Ultimate Footy 2014 - Norm Smith League

[H_T 3,043]

Anyone hear what happened to Tommy Rockliff post match recently?

[H_T 3,043]

Dane Beams in a spot of bother too. And Wingard is in some trouble health wise.

That's the latest.

[Mad_Melbourne 877]

Also buddy looked seriously underdone and parker has an injury to the eye which the extent is not yet known, whoever has them unlucky!

edit: ah shiza, thats me

edit x 2: great advice for everyone with keepers that are injured, keep them, i did it with my first pick Dale Thomas last year, all season, and he rewarded me with 5 games!

Edited February 28, 2014 by Mad_Melbourne

[jayceebee31 759]

Dane Beams in a spot of bother too. And Wingard is in some trouble health wise.

That's the latest.

Yep Wingard is injured...same injury that SJ suffered tonight.....sore toes from kicking the ball so much .

Good try HT but...........

[jayceebee31 759]

Also buddy looked seriously underdone and parker has an injury to the eye which the extent is not yet known, whoever has them unlucky!

edit: ah shiza, thats me

edit x 2: great advice for everyone with keepers that are injured, keep them, i did it with my first pick Dale Thomas last year, all season, and he rewarded me with 5 games!

Masten will have a better year than Thomas....Thomas will suffer from Maltlove before the end of the season.

[brunoc 3]

I've changed my mind about Bugg and would like to add him as one of my keepers if its not too late.

So Ablett, Kennedy, Treloar and Bugg

Edited March 1, 2014 by brunoc

[Jarka 767]

Done brunoc

[Mad_Melbourne 877]

Draft Day is here, hope everyone is ready for the tough season that will be ahead, already in preliminary chats with a few high profile player, all who have declared their want to play under M_M, so lets just allow them their wish and no one draft any of the top 30 players that are available after keepers. Thanks guys

[Jarka 767]

Draft day is here. It starts at 7:00pm and it's a quick 'Live draft' meaning everyone gets 1 minute per pick.

Can everyone please try and log in a couple of minutes before 7:00 and now is your chance to set your pre-draft ranking.

Good luck

[snomed 54]

Cannot wait! My work is not going to be happy with my lack of work output today - hopefully my UF team benefits from it...

[Old Man Rivers 326]

4 Hours to go, getting very excited........

Good Luck all for a productive draft......

& don't forget to focus solidly on your selections from pick 11 to pick 20

That my friends is where I built my Premiership from in 2013.............

Early draft selections exciting but the real work starts at the half way point of the draft.......

[Sideshow Bob 2,341]

Yep just lost a hour of productivity working on pre draft selections...... Paper work building up big time.

Just remember guys - in years gone by the draft needed to be done on a real computer not an iPad/iPhone due to flash or some other silly computer thing thing doesn't work with igizmo's

[Mad_Melbourne 877]

Yep just lost a hour of productivity working on pre draft selections...... Paper work building up big time.

Just remember guys - in years gone by the draft needed to be done on a real computer not an iPad/iPhone due to flash or some other silly computer thing thing doesn't work with igizmo's

Oh shiza! Welllllllll I'm fooked

[Sideshow Bob 2,341]

MM I am going to attempt using the iPad first - just cos I can't stand the laptop, then if it fails jump on the lappy. It may have been addressed this year to work better - who knows. I just hope they the get phone app working again for the actual competition

[Mad_Melbourne 877]

MM I am going to attempt using the iPad first - just cos I can't stand the laptop, then if it fails jump on the lappy. It may have been addressed this year to work better - who knows. I just hope they the get phone app working again for the actual competition

I doubt il get onto an actual laptop til like 7:30 was hoping to use my phone for my first couple picks! Just hoping my pre draft settings go okay!

[45HG 1,539]

After reading previous posts - I'm feeling incredibly unprepared.

[Sideshow Bob 2,341]

Yeah I wouldn't be too concerned there Wrecker. I was only doing things as a means to procrastination! And even then achieved a grand total of SFA. :-)

[Jarka 767]

Live Draft room opens up 15 minutes before 7, log on, click on the pre-season draft tab and the link should be there.

If it's like last year you'll have to turn off auto selections.

[Sideshow Bob 2,341]

Logged in on the iPad looks like igizmo's are working

[Jarka 767]

Draft all done, thanks guys. Had several 'dammit' moments but overall not bad.

[Mad_Melbourne 877]

had one or two wall punching moments, but overall not to unhappy with my team

Defenders:

G. Birchall (Hawks)

M. Johnson (Freo)

J. Hombsch (Port)

C. Newman (Rich)

Defender/Mids:

K. Simpson (Blues)

J. Bartel (Geel)

S. Burgoyne (Hawks)

D. Cassisi (Port)

Midfielders:

M. Duncan (Geel)

D. Jackson (Rich)

Midfield/Forwards:

D. Thomas (Blues)

L. Parker (Swans)

V. Michie (Melb)

Forwards:

M. Clark (Melb)

J. White (Coll)

L. Franklin (Swans)

S. Motlop (Geel)

G. Rohan (Swans)

Rucks:

B. Mcevoy (Hawks)

J. Giles (GWS)

Pretty happy with the amount of possibilities that i can play over the field, although two injured forwards leaves my depth a little light there, will be interesting to figure out how i line up! i didnt look to see if we have bye weeks off or not, that could be my trouble as i have a few hawks, geelong and swans players

Edited March 3, 2014 by Mad_Melbourne

[Sideshow Bob 2,341]

Backs

Hodge ©

Scotland ©

Laird

Goodes

Clisby

Georgio

Centres

Rockliff

Fife

Vince

Cross

O'meara

Whitfield

Forwards

Monfries

Jack Riewoldt

Howe

Patch Adams©

Robbie gray©

Shane Edwards©

Rucks

Vickery (f)

Maximus Gawn

overall happy with the squad - although certainly wouldn't have nabbed Monfries (especially early as happened) without an iPad freeze (prompting the change to a laptop) although I think he's ok in the scheme of my squad. Missed on a couple after having my pockets picked but hey that happens in a draft, hopefully I can go deep into the year with this squad

[I Luv Tingay 0]

Very happy with my squad to be honest. Getting Jobe Watson at pick 3 was an absolute shock...can't believe he wasn't nominated as a keeper to start with (let alone get through to pick 3).

My first 3 picks (Watson, Leuenberger, Westoff) we're all in my top 10 "wish list"...so very happy with that.

Midfield is great on paper (Pendles, Watson, Boak, Wellingham, Carazzo, Conca, Caddy);

Defence not bad (S.Thompson, Murphy, Lumumbu (aka Harry O), Atley, Mackie);

Rucks got potential (Leuenberger and Zac Smith);

Forwards are versatile (Lindsay Thomas, Le Cras, Westoff, Mayes, Butcher, Zach Merrett ).

Can't wait for the season to start now.

We'll done gents....and great work Jarka. Very well run comp so far.

Edited March 3, 2014 by I Luv Tingay

[45HG 1,539]

Very happy with my squad to be honest. Getting Jobe Watson at pick 3 was an absolute shock...can't believe he wasn't nominated as a keeper to start with (let alone get through to pick 3).

I take it you don't read the papers, Stinga?

[I Luv Tingay 0]

Hahaha. Indeed I do. But I have also read that even if they get infraction notices, nothing will happen until late in the year anyway. If they have a case to answer, they would apparently face the commission after round 15 (by then I hope to be well and truly entrenched in the finals on the back of Jobe's 30+ touches and 2 goals a week).