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Post by DC on Feb 20, 2009 11:44:19 GMT
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Post by coffers on Feb 20, 2009 13:45:18 GMT
Cerulean Blue! A class colour when practising the art of watercolour painting. :humb:
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Post by Sonic on Feb 20, 2009 15:03:57 GMT
Cerulean Blue! A class colour when practising the art of watercolour painting. :humb: It looks good on pots or other ceramic pieces too when appropriately used.
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Post by Moo on Feb 20, 2009 15:25:20 GMT
No s1ut, not Vauxhall Astras.
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Post by Sonic on Feb 20, 2009 15:28:19 GMT
Yes Moo, even Vauxhall Astras... Though having said that, I did say appropriate. And I do think a sky role in a plane of your choice is a better option.
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Post by Moo on Feb 23, 2009 9:04:45 GMT
Yes.
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Post by Boony on Feb 23, 2009 9:54:20 GMT
Is this thing still on?
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Post by Moo on Feb 23, 2009 10:24:11 GMT
Yes.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Feb 24, 2009 3:11:24 GMT
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Feb 24, 2009 3:20:57 GMT
July 21 rolls around, which is when the shops open in Argentina.
I'm caught in a quandry, because I absolutely refuse to loan shed loads of players, but all the ones available for purchase are crap. Still, life as about compromise, so with loans the only way to get good players, I compromise by buying a shed load of crap ones instead, especially forwards.
And fullbacks.
31 year old DRLC Tremor Territory shows up, I believe on some previous mangler's behest, joined by midfielders Willy Seymour and Crystal Guitar.
Then comes Goalie type Ramon Commander and defenderers Pops' Dyslexic Flingers and Holy Hair Product Model, who are both DRCs.
Finally Flat Pack Church and Toasted Soldiers both sign on and will go up front.
Three more players are waiting to agree contracts. All are forwards.
Going the other way are Gay Chubby, Pork Chop Sherbet, Arriba Ondelay! and Not At All Dirty who, appropriately, goes to L'Anus.
Two deals for people I was too bored to note down are canceled because the buyers; Quilmes and Newell, can't afford the fees. I hope their credit ratings are in the toilet as a result.
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Post by Boony on Feb 24, 2009 10:53:15 GMT
Sounds unpromising, s1ut. KUTGW :thumb:
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Post by Sonic on Feb 27, 2009 15:37:29 GMT
Now I know why you don't have time for this :humb:
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Feb 27, 2009 15:53:16 GMT
I've actually played three months now. It's just that days like yesterday, (in the office at 07.30, out at 22:31), mean I don't have time to do the writeups.
I'm working from home today, so this afternoon might turn out to be promising.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Feb 28, 2009 2:06:15 GMT
So it's kind of hard to write anything compelling when you're not as good as Hornet everything's going so well. I bought some forwards and some fullbacks, did poorly in pre-season and then suddenly it was season time and my surprise and lack of preparedness was writ large across the opening two months of the season as we only won, err, almost all of our games. We took the lead against Racing before falling behind 2-1 and then grabbing a late equaliser, with goals from Flat Packed Church and I Love Lamp and then followed this with a pair of 3-1 wins over Atlanta and Ferro. After a slight speedbump in the shape of the expected humping from Velez, we beat Aldovisi 2-0 away and then repeated the trick in Cordoba against Belgrano. Our seventh game and last one in September was at home to Union and we brushed them aside 4-0, courtesy of a surprising brace from our sole loanee That's My Ferry and other efforts from Flat Packed Church and Pace Optional. Amusingly, for the second time in my two months in charge defenderer Holy Cat Claws came off the bench and was injured in his first minute on the field. So he's put in two appearances so far this season and managed less than two minutes of play. Lzy fook.
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Post by Sonic on Feb 28, 2009 2:18:09 GMT
Now that all seems to be going well. Well done on that.
Is a squad run down possible at all?
:thumb:
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Mar 1, 2009 17:54:54 GMT
Having dared to put pen to paper fingers to keyboard for the words that things were going all rather well, can you guess what came next? Lucky guess. It wasn't terrible, but my squad starting being picked for me, not by injury, but by who wasn't being a mardy cunkbag. It started when some teenage plank in our reserves shows up late for training and gets a one word telegram as a result. Despite being paid to show up and then not doing what he's paid for, he thinks the warning was harsh and gets the popular UNH. It turns out that this single UNH is the tipping point when combined with the various UNH of the useless tarts the rest of you bought, who are loitering in the reserves being unhappy that they're not good enough for a starting role and now lots of other people start to develop UNH as they're "dismayed" by the lack of harmony at the club. The run of results that follows is shocking as October features a win, two draws and two defeats and the only game we score in is that sole victory - a 3-2 over Huracan Ctes, who are garbage. The other four games end 0-1, 0-0, 0-1, 0-0. :moop: Into November and the fun continues with an 0-3 away to Boca before I change formation back to an extensively wibbled 4-4-2 and that has... interesting results. We start off with a home match against River that I'm expecting to get precisely nothing from and I get pleasantly surprised. We fall behind within 120 seconds, which isn't ideal, but Bad Food Rising rifles in an equaliser to pull us level. For less than five minutes. After falling behind to Walter Cabrera's second goal of the game we revert to the long game and a ball falls on the head of Jokers by Peters and Son and (presumably accidentally) bounces in. River look likely to grab a third, but then retract inside a defensive shell when one of their defenders gets a straight red for a high tackle. The 2-2 against River is followed a week later by a 3-3 against the French bum bandits of Lanus. By this point I had three types of defenders - the ones who were unfit, the ones who were unhappy and the ones who were both and it showed as Anus tore us a new one, firing in 15 shots, 10 of them on target for their three goals. In reply we had a grand total of four shots, but three of those went in, courtest of Pavlov's Socks and a brace from Bad Food Rising, the second of which came from the penalty spot in the second minute of added time. After a 1-1 draw with Huracan (Merlin's Scooter) we finally found a win, scraping by Talleres 1-0 when I Love Lamp scuffed in. Then came more draws, 2-2 with Central and another 3-3, this time with Gimnasia, thanks to a hattrick from Merlin's Scooter - Scooter was one of three loanees we brought back in in an attempt to put out players that were neither UNF nor UNH. While we're probably a good pick for the Argentinean pools each week, all the draws didn't do much for our early good standing and we slumped to 8th at the close of the first stage. That was still worth €1,000,000 though, which isn't to be sniffed at. We seem to be pretty safe on the average table too.
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Post by Sonic on Mar 2, 2009 0:59:43 GMT
Now that's an all over the place update. Still, 29 points, 8th spot and €1,000,000 in prize money isn't to be sniffed at.
Nice work, even if it was a study in frustration :thumb:
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Post by DC on Mar 2, 2009 6:03:30 GMT
I'm concerned that I read "opening stage" and have absolutely no idea what is coming after it.
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Post by Sonic on Mar 2, 2009 7:04:49 GMT
A break that's annoyingly largish and contains a window where you can only buy two players(not sure if this includes staff if you actually spend money on them) and then a closing stage.
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Post by Boony on Mar 2, 2009 9:38:02 GMT
I'm concerned that I read "opening stage" and have absolutely no idea what is coming after it. Have you not been reading the previous two seasons, Dave? Or the other seasons in the top league? For shame... Nice work here, s1ut. Mid table mediocrity is the way forward, it seems, and the average points table means we're probably safe from relegation for a season or two. Any ideas on continental cup qualification? That must be our next aim, I reckon. Good luck in the closing stages :thumb:
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Post by Moo on Mar 2, 2009 9:45:20 GMT
Mid table mediocrity is the way forward, it seems, and the average points table means we're probably safe from relegation for a season or two. Obviously you forget who's up after Dave. I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some moments ago. s1ut - KUTGW! :thumb:
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Post by elth on Mar 2, 2009 11:08:11 GMT
Yeah, you should win the league easy, Moo.
A season of consolidation? Excellent.
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Post by DC on Mar 2, 2009 11:30:51 GMT
I'm concerned that I read "opening stage" and have absolutely no idea what is coming after it. Have you not been reading the previous two seasons, Dave? Or the other seasons in the top league? For shame... I read the results, but I can't remember the last time I saw a table with those very words. I'm lost in the coefficients, never mind now finding out there's sub competition bollocks too.
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Post by floplexter on Mar 2, 2009 11:56:58 GMT
Good o.
YOu got money?
No fair.
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Post by Sonic on Mar 2, 2009 12:39:07 GMT
Have you not been reading the previous two seasons, Dave? Or the other seasons in the top league? For shame... I read the results, but I can't remember the last time I saw a table with those very words. I'm lost in the coefficients, never mind now finding out there's sub competition bollocks too. Mine had that as the heading for the league table each time I put one up. Boo's did too.
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