Sand League banter thread 2024-25

Cup has been created ... I have emailed y'all the Code

 

Thanks and now joined , the only other Sand division cup is the Sandy Cup (which will start on Boxing Day and I’ll run the competition on the Sand banter thread. I’ll send the matchups based on the seedings at the Christmas gameweek timepoint. Now I need to make my next pick while trying to watch a hyperactive 8 yr old and a hyperactive dog

 

Haha sorry I did not know you ran a side comp.... I have been off grid for last few years (much to everyones delight I am sure). I guess we can run both these comps? ... or is that overkill

 

I think it’s fine, the more competitions the merrier that’s why Sand is the best division in all-rocks (but I’m biased, I know) Also I can’t seem to escape it anyway with mid-table finishes, but I’m fine with that

 

Now to make my next pick, very unpredictable (and probably questionable one to many to be picked at pick#5). However, I have a soft spot for Fulham since I visited craven cottage in 2003 and I liked the stadium vibe there and also there is a rich history of US players who played for the club (including my two favorite US players, Brian McBride and Clint Dempsey). And now seeing the old gunner Smith-Rowe joining them now, I’m going to roll the dice on him…

 

Haha yep Sand rules... all those snobs in the higher leagues take themselves way too seriously ... we are keeping it real .

I am intrigued by your GK pick in Rd 4.. and strategy there? As one who always picks 'those who hang around with footballers" in Rds 14 & 15 (I would rather not pick them at all tbh) .. I am interested to hear. I am just nosey like that

 

Raya is the clean sheet king, I think he will rack up a lot of points for me. He won last years golden glove as well, so I think it will turn out to be a good pick for this season. 20 clean sheets in 41 appearances is pretty sweet

 

I’m going to put my third forward in as well, busy morning for me tomorrow so good timing to make the pick now and won’t hold things up draft-wise in the morning

 

Back to Javelinas

 

Sounds good to me.

 

I thought it was 24hrs after I pick my last pick ?? I was going to try and time it so everyone else is asleep

 

Haha ... I will fight yous all ... bring it

In seriousness I do not care... I will make my pick soon,and Loko and can pick his keeper when he wakes up.

You can all decide when to start the transfer window, my vote is a I do not care, so go for whever

 

Same here, I’m fine with whatever the group decides

 

Just a heads up for the Sand League Cup... Loko is the only one who has not joined as yet

 

Thanks for posting that Mark and you beat me to Fullkrug. I've been a big fan of his ever since he was on my favorite Bundesliga team Werder Bremen. Once he left, they don't really have much of a consistent scorer anymore (maybe they could bring back their all-time best scorer Miroslav Klose? | wish

 

Also wanted to give a heads-up to all Sand managers (before I forget later) that at the conclusion of this season there will be the 7th and 8th place teams starting a resurrected Dust league for next season. Also, we will be having two new managers (actually one new and one veteran manager) join Sand next season, which will be "promoted" to replace the two relegated Sand managers after this season. One manager is my son Quinn (with his team the Mighty Quinn FC) and the other manager is an all-rocks veteran Keysersoze who has also expressed interest in joining Sand next season. These two teams together with the two teams relegated from Small Rocks at the end of this season (plus the middle four teams remaining from sand) will fill out the 8 teams needed for sand next season.

In addition, we will need 6 more managers to fill out the rest of Dust league. So during the upcoming season if you could all please try to find someone you know who might want to join
All-rocks and we will have them set to join Dust. They will have to start from the bottom division (like I did and many others did in dust league, but my first year joining All-Rocks in Dust league was alot of fun) and work their way up to Sand and beyond. And with two of us currently in Sand who will be reforming Dust, it will be helpful to already have two experienced managers to help the other six new Dust managers find their way. Also I could run the Dusty Cup and Sandy Cup in parallel, it will just be a question of which league that I'll wind up being a part of after this season

The return of the Dust league will definitely be cool to have the four divisions going again, luckily there's a entire year to find those other six managers, so that should give us enough time to do that. I think sand would need to be the ones to enable this, since I’m not sure if the other two leagues will try to find new dust managers, so we should expect that we in sand will need to find all six to complete dust.

Sorry for the long post but just wanted to get all the details out there now, so we have plenty of time to make this happen for next season.
Thanks all and good luck with the new season!

 

Dust League 2025-2026:
Dust manager #1 = 7th place Sand manager (relegated)
Dust manager #2 = 8th place Sand manager (relegated)
Dust managers #3-8 = new managers (found from current Sand managers)

For any new dust managers found for next season by sand members, the sand members who referred them will have their team names written in sand (either at Sea Isle NJ or Wrightsville Beach NC, I go to those two beaches every year). Now if that doesn’t motivate us all I don’t know what will

 

I think we should already have 1 extra member for Dust next year , old mate who got catapulted into Small Rocks when Keyser was pushed out

 

Just a heads up - I've shared access to our spreadsheet with REVEALED: Starboy XI (Mark). He authored the script that generates the taken players page and is going to get it back up and running.