JACKATTACK

Draft will run over a few days probably, and if people think a weekend would be better i am happy to change it to say saturday from 9:00am? Also it isn't absolutely crucial that you are available for the draft all the time, the auto picks are clever, or you can pre-rank your players and have your preferred selection picked in your absence. I may also drop the 2hour default time to 1 hour or 30 minutes so we can get through it a bit quicker. I haven't actually done the draft in this way before so it might take 1 day, it might take 3 weeks. Just on the draft order i will make it random and that will be put up once we fill up the 16 spots. To clarify; the draft order for the second round is in reverse order from the first round, and the third back to the order of the first. So there is little advantage in having pick 1 because your next pick is 32.

Half way there, 8 spots remaining.

I did it last year, but I don't think there will be many with experience apart from me, if any at all.

Demonland League 1 is open for anyone who wants in: www.ultimatefooty.com Maximum of 16 teams for ths one, then someone will have to put their hand up to run another league. League ID: 228354 Password: TS4MFCIN12 Please use your Demonland name as your team name so we all know who we're dealing with. I have set the draft method as "online" which means this: This league will conduct an Online Draft starting Monday February 28 at 9:00 AM (AEDT). The draft will operate between 9 AM and 10 PM (AEDT). Each team will have a maximum of 2 hours 0 minutes per pick. If we get 16 people on we can move the draft forward or leave longer/or shorter for each pick and so on. If you miss your pick, you'll have a selection made automatically for you at the end of the 2 hours. The automatic pick will be the highest projected ranking player available, which is usually pretty good in my experience. Draft order will be random (unless I get pick 16, in which case I will re-randomise it until I get something better). I have decided to upgrade our league to UltimateFooty PLUS, to get a few extra features and because I think the website is fantastic and i'd like to support it. The cost of this is $29.95, which I have paid. Instead of paying me, please make a donation to MFC (or demonland maybe) of at least $1.87. Beyond that there isn't much to know, the best thing to do to prepare for the drafting is to read the rules so you can understand what makes a player good at Ultimate footy.(usually a player that can well across lots of categories). Please only join if you think you can commit a reasonable amount of time to the whole thing, UFooty takes up much less time than SC/DT to be competative, but it is annoying when people forget to at least check to see if their players are playing. See you there!

Maybe if that Guy guy (planning minister) is a Melbourne supporter he can sort us out with a ground/training base there. Worked for Collingwood with Brumby. I don't know if he is though.

Yeah! Wasted that pick. Should we fire Barry?

I hope we play StKilda. Beating Essendon just doesn't excite me as much as it used to.

My guess is that it will go live after they finish counting down the top ten players. They're currently doing it daily And they just named 7. When the site is up i will create a league. For those who care, the named players so far: 10: Boyd 9: pendlebury 8: cross 7: swallow Cross is a quality Ufooty player.

What a disgraceful attempt, really poor quality. I thought that the money they have would produce something semi decent.

Idiotic SEN callers aside I would be sad to see north go. I still hold out some kind of naive hope that in 50 years time there will still be 9 Melbourne based clubs, and that we hold onto at least part of the suburban tribal mentality. Edit: make that 8, happy to see essendon fold.

Bate is someone who is particularly vulnerable to a bad preseason. But fit i think he can be very damaging. After last night it seemed to me that he has addressed the iissue of his turning circle. Cook looked impressive to me, hard to see exactly what his weaknesses are from just last night, looks to have a lot of bases covered.

Unless he signs for us in the next few weeks, then a horrible situation becomes a positive story about a player being loyal.

What was the SEN thing about? I only caught the end of it.

What Jim asks for Jim gets.

That Sylvia bloke must be one hell of a player to get on top of a Jordie tag.

Or how about one club who closed their intra club match to the public? I can only surmise that they want to sell more memberships before their fans get to see their list actually play.

Bad miss by GWS. I am amazed that they chose to go with Giants instead. Sure most Australians wouldn't know what a waler was, but it wouldn't take long to explain it. And who, after hearing the story of the Walers wouldn't get caught up in the romance and tragedy of it.

+1 I loved going to last year's match in Casey. Such a positive vibe. I hope we lose our nab cup games so we can have another nab challenge down there.

I don't agree with the idea behind needingto change the game, or provide multiple versions of it. But I would be interested to see how a game like that would play out.

Actually I'm a little disappointed, now how are we supposed to identify the gullible fools?

In terms of MFC traditions, the weird XMas videos are quickly becoming one of myfavourites. Already looking forward to next year, though i'm not sure how they're going to out-weird this year.

I'm not againat this deicsion, but if someone had thrown his name up over the last few weeks they would have been shot down and ridiculed. He gets selected and it's an inspired move. I had just got used to the idea of throwing Spencer/Gawn/Fitzy/Martin to the wolves with PJ gone. I hope his knees hold up.

Nicho

Here is the game rules for the 2010 season. http://www.ultimatefooty.com/help/ There are a number of different systems that canbe run, but I prefer the head to head category based scoring system. There are a number of new features that will be introduced for 2011, some of which will try and deal with the fact that there will be at least a bye everyweek. How exactly that will work I can't be sure.

I don't understand why they don't just use a youtube link. Instead bigpond re-invent the wheel, but make it shaped like a square. I find the freezing stops if I use firefox. I think the away strip is a big improvement, i'm not sold on the standard one just yet, I think i'll need to see it on the ground.