Let's have fun!

[ZargonX]

Ah...Real Madrid = Soccer.

Tut tut, UnO; Real Madrid = football. You have to remember you're speaking to Europeans with their crazy screwed up terms for things

[Arrian]

Coventry City! Then Gordon Strachan could be your manager (or has he moved on? My knowledge of the Premiership is a couple of years out of date).

You had the strat forum regulars forming what many view as the Real Madrid of civ teams, Gathering Storm

This is a perception I deeply regret not having fought from the beginning. It has, IMO, caused us no end of trouble.

-Arrian

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by UnOrthOdOx
No offense Soccer/football fans, it's one of those sports that, for me, is fun to play (I played fullback in highschool) but not so fun to watch on the TV. Much like Baseball and Basketball.

Yes, yes. For me the only sports worth watching are [b]true/b] football games (American football) and hockey. Thank heavens College Football is right around the corner!

Hockey and Football best represent the medieval combat, especially football, their like two forces of knights dismounted in full armor squaring off against one another....................

Soccer, on the other hand, is like watching a bunch of neighbor brats running around on the lawn and through the sprinkler......

(Sorry, that last statement may not make sense to some, do they have running water in Europe?)

[UnOrthOdOx]

Originally posted by Arrian


This is a perception I deeply regret not having fought from the beginning. It has, IMO, caused us no end of trouble.

-Arrian

Look back, even I tried to fight it. It was to no avail, though. I know that many felt your team was being elitist in it's choosing of members and specifically recruiting strat forum and AU members through private means, not simple posting in here, in order to build an elitist team.

Yes, I could safely say it HAS caused you a good deal of trouble. There were those who never saw you in that light, but we were, I fear, a minority.

[UnOrthOdOx]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb

Yes, yes. For me the only sports worth watching are true football games (American football) and hockey. Thank heavens College Football is right around the corner!

Hockey and Football best represent the medieval combat, especially football, their like two forces of knights dismounted in full armor squaring off against one another....................

Yep!

Though I sure wish my Raiders would return to their roots of Smash Mouth Football. Im getting sick of this passing every down BS.

[Arrian]

True, UnO. And as such, I doubt it was possible to come in "under the radar" so to speak.

Though if it had not been for the PM I got, I never would have even ventured to this forum and joined up. So I'm glad I was "recruited."

-Arrian

[Jon Shafer]

This thread hates to be on-topic.

[UnOrthOdOx]

My point exactly.

I didn't care if you guys were trying to make an 'elite' team. While at the time you were all very skilled Civ players. This is Multi Player. Your skill in SP, while greater than my own at the time, posed no threat at all in Multi-player that I could see. It is an entirely different game, and we were all starting anew with it.

I pointed it out at the time. Any recruiting for THIS game only had the possibility of gaining your guys' activity for future games.

Besides, there was a certain anticipation of wanting to face off against 'the best' as well. At least to me. I respected the team and the players, but fealt no fear in facing off against them, nor did I label them 'the team to beat' as I get the impression some did.

If anything, I would say GS has played much as I predicted at the beginning. I did a bit of a psychological workup of all the teams, and with the exception of a few unforeseen personality disputes between some members, and the inability to predict starting locations, it has gone pretty much as I expected so far.

[FrustratedPoet]

Coventry City! Then Gordon Strachan could be your manager (or has he moved on? My knowledge of the Premiership is a couple of years out of date).

Indeed you are 2 seasons out of date. Strachan is the manager of Southampton now and has been doing a very fine job.

[Arrian]

Doesn't Southampton kinda suck too? (Coventry was just good enough to stave off relegation, and Southampton struck me as a similiar sort of team).

*smacks self* BAD!

Oh, um, Uno, good post. I agree (SP skill and MP skill may overlap in a few areas, such as micromanagement, but being good at SP does not in any way guarantee MP success).

-Arrian

[FrustratedPoet]

They were 8th in the league last year and FA Cup finalists. Much better than they were a few years ago, hence my saying that he's done a very fine job as manager.

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[Master Zen]

Originally posted by Arrian
This is a perception I deeply regret not having fought from the beginning. It has, IMO, caused us no end of trouble.

-Arrian

I think you guys should be proud. Whatever our feelings to GS as the in-game team personality, I can only say most people have the deepest respect to GS as players.

[OPD]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
They were 8th in the league last year and FA Cup finalists.
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yeah but I can't see them doing well again, just like Ipswich and Leicester they'll fade away as they don't have the quality or commerce to stay where they are.

My prediction is they'll be relegated this year along with Portsmouth and dare I say it Chelsea

or at least not do very well

[on topic] errrr.... team MAST are like Brazil
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[Master Zen]

I can't find an analogy for GoW as football teams, but as american football teams, we're definitely the Raiders

(this comment will please UnO... )

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by OPD
My prediction is they'll be relegated this year along with Portsmouth and dare I say it Chelsea

or at least not do very well [/on topic]

LMFAOROFWL