Post Line-ups Europa Cup V | Final - And the winner is (for real this time)...

[Umair7]

Adam Voges and random

 

[VC the slogger]

Adam Voges and random

Fine, I'll give you Gordon Drummond.

 

[VC the slogger]

Round 1 - Any 1 player

Stormont Shamrocks - Gautam Gambhir
Clontarf Firebirds - Wayne Parnell
Malahide Mavericks - Jacques Kallis
Highland Barbarians - Shakib Al Hasan
Edinburgh Bulls - Michael Hussey
Amsterdam Stallions - Brad Hodge
Hague Harriers - Jamie Atkinson

Round 2 - 2 local players

Clontarf Firebirds - Max Sorensen & Graeme Smith
Malahide Mavericks - Graeme McCarter & Tom Curran 
Edinburgh Bulls - Calum MacLeod & Neil Carter

Round 3 - 1 English/Welsh player

Stormont Shamrocks - Graham Onions
Edinburgh Bulls - Kevin Pietersen
Continental United - Tony Palladino

Round 4 - 1 local player

Stormont Shamrocks - Andy McBrine
Highland Barbarians - Preston Mommsen
Edinburgh Bulls - Majid Haq
Hague Harriers - Bas Zuiderent

Round 5 - Any 1 player 

Stormont Shamrocks - Brett Lee
Clontarf Firebirds - Graeme Swann
Malahide Mavericks - Brendan Taylor
Highland Barbarians - Samit Patel
Edinburgh Bulls - Tim Paine
Amsterdam Stallions - Ian Bell
Hague Harriers - Ryan Driver

Round 6 - 1 English/Welsh player

Stormont Shamrocks - James Tredwell
Clontarf Firebirds - Jonathan Trott
Malahide Mavericks - Ravi Bopara
Edinburgh Bulls - Alfonso Thomas
Hague Harriers - Azeem Rafiq
Continental United - Mark Pettini 

Round 7 - 2 locals

Edinburgh Bulls - Richie Berrington & Safyaan Sharif

Round 8 - Any 1 player

Stormont Shamrocks - Michael Pedersen
Clontarf Firebirds - Chris Jordan
Malahide Mavericks - Simon Jones
Edinburgh Bulls - Shannon Gabriel

Round 9 - 2 locals 

Stormont Shamrocks - Tyrone Kane & Nigel Jones
Clontarf Firebirds - Ben Ackland & Hamish Marshall
Malahide Mavericks - Andrew Riddles &  Stuart Poynter 
Highland Barbarians - Fraser Watts & Matthew Parker
Edinburgh Bulls - Josh Davey & David Murphy
Amsterdam Stallions - Ahsan Malik & Tom de Grooth
Hague Harriers - Andrew de Boorder & Logan van Beek

Round 10 - Any 1 player

Clontarf Firebirds - Craig Young
Edinburgh Bulls - Khurram Khan

Round 11 - 1 local & Any 1 player

Edinburgh Bulls - Gordon Drummond & Adam Voges

The end.

 

[VC the slogger]

Trading window opens

The trading window has been declared open till the conclusion of the warm-up matches. Managers can make as many free agent/formal trades they want during this period. As is the obvious, local players can only be traded in/out for other local players and its likewise for European/Overseas continentals, English/Welsh and overseas players. Only the players in the Europa Cup player list will be considered valid for selection.


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[El Loco]

FA Trades:

Ajinkya Rahane out
Daniel Vettori in

 

[SiriusBlack]

edited

 

[SiriusBlack]

edited

 

[Aislabie]

Can I bring in Steffan Piolet for Bryce McGain, please?

 

[Aislabie]

Hmmm... Looking at a team along the lines of:

Michael Di Venuto
Michael Klinger
Mark Pettini
Simon Katich
Moises Henriques
Gareth Berg
Freddie Klokker
Ben Stevens
Ollie Rayner
Steffan Piolet
Amjad Khan

But that line-up will probably change a bit through the course of the season

 

[Aggz]

Wayne Parnell in for Abdur Razzak

 

[El Loco]

Can I bring in Steffan Piolet for Bryce McGain, please?

Norwegian? You're kidding, right?

 

[Aislabie]

Norwegian? You're kidding, right?

Nope, he's Norwegian qualified, I think.

 

[Sulaiman7]

Yeah he's a Norwegian descent.

 

[VC the slogger]

All the above confirmed.

 

[Sulaiman7]

(1) Paul Stirling
(2) Stuart Poynter
(3) James Taylor
(4) Jacques Kallis
(5) Jeremy Bray
(6) Glenn Maxwell
(7) Alex Cusack
(8) Boyd Rankin
(9) Simon Jones
(10) Peter Connell
(11) George Dockrell

Looks good unless someone under-performs. I would not mind having a local batter as a replacement for James Taylor or Jeremy Bray there, one of them might lose their forms so I could play Bopara this way.

FA trade: Andrew Riddles out, James Shannon in.