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*Official* English Football Season 2005-06
- Thread starter Neil Pickup
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Tom Halsey
International Coach
1-0 Colchester!
Tom Halsey
International Coach
That was awful. IIRC, several players actually threw up at the sight of it.BoyBrumby said:
Tom Halsey
International Coach
Aussie was wrong, apparently Colchester can challenge them too...marc71178 said:Because they're the only side to be able to challenge Chelsea aren't they?
Won't last, though.
aussie
Hall of Fame Member
looks like you have picked basically on current form, but seriously you got to take a bit of overall career performace into the equation. In the case of Europe's defenders i'd be hard pressed to leave out Cannavaro & Nesta even though Cole especially is great as a left-back, Thuram & Neville is debatable. Also i wont want to limit the team to a 4-4-2 formation especially with the amount of talented strikers in the continent, Owen & Van Roi got to be their for me & in top form Beckham should be on the right & even though blokes like Lampard, Gerrard & Guttuso have been great in that central midfield role, its so hard to leave Zidane out. I'd take Robben on the left since probably Nedved or Figo aren't the players of old.Barney Rubble said:It's probably for your benefit that I keep them to myself.
Europe:
GK - Gianluigi Buffon
RB - Gary Neville
LB - Ashley Cole
CB - John Terry
CB - Carlos Puyol
RM - Cristiano Ronaldo
LM - Arjen Robben
CM - Steven Gerrard
CM - Gennaro Gattuso
ST - Wayne Rooney
ST - Thierry Henry
ROW:
GK - Dida
RB - Javier Zanetti
LB - Gabriel Heinze
CB - Walter Samuel
CB - Roberto Ayala
RM - Kaka
LM - Robinho
CM - Michael Essien
CM - Ronaldinho
ST - Adriano
ST - Samuel Eto'o
R.O.W cant go past Cafu & Carlos at as my wingers, as with the europre side wont limit the formation to just 4-4-2, while the rest of the side is debatable...
Tom Halsey
International Coach
Ah. It was nice while it lasted.
Barney Rubble
International Coach
I've not picked so much on "current form" as "who's the best", really - my strategy was simply a case of picking the players I'd most like to have in my team in each position.aussie said:
Neville over Thuram because Thuram is old, slow and past it, and was never a right-back anyway.
Cole over Nesta/Cannavaro because Cole is a left-back and both of them are centre-backs.
Ronaldo over Beckham because it's been four years since Beckham was anything like the best right-midfielder in Europe. Gerrard is better than him now, and RM is only his 2nd or 3rd best position.
Gattuso over Zidane because Zidane, as great as he may have been, is no longer one of the best central midfielders in the world. He doesn't have the legs for defensive work.
Cafu & Carlos are both in decline, and neither have ever really been full-backs anyway, hence the two Argies get in ahead of them. The rest of the team pretty much picks itself.
And as for "not limiting them with 4-4-2" - your 4-3-3 and 3-3-4 formations just wouldn't work. 4-3-3 needs two wingers and a striker, not 3 strikers, and a 3-3-4 would never work whoever played it.
Not that I'm being critical or anything......
aussie
Hall of Fame Member
You kinda lost me their on Beckham but doesn't he normally play on right wing for england & recently for Madrid, doesn't the notation RM denote that?, because in europe cant think of anyone in europe who plays that area better than him, & RCM dentote where someone like Gerrard would play, i'm lost..Barney Rubble said:Ronaldo over Beckham because it's been four years since Beckham was anything like the best right-midfielder in Europe. Gerrard is better than him now, and RM is only his 2nd or 3rd best position.
Gattuso over Zidane because Zidane, as great as he may have been, is no longer one of the best central midfielders in the world. He doesn't have the legs for defensive work.
Cafu & Carlos are both in decline, and neither have ever really been full-backs anyway, hence the two Argies get in ahead of them. The rest of the team pretty much picks itself.
Not that I'm being critical or anything......
lol on Zidane, i know he's gone but its so though to leave him out, but i would pick Lampard over Guttuso in that case.
Fair enough on Cafu on Carlos but dont really watch too much of the italian leagues but in FIFA 2006, Zanetti plays RM for argentina & inter though
Barney Rubble
International Coach
By RM, I meant Right Midfielder, yeah. He does play there for Madrid now, 'cause they've got Pablo Garcia or Guti partnering Zidane in the middle. As regards who's better than him, loads of people - he's always had no pace, these days he never scores, and he's never been much of a dribbler either, there's plenty of more effective players than him on the right (Gerrard being one).aussie said:You kinda lost me their on Beckham but doesn't he normally play on right wing for england & recently for Madrid, doesn't the notation RM denote that?, because in europe cant think of anyone in europe who plays that area better than him, & RCM dentote where someone like Gerrard would play, i'm lost..
lol on Zidane, i know he's gone but its so though to leave him out, but i would pick Lampard over Guttuso in that case.
Fair enough on Cafu on Carlos but dont really watch too much of the italian leagues but in FIFA 2006, Zanetti plays RM for argentina & inter though
As for Zanetti, he started out as a right-back, but he was so attacking he moved forwards. Really he's the kind of player who'd play as a wing-back in a 3-5-2, but he fits in just as well at right-back or right-midfield. Argentina played 3-4-3 until recently anyway, so he was a wing-back in that.
aussie
Hall of Fame Member
Now i've made an attempt at a possible WORLD XI:
WORLD XI:
GK – GIANLUIGI BUFFON (ITALY)
RB – JAVIER ZANETTI (ARGENTINA)
LB – ASHLEY COLE (ENGLAND)
RCB – FABIO CANNAVARO (ITALY)
LCB – JOHN TERRY (ENGLAND)
RM – KAKA (BRAZIL)
LM – ARJEN ROBBEN (HOLLAND)
CAM – RONALDINHO (BRAZIL)
RF - MICHAEL OWEN (ENGLAND)
CF – THIERRY HNERY (FRANCE)
LF – SAMUEL ETO’O (CAMEROON)
WORLD XI:
GK – GIANLUIGI BUFFON (ITALY)
RB – JAVIER ZANETTI (ARGENTINA)
LB – ASHLEY COLE (ENGLAND)
RCB – FABIO CANNAVARO (ITALY)
LCB – JOHN TERRY (ENGLAND)
RM – KAKA (BRAZIL)
LM – ARJEN ROBBEN (HOLLAND)
CAM – RONALDINHO (BRAZIL)
RF - MICHAEL OWEN (ENGLAND)
CF – THIERRY HNERY (FRANCE)
LF – SAMUEL ETO’O (CAMEROON)
superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
owen would not be anywhere near that side
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Indeed, but chief poseur big game/team flop would be even further away from that side.superkingdave said:
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Heh was waiting for Richards to get booked there, classic look on O'Leary's face at the end there.
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Think I'd sooner have Rooney and Ronaldinho roaming just behind someone like Shevchenko as the attack. Haven't seen much of the midfielders worldwide to make much of a judgement.
PY
International Coach
I think the Quote Of The Season competition is over. 
"Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains, but you see ugly people who are intelligent scientists. Our pitch is a little bit like that." ~ Jose Mourinho on Chelsea's pitch.
Ten quid to anyone who can decipher that bad boy.
"Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains, but you see ugly people who are intelligent scientists. Our pitch is a little bit like that." ~ Jose Mourinho on Chelsea's pitch.
Ten quid to anyone who can decipher that bad boy.
