Moonshine Posted December 29, 2016 Author Share Posted December 29, 2016 FC St. Pauli Hamburg 2019/20 August - October For the second season in succession, we top the standings on Hallow'een. However, this time I think it might just be the real deal. We've looked absolutely stunning, both offensively and defensively - helped in no small part to Aziz Bouhadddouz and Rachid 'Matthew A' Coulibaly - the latter of whom has taken up the reigns of Jeremy Dudziak and Matthew Autret's departures with aplomb. The highlight of this unprecedented run of form - no losses, 32 goals scored and only 10 conceded (40% of those in one match) - has to be that 6-0 thrashing of recently relegated (and title favourites) Koln, which resulted in them sacking their manager. Bohaddouz is on 10 goals in 9 games (he had a brief injury that ruled him out of the Union, Karlsruher and Koln games). My full backs, Yann Regasel and Gian-Luca Itter, are on 7 assists apiece. And Coulibaly... oh my, Coulibaly. Seven goals, four assists, a 7.80 average rating and still only 17 years old. I've never had a regen like him come through the youth ranks, in any save. We top the league by six points, but let's not count our chickens - we know what happened last season. Cup: Hey, we actually won a game! Admittedly we lost on penalties with a half strength side the game after, but it's not technically a loss, so we're still unbeaten in the season... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonshine Posted December 31, 2016 Author Share Posted December 31, 2016 2019 Worldwide Update As the decade comes to a close, your annual look at how the world sits.... Ballon d'Or and World Player of the Year Messi. Again. Even though Aguero deserved it. Apostles: Only three Apostles in the team of the year this time out. Hopefully Dybala and Mata can stay for a few more years, however, and it's pleasing to see Mats Hummels enter the team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonshine Posted January 6, 2017 Author Share Posted January 6, 2017 FC St. Pauli Hamburg 2019/20 November - February Despite the now-typical mid season slump (seriously, does anyone have a clue why this is happening to me? Answers on a postcard, please. Some idea...) it took until mid-February for us to lose our first game of the season, at home to Frankfurt. Mind you, we had drawn six of the 9 league games before that. Bouhaddouzz has scored just five times in the last 11 matches, after 10 in 12 before that. One thing that has changed is the loss of club captain Lasse Sobiech, who demanded a transfer after I rejected a move to the Bundesliga. I ended up offering him out for his release fee of £6.5m, and when FC Ingolstadt dropped their interest, he moved to 9th placed 1860 Munich for £4.75m rising to £6.75m with clauses, not too bad. To replace him, I signed Lucas Gugganig for £2m from Greuther Furth, while a broken leg for Yann Regasel meant I signed Jonathan Hunter on loan from Arsenal until the end of the season. Let's call it nine points clear. Not bad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonshine Posted January 7, 2017 Author Share Posted January 7, 2017 FC St. Pauli Hamburg 2019/20 Youth Intake Really average. Really, really average. Neither Ismael 'John A' Ozturk nor Rinik 'John B' Gorski are much cop, but they're the best of a bad bunch so here they are. As always, the silly German youth rules will mean you won't see any of these guys for two seasons. Boooo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonshine Posted January 14, 2017 Author Share Posted January 14, 2017 FC St. Pauli Hamburg 2019/20 March - May So you know I was nine points clear? Well I tried my damndedist to not even get promotion. 1 point from 5 games during March and early April cost me the title, and nearly promotion itself. Eventually, Bouhaddouz came good, scoring a hattrick against Frankfurt to secure promotion, his first goals in 15 games. The loss to third placed Dynamo Dresden in the penultimate game of the season came a the same time as an epic 7-2 loss for Koln at fourth placed Augsburg, and if I'd won I'd have had the title. As it was, I thought Maddison's goal on 75 minutes had seured it for me, only for Koln to score on 87 to win the league. Promotion is amazing. We'll need to remake the squad, somehow, but the aim for next season is to stay up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonshine Posted January 14, 2017 Author Share Posted January 14, 2017 FC St. Pauli Hamburg 2019/20 End of Season I tried to hold on... Squad Awards Bodiger didn't get player of the season for the first time in his career at the club - but he did get the worst discipline record again. Rachid 'Matthew A' Coulibaly topped off a truly astonishing debut season by winning Player of the Season, as well, of course, as Young Player of the Season. The 18 year old was astonishingly good. Fan's Player of the Season, Fan's Young Player of the Season, My Player of the Year, My Young Apostle of the Year: Top Goalscorer (18 in 28(2) for 7.36): Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonshine Posted January 14, 2017 Author Share Posted January 14, 2017 Roll of Honour BUNDESLIGA Champions: Bayern Munich Champions League Qualifiers: Dortmund, Schalke Relegated:Hertha, SC Darmstadt 2. BUNDESLIGA Promoted: Koln, St Pauli Relegated: FSV Frankfurt, Hallescher FC, Arminia Bielfeld 3. BUNDESLIGA: Promoted: FC Heidenhiem, SV Sandhausen, Chemnitzer FC Relegated: Holstein Kiel, Wolfsburg II, Schalding DFB Pokal: Hertha 1-5 Bayern Munchen Olympiastadion, Berlin (74,244) PREMIER LEAGUE Champions: Chelsea Champions League qualifiers: Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal, Manchester Utd Relegated: West Brom, Sheffield Wednesday, Southampton CHAMPIONSHIP Champions: Sunderland Promoted: Cardiff, Hull Relegated: Walsall, Bolon Wanderers, Fleetwood Town LEAGUE ONE Champions: Bradford City Promoted: Scunthorpe Utd, Sheffield Utd Relegated: Port Vale, Leyton Orient, Doncaster Rovers, Rochdale LEAGUE TWO Champions: Yeovil Town Promoted: Notts County, Portsmouth, Colchester Utd Relegated: Morecambe, Northampton Town CONFERENCE PREMIER Champions: Stevenage Promoted: Ebbsfleet Relegated: Chester*, Maidenhead, Bath City, Hemel Hempsted CONFERENCE NORTH Champions: Salford City Promoted: Bradford Park Avenue Relegated: Bishop's Stortford, Chelmsford City, Hednesford Town CONFERENCE SOUTH Champions: Bromley Promoted: Dulwich Hamlet Relegated: Hungerford Town, Metropolitain Police, East Thurrock Utd. TIER 7: Havant & Waterlooville, Hendon, Bognor Regis Town, Matlock Town, Frickley Athetic, Kettering Town FA CUP Manchester Utd 1-2 Chelsea (90,000) LEAGUE CUP Everton1p-1 Manchester Utd (90,000) COMMUNITY SHIELD Norwich City 1-3 Tottenham Hotspur Elsewhere in Europe: AUSTRIAN PREMIER: RB Salzburg BELGIAN PRO LEAGUE: RSC Anderlecht (x4) CZECH SYNOT LIGA: Sparta Praha DANISH SUPERLIGA: FC Kobenhavn (x2) DUTCH EREDIVISIE: SC Heerenveen ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP: Chelsea FRENCH LIGUE 1: PSG (X8) GERMAN BUNDESLIGA: FC Bayern Munchen (x8) HUNGARIAN OTP BNK LIGA: Diosgyori ITALIAN SERIE A: Napoli (x3) POLISH EKSTRAKLASA: Legia Warsaw PORTUGUESE LIGA NOS: SL Benfica ROMANIAN LIGA 1: CS Craiova RUSSIAN ROSGOSSTRAKH CHEMPIONAT: Spartak Moscow (x3) SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP: Rangers SERBIAN JELEN SUPERLIGA: Crvena Zvezda SPANISH LIGA SANTANDER: Atletico de Madrid SWEDISH ALLSVENSKAN: IFK Goteborg (x2) SWISS SUPER LEAGUE: FC Basel (x11) TURKISH SUPER LEAGUE: Trabzonspor UKRAINIAN PREM'ER LIHA: Shakhtar Donetsk (x4) CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PSG 1-0 Tottenham Old Trafford, Manchester (75,635) EUROPA LEAGUE Manchester City 2-1 Dortmund Estadio da Luz, Lisbon (64,642) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonshine Posted January 14, 2017 Author Share Posted January 14, 2017 I doubt anyone actually reads the roll of honour, above, but there's a little star by Chester's name in their relegation from the National League. This is why: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonshine Posted January 15, 2017 Author Share Posted January 15, 2017 Euro 2020. Hosts: N/A; Holders: Portugal Out in Groups: Austria, Poland, Russia, Moldova, Slovakia, Albania, Serbia, Scotland Second Round: Italy 0-0p England Portugal 0-3 France Denmark 3-2 Belgium Sweden 2-3 Switzerland Spain 2p-2 Slovakia Bosnia & Herzegovina 1-1p Ukraine Germany 1-0 Croatia Hollan 0-1 Greece Quarters: England 2-1 Denmark France 3-0 Ukraine Spain 2-1 Germany Switzerland 0-0p Greece Semis: England 2-1 France Spain 1-0 Greece Final: England 0-4 Spain Wembley, London (90,000) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonshine Posted January 15, 2017 Author Share Posted January 15, 2017 FC St. Pauli Hamburg 2020/21 Pre-Season Pre-Season Expectations: Media: 18th Bookies: 1000-1 Board: Attempt to avoid relegation DFB-Pokal: Second Round Everyone expects us to go back down. Squad: Transfers: Less enormous changes, more revitalising the team. Out on frees went Marko Mrkic, after a very poor 3 seasons following his £1.4m siging in 2016. Also out went Luke Amos, who never quite hit his potential and our former captain Soren Gonther, whose legs were going at 33. We sold our second choice keeper for a pretty fair £400k. He wasn't good enough for the Bundesliga. In came some youngsters - Mathias Suhr and Yannick Bennert are ones, perhaps, for the future. They were cheap, anyway. Important signings were young Marco Kirsh for £4.5m from Kaiserslauten, who performed brilliantly in 2. Bundesliga and is 18. Bouhaddouz is aging, and I hope Kirsh will be his replacement. Andreas Jensen and Andrei Marc will be third and fourth choice CBs, while Lucic has gone back on loan to Cucaricki as a I have 2 DRs already, but he's bloody good. And Milos Markovic is a young ST signed late on as Kirsch got injured, and so I needed a third choice ST with Yanis Barka out on loan. Oh, and Ivan Castro is a young Mexican GK, signed as second choice. Marco Kirsch Andres Jensen Andrei Marc Ivan Castro Milos Markovic Aleksander Lucic Fixtures: Usual Werder Bremen game, usual draw, but a decent pre-season this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonshine Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 FC St. Pauli Hamburg 2020/21 August - October My first season with the big boys, and it's not going badly at all. An opening day local derby thrashing wasn't helped by a red card, but where I've lost it hasn't been all that embarrassing (Ingolstadt aside). But it's where I've won that matters, and 4-1 victories over perrenial top six contenders Wolfsburg and RB Leipzig look good. My three games without goals weren't helped by injuries to all three of my strikers - and indeed only Bouhaddouz's two goals at Hoffenheim and Micunovic's one at home to Wolfsburg have come from strikers. Rather ironically, it is centre back Lukas Gugganig who leads the scoring charts - his three goals in as many games matching the exploits of Marco Hoger. I'm happy. I might even stay up. 10th is excellent. In particular, we are 9 points from the relehgation zone. Cup: We're further than we've ever been, playing our usual mix of reserves and youth team players with the odd first teamer in the mix. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonshine Posted February 7, 2017 Author Share Posted February 7, 2017 2020 Worldwide Update Your usual annual look at how the world sits.... Ballon d'Or and World Player of the Year Messi. Again. God Messi is goood. Aguero snuck in ahead of Suarez for the World Player of the Year Apostles: Luke Shaw, and Johannes Eggestein make their first appearances in the Team of the Year, while Pogba is back. No Mata or Dybala this year, mind... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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