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Always good to pick a semi-upset correctly and get a TPE for it, especially when my own GM copied me and also got a TPE

Offer edited to 1.5 to reflect our conversation @Elhandon

1m to come back to Ottawa, we'd be glad to have you return - this will be a down year, but plenty of playing time. Up to you which direction you'd like to go

1m from Ottawa as well, and I'll give you the same top line offer. Lot of playing time and personal stats, but in the interest of full disclosure, Ottawa are rebuilding this season

Ottawa offers 1m. We're not going to be good this year, but you'll get a lot of playing time which could be good for personal stats

Ottawa offers 1m. We're not going to be good this year, but you'll get a lot of playing time which could be good for personal stats

1.5m to come to Ottawa. We're not going to be good, but you'll get a ton of playing time, so it should help personal stats

"Worst team in the tournament (by points and goals scored/conceded): Iran" It didn't work out much better for me. (Saudi were clearly a worse team, but in theory, Russia and potentially Egypt would have been draw opportunities and Iran's group were supposed to be stronger - this is why they play the games)

Oh don't get me wrong I hate Suarez

well, it did...

If only you were in the minors last year To be fair though I'd have had a hard time fitting you, I was cutting guys left and right to fit people

@Lax66 @Tagger

33 hours

6-3 USA over Mercs. You can't get to the box score itself, but you can see the result in the Index.

Is Aamo down? If so, you really ought to try to compete.

I think you can - you're not FA (that's a guy who is out of eligibility, post-draft) you're I'm not sure what it's called but each team gets $7m worth. Absolutely interested to have you in Ottawa though either way

We're also not going to be competitive this season - I'll make the offer, 2m if you want to come to Ottawa, but I'd think Yukon and Oslo are probably the best bets for this year

Marcellin was good, but pretty consistent from game to game, I don't remember him going off in a single game quite like this. He may have though, I was never really that big of a game threads guy

@Lax66 and since it's been over the time, @FacePuncher

This paragraph is twice

I was bored at work and this was the thread that had a post, so I caught up on it - you can tell how much I really care about movies that I hadn't read the thread in that long

(caveat, for Boom: even though they're in AFC, Australia are still deserving of a berth. Not much more than that, though - they're not good, but they're good enough.)

Yeah they're one of the teams I really don't rate beyond maybe fluking into a single draw if they're lucky. I honestly expect them to lose all 3 and do it handily. Same with Iran and whoever loses out of Tunisia and Panama. Japan might get 0 too, although that has more to do with the group (there are no top teams in group H, but all 3 non-Japan teams are kind of tier 2, ones that in an even division of groups, would probably all be 2nd place teams). Ultimately, I think the problem is that AFC qualifying region should never have 5 bids, compared to the other regions. 7 CONMEBOL teams are better than the best AFC team, but they have the same number of bids. Ecuador (not even the best CONMEBOL team to miss, which is Chile) would beat any of Japan, South Korea, Australia, Iran, and Saudi in a 2 leg fixture. Saudi are the type of team that should be borderline scraping in when the field expands to 48, they're not close to worthy of a bid in the current 32 team format.

I think the Saudis end with 0 points. If they get any at all though, it's in the Russia match. I wouldn't mind seeing Serbia do it, I do like Ivanovic although I think he's past it a bit. Definitely going for Poland though

Same as the other one! Tbh I'd rather the D, again I doubt you'll come to Ottawa but I'd obviously be happy to have you