jespernohr wrote: Monkey wrote: with games on fridays the only sensible thing admins can do is make NT players immune to injury if thats even possible or there will be bot games everywhere The whole idea with Friday games have been a concern from the announcement. Injuries has to play a part, if not then there are no need for for 50 possible call-ups. I have already seen a player listed on a national team with an injury, so the chance that they will effect it high. This leaves less than 150 minutes from injury moment to one hour before the first matches are played at 7:30. It simply isn't fair that national team managers will have to get up in the middle of the night or very early in the morning to check for injuries. I would really suggest that the matches are moved to another day of the week.

im not envious of stoo having to check the lineup for the game in australia before 6.30am local time

jespernohr wrote: Monkey wrote: jespernohr wrote: Monkey wrote: with games on fridays the only sensible thing admins can do is make NT players immune to injury if thats even possible or there will be bot games everywhere The whole idea with Friday games have been a concern from the announcement. Injuries has to play a part, if not then there are no need for for 50 possible call-ups. I have already seen a player listed on a national team with an injury, so the chance that they will effect it high. This leaves less than 150 minutes from injury moment to one hour before the first matches are played at 7:30. It simply isn't fair that national team managers will have to get up in the middle of the night or very early in the morning to check for injuries. I would really suggest that the matches are moved to another day of the week. im not envious of stoo having to check the lineup for the game in australia before 6.30am local time That's 5:30 UK time

yup

stoo12009 wrote: also, is there any home/away advantage?

I hope so! At least for the the qualifying matches there should be. As for the World Cup, I hope it will be played in one country on neutral stadiums, so there is a country playing host country. One could argue that the host country should receive the small home field advantage bonus, just like it is in real life.

Could we have a set time on the Friday for the matches, so it gives as much chance for each NT manager to check the teams before the game without getting up at silly o'clock

The NT coach furthest west is Merc, in California, so if we could get gametime set to 4/5pm server time everybody has a chance.

And those in the Eastern Hemisphere have equal chance as the day starts earlier for them