The Secret Tournament

[Pirlo's Beard]

Welcome to The Secret Tournament.

[Tacalabala]

[From4corners]

Not so secret anymore now, is it?

[Pirlo's Beard]

Haha, thanks Taca, sorry there was no room for you in the end but I figured you'll have your hands full with chairing the 'League of 6".

[Pirlo's Beard]

Not so secret anymore now, is it?

No but don't ruin the mood.

[Stemania]

Big Phil!

[Pirlo's Beard]

Big Phil!

Scolari? Might take a man of his talents to manage a Draft squad with Jones in it.

[Pirlo's Beard]

Hennessey, Lössl
Van Dijk, Stones, David Luiz, Alderweireld, Adam Smith
Alli, Walcott, Mata, Schürrle, Kenedy
Agüero, Arnautović, King

Strengths: Agüeroooooooooooo and Arnautović in a sexy forward line. King with a great run of fixtures, Adam Smith too. Van Dijk and Stones giving the back line some weight, and a gamble on Toby reclaiming his place in the Spurs team and recapturing the form of old.

Weaknesses: A somewhat flimsy-looking midfield (Alli is unreliable, Mata's a very short-term pick, Walcott.... I really should know better ) and a defender being controlled by a 10 year-old on a PlayStation.

Who did you all get?

[dino1980]

Burnley Keepers
Sanchez, Sokratis, Lovren, Janmaat, Digne
KDB, Ramsey, Groß, Felipe Anderson, Sessegnon
Lacazette, Ings, Gray

Strengths: Being able to copy and paste Groß so I don't have to write Gros.
Weaknesses: Quite a few

[Pirlo's Beard]

Strengths: Being able to copy and paste Groß so I don't have to write Gros.

Alt+225 is your friend.

[Mav3rick]

Ederson, Ryan
Robertson, Rudiger, Pereira, Darmian, Aurier
Sterling, Sane, Barkley, Pereyra, Jahanbakhsh
Vardy, Iheanacho, Mitrovic

Strengths: Accounts
Weaknesses: Eczema

[No Way Jose]

Leno, Cech

Azpi, Bailly, Young, Keane, Doherty

D Silva, Richarlison, Lucas, Delofeu, Hughes

Aubameyang, Zaha, Austin

Weaknesses: Aplenty, mostly midfield, lactose

Strengths: Aboutobanginaheapofgoalseyang and a reasonable forward line all things considered

[Mo Bot]

Schmeichel, Begovic
Vertonghen, Coleman, Shaw, Mee, Mustafi
Salah, Lingard, Yarmolenko, Mkhi, Doucoure
Tosun, Morata, Rashford

Weaknesses: Not a single City player. Several risky/average picks

Strengths: Salah

[baganboy]

Pickford, Foster
Sakho, van Aanholt, Bellerin, Tarkowski, Mawson
Hazard, Sanchez, Willian, Sigurdsson, Elyounoussi
Benteke, Deeney, Mounie

Strengths: Midfield is very competitive.
Weaknesses: Rest of the team is meh.

[Archy]

Strengths: Accounts
Weaknesses: Eczema

My team:

De Gea, McCarthy
Mendy, Otamendi, TAA, Monreal, Peltier
Eriksen Mane Ritchie Mooy Milivojevic
Pérez Barnes Murray

To what extent do I believe my team has the skills to perform effectively?


Not at all
To some extent
Very much so
Don't know

[Mav3rick]

Always good to meet a fellow fan

[snakzz]

Good luck guys and have fun.

[Beerfuelledman]

Jesus wept; did any of you get a decent forward line?

[From4corners]

Jesus wept

He didn't actually, as he is in a decent forward line in an even more decent overall team. Behold:

Alisson Dubravka
Trippier Kompany Bertrand Cresswell Rose
Pedro Fraser Keita Shaqiri Jota
Firmino Sturridge non-weeping Jesus

Strengths: decent forward line, amazing midfield, three attacking left-backs, best English man at the WC, Man City captain, best goalkeeper in the world
Weakness: only three attacking left-backs, injury concern Kompany and Danny "could-still-leave-Spurs" Rose

[Tall Paul]

Here's mine

Fabianski, Patricio
Alonso, Laporte, Lowton, Smalling, Lindelof
Mahrez, Son, Bernardo Silva, Redmond, Martial
Kane, Wood, Rondon

Weaknesses - Lots
Strengths - errrm...

[Stemania]

Lloris, Etheridge
Walker, Davies, Valencia, Maguire, Jones
Özil, Pogba, Maddison, Townsend, Ghezzal
Lukaku, Wilson, Jimenez

Very strong looking defence/GK, decent front three, but extremely mediocre midfield. Have already panicked on Ghezzal and chucked him for a temporary Fabregas amid worries I won't actually be able to field 11 from the off.

Strengths: A lengthy, wordy, and heavily caveated style of writing that gives an exaggerated impression of the underlying level of competence and knowledgeability, whilst at the same time rarely leaving the fence.

Weaknesses: Only having room for one Phil Jones

[Pirlo's Beard]

heavily caveated style

The Sid Lowe of FISO.

[Stemania]

I think that maybe in my opinion that perhaps you could be right to be honest as far as I see it. I'd have thought so anyway. Possibly.

[Pirlo's Beard]

But don't quote you on that, right?

[No Way Jose]

Interesting start! You definitely have to be crafty in a 10 player draft comp. Will be a very interesting season. Congrats to Mav on leading early doors

[Archy]

Well done Mav.

The rest of you guys must have had very bad weeks if my auto-pick team (with a total absence of craftiness) is in 2nd

[dino1980]

I see my plan of having an awful first week to get the first waiver pick has worked.

[No Way Jose]

Is that how the waivers thing works? Good to know!

[Stemania]

I tried my hardest to get first pick, but three of you beat me to it.

[baganboy]

^ I am one of them.