The LLaMa Online 07 thread

[mkus]

There will be 3 clans this year made up of LLM and Crapmanager regulars. All clans will play to LLM rules: http://community.sigames.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/54219217/m/419200124

Introducing the Scotland Clan (Red):

1) No accepting of international jobs

2) No jobhopping in your first season

3) Game is only played when the quorum is met - 3 for this clan

4) Real names and nationalities only

5) Normal LLM rules apply

6) Any manager sacked must wait at least one month before they can recycle (unless clan decide otherwise). Recycled managers will (normally) restart with any team in the bottom half of Scottish Division 3.

7) No parent/feeder relationships to be entered into. Any pre-existing (or subsequent board arranged) relationships to be cancelled ASAP. No players to be taken/played from parent clubs.

8) Manager's past experience to be set to "automatic"

The teams

Michal - Montrose

Devon - Elgin

Gil - East Stirling

Derek - Albion

Dave - East Fife

Simon - Dumbarton

Reb - Arbroath

[mkus]

Week one, and we started with the traditional (in LLM online games at least) LLaMa Cup:

Round 1:

Montrose (Michal) v Elgin (Devon) 0-0. Montrose win on pens

Albion (Del) v East Fife (Dave) 1-2

Bye: East Stirling (Gil), Dumbarton (Simon)

Round 2:

East Stirling 3-3 East Fife. East Fife win on pens

Montrose 2-3 Dumbarton

Final:

East Fife 2-2 Dumbarton. East Fife win on pens

No sign of Reb.

Dave installs himself as promotion favourite by virtue of winning the LLaMa cup

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Updates in so far:

Montrose

50-1 to go up

Couldn't hit a cows arse with a banjo in pre-season, just saving them up for the real games though!

League:

Stenhousemuir (A) 4-0

Albion Rovers (cyber-Del) (A) 3-1

League Cup:

Partick Thistle (Div1) (H) 0-3

Challenge Cup:

Stirling (Div 2) (H) 1-2

Session ended early due to Devon buggering off. 2 out of 3 cups exited nice and early. Top of the league though.

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Dumbarton

Strathclyde Homes Stadium, Dumbarton

2100 all seater with under soil heating.

Fairly basic training facilities

Basic youth facilities

Chairman willing to listen to offers

Evens for promotion, with Berwick Rangers 4-5f

Dumbarton 2 Albion 2 - 13

League Cup First Round - Stirling 5 Dumbarton 2 - 313

Dumbarton 4 East Stirlingshire 3 - 600 (my goalie sent off 54)

Challenge Cup First Round - Dundee 3 Dumbarton 0 - 470

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Elgin

Preseason.

Well it's done. Tried to sign several players and they all decided to go to Montrosse instead. Bloody Welshman.

League play

Opened the season in style with a 6-0 victory over promotion favorites Berwick.

Lost 1-0 to East Fife. We should've had a draw and his goal looked a shade offside, but...

Cups

Lost 1-0 to Hamilton in the second session of extra time. Heartbreaking. We played well enough to win.

Missed what happened in the second cup game, but surely we were handily beaten.

Was impressed by the speed actually, though could be that there were only three of us. In dire need of a few new players so hopefully Michal is done signing people.

[mkus]

[edit]Actually Devon won 2-1 in his Challenge cup game

[seamus]

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:shock:

[Nobby_McDonald]

My attendance v Albion Rovers should read 613. 13 is too small even for the Scottish Third Division.

[mkus]

New manager added: Chris - Berwick

Last night's updates in so far:

Montrose

A tale of woe

Dumbarton (H) 1-1. Let them back in the match late on, but 1-1 probably right

East Fife (Dave) (H) 1-0. Should have been more

Queens Park (A) 0-1. Unlucky not to draw

Elgin (H) 1-1. No idea how we didn't win this one

Finished the session in 2nd.

Manager of the month for August, Young player of the month, 2nd in Player of the month and Scotland's most active team in the transfer window

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East Stirlingshire

Finsihed where I started: 6th. Was last almost the whole session, but won the last match (vs Reb)

H vs Stenhousemuir 0-2

H vs Queen's Park 1-1

A vs Elgin (cyber-Devon) 2-2

H vs Arbroath (Reb) 1-0

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Albion rovers

only played two games as I joined late found my team bottom with 2 pts from 4 games

East Fife(dave) 0 1 Albion rovers

Helped by east fife getting there gk sent off after 12 minutes.

Albion rovers 1 Queens park 3

2 penalties in the first twenty minutes both for Queens park, Albion tried a galant comeback but were eventually sucker punched by a spiders breakaway, I blame the ref those should never have been penalties.

I think i'm 6th or 7th but 4 of the human managers (me included) are in danger of becoming marooned in the bottom half of the table.

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East Fife

An awful session

League

2-3 v Arbroath (Sam) (A)

0-1 v Montrose (Michal) (A)

0-1 v Albion (Del) (H)

0-7 v Dumbarton (A)

Bottom of the table!!

Leage Challenge Cup

2-2 v Arbroath (Sam) (A) Lost 3-2 on penalties.

[mkus]

Session 3 sees Arbroath running away at the top of the league.

Updates in so far:

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Montrose

From bad to better.

1st game of the session was 2nd v 1st:

v Abroath (cyber-Sam) (A) 1-3

v East Stirling (Gil) (H) 1-3

v Berwick (cyber-Chris) (A) 2-0 \o/

v Albion (Derek) (H) 2-0

v Dumbarton (Simon) (A) 2-0

v Stenhousemuir (H) 2-2

v East Fife (Dave) (A) 4-1

v Cove Rangers (Cup R1) 3-0

v Queens Park (H) 1-1

Finish the session in 3rd, 6 pts clear of 4th, but 6 behind Arbroath in 1st, who have a game in hand

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East Stirlingshire

Good session. 4th now. Got a bye in the cup, playing Queen's Park next round.

H vs Berwick (cyber-Chris) 2-1

A vs Montrose (Michal) 3-1

H vs Albion Rovers (Dr. Nick) 2-2

A vs Dumbarton (Simon) 1-1

A vs Stenhousemuir 1-1

H vs East Fife (dave) 1-1

A vs Queen's Park 0-3

H vs Elgin (cyber-Devon) 2-1

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East Fife

Another disappointing session, but I may possibly have found a tactic that works ...

Stenhousemuir (H) 0-3

Berwick (cyber Chris) (A) 1-1

Queen's Park (A) 2-3

Elgin (cyber Devon) (A) 0-2

Arbroath (Sam) (H) 0-2 (can't remember if Sam played this one)

East Stirling (Gil) (A) 1-1

Montrose (Michal) (H) 1-4

Albion Rovers (Derek) (A) 3-2 (elevating myself to ninth and leaving Chris bottom of the pile)

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The Dumbos

I wished I'd stayed in Avoriaz.

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Players and teams reminder, with forum nicks:

Michal (mkus) - Montrose

Devon (seamus) - Elgin

Gil (Gil) - East Stirling

Derek (Dr. Nick) - Albion

Dave (dwv1968) - East Fife

Simon (Nobby MacDonald) - Dumbarton

Sam (Reb) - Arbroath

Chris (StanLaurel) - Berwick

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Updates from 21/1:

Dumbarton

Dumbarton 2 Queen's Park 2 - 584

Dumbarton 3 Stenhousemuir - 560

Elgin City 1 Dumbarton 5 - 323

East Fife 1 Dumbarton 0 - 263

Dumbarton 4 Arbroath 0 - 622

Dumbarton 3 East Stirlingshire 1 - 631

Montrose 1 Dumbarton 1 - 775

I wish I was still in Avoriaz

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Montrose

Hampered by continual injuries to strikers.

League:

Arbroath (cyber-Sam) (H) 3-0

East Stirling (cyber-Gil)(A) 2-2

Elgin (Devon) (A) 0-0

Berwick (cyber-Chris) (H) 2-0

Albion (Del) (A) 2-1

Dumbarton (Simon) (H) 1-1

2nd in the league, 6pts off Arbroath

Cup:

Spartans (A) 3-0

Dunfermline (A) 2-3

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East Fife

It's not getting much better ... two wins, but they were both down to my assman

Stenhousemuir (H) 2-4

Berwick (cyber Chris) (H) 0-2

Arbroath (cyber Sam) (H) (Cup) 1-2

Dumbarton (Simon) (H) 1-0 (assman in charge due to touchline ban for yours truly)

Queen's Park (H) 1-2

Elgin (Devon) (H) 1-2

Arbroath (cyber Sam) 2-1 (assman partly in charge due to PC crash)

East Stirling (cyber Gil) (H) 0-2 (at least that might cheer Gil up - hope the pc's better soon Gil).

Back to the bottom of the table.

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Elgin

Missed the first hour so I'm not sure what happened save for Simon getting lucky that I was absent.

On my return a "bore draw" with Mr. Kus. And a dominating 2-1 win over David "It was never a penalty" Varley. Beat Stenny in there as well as a romp over Queen's Park. Probably something else I'm missing.

In the cup with beat some non-league club rather handily and then were duly dispatched by Clyde 7-2. .

Had a few connection problems as I kept wandering out of wireless range. Manager of the month for December. Imagine if I'd actually attended all the sessions.

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[seamus]

Originally posted by mkus:

Simon (Nobby MacDonald) - Dumbarton

Surely he's a Mc, not a Mac.

[mkus]

Nuts, confusing my hamburgers with my turd burglars again.

[mkus]

Two new members of the clan -

Chris (crosbysleftear) - East Fife (following Dave sacking and re-appearance at Stenhousemuir

Keith (elwrakum) - Queens Park

Session just over a

[mkus]

2 new clanners:

Chris (crosbysleftear) - East Fife (following Dave's dismissal)

Keith (Elwrakum) - Queens Park

28/1 session a disaster due to an online bug which will

[mkus]

FS, this has all gone belly up

[mkus]

40th time lucky?

Two new clanners:

Keith (elwrakum) - Queens Park

Chris (crosbysleftear) - East Fife

28/1 session a disaster due to an online bug which should now be fixed in the next patch: http://community.sigames.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=2101905...292009392#6292009392

28/1 Updates:

Montrose

Save went tits up on several occasions tonight - mostly around when Dave got sacked, and then again at the end of the window.

So, only two games actually played (though in reality we did about 8):

Stenhousemuir (A) 1-1

East Fife (H) 2-1

Session ended in 3rd, 2 pts from the top.

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Dumbarton

I should have watched more of 24 series 5.

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East Fife

Sacked from East Fife following takeover.

Taken up the reins at Stenhousemuir.

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2/2 Updates

Montrose

A real mixed bag tonight:

Queens Park (A) 1-3

Elgin (H) 4-1 (cyber-Devon)

Berwick (A) 3-1 (Cyber-Chris)

Arbroath (A) 0-2 (cyber-Sam)

East Stirling (H) 2-1 (Gil)

Albion (H) 1-2 (Derek)

Dumbarton (A) 4-0 (Simon)

Still in 3rd, 6pts off Arbroath, 5 behind Queens Park. 7 games left.

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East Stirling

I forgot to take notes, but i'm 6th now.

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Queen's Park

QP 3-2 Dumbarton - red card decisive factor?

Stenhousemuir 1-0 QP - 93rd minute goal ffs

Berwick 1-3 QP - two 10s Embarrrased

QP 2 - 1 Elgin - in yer face cyber-Mazzone

Didn't have a clue who any of my squad were, bit of a whirlwind joining late, but did alright, seeing as I didn't do much more than press continue

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Stenhousemuir

A reasonable start, but I've got the feeling the Varley effect is beginning to kick in ...

Dumbarton (H) 2-2

Berwick (A) 1-1

Elgin (A) 3-3

East Fife (A) 0-1

Queen's Park (H) 1-0

Arbroath (A) 1-2

East Stirling (H) 1-2

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East Fife

First update but I can't remember the details.

Won 2 but lost my target man in the second of these. Then I drew 2 and lost 1.

Off the bottom of the table now though.

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Los Dumbos

Stenhousemuir 2 Dumbarton 2 - 336

Dumbarton 2 East Fife 2 - 691

Arbroath 2 Dumbarton 0 - 553

Queen's Park 3 Dumbarton 2 - 471

Dumbarton 0 Elgin 0 - 528

East Stirlingshire 2 Dumbarton 1 - 183

Dumbarton 0 Montrose 4 - 475

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Albion

Good session for the Rovers lost the first game to queens park, but then a rampant Albion side went on a winning streak Which saw them rise from 8th to 4th (playoff spot) including notable wins like a 3-1 drubbing of league leaders Arbroath and a 2-1 win over Mkus which was achieved despite having a man sent off in the first half.

The main catalyst for this has been a couple of players acquired during the January transfer window a goalkeeper who seems able to kick the ball out to players actually on his team and a 17 year old left winger who has so far managed an av. rating of 8.00 in the 5 games he has played.

Hopefully I will be able to secure 4th place next session and go into the playoffs as the form side.

[mkus]

This is in desperate need of updating...

11.2.07

Stenhousemuir

1-2 Montrose (A)

1-1 Dumbarton (A)

2-3 Berwick (H)

2-1 Albion Rovers (H)

2-3 East Fife (H)

1-1 Queen's Park (A)

1-1 Elgin (H)

Finished eighth. Badly need to strengthen for next season

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Montrose (or the bottlers)

v Stenhousemuir (Dave) (H): 2-1

v Queen's Park (Keith) (H): 2-0

v Elgin (cyber-Devon) (A): 3-1

v East Fife (Chris F) (A): 0-0

v Arbroath (Cyber-Sam) (H): 3-0

v East Stirling (Gil) (A): 0-1

So last game if we win and Arbroath lose, we win the league. Simon does his bit, and we have rock bottom Berwick.

v Berwick (Chris M) (H): 1-2

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East Stirling

Lots of wins, 4th, and a playoff spot. Playing Raith Rovers in the playoff Semi Final.

H vs Elgin (cyber-Devon) 4-1

A vs Arborath (cyber-Reb) 1-2

A vs Queen's Park (Keith) 2-0

H vs Berwick (Chris McGregor) 3-0

H vs Montrose (Michal) 1-0

A vs Albion Rovers (DrNick) 0-0

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East Fife

Lost a few, drew a lot, won a few including the 2nd to last gane v Berwick which ensured that I wasn't last. Not a bad end of the season considering the situation when I took over.

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Queen's Park

Mixed bag tonight:

A vs Arbroath (cyber-Reb) 1-0 - Takes us top of the table \o/ (for one game...)

A vs Montrose (Michal) 0-2 - Outthought and outclassed, 12 shots to 3

H vs Albion Rovers (DrNick) 1-0 - Hard fought win, despite a red card for us

H vs East Stirling (Gil) 0-2 - Strange tactical system confused my players

A vs Dumbarton (Simon) 0-0 - Should have won this comfortably...

H vs Stemhousemuir (Dave) 1-1 - Another bore draw

A vs East Fife (Chris F) 2-1 - 2nd goal came from some beautiful build up play. Not quite enough for us to finish top, but managed to pip Montrose to 2nd.

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Berwick

Only highlight of my night was beating Michal in the last game. I finished rock bottom and the board are not amused! I suspect Berwick will be looking for another manager soon!

In my defence I did miss a large part of the season due to Real Life sucking harder than Devine Brown!

Watch out, next season will be different.

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Los Dumbos Muchos

Albion 2 Dumbarton 1 - 599

Dumbarton 1 Stenhousemuir 1 - 482

East Fife 1 Dumbarton 1 - 276

Dumbarton 3 Berwick 0 - 486

Dumbarton 0 Queen's Park 0 - 657

Elgin 1 Dumbarton 1 - 333

Dumbarton 2 Arbroath 1 - 682

5th, 47 points

Crap.

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17.2.07 - Playoffs

Montrose

Playoff Semis:

v Queen's Park: 3-0 (H) 1-1 (A)

Final:

v Raith: 0-1 (A) (88th minute) 0-0 (H)

So another season in Division 3 beckons. Only Arbroath promoted.

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18.2.07

Preseason. Friendlies only.

LLaMa cup won by Berwick

25.2.07

Game patched to 7.0.2

East Fife

Won my first 2 league games. Out of 2 cups at the first attempt, only 1 more cup to get knocked out of now. Lost 5-0 to Albion Rovers. Pathetic display.

5th after 3 games.

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Montrose

A reasonable session

League:

v Stenhousemuir (Dave) (H) 3-0

v Queen's Park (Keith) (A) 2-0

v Dumbarton (Simon) (A) 2-3. Crap 1st half, 2 equalisers in the second half only to lose in the last minute.

Cups:

League Cup R1 v Dunfermline (H) 1-2 AET

Challenge Cup R1 v Stirling (H) 4-1

R2 v Arbroath (Cyber-Sam) (A) 1-0 \o/

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East Stirling - Scots' Third

H vs Queen's Park (Keith) 2-1

H vs Ross ****y (Div1) (League Cup) 1-0

A vs Forfar 2-0

A vs Queen's Park (Keith) (Challenge Cup) 2-1

H vs Berwick (cyber-StanLaurel) 1-0

A vs Kilmarnock (League Cup) 0-1

H vs Partick Thistle (Challenge Cup) 1-2

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Dumbarton

DIVISION THREE

Dumbarton 1 East Fife 2 - 953

Stenhousemuir 1 Dumbarton 1 - 469

Dumbarton 3 Montrose 2 - 800

LEAGUE CUP FIRST ROUND

Dumbarton 0 Alloa Athletic 1e - 469

McEIDOS McSUCK McARSE McCUP SECOND ROUND

Livingston 4 Dumbarton 3 - 3045

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Queen's Park

Dire session tonight.

League:

East Stirling (Gil) 2-1 QP

QP 0-2 Montrose (Michal) - We dominated possession but Montrose had 2 shots on target and scored from both

Forfar 1-1 QP - At least we didn't lose.

QP 0-1 Queen of the South (League Cup 1st rnd)

QP 1-2 East Stirling (Gil) (Challenge Cup 1st rnd) - once again we dominated possession, but couldn't score.

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Stenhousemuir

0-2 v Montrose (Michal) (a)

0-2 v Dundee (CIS Cup) (h)

1-1 v Dumbarton (Simon) (h)

0-4 v Livingston (Challenge Cup) (h)

0-2 v Elgin (Devon) (a)

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4/3 updates

Montrose

A good session; got to the semis of the Challenge Cup (for which £6k prize money ), and pulled 4 pts clear in the league

Challenge Cup R3 v Dundee (H) 1-0 aet

v Elgin (H) (Cyber-Devon) 3-0

v Albion (A) (Del) 3-1

v East Stirling (H) (cyber-Gil) 0-0

Challenge Cup Semi v Morton (A) 1-2

v Forfar (A) 3-1

v Berwick (H) (cyber-Chris M) 0-1. My new offical bogey team.

v East Fife (A) (Chris F) 2-0

v Stenhousemuir (A) (Dave) 2-0

v Queen's Park (H) (cyber-Keith) 0-0

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East Stirling

Interweb kept crashing. Then I lost some games. I think I'm 5th or something like that.

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Dumbarton

DIVISION THREE

Queen's Park 0 Dumbarton 0 - 506

Elgin City 1 Dumbarton 5 - 543

Dumbarton 1 Albion Rovers 1 - 915

East Stirlingshire 2 Dumbarton 2 - 310

Dumbarton 3 Forfar Athletic 0 - 905

Berwick Rangers 1 Dumbarton 0 - 446

East Fife 1 Dumbarton 0 - 378

Dumbarton 2 Stenhousemuir 1 - 814

SCOTTISH CUP FIRST ROUND

Cowdenbeath 2 Dumbarton 1 - 160

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East Fife

Turned up late. My assman had done alright. I did alright after that. 6th and if my strikers find some form it could be a lot better.

At least I'm not Stenny

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Stenhousemuir

League

0-2 v Arbroath (Del) (h) was 0-0 at HT but then Michal's babysitter put in an appearance

0-1 v East Stirling (Gil) (a)

1-2 Forfar (h) my pc went haywire just before kick off so couldn't influence the match at all

1-2 v Berwick (cyber Chris M) (a)

0-0 v East Fife (Chris F) (h) my only non-defeat of the session (shame on you Chris)

1-2 v Queen's Park (Cyber Keith) (a)

1-2 v Dumbarton (Simon) (a) still sore about this one

So rock bottom with just two points from 10 games and already cut adrift.

Scottish Cup

1-2 v East Fife (Chris F) (a)

[mkus]

You've lost a result there, Dave - my 2-0 win!

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11/03 Updates

Montrose

v Dumbarton (Simon) (H) 1-0 played most of the game against 10 men, but didn't score until the 89th minute with my 17th shot

v Elgin (cyber-Devon) (A) 3-1

v Albion Rovers (Del) (H) 1-0 (slightly undeserved)

Scottish Cup R2

v Queen of the South (H) 2-3

v East Stirling (A) (cyber-Gil) 0-3 We were s**t

v Forfar (H) 2-0

v East Fife (H) (cyber-Chris F) 1-2 **** poor again. Some players are going to get fines soon.

v Berwick (A) (Chris M) 4-2

v Stenhousemuir (H) (Dave) 2-1

So 6-0-2 in the league this session. 4pt lead maintained (over East Stirling) with QP another 3 pts back.

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Berwick

I turned up, not sure that was a good idea.

My only highlight really was contributing to Nobby's demise!

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Queen's Park

Mostly happy with tonight's session - although our strikers inability to finish the many chances our domination of possession gives them is a worrying trend...

Dumbarton 1-2 QP - This was a lot more comfortable than the scoreline suggests

QP 0-0 Berwick - We should have won this.

QP 2-1 Coldstream (Scottish Cup 2nd Rnd) - They finished with 9 men and again we should have won by more.

QP 2-0 East Fife - Young striker ends 9 hour goal drought.

Elgin 2-3 QP - came back from being behind twice \o/

Stenhousemuir 2-0 QP - 54% possession 9 shots 0 on target - this is starting to show a pattern... we tend to get most of the possession in games but our strikers don't seem to be putting them away like they should.

Albion Rovers 1-1 QP - bore draw

East Stirling 1-0 QP - a red for us put paid to any chances we might have had, and again, there's that confusing formation to deal with...

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Stenhousemuir

A bit of a curate's egg, but much better than previous sessions

1-1 v Elgin (H) (Cyber Devon) (be a shame if you quit Devon)

0-3 v Albion Rovers (A) (Del) a real drubbing

1-1 v East Stirling (H) (Cyber Gil)

2-1 v Forfar (A) Our first win of the season

0-0 v Berwick (H) (Chris M)

2-0 v Queen's Park (H) (Keith)

2-3 v East Fife (A) (Cyber Chris F)

1-2 v Montrose (A) (Michal)

Off the bottom, but only just

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Dumbarton

Sacked. Never mind.

[mkus]

18/3 sessions

Montrose

A poor session tonight, but no-one else wanted to take advantage, so I remain in 1st place, 3 pts ahead of Queen's Park

Queen's Park (cyber-Keith) (A) 0-3

Dumbarton (A) 1-2

Elgin (cyber-Devon) (H) 3-3 (from 3-0 up FFS)

Albion (Cyber-Del) (A) 1-0 \o/

East Stirling (Gil) (H) 2-2

East Fife (Cyber-Chris F) (A) 4-1

Forfar (Cyber-Simon) (A) 2-0

Berwick (Chris M) (H) 2-3 A gay red card after 14 minutes did for us, and we only lost in stoppage time

Stenhousemuir (Dave) (A) 3-2 lucky, lucky, lucky

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Berwick

Excellent session for my team, wins all the way.

I'm 4th but only 4 points off 3rd now.

A couple of U19s are performing excellently at the moment.

\o/

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Stenhousemuir

Another mixed bag of a session ...

0-3 v Dumbarton (H)

2-1 v Elgin (Cyber Devon) (A)

3-0 v Albion Rovers (Cyber Del) (H)

3-3 v East Stirling (Cyber Gil) (A) comback from 3-0 down, made even better by Gil watching in IRC

3-0 v Forfar (Cyber Simon) (H) a drubbing for Simon on his debut as Forfar manager, but I forgot to praise the team

0-5 v Queen's Park (Cyber Keith) (A)

0-3 v Berwick (Chris McG) (A)

2-2 v East Fife (Cyber Chris F) (H)

2-3 v Montrose (Michal) (H) he's a very lucky boy ... most offside goal I've seen in ages and then a tactical blunder by yours truly

Ninth with a small cushion over Devon.

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Final session of season 2:

Forfar Athletic (Third Division)

East Stirling 1 Forfar 1 - 309

Queen's Park 1 Forfar 5 - 555

East Fife 1 Forfar 0 - 592

Forfar 2 Stenhousemuir 2 - 381

Forfar 0 Berwick 3 - 361

Montrose 4 Forfar 3 - 720

Forfar 0 Dumbarton 3 - 355

Elgin 2 Forfar 3 - 312

8th, 31 points

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Montrose

v Queen's Park (Keith) (H) 2-1 (0-0 at 85 minutes and 1-1 at 90)

v Dumbarton (H) 3-2

v Albion (cyber-Del) (H) 2-0

v East Stirling (cyber-Gil) (A) 0-2

v Elgin (cyber-Devon) (A) 2-0

v Forfar (Simon) (H) 4-3

v Berwick (Chris M) (A) 0-0

v East Fife (Cyber Chris-F) (H) 3-2

Champions, W23 D5 L8 Pts 74

\o/

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Queen's Park (cyber-Keith) defeat East Fife (cyber-Chris F) 3-1 on aggregate in the playoff final

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Stenhousemuir

Lost 2-3 away at Dumbarton and then got the sack.

Yet to find another job (though I left early last night so something may have materialised).

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Berwick

Another decent session, makes you wonder what would have happened had I not been so absent at the start of the season!

Finished just outside playoff spot, hopefully next season will be better. I have some good young players who have proved themselves in the 'big time'!

[brag] I have a 16 yr old striker who averaged a goal every other game which I am chuffed about! [/brag]

[mkus]

[edit] Simon re-employed at Forfar, for those who are wondering

[mkus]

1st April updates

Reb (Arbroath) retired

Dave recycled as Stranraer manager

Darren will join next session as Dumbarton manager

East Fife

rubbish session.

3rd in the LLaMa league.

First league game to East Stirling 2-5 at home.

Out of a cup 1-4 to CLyde at home.

My keeper is yet to stop a shot.

At least pre-seasons gone now.

Montrose

LLaMa League - Winners

v Stranraer (Dave) 1-0

v Forfar (Simon) 2-1

v East Fife (Chris F) 3-1

League - Media prediction 10th

v Ayr 3-1

League Cup

v Hamilton (Div1) (H) 2-2 AET 4-2 pens

We are top of the league

[mkus]

Additional 1/4 Update:

Forfar Athletic

LLAMA LEAGUE

Couldn't give a s**t about it, but did find it amusing how I lost my first game 4-1, lost my second game too and still finished second.

DIVISION THREE

Played one match, I think I won but I can't remember for sure and don't remember who I played either. I'd lost the will to live by this stage with the snail pace pre-season.

8/4 Updates

Berwick

Tonights session for me was absolute rubbish. Ass Man got us to 2nd, I got us to 9th!!

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Montrose

An odd session tonight, where my mood was not helped by a 6 game non winning streak in the league

League

v Queen of the South (H) 4-0

v Stirling (A) 3-3

v Brechin (A) 0-0

v Morton (H) 2-2

v Queen's Park (cyber-Keith) (A) 2-2

v Arbroath (A) 0-2

v Raith (H) 0-1

v Airdrie (A) 5-2

v Queen of the South (A) 1-0

Cups

Challenge Cup

R1 v Elgin (cyber-Devon) (H) 0-1 AET

League Cup

R2 v St Mirren (A) 0-4

Finished the session in 4th, 3pts behind 1st placed Queen's Park

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East Fife

Lots of goals, several defeats, a couple of wins and a dramatic 3-3 against east stirling from 3 down. 3rd bottom.

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Something strange is happening at Stranraer ...

League

Having dropped to fourth at one point, we're now heading the table again

1-0 h v Forfar (Simon)

3-1 h v Elgin (cyber Devon)

1-4 a v East Stirling (cyber Gil)

2-2 h v Stenhousemuir

2-2 a v Alloa

2-1 h v Berwick (Chris McG)

1-3 a v Dumbarton

1-0 h v East Fife (Chris F)

3-1 h v Albion Rovers

Challenge Cup

1-0 a v Partick Thistle

0-4 a v Kilmarnock

[mkus]

15/4 Update:

The Loons

How apt.

Forfar 2 Stranraer 0 - 359

East Stirling 3 Forfar 0 - 313

Forfar 1 Stenhousemuir 0 - 370

Alloa 1 Forfar 1 - 342

Scottish Cup First Round - Queen of the South 4 Forfar 1 - 1115

Forfar 0 Berwick 1 - 379

Dumbos 1 Loons 1 - 789 - How apt I've managed both

Albion 0 Forfar 2 - 487

Forfar 0 East Fife 0 - 361

Forfar 0 Elgin 2 - 396

Stranraer 0 Forfar 0 - 431

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East Fife

Started **** and my youth team keeper who came in wasn't able to stop a ****. Nearly quit as I was letting in about four goals a game.

Then I had to go and eat and my ass man won 2 on the bounce and played a completely different youth team keeper who was much better then the one I picked. Doh.

Became mediocre from that point but at least I wasn't garbage. Finished third from bottom but only 9 points from the play-off's and if I can keep my end of session form going I might do that. Only if I get really lucky though.

Top marks to my ass man for being much better at my job then I am.

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Montrose - the Pools Player's friend

If nothing else, we've become hard to beat, and somehow, despite a run of only 4 goals in 7 games, we've become top scorers in the division:

League

v Stirling (H) 3-1

v Ayr (A) 3-2

v Brechin (H) 0-0, missed pen and 70 minutes against 10 men

v Morton (A) 0-0

v Raith (A) 0-0

v Queen's Park (cyber-Keith) (H) 1-0

v Arbroath (H) 1-1

v Airdrie United (H) 1-1

v Queen of the South (H) 1-1

v Stirling (A) 5-1

v Ayr (H) 3-1

Cup

R2 v Albion Rovers (cyber-Del) (A) 1-2

Some tables (\o/) for you:

SD3:

SD2:

[mkus]

22/4 Update

East Fife

7 games, 5 wins and 2 defeats. I'm still in 7th but only 2 points of the playoffs now and it's very tight.

Only real down point was getting thrashed 5-1 by bottom and rubbish Elgin. Seeing as I started the session with my job under pressure it was an excellent evening.

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Forfar Athletic

Forfar 1 East Stirling 0 - 362

Stenhousemuir 2 Forfar 3 - 323

Berwick 0 Forfar 2 - 343

Forfar 0 Dumbarton 0 - 400

Forfar 0 Alloa 0 - 400

East Fife 3 Forfar 1 - 373

Forfar 3 Albion 1 - 365

5th, played 27, 39 points (same as third)

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Montrose

Forget the bit about us being hard to beat, tonight it was all too easy

v Brechin (A) 1-4

v Queen's Park (cyber-Keith) (A) 1-5

v Arbroath (A) 2-1

v Morton (H) 2-4, superkeepered into submission

v Raith (H) 0-0

v Airdrie Utd (A) 1-0

Somehow only 3pts off second, but currently occupying 6th spot

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Very poor session from Berwick.

I think I managed at least one win but the rest was disappointing!

Currently 9th and must be looking unemployment in the face!

[mkus]

29/4 Updates

Montrose (mkus)

v Queen of the South (A) 3-3

v Stirling (H) 2-2

v Ayr (A) 1-0

v Brechin (H) 2-0

v Morton (A) 2-3

v Raith (A) 0-2

v Queen's Park (H) 0-0

v Arbroath (H) 2-0

With one game to go, a draw would confirm a playoff spot, a defeat would be okay if Arbroath failed to win.

Airdrie raced into a 3-0 lead and Arbroath were winning. Went just about as attacking as I could for the 2nd half, but we only pulled one back in the 71st minute. By the 83rd it was 3-3, and I was struggling to revert to a normal formation. Fortunately we held on, and Arbroath ended up drawing:

v Airdrie (H) 3-3

3rd spot secured, into the playoffs we go

Playoff semi

v Queen's Park (H) 0-0 (A) 2-0

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East Fife (Crosbysleftear)

Excellent session, beaten by champions East Stirling but that's about all that went wrong. Crept into the play-off places with a dramatic win over Simons Forfar and held onto that place just.

Play-off semi against second division Stirling was won 3-0 on aggregate and now I face Dumbarton for a place in division 2.

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The tables:

SD2

SD3

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1/5 mini session

Montrose (mkus)

Playoff Final

v Cowdenbeath (A) 2-2 (H) 0-1 (81st minute pen missed)

Still, not a bad 3 seasons - two playoffs and one promotion.

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East Fife (crosbysleftear)

v Dumbarton 0-0 (h) 1-1 (a) Promoted on away goals.

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6/5 Updates

East Fife (crosbysleftear)

I hate pre-season. Couldn't attract anyone apart from a new goalie and an old DC.

Good start to the season - 3 wins in 4 games. 2 wins were in cups though so not many points picked up.

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Montrose (mkus)

Preseason Friendlies:

St Mirren (H) 3-0

Nuneaton (A) 0-1

TNS (H) 2-3

Huddersfield (H) 4-1

Blackpool (H) 2-2

Albion (Del) (H) 7-1

League

East Stirling (cyber-Gil) (A) 0-1 had my arse kicked by more than the scoreline suggests

Brechin (H) 2-0

League Cup

R1 v Berwick (cyber-Chris M) (H) 4-3 AET

Challenge Cup

R1 v Raith (H) 3-3p From 3-0 up FFS

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No updates yet from the other lazy gits!

[iajafer]

Ouvre

[mkus]

Merci.

2 seasons to do a summary update on:

2009/10

Div 2

Gil's East Stirling won the league quite easily, with my Montrose once again failing in the playoffs.

Chris' East Fife went down in the playoffs

Div 3

Del's Albion Rovers won the division by a handsome margin

2010/11

Div 1

A dull season for Gil, who spent most of the season in 9th and went down in the playoffs.

Div2

Del repeated Gil's trick and won 2 divisions in consecutive seasons with Albion. I unfairly got sacked by Montrose whilst still in the playoff hunt

Div 3

Somehow Simon got Forfar promoted on the last day, Darren joined us as Alloa manager, did crap, got sacked, got hired by East Fife after they sacked Chris, who retired from the game

Chris Gillman joined, randomly picked Alloa , did slightly better than Darren, but still finished 10th.

[Nobby_McDonald]

Question...

How do pill poppers riding in the Tour de France help me win promotion with Forfar Athletic?

Answer...

By me watching their crazy antics, my Ass Man is busy securing promotion for me.

[mkus]

Ayr

A better session this week saw a return of 5-3-2 in the league and took us to 7-3-8 overall, still in with a shout of the playoffs.

Darren got sacked again from East Fife, and as for the absent managers, Albion Rovers are 8th in SD1, East Stirling top of SD2, Forfar in the relegation scrap, Berwick and Stranraer also in the SD3 playoff hunt.

[mkus]

2011/12 Season Summary

Ayr

A **** start, a decent middle (when I thought we might challenge for the playoffs), and a **** end - we started the last session only one or two points behind Alloa and ended it 13 behind, in 7th.

Division 3

A dull season for the LLaMas. Darren got sacked by East Fife, only to be re-employed by Berwick just before the end of the season. Scott took over Elgin for the last session:

Division 2

Gil took East Stirling straight back up (his assman did most of the hard work); Simon spent a large part of the season able to qualify for either set of playoffs.

Division 1

Not a lot to say - Del got Albion out of the division in style

[mkus]

2012/3 Mid-season update

Ayr

After a slow start to the season we won all 7 in the league last night, with only 1 goal going past us, to surge into 1st place \o/

In the Scottish Cup, we found the Holy Grail, with an away trip to Celtic awaiting us in round 3.

Div 3

After a good start, Chris' Alloa are falling away a little, while Scott and Darren battle it out for 10th spot:

Div 2

Simon maintains hopes of a promotion spot, whilst Del fights a 2nd successive relegation:

Div 1

Gil looks like he'll be the 1st LLaMa to manage more than one season above SD2:

[mkus]

2012/13 Season Summary

This season saw a bunch of new LLaMas join midway, will make for an interesting season next year as their teams settle down.

SD1

Gil earns the plaudits as the 1st manager to retain his SD1 place

SD2

After flirting with relegation for most of the season Albion actually held 4th spot with one game to go, only for Simon's Forfar to wrest it back and then get stuffed in the playoffs

SD3

A year of upheaval for most of the LLaMa teams, with new managers in abundance. After leading the table for quite a while, Ayr finished second and clung on to get promoted on away goals in the playoff final \o/

[mkus]

2013/14 Mid Season Update

SD1

Gil's East Stirling maintain a respectable mid-table position and are into the 4th round of the Scottish Cup:

SD2

Dundee look to be running away with things, so Simon and I will have to fight for the runner up spot, as things stand:

Forfar are also still in the cup.

SD3

The top two are well clear, but a couple of LLaMa teams are in with a shout of the playoffs. Darren keeps up his record, which now stands at P138 W24 D32 L92 GD -161.

Del is currently on the dole after Albion sacked him, and Dale had to retire.

[mkus]

2013/14 End of Season Update

SD1

Gil's East Stirling more than held their own again and had a trip to the Scottish Cup semis thrown in for good measure

SD2

Only Simon's Forfar got anywhere near beating Dundee to the title. Unfortunately for him (but not for me) they fell apart in the playoff final, losing 3-0 at Ayr and then 2-0 at home \o/

SD3

The shame!! LLaMas fill the bottom 4 spots, Berwick even give Darren a new 4 year contract. Alex has a good go with Elgin, and Ian loses to Arbroath in the playoff final. Maybe next year.

[mkus]

2014/15 Review

Not a great year to be a LLaMa manager.

SD1

Gil's East Stirling struggled compared to previous seasons. The only good thing to say about my season with Ayr is that the board remained very pleased throughout.

SD2

After last year's 2nd place finish, Simon's Forfar went into freefall, and he was sacked in March.

SD3

Despite having been rewarded with a 4 year contract for his previous ineptitude, Darren was sacked before Christmas, and Ian in April despite QotS being 4th. Simon took over. Chris' Alloa were hard to beat, but didn't do enough to make the playoffs, whilst Dave turned around Stranraer, mostly due to the fact that he started turning up for the sessions

Alex had the toughest season, dropping silly points that would have landed the title before being well beaten by Simon in the playoff final.

[mkus]

2015/16 Mid-season Update

SD2

After a dodgy start, Simon has steered Queen of the South into the playoff spots (just about). After an even dodgier start, Ayr sacked me .

SD3

All those LLaMa teams, and not one of them top of the league!!

Goncalo slipped last night after a great start, Darren's managed to get some wins, Ian's slowly working some magic at Berwick, and Dumbarton weren't quite as bad as I thought they'd be. Last season for Stranraer seems to have been a blip, Chris could just miss the playoffs again and Mike's had a solid start at Airdrie.

[mkus]

2015/16 Season Summary

SD2

I started badly with Ayr and got sacked around October time. Simon had a decent first season in SD2 with Queen of the South and if he'd been around from January onward they may have made the playoffs.

SD3

Two new LLaMas this season, Goncalo and Mike. Both made decent starts and, again, if Mike had been around for the last session Airdrie may have made the playoffs. Alex took Elgin to 2nd and non-promotion again. Chris got sacked by Alloa for a combination of indifferent form and declaring interest in every job going. He recycled to Queen's Park who are £7m in debt.

Not quite sure what happened at Stranraer. Ian took over Berwick, who I think could be dark horses next year. Still, Darren had left them in such a state that he actually managed to not finish bottom. I took over Dumbarton after Christmas, and despite not fancying the squad much, we had enough (luck) about us to get promoted.

Point of note: Gil-less East Stirling got relegated from SD1

[David Pagi]

Hi guys, hopefully it is ok to post this here, I was speaking to Nobby on OTF about your game to see if there is a possibility I could join your clan. I still play FM07 myself and have always wanted to play a LLama online game.

I have been in the established EPL Challenge clan for 2/3 years in the past (whos threads you can find in this forum) but really fancy trying my hand at the lower levels, as I much prefer LLM when I play 1 player games.

Any chance?

[Playerbrooker]

Im also looking for a online FM07 game. Would i be able to join this game or when/if you start a new one?

[mkus]

2016/17 Season Summary

SD2

With East Stirling coming down as a professional club after several years in SD1, there was only ever going to be one winner. However, Simon's Queen of the South put up a valiant fight and I guided Dumbarton to a respectable 4th. Both of us went out in the playoff semi's.

SD3

Alex finally broke his second place hoodoo and claimed the title, Goncalo (well, his assman) secured a playoff spot (losing in the final), Mike, Dave and Chris (reborn at Brechin after Queen's Park sacked him) were all competing for the last playoff spot with a couple of games to go. Adam took over at Berwick, and seems to have them set up quite nicely for next year. Everyone knows where Darren finished, though he did take East Fife to an SFA R3 tie with Rangers.

[mkus]

David/Playerbrooker

You would need to be a known LLaMa first. Post a bit in the LLM forum and you'd certainly be considered next time we were recruiting.

[Playerbrooker]

Originally posted by mkus:

David/Playerbrooker

You would need to be a known LLaMa first. Post a bit in the LLM forum and you'd certainly be considered next time we were recruiting.

Ok mate will do.