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[Razer82]

Razer82 – Juventus Bucharest – 2010 / 2011 – Romanian First League

Manager Profile
League Table
Transfer Summary
Top Scorer



Euro Cup
Our first venture into Europe and I was extremely surprised to see us seeded for the first qualifying round where we were drawn to face Gorica of Slovenia. A comfortable 3-1 victory away from home all but sealed our entry into the second round and a 2-1 home win confirmed this.

We were again a seeded team for the second qualifying round where we met Droheda United a 3-0 home win and a 2-2 draw away saw us into the first round proper.

We were unseeded for the First Round draw and this would be our undoing. We were drawn with AZ and after being hammered 4-0 away I knew that we’d go no further in the competition, although we were able to redeem ourselves slightly with a 2-1 home win the second leg.

All in all I was very pleased we were able to make it as far as we did, the money will certainly come in handy in the future.

League
Diabolical seems to be the only way to describe our second season in the First League, a season that should have seen us making strides up the table instead saw us fighting to even prove that we belonged! We managed just 1 win in our first 17 games and were firmly rooted in the relegation zone for the majority of the first half of the campaign. We went into the mid season break firmly sat at the bottom of the table but only 1 point behind after beating Gaz Metan 4-0 (probably our best performance of the season so far) to cut the gap.

The second half of the season was just as bad as the first and with 2 games remaining our relegation back to the Second League was confirmed by a 3-1 defeat to league champions Otelul.

Cup
Seeing as our form was diabolical at the time of the fourth round – I knew that we would progress no further than this and we were easily dispatched 3-1 by CFR Cluj and that was the end of that.



After our 11th place finish last season I was expecting this year to be a year of growth in which our performances would improve and we’d either repeat our mid-table finish, which I informed the board would happen in order to be given a nice £825k transfer budget. I was hoping that our participation in the Euro Cup would provide an attraction. I think that may have been a bit of boost, but to be honest probably not a huge amount.

Our form problems may have been to do with the 11 new players that were brought in causing the team not to gel.

A little tour to the Faroe Islands was organised in the mid season break, in order to maintain high team morale and hopefully carry some kind of form into the second half of the season to try and pull us out of the relegation zone. This was not to be as we faced CFR Cluj, Rapid and Steaua in the first 3 games after the break. Losing 6 of the final 7 games sealed our fate and it was back to the Second League Group 2.



Co-efficient
Club – 9.026 (227Th)
Nation – 27.357 (14th)
ECC – 2
EC – 2
EV – 1

Relegation also meant no new contract – So that’s the end of this save, but I’m currently holidaying in Northern Ireland for a new game. Profile to come.

[kccircle]

Season Update - Cookstown Olympic - Northern Ireland - 2010/11

What a fantastic season. Having just missed out on the top two last year around I knew I would be there or thereabouts. In the end we dominated this division to such an extent that we were rarely not in top spot

Overall the league table looked like this.

I am in debt though and am concious of getting the boot for this having put in a lot of work to get this far. Because of this I decided to reduce my squad by a couple of players but this hasn't worked having lost £23k this season as opposed to £15k last season. I guess this wont change unless I sell a couple of players or qualify for either Europe or the All-Ireland cup.

Once again Lee Wells has been my star man. I was thinking about offloading him to cure my debt issue but his goals prove to valuable each season. I even bought a striker to replace him in readiness but I cannot seem to find it in me to let him go.

Other players to catch the eye include (once again) Darren McClarnon and new signing Willie Strachan.

Moving back to Lee Wells he has now scored (in all competitions) 76 in 90 games over three seasons. You can see why I've kept him. It's just frustrating that in each transfer window I have to fend off several request from other clubs for him.

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If only I could get a cup run going this game would be perfect, but, as already posted, I seem to get knocked out by some random teams (mainly non league)

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Cookstown Olympic - welcome to the Carnegie Irish Premier League

[CCFC 4 life]

AFan Lido season report 2008/2009

League
Not a bad first season, media thought i was 200-1 to win the league and was goin to get relagated. with an average squad age of 18 i gave my youth a chance. a couple of signings to strengthen the squad and the season was under way. managed to get a good run of games together at the start of the season and was challenging for a euro place, with a fairly good middle and a poor run towards the end managed to claim 10th place.
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Cups
the cups i was in didn't go as well as i hoped going out in the second round of the Welsh cup and finished 3rd in the group in the welsh challenge cup

Finances

As i told the big man up stairs i would try to avoid relegation he gave me a transfer budget of 0 and a wage budget of 3.5k, Managed to keep the finaces in tact so the bored were happy me on that front. There will be no transfer money for next year as i have a 550 capacity stadium which does not generate any money at all.

Special Mentions

There were three players which helped my side avoid relegation these were;

Stephen Maher - A 20 year old who has been capped at under 19's for ireland. The AMC signed on a free from yeovil town, he contributed 11 goals and 7 assits with an avg rating of 7.29

Andy Johnston - A 17 year old who was called up from the youth team, the ST scored 14 and assited 8 with 10 MOM apperances, with his 7.21 avg rating

Luke harrington - A 21 year old defender who was signed on a free transfer, he had an average rating of 7.15, scoring 7 goals and 7 MOM apperances.

Going into pre-season now so hopefuly going to make a few new signings, get a good run in the cup and finish at least 9th

[DodgeeD]

Originally posted by Jimbokav1971:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Ian Brown - not the former frontman of The Stone Roses (showing my age here) but a Botswanan regen I managed to get to the club on trial 2 seasons back. He started to force his way into the first team last season and will be my first choice right back this time.

Dodgee. I would LOVE to have a player called Ian Brown . </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

The name's what first caught my attention when I saw him on the player search screen. I checked it for a laugh and was surprised to see decent looking stats. He came on trial and rthe coaches were impressed. Let's just hope he doesn't have a fantastic year followed by 6 years of nothing, then a half-arsed comeback!

[Jimbokav1971]

I'm sure if you asked him he would just say "I wanna be adored".

He's also not worried about a good 1st season followed by a couple of poor one's because he would say "I am the ressurection".

We all know about "the second coming" too.

Now if he played in the FA Cup Final today and that hairy bloke with the stupid hat and the big drum was sick, his place could be taken but a petite attractive young lady because "she bangs the drum" and after a long and glitteriung career that spanned decades, there could be a statue errected in his memory that would be "made of stone".

Anyone got any more ?

[max1994]

Breaking news just in NK koprivnica a newly promoted Croation team have appointed Max Trayhorn as there new manager

Here is my manager overview

Full update when ive played a few games


PLEASE NOTE MY JUVENTUS BUCHAREST GAME IS CORRUPT SO IVE STARTED AGAIN

[Jimbokav1971]

Originally posted by Jimbokav1971:
I'm sure if you asked him he would just say "I wanna be adored".

He's also not worried about a good 1st season followed by a couple of poor one's because he would say "I am the ressurection".

We all know about "the second coming" too.

Now if he played in the FA Cup Final today and that hairy bloke with the stupid hat and the big drum was sick, his place could be taken but a petite attractive young lady because "she bangs the drum" and after a long and glitteriung career that spanned decades, there could be a statue errected in his memory that would be "made of stone".

Anyone got any more ?

I wanna be adored.

She bangs the drum.

Elephant stone. I always thought it was just called stone.

I am the resurrection.

Bloody hell. What a band they were .

[thezogsageordie]

I was reading through the thread and who is "Super Kyle"? What's his surname? And I was also reading the early banter and was wondering why you 4 don't just buy both strikers and stick them together?

[Ex_Arch_31]

Right, decided to give this a go in Wales with Newport YMCA (I chose them because of the name, I'll be honest)

Here's my "squad":

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Here's me:

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And here's an overview of things:

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Time to go own.

[CCFC 4 life]

good look mate its quite hard in the welsh league, i was thinkin bout being newport YMCA but looked at there squad and that, but it looked way to hard

[DodgeeD]

Originally posted by Jimbokav1971:
I'm sure if you asked him he would just say "I wanna be adored".

He's also not worried about a good 1st season followed by a couple of poor one's because he would say "I am the ressurection".

We all know about "the second coming" too.

Now if he played in the FA Cup Final today and that hairy bloke with the stupid hat and the big drum was sick, his place could be taken but a petite attractive young lady because "she bangs the drum" and after a long and glitteriung career that spanned decades, there could be a statue errected in his memory that would be "made of stone".

Anyone got any more ?

Plenty

What about when the whinging too-big-for-his-boots player finally leaves the team - "Bye bye badman".

And just before the ChampiÅŸons League final (for when we get there ) he will tell his teamates "This is the one" and inform his opponents how he will "Shoot You Down".

After all, this is "What the world is waiting for". I could squeeze one in about winner's medals and fool's gold but I'd better stop before I'm kicked off the challenge for bad puns!

[aaberdeenn]

who is "Super Kyle"? What's his surname?

Kyle Wilson, plays for Barrow.

[iacovone]

Some lovely Stone Roses puns here hats off to you jimbo for kicking it off

What a band indeed

[aaberdeenn]

Indeed, super band. Oasis are/were better though.

[Gundo]

Originally posted by thezogsageordie:
I was also reading the early banter and was wondering why you 4 don't just buy both strikers and stick them together?

That would mean running the English leagues (all) and the Swedish leagues (all) to be able to do that, so it wouldn't be possible in either this or dafuge's challenge. It's an interesting idea though, don't think anyone has tried it?

I'm not much of a 'Super Kyle' fan tbh. Burda was the best, is the best and will always be the best.

[Gundo]

Originally posted by aaberdeenn:
Indeed, super band. Oasis are/were better though.

I agree. I grew up with Oasis in their prime in the 90's, they're simple awesome.

[Frazza Pee]

Originally posted by Gundo:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by aaberdeenn:
Indeed, super band. Oasis are/were better though.

I agree. I grew up with Oasis in their prime in the 90's, they're simple awesome. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>green Days better

[iacovone]

Same here

[aaberdeenn]

It would be great to see how Super Kyle and Patrick Burda would fair as a strike partnership in the English lower leagues.

[iacovone]

No no no no Frazza Pee. That's a very poor shout.

[Frazza Pee]

How is it?

[iacovone]

Well this musical talk is all getting slightly off topic!

Back to the challenge and I'm out of my Champions League group \o/. We can finish top if we beat Chelsea away in the last game.

[aaberdeenn]

Green Day? don't think so. Sure they were pretty good and were popular but I don't think anyone will ever make as big an impact on the rock/pop scene as Oasis did.

[aaberdeenn]

Yeah, enough of the off-topic. I blame Jimbo to be honest.

[Frazza Pee]

Hello Green Day basiccaly invented Punk Rock

[aaberdeenn]

Oasis changed the music industry forever, Green Day didn't. Get over it.

[thezogsageordie]

I'll put a stop to this off-topic madness (great band ) by comparing the two to football.

Saying that Green Day invented Punk Rock is like saying Cristiano Ronaldo invented trickery within football.

Fact is, Green Day nor Ronaldo invented either

I'm never wrong!

Back on topic, I am quite impatient so my dafuge save is going onto the back burner and a Slovenian team is my next port of call, I'm really excited as it's two leagues! Although I haven't underestimated the colossal task ahead.

[DodgeeD]

Originally posted by aaberdeenn:
Yeah, enough of the off-topic. I blame Jimbo to be honest.

Personally, I blame the Botswanan Ian Brown!

[cookie15]

Originally posted by Gundo:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by thezogsageordie:
I was also reading the early banter and was wondering why you 4 don't just buy both strikers and stick them together?

That would mean running the English leagues (all) and the Swedish leagues (all) to be able to do that, so it wouldn't be possible in either this or dafuge's challenge. It's an interesting idea though, don't think anyone has tried it?

I'm not much of a 'Super Kyle' fan tbh. Burda was the best, is the best and will always be the best. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Kyle who? There's only one Patrik Burda

[thezogsageordie]

On the Manager Overview bit I've looked at it every day and there are no new teams but the leagues have reset

[thezogsageordie]

Profile

In bizarre fashion, 30 year old Samuel Fuller has been appointed manager of Crensovci, just hours after former manager and confirmed psychopath Roy Keane walked out.

The press, excluding ourselves, The Sam, have yet to interview the young gun, but we have it in good faith that he is a former trainee accountant

[Quacky]

Intrigued by the tails of constant struggle in Switzerland I decided to go on holiday there and see what turned up. After a year I was greeted with two fine proposals FC Baden featuring a large standing area, pretty decent training facilities and a youth academy or FC Mendrisio-Stabio featuring no training facilities, a quite marvelous logo and intriguing kit who play at an unknown location, a quick google suggest this is actually the 4260 capacity Stadio Comunale di Mendrisio.

So off to the toilet I went to make my decision when I realized I had never played a club with an unknown stadium before and the kit is one thing you can't change so the worst team clearly won and off I went.

[DodgeeD]

Unknown stadium? Sounds like you've inherited a team of super secret agents! Maybe the opponents are blindfolded before being taken to the 'unknown' location in order to play.

Seriously though, I'd be intrigued to see what comes up on your match screen and news items for home games.

[Quacky]

It seems to come up at Mendrisio-Stabio Stadium on the match screen but it still says unknown on information screen. Therefore I have no idea what the capacity is, maybe its unlimited? All I know is 1700 people turned up which seems pretty decent.

[Mike_Cardinal]

Boo FF – Season 1 (2008) = Second Division East Svealand

Media Prediction: 7th
Final League Position 1st

Firstly, I apologise for the length of this post.

I began my time at Boo with a team full of players not tied down onto contracts, most of them looking pretty poor. Firstly, I set about getting a decent ass man and a group of coaches, as well as a decent quality scout who was set to become very busy. A few players were let go on frees, and only the goalie was deemed worthy of a first team place. I decided to tie a few players down as backup however.

It quickly became apparent that there weren’t many players to be had. A couple of signings were pre-arranged, but were apparently only decent signings and so I kept them as squad players. I signed a centre back on a free from Trelleborg called Mikael Bengtsson, who at 26 years old was soon to be my captain. My scout also recommended attacking midfielder Igor Talevski on a free who was snapped up, but aside from them he could only recommend loans. So I did so, bringing in no less than 8 loans for the season on 0% wages. Pre-season went well, winning all my 3 games, but Talevski got himself injured for a couple of months, so in came another loan, Stefan Zarkovic. It soon became apparent that loan striker Fredrik Jensen was something special, hitting two hatricks in pre season to come to a total of 7 in 3. He then got injured as well though, missing the first game.

I also had my two first choice wingers suspended for the first game; they apparently carried through from old clubs last season. Newly relegated Vasby away wasn’t a nice place to start, I would have settled with a draw to be honest. However, within 43 seconds my managerial career came to an awful start, a woefully deflected unlucky goal putting us 1-0 behind. We then decided to give 2 penalties away in the next 20 mins, both were converted and left us at a harsh 3-0 scoreline. So it reminded, despite us utterly bossing the game. My supposedly superb centre back left the game on a 4 rating and a very poor morale, which didn’t bode. Still, as a team performance, signs were that we would improve and live up to our expected mid-table finish at least. (Media Prediction was 7th). Our next game didn’t bode well. Our two first choice wingers were back, so it was full strength apart from Fredrik Jensen, whose place was covered by Albert Trestena, one of the “decent� signings that came with the club. We were at home to Skiljebo, who also were freshly relegated from the league above, on the back of a 7-0 opening day win. Never in a million years did I expect this to happen: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2dwdulf&s=3

Morale was back up high again. And that last game had set the tone, for from that point onwards; the goals flowed freely at both ends. Our forward players continued to be utterly devastating and outstanding in our 4-4-2 Diamond formation, the centre backs somehow kept getting poor ratings, despite being solid in terms of stats. Every goal we conceded was seemingly unlucky. We won the next two games in style, and then at home we lost 2-1 against Akropolis, predicted bottom and given no hope, none of it made any sense. I was constantly getting injuries, and my first team were fantastic, but the backups with the exception of Trestena were bordering on awful. We never seemed to have a full strength team, two or three players always injured at a time. And as such our performances were blowing hot and cold. After 3 straight wins, we followed it up with 2 consecutive defeats, meaning we were 7 points off the top and in 5th place after only 6 games. The fact that our best defender was injured was the main reason for our losses, our backups were a complete shambles and so opponents seemed to score every chance.

After that home loss against Akropolis, pre-season relegation candidates, our fortunes picked up. Despite still having injuries annoying us, we started to show some consistency, winning 5 games on the trot, one of which was a 4-2 victory over Hammarby TFF, pre-season title favourites and current holders of the league (they aren’t allowed to be promoted because they are just Hammarby’s B Team pretty much, so second place went up. It flattered them as well, they managed two late goals after going 4-2-4, we were dominant and winning 4-0). However, we were now at the halfway stage of the season, and Vasby had been sensational. Despite our recent form, they were still 5 points clear at the top, having dropped only 4 points all season. I was now faced with a must win game at home against them, if I wanted to have any chance of going up this season. If I lost, it would be pretty much impossible, bar a major slip-up from them. Still, I took courage from our good performance at their place, and how we had mainly lost due to poor luck more than anything. As well as this, for seemingly the first time this season, we were at full strength.

Things got off to an awful start. Inside 18 minutes, we were 2-0 down, and being played off the park. So, I made some tactical tweaks, and told my wingers to get forward a bit more. By half-time, the magical strike partnership of Fredrik Jensen and Moses Sewankambo had struck again, and levelled the match. I told the lads they were unlucky not to be winning, and out they went. Moses picked up a knock on the hour mark though, so on jogged Albert Trestena. He immediately took part in a great team move that resulted in the bottom corner, but Fredrik Jensen had been in an offside position and as such his goal didn’t count! With ten minutes left, a long ball went down the left. It was fed through to playmaker Stefan Zarkovic, who promptly smashed it in from 25 yards! What a comeback! But could we hang on? Immediately they switched to a 4-2-4. We weathered the storm for another 5 minutes, but as so often when teams attack us near the end of a game, we get another. An in swinging free kick from Zarkovic found the head of super-sub Trestena, and surely the game was sealed at 4-2. It was. Here’s the game:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=ff67ep&s=3

So, Vasby’s unbeaten season had come to an abrupt end, their lead cut down to just two points, our winning run extended now to 6 games. We now also had a better goal difference by 5. But still, 10 games was a long way to go. My goal difference was happy to see underachieving Skiljebo again, who had never yet recovered from the 8-1 mauling they received at our place. We won 3-0 all from first-half goals, it might have been more, but we simply saw it out in the second half. It sent us top for an hour or so before Vasby thrashed Franke 6-2 to retain their place.

Next game however, ended my 7 game run of wins. It came, of all places, at bottom placed Varmbol, who had managed just 2 points all season. I lost 3-2, having crushed them 6-2 earlier in the season. Vasby of course won 4-1 away, so back to a 5 point lead it was, and my title hopes looked bloody screwed. Never on this game have I met such a team in a title race, it’s ridiculous as they just destroyed everyone. I could see them losing a few points perhaps, but I didn’t give myself any chance of winning enough to catch up, I’d lost the second easiest game of the season, and was livid. Why did Fredrik Jensen have to get himself suspended?! My harsh team talk shoved morale back down to generally Good, with a couple of Okays and Very Goods, but not the Superbs I’d been used to all season. I think this was the point when I first thought that playing in Vasby’s league was a hopeless cause, and I should be happy to be doing so well having expected a secure mid-table finish.

After that game we picked up again, with 3 straight wins. In a 4-0 win against Franke, I was going to cut the lead back down to 2 points again with Vasby losing 1-0, but Vasby equalised last minute against Nykoping, meaning it was 3 points difference with 5 games to go. I had the superior goal difference by 5, so it was looking within my grasp again! I was confident about my run-in, as it was against teams that I had all beaten in the first half of the season. However, three of them were away, and on the final day we were playing Hammarby TFF Away, probably the best team in the league on their day. My comfort was that Vasby had to play them away as well. I really needed to stay focused, and for them to slip up! A game later, my wishes were once again granted. Vasby only managed a 1-1 draw at Sparvagen whilst I breezed 3-1 past IFK Eskilstuna, meaning the gap was now down to one point, and my goal difference superior by 7! Despite not having been top all season, the momentum was with me at just the right time, with 4 games remaining. But despite having to play Hammarby, Vasby’s 3 other games were at home. This one was definitely going down to the wire!

One game later, Vasby had messed up once again. In a first half blitz that saw me race 5-0 up against Tyreso, they pulled one back and we then saw the game out, whilst Vasby oddly threw away a first half 2-0 lead at home, drawing 2-2, and meaning that incredibly we were now a point clear, and with our goal difference better by 11, it was in our hands. If Vasby lost at Hammarby, (who had won their last 6, and not conceded in 3 whilst Vasby had just had 3 draws on the trot) and we won at Sparvagen, then a win at home against Nybro (who we beat 3-0 away) would seal the title and leave us not needing to do anything away at Hammarby on the last day. It was a big ask though.

We did our bit, beating Sparvagen 3-0 thanks to a second half hatrick from Moses Sewankambo. And… oh happy days! Hammarby did theirs as well! They beat Vasby 2-0, meaning I was 4 points clear, and they themselves were only a point off Vasby, they had now won 7 on the trot and five without conceding. So, a win at home against Nybro would seal the title. Well, technically I only had to better or equal Vasby’s result, but they had already relegated Varmbol at home, who now were on 8 points and their only win of the season was of course against me! Nybro hadn’t won in 14, I’d won 6 on the trot, so surely it would be a formality?

After a very close and nervy start, a great ball over from the right found the head of Fredrik Jensen in the 37th minute. 1-0. A few minutes later, a long ball was lofted up, and the poor clearance fell straight to Stefan Zarkovic on what would likely be his last game for the club, he was going back to Elfsborg in a couple of days as was actually originally a loan to cover Talevski’s injury. Suffice it to say; once again he buried it into the top corner from 25 yards. Minutes later, Zarkovic again dispossessed a Nybro midfielder, stuck a through ball into the gap and Fredrik Jensen finished to make it 3-0! Surely the title was coming home now! Ahlstrom converted a penalty to make it 4, and a last minute winner from Jensen sealed his hatrick, the rout and the title! Vasby won 5-2, but it was irrelevant. We were going up! Here’s the match that did it: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=izlqi0&s=3

Here’s confirmation of our promotion: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=dfty5h&s=3

On the final day, amusingly we got our first draw of the season, 1-1 at Hammarby TFF thanks to an own goal. Bit of an anti-climax to say the least.

In other news, I came third in Second Division Manager of the Year (Remember that there are 6 branches of the Second Division). As well as this, 5 players ended up in the Second Division team of the year (that's for all 6 parts), but I could have easily filled every other position, oddly having a player with a higher average rating than whoever they chose in every position. I couldn't understand why they let Fredrik Jensen in the team but not Moses Sewankambo, who walked to the Second Division's Top Goalscorer Award despite him having 8 more goals and a .65 better average rating than Toni Nhleko. Me not getting Manager of the Year was also weird, we had more points than anyone else, a much better goal difference and unlike the 1st and second placed managers, were not a team who had been predicted to top the league, far from it!

But, screenshot time!

Final League Table: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=9ih05z&s=3

Boo Squad: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2aenew5&s=3

Transfers: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=1zdyweb&s=3

Season Progress: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=352r76g&s=3

Season Fixtures: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=j0bm2u&s=3

Confidence: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=166hcv4&s=3

League Player Stats: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=307owuw&s=3

Players

Bjorn Akesson: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2jcsmk1&s=3

A great keeper that I inherited at the club, but he has been snapped up by a team a couple of leagues above us on a bosman. We have got a good young keeper on the way to replace him though.

Henrik Nilsson: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=6stc85&s=3

Not particularly exciting, solid right back. One of many loans, so right back is a place I will need to look at for next year.

Jesper Arvidsson: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=vpw5ch&s=3

Great left back, chipped in with a few assists and a couple of fantastic strikes from free kicks. Another loan, but he’s 23 so I doubt that they’d let me have him back again.

Mikael Bengtsson: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=35kvm07&s=3

My captain, and I think he did decently well. Not quite as awesome as my scout suggested, but nice and reliable once he found his feet in the second half of the season. I don’t think I’m going to be able to keep him once again though, with LOTS of interest from other clubs. I should get over 10k for him though, which will be great considering our current overall balance is 7k!

Marcus Nilsson: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=mmsh7k&s=3

My other centre back on loan, and tbh I was a little disappointed. He missed a few games through injury, but generally speaking those were the games that we lost all season. His amount of tackles won was really not up to scratch, so I won’t be re-loaning him.

Christian Ahlstrom: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2r23hiw&s=3

Great player, crucial to our success. He was ever present, breaking up opposition attacks and passing the ball on with near perfect accuracy. He also helped out with a few crucial goals from penalties, I’d love to have him back for another season if possible.

Stefan Zarkovic: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=dyu63o&s=3

In all honesty, my personal player of the season. He came in to cover the absence of Telavski, but was incredible to the point where Telavski is now transfer listed by request after frustration of not getting in the team. Assists galore, my playmaker and the centre of the team. The boy does not score simple goals, I think they were all 20 yards at least, long range efforts and free kicks. The team’s chances of survival next year would be much improved if he came back on loan.

Ivo Pekalski: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2znpq41&s=3

Fantastic right winger. I’m sure you can notice the difference in reviews between the offensive and defensive players, but then look at our goals for column. He’s very young, and suffered one injury, but with him in the team we always were a threat down the wings. Right mid is the one position I have already planned for though, with a young bloke named Emil Salomonsson coming on a free in the near future who I have high hopes for.

Sebastian Eriksson: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=15cbuzd&s=3

The second half of my team’s natural width. Would really like him back next year, he is great at beating his man at this level and putting good balls into the box, and don’t mind his stats, consistently he played through good through balls to our pacey attack.

Fredrik Jensen: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=fkw4t4&s=3

He missed the first three games through injury, but was well worth the wait. The stats do not lie. Nice and pacey, and excellent at one on ones, he scored a goal a game and came up with a lot of assists for his strike partner. These two were amazing, I’d love them back next year but we’ll see how things go. Neither have any interest in joining on a bosman sadly. He was so good, that he is now officially the first ever person to find their way into Boo’s favoured personnel, fantastic after just one season.

Moses Sewankambo: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=30rtizq&s=3

What can I say? Ever present, ever consistent, ever lethal. I cannot describe the amount of times he sneaked around the back of the opposition’s left centre back and found the bottom right hand corner of the net. An interesting statistic was this: in all but one game (the bizarre 3-2 defeat to Varmbol) whenever he scored, we won. And his goals quite often came in bundles, I’m sure there were 2 or 3 hatricks at least. He managed over a goal a game, and was deservedly comfortably the league’s top scorer. He’s 3 years younger than Jensen at 20 as well. I would love to bring my strike force back again, but both of their contracts run out this summer, neither will consider joining me permanently and there are lower Premier Division and middle-to-high First Division Elite sides sniffing around them, and I’m not sure that they would let me have them on loan.

Next season:

It’s going to be interesting. I have no idea what the standard will be like, but I can take courage from the team that went up from my league last year are walking to a successive promotion. However, with my ENTIRE TEAM looking set to leave or go back to their original squad, it’s going to be a challenge. All I’ve got is a right mid, a goalie and a couple of youth players on the way, and a scout. Also, quite amusingly a few weeks ago my chairman let my 33 year old backup centre back leave on a free transfer. They offer £0, apparently too good to refuse. Not that I particularly minded.

Will I be able to improve on this season’s season ticket sales of 14? (I managed an average of 350 attendance, but Boo are so obscure that the stadium is unknown, simply named Boo Stadium). I think I’ll be happy with safety next season, and try and secure a few more players on permanent deals to give me a stronger base on which to build.

If this post was horrendously long and you wish me to cut down my season reports to a more reasonable length in future, then please let me know!

[Mike_Cardinal]

Oh good God! That was much longer than I thought! I just typed it all on word and woah! Sorry about that, if anybody bothers to read it at all that would be appreciated, for the effort I put in. I wanted to have a Best Eleven thing in there, but still it hasn't come up and I've lost patience.

And about the unknown stadium thing, Boo are a similar case. The game has the stadium set as Unknown on the Information screen, but on matchdays it is referred to as "Boo Stadium". I have no idea if there are any capacity restrictions.

[thezogsageordie]

Mike, you said that Hammarby hadn't conceded in 3 then after beating your rivals for the title they hadn't conceded in 5, and I guess that proves I read the whole lot (excluding bit about players as I cba!)

Well played though, I'm in Slovenia and I was/am 5,000-1 to win the Division 2 so every team and his wife is attacking me like there is no tomorrow!

KUTGW

[Mike_Cardinal]

Thanks. In all honesty, it was bound to be mistake ridden. Who needs the ability to count anyway!?

I have just started the new season but will leave it for the night. Fans Player of the Season was the keeper, and my Best Eleven was as predicted so no real point.

All my loan players returned to their clubs with Boo as one of their favoured clubs so that's good for the future, and most are again listed for loan. Media Prediction is 7th, which out of 14 is much better than I anticipated. Board minimum expectation was Top Half Finish so my plans of just surviving look like they're out the window! The standard seems to be very similar, not much of a jump up at all. With a bit of luck, I think I can take this league, and then it'll get interesting, as the Elite and Premier Divisions are a class above judging from Cup results!

Glad someone bothered to read it anyway!

[max1994]

good start Mike good luck for next season
and conrats on winning the league and how long did it take for you to write it up

[thezogsageordie]

Crensovci Mid Season Update 2008/09 (Season 1)

Promotion Odds

Season Tickets

Well as you can see, I wasn't favourites to win the League and I had 17 Season Ticket Holders! Bad Times.

The good thing (I think) I noticed was that everybody set out to attack me, second game of season I was losing 2-5 with about 10 minutes to go and the team I was playing went 4-2-4!

I'll do a full report when Season finishes.

[Razer82]

Razer82 – Clough Rangers – Northern Irish Second Division

After the disaster that I had with Juventus Bucharest in Romania, I’ve opted for somewhere new and with the number of cups that are played Northern Ireland looks to offer something interesting.

So Clough Rangers are now under my control.

A few more details about the club.

GundoGundo – Can you please remove my Romania game from the list seeing as my contract was not renewed due to the clubs relegation from the First League.

[Mike_Cardinal]

Good luck in Northern Ireland Razer, and hopefully you can get some results on the counter attack thezogsageordie! Anybody with a Max & Paddy quote in their location is fine by me.

I'm not sure how long it took me to write up max, as I did it as I played the season, so really it was just however it took me to play the game, plus about half an hour I spent yesterday finishing it up and uploading the screenshots.

Also, you know how the assistant can tell you how well the current players are blending? Do you reckon that if I loaned all of last season's team again, would it reset the blending or resume it. I guess it wouldn't do much good because it's quite a complicated thing to work in.

[CCFC 4 life]

Well it looks like i will be starting again, due to me letting my little brother play on FM on my laptop, and he has acidently saved over my game

[iacovone]

Slavonija End of Season Update - 25/26 (Season 18)

League: 1st
Croatian Cup: Winners
Croatian Super Cup: Winners
Champions League: Out in 1st Knockout Round

I have mixed feelings about this season. Maybe I'm getting rusty but we certainly had a tougher year than I expected. In a harsh contrast to the 'Invincibles' of last season we suffered 6 league defeats along with a number of cup losses too. Not good enough for where I want us to go but I suppose we are in a state of rebuilding. The league campaign looked to be in danger but after the winter break we pulled away from the chasing pack and landed our 11th title

The Croatian Cup was taken seriously for a change and we waltzed into the final with ease. Once there it was a mere formality against Rijeka and we triumphed 7-4 on aggregate.

The Champions League was a familiar tale. We did well in our group and deservedly qualified (especially after beating Lazio home and away). We finished a point behind Chelsea, meaning we were set for a tough draw in the first knockout round. That we got as the current holders - Valencia were paired with us. Sadly the tie was effectively over for us after 20 mins of the home leg - we were 3-0 down! Despite getting a goal back and a rousing fight in the Nuovo Mestalla (4-4) we fell at this early hurdle. Shame but we've repeated our performance of last year in Europe. Much needed improvement asap.

Club News
Transfers
Here are a couple of the new boys:
Herman Akouz
Aleksander Jovic - started badly and became unpopular with the fans. However came back resoundingly and finished the season with plenty of goals
Marco Van Der Horst
Antun Skugor - plenty of potential here
£9.75mill has been paid to shareholders.
The board announced another 9,800 seats will be added to the Slavonija Stadium \o/

My Awards
Most Valuable -
Dubravko Siklic - A suprising choice for many but the sheer number of assists make him invaluable to us. A great season from the veteran left back and record appearance holder.
Special Mention - Aleksander Jovic - Overcame a tough start here to win over the fans.
My Player of the Season - Salvatore Milano - Consistently good all year, played a lot of games and did well. Also Fans player of the year Hope to get a few more years out of him before his pace deserts him.
Hot Prospect - Dado Bognar - May not have the best stats but his performances belie that fact. Good all year and the squad's best performer. Could make the left wing spot his own at this rate.

Under 19s
Won the league again but suffered a couple of defeats. Main prospect to look out for is Antun Skugor.

Seasonal Best XI
Overall Best XI - New additions include Boris Maric and Vegard Sivertsen.

Gundo - for you:
11 domestic titles
Uefa Coeff - 11th - 103.325
Nation Coeff - 12th - 30.575

[iacovone]

I've also decided the long term plan is to (hopefully) win the Champions League and then resign, take over at a recently promoted club back in the 2nd Division and do it all again! Thats the dream anyway...

[Mike_Cardinal]

Unlucky with the draw for the Champs League there Iacovone. I'm sure you'll get there at some point with all that promising youth coming through. That Sinisa Lucic looks like a complete club legend!

[thezogsageordie]

Crensovci End Of Season Update Season 2008/09 (Season 1)

As you can see from my previous post (Mid Season Update) I was 5,000-1 to win a 10 team league which basically meant, you have more chance of shitting in the Queens handbag than staying up! Well **** in the Queens handbag I did!

Table | Graph

7th and a nearly 1 Point per Game, I was ecstatic!

On the tactics front things have been up and down like a yo-yo powered by rockets! The press give me no hope, I'm something ridiculous like 20-1 to beat the top team, I draw 0-0, I play the bottom team, I lose

Aims For Next Season

Top half finish (5th or above)
1st round of the Cup
Strengthen squad
Win more games then I lose

Thanks for reading and sorry it's not as much as some people write!

[thezogsageordie]

I didn't realise the word Sting Hindu Italian Turkish (take the capital letters) was classed as a "swear word" I'll bare that in mind for the future!

[Mike_Cardinal]

Congrats on staying up geordie! (Is it okay if I just call you that as its much shorter?) Good solid base to build on there, hopefully you can push on next season. Ignore the press, I think they take what your squad is like when you take over rather than the team you actually put together. That's a pretty swish looking skin as well.

[CCFC 4 life]

Here it goes, like i said earlier my bro acidently over righted my saved game in wales, so im starting fresh in croatia with Uskok. told the board i will aviod relegation they have given me 4k to spend on wages and no transfer budget. will post end of season report later hopefully

Manager Profile - http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/2...anagerpuz6.jpg

[iacovone]

Originally posted by Mike_Cardinal:
Unlucky with the draw for the Champs League there Iacovone. I'm sure you'll get there at some point with all that promising youth coming through. That Sinisa Lucic looks like a complete club legend!

Indeed he is Mike. If you look back at my updates from years gone by you'll see that he has been with us from the beginning of the glory days at Slavonija. I forgot to mention that this season he was Croatian Player of the Year too. I think 4 years ago he also picked up European Golden Boot He's also never asked for a move and is the only player to ever be on the clubs 'favoured personnel' list

He epitomises the word 'Legend' in my opinion

Re: Champions League draw - we've been v.unlucky the last two years drawing Liverpool and Valencia. The two massive clubs in Europe at the moment. Hoping for better luck this year.

[Gundo]

Originally posted by iacovone:
I've also decided the long term plan is to (hopefully) win the Champions League and then resign, take over at a recently promoted club back in the 2nd Division and do it all again! Thats the dream anyway...

Sounds good. I thought of doing that, but you've got to do the easy bit and win the Champions League first.

[Gundo]

On the subject of teams with funny names... In Norway there's a club called Fart, who play in the lower leagues and yes the weather conditions are always windy for home games.

[iacovone]

On the subject of teams with funny names... In Norway there's a club called Fart, who play in the lower leagues and yes the weather conditions are always windy for home games.

Found out today that Young Boys Bern play at the W ankdorf Stadium!

You could not make that up.

[minisav]

A classic from FM

You don't need to put the space as the filter doesn't block it

[Robert_296]

The Wankdorf stadium is hosting some of the games at Euro 2008.

[minisav]

Brace yourself for awful dodgy puns by commentators. Coming this Summer!

[spotg]

thezogsageordie - congrats on staying up, and even better, in relegating Krka (bastards )

iacovone Young Boys Wankdorf has been the name of my fantasy football teams for a few years now since I discovered that happy fact...

I presume we all know of Deportivo Wanka from Peru...?

They sell something like a thousand shirts in the UK each year now

[iacovone]

Haha yeah I'd heard of them spotg - quite brilliant.

Robert - I know, that's where I found out - was having a look through the latest FourFourTwo mag (which is great btw!)

[iacovone]

Keeping this slightly on topic () I've had a great start to season19. Undefeated in the league and Europe so far plus we've only conceeded 2 goals. Think we've played 7 games so far. Basically uphauled my fairly mundane 4-4-2 tactics for 2 new tactics - 1 home, 1 away. At home, the lovely Christmas Tree has been brought back (3-1-3-2-1) and away I've tried to create Slaven Bilic's Croatia tactic (4-1-3-2).

All seems to be going well so I'm happy with myself so far

[Robert_296]

I read it aswell but I found it on the Euro 2008 demo on the PS3, which is not so good btw

[DodgeeD]

Originally posted by Gundo:
On the subject of teams with funny names... In Norway there's a club called Fart, who play in the lower leagues and yes the weather conditions are always windy for home games.

Had the Turkish lower divisions bug not prevented me from playing there, I would have taken charge of 'Batman Petrol Sports Club'. Another of the promoted teams was Belediye Van Spor - Van is a city in the east, Belediye translates as 'council' thus making 'Council Van Sports Club'

[max1994]

NK Koprivnica 2008-2009::

And as promised, here’s more on the story we reported on earlier.NK Koprivnica have appointed unknow manager Max Trayhorn after the former manger resigned.

Transfers: A quick glance at the squad showed me that I had to strengthen my team. I bought in a couple of experienced centre backs. These two would be the base of my team. They were followed by a triplet of creative cheap Jamaican players. However my most notable signing was 17 yr old Croatia U19 sticker Matej Jelic He has decent stats at 17 and he hasn’t finished growing, one for the future I’m shore of that. My best signing though was Jamaican creative midfielder John-Ross Doyley.

Transfers

Pre season: After spending endless hours choosing then designing my tactic I was almost ready to do battle. When I say almost I Really mean I need to get some players who can pass a f*****g ball. So I have created my tactic got my players now I was ready to start. My first result was a thrilling encounter. I took the lead in the 21st minute through Matija Crnila the game then went quiet for a while that was until Sesvete launched a quick counter just before half time. They scored with there first shot on target. I restored my lead on the 60 minute mark
this time it was Mario Pajic who scored a dipping volley from the edge of the area.
I looked to have taken the game 2-1 but disaster struck as they scored again, this
time from a corner in the first minute of injury time. My lead was restored as substitute Nenad Baotic scored a header to clinch it. This was followed by a 0-0 draw with Marsonia.

In my opinion I had strengthened my squad enough to play some stronger foreign opposition and from what I saw in the first game I was right, here’s how the match panned out.

BATE 3 NK Koprivnica 3

However the tour started to go down hill after that. Here are the other results.

Dinamo Brest 3 NK Koprivnica 2

Dinamo Minsk 4 NK koprivnica 2

And finally.

Torpedo Zhodino 4 NK Koprivnica 0

A shocking performance where the twats played like 3 legged donkeys.

Pre season continued: Morale was low after our shocking performances in Bulgaria and me telling the players exactly what I though of them I desperately needed to get morale up so I arranged a final 2 friendlies I recorded a 5-0 drumming of my U19s with Matej Jelic scoring all five this was followed 2 days later by a 2-1 victory over Belisce who ironically I have to play in the first game of the season the scorer this time was Matej Jelic who this time got 3 but 1 was at the wrong f*****g end.

A pretty poor pre season with 3 wins 3 losses and 2 draws.

The league: We started the league at home to Belisce. We took the lead in the 6 minute with a tapping from Miroslav Pejic how opened his account. We dominated proceedings at half time I send the lads back out telling them to keep it up but just after the break my right winger injured a muscle in his lower back, I later find out he will be out for at least a month so on jogged my other right winger. The match finished 2-1 in the end is scored another late winner this time in the 8th minute of injury time.

This was followed by defeat were at one point I was 3 nil down I was unlucky not to win it as I pretty much dominated proceedings even hitting the post towards the end. I won the next 3 games 2-1, 4-0 and 2-0 then I hit the dreaded injury crisis that I seem to get in every game. 5 of my first team regulars were out for a month with my backup defensive mid out for 2-3 months. Disaster. With no strong cover in those positions I had a makeshift defence and midfield with only 4 regular players playing the crisis transferred into my league performances as well.

With no win in 4 going into the 2 hardest games so far my chances didn’t look great but a 5-2 demolition of fist division squad Osijek gave us our much needed victory. Onto the second part of the group of crucial games inspired by our performance against Osijek I told the players they win our game against Zagreb.We started strongly taking the lead with a Garfield Reid* screamer on 27 minutes. They pulled one back through inform striker Plumb Jusufi they then scored another 2 in quick succession so with them scoring 3 goals in 10 minutes things weren’t looking good I new the game was over so I started to prepare for the next game however I did pull one back through John-Ross Doyley. Final score 3-2.

So with no win in 5 and having lost my last 3 league games things needed to turn around fast the performances turned around faster than you can say **** as we went on a 5 match winning streak in that streak was our best performance of the season a 7-2 strumming of Pomorac this was followed by 4 games which I won by 1 or 2 goals. The next game marked my return to loosing ways with a 6-4 defeat I was unlucky as I dominated the match and in the dying seconds I hit the bar and the keeper made the save of the season to deny Reid.

We returned to winning ways in the next game with a 3-1 victory the joy didn’t last long however as we were thumped 2-0 away to Solin so after the 3 month in season break we sat in 4th going into the game against bilesce which ironically we scored 4 goals compared to there 2 tthis was followed by a 3 game winning streak where we scored at least 3 goals in each game and kept to clean sheets. We were two points behind 3rd with a game in hand we would have leep frogged them if it wasn’t for Marko Loncar the bastard scored and to add insult to injury he was offside. In the next game I put 6 goals past Pomorac this time beating them 6-2 .
My form dropped majorly in the last 7 games with 2 wins 1draw and 4 losses with the poorest performance coming in the last game of the season a 5-1 loss to Solin.

The cup: in the prelim round I was drawn against Vrbovec who I comfortable beat 4-0 with Jelic scoring all four. In the next round I was drawn against Osijek .
A first division side who were expected to beat us comfortably I won 5-2 however I couldn’t continue my cup shocks as I was knocked out in the second round 3-1 by Varteks .

Squad
Finances
League Table
Player of the season

So a good first season im slightly dissapionted with the number of games i lost and the goals i conceeded but on the whole a very good season. hopefully i will be able to win it wish me luck and i dont know how this is so i appoligize if it is massive

[thezogsageordie]

Originally posted by spotg:
thezogsageordie - congrats on staying up, and even better, in relegating Krka (bastards )

Thanks Spot, yeah it was a good season I beat them 2 times out of 3!

Originally posted by Mike_Cardinal:
Congrats on staying up geordie! (Is it okay if I just call you that as its much shorter?) Good solid base to build on there, hopefully you can push on next season. Ignore the press, I think they take what your squad is like when you take over rather than the team you actually put together. That's a pretty swish looking skin as well.

Thanks Mike, call me what you like I'm not bothered but Geordie is fine!

Yeah well I've just finished 6th, I'll do an update in a moment.

[thezogsageordie]

Crensovci End Of Season Update 2009/10 (Season 2)

Table | Graph

Good seasono staying between 3rd and 7th all year and also considering I had an 18 man squad consisting of:

4 gk
4 cb
1 dm
2 cm
1 aml
1 amr
2 amc
3 st

I think 6th was a great finish, hopefully strengthen squad next season and with a bit of luck might be able to push for the play-off's although top 4 will do me!

[Quacky]

Mendrisio-Stabio 2008

It appears "Unknown" stadia are in fact quite large as a crowd of 5245 packed into an unknown location in southern Switzerland today to witness a cup match against a Basel team that was secretly airlifted into the covert facility. They were clearly somewhat spooked by my supergoalie playing the game of his life and by my late game tactics featuring 2-2-6 formation and only managed to beat me 2-1.

[Quacky]

Mendrisio-Stabio 2008/09

All started quietly in southern Switzerland at an unknown location as the new boss stuck most the players onto pro contracts since they were already being paying ~£140p/w part time. New elderly players were brought in and a couple of loanees and we told all our friends to put massive bets on the team that were ranked huge underdogs in every single game.

Early on the season looked a little grim but soon we visited the worst pitch I have ever seen and totally dominated them. From then on the season went far better than I could have imagined leading to an unexpected 5th place finish. In the cup we were spanked 2-1 by Basel unsurprisingly in the third round.

All hail goes to the ancient legend Richard Witschge and almighty striker Mladen Vidovic who led the league in goals, average rating and man of the match yet somehow didn't get on the shortlist for player of the year but did win foreign player of the year.

For next season the board have decided to spend £5.75M that I don't have on building the 6305 all-seater Mendrisio-Stabio stadium while I try think of a way to bridge the 30 point gap to 1st place in the league.

[spotg]

Originally posted by thezogsageordie:
Crensovci End Of Season Update 2009/10 (Season 2)

Table | Graph

Good seasono staying between 3rd and 7th all year and also considering I had an 18 man squad consisting of:

4 gk
4 cb
1 dm
2 cm
1 aml
1 amr
2 amc
3 st

I think 6th was a great finish, hopefully strengthen squad next season and with a bit of luck might be able to push for the play-off's although top 4 will do me!

Your league table's showing last seasons, but the graph is fine.

Are Triglav and Aluminij both in the first division? I've never seen either of them get out of the second (in either direction!)

[foost]

@ Quacky:

No idea how you did, but bloody awesome player you got with the almighty dutchman Richard Witschge

[Quacky]

He was sitting around at an amateur dutch club so I just waltzed in an offered him a contract. In real life hes a coach at Ajax, bit strange hes still down as a player on here.

[thezogsageordie]

Originally posted by spotg:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by thezogsageordie:
Crensovci End Of Season Update 2009/10 (Season 2)

Table | Graph

Good seasono staying between 3rd and 7th all year and also considering I had an 18 man squad consisting of:

4 gk
4 cb
1 dm
2 cm
1 aml
1 amr
2 amc
3 st

I think 6th was a great finish, hopefully strengthen squad next season and with a bit of luck might be able to push for the play-off's although top 4 will do me!

Your league table's showing last seasons, but the graph is fine.

Are Triglav and Aluminij both in the first division? I've never seen either of them get out of the second (in either direction!) </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Oh yeah well you can see where I finished from the Graph, I also finished 8 points better off then the Season before! I've never heard of neither of them tbh, but I am at work and can't see the table!

[foost]

What is the meaning of the word "domestic title"? If you win any league it's a domestic title? Or only if you win, example, the premier league?

[spotg]

Originally posted by foost:
What is the meaning of the word "domestic title"? If you win any league it's a domestic title? Or only if you win, example, the premier league?

The latter. You need to win your league structure's top division for it to be a "domestic title".

[foost]

Club: Mosside
Coach: Joost Nijhof (foost)
League: Northern Irish Second Division
Season: 2 (09/10)


WHAT/WHO/WHERE:

Northern Irish Second Division: 1st.
We had a great season but it wasn't sure till the end what the table would look like. We were between the 2nd and 4th place whole season, but thanks to Ballinamallard Utd who drawn in their last game we ended up being champions!!

We aren't there yet, scoring only 36 times. Happy I am tho about the defence with only getting 26 against. My new goalkeeper, also from the youth, is already wanted by premier clubs. But with us next season the the First Division I hope I can keep him at the club.

Irish Cup: 3rd Rnd.
The Irish Cup is still out of reach for us, maybe next season we can get further. But that's not a goal yet for me.

Intermediate League Cup: Finished 5th in Group 2.
Very happy with this result. May sound weird finishing 5th out of a group of 6 teams, but really enjoyed this season in the Intermediate. We won 2 matches and lost the other games with only 1 goal difference. Goal for next season is qualifing for the next round.

Antrim Trophy: 4th Rnd.
Bit of a disapointment for me. Last season, our first season, we made it to the Quarter Finals, now it ended in the 4th round. Next season, if we still play this cup in the first division, i really wanna make it to the finals.

Intermediate cup: 1st Rnd.
Nuf said.


Club info:
- Profile
- Club Information
- The Staff
- Players
- Transfers in/out
- Finances Summary


Biggest Talent:
My biggest talent out of my youth this season was Brian Henry. He did quite well for a young lad while he got his first minutes because of injuries. Probably will be in my starting line-up next season.


Goal:
The goal for next season is signing a couple of youngsters from the u19/u21 N.Ireland squad who will be without contracts in two months, and would like to join Mosside hehe.


Overall Career:

League
<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">
Year Division Position Pld Won Drn Lst For Ag G.D Pts

08/09 Northern Irish Second Division 4th 22 9 7 6 34 27 +7 34
09/10 Northern Irish Second Division 1st 22 11 4 7 36 26 +10 34
</pre>


//

thanks spotg

[thezogsageordie]

foost

How do you get a table like that?

[iacovone]

Kind of having an urge to start afresh (I know, despite my claims I'll win the Champions League then do it all again in Croatia ). Been looking around for CoachFlu as I always enjoyed his updates but it seems he's disappeared for a few months

Anyway I'm giving it some thought and you may find my next update to be elsewhere (likely Belgium, but I could be swayed...)

Gonna ponder this for a bit

[jess boi]

Alright everyone gonna be starting this in a bit looks fun! Ive decided the leagues im going to load are:

Colombia
Australia
South Africa
England( down to league two)
Spain( to lowest devision)
Chile
Italy( down to serie c1)
Ukraine
Iceland
Russia

My aim is to win atleast 2 trophies in each league, hopefully starting off in good old south america and workin towards eastern europe, i also have never tried south africa. Do i have to start unemployed guys or can i go straight to colombia? cheerzz wish me luck lol

[iacovone]

Jess Boi - read the original post. This thread is for taking 1 club previously unplayable from 1 league in Europe to the top. Not loading various leagues like you've done. The thread for you is 'the career thread' - good luck

[Gundo]

It would certainly be interesting to follow your progress as you build your way up from the very bottom again in a new country.

[iacovone]

Well well well...who'd a thunk it?!

iacovone has departed Croatia and arrived in Belgium

Has the world gone mad!?

Anyway, sadly I'm leaving Slavonija to one side for a while, after coming so close to completing the challenge it would require a lot of patience to get near to doing it again. Although that patience isn't present in Croatia, it is in Belgium \o/

Say hello to the new manager of KFC Schoten SK

Wish me luck as I embark once more towards the Champions League trophy.

Some Stats

Club Rep - 2001
Staff - None.
Finances - 50k
Transfer Budget - 0k
Wage Budget - 3k per week
Stadium - Gemeentepark, Schoten
Capacity - 3150 (450 seats)
Training Facilities - Fairly basic
Youth Facilities - Minimal
Affiliated Clubs - Germinal Beerschot \o/

[max1994]

good luck iacovone

[dj clark boy]

yeah i'm in greece here i come

[Quacky]

What is that picture of iacovone, at a guess it looks like the sort of architecture you might see on the Adriatic coast, possibly older towns of Croatia.

[dj clark boy]

hi ive' gone for Niki Volou the Board Want me to avoid relegation hers me and me profile and squad and in box http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii267/ace25/niki%20v...larkInbox.png........

[dj clark boy]

here is my team expectations...http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/i...arkInbox-2.png

here is my team http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii267/ace25/niki%20v...louNikiV_Players.png

[Ridleys]

Looks like a place I wouldn't mind being right now

[Wegason]

I think that is Split, it looks familiar. Could be wrong though.

[foost]

@ thezogsageordie:

Just tick the reply with quote on my message and copy the [.code] part into notepad, change it into a table that suits you and paste it again in the forum. (dont forget the [.code][./code] thingies tho

p.s. delete the .'s

[thezogsageordie]

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">
Year Division Position Pld Won Drn Lst For Ag G.D Pts
08/09 Premiership 1st 38 37 1 0 100 42 58 112
09/10 Premiership 1st 38 36 1 1 100 44 56 109
</pre>

[thezogsageordie]

foost btw team was Newcastle

[spotg]

Originally posted by Wegason:
I think that is Split, it looks familiar. Could be wrong though.

Looks a lot like Split to me too.

Lovely city

[foost]

I think it's quite weird, not complaining tho, how is it possible that a club that promoted 3 years ago to the Second League of N. Ireland - Mosside in this example - and now playing in the First Division getting such a good newgens/youth players. I think 50% of my youth is a decent or good premier player, if i may believe my coaches.

This means; the premierleague in N.Ireland sucks bigtime, or my youth is superb.. starting to think its the first

Another thing is; for the peeps who are playing in N. Ireland. How is your club finances? Because I have stayed below my wage budget every season, but somehow the club can't make profit. And the finances are allready around the -160k..


Good news: I made it to the intermediate cup final!

[foost]

*EDIT* the Intermediate League Cup that is

Final will be played tonite when I get home

[daemonic]

Originally posted by foost:
I think it's quite weird, not complaining tho, how is it possible that a club that promoted 3 years ago to the Second League of N. Ireland - Mosside in this example - and now playing in the First Division getting such a good newgens/youth players. I think 50% of my youth is a decent or good premier player, if i may believe my coaches.

This means; the premierleague in N.Ireland sucks bigtime, or my youth is superb.. starting to think its the first

Another thing is; for the peeps who are playing in N. Ireland. How is your club finances? Because I have stayed below my wage budget every season, but somehow the club can't make profit. And the finances are allready around the -160k..


Good news: I made it to the intermediate cup final!

You're right, the Premier league quality is poor. I'm in the 2015/16 season and every player is 7 stars, but I know from their stats and the clubs bidding for them that they are probably League One or Championship players at best i.e. no where near good enough for a CL challenge.
Oddly enough my Mosside teams finances are great. Turned professional last season with 5m in the bank thanks to player sales, usually 2 a season for between 250k up to a new record this season of 1.7m. Most of these were decided by the chairman who felt the offers were too good to refuse. Now I'm used to this I always have a decent replacement for players attracting bids in the squad so it doesn't knock me back too much.
Stadium is up to 2800 capacity as well with another 600 seats on the way so finances are getting better all the time.

[Razer82]

foost Although I'm still in the Second Division finances are a problem, I'm losing about £10k a month at the moment.

From previous games I've had in N. Ireland I haven't really made any money until I've managed to qualify for the All Ireland Cup. You get about £120k just for turning up.

With regards to regens, I've found that the islanders are the ones that really add to my squad. These guys appear around the start of October and have really helped turn the fortunes of my Clough Rangers side - full season report should be up this evening.

[foost]

@ deamonic:

Hmm, looks like the finances will turn around in a season or 2. Only played 6 matches yet in the league but am sitting on the 3rd place, winning against number 1 with 5-0. So premier here I come, I hope

Funny that you say that, but bit sucky for the North Irish people that the clubs are skilled between League One and Championship. We'll show those Irish twats what football should look like

How is your scouting going btw daemonic? How far can you scout? And, most important, can you sign players from foreign countries that really are skilled and around Premiership skill?

[cookie15]

A first season of mid-table mediocrity for Pomorie. With a couple of games remaining we're bouncing around between 9th and 10th.
Not a bad first season mind.....i've managed to sign a couple of real gems too

A more detailed report to follow later this evening.

[daemonic]

Originally posted by foost:
@ deamonic:

Hmm, looks like the finances will turn around in a season or 2. Only played 6 matches yet in the league but am sitting on the 3rd place, winning against number 1 with 5-0. So premier here I come, I hope

Funny that you say that, but bit sucky for the North Irish people that the clubs are skilled between League One and Championship. We'll show those Irish twats what football should look like

How is your scouting going btw daemonic? How far can you scout? And, most important, can you sign players from foreign countries that really are skilled and around Premiership skill?

Yeah, should be easy to fly up the leagues in N.I. I was in the Premier by my 3rd season. As in Razer's game, the islanders are where a lot of the good players come from, 19th-20th September and then the 6th-6th of Jan for the Repuclic of Ireland newgens are my key dates. As for N.I. players, my goalie is attracting premiership interest but so far no N.I. player has moved to a club outside N.I.
I can scout the UK & Ireland since going Pro. The only players so far I believe would be good enough for the top English clubs are a goalie from the Caymens who sold for 1m and is now attracting bids from Europes elite (yay for 50% sell on dees). An Irish Republic attacking midfielder who ripped N.I. leagues apart and is now playing for Cardiff (another 1m fee). The final 2 are also islanders, a DC/DM who is off to Celtic in a few weeks for 1.7m and my star replacement AMC who wants out. He's been out with a cruciate injury all season but norched up 40+ assists and 20+ goals last season. He's attracting bids from Porto, Espanyol and other clubs of that stature.
Sadly its impossible to hold onto these players at the moment. I put insane asking prices on them, 2.5m for a player valued at 50k but someone ends up bidding close to the asking price and the chairman steps in.
As for N.I. tesm being League One, Championship standard...thats just my team, the rest apart from Glentoran are awful. I'm unbeaten in 100+ league games. The All-Ireland cup is a challenge, won it once, in the final this season. Even with that domestic dominence the CL record so far is out in the First Qualifying round twice, second qualifying the other seasons. Never hammered, but never really likely to cause an upset either.
Unless I see progress in terms of the player quality I can hold onto in the next 4-5 seasons I'll probably admit defeat. It gets boring when the only 'meaningful' games of the season are the CL games.

[442to445]

Sheesh, I don't know, I go away for a couple of months to work in the US And I come back and all Hell's broken loose...

In other words: nice to be home.

Time to go 'holidaying' I think.

[442to445]

[IMG=http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh42/FergusAlex/bryntirion.jpg]Thar' be gold in them thar', um, valleys...[/IMG]

Wales feels like unfinished business, Bryntirion however sounded slightly sexier than Dinas