Its entirely up to you. Its certainly one strategy. Some people go with a very defensive side, other go with huge firepower. I personally like a balance throughout defence, mid and attack. A midfielder who scores and creates goals could be worth his weight in gold.

Hence, I chose a 4-4-2 in 2009-10 dreamfooty, and came second overall

But then again, he's Ant, and he had massive sums of extra money to throw at his problems because of his footytubing lifestyle....

I reasoned that defenders can cause you lots of problems. They allow goals, they don't create chances; bah to heck with em. Besides, I spread out the 7 most winningest teams in the front 6 and one defender, and put my money there. Those are the teams most likely to win the most matches, and since I'm Pro +, I was able to load up and get impact players. Why go with the Robinho when you can have the Fabiano, I say....

Milner will be lucky to get a game, that's for sure!

Guardado is arguably mexico's best player, and I see mexico playing getting out of the group stages

Felipe Melo shouldn't even be on that list, he's a defensive midfielder and you'll be lucky to get many points out of him. I agree with the above two, Guardado's your best bet

Guardado hands down, he'll get a few assists and might get on the score sheet himself

I hope you went with Guardado, friend. That is all

You don't have to have subs

Fora dollar or two, go pro+ and get bonus money! Help the site and help charity!

I have 120m and I can't afford subs

I bought the full New Zealand squad and have plenty of money left

Lol, you have to live among them ant.... Lol

Subs are lameee man don't bother with subs. Subs will only let you down because you will forget to switch them in come game time because you are glued to your favorite spot waiting for the game.... Then kickoff will come, and you'll realize that you benched Ronaldo while you played Messi....

.... And the rest of your team is made up of the New Zealand squad, so you automatically lose....

It started last Friday May 28, 2010

For whom? For you?

I don't know if you are serious or not. Use the link bellow to make your team:


Link: www.footytube.com/dreamfooty/world_cup/

Haha, no I meant the World Cup as in the real thing. I know about the footytube World Cup, me and the 11 are impatiently sitting at the door with our boots on, resorting to fart jokes because we are so bored

You missed the tournament mate, the final was yesterday.... Were you living under a rock?

Bludy 'ell, the lads aren't going to take it well, they're the most fragile group of people I've ever managed. I think the best way might be to get them in a group and play broken telephone with 'em, some might walk away happy

You don't play, the players play. In the actual World Cup Read this if you're interested in all the details:

Link: www.footytube.com/dreamfooty/world_cup/index.php?t...

Basically you pick the best team you can afford, then based on how the players do in the World cup itself (goals, wins, clean sheets, red cards etc) you get awarded points.

Person with most points at the end gets prizes galore

Interesting idea but how long before the staff have to sit and check every photo because someone has put porn, racism or swearing all over their pic. For the original dreamfooty tournament we let everyone submit their logos and ideas in a big topic, and chose the thirty or forty best. That was really the only reasonable way to do it

But then how do you make sure the user doesn't abuse his/her profile avatars? Do you guys have to check every photo? I assume there are more members than dreamfooty teams on footytube.

You can always add a "report photo" link I guess.

We mods have a mighty array of godlike tools at our disposal to get rid of abusive users and bad profile pics Hithere

It's a fair point from Hithere though, we'll look into it, but what I really wanted to add was a team crest that users can design and add to their actual kit, which would then become their team logo. So a set of design elements, dragons, crowns etc, and different badge shapes which a user can then colour in / add text to and mix and match I figured would work nicely

Hmm.... An editable team crest/logo would be cool too. In fact it might be better actually. I guess it would look nicer overall. Just have lots of design elements, including unusual/weird ones for variety!

The first window ends as the second round starts there is no downtime in between and no more Money! Imagine how the people with just 100mil feel!

The World cup is over after the knock out rounds! I think you meant is the transfer window after the league stages. The answer is yes - a transfer window will be open near the end of the group stages and afterwards.

Giving a budget boost to the top 100 halfway through would just make the rich richer. I mean, the people who need it least would get the extra spending power.

Its very hard for everyone but that's why winning it or even coming close will be an amazing feat

LOL yeah I was meaning group stages, my bad.... Ok cool! Hopefully I could get to the top 100 this time!

If you think about it, any big-name stars that get knocked out can be replaced, thus giving you that money back.... We don't need more money than that 100 mil (120 mill for some of us winkwink ).

We just have to be willing to go without more than a few Fabiano's and Messi's and may have to pick up a Kim Ju Yim or.... Jozy Altidore. Bleck.

Just do what I did, get 2million pound defenders, and waste the rest on attack ha

.... As much as I hate to admit it, I did use robs tactic to some extent. But only when I ran out of teams I knew would progress. Strategizerizin!

That's the beauty.... Do you choose players that will definitely get 5+ games, or players that might score five goals in the first round but still get knocked out (Drogba for example)

I restructured for that reason.... And I think you can get good points out of everybody if you're careful

Thanks, actually I managed to do it, I was getting bugs...

Matt and Ant/Ant and Matt: Answer - NO! GO AWAY!

Lolz

Of course....    Actually              NO! GO AWAY!

It might be an idea though. People who failed miserably in the group stages might still have a chance to recover with five replacements in the 2nd round window. Could keep the entire competition closer so there's no Jeroen-style 400+ point leads.

Hopefully Matt will see this and use that wonderful big sweaty head of his to decide

Hi Jimmy, we know the game is tricky but we will keep to the 3 transfer limit during the transfer window. As PRO+ you have as much money as anyone and have the same chance to pick the winning team!

You're right, I can't complain. Can't blame me for having a go though

Where are you clicking? Looks like we missed a link!

Yeah I know what you mean, You have to click on the bar next where it says 'profile' and stuff. Not the one on top of where it says your points.... I guess you guys did miss that link LOL

You know where it shows your points like half way down your profile on the right, if I click that it takes me to my normal dream footy team not my world cup one. It's not biggy just wondered that's all

Thanks for that now sorted!

This looks to be an IE issue - I was having the same problem at the office. However it works fine on Google Chrome, Firefox and Opera

That's what I had to do, download opera, it works fine now

So.... A night at the Opera is really a day on footytube? Nice....

Just downloaded Chrome and Opera.... Still only get a grey screen.... Oh well....

Git it! Had to use Firefox.... I am in baby.... That was fun....

IE issue has been resolved, so you are free to playe dreamfooty in any browser you like again! Though now you have left the IE family it's probably best if you don't go back

Whys that matt? .... Out of curiosity

A lot of sites look different in IE than in other browsers, and a lot of sites work better in other browsers because Microsoft don't like to use the standards. They like to use their own code and force others to use it too, which a lot of people don't like.

Think of it like buying a dvd and then finding out that your dvd player can't read it. However, if you buy a region free DVD player, everything works.

Chrome, Opera and Firefox are three browsers that are the web equivelent of 'region free' dvd players

Gotcha

Squads will update all the time up to the tournament kick off as the teams are finalised and injuries are reported. We will add in Barrios

Also Michel Bastos, Gilberto(left back) of Brazil are not there in the list

Maybe because barrios is a late addition because of the salvador cabanas incident, barrios is argentinian and was nationalized about 2 - 4 months ago to play in the w. [C.]

Michel Bastos. Although played 09/10 primarily as a marauding left midfielder for Lyon, Dunga has preferred him as a left back for the national side. Can this please be changed?

I tried IE and as you said it freezes. Dream footy isn't compactable with internet explorer I guess.
I'm using opera and its fine here better try someother browser

Ahh, well, I was gonna' do my team from work, but I guess I will have to do it on my own time at home! (unless the bug is fixed soon!)

Ie must not be compatable, use another browser like opera, that's what I had to do

Yeah, Google Chrome worked perfectly with me...

Yes IE didn't work for me either, but tried with mozilla Firefox and it works

Chrome crashed for me once in a while when I used the search option, but it finally worked