"Same procedure as every year....."

[Mario ADK]

Austria:
1) McCullough is seriously injured, and is being taken to
the locker room for X-rays.
2) G2 #61 Rob Murphy is seriously injured,
and is being taken to the locker room for X-rays.

Du to my roster-moves i only got backups injured instead of starters.
Sultan McCullough (HB) D-4, Torn rotator cuff
Rob Murphy (G) Q-3, Strained hamstring
David Allen (HB) P-1, Mild concussion

Amsterdam:
AMS  : Jeronimo Huerta (HB) O-9, Torn rotator cuff

Summary:
Well, infact what I did was right. Perfectly right.
My prediction of a Frankfurt@Austria-matchup is coming closer.
Did you already wake up, Niki?

[Niki]

hm Mario, maybe you did not realize that Joe Smith start from week 10 till 13 and played 90% of the game in week 14.

I already beat Frankfurt with Smith, maybe, maybe I do not mind if a player gets injuried because I trust that my back ups can do the job almost as good. That you are really worried that one of your starters gets injuried is maybe because you think your back ups have no quality 

well in the WC game I can either win or lose same as you, so the possibility that it will be Frankfurt @ Austria is 25%.

BTW: i really don't like the idea that you are celebrate an injury of player of an other team, I think that is a bit crazy/sick thinking

ps: I also do not understand your way of doing, you get angry when people give their opinion about trades you have been involved, but you keep irritating with your anti-amsterdam campaigne. Fine with me but I will consider Austria as a part of Germany (sorry only map I have in house is one from 1939) till you stop with it.

[Mario ADK]

Hey, there was no offense against AMS in my post.

Why do you think that i "celebrated" Huertas injury? I do not mind much about his injury.

All i said is that i predicted AUS/FRA in the EFC-game and with Frankfurts great offense-performance and Huertas injury it is more likely than before. AND Huertas injury made clear that using backups in meaningless games is indeed a good idea. Read the last few posts below - maybe you understand.

Do not take that too personally. (And yes, my backups have lesser quality than my starters. That is why they are....backups. 

And yes: Germany was part of the Austrian Habsburg-Dynasty for hundreds of years. I think you are referring to that when you say that Germany and Austria once where together. right 

[Paul-London]

I cant remember exactly when Huerta was fit again, i think perhaps in Week 13 or last week.  If i had a starting HB who was injured and missed about 4 or 5 games and was finally healthy i might start him in Week 14 just to see what he can do and if hes fully fit and back to his best in order to start the first playoff game.

Niki couldnt win with Huerta, benching his starter once healthy, if he then loses in the playoffs people will say he should have played his starting HB, as Huerta played in Week 14 and was injured then people say he should have rested him.  Cant win either way.

I think Niki was right to start Huerta, if Huerta had a bad game (after being out for so long) it then makes it easier in the playoffs.  If Huerta didnt play in Week 14 and was injured in the first few plays in the playoff game people would say he shouldnt have started, again Niki cant win.

It was a fluke injury, i mean its very rare we have a player such as O-5 and then when hes healthy he gets injured yet again and is O-7 !  I mean look at Pat Barnes, D-4 and he plays, didnt get a more severe injury

Just one of those things, bad luck for Amsterdam

[Mario ADK]

to be more precise:
Huertas injury is just an example of what MIGHT happen in meaningless games.

Never intended to pick on either Amsterdam or Niki for having him starting. Huerats injury is just an example.

Hope that helps to sort things out.

[Paul-London]

Well just bad luck really, Huerta could have had that injury in the first drive in the first playoff game.  Like i said Barnes was injured but wasnt injured worse, Huerta was 'ok' but then got a severe injury.  Perhaps hes just injury prone as the season before i'm sure he was injured for a week or two.

Shame not to see a team at full strength in the playoffs but thats football

[Niki]

Okay Mario, since you have no clue about what I get irritated (it is for you easier to irritate me, because I was already a bit)

Amsterdam:
AMS  : Jeronimo Huerta (HB) O-9, Torn rotator cuff

Summary:
Well, infact what I did was right. Perfectly right.
My prediction of a Frankfurt@Austria-matchup is coming closer.

it is the combi of an injured player + the words: i was right + my prediction  bla bla bla is coming closer!

Because I have an injured player after a game, you are right! as you could have read in previous post of me I am of opinion that it can happen in every game. when you save him in week 14 but he is injured after the first play of WC it did not help you at all.

Besides that I think you can blame the two injured RB's on the fact that the team was not as strong as possible, replace a couple of oliners and it is easier to find a hole, which makes it easier to make a harder hit which can result faster in injured players. This is the first seriously injured player I had in the last couple of years in week 14, while you had some injured players as well in last years week 14.

I agree that back ups are not as good as starters but my back ups are very close to my starters I have various compinations I can do at all positions. so it does not hurt me when a player is injured. I am now playing for like 4 or 5 weeks with my back up RB Smith so far his stats are better then your starting RB.

I am 13-1 this season: my starting HB has been injured 5 games, my WR1 has been out 2 or 3 weeks (I am not sure) I lost my starting C during the season, my LB1 Megna was injured for 6 weeks. If you only have a team with super stars and sh*tty back ups you will have a problem at the end I think.

Ps: I was more referring to the Deutsche reich which resulted in World War II

[Mario ADK]

Shame not to see a team at full strength in the playoffs but thats football

Well, Austria is defenitely at full strengh regarding starters....

To Niki:
i agree with your points, nevermind my saying.
Since the departure of Jason Compton i am searching for a little "battlefield of words" from time to time. But i never intend to offend you as a "real" person. But as you are the GM of the most successful team so far AND as you are playing im my conference i try to spark some fire in order to have a great EFC-finals against you....
so at least you can be sure of that 16 GMs will cheer for you when you make it there....
oh if forgot: you won´t make it to the EFC-game anyway       ;-)

[Paul-London]

You have to be careful winding people up Mario !  I Know you are joking but on forums its difficult to do because people cant judge your tone.  If you were in person in a bar then people would realise you were joking so perhaps a few more smileys by your text so people know you arent being serious !  I know you arent being serious but its difficult to tell on text

You keep talking about the EFC Game, surely you should be hyping this game up 'if' you beat Scotland !  You seem to be taking them for granted at the moment !  Hype up the EFC Game and slate Amsterdam if you get there, still have Scotland to get past who are playing very well at the moment.  Scotland are 5-2 on the road this year and they are playing their best offensive football at the moment with Nall/Malan.

[Mario ADK]

Scotland? Who?
is this the father of "beam me up"-Scotty? 

no seriously:
of course every PO-game is crucial and remember last season when every game was decided by a "flip of a coin" and all those games could have gone either way. But i defenitely think that the Claymores (afaik another word for a sword) are melted down by the DarkKnights....

I am veeeeeeeeeeerry confident for the WC-game, but i still think that we are not playing good enough for the EFC-title (which would be my main goal this season).

And if we make it to the bowl i would be happy enough with the EFC-title as i  do not see any way to pass by the AFC-teams, unless my team surprises me in the PO games with exceptional performance.....

[Paul-London]

Well in the league (and also the NFL) some teams can surprise in the playoffs and play a notch above.  I cant wait to sim the games tomorrow evening as on paper all 4 games are going to be very good.  Its a pity i'm away from thurs-sun or we could run the Championship games much earlier also !

[Niki]

Its a pity i'm away from thurs-sun or we could run the Championship games much earlier also !

well I am not, since this weekend I am in Dusseldorf/Cologne to watch to NFLE games  so Monday morning sounds good to me 

[Mario ADK]

"much earlier"?
We play the WC-games on Wednesday evening so we cannot play the Championship-games on Thursday morning due the roster moves etc etc...

Paul,
"if" i make it to the Bowl, please do not play it before Wednesday moring as i am away this weekend until tuesday night and i wóuld not be able to send you any roster moves until tuesday morning - unless i find a way to an internet connection (which i might, but that is not for sure....) Thanks.

[Paul-London]

Well i'll stick to the schedule, wildcard games tomorrow evening (6pm ish GMT) and then as i'm away the Championship games wont be till Monday.  FWL Bowl XV i would like a bit of buildup to so i might do some mini previews after the games and then run FWL Bowl XV on Friday 28th April.  Then we'll have a very short break (at the end of the day most GM's dont trade till after the retirements) and then run retirements and have a bit of time for trading and also sorting out the draftees which is a lot of work.

Hope to get running Season 16 soon after but we need a bit of time for offseason trading and setting up the draft.

Its great now you have i think every FWL player in the league who has been drafted now and theres no original FWL players.

[jcompton-Orlando]

Maybe someone can sponsor the Kreiner/Compton Fantasy League. Both of us get all nine teams in one conference, and the regular season and playoffs are just a tuneup for the pivotal league championship at the end pitting the best Compton team against the best Kreiner team.

[Paul-London]

Its such a shame you cant get teams from older files. I of course can load up a Season 4 team for example but i can only pit two Season 4 clubs against each other.  Be great if you could have the Season 10 FWL Bowl champs against the Season 3 champs etc

[Andrew-Neutral]

You hear that, Battye? Niki's talking smack about us.

hehe you know I told you to stay in the fwl, Battye was a shock he did not even say he considered to stop, I would have said the same if both of you were still a gm! I am more or less saying we have not those kinds of gm's that trade away a whole team for peanuts (nice food btw) and then stop

Only just seen this thread!!! I'll accept that Niki wasn't talking about us! I've always known that I've been a "bad" GM - i.e. not winning many games, rather than a "bad GM", i.e. trading away all the best players and then vanishing. I agonised long and hard about resigning from Paris, as Paul will tell you, as he got the email exchange. The final straw came when the FWL was blocked by work's internet software! Anyway, it's much more relaxing watching Paris lose when you're not the GM!

[micheàl-no team]

You hear that, Battye? Niki's talking smack about us.

hehe you know I told you to stay in the fwl, Battye was a shock he did not even say he considered to stop, I would have said the same if both of you were still a gm! I am more or less saying we have not those kinds of gm's that trade away a whole team for peanuts (nice food btw) and then stop

Only just seen this thread!!! I'll accept that Niki wasn't talking about us! I've always known that I've been a "bad" GM - i.e. not winning many games, rather than a "bad GM", i.e. trading away all the best players and then vanishing. I agonised long and hard about resigning from Paris, as Paul will tell you, as he got the email exchange. The final straw came when the FWL was blocked by work's internet software! Anyway, it's much more relaxing watching Paris lose when you're not the GM!

well at least someones enjoying that 

[Mario ADK]

Maybe someone can sponsor the Kreiner/Compton Fantasy League. Both of us get all nine teams in one conference, and the regular season and playoffs are just a tuneup for the pivotal league championship at the end pitting the best Compton team against the best Kreiner team.

but shouldn´t it be the best two teams competing each other?

So it would be Kreiner1 vs. Kreiner2, right? 

[scottishclaymore]

>Scotland? Who?


Beware the sharp edge of the Claymore Mario  ..................  Ignore both sides at your peril

The offense SEEMS average the Defense SEEMS average together ARE they average???



Time will tell , time will tell , perhaps you count on your match up with the Admirals just a little too early 

You have only a fifteen point loss to overcome and you will have your starters back, but now we are angry
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   (jokin)

The pen is mightier than the sword UNLESS that sword IS A CLAYMORE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope the game is a classic

Ronnie
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