Cup Opposition

[Simon]

Casu?

Basques will be way, way, way, way too strong for us btw.

thats the one, 542 goals in 549 games...

 

[Matteh]

I can find it for you

Would be a big effort if you do.

 

[Matteh]

Time for an update i reckon.

Notts Forest 15
LA Galaxy 13
Sydney FC 13
Vauxhall Motors 12
Vatican National Team 12
Perth Glory 11
NZ Knights 11
Bodo Glimt 11
Hearts of Oak 11
Go Ahead Eagles 10
Kashima Antlers 9
Doncaster Rovers 9
S****horpe 9
Mansfield Town 9
MSV Duisberg 8
Bangor City 8
Torquay 8
Red Star Belgrade 7
New England Revolution 7
Orlando Pirates 7
TNS 7

21 clubs there. Would imagine that most of them will be in the competition.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

While on the subject of spelling corrections, surely a Bundesliga anorak like yourself should know it's spelled MSV Duisburg?

 

[Matteh]

Look the thing is, a berg is a mountain and a burg is a castle so they both make sense as place names. Classic example i can think of is Salzburg and the Obersalzberg. They are literally within a couple of miles of each other and Salzburg has mountains and a castle. So it's an easy mistake with a good excuse for a German student to get himself out of it.

At a guess they'd be pretty similar in Norwegian too, but that could go either way.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Look the thing is, a berg is a mountain and a burg is a castle so they both make sense as place names. Classic example i can think of is Salzburg and the Obersalzberg. They are literally within a couple of miles of each other and Salzburg has mountains and a castle. So it's an easy mistake with a good excuse for a German student to get himself out of it.

At a guess they'd be pretty similar in Norwegian too, but that could go either way.

Yeah, it's "berg" or "borg". However, we don't have any castles here, so that's that problem solved.

 

[ash chaulk]

While on the subject of spelling corrections, surely a Bundesliga anorak like yourself should know it's spelled MSV Duisburg?

played at the MSV arena its pretty nice. Nice surface and awesome club rooms. Atmosphere was awesome even if we did only ave 9000 people for our game.

 

[Matteh]

That the American Football thing you did?

 

[ash chaulk]

ya mun

 

[Dizzy #4]

Last chance to vote tommorow! I wonder who will the pope will send, as far as I know, they got a lot of Brazillians in their coffers.

 

[Matteh]

Turns out the Vatican Team is made up almost entirely of Swiss Guards.

 

[Dizzy #4]

Last time, yes, but I'm sure they'll be adding from the many sites they set up overwhelming full of Brazillians.

Still Swiss gurads or not, they'll still be very intresting!

 

[Matteh]

Made a Vatican roster tonight. Looks....interesting shall we say.

 

[Dizzy #4]

Can We see?

 

[Matteh]

Name         Age Nat St Tk Ps Sh Ag KAb TAb PAb SAb Gam Sav Ktk Kps Sht Gls Ass  DP Inj Sus
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Erwin_Maeder  35 vat 10  4  1  1 19 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
R_Baumgartner 30 vat  7  5  1  1 11 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
A_Walpen      30 vat  1 10 10  1 37 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Dariusz_Koch  38 vat  1 11  9  1 25 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Ben_Coco      24 vat  1  7  9  1 20 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Alf_Merga     22 vat  1  9 11  1 26 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
H_Andenmatten 24 vat  1 10 10  6 30 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Yan_Graf      26 vat  1 11  8  4 29 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Sven_Meier    24 vat  1  9 11  6 25 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Franz_Clemenz 23 vat  1  2  8 10 30 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
J_Schumacher  30 vat  1  3  9  9 39 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Kiefer_Sieber 31 vat  1  5 12  5 39 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Alan_Fringeli 25 vat  1  7  9  6 22 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Quido_Karlen  28 vat  1  3  7  9 36 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Si_Halbheer   34 vat  1  6  3 11 32 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
C_Eggenserger 23 vat  1  1 10  5 24 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Halbwitte_Utz 21 vat  1  4  8 14 28 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Willy_Imstepf 21 vat  1  3  2 10 27 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Terry_Hasler  30 vat  1  8 10  5 30 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Yves_Roggen   24 vat  1  7  4  5 22 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Aldo_Haag     23 vat  1  1  5  9 33 300 300 300 300   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0

The surnames are all surnames of Swiss Guards, i took creative license with the first names.
Did a couple of preliminary simmed games to see how dire they were and a provisional MSV Duisberg team won 43-0.

 

[Perm]

Did a couple of preliminary simmed games to see how dire they were and a provisional MSV Duisberg team won 43-0.

Haha, doesn't sound good for Vatican City.

 

[Matteh]

Right then, the poll is closed.

The teams that have made it are:

LA Galaxy
Red Star Belgrade
Sydney FC
Perth Glory
Kashima Antlers
MSV Duisburg
NZ Knights
Notts Forest
Go Ahead Eagles
F.K. Bodo Glimt
Doncaster Rovers
TNS
Bangor City
S****horpe
Mansfield Town
Hearts of Oak
Torquay
Mohammedan SC
Vauxhall Motors
Vatican National Team

Draw to be announced shortly.

 

[pasag]

Gutted.

 

[Matteh]

Round 1 Draw

Perth Glory v Vauxhall Motors

Notts Forest v Bangor City

Kashima Antlers v LA Galaxy

Sydney FC v Mohammedan SC

Go Ahead Eagles v MSV Duisburg

TNS v Doncaster Rovers

F.K. Bodo Glimt v Hearts of Oak

Vatican National Team v Mansfield Town

Red Star Belgrade v Torquay

NZ Knights v S****horpe

 

[Perm]

Glad to see the Knights are there, no doubt providing much embarrassment for their Kiwi supporters.