League Banter - The Matchday thread

Rubbish performance last night by my lot, but it means I won't accidentaly get promoted, I wouldn't want to get smashed regularly in Div 2 so I'll build for next season.

tight fisted falcons supporters didnt put enough in to cover costs, and the players picked up 3 red cards!

Next match should be interesting, have to shuffle the team about a bit.

Odd season so far for me: 46 goals scored, 46 goals allowed, 46 points - only 1 draw in 26 games (15 wins, 11 losses). Don't really know how that happened.

Haha, wish I could have a season near that. 7 wins, 7 draws, 12 losses, 27 goals scored, 38 conceded. I started the season 2-4-7 17 goals scored, 28 goals conceded in the first 13 games Since then we have gone 5-3-5 10 goals scored 10 goals conceded.

Our total April record (removing the freaky 6-4 game in the Cup) looks like this: 1-1. 1-2, 2-0, 1-0, 1-0, 0-1, 1-2, 1-0, 1-2, 3-0, 2-1, 0-1, 1-0, 0-0, 0-0, 0-0, 0-0 => That is 5 straight clean sheets, with only 1 goal scored in 6 games, and only 1 conceded. So the changes to stop the conceding of goals really paid off, but those changes also stopped us scoring goals. Really not sure where to go from here.

Niall - Seems like a mid table type season, conceding too many, but scoring enough at the same time. As for no draws that is just freaky.

Well if there's hope it is in my season last year - I scored 33 goals in 34 games, so things can be fixed quite quickly. I think you need to drop 10 mill or so on a 3 star striker with 12-13 heading and finishing

Might be the way to go, I have about 20m in the bank at the moment :D

with that kind of money you could picnh a 3.5* kiwi striker and make some real headway

season so far is:

played 27, won 12, drawn 7, lost 8, scored 53, conceeded 34. sitting 5th on 43 points, 1 point behind 4th,

Well with that comment you convinced me to go have a look, have placed a bid on a 3.5* Kiwi striker in his mid-twenties, hopefully I might be able to get one of them at some point

played 27, won 14, drawn 3, lost 10, scored 51 conceded 33. Sitting 6th on 45 points, 8 points behind 5th, 6 points ahead of 7th.

http://trophymanager.com/matches/58592915/

Holy stacked "B" team...

And as I post that we manage to score to make it 1-2 :D

And great lead up play, and Smith into the box makes it 2-2...NO WAY!

 looking at his senior squad they are pretty good too.

Yeah saw that too, so guessing he should get promotion with his B team this year, and then dominate the next league up :P

Guess not, he is lucky to be midtable, hmm

 odd he may have just acquired some of the younger good players, hard to know without a lot more research,

Well anyway will take a 2-2 draw from that game :)

 well played.

Big boost for confidence and goal difference with a 5-1 thrashing last night, still in sixth but only three points behind fourth. Also only four ahead of ninth so I want to end well to stay roughly sixth.

Goals came to all the usual suspects, OMC had 2, Seghers had his 18th this year and Martinez his 11th, my dynamic duo could end up with 35 for the season combined.

The hunt for a NZ striker hit a massive wall today...I had shortlisted two of them, 24yrs old 3.5 stars, one at 7m, one at 15m, first one passed my 24m balance with 2hrs left, second one has a day to go and is also very quickly closing on my balance...I think I need some more money :P

Yeah in my experience 3.5 guys usually go for about 30 million to 50 million depending on age, 3 star guys are probably the way to go. Even they are getting a bit pricy!

 I'm about to expand my stadium then I'll have 70 mill or so ready to spend on players, but I'm so stacked with 3.5-4 potential at most positions that I don't really want to block the way, maybe I'll just build a huge war fund instead

 with 3.5-4* guys you're probably ok in the player department, especially if they are not too old. build up the war chest get the stadium up to scratch and kill it!

Well I have a YF match-up tonight in the league taking on Los Halcones for the third time this season, the fourth match-up will be on Tuesday.

 A 2-0 win puts me in 4th place, 3 points ahead of 5th. 3rd is 7 points ahead of me so will be tough to catch up especially with only 5 games remaining.

 A 1-1 draw gets me 4 points ahead of 5th. 3rd is now 9 points ahead. Hoping I can hold onto 4th with only 4 games remaining. Playoffs would be a challenge as the teams above me are quite good.

So to get my sponsor goals I need 10 goals in my next 4 games, 2 against Top teams, 2 against strugglers. Think it might be time to go all out attack. Have 16 goals leeway on my conceding goal.

Seems to have to be done :)

http://trophymanager.com/matches/58592945/

So holding the League leaders at 0-0 after 68 mins.

Well that final score of 0-0 didn't help our goal scoring sponsor goal, and our best right back got injured, in goes the new youngun I bought.

2-1 win for me over third, puts me 4th and well inside sponsor goals,

Nice work, promotion on?

My sponsor goals are either completed or impossible from here. I need to score 10 goals in 3 games, and I can't make it to top half. But won one Cup game, and only conceded 43 goals (Well under the goal of 60)

I'm within the playoffs for promo, I finished here last season and got beaten so it really delends. There is no way I'm catching second or first, third is possible, I beat third place last night. I play 5th on Friday and then 8th on Sunday and finally 13th to finish the season off. In theory if I could win all of those I'll finish 3rd comfortably.

One of the stranger games I've played... http://trophymanager.com/matches/58595401/ 

Agreed that was a weird one, got the victory in the end though.

I played another playoff team last night, was leading 2-1 and subbed my keeper to end up with a 2-2 result. Think overall the changes in the second half of this season have really improved my team, so hopefully it works into next season. Final two games of the  season are ANE2 (16th) & Katikati (18th) so hopefully I can get enough from them to gain 12th. Also going to go very attacking in both games as we need to score 8 goals to make our Sponsor goal of 40. Can concede up to 14. 

Is pretty tight in the race for 12th

Played spoiler to a team's top four aspirations with a 4-2 win which puts me into sixth with that one game remaining.

Massive game for the Falcons on Wednesday, if we can beat ANE2 it'll put us into the relegation playoffs with a chance to stay up.

Even so, we can't seem to find the goal this season

You guys will stay up anyway, there's no active teams in Div 2 to replace you with. And there's hope too, a team who finished 17th last year in my league is now 3rd and in the promotion playoffs, a couple of buys completely shored up their backline.

I think I need to strengthen my backline or keeper, all sitting on 2.5-3 stars which is doing ok, but needs to stop conceeding as many goals.

It's still pretty cool to legitimately stay up though, even if it is technically meaningless. 

Agreed. AD Fafe sit in 14th (Bottom of Relegation playoffs) with a game against Katikati who are the dead last inactive team to finish my season. I want 7 goals (Sponsor Goal), but think it is unlikely.

Good grief! Charlie Tree  my youth Recruit playing with the seniors in only his 7th game, scores his first ever goal in the 4th minute, then knocks in a 2nd one in the 6th minute, and stand up, stand up, stand up1 Stand UP if you're 2 - 0 up!

Is Standing UP! 2-0 for us. But "WE WANT SEVEN" for sponsor goals. lol

Well we let them score one to make it 2-1, but still we need 5 more for us to get there.