Posts by Charles Roberts33

Kyle Campbell4 said:The crow doesn't actually say much of anything bad. You can just feel this suppressed violence vibrating off of him constantly, like he's struggling to keep a lid on it. That's the kind of energy he puts out. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if he were a domestic abuser.

I wouldn't be shocked either—nothing really surprises me anymore—but I'm not going to levy such serious slander based on someone's "vibe."

Nathan Murphy said:Actually, they do let tourists in—you just have to know how to navigate the system.

Man, I should probably keep my thoughts to myself after hearing about Lila passing. People already asked him what happened, but he wouldn't say anything, almost like he wasn't ready to face it. It crossed my mind that maybe he killed her and buried her—look, I'm just being honest about the thought that popped into my head. I also remembered some old videos from before he moved in with his Chocolate; he used to talk quite negatively about dogs, so that's why it flashed through my mind. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me. The guy is a textbook sociopath. But eventually, the investigators will dig into it, I'm sure of it.

Did you see where Doris was?
Just remember: those who fly high often fall hard.

☕

Give it a rest, man.🤣🤣

The locals in Bađun might think he's a joke, or at least that's what the folks in Dalmoš would say, but calling him a sociopath? Really? When you hear the guy explaining how "less is more" is actually a valid concept—even if he talks a mile a minute like a broken record—it doesn't make him a monster. Everyone has their quirks. There's a difference between making fun of his clumsy lies and completely assassinating his character to make him look worse than he is. Personally, I find him quite likable; he seems like a harmless enough guy.

What's more intense to me are these basement dwellers who track his every single word for two years straight, trying to catch him in a lie every chance they get, even though nobody else cares anymore.

new additions:

William Gallas
Eric Abidal
Mario Coluna
Filipe Luis
Francesco Toldo
Dunga
Luis Arconada
Edmundo
Jorg Heinrich

I’m calling out the three of you left to get your entries in by midnight.

If you can't make that deadline, you have until noon tomorrow.

A quick heads-up for everyone: we're looking to wrap up these two PB rounds as soon as possible. There’s really no reason to drag this out, so I suggest checking the forum throughout the day to see when registration opens.

Srećko Lušić took a -5 point hit due to incorrect submissions.

A quick note for those who advanced:

You need to keep submitting blocks until the round wraps up, but don't target players you’ve already blocked.

For those still scouting, you know the drill—no re-selecting or re-blocking anyone you've already dealt with this round.

I'm back in isolation again, LOL. Plenty of free time on my hands. As far as I'm concerned, we can push through the second round until midnight if needed.

NEW PLAYERS:

Ivan Zamorano
Michael Ballack
Zvonimir Boban
Donato
Diego Simeone
Bebeto
Mark van Bommel
Dimitar Berbatov

Is anyone else still following the White Wizard?

R.I.P. Lila 🙂🙂

It looks like they handed Josué, the former Wolfsburg captain, to Mil over to him like he was some kind of sacrificial lamb.

So, the plan was already set: we’re running two P/B rounds, broken down into four distinct stages.

For this current stage, here are your instructions:

- Select a player for yourself.
- Block another player for someone else.

Your pick only counts if nobody else in the pool tries to select or block your target.

Keep in mind, you can only select or block a specific player once per round.

Continue making picks until you land a successful one or the round wraps up.

And don't stop sending blocks while there are still active players in the mix.

Blocked players stay in the pool; however, successfully picked players are replaced by new ones. For instance, if your attempt at Player K fails in the first stage, someone else could potentially snag them in the third stage, provided they aren't being contested.

Failure to submit either picks or blocks will result in a ten-point penalty.

The deadline for the first stage is tomorrow at 2:00 PM.

The latest batch of suggestions has arrived:

These include

David Alaba
Alemao
George Best
Gianluigi Buffon
Eric Cantona
Jan Ceulemans
Hector Chumpitaz
Ashley Cole
Kenny Dalglish
Ciro Ferrara
Thomas Helveg
Gary Lineker
Gary Neville
Pepe
Jean-Marie Pfaff
Raymond Kopa
Paolo Rossi
Ivan Rakitić
Walter Samuel
Omar Sivori
Peter Shilton
Antoni Szymanowski
Davor Šuker
Francesco Totti
Mario Zagallo
Dino Zof

And since some names from the previous list aren't available, here are more additions:

Jose Altafini
Franz Beckenbauer
Giuseppe Bergomi
Laurent Blanc
Maxime Bossis
Andreas Brehme
Cafu
Fabio Cannavaro
Iker Casillas
Petr Čech
Bobby Charlton
Giorgio Chiellini
Johan Cruyff
Rinat Dasayev
Edgar Davids
Marcel Desailly
Alfredo di Stefano
Didi
Eusebio
Elias Figueroa
Karl-Heinz Förster
Claudio Gentile
Alain Giresse
Alan Hansen
Andres Iniesta
Jairzinho
Manfred Kaltz
Ronald Koeman
Jürgen Kohler
Philipp Lahm
Paolo Maldini
Diego Maradona
Giuseppe Meazza
Luka Modrić
Bobby Moore
Gerd Müller
Thomas N'Kono
Johan Neeskens
Alessandro Nesta
Günter Netzer
Daniel Passarella
Pelé
Michel Platini
Fernando Redondo
Bryan Robson
Romário
Ronaldinho
Ronaldo
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
Mathias Sammer
Djalma Santos
Nilton Santos
Karl-Heinz Schnellinger
Bernd Schuster
Socrates
Hristo Stoitkov
Luis Suárez Miramontes
Luis Suárez
Marius Trésor
Marco van Basten
Edwin van der Sar
Nemanja Vidić
Patrick Vieira
Berti Vogts
Xavi
Javier Zanetti
Zico

I briefly considered adding another criterion where each participant would pick a player coached by the manager they were assigned via their alias, but honestly, I don't see the point. Besides, I’m itching to wrap this whole thing up just so I can finally put that tedious Feanora on ignore. ☕

Bogdan has been assigned Sergio Tejera as his sheep.

Ilija Lončarević will be assigning the sheep to Petković.

I’ll be doing another thorough sweep of the unavailable players list today. In the meantime, feel free to send over any new suggestions for the unavailable list by midnight. You can, or you can not.

You have until noon tomorrow to get your reports in if you're planning on doing some heavy lifting tonight, though this could easily be knocked out today.

Banned players following this round:

Czech
Jairzinho
Davids, Edgar

It looks like Paul Nguyen was assigned some guy named Carlos Valdes—total sheep move.

The deadline for retakes is tomorrow at 4:00 PM.

It looks like rowdybison4 was assigned a sheep instead of a wolf.

A new criterion and a previous one (we’ll have another quick round for the connoisseurs)

It's simple:

Pick a player:

- One whose nationality you haven't picked yet
- Whose last name starts with a letter that isn't the starting letter of any player you've already chosen

For Brazilian, Portuguese, or Angolan players—and others from Lusophone regions—we go by the sporting name they used to build their football reputation. For instance, if you pick Tostao this round, we consider his name to start with 'T', not the 'G' found on his official documents for Gonçalves.
With Brazilians or Portuguese players who use two sporting names, like 'Dani Alves,' we look at the second one.
For players with two surnames, we use the first one (for example, if someone is listed as Smith-Jones, the name starts with 'S').

Regarding players born in one country who took citizenship in another and played for that nation's team, we will count their nationality as the country they represented at the senior international level. If you choose a dual-national player who never played senior international football, we will consider their nationality to be the country where they were born.

You will send me
- The name of the player you want
- Their Wiki profile
- A list of all the players you have selected so far

Let's get this sorted.

The deadline is tomorrow at 10:00 PM. I know everyone has different obligations and varying times to get online, but I'm fairly certain we can wrap this up by this afternoon.

ALL UNAVAILABLE PLAYERS
Altafini, Jose
Bendtner, Nicklas
Bergomi, Giuseppe
Blanc, Laurent
Bossis, Maxime
Brehme, Andreas
Cafu
Cannavaro, Fabio
Casillas, Iker
Charlton, Bobby
Chiellini, Giorgio
Cruijff, Johan
Dasayev, Rinat
Desailly, Marcel
Didi
Di Stefano, Alfredo
Eusebio
Figueroa, Elias
Forster, Karl-Heinz
Gentile, Claudio
Giresse, Alain
Hansen, Alan
Iniesta, Andres
Kaltz, Manfred
Koeman, Ronald
Kohler, Jurgen
Lahm, Philipp
Maldini, Paolo
Maradona, Diego Armando
Meazza, Giuseppe
Modrić, Luka
Moore, Bobby
Muller, Gerd
Neeskens, Johan
Nesta, Alessandro
Netzer, Gunter
N’Kono Joseph
Passarella, Daniel
Pele
Platini, Michel
Redondo, Fernando
Robson, Bryan
Romario
Ronaldinho
Ronaldo
Rummenige, Karl-Heinz
Sammer, Mathias
Santos, Djalma
Santos, Nilton
Socrates
Schnellinger, Karl-Heinz
Stoichkov, Hristo
Suarez Miramontes, Luis
Suarez, Luis
Tresor, Marius
Van Basten, Marco
Van der Sar, Edvin
Vidić, Nemanja
Vieira, Patrick
Vogts, Berti
Zanetti, Javier
Zico
Xavi

ALL AVAILABLE PLAYERS

Alba, Jordi
Albert, Florian
Albertini, Demetrio
Alberto, Carlos
Aldair
Alves, Dani
Amoros, Manuel
Ayala, Roberto
Augenthaler, Klaus
Baggio, Roberto
Bakota, Bozhо
Banks, Gordon
Baresi, Franco
Batistuta, Gabriel
Beara, Vladimir
Beckham, David
Bellini, Hilderaldo
Benetti, Romeo
Bergkamp, Denis
Bergmark, Orvar
Bettega, Roberto
Blanker (CM)
Blohin, Oleg
Boniek, Zbigniew
Boszik, Josef
Branco
Breitner, Paul
Bremner, Billy
Briaschi (CF)
Briegel, Hans-Peter
Buchwald, Guido
Burgnich, Tarcisio
Burruchaga (AM)
Busquets, Dani
Camoranesi, Mauro German
Campbell, Sol
Carlos, Roberto
Cabrini, Antonio
Cerezo, Toninho
Chilavert, Jose Luis
Chus Herrera (CF)
Clodoaldo
Costacurta, Alessandro
Courtois, Thibaut
Couto, Fernando
Cubillas, Teofilo
Czibor, Zoltan
De Boer, Frank
De Bruyne, Kevin
De Rossi, Daniele
Del Piero, Alessandro
Deschamps, Didier
Dida
Dossena (AM)
Drogba, Didier
Džajić, Dragan
Effenberg, Stefan
Eto’o, Samuel
Facchetti, Giacinto
Falcao, Paulo Roberto
Ferdinand, Rio
Ferri (CB)
Figo, Luis
Flohe, Heinz
Fontaine, Just
Francescoli, Enzo
Garrincha
Gattuso, Gennaro
Gerets, Eric
Gerrard, Steven
Gento, Francisco
Gerson
Giggs, Ryan
Gilmar
Godin, Diego
Goikoetxea, Andoni
Gourcuff, Yoann
Govedarica, Dejan
Gullit, Ruud
Hassler, Thomas
Hazard, Thorgan
Heitinga, Jonny
Helguera, Ivan
Hierro, Fernando
Henry, Thierry
Horvat, Ivan
Hrubesch, Horst
Hughes, Mark
Hugo Sanchez (CF)
Ibrahimović, Zlatan
Illgner, Bodo
Jarni, Robert
Jašin, Lav
Jimenez, Luis
Jonquet, Robert
Jorginho I.
Junior, Leo
Juanito
Kahn, Oliver
Kaka
Kante, N’golo
Keane, Roy
Keegan, Kevin
Kempes, Mario
Kimmich, Joshua
Klinsmann, Jurgen
Kocsis, Sandor
Krol, Ruus
Kroos, Toni
Kubala, Laszlo
Kyrgiakos, Sotirios
Labruna, Angel
Lato, Grzegorz
Laudrup, Michael
Le Tissier, Matt
Lewandowski, Robert
Lipošinović, Luka
Lizarazu, Bixente
Lucio
Maicon
Maier, Sepp
Makelele, Claude
Marcelo
Marzolini, Silvio
Mascherano, Javier
Masopust, Josef
Matthäus, Lotthar
Matthews, Stanley
McKennie, Weston
Messi, Leo
Mijatović, Predrag
Montero, Paolo
Monti, Luis
Moutinho, Joao
Muller, Thomas
Neal, Philip
Nedved, Pavel
Neuer, Manuel
Nielsen, Ivan
Nordahl, Gunnar
Overath, Wolfgang
Pagliuca, Gianluca
Pančev, Darko
Pique, Gerard
Pirlo, Andrea
Piot, Christian
Preud’homme, Michel
Prosinečki, Robert
Puskas, Ferencz
Puyol, Carles
Ramos, Sergio
Ramsey, Aaron
Recoba, Alvaro
Rensenbrink, Rob
Reus, Marco
Rijkaard, Frank
Riquelme, Rodrigo
Rivaldo
Rivelino
Rivera, Gianni
Robben, Arjen
Ronaldo, Cristiano
Rooney, Wayne
Ruggeri, Oscar
Santamaria, Jose
Savičević, Dejan
Schumacher, Thomas
Schwarzenbeck, Hans-Georg
Schweinsteiger, Bastian
Scirea, Gaetano
Scholes, Paul
Schuster, Bernd
Seedorf, Clarence
Seeler, Uwe
Silva, David
Souness, Graeme
Stam, Jaap
Stielike, Uli
Stojković, Dragan
Suurbier, Wim
Ševčenko, Andrij
Tardelli, Marco
Tassotti, Mauro
Terry, John
Ter Stegen, Marc Andre
Thiago Silva (CB)
Thuram, Lillian
Tigana, Jean
Toricelli, Moreno
Tostao
Toure, Yaya
Uralde, Pedro
Valdes, Victor
Van Breukelen, Hans
Van Bronckhorst, Giovanni
Van Dijk, Virgil
Van Hanegem, Willem
Van Nistelrooy, Ruud
Van Persie, Robin
Varela, Obdulio
Vasović, Velibor
Vidal, Arturo
Vierchowod, Pietro
Weah, George
Virdis (CF)
Vokrri, Vadil
Xabi Alonso
Zambrotta, Gianluca
Zenga, Walter
Zidane, Zinedine
Zito
Zola, Gianfranco
Zubizarreta, Andoni

It looks like Tomica Ivković will be picking the next successor to Bogdan's legacy—and he's coming from that legendary 1950s American squad that pulled off the famous Maracanazo upset.

Larry Fox5 said:So he writes that he'll renounce his citizenship if Vučić stops acting out?

What was I supposed to take away from that—that he's a Frenchman?

Honestly, your post just gave me an opening to address Kyle Campbell4's accusations regarding Angrifov's account.

As for that boldbadger1 comment, I took it to mean he’s so mesmerized by Vučić's campaign ads that they might actually drive him back to the faith of his ancestors.😬

Larry Fox5 said:What's wrong with you, man? Why the hate?🤔

Maybe he's just a little too pro-Mexican, or perhaps a Russian mercenary.

The group here has completely lost its mind. The way people toss these accusations around so nonchalantly is something else. 🤦

Let’s get this wrapped up today. Deadline is midnight.

New players unavailable:

Forster, Karl-Heinz
Schnellinger, Karl-Heinz

loneseal said:He was obviously a joke before, but today he's a leader you actually have to respect. For a former actor, it's a hell of a surprise.

In the early stages of a crisis, when everyone is terrified of a total meltdown, anything you do or say feels heroic. Honestly, just showing up and proving you haven't run away from your responsibilities is enough. It's the same story here; they were all singing praises for Beroš, and in the end, the clown proved to be nothing more than a clown.

Otherwise, it's pretty funny how the exact same media outlets that mocked Škorin's political ambitions—wondering where on earth he even came from (and rightly so)—are now churning out endless praise for a guy who, just three years before being elected president, was playing piano on TV like some novelty act.

Kyle Campbell4 said:Don't embarrass yourself. This man is the textbook definition of a true president. You don't win wars without leaders like him. He has a story, he has charisma, and he commands the camera with absolute authority. He refused to leave Kyiv even when the Americans tried to pull him out because they were expecting the city to fall quickly. He survived three assassination attempts by special forces units right inside Kyiv. When they tried to evacuate him, he told them he didn't need a ride—he needed weapons. Every single day, he sends messages from Kyiv just so the people can see that the lies and the propaganda claiming he fled the city are complete nonsense. He does the same for the brave citizens across the entire country. He lobbies internationally for aid. But sure, you think he's weak just because he acted like a sensitive soul during his acting days. Let's just go to war so we can talk trash instead.

I respect your takes on geopolitics; I’ve actually learned quite a bit from your posts. I don't approach these topics with absolute certainty myself—I’m perfectly willing to admit when I’m wrong or change my mind on things. However, I won't budge on something as fundamental as hierarchy. In any organization, there are expectations for those in the highest positions. They have to make the hard calls. People aren't going to follow just anyone, and they certainly won't tolerate just anyone representing them, especially when it comes to the head of state.
Remember how much we laughed at those self-proclaimed military experts like Banet and Vulin, who haven't even finished their basic service? And yet here we are, seeing a kid leading the fight against a nuclear superpower—a guy who was shaking his backside in latex on TV seven years ago, and now he’s responsible for millions of lives. There was a time when footage like that would have cost pure gold to keep buried, because that kind of behavior from a leader was simply intolerable. I’m honestly not sure if it’s even tolerated today, or if everyone in the Ukrainian army is truly convinced that this is the kind of persona they need leading them right now.

He’s good on camera, though. I suppose you’d expect nothing less from an actor. But let me keep my skepticism regarding his maneuvers in this war, and frankly, regarding everything the media tries to sell us, no matter who they're trying to please.

Good grief... 🙏

Larry Fox5 said:Honestly, that guy’s got more balls than that pathetic Putin, who's probably hiding in some random bunker in the Ural Mountains right now after always acting like such a macho man.

Take a lesson from that. 👍

Honestly, I couldn't care less about Putko.

If my head were on the line every single second—if the absolute worst-case scenarios were actually happening, cities burning everywhere, my family forced into exile, every day feeling like the last—I certainly wouldn't want a supreme commander who acts like a total drag queen, or even worse, some TV clownlet in the league of Marko Petreković.

I'm not sitting here watching this war with a bowl of popcorn, so I'm not fully up to speed, but I have seen all these glowing tributes about how much of a "tough guy" he is handling the situation. In what way, exactly, has this guy actually shown any guts?

Hold on a second. I just found out that this absolute wreck—the one hopping around in high heels and grabbing people by the backside—is actually some Ukrainian mouse catcher. 🙏🙏 🙏

I knew he was some kind of actor or comedian, sure, but damn. This guy is a complete clown. 🙏

It’s truly inspiring, isn't it? In times like these, having a figure like this leading the charge while shells and bullets are flying everywhere.