Tecmo

Thank you so much! You just made my long weekend. And probably ruined my work productivity for today.

That would be much appreciated, getting rather tired of these rerolls

Been doing a bunch of rerolls trying to get Lancaster City up, unsuccessfully so far. Haven't seen Workington yet.

Pulisic is a huge difference, they can definitely play with Netherlands but it's hard to see them winning without him.

Monday 21st November Group A 16.00 Senegal 1-2 The Netherlands Group B 13.00 England 3-0 Iran 19.00 USA 1-1 Wales Tuesday 22nd November Group C 10.00 Argentina 4-0 Saudi Arabia 16.00 Mexico 0-1 Poland Group D 13.00 Denmark 2-0 Tunisia 19.00 France 3-1 Australia Wednesday 23rd November Group E 13.00 Germany 2-0 Japan 16.00 Spain 3-0 Costa Rica Group F 10:00 Morocco 0-0 Croatia 19:00 Belgium 1-0 Canada Thursday 24th November Group G 10:00 Switzerland 1-1 Cameroon 19:00 Brazil 2-0 Serbia GROUP H 13:00 Uruguay 2-0 South Korea 16:00 Portugal 2-1 Ghana Friday 25th November Group A 13:00 Qatar 0-1 Senegal 16:00 Netherlands 2-0 Ecuador Group B 10:00 Wales 2-0 Iran 19:00 England 2-1 USA Saturday 26th November Group C 13:00 Poland 1-0 Saudi Arabia 19:00 Argentina 1-0 Mexico Group D 10:00 Tunisia 1-1 Australia 16:00 France 0-1 Denmark Sunday 27th November Group E 10:00 Japan 0-0 Costa Rica 19:00 Spain 1-2 Germany Group F 13:00 Belgium 1-0 Morocco 16:00 Croatia 1-2 Canada Monday 28th November Group G 10:00 Cameroon 0-1 Serbia 16:00 Brazil 2-0 Switzerland Group H 13:00 South Korea 0-1 Ghana 19:00 Portugal 0-0 Uruguay Tuesday 29th November Group A 15:00 Ecuador 0-1 Senegal 15:00 Netherlands 4-0 Qatar Group B 19:00 Iran 0-2 USA 19:00 Wales 0-2 England Wednesday 30th November Group C 19:00 Poland 1-1 Argentina 19:00 Saudi Arabia 0-1 Mexico Group D 15:00 Australia 0-3 Denmark 15:00 Tunisia 0-2 France Thursday 1st December Group E 19:00 Costa Rica 0-2 Germany 19:00 Japan 0-1 Spain Group F 15:00 Canada 1-0 Morocco 15:00 Croatia 0-1 Belgium Friday 2nd December Group G 19:00 Cameroon 1-2 Brazil 19:00 Serbia 1-0 Switzerland Group H 15:00 Ghana 0-1 Uruguay 15:00 South Korea 0-2 Portugal

Pre-tournament Bonuses: How many goals will be scored in the tournament? 50 points for the correct answer, 5 points for 5 goals either way. 153 Who will be top scorer for the whole tournament? 50 points. Neymar How many hat-tricks will be scored in the tournament? 20 points for the correct answer. 1 How many own goals will be scored in the tournament? 20 points for the correct answer. 2 Who will win the tournament? 10 points. Brazil Who will be runner up? 10 points Denmark Group Stages Bonuses Which player will score the first goal in the tournament? 40 points for correct answer. Memphis Depay Who will score England's first goal? 10 points for the correct answer. Harry Kane How many goals will be scored in the Group stages in total? 40 points for the correct answer, 10 points for 3 goals either way. 101 How many goals will England score in the Group stages? 10 points for the correct answer. 7 Who will be the top scorer for the Group stages? 40 points. Neymar How many yellow cards will there be in the Group stages? 50 points for the correct answer, 5 points for 3 cards either way. 97 How many red cards will there be in the Group stages? 50 points for the correct answer. 1 Good luck everyone. All times BST Group Stages Sunday 20th November - November! Group A 16.00 Quatar 0-0 Ecuador

Got a chance to see the pitch this morning.

The Spartans 2033-2034 Just a short post for this season as we are getting nowhere, finishing in 6th just outside of the playoffs again. Starting to get grumbling from the players and owners. But on the bright side, I'm traveling to Scotland tomorrow for a 2 week vacation, so I may get to see The Spartans actual field at Ainslie Park. Planning on visiting a few grounds while there and hopefully coming home with a couple jerseys.

The Spartans 2032-2033 Yuck, bad season as we regressed pretty hard. The offense disappeared as I started experimenting with new tactics. Tried 4-2-3-1, really struggled, eventually switched to a more conservative 4-4-1-1 that I have generally had more luck with. We did better at that point but fell just short of the playoffs, finishing 5th. League Table Kilmarnock bounces back up and Falkirk's first season in the Premiership since 2010 ends after one miserable year. Rangers two season run of winning the Premiership ended as Celtic returned to domination. Cups The Premier Sports Cup didn't go so well for us as we stumbled in a very winnable group and ended up 3rd with 7 points. Fought Dumferline to a 3-3 penalty shootout loss, then fell to League 1 Inverness before winning our last two. Did OK in the SPFL Trust Trophy, beating Morton on penalties and handling Peterhead before losing at Hamilton 2-3 in the quarterfinal. Tough draw in the Scottish Cup as we beat Forfar 1-0 but then had to go to St. Johnstone and lost 1-2. Key Players Not much to see here as we didn't make a lot of changes from the previous season, probably a mistake in retrospect. We did sign Gavin Chalmers on a permanent deal and he delivered 6 assists. Matthew Kellichan deserves recognition as he was named the Championship Player of the Year with 9 Man of the Match awards and a 7.42 rating in league play. Defense was not a problem for us. Youth Intake One player who I think has a lot of promise, another goalkeeper in Mark Smyth. I may actually let him challenge for a backup spot next season, we'll see. Quite high on him if I can get those reflexes up. Finances Doing just fine, lost 300K last season but still have just a bit more than 900K to start the new season. Looking Ahead Some major changes coming as we commit to a 4-4-1-1 formation going forward. Need to find a 10 and, potentially a new striker as Munro faded big time for us. And we'll need a new goalkeeper as Peter King is finally moving on after 4 seasons on loan with us from Motherwell. He's going to become a free agent and is setting his sights higher than us. I'll probably look to the loan market again to replace him. 3 of my 4 defensive spots are set, just need a left back and same in the midfield 4 as the 3 right spots are set and I need to find a left winger. And after 11 seasons with the club, we are going to move on from our captain, Lewis Wright. Just not cut out for this level unfortunately, he hung around through last season out of contract and we're going to finally let him go. Scotland One large note for Scotland as a whole, Aberdeen actually won the Euro Cup and will be in the Champions League next season. They finished second to Napoli in their group, then knocked off Benfica, Shaktar, Leicester City, Sporting CP and then Napoli in the final.

The Spartans 2031-2032 Progress but not enough to get us to the Premiership. League Table We started out great, 8 wins in a row and undefeated in our first 16. We weren't dominating or anything though and we finally came back to reality, falling behind the leaders, Falkirk, and eventually, St. Johnstone as well to finish 3rd for the second straight season. But we definitely improved from 54 to 65 points and -1 to +18 GD. Our offense and defense both improved equally. We also did a bit better in the playoffs, winning our first round matchup over Hamilton 3-1 and 1-0 but then lost a close one to St. Johnstone, losing 2-3 at home and then drawing 1-1 on the road to fall 3-4 on aggregate. St. Johnstone went on to beat Kilmarnock to win promotion. Premier Sports Cup Couldn't repeat last season's success, going 2-2 in the group stage including a 1-6 drubbing by Hibernian. SPFL Trust Trophy Decent run here beating Hamilton on penalties 3-3, Rangers U21s 4-3 and Annan 1-0 but fell to Montrose in the semifinal 0-1. That Rangers game saw our first 4 goal game from our backup striker, a follow up from his two goal game against Hamilton. Unfortunately he only scored 1 non penalty goal the rest of the season. Scottish Cup Pretty disappointing here as we beat St. Mirren 3-0 but then fell to Inverness from the league below us 1-2 in extra time. Key Players Daniel Munro returned to his striker position and set a new high with 22 goals and 4 assists. He got a lot of help up from 3 new signings as Zak Creighton was signed on a free from Livingston and gave us 8 goals and 9 assists primarily from the AMR position, Omar Marius Magnusson signed from Rangers and gave us 5 goals and 14 assists as a left winger and Dave McGuire gave us 9 goals and 7 assists after signing from Stirling University where he played for one season after training at Ross County. On defense, Matthew Kellichan was our player of the year and GK Peter King was rock solid. He is also now the starting goalkeeper for the Northern Ireland national team. He will be back for his 4th season on loan with us next year. Youth Intake A couple interesting players this season. GK Nick Ogilvie has some definite potential if I can get his determination boosted, hopefully he'll be my 3rd string next season and backup the year after. Regan MacLean has some really nice mentals, thinking I may be able to make him into a defensive midfielder. Finances Still going strong from last season, still holding on over a million euros in the bank. Strangeness A couple weird things happened this season. I signed a new assistant coach at the beginning of the season, then started getting messages that the board was refusing to let him leave as he had just signed his contract. No idea who was trying to make him leave or why. Eventually he did leave at the winter transfer window and I had to sign a new guy. That and after demanding that I play defensive, counter attacking football with an emphasis on set pieces, the new vision is now high tempo pressing soccer. I generally have not been that aggressive with my pressing but I did start playing more 4-2-3-1 at the end of the season so maybe that caused it. *shrug* Looking Ahead I do think we're going to move on fulltime from the 4-3-3 we had been playing to a 4-2-3-1 so I can fit in all of my attackers. Think I'm also going to play around with a 3-1-4-1-1 formation as well as my team seems pretty well suited, assuming I can find a third defender in the middle of my back line. Want to finish at least 2nd this season so we can avoid that first playoff round. Getting through 6 games to get promoted is just rough and my team is generally pretty tired by the end of the season so that rest would be invaluable.