Dappa Dan

Don't you hate when you get to the point that you're desperate for a supergoal? Not a good sign.

Who subbed-out for Spencer? edit: Thanks for the answer.

What's with our entrances inside fifty? we have no decent targets!! Bennell, Bail, Davey, Watts?!!! Where are they?!

Nope. We didn't turn up tonight. Can't see us clawing back 26 points with this kind of crap.

Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes... I feel like the bombers have taken their foot off the gas, but then so have we. Every step forward we take we take one back.

Another question... How much game time are Ryder and Bellchambers (and anyone else) getting in the ruck? Jamar is smashing them... and Ryder's no hack.

So whatever happened to our forwards being all "the next big thing?" Anyone care to comment on who's smashing Watts and Jurrah? Ooh. He's got me there. Good goal.

Eh? Since when do posters who actually KNOW something about forums put up with abuse like the garbage he dished up at the start of the thread? Please tell me you're the same Chook from 'ology. If you are... this should seem like a stroll on the beach for you.

Ha!!! Did you really just call me a girl?!!! Wow... Zing faulty. It's like being in primary school again. Look. If you don't want to cop the abuse... DON'T COME ONTO A FORUM AND ABUSE POSTERS!!!!! Do your homework. Care to aim that criticism at the bell-end that came on the forum and abused everyone within a few minutes of the game starting? Or are you somehow related to this clown?

What a shock. Lloyd carrying on about how much better Hurley is than Watts and Jurrah...

Jeez... Jamar's had 19 hitouts in a shortened half. Might be a nice pickup in Ufooty thins year. I'm surprised we're as close as we are. We actually seemed a lot like Essendon did last year. Impressive on the attack, but full of holes the other way. Gee we miss Frawley.

No comprehension problem chief. You need to re-read the thread. Coming on and abusing fans for not putting scores up within the first 3 minutes of the game isn't the way to get scores published. The post I responded to didn't mention scores.... or s.c.o.r.e.s. And I've got news for you numbnuts. Nobody's putting the scores up for you. Like I said before. Pull your head in. If you have any problems "comprehending" this, by all means let me know. I can see you're having some trouble.

Our maturity is still a problem... What gets me is their youngsters aren't as ineffective as ours. Heppell looks good. Sylvia, Jamar, Trengove... a bit of Grimes and Moloney. But other than that too many passengers. They don't seem to want it. Watts shocking so far.

Are you drunk? The only posts above mine that don't deal with the game are yours... Pull your head in. This is how every game-day thread works. Most people that aren't deficient in some way don't come here for accurate scores, since there's so man other sites you can go to.

26 points down just before the end of the first quarter... Is it just me or have we lost this one already?

Would you like a tampon with that? There's any of a dozen sites you could look at for a more up to date score than here princess. Do your research before getting stuck in.

I don't know about that... There's a few around this place that can go with you... I tell you what, that's not half bad... Not bad... There's some early smacktalk form here. Well noticed about the birthday by the way. I'd done well trying to avoid it today.

The dons looked sharp in the first few minutes.... but we're now up by 5 points. Sound like we're doing some pretty damn solid work.

Lloyd on SEN saying we won't make the 8 this year. Might put some money on us making the 4.

The best part of ufooty. The smacktalk begins... I'll see you after round 1. Care to make a wager? I win, no passive aggressive asides about post length for the year. You win, no posts exceeding a single line for a month. You'll get yours... Welcome to ufooty...

Yeah, it could be better. Especially at this time of year. The plus side is that there's nothing career threatening in there. No popped shoulders, knee recos... They're all things you can recover from and feel no effects from in the future. Having said that, I'm not expecting massive things from Petterd in 2011... at least not the first part. And I fear the pec injury to Frawley will mean it's cost him a significant chunk of his pre-season... so I expect his heights to diminish just for 2011. It hurts. but by gee it could be a lot worse.

Hey rpfc. See you round 1... :D I was in JA's ultimatefooty league last year and am as familiar as he is (pretty much)... You select your 9 or so players each week from your total of 14 or so (not sure of the final numbers for this year)... and you compete with a different person each round until the last 4 rounds (finals), just as in DT and SC. However wins are determined on a category basis. I believe they are score, accuracy, kicks, handballs, hitouts, tackles, marks, frees for and frees against. So while you may have a team with Barlow, Ablett, Riewoldt etc etc all getting a whole heap of touches... I might have a team with Sandilands (hitouts), Riewoldt (score + accuracy), Bolton (tackles) and a backline waxer like Bruce who takes a lot of marks... and that would be my five categories sewn up. You could double my kicks and handballs and I'd still win the game on categories won. I had a pretty good year last year on the basis I was very good in one or two categories, and ok in all the rest. As far as trading goes, that's a bit more complicated. You can propose a trade at any time... but they take something like 48 hours to be completed. Once proposed the rest of the league can veto the trade if, I think, two managers vote against it. Likewise there's a complicated "waver" system when it comes to delisted players. If you have draft pick #1, then when a player is delisted you are given the first opportunity to sign him. If you take that opportunity, you drop to last in the delisted player waiver order... JA will confirm this, but it works something like that. And there's obviously a cap on the amount of players you can sign in a season. I'm also not sure how the bye will operate this year. ie if it's a situation where you get the average of any player in a team on bye week, or you get to sign an extra one that week... etc etc In terms of the season proper, you will find most teams signed too heavily on forwards... and have to trade one or two for a ruckman. Or maybe have only two defenders and too many mids... something like that. It's always good to have a couple of trade-bait players. Signing players is really just a back-up plan sort of thing. At the start of the season you might have a good defender go down for the year, and you simply sign the next best ranked defender who might become your best player in a few games. This happens in the first 6-8 weeks, but after that, with so many injuries, the delisted players resource becomes VERY scarce. Also we had only 12 players last year, so I imagine it will be even more challenging. Trading is really where the game is at though. You have to really wine and dine your opponents to argue the point when it comes to picking up a certain player. I traded Sylvia for Davey and Morton last season... and it worked out ok for me. I also got rid of Leon Davis and picked up Luke Power, which worked out beautifully. And signed Cam Bruce for nothing... and he was one of my best! IMO it completely outstrips DT and SC. We found when we went to games, we would spend half the time watching the game, and since we played Sunday so often, we would spend large chunks of our time watching only one or two players, hoping for a single kick or mark. The GF for the season went right down to the last second of the Roos vs Dees match where JA needed one player to get a mark/kick to win the game. This is gonna be awesome.

I got pick 2! Pressure's on.

JA.... Lambs to the slaughter.... :D

Well done JA... Mum would be proud.