Englischer Fussball Bund - 03/04 (EFB-03/04)

robdaman77 · March 22, 2004

The Gulls Bring in the Young Gun

Torquay have appointed a new manager in the young Rob White. After a succesful season last season in winning the LDV Vans trophy and missing the the promotion by losing in the playoffs to chesterfield it came as a suprising shock to the gulls fans.

Chairman Bateson, addressed the clubs supporters and fans saying that he felt the need of a fresh new approach and told the fans to think of this as a decision of the future.

Joyful White was delighted at being appointed at such a well supported club, and couldnt wait to get into his first managerial job. "This is a great challenge for me and i can only relish it, as you could say im the new kid on the block" says White.

Rob White didnt hesitate to get right down to business as he looked at his weak squad and decided to go round bargain hunting and looking for some quality players that would help the club reach that next level to get themselves promoted and closer to the big boys.

The pre-season went very well in a gd prospestive as the 1st few games didnt take part when Rob White was under control. after a couple of wins away against 2 unknown clubs, that was then followed by a 2-1 loss at Bristol City then to bounce back and beat Exeter 3-1 then Port Talbot Town 2-0.

Rob White was very happy with the start they had made and decided to keep the team as it is, but he couldnt resist on snatching up a few bargains:

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| 9.8.2006 | Onibuje, Fola | Preston | Â£20K

"4 good youngs players" White announced, and he gave 1 of his youngsters a place in the starting line up.

Torquay vs Cheltenham

The 1st game in charge for Rob White turned out to be a shaky one. It started great as an early goal from by Torquay settled the nerves of the manager and probably the fans. After the goal Cheltenham laid out the charge and chance after chance went begging for them, but just as cheltenham were gettin into the stride of things Serge Makofo pulls one out of the bag to give torquay the 2-0 lead. This goal gave Torquay the cushion they wanted but cheltenham were detirmined to get back into this but the poor finishing prevented this from happening, and the match finished 2-0 to Torquay's delight.

Rob White was extremly please with the result, but was downwards to his defence. " The defence was very shaky and un-organised, this may have been due to the younger, less experienced players playing but we will be working on the defense in training."

The next day Rob White was quick off the mark to get his defense up to scratch and bought in another 4 players but this time all defenders.

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| 16.8.2006 | Mensing, Simon | Swindon | Â£50K |

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| 16.8.2006 | Lyth, Ashley | Scarborough | Â£26K |

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| 17.8.2006 | Carns, David | Kidderminster | Â£2K

League Cup 1st Round

Burton ALbion vs Torquay

This match turned out to be a frantic end-to-end match with poor finishing by both teams. Ater 90mins the score was 1-1 with both sides working for the winner but no-one could provide us with it. Then into extra-time this was very tense as both teams were still atacking but the tiredness was starting to kick in, after half hour of extra time there was still no winner which obviously meant it went into penalties. After 10 penalties from each team, the Goalkeeping Heroics from both teams decided the match as Torquays goalkeeper took the deciding penalty which he sadly missed as Torquay went crashing out of the League Cup.

Rob White was still pleased even though his team had just crashed out of the League Cup. "Im particularly pleased with the defending but a bit disappointed with the finishing this time around but im not going to be petty every match we play, ive only just arrived and i'm giving these players the time to adjust to me training and tactics and have to credit the players for giving me there 100% effort and dedication."

Oldham vs Torquay

After the midweek onslaught of a game, players were still reeling from such a tiring match but it was a shock to all as they ran out 4-1 winners, they went racing from the go, as clinical finishing from the young strikers up front proved the high score was flattering to Torquay.

Andy H · March 22, 2004

Nice start Rob.

Goldy · March 22, 2004

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Well here the season begins, every team is gonna be tough to beat especially the likes of Norwich and Man City who have got some exceptional talent in their squad. Leeds have been tipped as favourites followed by an army of teams including Man City, Forest and lots of others

Stevenage vs Nottingham Forest

So here we are, division 1 footie, who would of thought that would happen so quick. Anyway, no time to dream about where we got to so far. Our first game is against one of the favourites for promotion, we are playing infront of the home fans but Forest certainly dont lack quality. Well, we seem to have left off where we was last season, hot on trail. The first half went without much of a problem, we kept Forest back and took our chances and deserved our goal advantage. The second have Forest tried to be more attacking but eventually it cost them as Ebanks-Blake scored the second to round this up from the first half strike that Poole made.

Stevenage 2 : 0 N.Forest

Stevenage vs Carlisle (League Cup 1st Round)

Its league cup time! Well as per tradition, up come the reserves out of the wood work. They easily dominated play through out the 90minutes but low and behold, they couldnt score in 26 shots on goal, compared to their opponents who had 1. So Extra time came upon us when Carlise get their 2nd shot on goal, its a 45 yard shot which of course to CM tradition, goes in. Unbelievable, 2 shots and 1 goes in from 45 yards, with 3 minutes to though, a free kick from Porarinson levels things to go to pen. Everyone scored their pens but the 2 strikers who you would think should score with ease, so the reserves outplayed their opponents but a superman goalie stops them and gets his man of the match, the reserves just gotta do better next time or they wont play much this season.

Stevenage 1 : 1 Carlisle (Carlisle go through on pens)

Cardiff vs Stevenage

Once more, another side thats wanting promotion from this league, packed full of pacey players and also very talented too. They took the lead after about 20minutes of play and fully deserved it, they had been all over us and we're quite lucky it was only 1. The first half ended and we're of course losing, probably expected by most. Anyhow, having noticed something in the first 3 matches so far, I fully predict the tactic i had been using has been cracked by the AI, so into place comes the new one. Still only in testing it just had to be brought out onto the scene....within in minutes of the second half, its a goal, we equaliser, it gets even better as we go into the lead not long after that, 2-1 it stands, 15minutes from time we pull out that two goal advantage, so far so great until......stupid bloody midfielder tried to time waste in his own half, of course, he gets punished for it, Earnshaw steals it off him to set up Alan Lee for his second. But, that was the only **** play from us in the second half as minutes from time we seal the deal with a stunning free kick from new signing Carl Lewis to go along withthe goals scored by Huckerby and Poole's double.

Cardiff 2 : 4 Stevenage

A very good early start for us, it wasnt as easy as before but that just adds to the challenge we set ourselfs in this new league. The new tactic so far has delivered, if it continues then we will easily overcome this relegation battle that has been set. But for the moment, we will enjoy your 100% winning streak we have in the league and hope there is more to come

Andy H · March 23, 2004

Gold in "We were actually outplayed shocker"!!!! This is huge news!!!!!!

Goldy · March 23, 2004

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Andy H:

Gold in "We were actually outplayed shocker"!!!! This is huge news!!!!!! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Oh bugger, forgot to mention we only put out 2 players in the first half!

March 24, 2004

The blue half of merseyside

Well a hectic pre-season at Goodison is finally over and the squad is in a half decent state for the challenge of avoiding relagation to keep the board happy, However if thats our final position I will be very very dissapointed. I was doing a Harry Redknapp in the transfer market wheeling and dealing my way through the free transfer market as my total transfer budget was only Â£1.2million , trying to offload some of my overpaid underplayed players was my priority , but this was proving difficult due to there high wages.

Top on my agenda was to add another top draw striker to play along side rooney , and a couple a better squad forwards as 4-3-3 is looking my likely starting formation. Also needed is a centre half to play alongside Yobo as I'm not convinced peter clarke can do the job all season against world class opposition . A new left and right back are also urgently needed as these were my weak points in my few games in charge towards the end of last season.

Players out :

| Date | Person | To | Fee |

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| 6.6.2006 | Haas, Bernt | Blackburn | Â£500K |

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| 29.7.2006 | Linderoth, Tobias | Tottenham | Â£2M |

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| | Total | | Â£4.4M |

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Players in :

Transfers

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| 27.6.2006 | Steele, Luke | Man Utd | Â£300K |

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| 27.6.2006 | Rossetti, NicolÃ² | Man Utd | Â£16K |

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| 29.6.2006 | Ãœmit Davala | Barcelona | Â£600K |