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It remains @Shane Laz' pick, for another 4 hours or so.

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What's your most recent FM save? Good to see someone else plays FM. I have one going right now with Dorog of the Hungarian second tier, got them promoted, currently on pace to make the Europa Conference League

This is fantastic and deep and just the sort of thought experiment I enjoy, both to read about and to sometimes have for myself. Honestly feel like I've learned something about you as a member.

F - Onde Sandstrom @Hoopydog

This year was no different than most in that I feel like my first rounder was pretty well telegraphed ahead of time. Most people who knew any insider draft info at all knew that barring one of a handful of guys inexplicably falling, Nathan Powers @JB123 was coming to Prague at 9th. TPE-wise he would arguably have been projected more toward the back end of the first round, rather than almost exactly in the middle, but honestly I have a bit of a type. The job of VHLM Commissioner gives me a leg up on guys like Powers, coming in and almost immediately getting the Ottawa AGM job (not to mention a Pro Am GM job, even though that's not directly affiliated with the league). It shows me he's already integrating into the community in a way that some with a higher pure TPE count might or might not be, and it makes him in my eyes a particularly certain bet to become good. In the second, I'll admit to a bit more uncertainty. I actually didn't know a whole lot about Otto Numminen @Otto Numminen before the draft, but work was dead enough that I started looking a little down the list of draftees at around 13-14th pick at who was likely to still be around at that stage, to see if I could spot anyone that seemed under the radar, or at least more valuable than where their TPE put them. I had about 10 tabs open just among draftee portal pages, but Numminen's stood out to me over several others, plus as one of the few members in every VHLM discord, I can just take a quick look and check on them to see if a guy is around, which is a great tool to have on draft night. Basically at that point barring any fallers (and Miklavs went by then as expected, despite his fall earlier) Numminen was going to be the pick. By the early 3rd, there were a lot of teams looking to trade out of the draft, in some cases due to this draft largely being considered less deep and a preference to maybe take a shot at a different season's pick, and in other cases simply a matter of the GM wanting to sleep or do other things at that stage. One of the guys I'd had a tab open for from earlier, Alexander Rivers @DrummerBoy15, was still around and @Domg5 was hyping him up some in the draft strats area of Prague discord as well. When you have a guy that both the GM and the AGM want, and the trade up value is decent, it's kind of a no brainer. We sent a later season 3rd to Riga and picked up Rivers at this stage which has so far looked like a fantastic decision. The later 3rd was a bit more of a matter of taking anyone who was left and had updated recently, and by the time my pick came up (despite adding and removing different tabs as things went on) I was down to just three tabs with players I wanted. One of these was Deke Rike @JCV and he looked a little better than the other two (Bjorn Ceaf had missed a few later weeks, and Ron Gorgonzola had an unusual combo of press conference and practice facility but no welfare) so we went with Rike, and honestly much like the other two, he's looking like the right decision. Normally these draft articles go longer than this, but when I sat down to start this I had 2 hours before the draft, and I've been pinged so many times in so many channels (with pre draft prep stuff mostly) that I haven't been able to put nearly that amount of time into actually writing the article. It's at 582 before this last explanation paragraph, so it's good enough for now, and I'll do up one for FA next week which should cover me for multiple weeks.

Thought process: IF = defense THEN = select. You'd have likely been the pick at 9 had you not gone at 7, although I fully expected you not to have been there at 9, but Miklavs unfortunately wasn't the position we needed

Hasn't been decided yet. VHL GM appointments are blue team, VHLM GM appointments are me and @Acydburn (with blue team input if necessary).

it's the m. 90% of the league is rookies

need to find some sort of neutral server where i can challenge solas in jeopardy

Hope they get it honestly. Didn't know this was a thing, but it certainly makes more sense than being ruled by a place a quarter of the planet away. Still definitely not a country now though

Yes to post Yes to manage

since all the olds are coming back, ill try this once more @Squinty

You understand incorrectly, Greenland is not recognized as a country by any official governing bodies, least of all the UN who are the ones who decide it. I don't even think Greenland has pushed for independence, and are in fact perfectly content to be a Danish territory. Saying that Greenland is basically Denmark is like saying Alaska is basically USA, it just factually is part of Denmark in every conceivable way. Greenland has at no point in its history been a country.

@Seabass

Probably is world, but should be Nordic

not accurate i voted gus

Singh was in Intranquilo's class so this confirms to me that my timeline and v.2's just narrowly didn't overlap. However, I'll go with two older players I've been made aware of through newer players: Gunnar-Rune Rorvik and Sebastien Perrin

You'll know him soon. He's the Prague AGM - basically he's new but he's learning the ropes from me and I'll vouch for him pretty heavily. Probably my favorite new member of the last 5 or so seasons (with all due respect to the rest of the Phamily)

This was me, so I'll explain the -235. GM player tied to the team. Took over GMing from @JardyB10 as we were going into a rebuild, and when I'd gotten us back to the top, I'd retire Intranquilo and bring out Marcellin. Hi, also me. Center for 5 seasons, Defense for 2 (retired in 7, again for GM reasons, needed a goalie and created Martin Brookside).

Well to be fair, the punishment should have been implemented during the Malmo series, which (no offense to Malmo) we likely win anyway.

3rd week post: week ending the 2nd