BARKING BAD [English Team]

Hi Folks, I've really enjoyed seeing the effort some of you go to in recording your progress on these forums (especially 'July Fourth') so have decided to join in and try and chart my own.

I'm a returning player to TopEleven, having played for a 10 or so season stretch in the past. I'm back after god knows how many months absence... last time I played you couldn't challenge friends to a friendly.

BARKING BAD FC

MANAGER : Chris Barker (a.k.a FictionChris)
SEASON : 2 LEAGUE : 2

WON: 22 DRAWN: 4 LOST: 4

LONGEST UNBEATEN STREAK : 9 (SEASON 2)

LONGEST WIN STREAK : 9 (SEASON 2)
(Not including friendlies)

HIGHEST SCORING GAME : LEAGUE - aligator askost - 1:8 - Barking Bad (SEASON 2)

BIGGEST WIN : LEAGUE - aligator askost - 1:8 - Barking Bad (SEASON 2)

BIGGEST DEFEAT : LEAGUE - FC Mangy - 3:0 - Barking Bad (SEASON 1)

*I am ignoring friendlies for these stats*

http://www.fictionchris.com/images/B...MANAGER001.jpg

~ SEASON ONE ~

I re-joined on the 13th June 2013 and my team with half a season gone lay in 4th with only a few points separating me from 1st. Finished Season in 2nd, 1pt behind 1st.

WON: 10 DRAWN: 4 LOST: 2

~ SEASON TWO ~

WON: 12 DRAWN: 0 LOST: 2

Changes are as follows -

[ST] Cihan Cakmak Retired

OUT -

[DMC] Mate Korcari - Age 25 - Q14 - SACKED
[DC] Daniel Pfennich - Age 29 - Q14 - SACKED
[DC][DR] - Joeri Janssen - Age 28 - Q14 - SACKED
[ST] Dion Byrne-Stevens - Age 24 - Q15 - $132K
[ST] D Morris - Age 23 - Q16 - $163K

IN -
[DC] Romain Arnaud - Q19 - Free Agent - 4 Tokens
[DL][DML] Eddy van Fessem - Q19 - Free Agent - 1 Token
[ST] Donatien Patacchini - Q29 (one-on-one Scorer) - $611K - 5 Tokens
[DMC][DC] le cong vinh - Q18 - 23y/o - $323K - 1 Token
[ST] Chris Platen - Q20 - 23y/o - $442K - 1 Token
[MC] Yus Prasetyo - Q19 - 26y/o - $210K - 3 Tokens (Brought in due to numerous early injuries with my Midfield)

RESULTS

30/06/2013
CUP (PRE LEG1) - Barking Bad - 1:0 - the bolder fc
MoM = [ST] E Diaz (8)

01/07/2013
CUP (PRE LEG2) - the bolder fc - 2:3 - Barking Bad
MoM = [DMC] l cong vinh (8)

INJURIES - [MC] A Permana (Ankle Strain 3 Days) & [MC] T Lichtenberg (Ankle Strain 3 Days)

02/07/2013
LEAGUE - Barking Bad - 3:0 - Noor Ashikin FC
MoM = [MC] C Goti (8)

CHAMPIONS - Barking Bad - 3:1 - FC VARDINUM
MoM = [ST] E Diaz (9)

03/07/2013
LEAGUE - aligator askost - 1:8 - Barking Bad
MoM = [DMC] l cong vinh (9)

INJURIES - [DC] R Arnaud (Groin Strain 4 Days) & [MC] Y Prasetyo (Thigh Strain 4 Days)

CUP - Apnc FC - 0:8 - Barking Bad
MoM = [MC] S Coqu (9)

04/07/2013
CHAMPIONS - Kadir FC - 0:2 - Barking Bad
MoM = [DC] M Kruk (8)

LEAGUE - Barking Bad - 5:0 - barcelona
MoM = [ST] D Patacchini (9)

INJURIES - [DC] M Kruk (Hamstring Strain 3 Days)

05/07/2013
LEAGUE - Junior FC - 0:4 - Barking Bad
MoM = [ST] D Patacchini (9)

CUP - Barking Bad - 6:1 - Apnc FC
MoM = [ST] D Patacchini (9)

06/07/2013
LEAGUE - Barking Bad - 7:1 - corinthians fc
MoM = [ST] D Patacchini (9)

INJURIES - [MC] D O'Loughlin (Hamstring Strain 4 Days)

CHAMPIONS - Barking Bad - 1:2 - Ayush FC
MoM = OtherTeam

07/07/2013
CUP - Barking Bad - 0:1 - UC Sampdoria
MoM = OtherTeam

LEAGUE - Hazaemir FC - 1:5 - Barking Bad
MoM = [ST] D Patacchini (9)

08/07/2013
LEAGUE - Sk Zelenec - 0:4 - Barking Bad
MoM = [ST] D Patacchini (9)

CHAMPION - Ayush FC - 2:3 - Barking Bad
MoM = [ST] D Patacchini (9)

Welcome to forum good luck in game :)

Welcome and goodluck :)

I returned to T11 twice...

I don't know what my first team called, it was founded around August 2011 or something. Then on Jan 2012 I started a new team called Mukmuks, and that was abandoned as well. Now, it is AEPRE FC...

Cheers guys!
Updated results above, will update screenshots later.

A poor draw yesterday left me second behind FC Beaujolais. Today they drew and my boys won 3-1 to put me back on top. :)

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First post once again brought up to date. FC Beaujolais drew again and my boys won 4-1 leaving me atop the table by 3pts.

Last two games (wins) have come since upping the Win Bonus from 2.5 to 5... wonder if that has made the difference, could be the return to slightly more conservative orders. :)

Thing about L1 is, you tend to play quite a lot of 'BOT' teams until they are overtaken by human managers as they start a brand new team on the game.

I like ur team, and still better then this team.

Today was a disappointing result my boys I drew against a Bot Team, I put it down to my star man [MC] Coqu being injured in the first half. I was watching the game at work but the problem is as I tether my Samsung Player through my Windows Phone device if I try and make subs it kicks me out of the game session. To get Coqu subbed I had to log off and log back on after a few minutes so auto subs could take effect but by then I was 3-1 down and still unable to make any changes to try and influence the game.

Luckily my boys pulled it back late in the game to draw 3-3 and my rival (FC Beaujolais) lost their game so I am now 4pts clear but without Coqu for the rest of the season. I have raised the win bonus to 7.5k in an attempt to try and power through the last few games and secure 1st place.

Tomorow's game SHOULD be easy as it looks like a manager has started the game and immediately abandoned the team... watch us get destroyed...

Wish us luck.

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Originally Posted by July Fourth

Thing about L1 is, you tend to play quite a lot of 'BOT' teams until they are overtaken by human managers as they start a brand new team on the game.

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Yeah about half the teams seem to be bots, they all seem to line up 4-5-1.

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Originally Posted by _hAsya_

I like ur team, and still better then this team.

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That team looks pretty good to me but thank you anyway. :)

Following yesterday's injury to my 20 quality [MC] S.Coqu I went looking on the transfer market for any value to be had. The out of contract players peaked at 14 for [MC] but I already have a 27y/o backup at that quality (Matt Moncur). Of the non-free players there was a 29y/o [MC] with 17 quality. He was valued at 100K but I won with my opening bid of 70K, so Moncur was sacked and Spanish [MC] Gotti joined Barking bad.

His morale is in no shape to start the next game (in 20 or so minutes) so fingers crossed.

I think 70k was a good deal, especially since it only cost you 1 token! I hope Gotti will work out for you :)

btw, why sack Moncur? Couldnt you have sold him?

When I looked at the TL early this morning (6:30am or so) Goti had 25 mins left on the auction and no bids, my squad was full and so I took the risk. I think next season I'll be clearing out all the 14 quality players that are over 22y/o anyway and Moncur was ~27y/o.

I will update the first post later but the match went ahead. As Goti's Morale was 0 I played my 18y/o [DML][ML] in the [MC] role, he's quality 17 and is one of the players I'm converting to [MC] in training anyway.

We won 4-0 as expected and so did FC Beaujolais keeping the pressure on me. 4pts clear with 3games left. :)

Well, it's a pretty tense run in.
Today's game was a game against 'Galatasaray 2013', a team that recently has experienced excellent form and surged from 5th to 3rd, making up 5pts difference on the way to equalling the points tally of my closest rival 'FC Beaujolais'.

So 'Galatasaray 2013' were not to be under estimated and with 'FC Beaujolais' playing a bot team ('FC Lowly') I couldn't afford the loss. I decided to keep McLoughlin playing out of position as [MC] and brought in 17 quality Goti in place of 14 quality Permana for his first start despite his morale being 50%.

I also changed my team instructions to Hard Tackling and no Offside Trap. An early goal from my [ST] E. Diaz left me hopeful and I seemed to edge out the possession stats but they hit back and the game ended 1-1.

With 'FC Beaujolais' beating 'FC Lowly' 3-1 my points lead is reduced to 2pts and it's now 2pts from 'FC Beaujolais' to 'Galatasary 2013'.

2 games left of the season I think this may go down to the wire, good news is that I play 'FC Lowly' tomorrow, bad news is that Goti picked up an injury in his first game and will miss 5 days.
Coqu is 2 days from being healed... if one of those is today then he could be back for the last game?

Todays game is against a Bot team who's average quality is 2 below mine. They play 4-5-1 so I had wanted to try playing 3-1-4-2 however I don't have a left sided midfielder so instead I have put my settings back to Normal tackling and playing off-side and added forward arrows to my Full-backs and a backwards arrow to my [DMC].

Wish me luck. :)

*EDIT*
Looking into 'FC Beaujolais' fixture today it looks like he is playing his friend ('FC Remi69'). A team I didn't recognise and that the manager only began managing on July 23rd, he is also from Lyon, France and his supporters club name is "Beaujol'Gones 69".

They sit in 8th and can't finish higher than 6th so I have a feeling 'FC Beaujolais' may win his game easily.

We'll see tho...

It was an action packed first half that saw me going into the break at half time 3-1 up with 2 goals from [ST] E.Diaz and one from [ST] D. Morris. The second half was a bit more cagey as I removed some of the arrows I'd instructed, however on 73 minutes my [DMC] J. Sears struck home to kill off the game, 4-1.

MoM[DC] J. Thomas

'FC Beaujolais' defeated 'FC Remi69' also 4-1 leaving him still 2pts behind me with one game to go. Both our teams seem very matched so it seems only fitting that my last game of the season should be against him.

That's right, tomorrow we play for the league and the ball's in my court as a Draw would do. For him only a win is good enough.

What should my plan of action be? Play my normal formation and instructions or try and counter his 4-3(N)-3(N) formation?
Hopefully S.Coqu will have recovered in time.

Well folks, I decided not to park the bus and just play my regular tactic but was out matched early on. As I started to come back into the game though my star [MC] S Coqu got injured again. The game ended 1-3 and my rival 'FC Beaujolais' took 1st place by a pt.

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Lots of movement on my team with players going in and out. Won my first two cup games and won my first league game however took two big injuries in my second cup game. I now have my 3 starting [MC] players out injured. :(

I'm on a bit of a stormer right now with consecutive wins (8) so far, alive in cup and Champions league. :)

Good to hear all goes well mate :)