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You might as well stevie.. everybody i've drafted is already in a storyline rather than a simple match. That's why I wanted to draft Cornette last time, it all gelled together.

Sorry. Arguably the most well known masked luchador in the world, this man was the first masked man to appear in the Garden if memory serves. Former PWI Most Popular Wrestler Of The Year.. Mil Máscaras

I don't know.. I haven't been around in 36 hours or so myself, with it being a PPV and also the weekend, I'm sure in a few days all picks would be back up.

Makeup picks: Mystery Eskimo UndertakerHart RonL21

Sorry for the holdup, I was watching last night's PPV and didnt want to find spoilers on here. Jim Cornette My authority figure, the man who makes the matches. All in all.. The Boss.

(Bramble) He'll be here next season, this season he has a better midfield around him, this new signing from Porto, Kris Commons, Savage, Feilhaber is still here too.. there's a good chance we've got the best midfield in the league. Rob Hulse, Nathan Ellington and Emanuel Villa up front, we'll be a very attacking force. Albrechtson arrived from West Brom too so he'll beef up our defence. Come to think of it, and it feels wrong saying it.. Derby might do well this year.

Re: Barnes See if you can find (youtube?) his goal against Sunderland the season we both went up (they beat us 2-1 at their place) - It was probably one of the best goals ever by a Derby player. Useless trivia for Earnshaw (who we sold to Forest of all people.. imagine selling your record signing to Sunderland) he's the only man to score a hattrick at League Two, League One, Championship, Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup AND International level. Actually true. Premiership, West Brom vs Charlton, 19 March 2005 Division 1, Cardiff vs Gillingham, 19 September 2003 Division 2, Cardiff vs Q.P.R., 29 November 2002 and Tranmere March 14, 2003 Division 3, Cardiff vs Torquay United, 12 February 2000 FA Cup, Cardiff vs Bristol Rovers, 19 November 2000 League Cup, Cardiff vs Boston United, 11 September 2002, and Leyton Orient, August 12, 2003 International, Wales vs Scotland, 18 February 2004 In fact, here's the Barnes goal. FF to the 52 second mark.

The problem was that we came up two years too soon. We were just like West Brom two years ago.. we went up and they didn't, they had an extra year to get stronger and they have, so they won't be as bad as we are. The other thing was, we weren't the third best team in the Championship that year. We did finish third, by a good 10 points or so too after leading the league for a lot of the season.. but we were scraping scrappy 1-0 wins. Billy Davies took an average Championship team and managed to lead them to a lot of scrappy results, we didn't deserve to go up in West Brom's place at all. Now, as for the second part of the problem - making the step up. To survive in this top division, you need at least three players who will walk into 90% of the sides in the league, and 13 or 14 players who could be good squad players for other teams. The best Derby had was Miller and Barnes, who many could argue would struggle to get into any top 10 team at the most. So who did we sign? Rob Earnshaw was our record signing. In fact, he might have been the only signing before the season started. We got Miller in August or so, but either way, we just weren't ready. We spent about £15m on 7 players or so, 6 of them League One/Championship standard. The truth is, when Jewell came in, he inherited a side that WAS terrible, it wasn't a secret. We just couldn't compete, we could only compete if we could sign a good 5 or 6 Premiership quality players. Jewell did make some good signings though, he bought Savage and Roy Carroll, at least they had top flight experience. Now he's bought ten new players including that one loan signing, and he's starting to put his own stamp on the team. So the season ahead IS promising, but as a Derby fan, we don't get our hopes up. Here's a flutter for those who like one.. A workmate has just got odds of 20-1 that Derby finish outside the top six in the Championship.

UndertakerHart to go again.

I was actually waiting for King Kev to come back to me.

I'll keep an eye on that Chris. This polish lad.. his FM stats make him look like a 'good signing for most Premier League teams' But who knows.

Gerald 'Jerry' Brisco (I hope he hasn't gone.. I haven't seen him though) I regret not taking them as a team earlier, and now i've got the chance for Team Priceless or some other team to be disrespecting Jack until Jerry comes to his aid and teaches them kids some real respect. He's the one on the left, of course.

Am I up now?

Chriswok has 2 picks.

I think Montreal is the perfect example of just refusing to job. There was no way in hell Bret would agree to lose in his home country, and likewise there was no way to hell Michaels would agree to lose to his bitter rival. Simply put, they just both refused to lose.

Like my centre-back Roy McFarland, I was scared of picking him just for the reason a lot of North American users might not even know who he was. Two great, great players though.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11696_3834436,00.html What a signing! Well, maybe. Pedigree sounds good though.

Yeah of course, I like running this thread. Page 1 updated.

I think its more along the lines of Vickie kissing anybody.

You've got 10 minutes of thought so we expect a gem of a pick!

Kamala is indeed up.

How many picks is that now? 5 duplicates?

I love that photo of Anfield. I love watching Liverpool, especially on European nights, there's just no better place.

909 might as well go now, Jorge is in debt with picks.

It was between Shankly and Busby for me. I wasn't going to go with the manager until the end but someone jumped the gun, and, well, monkey see, monkey do.