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QPR v Man United

As all Aussies know, droughts are always followed by floods, which is usually the same as what happens with Rooneys goalscoring.... and the drought is over. With upcoming games against QPR (a), Fulham (a), Wigan and Blackburn it would take a brave man to bet against a flood of goals for the formerly folically challenged half boy/half genius.

Nanis back to form with two goals and one assist last week, while Valencia - Youngs replacement - assisted three. Jones played midfield again and with the sad news that Darren Fletchers season is most likely over, there is every chance hell get more game-time there.

Evans looks like he could be Vidics replacement while Smalling - who was given the runaround by Jarvis last week - played right back. United will be on a high after Citys loss coincided with their own thumping victory over Wolves.

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Man City v Arsenal

The unbeaten run comes to an end after 15 matches. City looked in cruise control and there were signs that were going to give Chelsea a good going over and possibly would have if they werent denied a Stonewall penalty right in front of the referee. But thats football and theres no time to feel sorry for yourself, especially with RVP and co rolling into town.

Clichy is suspended after his red card, which leaves Mancini with a bit of a dilemma as Kolarov is currently injured. Richards is reportedly ready to come back in, which means Zabaleta - who seems to have lost the faith of Mancini a little - might shift to left back. With Walcott tearing down the right wing towards him, it will make for interesting viewing (if indeed it happens). With RVP still finding the back of the net it will be hard for City to achieve their 1st clean sheet in ten Premier League matches.

Attack would certainly seem the best form of defence for Arsenal...

Our drafts are just around the corner, and the season begins not long after. Yes thats right - The NBA season is about to begin! It is official now Players were called into camp last Friday and they have been on the market since then too. Its been quite entertaining these last few days in regards to player movements - theres been a few trades, and FA signings signings already, and there will undoubtedly be many more. A lot of the focus has been on just a few players in CP3, DWill, the Gasol bros, Howard, Nene and Billups... But there are plenty of others in the spotlight too, including Odom (not turning up to practice after CP3 trade fell through and) getting traded to the Mavs for next to nothing, David West switching teams, and our very own Julian Kazzough getting picked up by the Warriors. But the big questions are still about CP3, Howard and DWill... I just hope we know where these 3 will be before our drafts begin. If you wanted to find out where all the players are moving, Steve posted <a href="http://www.nba.com/news/features/2011-player-movement/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt1" target="_blank">this great link[/url] in the comments of last weeks post.

We have been sorting out quite a bit over the last couple of weeks, and we still have a couple of things we need to work out prior to the weekend - the main thing being, how many IR spots we each have on our roster. This needs to be set prior to the draft so we need to make a decision quickly. Last year we did not have any, and it was widely accepted that we have one this season. It has been proposed that we have 3 IR spots on each roster - some people have already supported this, although just as many (maybe more) have said that it should be left at just 1 spot each. Today, I changed it so that we have 2 each as its a bit of a compromise, and Im worried Ill run out of time to make changes before the weekend. But please discuss this in the comments, as we are fairly split atm on whether to have 1 or 3......

Walesy mentioned this, and I reckon we take home some TooSerious Cash.

$10k for overall fantasy in the big bash league, $800 for overall for a round and $6k for the best league.

Whats not to like for free. Cha ching.

Anyway Walesy added a league thats full, and Ive chucked another one up in the forum mentioned earlier. If you want to jump in to that forum topic and keep loading more leagues then we may all get a run at the league $.

Happy to discuss who you are picking in your team in the comments.

<a title="Walesys Big Bash Forum Post" href="http://tooserious.net/forum?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&amp;t=1247.0#postid-22451">http://tooserious.net/forum?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&amp;t=1247.0#postid-22451[/url]

Alright, looks like this is done and dusted. It will be interesting to see how these guys can go over the preseason as you just know there will be a few bargains.

A number of recycles which is always nice to see, but let us spare a thought for the guys who missed out, Neon Leon, Fevola, Lovett - a couple of big names missing out.

Oh, and a couple of names here a golden! (as is the possible combination of Cox passing to Dick.)

Aaron Hall goes to Gold Coast
John McCarth to Port Adelaide
Zac Dawson to Fremantle
Fletcher Roberts to the Doggies

And the rookie draft:
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1. GWS Sam Frost
2. Gold Coast. Kyal Horsley
3. Port Adelaide. Darren Pfeiffer
4. Brisbane. Justin Clark
5. Port Adelaide. Rory Laird
6. Melbourne. Jai Sheehan
7. Richmond. Addam Maric
8. Fremantle. Lee Spurr
9. Western Bulldogs. Ling Jong
10. North Melbourne. Max Warren
11. Essendon. Lachlan Dalgleish
12. St Kilda Sam Dunnell
13. Sydney Shane Biggs
14 Carlton Tom Bell
15 West Coast Michael Mascoulis
16 Hawthorn Broc McCauley
17 Collingwood Lachlan Smith
18 Geelong Cam Eardley
19 GWS Pass
20 Gold Coast Andrew McQualter
22 Brisbane Lions Stephen Wrigley
23 Adelaide Dylan Orval
24 Melbourne Thomas Crouch
25 Richmond Ben Darrou
26 Fremantle Haiden Schlothe
27 Western Bulldogs Tom Campbell
28 North Melbourne Brad Mangan
29 Essendon Corey DellOlio
30 St Kilda Cameron Shenton
31 Sydney Campbell Heath
32 Carlton Nick Heyne
33 West Coast Callum Papertalk
34 Hawthorn Amos Frank
35 Collingwood Marley Williams
36 Geelong Jackson Sheringham
38 Gold Coast Michael Coad
40 Brisbane Lions Jack Crisp
41 Adelaide Tim McIntyre
42 Melbourne James Magner
43 Richmond Steven Verrier
44 Fremantle Sam Menegola
45 Western Bulldogs Alex Greenwood
46 North Melbourne Malcolm Lynch
47 Essendon Mark Baguley
48 St Kilda Jordan Staley
50 Carlton Frazer Dale
51 West Coast Simon Tunbridge
52 Hawthorn Andrew Boseley
53 Collingwood Trent Stubbs
54 Geelong Mark...

I have decided to split the NBA and NBL stuff into two different posts each week. We are currently doing a lot of organising of the NBA leagues, which is resulting in the NBL stuff getting a bit lost amongst it all. I will get the NBA post up over the next couple of days. In the mean time, we can continue to use <a href="http://tooserious.net/ts-fantasy-basketball-4" target="_blank">last weeks post[/url] for NBA related discussion.

The NBL certainly deserves a bit of attention with Parasite continuing to fly the TS flag up near the top of the leaderboard. He had a massive week this week ranking 13th for the round with a round 10 score of 684(!!) , which moved him up to 12th overall. Moreover, I believe he is still well within striking distance being only 163 points away from 1st place and with only 40% of the season completed. Go Parasite! Keep it up mate.

Stowie is next best in our league, ranked 68th overall, and UnderAchievers is our only other in the top 100 still, being ranked 98th overall. The newest TS member in the league - Crossy - also scored a massive score in round 10, being ranked 24th for the round, and is sitting 4th on our points for ladder for the season.

Join us over the break, where you will find the recent H2H results, the H2H ladder, and the upcoming schedule:::::::::::::::::

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Results for Round 10:
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<td align="left"><a href="http://dreamteam.nbl.com.au/?p=team">Deadly mills[/url]



<td align="right"><a href="http://dreamteam.nbl.com.au/?p=other_teams&amp;tid=661&amp;lid=1">King Kong[/url]
473
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672
<td align="left"><a href="http://dreamteam.nbl.com.au/?p=other_teams&amp;tid=1263&amp;lid=1">Crossy Crusaders[/url]



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Alright, looks like the site is now on the new servers, now to get the rest of the site back up and running!

In the interim though, looks like the Prospectus has given us a quick <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcrcNWC7d5s">sneak peek[/url] of 2012s edition. (or yanno, just check over the break!)

Its nice cause we can see a few of the little gems that make this book awesome. Some of the things I noticed:

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Jonathan Giles averaged 115SC last year.
Looks like Zaharakis and Fyfe have kept their F/M DPP - while Mitch Robinson might have picked it up!
F/D looks just as bad as always, which is a shame as Tomlinson could be a good link man.

Theres also a nasty paragraph that reads as follows:
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anyways, check it out.

Hey everyone, Ill be taking a cut of the database tonight to move across to the new server.

Once I do that, any comments made here wont be seen on the new site- so if you write something super important (NBA Guys, Im looking at you! Dont forget to remember to move it over to the new site.

Nothing to get excited by yet though, there wont be anything new just yet, just a new server.

Man United v Wolves

Hernandez out is bad news for United. The good news is it should guarantee Rooney playing further upfield. Hell most likely be partnered by Wellbeck if SAF thinks hes had enough game time. Otherwise expect Nani or Young to sit in behind Rooney, in which case Park or possibly Valencia will come in.

Four clean sheets from five have had many jumping on the bandwagon of Uniteds defenders but the news that United have lost Vidic to injury is a huge blow.

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Arsenal v Everton

More injuries at the back with Santos out but it shouldnt matter IF Everton remain as toothless as they did last week against Stoke. Theres been shades of the Vermaelen of old with two goals in two games. RVP keeps purring along nicely while Walcott as well as Gervinho and Arteta, who both scored last week, will be hoping to get in on the action. Ramsay remains on attacking threat despite being unable to transfer it into goals.

Saha is injured while Drenthe is doubtful for the toffees which drastically cuts their attacking threat. Set-pieces will remain their best chance of picking up some points.

Stoke v Spurs

You always know what youre going to get with Stoke, there is no such thing as an easy game at the Brittania and theyll be buoyed by their progress in Europe as well as an excellent result at Goodison after a poor run.

Sorensen will miss out with Begovic coming back in. Crouch might feel that hes got a point to prove after being shown the door by Harry in the summer.

VDV was on the bench last week after limited training in the lead-up to the game. Interestingly, he came on for Lennon rather than Defoe at the 70th minute mark. Hell be expecting to come back in while Defoe - after scoring his sixth goal of the season - will be hoping to keep his place. Its hard to imagine that a fit VDV (and he says he...

Alright, thanks to the silly season (and delicious delicious work Christmas dos), the training notes this week arent overly detailed. That said though, I reckon its more than just me moving into December Mode.

Just a quick note though before moving into it- Ill be moving the site to a new server this weekend, so there will be a point where comments made will be left behind as once I take a cut of the database, that becomes what we take across. But Im thinking that sounds a good task for Saturday/Saturday night (Oh wow, thats a sad Saturday night!)

Onto the reports:

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Adelaide

1/12

Young, Henderson, Riley, McKernan and Ellis-Yolmen were all in the rehab group.

The session started with running drills, it was noted though that Johncock, usually out of shape at this point in the season, well, wasnt.

Brisbane

5/12

Word was of a marathon training session that "had a few suffering big time."

Havent heard too much else this week though, its all about the ripping shape of Brown- who will be looked at it Mondays PuffWatch.

Carlton

2/12

Of course the big news here was Juddy- so it was good to hear that he was still running laps.

Meanwhile, Kreuzer. Jamison, Murphy, Henderson, White, Yarran, Simpson, Garlett, Waite, Curnow, Buckley and Heyne were all on light duties.

Good to hear that Robinson and Walker are both getting nods for showing excellent form thusfar.

Sounds like Bower is going to tempt us all next year- priced at $125k, hes showing that if fit, hell be a bargain.

7/12

Heh, gotta laugh at the Huns article on JUdd, <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/carlton-captain-chris-judd-hurt-his-shoulder-in-bed/story-e6frf9jf-1226214623162">injuring his shoulder in bed[/url] - really thats probably a bad sign durability-wise.

Collingwood

2/12

Its all Arizona at the moment, and as always, sounds like they are doing it tough.

Im really enjoying reading...

There are a big couple of days coming up this week regarding the new NBA season. It is still not official that the new season will go ahead; however it should be by the end of this week, as the players who are members of the Union will be voting on Thursday US time. Then on Friday team training camps will open and FAs will be able to be signed. Probably what I am most excited about though, is before then - the revised schedule will be announced on Tuesday US time so we will most likely know it by the time most people read this and I should be able to work out our Fantasy schedule over the coming days.

Our leagues are pretty much set:

Too Serious NBA PREMIER LEAGUE:
Owen, HEAVER, karlos &amp; Lethal, Mick, Jasmine, fudge, anthak, dabombers, chris88 &amp; smittys07, walesy, maggots, Ruddy.

Div 1:
stowie, Fez, UnderAchievers, Steve, Doobs, Sainter, crossy, bgt2110, LiQuiD_SiXx, costak, Rev, spm67.

Div 2:
blankmc, joellamerton, twoeyec, Don_Cottagers, maxweas, smokinjoemisiti, nicksnow, minis, Jet, Cobra_Magic, travyboy11, hawker.

Although we need to work out what to do about blankmc... he has joined the league, alhough he is the only person who hasnt reconfirmed since the recent good lockout news, and we have an emergency - <a href="http://tooserious.net/nba/comment-page-3#comment-111508" target="_blank">brettmarinovich[/url] - waiting in the wings. We havent heard from blankmc since <a href="http://tooserious.net/possibly-wishful-thinking-fantasy-nba/comment-page-1#comment-110550" target="_blank">October 2nd[/url] despite numerous emails and messages sent to them...   I am inclined to think that we should give the spot to Brett, but I want to hear what everyone else thinks first...

Our NBL H2H ladder has become quite congested at the top, with 5 teams all on 6 and 2! We have a new leader with UnderAchievers having the best % of the 5; although Parasite still leads the total points ladder - despite slipping back to...