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Post by Sonic on Mar 14, 2006 23:04:38 GMT
Excellent, another update :humb:
Your still placed nicely even after that sllight stutter, and just need the players to stick together to push for the best finish. Top place of course.
Injuries are a right bugger, especially before big games, which you just know there is going to be one. I lost my GK recently, and have only youth one's to place in goal. Luckily, one of them is good enough. I agree, sometimes it is good to have an injury, as you can play someone who should be playing if there were 12 spots on the field.
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Post by Moo on Mar 15, 2006 23:53:54 GMT
April 2010
We started off the month with an away match to rivals Gyõr and hopefully the same result as last time. We got a free kick in the centre circle in the second minute and Down To Earth put in into the box, there was a scramble and Picture Exclusive swept it into the net from eight yards for a cracking start. We kept up the pressure and should have had a penalty on the half hour, but the ref deemed the foul outside of the box, the poof. From the resulting break down of our free kick, the home side equalised, then scored again five minutes later, which really annoyed me and I told them so at half time. It made very little difference though and there was very little to our attacking game. Indeed, the home side should have scored another in the dying moments, but Fortune Cookie foiled them with a fantastic save.
Anyhoo, a week later and we’re at home to Diósgyõr. How these lot only conceded one goal in the first half is unbelievable. And it was from a a penalty, Chemical Movement slotting it away nicely. We kept it the same at the start at the second half. It took us until the 71st minute to get another one, after a couple of scares from the away side and having to sub our keeper for Turntable Jnr. Onion Bhaji, playing through the middle got onto a loose ball from a poor clearance and lashed it. With minutes to go and Diósgyõr chasing the game, we took the ball away from a striker and countered with great speed. Picture had the ball just outside their box and was brought down. The free kick was played short to Travel Agent Groupie who crossed it in. The keeper managed to get a hand to it, for Onion Bhaji to get a head on it, he hit the post and the rebound fell to poacher Man With Boobs. It finished 3-0 and we end the day in 4th with five games left.
Then the Wednesday brought us a little matter of a home leg of the semi final of the Cup against Újpest. Fortune Cookie out, The Giant out, Plastic Fantastic out and Chemical Movement suspended. This might hurt. Top scorer Final Chapter picked up an injury in the 2nd minute, meaning Man With Boobs had to come on, so all going to plan then. :moop: We managed to get some momentum going though and an incisive move down the left gave Lily Glue the chance to centre, Picture Exclusive rose for it, but the defender got there first. And put it in. :humb: Picture Exclusive got one after the break though and I didn’t quite know what to do. Do I quiet the game down, or keep going for a bit? I err… kept it as it was and eight minutes later we scored again. Me No Sucky rattling one in from 25 yards, which the keeper should have saved, but I wasn’t too bothered about that. Errrmmm. We closed the game down in the final ten minutes and still had a great chance to make it four, but missed by a whisker. One foot in the final?
Three days later and a home league game against Ferencváros who were in 11th place, which looked strange. Lily Glue got an injury late in the cup game, but Chemical Movement was back from his ban. “Despite Ferencváros’ domination, they trail at half time.” :thumb: All over us. They had pace and passing everywhere. The only thing we had going for us in the first half was Turntable Jnr and his big hands. Then two minutes before half time, French Guitarist and Man With Boobs colluded to get the ball upfield and into the box, the Guitarist brought down, Think Of A Number scored the pen. An early corner to us was taken to the edge of the box, Chemical Movement drilled it in low through the crowd, the keeper parried and Man With Boobs pounced to extend our lead. With 20 mins to go the away side got one back, against the run of play it has to be said. A wayward ball down our right flank and a quick few passes and it was in. We went for the defensive approach. And we caught them on the break, Chemical Movement netting from close range after neat play down the right from Travel Agent Groupie. We stay in 4th with four games to go, 5 points from 1st and 2 points from 2nd and 3rd.
The matches were coming thick and fast, Újpest in the second leg of the cup and we’re defending a 3-0 lead. We kept the same team, mainly because they did so well in the last game but mainly because there was nobody else. They were knackered though, so I could only hope. Despite good possession, the home side were frustrated by our defensive set up, we limited them to long range efforts which pleased me immensely. More of the same in the second half, but Újpest managed to get one back with 15 mins to go, but we held on for the 3-1 aggregate victory. We play Debrecen in the final in two weeks.
Next up were Haladás who lay in 7th and were in mixed form like ourselves. We hadn’t been playing well away from home recently, but hopefully that will change today. A goal down in the first minute and an enforced sub in the 8th wasn’t a great start, but it was what we got. And it was all downhill from there, we lost 5-0 in the end and it looked unlikely that we would get into Europe this season.
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Post by Sonic on Mar 16, 2006 4:59:30 GMT
It was such a good update too, unfortunately spoiled by the first and last games, neatly tieing the run together. That last one must have been especially hard to take. Still, it's been a good season and Girly Cup Action(GCA) has got to be good :humb:
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Post by coffers on Mar 16, 2006 8:18:22 GMT
What Sonic said. Will winning the girly cup give you a rooute into Europe or doesn't it work like that in Hungary?
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Post by Moo on Mar 16, 2006 9:10:23 GMT
Top spot is LAC Qualifiers, 2nd and 3rd are somewhere in the Wafer cup, but I don't know exactly where. IIRC I think the Cup winners go to InterToto because I think the rules say that 4th go IT depending on the Cup winners. I suppose we'll have to see what happens with that.
The cup games went well, we played great in the home leg and battled away bravely in the away leg. The league is more of a worry though, as all of a sudden I can't get an away point at all. We have a tough away game next (not sure of the opposition) and then a home game against a relegation battler and our last game is at home to one of the top three. The cup is after the away game and before the easy home tie, so I'm in a quandary to how to play the away game as i would rather have all my first choicers ready for the cup. Hmmmm.
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Post by Moo on Mar 16, 2006 23:27:52 GMT
May 2010An interesting message at the start of the month: “The Mosonmagyaróvár board are absolutely thrilled with the level of commitment you continue to show the club.” Errr, thanks. We lie in 6th and Fehérvár lie in 6th, so it was a game that neither side could afford to lose if they wanted to try and sneak into 3rd and the automatic Wafer place. Within 20 seconds, we were awarded a penalty, which Chemical Movement subsequently missed. We got lucky after half an hour or so, they had their keeper injured and had to bring the sub one on, then just before half time, he picked up a minor knock and wasn’t moving well. On the stroke of half time, Chemical Movement tested him and put a free kick into the top corner. He didn’t bother to move for it and we went into the tea break one up. We kept going in the same manner and created only a couple of chances but more importantly, kept the home side at bay. With ten minutes to go, I shut up shop and thankfully it worked. Pécs lost and ZTE drew so we managed to leapfrog the pair of them into 3rd place on goal difference. We were five points behind Vasas and three behind Újpest, with two games to go. Next up was Debrecen in the cup final. They were on the back of three consecutive defeats, which was good for me, but this was our fist cup final, we’d have the nerves. Debrecen started off brightly and we had Turntable Jnr to thank for a save after 8 minutes. On 14 though, they had to make a change after Me No Sucky had crunched a fair tackle in on a central midfielder. Our first real chance was on 21 minutes, Down To Earth heading a ball to French Guitarist who passed to the left for Rainbow Feet to pick up. He moved forward and gave it to Chemical Movement who played the ball through the middle for French again who went for the top corner, but it went wide. On 31 though, we had the breakthrough, Down To Earth got onto a loose ball and composed himself before playing a long ball down the right channel for Onion Bhaji. The Argentinean took one touch then cracked one early past a helpless keeper from all of twenty yards. A great strike for a final. Three minutes later and Debrecen again had to make a change, another midfield player, this time, we had nothing to do with it. Two minutes before half time, French Guitarist headed a corner away and out of danger, Final Chapter picked it up and ran forward with it on the counter. He was tackled but we got a throw in on the left which Rainbow Feet took to Chemical Movement who returned it. He played the ball forward to Picture Exclusive who sped towards goal, instead of shooting, he tried to square it but the pass was intercepted. The defender then came forward but he too had his pass intercepted, Onion Bhaji getting there first and feeding Picture again, who laid the ball off for French Guitarist to rifle one in to the net. 2-0 up with four minutes of injury time and Debrecen kicked off. The pre-game favourites strode forward en masse and their nippy Iranian striker cracked a shot which hit a post, but his mate tapped it in. Still, we were ahead and with one hand on the cup. The opening period of the second half was a tense affair, with neither side getting to grips with it, until Me No Sucky span in the centre circle, giving the ball to Rainbow Feet on the left. He moved forward and started to overlap Chemical Movement, the defender went with him leaving some space for Chemical. He took a breath and swung a wicked ball into the box for Final Chapter to volley in. Woah! 76 minutes on the clock and enough was enough, leaving Picture Exclusive on his own up front and French Guitarist on the half way line as an outlet, the other eight formed two banks of four who (hopefully) weren’t going to move. Frustration paid it’s part as their Iranian kicked central defender Down To Earth and was given a straight red card. With time running out, the Debrecen manager threw everyone forward, packing our third of the field. They were awarded a penalty for Rainbow Feet holding back their striker when a loose ball was coming his way. They scored, but it was too late for anything else. Mosonmagyaróvár had won the Hungarian Cup. Three days later and it was back to the league, Fortune Cookie released a story in the papers rallying the troops, saying that although we needed the others to slip up, we could still win the title. Some of the others responded well to the story, but I feared that it would be a bugle horn wasted. We faced Kecskemét at home, with the away side lying in the last relegation place (Pápa already gone) and so needing the win. The first half was a breeze though, Picture Exclusive with the first and Down To Earth with a header from a corner (no, seriously!) sent us two up at half time. Picture got a third on 68 and we never looked in trouble at all. The results on the weekend meant that we couldn’t win the title, but we had a hand as to where it went. We were playing Újpest in our last game, who were three points ahead of us but with a GD six better than us. If we could beat them by three goals, we would go into second on goals scored and Vasas would win the title. If we drew, we would effectively finish in third because of a better goal difference than ZTE and Pécs, but a loss and we would have to hope for those two not winning. We brought back in Rainbow Feet for what will be his last game for Mosonmagyaróvár as I had no intention of renewing his contract. In a damp squib of a game, there was only ever going to be one goal needed and unfortunately it wasn’t us. They scored it in the 88th minute and it left me very nervous. But at the whistle, we found out that Pécs and ZTE had both drawn, so we finished in 3rd place and ecstatic. :thumb: We got 140k for finishing in third place, which was fook all really. Picture Exclusive (AMC), French Guitarist (ST) and Fortune Cookie (GK) all declare their desire to leave to further their careers, all get told to stay and all back down. Canutes. I got 2nd in Manager of the Year, which was nice and French Guitarist and Fortune Cookie were named in the team of the season. Hurrah!
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Post by Sonic on Mar 17, 2006 0:28:26 GMT
Very nice season, with that slight wobble Coffs mentioning earlier the difference between third and winning the thing. Well done on the Cup win too :thumb:
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Post by coffers on Mar 17, 2006 8:54:42 GMT
That was a fine season Moo, with a tin pot to go with it and Europe next season. Woot! Well Done sir! :thumb: £140k is a damned sight better than the £12k Fjolnir got for winning the Icelandic League. KUTGW!
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Post by Moo on Mar 17, 2006 9:21:58 GMT
Cheers, I'll do the end of season stuff tonight maybe.
I was punching the air and everything throughout the game. Nic wasn't impressed. Neither was I when she said I wasn't getting a celebratory shag for our efforts.
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Post by coffers on Mar 17, 2006 9:24:10 GMT
She sounds like Mrs C. :checkit:
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Post by Moo on Mar 19, 2006 21:09:09 GMT
End of season wrap upGoalkeepersWe only used two of our four in the squad, Turnable Jnr did well in the 14 games he played, but for me, he is a little small to be a top flight keeper. Paraguayan international Fortune Cookie was outstanding for us this year and certainly gave confidence to the four in front of him. He’s only 23 and has two years left on his contract, so we may need to look at tying him down through this off season. Bardo In Europe, the Croatian who we bought three seasons ago got us up into the top flight, which is why I bought him, but is too old to be considered a regular. We have offered him a one year deal, as his current contract is expiring soon, so we’ll see if anything comes of it. If a steal of a reserve comes our way, I would certainly go for it and sell Turntable, there are clubs interested in him. DefendersOur main two full backs were Rainbow Feet on the left and Think Of A Number on the right, both did very well supporting the wingers, but The former now showing his age. He wouldn’t be getting a new contract though, as we had Yum Yum Pig’s Bum ready to step in. The problem with him though is that he’s a foreigner and so he falls under the quota of five for the match day squad. It may be that he may yet again be sacrificed for the big games, with a EU replacement getting a better share of games. We may even consider selling him, as it seems unfair to keep him and not play him. In fact, come to think of it, I think full backs are definitely something to improve on. Benji’s Bowl started off a first choice centre half, but two red cards in his first three games put paid to that. In stepped Down To Earth to partner Monster Monster and we never looked back. They certainly made the transition to the first division without too much trouble, although there were mistakes at times. Elderly Blue is looking like a fine prospect and at the age of 19 made is senior international debut. (I’m not sure why Monster hasn’t been called up by Senegal, mind you.) The others in the squad, just aren’t really up to much, so we may have to look at some reservists for next season, I doubt if our academy will throw much at us here. MidfieldersDefensively, we have The Giant, who made the step up without a problem, but he seems to be unsettled, claiming that he wants to move to further his career and get trophies. The one not good enough for ya? In the inevitable situation where he will leave, I have already bought his replacement, more later on that and also another for the future. We also have Master Of Puppets who came through the academy, but he will go out on loan with a view of getting him some games, which won’t harm him at all. Also in the middle is Onion Bhaji who was excellent when called upon. Kublai Khan and Part Of The Ploy were also in the reserves and did so well for us last season, but I thought the step was too much for them, so they will be allowed to go. Also through the middle, French Guitarist was sensational. His ten goals and ten assists from the more advanced central position pleased me immensely and I am surprised there hasn’t been more sniffs around him. Plastic Fantastic and Travel Agent Groupie shared the games and both didn’t let us down. I would have liked more assists from them, but their all round play was just fine. Last seson’s star Chemical Movement was again a force, but I feel there is still more to come from him, which will be nice. Lily Glue was always ready to step in too. StrikersWe have a number of strikers on our books, but the main two were Final Chapter and Picture Exclusive, both contributing in an outstanding manner. I may have got Picture in a cheeky way, but that happens. Breath Catcher who played so well along side Final Chapter last season started off slowly and that was why he was replaced. Man With Boobs was bought to replace the outgoing Resulting Confusion and hardly played, but did well when asked. There are a couple of reserves who may be OK if called upon, but I won’t be spending anything for them. We may just wait for the Academy push. SummaryThird in the league? Winner of the FA Cup? What’s not to like? We played some tough teams in this division but we got better as the season went on, up until the final quarter of it, when our form became mixed. If we could have held it together more towards the end of the season, who knows? We may have sneaked second. But at the end of the day, I reckon this league is beatable with the right blend of players. There were no teams that frightened me at the end, although we did have a couple of bad defeats, but that just happens sometimes. We have to go out for the title this season and I’ll break the budgets to do it.
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Post by Sonic on Mar 20, 2006 0:16:58 GMT
That's the spirit Moo, break the budget, then win the league, and bugger off if it pleases you to.
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Post by coffers on Mar 20, 2006 8:28:16 GMT
Budgets are made to be broken Moo, well that's my motto anyway.
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Post by Fuzzy on Mar 20, 2006 9:10:55 GMT
Great story And break the piggie, break the piggie!
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Post by Moo on Mar 20, 2006 16:07:59 GMT
I have been very careful not to break any budgets, although in the first season, I was going into the red without spending anything, then I had the sales to keep me afloat.
Anyhoo, this season will probably be my last in Hungary, I have stupider countries to manage in (although I won't be writing anything for that), but we'll see what happens. My intention is to finish next summer, but intentions are like budgets, i suppose... made to be broken. :checkit:
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Post by Sonic on Mar 21, 2006 22:33:51 GMT
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Post by Moo on Mar 28, 2006 21:30:09 GMT
June 2010French Guitarist was voted Fans’ Play of the Year, which wasn’t a shock and neither was the 900k I received as my transfer kitty. I was hoping for more, but I suppose it will do. We only got two youngsters through the academy too, both were cack, so that wasn’t going to help anyone. I was feeling like this wasn’t going to be as good a season as the last one. We signed 19 yo DMC Flatulent Fox for 75k from Div 2 Vác. He was going to be a good player. As was Argentinean DMC Up Periscope who was signed for 8k from Ferencváros. July 2010Leaving us at the start of the month were Part Of The Ploy, Rainbow Feet, Tempted By Horses, Nation Of Seven, Resulting Confusion and Second Chance Saloon. We also sign central defender Weetabix Survey on a free from Kaposvár. He was more comfy in the middle, but could play anywhere on the back four, a useful addition. Gelatine Hankie, a Latvian left back signed for 24k too. A nice little 2-0 friendly victory against a team called Spittal from Austria giving some of the new boys a run out. Fitness! Ha! We were then beaten by Grazer Ak 1-0, but we actually played very well. The youngsters looked lively, especially Master Of Puppets who seems to have gained some skills from somewhere over the summer. Maybe he got laid, I dunno. We also give free transfers to Forrin Type, Ebay For Dummies and Not A Clue. They all came through the youth system and were all pants. Brazil win the World Cup 2-1 against England. How dare they! In our final friendly before the Hungarian Super Cup, we hump Rapid Bratislava 4-0, which would be nice if that was the level of competition in the Wafer Cup. We sell Brazilian The Giant for a fee of 400k to Zenith St Peterburg as he was only a year away from a free and he was wanting to move anyway. This was the reason we signed Flatulent Fox and Up Periscope and the improvement of Master Of Puppets meant that we would be fine for cover, as Me No Sucky would now also go on the list. So the first leg is away at Vasas and our line up is thus: Fortune Cookie; Think Of A Number, Elderly Blue, Monster Monster, Gelatine Hankie; Plastic Fantastic, French Guitarist, Flatulent Fox, Chemical Movement; Picture Exclusive, Final Chapter. Foxy getting in front of the suspended Up Periscope. We were completely under the cosh in the first half and lucky to be just two down at half time. They just looked fitter and more fluent. We had a couple of half chances, but that was about it, nothing more. We were much better after the break after a bollocking, Flatulent Fox showing great maturity beyond his tender years, putting some nice balls through the middle for French Guitarist to run onto. One such ball allowed the Frenchman to slide a one timer through to Man With Boobs who had only just come on to score with a powerful effort. With nine minutes left, we had a chance, but the equaliser never came. Nevertheless, we had a goal back and we’d take great confidence back to Wittman Antal Park. The bookies make me laugh. Vasas are 2-1 for the title, fair enough, Újpest at 8s, Debrecen at 16s, but us at 20-1!? How dare they! We’re 6-1 at worst. Ha! With the same team, we were 2-0 down after only 28 minutes and the tie was virtually dead. Slight tweaks on the restart helped immediately though, Final Chapter getting one back after a scramble in the box. The second half was treated much like a normal friendly to be honest, as there didn’t seem much chance of us getting back into it. Vasas won 4-2 on aggregate and were very worthy of the cup. We then had to name our Wafer Cup squad which had to include four players from the academy, making us struggle a bit for quality in depth. As long as we get through our first tie, against FC National of Romania, I’d be more than happy. After the humpings by Vasas, I decided to use this friendly to test out an anti-Vasas tactic. They played a 4-2-3-1 thingie and I hated it, so a 5-1-3-1 was devised to stifle them and get at least a point per season out of the fuckers. So aye, Banik Ostrava then. OK, so we won 1-0 and the first half was shite, but we appeared very solid against a decent side. I would probably say these were equivalent of a mid table Hungarian side, so I may use it against the top sides away from home. And Vasas, of course. Because they’re bostords.
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Post by Sonic on Mar 28, 2006 21:55:45 GMT
June 2010Brazil win the World Cup 2-1 against England. How dare they! England making the final and the final was not played in England? Ok, I'll give you that. Don't Super Cups = friendlies? I guess the more money brought in the better. Let see, the prize money for winning it could have been, say 50K? Match practise, that's what those games were. I hate those teams that just don't know that they should lose. Good work on getting a tactic in place to counter this. It looks like you did some good wheeling and dealing too. KUTGW
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Post by Moo on Mar 29, 2006 21:53:15 GMT
August 2010The 7th of August and the start of the new season. Naturally, we get my hated team in the shape of Haladás, the canutes. I’d try the defensive formation to see if we could frustrate the fookers instead of getting beaten by four goals. It looked as though the tactics were working nicely until a peno was given away two minutes before half time, they converted, but luckily Chemical Movement scored from a free kick straight after to level going into the break. The second half was much the same as the first, a defensive battle with very few highlights to speak of, maybe this could work. I’ll try it against FC National in the Wafer Cup2nd Qualifying Round, the first leg being away. We fell two behind in the first half, so had to change it at half time. Either that formation isn’t as solid as I thought, or it was just a bad time to start with it. We’ll keep it anyway, for the league. We managed to get one back after 75 minutes through another Chemical free kick. This lot are beatable and with an away goal, we could do these in the return leg, but this one finished 1-2. Újpest came to our place on the Sunday after the Wafer game and we reverted to our 4-4-2 which served us so well last season. It paid dividends when we were forcing the more illustrious away side back from the start, getting our rewards with a goal from a corner. Man With Boobs getting his big heed on a corner and scoring. Just after that, Monster Monster was kicked and had to come off and keeper Fortune Cookie picked up a minor injury, but struggled on. 55 minutes and another free kick, right of centre, Chemical steps up, 2-0. Legend. We then made a change ten minutes later, Lily Glue replacing Chemical, and also I made us more defensively minded, to catch them on the break. Man With Boobs made me smile with his second of the game, after nice work down the right flank from Picture Exclusive. A great result. The upshot of this game was a broken cheekbone for Monster Monster keeping him out for a month. Then we received some great news, the main young striker for Vasas was sold to German side Mainz for an initial 275k rising to 3.7m, his value went up to 7.5m which isn’t bad for a 19 year old. Good riddance. The third round of the cup gave the current holders a home tie against Barcs who were in the Division II West and doing ok so far. So we stayed with our 4-4-2 for the home tie against FC National. COME ON!! We started brightly, but the keeper was in good form for them and kept it goalless at half time. We had to do something, so I gave Frenchie the license to roam more , as he seemed to be getting the ball a lot. We kept the momentum going and got a goal after 68 mins, Final Chapter putting a scrambled effort away to get us away on the silly rule. 90th minute and Smillie’s Toothpaste got sent off for a pro foul, so we had to tighten up. We had one major scare, when the Romanians scraped the post with a long range effort, but we held on and got the win we needed. Huzzah! The draw for the first round proper gave us Racing Club Genk. Htats ahoy! The first leg at home will be on 16th September, only three weeks away. Our last game of the month was away at REAC who had lost both league games so far. We had a patched up defence because of injury and tiredness, but we would have to make do. We went one down after 10 minutes, against the run of play, but managed to sort out ourselves pretty much straight away. With five minutes to go in the half, we broke incisively with Final Chapter bearing down on goal, a defender hacked him down from behind just outside the box. For some reason, only a yellow was shown, which annoyed me immensely. The home side built on that and scored a second at the end of the game when we were chasing it. I was very annoyed and bollocked the players.
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Post by Moo on Apr 2, 2006 22:08:47 GMT
September 2010
Honvéd had already been rubbished this week by the Ferencváros manager as being outsiders for relegation, so naturally they would try and pick their game up against us at Wittman Antal. They kinda did, meaning they stifled us in every department. No goals at HT. Worryingly, the away side did the same in the second half and it finished goalless.
We entertain Genk in the Wafer Cup 1st round, keeping our usual 4-4-2. We had a great 25 minutes, creating two gilt edged chances, but the away keeper producing two unbelievable saves to thwart us. Of course on 28 minutes we conceded, Fortune Cookie spilling a hard shot into the path of the other striker. It was the same pattern in the second half, we had most of the play and their keeper showing great quality. I had to change the course of the tie and moved to a more attacking 4-3-3, bringing all three subs on at once, with 20 mins to go. We tried to get an equaliser but we were very wastefull in the last section of the game, French Guitarist scraping the bar with a header in the dying moments. It ended 0-1 and we had a mountain to climb. Without any Tudor crisps.
Without a win in three games, we faced Debrecen who were top of the league. We had to try and get something here to get some confidence back. So when Gelatine Hankie gave away a peno that was converted in the 10th minute, that wasn’t a great start. We didn’t give up though and kept breaking forward with Picture Exclusive the main threat, but we kept getting called for offside. We had a goal disallowed for one, so we changed things a little and got our rewards almost instantly. French Guitarist burst through the middle and lobbed the keeper from 25 yards, a great finish. Then we conceded again. Unreal. On 55 Frenchie got his second of the game after a lovely knock down by Picture from a long cross from the left. A tap in, but vital to us. The pressure turned the other way though, with the home side getting to the ball quicker and making greater use of it. We managed to hold on though, despite a late scare from a wayward back pass. It ended 2-2, our 3rd draw in our five league games.
With only three days off, we faced a cup tie against 2nd division Barcs which was predicted as an easy win. Yeah right. I was going to throw in some reservists, as some of the first team looked tired for this one, hopefully they can get us through. Within ten minutes, we should have had a penalty when Fookin Shockin was brought downon the 18 yard line. I thought it was in the box and a red card was on it’s way, but no. However, Master Of Puppets showed me why I had faith in him, blasting the free kick into the top corner. Kublai Khan added a second three minutes later and we looked comfy for the next round. Fookin Shockin struck just before the half time whistle for a 3-0 advantage and we were liking it. Captain Beefheart scored early in the second half fro an exquisite Master Of Puppets through ball, who took man o f the match and rightly so. A 4-0 cup win and we’re in the next round, where we meet Fehérvár in a two legged affair.
We were marginal favourites for the home game against Kaposvár taking the lead within the first minute after the keeper missed a clearance. Our second after 25 minutes was an own goal and it was only then the away side looked capable of attacking us. Picture Exclusive got one before the break and Up Periscope scored a free kick just afterwards. Meh! Sub Lily Glue scored our fifth after their consolation and that put us in good spirits.
And the crazy news of the month was the non-existent telly people putting our game on one of their make believe channels. The second leg humiliation would be shown to nobody. :checkit: When we missed two tap ins in the first seven minutes, you got the feeling that it was going to be one of those games, but then Final Chapter latched onto a Picture Exclusive knock down from a French Guitarist cross. COME ON!! The onslaught didn’t let up either, we had so many chances without getting one in there. A nice reminder on 41 minutes came from the home side when they were one on one with Fortune Cookie who tipped the shot wide. Then in the third minute of extra time, Final Chapter got onto a rebound and scored from close range. Errr… what’s going on here? On 56, we scored from a corner, Up Periscope planting a header into the net. Errr…. Then after some sustained pressure, an imaginary defender hoofed the ball upfield, where Elderly Blue took it down, raked one 60 yards through the middle and French Guitarist brought it down and volleyed past their keeper. Errr… Sub Lily Glue headed in a free kick with seconds to go. Errr… 5-0?
Errr….
We got given 85k for the win, then a further 650k for getting into the group stage. This should be fun, we were given the task of getting past Sevilla, Leverkusen, Red Star Belgrade and Basel. Ha!
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Post by Sonic on Apr 3, 2006 0:11:53 GMT
5 - 0, nice result, and for the TV audience, not that there would have been one :cab:
Fix that league form!
Err, carry-on :thumb:
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Post by coffers on Apr 3, 2006 11:40:21 GMT
What Sonic said.
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Post by Moo on Apr 3, 2006 11:53:29 GMT
Cheers. I'll try and crack on with this tonight and get into the Group stages of the Wafer to see what they do to us, should be "fun". :moop:
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Post by Moo on Apr 3, 2006 21:42:51 GMT
October 2010We travelled to newly promoted Makó and this should be an easy game. Man With Boobs had asked for a run in the team and I was prepared to give him the chance, but the other two strikers were doing OK so far. He’d have to wait. 11 minutes in and Chemical Movement and Picture Exclusive had put us two up. A swift reply from the home side and we were on the back foot. They equalised on the stroke of half time and I was furious, Elderly Blue was injured in the build up to the goal and the ball should have gone out. My fury was slightly calmed when plastic Fantastic got our third in the fourth minute of injury time and we had our noses in front again. Just before I could make a defensive change on 70 mins, because we were under the cosh, the home side scored again. A scrappy goal really, but they weren’t complaining. And of course just after we made the changes, we conceded a penalty, but Fortune Cookie got a hand to it, keeping the scores level. A minute later and a back pass from Makó was intercepted 40 yards out from goal, for some reason he hit it first time and the keeper couldn’t get in the way. Outrageous, said the commentators. It ended at 4-3 to us, but Makó were the better side, out shooting us 16/8 to 6/6. Chemical Movement was sent off at the end for a second yellow and would miss a game. Flatulent Fox and Elderly Blue got the call up to the Hungary U21s, Picture Exclusive got the call for the Hungarian national team, Gelatine Hankie went to Latvia and Think Of A Number go the nod from Slovenia. After the first game for the U19s, our original two played well, Master Of Puppets got a late call up because of injury. Final Chapter and Yum Yum got called up by the Georgian team. Fenérvár visited us next and it took us to the 33rd minute until we broke them down, Lily Glue sweeping in a sweet cross from the left for Picture Exclusive to glance in. a few minutes later we extended the lead when Lily converted a dubious penalty. Up Periscope after 56 made it three and we were wondering how this lot could be in 3rd place in the league. The win took us up to 5th place and in decent form going into the group stages of the Wafer Cup. So then Bayer Leverkusen at home. :cab: We lasted five minutes before conceding. Which I was pleased with, more pleased with Final Chapter going off after 8 though. We were quite fortunate to only be one down at half time, Leverkusen looking dangerous through Swedish-AMC-legend-currently-at-Rennes running things in the midfield. We got at them after the break though, but Picture Exclusive picked up an injury, meaning we only had Man With Boobs up front, dropping back into a 4-5-1. Soon after, Yum Yum Pig’s Bum threw a hopeful cross into the middle and Plastic Fantastic got above his marker to head into the far corner. Wow! But with our boys tiring, the away side scored with five minutes to go, their nippy Peruvian striker dribbling around three and passing the ball into the corner. A great effort from our guys, but it just wasn’t quite enough. 3647 saw the defeat. No rest for the wicked and away to 4th placed Vasas for whom we had thought about a new formation. I decided to go with it, playing it very cautiously, trying to catch them on the break. Bizarrely we took the lead after 12 minutes, a long ball down the right flank for Picture Exclusive to get to was met by their keeper who returned the ball down field. Their striker somehow deciding that a return to the keeper was a good idea. Thanks for the gift, said Mr Exclusive, one nil. We then had two great chances to extend the lead towards the end of the half, one either side of a red card for their main striker, which left us in a quandary, as I no longer needed five at the back, but the formation was working so far. I kept them as they were and it seemed to be keeping them at bay nicely, until the 81st minute, of course, when a lapse in concentration gifted them the ball and a raking ball through the middle put them through. Bugger. The last ten minutes didn’t offer much and it ended in a draw. I was happy with the score though, despite us doing enough to win it, I feel. Back to a 4-4-2 and at home to Pécs who were in indifferent form. Probably give us a humping then. 3rd minute penalty converted for them then. :moop: Despite the setback, we carried on as normal, creating chances and missing them. Their left winger who had caused us problems throughout the whoile match injured two of my players, and I had to sub my keeper too. I had no chance to win this and we suffered our second league defeat in ten games. Bah!
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Post by coffers on Apr 3, 2006 22:30:06 GMT
Hmmmm, looks like things have turned against you a bit this season, hopefully you'll turn it around soon.
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