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[Jarquis]

Imagine the state of the players we'd end up picking if this was a 16 team, 20 round draft.... eesh.

 

[morgieb]

Imagine the state of the players we'd end up picking if this was a 16 team, 20 round draft.... eesh.

It feels like the depth's dried out more with this regard than what it did five years ago. Though there have some utter rubbish selections recently, some pretty damn good players left over. Trouble is they all appear to be fast bowlers....

 

[Prince EWS]

Imagine the state of the players we'd end up picking if this was a 16 team, 20 round draft.... eesh.

Looking at something like 20 teams and 18 player squads on the next version of this I'll run on CS. I'm ready for some very bad players to be selected in that.

And that's before we even factor in the bot-draft of players to fill in Second XI teams for that comp.

 

[Spark]

ffs daemon

 

[Howe_zat]

Looking at something like 20 teams and 18 player squads on the next version of this I'll run on CS. I'm ready for some very bad players to be selected in that.

And that's before we even factor in the bot-draft of players to fill in Second XI teams for that comp.

Pace yourself

 

[Dan]

Nah there's a whole stack of perfectly good cricketers left. Just not many good international ones. Nobody other than me has picked anyone especially terrible imo.

 

[Chewie]

Having Cricket Captain open when picking is rather helpful for finding obscure first class cricketers with good averages

 

[morgieb]

Ha, I was wondering when Bravo and Hay would go. Bravo was my Plan B if I didn't get de Bruyn whereas I wanted to leave Hay for Phlegm because I'm nice like that.

Also thought about Yadav, but his lack of Ranji form was a slight turnoff.

 

[Daemon]

Yeah Yadav should have gone ages ago in a non stats driven draft

 

[Prince EWS]

Yeah Yadav should have gone ages ago in a non stats driven draft

He probably would've been taken at a much more realistic time if my attempts to get ODIs to count for some players worked out too. The biggest stumbling block for that was the amount of games at neutral venues. Hoping to get it fixed/ready for the next draft.

 

[Daemon]

M Vijay
J Trott
O Pope
V Kohli
AB de Villiers
B Foakes
H Pandya
S Curran
K Maharaj
J Hazelwood
D Olivier

M Siraj
J Leach

Dunno how Trott will go. His runs have all been in Div 2.

 

[Jarquis]

and none of them have been opening.... poor Ollie Pope too

 

[Daemon]

Yeah it's all a bit of a mess up top.

Vijay's county runs certainly help but his test form is atrocious

Trott's scoring runs only in Div 2

Pope is not a #3 and was only forced to do it for England

 

[morgieb]

and none of them have been opening.... poor Ollie Pope too

Yeah the side badly needs another opener. If it wasn't for that it'd be close to favourites IMO.

 

[Dan]

Flem picks Colin Munro

****

 

[Prince EWS]

Asif, Amir and Kuggs in the same team; some pack of ****s you're amassing there Dan.

 

[Dan]

Look when I undoubtedly lose every game at least I'll be becoming exceptionally wealthy.

And if we somehow win it's because we're intimidatingly awful blokes, not any sort of skill.

EDIT: And planned pick #16 will outweigh all of that ****ishness anyway. Just you wait.

 

[Athlai]

Now seems like a good time to talk to you about the betting pool I wanted to form Dan.

 

[Dan]

Now seems like a good time to talk to you about the betting pool I wanted to form Dan.

Shhh....will discuss where Cribbthe authorities can't see it.

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I. BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS

The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.

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Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

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The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones. Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinctive feature: it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes, directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat.

From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns. From these burgesses the first elements of the bourgeoisie were developed.

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The feudal system of industry, under which industrial production was monopolised by closed guilds, now no longer sufficed for the growing wants of the new markets. The manufacturing system took its place. The guild-masters were pushed on one side by the manufacturing middle class; division of labour between the different corporate guilds vanished in the face of division of labour in each single workshop.

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[Athlai]

The state is a good thing. Done. I have no interest in teenage emo girls in the UK.