OK, similar rules to before, with the following exceptions:

1) Six managers
2) Games played when all but one manager has signed 4, 6, 8, 10 and 11 players.
3) No extra cash between games 4 and 5
4) Extra cash once each manager has 7 players

Four places are reserved for the previous managers: richt, Ashers, blahblah and fancy dan. If any of you four don't want to play, please post here accordingly.

The other two places are available to the first two who ask. Note that this game will be a lot slower, so may take a couple of months to play. If you think you might get bored, please don't join. If you have holidays planned, don't let that put you off!

What I need from you:

1) Fiso name
2) Team name
3) Stadium name
4) Team nickname
5) Real life club you'd like your players named from (you can change the player's names if you don't like the ones I've picked)

e.g.

bspittles
AFC BJ
Hamil Park
The Dodgems
Oxford United

1. Richt, managing Taykai Utd (aka The Gardas), playing at Queens Field
2. Ashers, managing Dust Trailers (aka Diggers), playing at Hilltop View
3. blahblah, managing Pants (aka The Stink), playing at Wemberley
4. fancy dan, managing Montreal Mallets (aka The Hammers), playing at Montreal Road
5. stuboy, managing Wombling Free (aka The Wombles), playing at Wimbledon Common
6. Available

Months? The last one took a few days, didn't it?

I'm in.

Richt
Taykai Utd
Queens Field
The Gardas
West Ham from the 1990's

Yeah, but I can't see that happening again, especially as the Summer is my busiest time at work!

BUMP

Sorry, been busy...

fancy dan
Montreal Mallets
Montreal Road
The Hammers
West Ham

Ashers
Dust Trailers
Hilltop View
Diggers
Arsenal FC.

1) Fiso name : blah
2) Team name : Pants
3) Stadium name : Wemberley
4) Team nickname : The Stink
5) Real life club you'd like your players named from (you can change the player's names if you don't like the ones I've picked) England WC Squad 2010

Sorry....

I usually only check FISO three or four times per week. If that is often enough, or the game could be played by email then I would like to join in.

I don't think playing by email would work. I'll leave it up to the other participants as to whether every other day is fast enough (bearing min mind I tend not to post at weekends).

I don't tend to post at weekends either, so maybe that could work.

2 more needed?

Any interest?

er

Every other day is fine by me.

I'll bump this up again next week, this is a really busy time at work (bloomin' students).

I'm getting married beginning of Sept, so hopefully it'll be over by then! If this is still going to happen then:

stuboy
Wombling Free
Wimbledon Common
The Wombles
Wimbledon 1988 - 1995

Excellent One more needed...

Never seen this before - what are the rules?

I'll recreate the rules with the latest set of amendments and post them here, hopefully at lunchtime.

You'll start with £100m.

Players will be auctioned in groups. The number of players in each group is one less than the number of managers, so one manager will always miss out. Each player has a position (GK, DF, MF, ST) and a star rating from 2 to 5.

A list of players in the first auction group will be published, and each manager must then send me a PM with their bid, which must be a multiple of £1m (so no cheeky bids of a fiver). You're not bidding on an individual player, just on the chance to have first choice. You can bid zero if you wish.

Once all the bids are in, I ignore any that are duplicate or zero and will publish the order in which managers will be selecting players from the available group. If everyone made an acceptable bid, then one manager will miss out, but will still have to pay half of the bid as an admin fee.

Current squads and available cash will be kept up-to-date and publicly available. Random events may occur to alter a player's abilities after he has been signed.

Auctions continue until each manager has 4 players, one manager has 11 players or one manager runs out of money.

A set of games is then played, with each team playing both home and away. Before each game, a random event may occur that will affect one or both teams. This will be published at the same time as the fixtures are announced.

The home team manager will need to PM me with his formation. If there are fewer than eleven players available, then youth team players (rated at 1 star) will make up the numbers. Players can play out of position with the loss of one star rating, although goalkeepers must play in goal, outfield players cannot play in goal and defenders and strikers are not interchangable unless specified at the time of the auction.

Valid formations are: 5-4-1, 5-3-2, 5-2-3, 4-5-1, 4-4-2, 4-3-3, 3-4-3 and 3-5-2.

I will then publish the best squads for both home and away teams in the selected formation.

Matches are played and a commentary will be published. The team with the strongest midfield will launch more attacks, a decent defence will deal with these but a strong strikeforce will be more likely to force an attempt on goal, at which point it comes down to the standard of the keeper. Watch out for injuries, cautions, dismissals, dodgy refs and angry fans.

Once the first set of games have been played, an extra £10m will be dished out, plus extra prize money and interest from the bank.

More auctions will take place, and games will be played at the following intervals:

Set 1: When all but one manager has 4 players (followed by extra cash)
Set 2: When all but one manager has 6 players (followed by extra cash)
Set 3: When all but one manager has 8 players (followed by extra cash)
Set 4: When all but one manager has 10 players
Set 5: When all but one manager has 11 players

In addition, extra cash in the form of season ticket sales (based on the number of 5* players in the squad) will be dished out when each manager has 7 players.