.06

Wow, my night last night pwned all you guys's! More o' the same please, team. It's about the only football-related thing that will ease the pain and humiliation of last night's CIS Cup exit to Scotland's only amateur league side, Queen's Park, on pens; think Sutton Utd. v. Coventry, all those years back, and you're probably close.

22:44 / 23.08.06

be nice if some of my players got some time on the pitch...

thanks be to viduka, though. what a champion! and australian....

saw cahill came off the bench, too, to get a vital goal for the toffees, just when the gaffer was spoutin' stuff about curbing his attacking instincts in their new team formation!! wonder what the words tasted like..?

this league thing, then. bonus points. goal assists. what's all this and where on the site is the full info on how points are scored / unscored...? am i blind?

23:28 / 23.08.06

God, it is a bastard to find, actually; you have to go to My team and then Help, to finally get how points are scored.

23:45 / 23.08.06

You can also make one transfer a week, without a -4 points deduction garnered for any excess above - I just made my first, Stefanovic in for Delaney who doesn't appear to be playing; Suedey, take note. Once per season you can do as many as you want by playing the 'wild card'.

04:29 / 24.08.06

fab-o falc. now on to the swap shop... but who of similar value is playing anyway...?

game week three, bring it on - plastic palace will rip it up, man; rip - it - up...

or not...

11:03 / 24.08.06

Right! I'm not giving up! Aaaaah! I mean sure, I had literally nobody playing in gameweek 2 but hey, it's a slow start to the season after all... right? I've practically a brand new team and... and... oh, I've ballsed it up already, haven't I?

I was so hopeful.

17:48 / 24.08.06

If it's a complete disaster, just play your wildcard naaaoohw, Suede.

Otherwise, you = Iain Dowie.

17:59 / 24.08.06

Oh, I've played that card, thus the brand new team! So now we'll see it all go wrong again... but hey!

18:06 / 24.08.06

I like the way we’re all of us doing rubbish compared to the beard-strokey big boys on yr ‘ILX League of Champs,’ suedey! That’s what I like about barbelith. We’re proper geeks here. In the being-rubbish, it’s-not-the-winning-it’s-the-picking-the-players-you-crush-on-that-counts sense of the word. Never mind about the brainaic anaylsis and knowing the actual rules and all that nonsense.

So, you’re winning, really.

21:09 / 24.08.06

I do not endorse your message, Bed, even if I know it to be true of myself; how could I resist the thought of African fullbacks Paintsil, Eboue and Trabelsi, with their thunderous charges down the flank?!

I couldn't, and that's the long and short of it. However, I have had a decentish week, and will be regularly comparing penis-si... ah, score with these ILX chaps.

22:09 / 24.08.06

Ha yes! I did really base my team on all the ones I had a bit of a crush on or just like and think "heee! Oh, you! You little quirkster!". (oooh I like that Eboue yeah! Little jarmaine! etc)

Also I picked a guy named Blizzard first time round. Let me say again; a guy named Blizzard.

I don't really know who is in my team anymore. Except Thierry. Thierry stays.