Rules

1. The template for your team is Alan Hansen's XI.

Van Der Sar
Hutton, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra
Bullard, Gerrard, Modric, Cahill
Torres, Camara

2. You must make at least one and no more than two changes to this team by the 14th August 2008.

3. You must enter your team in the superleague as soon as possible. The chairman will distribute the league name and password by PM to all the players.

Each chairman will post the league table on a Wednesday (or as often as he sees fit).

4. Post your starting team in the following manner



so that everyone can clearly see your free transfers.

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

6. The leagues will be open so that everyone can see everyone else's teams.

7. Your team name must include your FISO name and the word eggcup.

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

9. The winner of each league wins a bespoke egg cup and a cash prize

Premiership £100
Division 1 £75
Division 2 £50
Division 3 £25

10. When you make a transfer you should post on the relevant thread giving the changes made and reasons for it. You must also use the following template:



11. There will be a cup competition which runs automatically alongside the league competition. I will announce the weeks for the cup competition when all the leagues have been finalised. There may also be a Champions League and UEFA Cup competition.

12. Further details can be found on the egg cup admin thread.

13. Above all, enjoy yourselves, have a bit of banter and may the best man win (although it'll probably be murf as usual ).

He's Back !

This year's players are:

happyhoppy
Lucky7s
murf
Karrde
thelip
kizkiz
BFM
Neath boy
Chief Wiggsy
The Jezster
Jester
binky

Please submit your teams as quickly as possible so that I can set up the other leagues.

Password PM'd to all Premiership managers.

To avoid any of the problems that have been encountered over the last couple of seasons (Ashton's injury/Robben's transfer) I propose that we just take Hansen's team as the template and not worry about any last minute changes. He is shit at this game anyway so he probably won't beat any of us.

I'm in.

Are you proposing that none of us get to make the traditional 1 or 2 changes before we begin? I'd be against that, it would make the first few weeks pretty boring (I enjoyed the banter surrounding last minute injuries etc) but your game/your rules.

No that's not what I'm saying. You still have to make at least one and no more than two changes to Hansen's team but if he makes any last minute changes then we just ignore them. It will make the admin a whole lot easier and quicker.

My first post and I have to delete it.

Anyway I am in. Let the battle commence.

And my transfers are done, well first draft anyway subject to ubiquitous change.

Ahh sod it, i came straight here out of habit and im not in this league any more am i.

Even if my team isn't in, you know I'll be there.



Depends - it could get devastated. Howsabout we take his team as it stands at a fixed time about 2 weeks before k.o. - say August 1st for simplicity?

I'm in.

It's already looking likely that Cahill won't be fit for the start of the season but how likely is it that 'Hansen' will make any changes to his original line-up by 01/08/08

I see your point, but I think we just need a starting XI. Hansen has provided it so let's just go with that.

It's sh1te enough already, we'll be in big trouble if a couple get injured (or Cahill doesn't recover).

Same boat for everybody so we may as well get on with it like you say. Can't see any of us winning the million points though

As you say we're all in the same boat but if the original line-up makes it to 16/08/08 with two injured players then we're going to have a lot of similar (if not identical) line-ups in each of the leagues (plus we'll be stuck with Camara for two/three weeks )...

As I said, let's just go with what be has offered us.

Sorry boss, I wont be adding my teams until the middle of next week. Im not buying any FF credits on any games until the 15th

But that shouldnt stop you from setting up the next league.

(car insurance & tax can be blamed for this)

I shall enter my team when i buy the credits too. Probably at some point over the weekend I would think.

Looking forward to this one, lets see if we can be the strongest league in the eggcup this time (I think me, jester and binky were last time )

I'll have to have a proper look at his team now i suppose...

Sorry to tell you Jez, but youre about to have a bad season... The pressure of the Premier League AWLWAYS tells on the newly promoted sides. They come up full of pride at their massive scores... and then choke

100% record of that so far. Welcome to the grind

Hurry up and get your league sorted out you jumped up chaps. There's other Egg Cuppers waiting to get started with their teams

Let the cream settle pls Ledge ....

I won't be buying my teams for a few days either, probably monday when i'm off.
I will absolutely 100% be entering though.
I've been in the prem for every season so far, so why quit now

I'm in, and already up to third - better get used to looking up to the new boys this year Stormy!!

Down to 6th this morning newcomer! Even Hansen's beating you!

7 entered so far and the promise by murf, Karrde, kizkiz and The Jezster that they will enter soon means that we are just waiting for binky to confirm his participation before being able to set up the next league.

Just noticed this post by binky



viewtopic.php?f=2&t=44266&p=940690#p940690

That's enough of a guarantee that he'll be playing so I'll get on with the next league now.

Given Binkys comments in http://www.fiso.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=43986&p=937337#p937337I would say he is pretty much gonna play.......

Heard it all before son, heard it all before

And you'll hear it again next season - in League 1...!!!!