Vote has been passed

Well the voting has finished, with 10 of the 14 participants voting on the resolution to “Allow one transfer per team from now until the end of the current Inter-Transfer window (Jan 2nd)”.

And the results are: Yea – 7 ; Nay 3

This is an overwhelming majority by any standards, thus the change will be made so. In fact as soon as I sent out the text on the vote, I had half a dozen replies, so thanks guys & gals. These are the rules:

• One player transfer ONLY.
• It is NOT an extra free transfer. It will be counted as one of the 12 allowed during the season.
• It is an OPTION of a transfer, so you may or may not use it. It is up to your own personal discretion whether to transfer a player or not
• You may request the transfer at any time between now and Jan 2nd. The transfer will apply from when the request is made. Transfers made during matches will come into effect after that match has finished.
• Normal game rules will apply. So please don’t make the usual mistakes (ye know who ye are):

• stay under £60m
• max of 3 players from any one team …
• 4-3-3 formation

Pre-Christmas Transfer?

Due to current injury crisis / severe lack or form / or out of favour amongst our players, a proposal has come from the floor to allow one player transfer to be made from now until the start of the next inter-transfer window (Jan 3rd). This would not be an extra free transfer, but would be counted as one of the 12 than can be made through the season. Now, it is only a proposal an it will be put to a democratic vote, so it can be either be voted for or against.

To change the rules, I will have to insist on an outright majority for those in favour (YEA). A vote not cast will not be counted either way.

A text has been sent out to everyone this morning. The votes will be counted and the result posted here tomorrow morning (Thursday 13th December).

I’m putting it to a vote because I know that views are divided on the matter, and I don’t want to take any personal responsibility. (You can hear me saying cluck, cluck, cluck…..)

Below is a list of the numbers of players affected on each team, So I don’t think that anyone is going to lose out if it goes through.

Pat Murphy	3
Mikes Magicians	2
Don’s Deadlies	2
Hammer XI	2
Sonya	4
Dermot G	1
Shaybees	2
Dermot Mc	2
Mairead	2
Ola’s Eagles	4
Donies Dynamos	2
Donal G	3
Dans Macs	3
Pats Vultures	4

We’re back!!! 2007-2008

Howdy folks, the new season has started and it’s about time to get the Fantasy Football competition underway again. The same as last year … but there might be a few rule changes!

I’ve held back the start date in order to give people a chance to see what players are actually playing on their teams, so everyone can pick a half decent team.

The rules will be based on the YouTheManager site we will be getting our scores from:
http://www.youthemanager.co.uk/CleverTV/en/tmg/dm990/15719/clienthowtoplay.do

How to Play
Study the player list carefully and select your 11 players using the following rules:

1. Select teams in a 1-4-3-3 formation (1 Goalkeeper, 4 Defenders, 3 Midfielders and 3 Strikers).

2. Players must be selected in the positions attributed to them in the official You The Manager player lists. A player can only be selected in a team once – player duplication is not permitted.

3. The combined value of your 11 players must not exceed £60m.

4. There is a limit of 3 players that you can select from any one team [*NEW*]- and you must stay within the budget of £60m. If a player moves to another Premier League club during the course of the season they will remain with their original club for the purposes of You The Manager. Players involved in transfer speculation such as Carlos Tevez, Gabriel Heinze and Leighton Baines will be added in to the game as soon as any transfer has been confirmed. If no transfer happens they will be added to the game nearer to the start of the season. Remember the transfer amnesty is in place until 12.30pm on Saturday August 11th.

5. Our season starts on August 25th, and thus the scoring will start from there. Points will be taken from the YouTheManager.co.uk site at the following pages:
Goalkeepers:http://youthemanager.co.uk/CleverTV/en/tmg/dm990/15719/clientplayerlist.do?index=0&code=Y
Defenders:http://youthemanager.co.uk/CleverTV/en/tmg/dm990/15719/clientplayerlist.do?index=1&code=Y
Midfielders:http://youthemanager.co.uk/CleverTV/en/tmg/dm990/15719/clientplayerlist.do?index=2&code=Y
Strikers:http://youthemanager.co.uk/CleverTV/en/tmg/dm990/15719/clientplayerlist.do?index=3&code=Y

6. You can enter as many teams as you like.

7. To enter a team, contact me on 086- 3644208, or email me at farmercash[at]gmail[dot]com. or just give it to me or DJ on paper before matches start on August 25th.

8. Entry fee: like last year, the entry fee is €20. there is no cost for transfers. There is no administration fee either. (i’m doing it for the good of my own health).

9. All decisions made by the management are final … as opposed the mullocking around that happened last year!

Transfers

I am open to suggestions about the transfer windows. There is the option of no transfer windows … that’s the way that YouTheManager is doing it this year …. or we can have week long transfer windows like last year. I think that the transfer windows are a better job for everyone, because it’s impossible to be scrutinizing your team all year long. Of course it’s a friendly game, and we’re going to be flexible as ever.

In a change to YTM 07/08, there will be NO TRANSFER WINDOWS. Each team will be able to use up to 15 transfers throughout the course of the competition. You can start to make transfers during the season on the 4th September 2007. Transfers operate on a weekly basis with one cut-off / team freeze at 12.30pm on Saturdays.

Weekly Scoring Notifications: hmmm, with the increased number of teams expected this year, whoever i can send an email to instead of a text, well that would be appreciated … because i’m running out of free texts to send … because of foreign influences!! 🙂

Happy playing, and i hope to talk to ye all soon.

One final note … is that the rules may be tweaked as the season goes on. Just to keep things as interesting as possible.