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| Topic Started: Aug 11 2009, 02:07 PM (10,883 Views) | |
| RevStu | Aug 11 2009, 02:07 PM Post #1 |
Laird/Beast Of Glencairn
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The new season's almost upon us, so for teh funz and laffs I've set up a league on the Guardian's "Pick The Score" game, the name of which pretty much explains itself, and which should entertain the four of us who care about football. http://guardian.pickthescore.co.uk/Default.aspx The league name is simply WoS, obv. EDIT: Link to join the WoS league is this: http://guardian.pickthescore.co.uk/Buddygroups/EmailJoin.aspx?buddyGroupId=31858320&d=t Edited by RevStu, Aug 14 2009, 09:29 AM.
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| Dave de Vil | Aug 11 2009, 06:14 PM Post #2 |
Doesn't do cheery
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I might be up for this, but I still think the scoring system should be 3 points for a correct result, and a bonus point for correct score. You forecast 3-1 and some joker puts through his own goal in the last minute costing you THREE points? |
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| The Nixon Administration | Aug 11 2009, 06:42 PM Post #3 |
Type some shit in here please
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Sorry to be Thicky van Spackberg, but I cannot work out how to join the league. I've signed up for the competition, fine; I can create new leagues, no problem; but I can't see any way to join an existing league without having been invited. What am I doing wrong? |
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| RevStu | Aug 11 2009, 07:45 PM Post #4 |
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Laird/Beast Of Glencairn
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I don't know. Have you tried going through the Facebook link? That might work. It's going to be fucking annoying if I have to invite people individually, but I definitely set it up as an open group. |
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| Marco Gazpacho | Aug 11 2009, 09:14 PM Post #5 |
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Sub machine
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Football? Pah, after my club still hasn't started the new season because of tremendously inept ownership over the past decade, is on the brink of being killed off together, and already has a best case scenario of starting the Blue Square Premier on -25 points, my love for football has been tempered somewhat. Ladies and gentleman, I'm Chester City 'til they die. Oh, but I might join this 'pick the score' game. |
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| AdamK | Aug 11 2009, 11:47 PM Post #6 |
 
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If Pick The Score is as badly-designed as it was last year, then there is no way for users to join a mini-league without being "invited". However, rather than going through the tedious process of individually inviting everyone, a trick I discovered was for the mini-league owner to send an invite to themselves, then tell everyone the (not-unique) URL they receive. Not ideal, but to be expected from the Grauniad... |
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| RevStu | Aug 12 2009, 05:38 AM Post #7 |
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Laird/Beast Of Glencairn
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Jesus. Good work, though - see if this does the trick: http://guardian.pickthescore.co.uk/Buddygroups/EmailJoin.aspx?buddyGroupId=31858320&d=t |
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| JBR | Aug 12 2009, 09:58 AM Post #8 |
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That certainly works, though I'm not sure my existing login (from last year, via Guardian website) links to the Facebook one (set up this year). |
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| Marlon | Aug 12 2009, 10:50 AM Post #9 |
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Yep, I've joined no problem. Aces. "...which should entertain the four of us who care about football." And there are indeed currently four of us. SPOOK. Edited by Marlon, Aug 12 2009, 10:52 AM.
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| The Nixon Administration | Aug 12 2009, 12:46 PM Post #10 |
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Type some shit in here please
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Hurrah, that worked! Although I have now buggered up the pleasing "four of us" thing. |
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| Marlon | Aug 12 2009, 12:50 PM Post #11 |
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TSK. Oh well, I guess a few more may as well join now. |
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| Dave de Vil | Aug 12 2009, 03:00 PM Post #12 |
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Doesn't do cheery
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I've got a horrible feeling that some kind of cheesy strategy like making all 0-0 predictions might get a fairly high score, but I'll be playing in the spirit of the thing. |
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| Marlon | Aug 12 2009, 03:14 PM Post #13 |
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THIS. So with seven 'teams' we're already bigger than the SPL. |
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| sausageandbun | Aug 12 2009, 03:28 PM Post #14 |
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I have now joined, so make that eight. Hurrah! |
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| Targaff | Aug 12 2009, 04:58 PM Post #15 |
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If I were being paid Mark Lawrenson's weekly wage I'd join in, but I think I'll hold out for next year's World Cup fantasy league instead. Besides, I was working on the basis that I didn't count. |
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| Marlon | Aug 12 2009, 05:00 PM Post #16 |
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To hell with that, JOIN US you miserable git. |
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| RevStu | Aug 12 2009, 05:37 PM Post #17 |
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Laird/Beast Of Glencairn
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Meanwhile in Oslo: FFS. |
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| Futureshock | Aug 12 2009, 06:04 PM Post #18 |
I need sugar.
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The next 45 minutes are going to be very unpleasant. |
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| Futureshock | Aug 12 2009, 06:04 PM Post #19 |
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I need sugar.
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McFadden! It's looking better already. |
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| Futureshock | Aug 12 2009, 06:21 PM Post #20 |
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I need sugar.
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I quit. |
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| RevStu | Aug 12 2009, 06:21 PM Post #21 |
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Laird/Beast Of Glencairn
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For 35 minutes we were slightly the better of two rather fragile teams, but you got the sense that the first break would decide the game, and the absolutely awful sending-off decision leading to the massive deflection for the first goal was a pretty clear sign that the gods were going to shit on Scotland's sausages again. Might as well have stopped watching at that point, and I think at 3-0 with ten men and half an hour to go I'll do so now. |
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| Futureshock | Aug 12 2009, 06:30 PM Post #22 |
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I need sugar.
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It's like a 45 minute car crash - I can't look away. There was a fourth goal that the ref and linesman didn't see, too. |
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| Dave de Vil | Aug 12 2009, 07:06 PM Post #23 |
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Doesn't do cheery
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I really believe players should only ever be sent off for violent conduct; two yellow cards = red always seems harsh, and can decide a game if early enough in the match. By all means increase suspensions for accumulated yellows, but don't spoil good contests by making them numerically uneven unless you really have to. |
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| Pallid Dan | Aug 13 2009, 11:56 AM Post #24 |
Lucifer Alpha
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Hey, I've joined the predict the scores thing too... .... just out of interest, would it be ok if I invited a single non-WoS person (one of my best friends) to join the league? Appologies if that's bad form. |
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| lemur | Aug 13 2009, 04:00 PM Post #25 |
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Mebmer
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I've joined the WoS predo league. Last season, as I mentioned on these forums somewhere, I reached the dizzying heights of 7th overall for a week, around January, before ending up around 180th. I don't think I was ever further south than 250th, which is apparently quite good. Its not a record I'm expecting to maintain this season. As for Scotland, that was an absolute disgrace. I was lucky enough to have an excuse not to have to sit through the last half-hour - I had a pressing Edinburgh Festival engagement with one Stewart Lee, which was a welcome distraction - but was unlucky enough to walk into the pub around the 35 minute mark, watch Caldwell get sent off for leaning on Carew, and then watch Scotland fail to string three passes together for the remaining minutes of the first half and the opening parts of the second. A one-two down the left that let in Commons (i think, the picture was a bit faded on the big screen) was one exception, and it almost got the score to 2-1. Never mind the sending off. Its the fact that neither the players nor the manager could cope with it that was the problem. Taking a left-sided striker-cum-winger off and bringing the extra defender on to cover the gap at least looked like a plan, but then as soon as the second half starts he brings off a defender and puts on a left-sided striker-cum-winger. Is that not going from Plan A to Plan B and then back to Plan A? In any case, the idea of making Alan Hutton, one of our most dangerous players going forward, the extra centre-back is utterly unfathomable. I don't think Scotland should play 4-4-2 in the near future. We did well in the last qualifying competition because we formed a 5-man base at the back, with either Quashie, Caldwell, Dailly, Fletcher or Alexander just in front of a back four that stayed flat until we started to pressurise the opposition. When we did start attacking that solid base gave our attacking players, shorn of the defensive responsibilities that 4-4-2 brings, more license to get forward, because god knows Commons, Maloney, McFadden and the like can't defend, and Brown can't defend without perpetually looking like he's about to be sent off. The only time I can remember Scotland lining up in a straight 4-4-2 in the last campaign was that match against Georgia - or rather, Georgia U17s. I'm rambling and angry, and so most of the above is going to look misinformed. Just thinking about the game has got my blood boiling again. Edited by lemur, Aug 13 2009, 04:02 PM.
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