The Wordle and its bastard offspring thread

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm currently managing in Turkmenistan right now Waff. An English Bournemouth player is so far out of my reach, I have to rely on players like Yagsysahet Dowletgeldiyew, Yhlas Saparmammedov and Seymur Əsədov.

[Jimmy Floyd]

For Bournemouth/Scotland I got 33% having typed in Ryan Christie in the sincere belief it was Ryan Wilson, the lad who subsequently went to Newcastle, whose name in fact on a later appraisal turned out to be Ryan Fraser.

This will happen to you, Waff, when you hit your mid thirties.

[Waffdon]

My pick for that has already doubled in percentage so I’m assuming getting on early is even more beneficial than waiting until the next day.

I only knew of 3 and just went for the oldest.

[Ian]

So really Sincere should only be accepting entries at 1.30pm UK the day after the grid goes up if he cares about integrity.

[Shindig]

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Wilson 16% - Ritchie 14% - Arter 28%
Alan Smith 8% - Matteo 6% - Harte 25%
Coady 39% - Berra 7% - Keith Andrews 0.7%

Considered Ryan Fraser but didn't pull the trigger. Them's the breaks.

[Pen]

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If anyone gets over 150 today just give up. The only slightly difficult one in terms of getting a low score is the Irish ones but even then it is fairly obvious. Should get it all back on the English row and 2/3rds of the Scottish wan.

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Gary Cahill 0.8%, Matt Ritchie 11%, Robbie Brady 5%

Rob Green 0.7%, Barry Bannan 1%, Paddy Kenny 10%

Greg Halford 0.9%, Leigh Griffiths 1%, Stephen Hunt 3%

73, but apart from Leeds I didn't find this easily at all.Bournemouth in the Prem is too new for me as I haven't played FM or watched that much in the last ten years or so. Add to the mix that from a non British isles (was that the way to word it to include bottom Ireland) some players kind of blend together nationality wise. I think I had two current players.

[Boydy]

Fuck that football bollocks (I'm shit at it), this is quality: https://redactlegame.com/

[John Arne]

So really Sincere should only be accepting entries at 1.30pm UK the day after the grid goes up if he cares about integrity.

Wow. Just wow.

[wullie]

If he had anything about him he'd wait for the official police findings about my Steve Froggatt complaint as well

[Pen]

That since 92 rule is so stupid. It has ruined a few good options for me. Also is it that the player has to have played for the team in question just in top flight or is the 92 the only limitation?

[Ben]

Don't think it's top flight only. I put Ian Harte for Bournemouth yesterday and I'm almost positive he was only in the Championship for them.

[Shindig]

The rules state top flight only. That's how I missed out with Gavin Peacock the other day.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Here's the answer:

Players may be active or inactive and must have played in the following competitions during the specified seasons:
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���� La Liga (Men) since 1992-93
���� Liga F (Women) since 2022-23
���� Bundesliga (Men) since 1992-93
���� Frauen-Bundesliga (Women) since 2016-17
���� Serie A (Men) since 1992-93
���� Serie A (Women) since 2018-19
���� Ligue 1 (Men) since 1995-96
���� Division 1 Féminine (Women) since 2017-18
���� Major League Soccer (Men) since 1996
���� National Women’s Soccer League (Women) since 2013
���� UEFA Champions League (Men) since 1992-93
���� UEFA Europa League (Men) since 1992-93
���� UEFA Europa Conference League (Men) since 2021-22
���� UEFA Women’s Champions League (Women) since 2016-17
For player and club cell: player must have played at least one game (in one of the competitions above) for that club. If the player played for the club in a lower division, we will also accept that answer as long as it falls in our years of coverage for those lower-division leagues. That coverage is:
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���� Segunda División (Men) since 2001-02
���� 2.Bundesliga (Men) since 2003-04
���� Serie B (Men) since 2001-02
���� Ligue 2 (Men) since 2009-10
For club and country: player must have played at least one game (in one of the competitions above) for the club and have nationality with the country. If the player has dual-nationality, they will match for both countries unless they have appeared in a senior national team competition covered on FBref. In that case, they will only appear for the country they appeared with for the senior national team

So the Frogman was probably too early.

[thommo]

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Anderton (0.3%), Ritchie (13%), Kilkenny (8%)
Lukic (0.2%), Matteo (6%), O'Leary (2%)
Stearman (0.8%), McDonald (4%), Doyle (13%)

Best day so far, I'll take that.

[Shindig]

Fair enough. Poor Gavin missed out because the Championship wasn't born yet. Stupid Championship.

[wullie]

Immaculate Football falling into that modern fan trap of thinking non-league was invented in 2006. It was better when Vauxhall ran the conference and men were men

[Pen]

Don't think it's top flight only. I put Ian Harte for Bournemouth yesterday and I'm almost positive he was only in the Championship for them.

This is why I asked actually. Couldn't think of anyone else and hoped they had been in the Prem then (didn't think so).

[SincereTheRebel]

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Update
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[Ben]

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Thought my score would have been lower tbh. Italy is my sweet spot for this game I think.

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Fuser - Stanic - Di Vaio
Gilardino - Crespo - Perin
De Sanctis - Dalla Bona - Blasi

Perin very high scoring. Can only assume there's not many options and a lot of people will draw a blank here?

[wullie]

55

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Apolloni - Crespo - Baggio
El Shaarawy - Panucci - Di Vaio
Maggio - Bakayoko - Ferrara

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Dino Baggio 5%, Zola 45%, Buffon 62%
Gilardino 8%, Crappacosta 71% (ugh), NONE
Gollini 0.9%, Jorginho 32%, Cannavaro 8%

Ugh.

[Waffdon]

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Zola 3%, Mutu 10%, Kulusevski 4%

Rovella 0.5%, Crespo 20 %, Perin 38%

Meret 8%, Chalobah 1%, Quaglirarella 7%

That was hard. Only really knew the obvious ones or the most recent (which may work out well actually). Couldn’t think of Juve/Genoa outside of the most obvious recent keeper and the person I used for Italian/Genoa

[Waffdon]

Tried to put the most obvious answer for Chelsea (pretty sure he fits all categories) in the Italian with Italian club spot as assumed he’d be used elsewhere. Didn’t quite go to plan. Thought he’d be nearer 0.5%.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've been sat here half an hour and I don't think I can think of a single player who has ever played for Genoa.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Fuck that football bollocks (I'm shit at it), this is quality: https://redactlegame.com/

Also did this btw - quality stuff for the sickos amongst us. Yesterday's I got in 18 guesses, today's in 317 (I'd never heard of the topic) but boy have I heard of it now.

[Ben]

I’ll give that a go on the laptop later. Absolute nightmare on my phone and was blocked at work.

[Dave.]

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Alessandro Melli, Crespo, Matteo Brighi
Gilardino, Panucci, Criscito
Carrera, Bakayoko, Cannavaro

Carrera got 0.02% and Brighi 0.09%

[SincereTheRebel]

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[Ben]

Some good shouts there Dave.

[Dave.]

Some good shouts there Dave.

Cheers. Italian football is right in my sweet spot with the mid 90s, early to mid 00s and 2013-2016ish well covered through various things.

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I thought Alessandro Melli would have been a lower score but he was 1%. I remember him scoring when Parma won the Cup Winners' Cup a long, long time ago. I had Carrera as an answer in a previous one too, he played for Atalanta for quite a few years and joined Napoli from there.

[Pen]

45 😎 (my lowest by far) I even typed it out in spoilers. Middle row left was 0.05. Thank you FM.

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Brighi-Stanic-Di Vaio
Caracciolo-Crespo-Criscito
Meret-Dalla Bona-Qualiarella

Edit: also @Sincere, I didn't miss this yesterday

[Kikó]

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Lol

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

At least Kiko is always there to make me feel good about myself.

[Kikó]

I think it's just dawned on me I stopped watching football outside of United properly about 12 years ago. I don't play FM or FIFA so it's all a mystery.

[SincereTheRebel]

45 �� (my lowest by far) I even typed it out in spoilers. Middle row left was 0.05. Thank you FM.

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Brighi-Stanic-Di Vaio
Caracciolo-Crespo-Criscito
Meret-Dalla Bona-Qualiarella

Edit: also @Sincere, I didn't miss this yesterday

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[Shindig]

I think it's just dawned on me I stopped watching football outside of United properly about 12 years ago. I don't play FM or FIFA so it's all a mystery.

This is also my problem. Gone are the days of me recording MLS and Brazilian games on Channel 5. Even with PES, I wind up playing with Premier League clubs.

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Sure, I'll take it

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Di Vaio 1% - Zola 47% - Buffon 64%
Alessandro Lucarelli 0.3% - Petrescu 4% - NOBODY
Ciro Ferrara 0.8% - Sam Dalla Bona 0.8% - Higuain 58%

[Pen]

I'm not far of you guys. Maybe it's been a little less, but from late nineties to early 2010's is surprisingly well ingrained to my memory. I have forgotten a ton though, but the amount that's still there has surprised me,

I've also always enjoyed trivia and statustics about football.

It does take me quite long to do these though 😅

[Boydy]

Also did this btw - quality stuff for the sickos amongst us. Yesterday's I got in 18 guesses, today's in 317 (I'd never heard of the topic) but boy have I heard of it now.

I thought I'd done very well to get yesterday's in 29.
I gave up on today's. Got to about 30 something guesses and was on the right track* but then accidentally hit back too many times on my phone and closed the tab so just gave up and looked it up.

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I'd got to the point I knew it was one of the creators of the C programming language and got the Bell Labs stuff (so much stuff in computer science came out of there) and knew I'd probably read the guy's name somewhere before but couldn't remember it. It did ring a bell when I found out.

[Jimmy Floyd]

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Obviously you know a lot more about it than me, so it was a real voyage of discovery - took about 70 guesses to work out it was a computer scientist, another 50 or so to find out that his death had been overshadowed by Steve Jobs which placed the era, I spent a while wrongly guessing he might have invented MS-DOS before the lack of Microsoft mentions torched that one and with it all my knowledge of the topic. I eventually managed to fluke his name by typing in about 50 surnames beginning with R until it came up (by this point I was in it until death do us part), and then guessed first names beginning with D after that, ending up at 317. I have now heard of Unix, so the journey was worth it.

[Shindig]

I packed in after 300 guesses.

[Ian]

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Cannavaro 16, Stanic 1, Buffon 65
Nothing for the Genoa row.
di Canio 0.5, Koulibaly 41, Quagliarella 6

So yeah, turns out I know nothing about Genoa. I also spent far too much time trying and failing to remember Lentini's name when, as it turned out, he wasn't of any use to me for this.

[Kikó]

Genoa wasn't in football Italia. Useless.

[SincereTheRebel]

Rayo Vallecano and that section will have nothing

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm going to be in trouble...

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Rafinha 12%, BLANK, Trincao 4%
Aspas 73%, BLANK, Silva 46%
Diego Costa 38%, Falcao 75%, Maniche 6%

[Ian]

Today's gonna be another bust.

[Shindig]

Rayo Vallecano? Fuck.

1/9 807.

[wullie]

Fuck today's one, I only recognise the flag at the top so it'd be 8 blanks and a Figo

[Waffdon]

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Yeah, fuck Rayo Vallecano. Could only think of two players to have played there off the top of my head. Thankfully both qualified for Atleti section.

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Denis Suarez 37%, blank, Ricardo Quaresma 7%

Nolito 20%, blank, Andre Silva 45%

Javi Galan 25%, Diego Costa 8%, Gelson Martins 2%

[Kikó]

Easy today

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