Bradford PA and maybe some more?

[Emmenaar]

After a FMS Callenge disaster I decided to keep the game running in holidaymode untill june 22nd, 2007, see who gets promoted to the Conference North and South and pick one of the 6 newly promoted teams. Bradford PA was the winner. I added a new manager and took over Bradford PA.

Game: FM06

Countriesloaded: only England (all leagues)

Database: huge

Club: Bradford PA

Startdate: July 1st, 2007

Mission: Stay clear of relegation.

[Emmenaar]

After a FMS Callenge disaster I decided to keep the game running in holidaymode untill june 22nd, 2007, see who gets promoted to the Conference North and South and pick one of the 6 newly promoted teams. Bradford PA was the winner. I added a new manager and took over Bradford PA.

Game: FM06

Countriesloaded: only England (all leagues)

Database: huge

Club: Bradford PA

Startdate: July 1st, 2007

Mission: Stay clear of relegation.

[Emmenaar]

A quick overlook at the (on holiday) squad seeing I had an astonishing 34 players (including 3 GK's). Found out 21 players had contracts running out on july 1st, only 4 looked to be decent enough to keep a place in the squad. 17 Players were released on july 1st.

The only scout was send out to scout UK and Ireland, both coaches starting their work and I eagerly waited the scout's first reports.

The Squad:

Goalkeepers:

Jon Worsnop GK, 24yo Looks to be 2nd choice.

Mark Davidson GK, 20yo Talented, 1st choice

Defenders:

Tony Lyons DR, 27yo only DR so far, 1st choice

Brad Elam DL, 19yo Strong DL, one of the better players in the squad.

Ryan Townsend DC, 21yo Aussie. looks competent.

Tommy Welch DC, 20yo squadplayer, have to get some cover for this one

Liam Cattermole D/M L, 20yo Backup DL/ML

Midfielders:

James Silgram ML, 24yo only leftside winger, looks decent.

Nicholas Matthews MC, 21yo DMC for now since I don't use MC's.

Andrew Quinn AM RC, 27yo backup, possible to be transferred out.

Luke Caulfield AMR, 21yo Winger, have to get some cover for him

Michael Bunn AM RC, 20yo Backup

Craig Owen AM RC, 16yo 16yo and first pick as AMC, promising player.

Strikers:

Jon Daly ST, 24yo 1.91m long Irish striker, good header

Andrew Appleby ST, 21yo Backup striker

Tony Boto ST, 18yo Most talented player in the squad, long and heavy, strong header.

Tom Greaves ST, 20yo Another backup striker.

We need some improvent in defence and midfield, exspecially the left side is weak and we lack options there.

July 2007

July 11th, Matthew Swift DR, 20yo joined on a free transfer

July 11th. David Webster MC, 15yo joines on a free transfer. Since his age he's going to be retrained to become a winger.

July 15th, Liam Paul GK, 15yo signed on a free transfer. GK for the future?

July 16th, Andy Porter joins as coach.

July 17th, John White Gk, 15yo joines on a free transfer. Another talented GK

July 17th, Neil Fry ML, 16yo Promising winger

July 17th, Gavin Kelly GK, 38yo[/b] joines as player/coach. A very expirienced GK, hopefully he can teach the young talents. He's considert a backup, his main job is coaching the GK's

July 20th, Richard Fox Dm, 16yo joines on a free transfer.

July 20th, Michael Davidson WB/M L, 16yo joines on a free transfer

July 22nd, friendly match, home vs Liverpool Res. Zenden and Fowler scoring for the visitors, 0-2 loss. Jon Daly got injures and will be out for 1-2 weeks.

July 23rd, Brian Oliver ST, 15yo joines on a free transfer.

July 26th, Curtis Davis DC, 22yo joines on a free transfer. Some experience in defence, having played 31 leaguegames for Bishop Auckland.

July 26th, friendly match, home vs Blackpool (CH). 1-2 loss. Craig Owen scoring for us. Brian Oliver got injured and is out for 2-7 days.

July30th, Kevin King AM L, 16yo joines on a free transfer.

July 31st, friendly match, home against Farnburough (Con). Jon Daly scoring our only goal, Ryan Townsend scoring in the wrong goal, 1-1.

[Emmenaar]

August 2007

August 5th, Community Shield: Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool

August 6th, Sam Hall DM, 18yo joines on a free transfer.

August 11th. Season kickoff. After bringing in 12 new players we hope to be ready for a fight against relegation. The board expects us to stay clear of relegation, I'm looking for the same. With the current mix of youths and some experience I hope it's possible. The DL and DM positions are still the weakest points in the team, we keep looking to improve those positions in the upcoming weeks, maybe snatch a player up on a loan. Since there's room enough in the wagebudget we have some room to move around in.

The starting line up looks like this: Davidson (gk); Elam (dl), Welch (dc), Townsend (dc), Lyons (dr); Hall (dm); King (ml), Owen (mr); Bunn (am); Daly (st), Boto(st). I'll try to stick to this squad for the upcoming weeks. Changes will be announced in the matchreports.

August 11th, Bradford PA 3-0 Stafford Rangers 9-4 for a win Daly scoring after 3 minutes, Boto scoring his first goal just 9 minutes later. Bunn sucured the win before half time. Good kickoff to the season sees us claiming 1st place. If we keep playing like this there's hardly any problem staying up.

August 14th, Marine 1-2 Bradford PA 6-4 favs Again Daly scoring fast, netting his goal after just 9 minutes. Marine equalised deep in the second half before Craig Owen fired in a freekick in the 84th minute putting us 2-1 up. Lady Luck smiled in the 94th when a Marine striker was offside when he bagged in the equaliser. We drop to 3rd place on GD.

August 18th Bradford PA 3-3 Moor Green 5-4fav Drewing 3-3, where Moor Green only had 3 shots in the whole match. We had 9 on target and managed to score 3 times (Owen twice and Boto once). The equaliser came in the 92nd minute. Still in 3rd place.

August 20th, Steven Ravenscroft ML, 21yo joines in a free transfer.

August 23rd, Michael Bunn is suffering from flu and was send home. He'll be missed for 1-2 weeks.

August 24th, European Supercup: Man Utd p2-2 Tottenham Hotspurs.

With 3 awaygames in the upcoming 4 games, we look for a good start of this session to keep the morale up a bit.

August 25th. Vauxhall Motors 0-4 Bradford PA Evens(fav) One change in the starting line up: Luke Caulfield taking injured Bunn's place on midfield. Daly scoring twice before halftime (17, 35), Owen (66) and Boto (85) secured a good win. After the game we found ourselfs back on top of the league.

[Wimb The Barman]

\o/ better luck with this story Harwin good luck

[Emmenaar]

September 2007

September 8th Leigh RMI 2-1 Bradford PA 6-4favs One change in the team. James Silgram takes over Kevin King's ML position. Poor performance. Only Craig Owen seemed to be into the game, netting our only goal in the 17th minute when we were already 0-1 down. A fast 2nd half goal secured the win for Leigh, we never looked to come back. We drop to 6th place.

September 15th, Bradford PA 2-0 Lancaster 5-4fav King back in the starting 11, Silgram out. Daly heading in a quality Lyons cross after just 2 minutes. King left the pitch injured in the 17th minute to be replaced by Cattermole. Daly scoring his second in the 70th was enough for the win. We crawl back to 2nd place.

Kevin King will be out 1-2 weeks

September 17, FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round draw: Aylesbury (non league) - Bradford PA, match to be played on september 22nd

September 22nd, Aylesbury 0-4 Bradford PA 13-8 FA Cup 2nd QR. Steven Ravenscroft taking King's ML place, no other substitutions. Owen breaking the deadlock after 40 minutes, Daly making it 2-0 in the 64th before Boto bagged in 2 counters in the 86th and 90th to secure a big win.

September 24, FA Cup 3rd Qualifying Round draw: Bradord PA - Stalybridge (non league) Match to be played on october 6th.

September 24, Cattermole twisted an ankle and will be out for 2-4 weeks.

September 29 Bradford PA 3-1 Hyde 5-4 fav No changes. Jon Daly scoring his usual goal after 24 minutes, Hyde managed to get 1 shot on target and it went in, 1-1 at ht. Daly's 30 yarder in the 2nd half and Boto's header a few minutes before the end secured the win.

League Table:

1. Southport 8-21

2. Bradford PA 7-16

3. Barrow 7-15

4. Stafford 7-14

5. Hednesford 7-13

[Emmenaar]

October

October 3rd, Burton 2-0 Bradford PA 3-1 Poor first half, went down 0-1 quite fast. Second half started even poorer when Burton scored their 2nd goal. Rest of the game flew by. We didn't get a single shot on target. Dropped to 4th place.

October 6, Bradford PA 1-2 Stalybridge evens FA Cup 3rd Qualifying Round. Again a poor game in which we created hardly anything. By halftime we were 0-2 down, after the tea Boto managed to get us one back, but is was again an embarresment.

October 13th, Hednesford 3-0 Bradford PA 13-8 Boto removed from the squad (Tom Greaves took his place) and with King back on his ML position we start looking for a win. Went 0-1 down in the first half and again it didn't look like we could get anything out of this game. When Hednesford made it 0-2 we knew it was useless once again. Hednesford countered to a 0-3 lead in the 2nd half before Appleby (went to on replce Greaves) got our only shot on target which was saved by the goalie. Despite the loss we climbed a place to 5th.

October 15, FA Trophy 2nd Qualifying Round draw: Bradford PA - Trafford. Match to be played on november 10th

October 20th, Bradford PA 1-0 Wakefield-Emley 5-4fav Boto back in the team, Greaves out. Owen scoring in the first half to put us 1-0 up at halftime. We kept pushing in the second half but the score didn't change. We climb another 2 places, but it's not a complete table since only 8 teams have played 10, the others only played 9 games.

October 27th, Worksop 0-2 Bradford PA 6-4fav "Highlight" in the first half was losing Daly on a injury. Without Daly's power upfront Boto decided to do the job, bagging in 2 in the 60th and 90th to secure another win. We're in 4th place after this win and some midweek games before.

Jon Daly is out for 2-4 weeks.

League Table on october 31st.

1. Southport 11-28

2. Barrow 11-24

3. Stafford 11-24

4. Moor Green 11-23

5. Bradford PA 11-22

[Peacemaker7]

Where the hell is Jason Young

[Socraincha]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Peacemaker7:

Where the hell is Jason Young </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Indeed. I want to see Peacemaker's legend perform for a different manager.

[Emmenaar]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Peacemaker7:

Where the hell is Jason Young </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I have nfi Not sold/released from BPA, not in my database (huge)...

[Peacemaker7]

Well tbf he was 28 in 2000 and I'm not even sure if he's in 2006 but he was at a junior club anyway. Guess you'll have to make do without him

[Suma]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Peacemaker7:

Where the hell is Jason Young </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

he thought he was too famous to be in Bradford PA after your game, so he took a hike over to a higher challange.

[Terk]

The mighty Jason Young was at Penicuik Athletic last season (along with ex-Jambo Kevin Twaddle ) but he's no longer on their squad listings, so has either retired on gone on to play for someone even worse.

By the way, I went to school in Penicuik and went to see Atheltic play a couple of times last season (a guy I went to school with plays for them), so I'm guessing I'm the only person on FMS to have seen Young play in real life. Which clearly makes me cooler than anyone else

Oh, and good luck with the story, Emmenaar

[Peacemaker7]

Did you tell Jason he was a FMS legend

Anyway I do look forward to seeing how the Avenue go here, failure is not an option Emmenaar!

[gil]

KUTGW Harwin!

[Emmenaar]

Thank for the comments Terk, Peacemaker7 and gil

November

November 6th, Bradford PA 0-0 Hucknall 5-4fav Andrew Appleby replacing Daly. 2 shots in the first half, 1 in the second half. Boring match.

Craig Owen will be missed for 3-4 weeks.

November 10th, Bradford PA 2-0 Trafford 1-6favs FA Trophy 2nd QR. Caulfield replacing Owen, no other substitutions. Appleby scoring in the 9th minute, we kept dominating the game. Appleby's 56th minute header secured the win.

November 13th, FA Trophy 3rd Qualifying Round draw: Bradford PA - Weston-Super-Mare (ECS) Game to be played on november 24th.

November 17 Hinckley 2-3 Bradford PA 4-1 Brian Oliver makes his debut as striker, replacing Appleby. Hinkley came 0-1 up halfway the first half, Oliver equalising just before halftime. Oliver made his debut even more impressive when we put us 2-1 up in the 50th, Hinkley replied in the 78th minute. Just when it looked like Hinckley would hold on to the draw Oliver did the almost impossible by scoring a hattrick on his debut in the 93rd minute, giving us the 3 points.

November 24th Bradford PA 1-1 Weston-Super-Mare 5-4 WPM being the better side, they scored after 12 minutes. Made some tactical changes and that paid off, Boto scoring the equaliser in the 35th. The second half was boring, the replay is going to be played in 4 days.

November 25, FA Trophy First Round draw: Bradford or Weston SM will play either East Thurrock or Dag & Red on december 15th.

November 28th Weston-Super-Mare 2-3 Bradford PA 6-4fav Fielded a B team, only regular to play was Welch. The reserves started dominating, but our GK (Kelly) wasn't woken up on time, so after 20 minutes we were 0-2 down. Paul replacing the disappointing Kelly after the 2nd goal. After a red card 1 minute later for a WSM defender plus a converted penalty (Greaves) we looked to get back into the game. Matthews putting the halftime score level in the 4th minute of injurytime. In the second half we kept pushing and the attacking formation paid of 2 seconds before the game ended, Brian Oliver scoring a 93rd minute winner.

We face dag & Red in the First Round

Neill Fry sustained a bruised rib and is out for 1-2 weeks, Gavin Kelly suffering from a stubbed finger and will be unable to play for 2-6 days.

League Table on november 30th:

1. Southport 13-34

2. Moor Green 14-28

3. Barrow 13-27

4. Bradford PA 13-26

5. Stafford 14-25

[Emmenaar]

December.

December 1st, Gateshead 3-0 Bradford PA 6-4fav With a full, normal team again. Owen and Daly both returned from injuries the last couple of days and both can start. Embarresment says enough. We had 1 shot, a penalty and Daly managed to miss it.

Elam got injured and is out for 2-4 weeks.

December 5th Bradford PA 0-0 Gainsburough 5-4fav Daly and Lyons both out of the team after last weeks loss, Elam was replaced by Cattermole. 14 Shots on target, none went in. Another embarresment.

December 8th Bradford PA 1-2 Alfreton 7-4 Hall, King, Caulfield and Boto removed after the last game, in come Fox, Ravenscroft, Oliver and Bunn. Daly scored our first goal in december after 19 minutes. Alfreton scored twice after halftime so we lose another embarresing match. We drop outside the playoff spots.

December 15th Bradford PA 0-1 Dag & Red 7-2 Davidson, Bunn, Owen and Oliver go out, Paul, Quinn, Boto and Caulfield come back into the squad. Game was a waste of time.

December 22nd Frickley 0-2 Braford PA 13-8 Another switched team, now Owen, King and Davidson return. Craig Owen's 1st and 67th minute goals were enough for a much needed win.

December 26th Harrogate 2-2 Braford PA 13-8 Harrogate didn't deserve the draw after getting 2 shots in the whole game. Caulfield's goal and a own goal wasn't enough to give Bradford the 3 points they deserved.

Brad Elam is out for 1-2 weeks with a facial injury.

December 29th Bradford PA 1-3 Barrow 7-4 Paul as GK instead of Davidson, Hall losing his place to Fox. Both players are put in the reserves after the very bad preformance they had last match. Cattermole replacing the injured Elam. The match is as the previous ones, embarresing. Daly scoring our only goal (out of 7 shots on) while Barrow had enough on 2 shots on and a own goal from Cattermole. Cattermole got a 1 week fine after this poor performance.

League Table

1. Barrow 20-42

2. Southport 19-41

3. Gateshead 20-38

4. Stafford 20-37

5. Alfreton 20-34

7. Bradford PA 19-31

[Moonshine]

KUTGW

Hopefully you can reach 5th at this rate. Maybe even a playoff position. Good reading!

[Emmenaar]

Thanks Moonshine

Janaury 2008

january 1st Nuneaton 1-1 Bradford PA 9-4 Worsnop replacing Paul in goal. M. Davidson replacing Cattermole as leftback. Kevin King's first half goal. Nuneaton equalised after an hour. Lyons got sent off in injury time and got a 2 week fine.

Daly sustained a gashed leg and will be out for 1-2 weeks.

Janaury 3rd, Neill Jenkins (DL), Simon Weatherstone (AMC) and Kyle Allcock (ST) join on free transfers where Cattermole and Silgram are released on free transfers.

January 8th, Moor Green 3-0 Bradford PA 6-4fav Usual story, embarresing performance. It keeps the teamtalks easy.

Janaury 12th Bradford PA 3-0 Vauxhall Motors evens(fav) Hall back in Fox' DM place. Brian Oliver scoring twice before half time, Sam Hall securing the win in the 74th minute.

Tony Boto sprained a wrist and is out for 1-2 weeks.

January 14th, Craig Owen is sold to Newcastle Utd. for 500k euro. Rumours were he "could be the next Beckham" so keeping him was a tough task. The transfermoney is very welcome for a small club like Bradford and maybe we could get something from the 30% sell on fee.

Janaury 16th, Stafford 1-1 Bradford PA{/b] 9-4 Both sides didn't deserve a win. Townsend heading in a 67th minute corner after Stafford scored their goal 1 minute before.

January 19th, Bradford PA 1-1 Marine 5-4fav First shot we had went in (Oliver), kept dominating but drew once again after some poor defending. We drop to 10th place

January 23rd, Bradford PA 2-0 Southport 7-4 Greaves first half header and King's second half goal secured a good win against league leaders Southport. A confident performance in goal by Liam Paul helped a lot too. Up to 8th place.

January 25th, David Senior ML, 18yo joines on a free transfer.

January 26th Bradford PA 4-1 Leigh RMI 5-4fav Boto back, Greaves out. Oliver scoring after 62 seconds and doubeling the lead in the 8th minute. Leigh pulled one back immediatly after halftime, but Caulfield and King secured the win before the hour mark. Another place up in the league, it's 7th place now.

Janaury 29th, Lancaster 0-3 Bradford PA 6-4fav Brian Oliver scored twice in first half (20, 40) Boto secured the win in the final seconds. Have to say the game was partly won because the Lancaster strikers played really bad.

Played a massive 8 games this month, only lost 1. Good comeback in the last 3 games after the team looked like they're missing Craig Owen.

League Table:

1. Stafford 27-51

2. Southport 27-50

3. Barrow 27-50

4. Moor Green 27-49

5. Gateshead 27-48

7. Bradford PA 27-46

[Emmenaar]

February

February 2nd, Bradford PA 1-0 Burton Albion 3-1 Caulfield putting us 1-0 up in the 16th which was enought to secure a good win. Liam Paul fully deserved his MoM award. We climb back into the playoff spots, 4th place, too bad some teams played 1 games less.

Sam Hall bruised a rib and will be missed for 1-2 weeks.

February 5th, Tom Greaves suffering from a groin strain and is out for 2-4 weeks.

February 9th, Hyde Utd 4-3 Bradford PA 6-4fav 2 Changes, Fox replacing injured Hall and King is tired and replaced by Senior who'll make his debut. 0-2 Down within 8 minutes. Caulfield got injured after 15 minutes and was replaced by Jenkins. Oliver pulled one back for us, but Hyde immediatly replied. Senior scoring a penalty 2 minutes after ht and Oliver putting us back level in the 65th. Ofc Hyde scored after that so we lose after a good run. We drop to 6th place.

Senior bruised a rib and is out for 1-2 weeks, Caulfield bruised a thigh and is also out for 1-2 weeks. Matthew Swift pulled a hamstring and will be out for 3-5 weeks.

February 11th, Paul Ellis D/WB RL, 17yo joines on a free transfer.

February 13th, Kevin Gilligan DM, 29yo joines on a free transfer.

February 16th, Bradford PA 2-0 Hednesford 6-4 Senior, Caulfield and Swift out, Ravenscroft, Bunn and Lyons replacing the three injured players. Oliver's 10th minute shot and Ravenscroft penalty close to the break were enough to see off Hednesford.

February 18th, Tommy Price M RL joines on a free transfer.

February 23rd, Wakefield-Emley 0-0 Bradford PA 5-4fav Brad Elam missing a penalty after 3 minutes, that being the only highlight of the whole game.

February 24th, League Cup final: Aston Villa 1-1 Man.Utd, Man Utd win 3-2 on penalties.

League Table:

1. Stafford 31-59

2. Barrow 31-57

3. Moor Green 31-56

4. Burton 31-55

5. Gateshead 31-54

7. Bradford PA 31-53

With 11 games remaining the gap between 1st and 9th place is just 7 points. It's difficult to tell who is going to win the league and who'll play the playoffs.

[Emmenaar]

March

March 1st, Greaves returning from injury, while Jon Daly gets injured, he twisted a knee and is out for 1-4 weeks.

March 1st Bradford PA 0-0 Worksop 5-4fav Hall back in Fox' place. Boring says enough.

March 3rd, Richard Fox damaged his foot and will be missed for 1-4 weeks

March 8th, Bradford PA 1-0 Hinckley 4-1 Ravenscroft and Bunn out, King and Caulfield back in. Waetherstone got himself injured after only 8 minutes and was replaced by Oliver. Greaves scoring our first goal in 3 games after 15 minutes. Caulfield left the pitch injured in the 86th minute.

Weatherstone is out for 1-2 weeks with a bruised thigh, Caulfield 2-5 weeks with a pulled hamstring.

March 15th, Hucknall 1-3 Bradford 13-8 Midfield and attack rotated a lot because of the many injuries there. A fantastic first half display (17(10) shots) and "only" 3-0 up at halftime. Oliver scoring the first (17) and Boto scoring twice (32, 45). Hucknall converted their only chance deep in the second half, rejecting Liam Paul 5 clean sheets in a row. We climb back into the playoff spots.

March 21st, Weatherstone returns from injury on the day the FA Cup semi finals are drawn:

Leyton Orient (L2) - Man City (Prm)

Spurs (Prm) - Norwich (Ch)

March 22nd, Gainsburough 0-3 Bradford PA 5-4fav No changes in the team. It took Ravenscroft 37 seconds to put us 1-0 up. Oliver scoring from our second chance in injurytime saw us 2-0 up at halftime. Allcock scoring our third in injurytime. Bunn took the MoM award which should have gone to Liam Paul who played a fantastic game. We climb to 4th place, but Barrow has one game in hand.

March 24th, Bradgord PA 1-2 Gateshead 64fav Ravenscroft missing a penalty in the 17th minute, Gateshead managed to score a total fluke halfway the first half. We kept dominating, but the strikers failed to do anything with all the chances they had. Gateshead managed to get one more shot on target before Allcock finally scored for us. Too late. We lost a game which could have closed the gap to the first place.

March 29th, Alfreton 0-2 Bradford PA 7-4 Jon Daly returns into the starting 11, but gets injured after just 5 minutes. Boto scoring in te 21st, Oliver scored the 2-0 just before halftime. After the break Alfreton tried to get back, but Liam Paul kept another cleansheet. We climb one place to 3rd.

Jon Daly is out for 1-2 months.

League Table:

1. Gateshead 37-69 (+23)

2. Southport 37-67 (+16)

3. Bradford PA 37-66 (+23)

4. Barrow 36-66 (+15)

5.Hinckley 37-64 (+14)

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6. Stafford 37-64 (+9)

7. Burton 37-61 (+14)

8. Moor Green 37-60 (+3)

9. Hyde 37-58 (+13)

10. Alfreton 37-58 (+7)

Nothing to tell with just 5 games to go. Alfreton hold a 6 point lead above 11th placed Worksop. At the bottom it looks like Leigh, Wakefield and Gainsburough are going down, 19th placed Marine now 5 points above the relegationplaces.

[Wimb The Barman]

Playoffs beckon then Harwin?

[Emmenaar]

It did look like we'd make it into the playoffs, but the league is very close

April

April fool's Bradford PA 2-0 Frickley evens(fav) Daly replaced by Oliver. Good choice, Oliver scoring in the 13th and 16th minute. Frickley tried but the Bradford defenders played well, never seemed to get into trouble and Paul managed to keep the clean sheet. To my shock we climb into 1st place Level with Barrow and Gateshead, too bad Barrow have still one game in hand.

Leigh RMI relegated today.

April 5th, Southport 3-2 Bradford PA 7-4 A very imporant game, only 2 points difference between 1st placed Bradford and 5th placed Suthport. Southport immediatly scored, it didn't take long before Boto hit one back. Southport started to look for another fast goal after halftime, but it went the other way when Boto scored his second in the 50th minute. Southport did get their second after a counter a few minutes after King left the pitch injured. Southport scored the undeserved winner in the 94th minute. Acoording to the commenatry Southport deserved their win, the statistics told me they didn't: 14(3) shots for them against 15(5) shots for us. We drop to 5th place.

King pulled a hamstring and is out for 2-4 weeks, Bunn stubbed a toe and is out for 1-2 weeks.

April 8th, Bradford PA 0-0 Harrogate 6-4fav Bunn and King both out injured, Caulfield (just back from injury) and Senior replacing both wingers. Owning Harrogate, strikers didn't know what to do. Up to 3rd place, only 1 point above 7th placed, 3 points behind Southport in 1st place.

April 19th, Barrow 2-2 Bradford PA 13-8 Barrow needed one chance to score, we had 2 before Elam equalised. After halftime we tried to get the needed win, but it was Barrow who scored. Just when the game seemed over a Barrow defender decided to pass the ball back to his goalie who already left the goal celebrating the win, the backpass rolled into the empty goal... We drop 1 place to 4th, still 1 point above 6th and 7th place.

April 26th, Bradford PA 1-1 Nuneaton Buough 7-4 Simple: if we win we reach the playoffs, a draw could be enough but a defeat is leathal.

We started great, Oliver scoreing fast and hitting his second after 30 mins, but he was strolling offside. After halftime the ref again overruled an Oliver goal to offside, Nuneaton did equalise from the freekick.

So with thanks to the referee we drop outside the playoff spots 2 Players are surprised I got mad at the team after the game, well...

League table to follow...

[Emmenaar]

Conference North 2007/8

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">| Pos | Inf | Team | | Pld | Won | Drn | Lst | For | Ag | G.D. | Pts |

| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

| 1st | C | Southport | | 42 | 24 | 7 | 11 | 73 | 50 | +23 | 79 |

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| 2nd | | Gateshead | | 42 | 22 | 12 | 8 | 56 | 32 | +24 | 78 |

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| 3rd | | Barrow | | 42 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 62 | 42 | +20 | 74 |

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| 4th | | Hinckley | | 42 | 21 | 10 | 11 | 49 | 34 | +15 | 73 |

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| 5th | P | Moor Green | | 42 | 21 | 10 | 11 | 50 | 41 | +9 | 73 |

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| 6th | | Bradford PA | | 42 | 20 | 12 | 10 | 68 | 44 | +24 | 72 |

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| 7th | | Burton | | 42 | 20 | 10 | 12 | 55 | 38 | +17 | 70 |

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| 8th | | Stafford | | 42 | 19 | 11 | 12 | 53 | 43 | +10 | 68 |

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| 9th | | Alfreton | | 42 | 17 | 15 | 10 | 52 | 44 | +8 | 66 |

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| 10th | | Hyde | | 42 | 17 | 12 | 13 | 64 | 53 | +11 | 63 |

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| 11th | | Hucknall | | 42 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 57 | 51 | +6 | 61 |

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| 12th | | Worksop | | 42 | 15 | 13 | 14 | 50 | 46 | +4 | 58 |

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| 13th | | Harrogate | | 42 | 15 | 8 | 19 | 50 | 58 | -8 | 53 |

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| 14th | | Nuneaton | | 42 | 14 | 8 | 20 | 50 | 63 | -13 | 50 |

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| 15th | | Lancaster | | 42 | 13 | 10 | 19 | 53 | 67 | -14 | 49 |

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| 16th | | Frickley | | 42 | 11 | 15 | 16 | 37 | 49 | -12 | 48 |

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| 17th | | Marine | | 42 | 10 | 13 | 19 | 47 | 63 | -16 | 43 |

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| 18th | | Hednesford | | 42 | 11 | 9 | 22 | 34 | 43 | -9 | 42 |

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| 19th | | Vauxhall Motors | | 42 | 11 | 8 | 23 | 50 | 78 | -28 | 41 |

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| 20th | R | Wakefield-Emley | | 42 | 10 | 10 | 22 | 40 | 50 | -10 | 40 |

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| 21st | R | Gainsborough | | 42 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 24 | 52 | -28 | 37 |

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| 22nd | R | Leigh RMI | | 42 | 5 | 13 | 24 | 38 | 71 | -33 | 28 |

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[Emmenaar]

Squad end of season review: (name, pos, apperences, goals, assists, mom, average rating)

Goalkeepers:

Mark Davidson 22 apps, 8 clean, 6.77 Started as 1st choice GK, but lost his place to Liam Paul after some very poor perfoming.

Liam Paul 23(1)apps, 12 clean, 6.83 Took Davidon's place and did very good in the last 3 months

Jon Worsnop 2(6)apps, 5.63 What a useless GK, going to leave.

Gavin Kelly 1app, 5.00 Retires now, played 20 minutes in a cupgame before he got subbed.

Defenders:

Tony Lyons, DR 37apps, 6asts, 6.78 Played good, apart from a dip in january when he was put into the reserves.

Matthew Shift, DR 11(3)apps, 1asts, 6,71 tackles good, the rest is bad. Can leave in the summer.

Brad Elam, DL 41 apps, 1goal, 9asts, 1mom, 7.22 Loyal back who can deliever crosses too.

Curtis Davis, DC 1(6)apps, 6.20 Backup, marking and tackling are good, heading is poor.

Ryan Townsend, DC 47apps, 1 goal, 7.28 The loyal Aussie, always present, always a proper game.

Tommy Welch, DC 48apps, 1asts, 1mom, 7.23 The only player who played every game.

Neil Jenkins, D/M L 0(7)app, 6.14 Poor, backup, leaves.

Michael Davidson, WB/M L 3(1)app, 1asts, 6,00 Backup, can stay another season.

Midfield:

Richard Fox, DM 9apps, 1asts, 1mom, 7,11 He's a backup, but played well enough in the few games he played in.

Kevin Gilligan, DM 3(1)apps, 7,25 Joined in january, looking to be a good player, maybe 1st choice as DM

Sam Hall, DM 36(1)apps, 1goal, 1asts, 7,32 1st Choice DM, played very good and is only 18 years old.

Neil Fry, ML 1app, 1asts, 7,00 Contract running out, is leaving.

Steven Ravenscroft, ML 15apps, 2 goals, 4asts, 7,33 Good backup, the 22yo has signed a new contract few months ago.

David Senior, ML 1app, 1 goal, 7,00 Young, new backup. Had a good debut, staying at least 1 more season.

Nicolas Matthews, MC 1(3)apps, 1goal, 1asts, 6,75 Contract running out, is leaving.

Michael Bunn, AM RC 20(5)apps, 1goal, 5asts, 7,00 Started as a backup, since the Owen sell he got into the squad and did well as AMR and AMC.

Luke Caulfield, AM R 30apps, 3goals, 3asts, 1mom, 7,10 Winger, has to bring more assists in the upcoming season. 3 Assists in 30 games is too low.

Andrew Quinn, AM RC 5app, 1asts, 1mom, 6,80 Contract is running out, he's leaving.

Kevin King, AM L 30app, 2gls, 5asts, 2mom, 7,20 Best left winger, also has to improve in the upcoming season.

Simon Weatherstone, AMC 17(2)app, 1asts, 6,89 The 28yo is considert a squadplayer, but can leave if we can sign a better one.

Strikers:

Kyle Allcock, ST 0(5)apps, 2glas, 6,60 New signing, can stay for 1 more year

Andrew Appleby, ST 4(10)apps, 2gls, 1asts, 1mom, 6,71 Backup, can leave if a good bid comes in.

Tony Boto, ST 41apps, 16gls, 11asts, 4mom, 7,17 Was a backup, did get into the team after a few injuries and never left.

Jon Daly, ST 21(2)apps, 11gls, 2asts, 4mom, 7,26 Good striker, too bad his injuryprone is high. Hopefully he doesn't get injured this much next season.

Tom Greaves, ST 6(10)apps, 3gls, 6,69 Backup, can leave if we get a better striker

Brian Oliver, ST 23(6)apps, 21gls, 2asts, 4mom What a season for the 16yo. He's looking to get a good transfer if he keeps playing like this.

Unused players:

John White, GK. 16yo

David Webster, MC, 16yo. Is being retraind to become a winger.

Paul Ellis, D/WB RL. 18yo Going to join the first team next season

Tommy Price, M RL, 17yo. Maybe into the first team.

Season stats:

Cup: played 6 won 3, drew 1, lost 2, scored 11, conceded 6

Cards (both league and cup): 28 yellow, 1 red

Average attendance: 916 (1008 in league)

[Emmenaar]

Going to use another format to review the games we play, maybe it's a little short for FMS standards, let me know then

Pre-season 2008/9

Thanks to the big money after I sold Owen the board gives me 200k transfermoney and a big salarybudget. They ask a safe midtable position in the league. In return they've upgraded the trainingsfacilities too, although I'd demanded that when I negiotiated a new contract with the club.

On the day the transferwindow opens we release Swift, Quinn, Matthews, Worsnop, Fry and Caulfield on free transfers. I manage to sign Marcus Gayle, a 37yo Jamaican ex-international, on a free transfer. Gayle is going to be a player/coach, since he's a D LC, AM L, ST he can play anywhere on the pitch. Brian Oliver was sold to Doncaster for 110k (20% sell-on) but is leaving after this season.

Later in july John Owen, a 15yo ST joined on a free transfer. Lewis Allesandra joined 2 weeks later, also a ST, but this one is 19yo. Tommy Tejay-Sie, a 19yo DM joined 1 day after Alessandra.

The friendlies:

Bradford - Scarburough 0-2

Welling - Bradford 1-1

Bradford - Dumbarton 1-2

Llanelli - Bradford 2-0

Aylesbury - Bradford 0-1

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August 2008

With a awaygame to Harrogate we'll start the season. A comfortable win with Daly and Boto scoring for us, the hosts got one back in the dying seconds. Our first homegame was against Northwich. We played good, but a very poor 2nd half saw us losing. The following awaygame to Hucknall was an embarresment, Oliver scoring our only goal, where the hosts managed to get four. Home against Barrow we were seeking a win, but Townsend red card after 3 minutes shattered our chances. Till halftime we kept it on a draw, after the break Barrow countered (!) to a undeserved win.

The month ended with an away game to Lancaster. Oliver scoring his 2nd goal of the season, but his only goal was nothing compared to the 4 the Lancaster players managed to score.

Harrogate 1-2 Bradford PA Boto (2), Daly (52)

Bradford PA 0-2 Northwich

Hucknall 4-1 Bradford PA Oliver (42)

Bradford PA 0-2 Barrow Townsend s/o (3)

Lancaster 4-1 Bradford PA Oliver (19)

League Table:

20. Bradford PA 5-3

To try and improve the squad bit Phil Collins (AM/F C) and Tony Duncan (DC) join on a free transfer and Martin Riley (DC) was bought from Guisely for 65k now and 120k over 24 months.

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September

We kept going like in august, our first game this month home against Hyde was lost. Changing the GK looked a good thing, but a penalty before halftime and another embarresment in our backline cost us dearly. We drop to 22nd place. Away to Alfreton we drew... untill halftime. The only goal Alfreton scored was enough for our 6th straight loss. Next up ws Hinckley who paid us a visit and went back home with 3 points. Daly managing to score for us, but Hinckley scored three.

Away to Woodford Utd we finally managed to get a win, but it was in the FA Cup. Maybe we can build on this win. Weatherstone and Boto scored for us. One week later, at home against Marine, we finally got back in the league. Daly being the king in ruining chances, but he did score the penalty we had. This win finally sees us leaving the bottom in the league. The 7 lost in a row is a new Conference North record, but I don't feel like it's something to be proud of.

Bradford PA 0-2 Hyde Utd

Alfreton 1-0 Bradford PA

Bradford PA 1-3 Hinckley Daly (19)

Woodford Utd 0-2 Bradford PA FA Cup 2nd QR Weatherstone (22), Boto (80)

Bradford PA 1-0 Marine Daly (17)

League Table:

21. Bradford PA 9-6

[Emmenaar]

October

The month started away to Frickley, Daly kept his great form from the least match and managed to miss 8!!! shots on target. Frickley scored their first shot, so we drop back into the last place. In the next FA Cup QR we faced Radcliffe Boro, but both teams failed to score so we're going to try and beat them on their ground. The replay was another embarresment.

In the league once again we failed to score, but Burton didn't score either. The draw saw us moving up 2 places in the league, but we're still in the troublezone. Away to Gateshead it was the usual story, losing, playing worthless. We've now failed to score 5 games in a row. The next opponnent was high flying Nuneaton. With Daly back in the team (hoping I teased him by letting him rot in the reserves for a month) we managed to score... four goals Nuneaton only got one in the last seconds of the game.

Frickley 1-0 Bradford PA

Bradford PA 0-0 Radcliffe Boro FA Cup 3rd QR

Radcliffe Boro 1-0 Bradford PA FA Cup 3rd QR replay

Bradford PA 0-0 Burton

Gateshead 3-0 Bradford PA

Bradford PA 4-1 Nuneaton Daly (21, pen70), Owen (32), Bunn (85)

League:

20. Bradford PA 13-10

[Wimb The Barman]

Makes it a bit easier to follow Harwin good stuff

[Emmenaar]

Thanks Daniel. Much easier to wrote too

November

Another poor start to the month, Shrewsbury banging in four against us. We hoped to get some morale back in the FA Trophy 2nd QR match, but Herne Bay (at 20-1 for a win) managed to keep up with us, even worse, we drew luckely in injurytime. The Herne players earning themselfs a replay at our turf. Back home we showed some of the class we had last year, Bunn, Daly and Oliver scoring to get us through. Vauxhall visited us next and they also were beaten by a surprisingly well playing Bradford, Boto and Oliver scoring. Finally a win in the league.

FA Trophy 3rd QR saw us facing Hinckley, we fielded a B team and lost, didn't care too much. With 2 leaguegames remaining this month, we tried to build a decent form there. It went well, both Stafford (A) and Worksop (H) were beaten by us and we finally managed to crawl out of the relegationzone and we've climber into the top of the "current form" ladder in the league with our WLWWW in the last 5 games.

Shrewsbury 4-0 Bradford PA

Herne Bay 1-1 Bradford PA FA Trophy 2nd QR Oliver (90)

Bradford PA 3-0 Herne Bay FA Trophy 2nd QR replay Daly (45), Bunn (66), Oliver (69), Daly missed penalty (66)

Bradford PA 2-0 Vauxhall Motors Boto (55), Oliver (82)

Bradford PA 0-1 Hickley FA Trophy 3rd QR

Bradford PA 3-1 Worksop Boto (1), Bunn (85), Owen (90)

Stafford Rangers 1-2 Bradford PA Weatherstone (31), Boto (61)

League:

16. Bradford PA 17-19

[Emmenaar]

December

Well, how times can change. We had only 4 games to play this month. Away to Hednesford lady luck smiled at us when we scored the only goal of the match deep in injurytime. At home against Whitby we had little trouble with Boto making an 2nd half hattrick, Blyth away was rather easy too, but the Boxing Day clash against Runcorn was a hard fought, narrow 1-0 win.

We stayed unbeaten all month and we've now reached the "safe midtable position" the board asked me to do.

Hednesford 0-1 Bradford PA Boto (90+4)

Bradford PA 3-1 Whitby Boto (47, 50, 66)

Blyth 1-2 Bradford PA Boto (35), Owen (40), Weatherstone missed penalty (23)

Bradford PA 1-0 Runcorn FC Halton Collins (84)

League:

12. Bradford PA 21-31

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January 2009

With the homegame against Harrogate and a team on a streak we were trying to set a very weird record, most wins in a row. Of course it's not that weird, but only 3 months ago we've set the "most defeats in a row" record.

We succeded, Owen's hattrick secured a solid win so we've set two records so far this season. Mark Davidson, our in-form keeper, got injured badly and is out for 1-2 months. Away to Northwich we failed to score for the first time in 8 games, but Northwich didn't score either. The following homegame against Hucknall ended just like the game before against Northwich.

Away to Barrow we looked to get beaten, but a early red card for a Barrowplayer meant we turned the game and went 2-1 up (Boto, Fox). Barrow equalised in the second half to get the draw they deserved. Against Lancaster we had little trouble, a first half penalty from Owen and a second half shot from Hall secured a decent win. Lancaster tried to get back, but failed to score.

Jon Daly was sold to non-league Greenock Morton for 26k and a 20% sell-on fee. He played 14 games this season for us, scoring 6 goals, giving 4 assists and getting the MoM award twice. His average rating was 7.07. Main reason for the sell was his € 2600,- monthly wage.

With 5 first teamers out to injuries we travelled to Hyde. Poor finishing costed 3 points, but I was satisfied with the draw. Oliver scoring our only goal in second half.

Bradford PA 3-0 Harrogate Owen (10, 58, 81)

Northwich 0-0 Bradford PA

Braford PA 0-0 Hucknall

Barrow 2-2 Bradford PA Boto(32), Fox (37)

Bradford PA 2-0 Lancaster Owen (37pen), Hall (60)

Hyde Utd 1-1 Bradford PA Oliver (79)

League:

12. Bradford PA 27-41

February

We start the month poor, Alfreton beating us with only one goal. Our first defeat in over 2 months. Away to Hinckley was an embarresment. We only had 1 offtarget shot. Sam Hall was furious with the teamtalk I gave after the match (I told them their performance was an embarresment, which it was). He got a warning for unprofessional behaviour plus I sent him to the reserves to think about the things he said.

The next day, february 7th, I got sacked at Bradford PA.

So I've put the game on holiday mode again untill june 20th, 2009 and FM applied at clubs to see if I can get a job, unfortunally all applications were rejected.

On the season update date there were no available clubs, so I'll just continue the holiday untill I get a joboffer.

[Emmenaar]

Season 2009/10

Since there were no available clubs I was looking at a season of waiting, but New Zealand approached me (I did apply there) and I accepted the job on july 5th, 2009.

Have to bring them to the 2010 WC, only have to beat Fiji in 2 legs in the Oceania qualifying section and then some another country I think to qualify for the WC2010.

August 29th, WC Oceania Qualifying Section, Final leg #1

Fiji 1-4 New Zealand Fisher (24), Brockie (28, 65), Christie (35)

Confident performance, Fiji scored a penalty. The return should be a piece of cake, Fiji has to score 4 goals at least and they didn't look capable of doing that in this match, so I'm not worried.

September 5th, WC Qualifying Oceania Section, Final leg #2

New Zealand 2-0 Fiji Fisher (10), Christie (14) New Zealand win 6-1agg

The return was played within 15 minutes, when we went 2-0 up we knew the win was there. We tried to build up the scoreline, but the players were satisfied.

Our last hurdle on the way to South Africa will be China PR.

November 28th, World Cup Qualifying (Asi) Playoff leg #1

New Zealand 4-0 China Fisher (24, 35), White (28), Brockie (59)

Wow... I expected a close game (tbh it was, 7-7 shots on) but the NZ keeper played a briljant game. Quality finising upfront did the trick. The return should be easy, but it's an awaygame in a stadium filled with crazy Chinese

December 2nd, World Cup Qualifying (Asi) Playoff leg #2

China 1-0 New Zealand New Zealand win 4-1agg.

China scored in the 10th minute, kept pushing but the NZ goalie once again played fantastic. Too bad our strikers failed to score a goal which would really secure the win in a earlt stage in the game, but I praised the team after the win.

We've qualified for the 2010 World Cup \o/

The OCE Nations Cup groups were also drawn a few days ago, NZ was drawn into Group A and we're facing Tonga, American Samoa, Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Matches to be played this month (december).

[Wimb The Barman]

to the sacking but for WC \o/

[gil]

KUTGDoingBetterThanMeWithNZ

[Emmenaar]

Thansk guys. Qualifying for the WC was a bit of a surprise to me, I thought China would be a bit harder to beat

OCE Nations Cup 2010.

Preliminary Round Hosts: New Caledonia

New Zealand 4-1 New Caledonia White (9, 67), Fisher (37), Brockie (76)

A ex-international doubted our chances of winning this game, so did he when we're facing Fiji away and China home so I honestly don't care about what he's saying. The players did well, only can say they defended bad since the only NC shot went in. Maybe we could scored some more up front, but I was satisfied with a win.

Vanuatu 0-0 New Zealand

14 shots and no goal. Embarresment.

New Zealand 3-0 Tonga Fisher (7, 58), Killen (85)

Another rather poor performance, having 31 shots and scoring 3 is a poor result, especially since Tonga played 70 minutes with 10 men.

American Samoa 0-3 New Zealand Smith (3), Brockie (30), Fisher (40)

Easy. First half we dominated, second half we were satisfied.

Table: 1. New Zealand 4-10

Qualified for the final stage.

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Oceania Nations Cup 2010

Groupstage: Hosts: New Zealand.

New Zealand 2-0 Tahiti Fisher (3), Walker (34)

Not much trouble here, Fisher and Walker securing the win quite fast. In the second half we slowed down a bit. Tahiti never got us in trouble.

New Zealand 2-0 Fiji Elliot (29), Hickey (50)

Again an easy match, although it wtook a while to score. Elliot's freekick after a Fiji defeder got sent off broke the deadlock, Hickey secured another win in the second half.

Cook Islands 0-5 New Zealand Elliot (13,37), Knowles (29), Brockie (69), White (79)

The easiest so far in the tournament. Cook never got into the game, by halftime the game was done, we kept playing good, although the finishing was a bid sloppier. We've qualified for the final.

American Samoa 0-3 New Zealand Elliot (48), Fisher (51), Walker (64)

First half was kind of poor, didn't care that much since we're going to plat the final no mather what result we had here. Tried to encourage the lot a bit at halftime and it paid off in the second half.

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">| Pos | Inf | Team | | Pld | Won | Drn | Lst | For | Ag | G.D. | Pts |

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| 1st | Q | New Zealand | | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | +12 | 12 |

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| 2nd | Q | Tahiti | | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 7 |

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| 3rd | | Fiji | | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 4 |

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| 4th | | Cook Islands | | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | -5 | 3 |

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| 5th | | American Samoa | | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -5 | 1 |

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The final will be played against Tahiti on March 27th, the return is to be played on March 31st, 2010.

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We are currently ranked #12 in the world

World Cup 2010 group H:

Turkey

Argentina

South Africa

New Zealand.

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Oceania Nations Cup 2010 Final

Leg #1: New Zealand 4-1 Tahiti Christie (29, 90+1), Fisher (45+4), Elliot (47)

The start was shaky, Tahiti scoring very fast and I was started to get worried untill Christie scored the equalizer and Fisher putting us 2-1 up in the 4th minute of first half injurytime. After the break it was one way traffic with Elliot and Christie making the replay sort of a friendly.

Leg #2 Tahiti 0-3 New Zealand Elliot (1), Christie (4), Brockie (78)

Tahiti had to score a lot, but it went into an impossible task for then when Elliot scored after just 37 seconds. Christie really made the win sure only 3 minutes later.

We've retained the Oceania Nations Cup \o/

[Emmenaar]

World Cup 2010 Hosts: South Africa

World Cup odds for New Zealand: 5000-1 (Brazil 6-4 fav, followed by Italy, Argentina and France at 2-1 and England, Spain with 3-1)

New Zealand's current World Ranking: 9

The squad:

Goalkeepers:

Jamer Murray NZ Knights, 0 caps

Mark Paston Eastbourne Boro, 7 caps

Adam Timmins Arsenal, 38 caps

Defenders

Cameron Knowles Salt Lake, 31 caps, 1 goal

Ryan Nelsen Blackburn Rovers, 75 caps, 4 goals

Tony Lochhead New England Revolution, 23 caps

Winston Reid NZ Knights, 9 caps

Jonathon Taylor NZ Knights 5 caps

David Mulligan Boston Utd, 22 caps, 1 goal

Duncan Oughton Columbus, 43 caps, 5 goals

Chris Brown Newcastle Jets, 10 caps

Jeremy Fleming Scarburough, 12 caps

Midfield:

Simon Elliot Atlanta, 46 caps, 10 goals

Darren Paul White Redbridge FC, 0 caps

[n]Noah Hickey[/b] NZ Knights, 49 caps, 13 goals

Mark Webster NZ Knights, 0 caps

Andrew Christie La Louviere, 28 caps, 2 goals

Mark Smith Waikato FC, 8 caps, 1 goal

Jeremy Christie Adelaide Utd, 31 caps, 6 goals

Attack:

Jeremy Brockie NZ Knights, 30 caps, 13 goals

Rory Fallon Bury, 4 caps

Brent Fisher DC United, 41 caps, 17 goals

Chris Killen Hibernian, 40 caps, 17 goals

Line up:

Timmins (GK), Oughton (DR), Brown (DL), Nelsen (DC), Knowles (DC), Elliot (DM), Hickey (MR), A. Christie (ML), J. Christie (AMC), Brockie (ST), Fisher (ST).

[Emmenaar]

South Africa 1-2 New Zealand J Christie (14, 36)

Well, what a great start. According to the bookies we should be the weakest team in the tournament and it looked like it would be a miracle if we should score a goal. By beating the hosts I'm already happy with this WC, no matter what the results of the next two games will be.

Argentina 2-1 New Zealand Killen (78)

We played very good, Timmins playing a fantastic game. Too bad the Argies convereted a undeserved 89th minute penalty. Now we have to win against Turkey to progress to the 2nd round.

Turkey 2-0 New Zealand

*****match. Players didn't want to play another rmatch, si they f**ked me up.

3. New Zealand 3-3[/b]

Between the World Cup matches I was approached by Southend to become their manager. Playing in League Two, but finished 23rd so I'll start in the Conference Nationwide.

[Emmenaar]

Southend, 2010

Small squad, way over the wagebudget and a 2,9m euro loan. Just relegated, so it looks to be a hard job getting us up again. With only 18 first teamplayers, a few reserves and a bunch of no-hopers in the U18.. Nice challenge.

Goalkeepers:

Matt Price 18yo backup

Joe Robbins 20yo Promising player, first choice

Defenders:

Luke Chambers D RC, 24yo solid back, first choice there

Nicky Law DR, 22yo backup

Adam Barrett DC, 30yo experienced centre back, first choice

Pontus Oberg Swe, DC, 31yo The 31yo Swede teams up with Barrett in the defence

Jamie Clarke D/WB R, DM, 27yo With no DL in the squad, Clarke has to play there

Michael Riding WB RL, M R, 25yo right winger without a doubt, although his crossing could be a little better.

Midfielders:

Vicente Perez Esp, DM, 24yo Good DM.

Jody Morris DM, AM C, 31yo Former Leeds/Chelsea player, first pick as AMC

Adam Wilson M C, 19yo Promising midfielder, backup

Michael Boyd AM R, 17yo Promising winger, promoted from the U18's

Ze Rui Cape Verde, AM L, 27yo international \o/ first choice ML

Jay Smith AM C, 28yo backup AM C

Strikeforce:

Chris Dillon Sco, ST, 28yo 4th choice, can leave if someone wants him

Peter Hart ST, 20yo backup, talented

Sam Morrow Nir, ST, 25yo International, 1st choice

Izet Zahirovic Bos, ST, 21yo Best player in the squad, promising player for the future.

[Wimb The Barman]

nice to see you back in club football Harwin \o/

[Emmenaar]

Thanks Daniel, it is good to be back at a club, although it slows down the playing speed

August 2010

Season kicks off against newly promoted Nuneaton was a nice, easy way to start. After only 7 minutes the win was secured, with Rui, Morrow and Barrett making it 3-0. Oberg converted a penalty before the break, after the break Morrow, Morris and Zahirovic scored to set the final score 7-0.

Just before the match away to Rushden, Jeremy Fleming, a 18yo DL, was bought from Scarburough for 8k. He gets in the team immediatly. The match was rather good, too bad we lost after Oberg got sent off. He received a 1 week fine. Home against Shrewsbury it was even worse, losing 0-3 while being the better side. Again a sending off was the deciding factor, Barrett got a week fine after his red card. Away to Burton we were looking for a win against the low-flying team. After a disappointing first half, Morrow and Zahirovic secured the win, scoring twice at the hour mark. Morris made it 3-0 before Burton scored their undeserved goal in the 89th.

The final match of the month was at home against Newport. Hart headed in a good croos in the 92nd minute to see us win 1-0.

Southend 7-0 Nuneaton Rui (3), Morrow (4, 58), Barrett (7), Oberg (pen 38), Zahirovic (71), Morris (82)

Rushden 1-0 Southend Oberg s/o (55)

Southend 0-3 Shrewsbury Barrett s/o (60)

Burton 1-3 Southend Morrow (59), Zahirovic (61), Morris (82)

Southend 1-0 Newport Co Hart (90)

League:

8. Southend 5-9 (11-5)

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September

Starting away to Southport, fantastic game, 0-4 down within 40 minutes. Morris did score in the second half, Southport forgot to score more. The 0-0 draw against Hereford was a logical result if both teams fail to get a shot on target. Away to Morecambe we had luck, drawing 1-1 while being outplayed. The hometie against Bishop's came at the right time, the low-flyers were aquaplaning so we could grab a win here. Morrow's 2 goals proved the point. We lost Zahirovic and Riding to injuries for a couple of weeks. We kept our unbeaten streak against Morecambe, 1-1. Morrow keep showing his pretty good form. The last match of the month, away to Aldershot, was looking to be a draw, untill the 85th when Fleming got sent off and we had a penalty against. Matt Price stopped the penalty \o/ Hart scored the only goal in injurytime.

Still, we're only in 11th place, where the board and fans expect a titlechallenge.

Southport 4-1 Southend Morris (52)

Southend 0-0 Hereford

Morecambe 1-1 Southend Fleming (pen 50)

Southend 2-1 Bishop's Stratford Morrow (30, 75)

Southend 1-1 Morecambe Morrow (27)

Aldreshot 0-1 Southend Hart (90), Fleming s/o (85)

League:

11. Southend 11-18 (17-12)

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October.

First important thing this month: the LDV Vans Trophy 1st Round draw, Colchester (L1) - Southend. Good opponent to give some backups a bit of playing time.

In the league we started against relegationcandidate Kidderminster and drew 0-0. Away to Grays we showed some class, Ze Rui and Peter Hart both scoring twice to see us win 4-0. Grays had 7 yellow and 2 red cards Away to Forest Green, useless match. Nothing happend in the team, lost 0-3

The FA Cup 4th Qual. Round draw: Burton Albion - Southend

The third awaygame in a row saw us facing Chester. With 5 players already injured we barely had enough players to fill the 15 places in the squad. Smith got injured after only 10 minutes so the injurytroubles become even bigger for the upcoming games. Riding second half injury only made our problems worse. The match ended in a very undeserved loss after Chester scored a 93rd minute winner.

Colchester away in the LDV cup went into a 1-2 loss, teh 17yo strikers I fielded weren't capable of doing what they are suposed to be doing. The 5th awaygame in a row saw us facing Burton, now for the FA Cup 4th QR. Easy game, 2-0 win.

FA Cup 1st Round: Southend - Chesterfield (L2).

Last game of the month, finally a homegame, against rivals Canvey Island. A poor first half from both sides was followed by a alomst even poor second half. Hart and Morrow both scoring for us, Canvey only got one back, 2-1.

Southend 0-0 Kidderminster

Grays 0-4 Southend Rui (7, 53), Hart (22, 32)

Forest Green 3-0 Southend

Chester 3-2 Southend Morrow (37), Riding (60)

Colchester (L1) 2-1 Southend Wilson (pen 88) LDV Vans Trophy South 1st round.

Burton 0-2 Southend Riding (13), Hart (65) FA Cup 4th Qual.round

Southend 2-1 Canvey Island Hart (59), Morrow (64)

League:

10. Southend 16-25 (25-19)