Creasers

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Season 11 Team Profile
Creasers
Captain: c-wolf (C)
Alternates: FMX (A) violence (A)

Preview:

Lawn Dwarf left CR at the end of season 9, and BLA was banned for life. The future did not look bright, and any new player who joined CR was quickly labled as BLA. While CR will once again feature a nice group of laggy forwards, it will sorely miss their true leader; Lawn Dwarf. As we all know, LD rejoined CR in season 10, having left BL. BL went on to beat CR in the finals, once again. Creasers would have never beaten SL in the first round without LD, and same goes for the semis against BA.

So season 11 will begin with LD having left CR once again, and it is highly likely he wont return. Not known for their defense, they will focus on possesion once again. The only difference being, they will score even less. They have few weapons, which means they will be even easier to shut down. BananaSquadron69 will lead the way, which isnt really a good sign. He's a great support player, and could have won ROTY last season; if he had Rukus hyping him up and lobbying for him like he did to Regiments. Alas, he did not win anything, but his attitude has been pretty solid, and he remains a humble player. Vio did well last season, but was constantly benched due to his piss poor attitude. This goes to show that the (A) next to his name stands for Ass()istant. The other offense on CR will come from, Slayer X and if v1640 is really unretired, he will be a huge asset to the team.

Im starting to ramble a bit, so lets get on with the likely starters.

Creasers current projected starting line up>
Offense: Banana, Slayer, Vio
Mid/D: Cwolf + Mr. Vegas or AO
Goalie: FMX

I really am not sure of their lineup. Mostly because they dont have a single proven defenseman on their team. BCT wasnt really defense, so having lost him doesnt really mean much. Maybe someone is aliased on that roster and they could be better then I currently suspect, but they hardly use defense, and thus no one on their team will bother to play it. AO could play defense I suppose, but I did say proven, didnt I?

Cwolf is reguarded as a very good middy, but I think the lack of a supporting cast will really be too much for him to bear. I see CR struggling out of the gate, and perhaps having some really entertaining games, where they will provide most of the entertainment, and I'm not talking about them scoring goals. I guess I'm really giving it to CR hard, but looking over the roster, and their recent withdrawal from the scrimleague leaves me to believe they are in over their heads.
I fully expect them to gut their farm team, and use a lot of their talent for their gain. If they do this, they will likely fair better then expected. At the very least, they will call up d$l.

While FMX isnt a bad goalie, he isnt very reliable, and with the lack of any defense, and less scoring this season from his team, it is very likely CR will change their entire scheme for the comming regular season. They just wont be able to keep up on the score board if they dont realize their weaknesess. FMX is in for a nightmare season.

Best case scenario, vigilanty, v16, cwolf, nana, vio and FMX all are active, showing to every game, and none lag out, thus giving CR a solid competative line. Yet things always come up, and Vigi hasnt been on for some time now (did he retire?) and lag will be a factor with SSCX as our server. I know they do have a lot of potentialy great players, I really shouldnt write them off so easily. Yet there is no star, Cwolf doesnt have the ability to carry them on his back, he doesnt have scoring flaire. Nana could break out as that player, but he, along with most of their roster, are still considerd rookies. 9th having won a Cup with BA in season 1, is still a rookie in many people's minds. None of them have proven ability yet.

So this will be a season for Creasers to prove themselves. A season where they will rise to the occation, or crumble in dispair. With the conferences not outlined yet, it is hard to say if CR can make the playoffs or not. One conference will have 3 of the uberteams in it, while the other will only have 2 (The uberteams being: IP/SL/BA/MI/IL). Only 4 teams from each conference will make it, and should CR be in the conference holding 3 of those teams, they will likely miss out. However, if they land in the other, their chances are greatly increased.

I'm sure I'll be hearing it from Vio and some other CRer about how uber their team will be, but when you lose to a team, where you have more then 6 players show, and they have only 4 people show (initially 3 for 1 period) you seriously need to learn something about yourselves. Yes it was only scrimleague, but that's on a level above a scrim, and a step below preseason.

HOW DO YOU LOSE 6 v 3 (4) ?

I'm not basing this team profile on that one scrimleague game, but instead looking over the CR roster, looking at how theyve played together over the offseason, and having seen the players individually. That scrimleague game, and their having left the scrimleague, are just markers, road signs, leading down the path that Darkslayers and Misconduct have travled more then once before.