Welcome to another year of unique Egg Cup FF !

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY

Rules and guides

1. Your starting X1 is Alan Smith's XI, which is shown in rule 5 below . You can change to any of the formations available as long as you comply with Rule 2 beneath.

2. You must make at least one and no more than two changes to this team by midnight on Friday 12th August 2011 to allow me and the other league chairman enough time to check that all teams are in order for the start of the season on the 13th August. Invalid teams may have to be excluded or a transfer penalty imposed (making an enforced transfer) so please pay special care to getting your team correct, it is after all very easy. The Smith team will be frozen at midnight Wednesday 10th August (any changes he makes after this date will not count).

3. Please enter your team in the super league as soon as possible. You do not need to have made your changes at this stage - only to have entered a team. I will distribute, as will the other league chairman, the league name and password by PM to all the players.

4. Tables will be posted as and when available and at least weekly, chairman please ensure this happens but anyone can do it (usually the leaders are quick to ).

5. Post your starting team in the following way and use this as a template for any transfers you make during the competition (below is an example of how you could report your first two season transfers):-

De Gea
Luiz
Clichy example transfer Huth
Vermaelen example transfer Shawcross
Hangeland
Young
Bale
Valencia
Toure
Hernandez
Suarez

Transfers Left:- 28
Value of Team:- xx.xm

Reasons for Transfers :-
Blah Blah Blah

Note if people want to keep a record of their transfers as they go along please list these under the main template, keep the main template clean for the current transfers you are doing.

6. The egg competition is an open, friendly and fun competition. If everyone posts transfers as they should on a timely basis (same day or before next scheduled kick off) then there will be no problems, everything will run smoothly. If you feel it will not be possible to do this then please think about whether this competition is for you as it is very frustrating for others who do comply to see others not. This year, only those that comply will be allowed to play in the leagues the following year, I will set up another league where non conformers can play and earn their right to play in the leagues proper in the future.

7. Following the start of the season manage your team in the normal way.

8. The leagues will be open so that everyone can see everyone else's teams so make sure you make your team PUBLIC when you create it.

9. Your team name must include your FISO name to help identify yourself then be creative !

10. Each league contains 12 players and there will be a 3 up, 3 down promotion and relegation at the end of the season.

11. The winner of each league wins a bespoke egg cup and most importantly inclusion with the infamous Hall of Fame here eggcup-hall-of-fame-post-thelip-t83872.html.

12. There will be a cup competition which runs automatically alongside the league competition. I will announce the weeks for the cup competition and the draws in a separate thread so keep an eye out!

13. If there is a tie for any position the winner will be decided by the Telegraph rules ie goals scored etc

14. Finally, will the players below please confirm their place, I will highlight below those that have entered the SL.

Above all, enjoy yourselves, have a bit of banter and may the best man or woman win.

League 1 Lineup

1 alchemist R
2 groomyd
3 vid - CHAIRMAN
4 razorback
5 top banana P
6 blahblah P
7 ashers P
8 nathan247 P
9 anubis P
10 sobd P
11 aknel1 P
12 chaser2k4 P

Opening post now updated with our starting team which for this season is Hansen's replacement Alan Smith.

De Gea
Luiz
Clichy
Vermaelen
Hangeland
Young
Bale
Valencia
Toure
Hernandez
Suarez

We need a SL Chairman for this League, NOW VID

De Gea
Luiz
Clichy
Vermaelen
Hangeland
Young
Bale
Valencia
Toure
Hernandez
Suarez

Transfers Left:- 30
Value of Team:- ???

Could be a lot worse.

It's the best starting team we have ever had imo, which in itself is a concern...

Little Pea may not start the season, and Valencia and Young make it a bit MU heavy in attack.

I am not convinced that Toure will get the goals of last season, as I expect a 4-2-3-1 from Citeh this season.

Luiz is at the Copa America, but hasn't played, I think; so should be OK for the start. He is missing valuable grovelling time, though, and Knob is already recommending new players for the Club (Cahill).

De Gea is a bit of a risk and Vermin is an Arsenal defender.

Not much cash variety by the looks of it - I am avoiding the Price List due to complete underwhelmed by the whole FF thang, at the moment.

But I am being picky, very picky.

Believe me if you had seen some of the earlier years you would be creaming over this lot.

Always room for improvement.

Whose gonna be Chairman then ?

I vote for Blah.

Is he reliable?

OK

I Vote for VID.

Seconded

I wouldn't be my first choice but am prepared to do it.

I vote for Groomyd again as I'd like to see him doing something positive for the forum

I'm half inclined to THIRD Groomyd after his comments on my Hansen thread.

You wanna PM each other and decide between you ?

all you have to do is:-
distribute by pm safer (or on the thread like I've done but I'll probably Pm as well) the league name and pin
check teams are valid before the start (see rule 2) and that they are public
post tables (rule 4) but everyone does this anyway

I don't mind putting my name forward.

At least were getting some names now.

It's your league decide between you.

Team is ready - I did the Chairman malarkey last year & am happy to avoid it this year

I know that you like a poll, set one up?

Oh, go on then.

poll created

VID is now Chairman, 1st post updated.

League created and details sent to the 11 combatants!

De Gea
Luiz
Clichy
Vermaelen
Hangeland
Young Crofts
Bale
Valencia N'zogbia
Toure
Hernandez
Suarez

TEAM IN!

I'm in.
Cheers for chairing Vid, hope u dont lose interest like AKNel in d2 last yr

[quote="happyhoppy
5. Post your starting team in the following way and use this as a template for any transfers you make during the competition.:-

De Gea
Luiz
Clichy Huth
Vermaelen Shawcross
Hangeland
Young
Bale
Valencia
Toure
Hernandez
Suarez

Transfers Left:- 28
Value of Team:- 49.8m

Reasons for Transfers :-
Dispensing with Smith's defender choices.

[/quote]

HH - dont you mean Transfers Left:- 30, as the 1 or 2 should be during the amnesty?

Top Bananas Eggs11

De Gea
Luiz
Clichy
Vermaelen
Hangeland
Young
Bale
Valencia
Toure
Hernandez
Suarez

Transfers Left:- 30
Value of Team:- 50m

Reasons for Transfers :-
tbc
2 from 7?

That is just an example of the template to be used for actual transfers with the actual starting X1. So yes you have 1 or 2 pre season transfers and then 30 to use as normal, you should know how to play !

I've added my team to the league but will confirm my changes closer to the start of the season...

nice change of profile

Credit where credit's due and all that jazz ...

Well aware thanks HH, just trying to be helpful

I've reworded the rules. The trouble is the more precise you think the rules are the more ambiguous they become.