Season 65

[David Grizzle]

First time in the clubs history that we did not win all 6 of our group stage matches through a draw. Although the result in match day 5 did clinch our 3rd straight season in which we won the group stage. Next up is the round of 16 draw this evening. There is not a single remaining club closer than a full star behind O.R. in quality so maybe this is the year we finally win the final and lift the final trophy the club has thus far failed to win.

[pcmacdaniel]

In the grand scheme of things, today wasn't a bad day. We entered the day 2nd in the CL Group D and atop the league on goal differential. We end the day, where we began, 2nd in CL group and atop the league on goal differential.

It was a disappointing too though. Tried for bad day achievement in the champions league, but came up short since opponent could goal muster 4 goals against by highly illegal formation with no defense. Battle for first in the league ended in a 1:1 draw. Stat line was strange as my team could only muster one shot on goal from 27 shots, yet managed a 1:1 draw. I used an attacking mentality is this pivotal fixture, which continued the trend of the team performing better with a defensive/hard defensive approach this season. I'm not sure if other managers are experiencing the same trend, but its something for me to keep in mind going into the return leg of the cup tomorrow and KO rounds of the champions league.

[Buffs Mad]

Buffs Catch-Up

After a stuttering start in the league with 3 wins 3 draws and 1 Defeat in the first 7 the Buffs beat the leader 5-2 and won the next 3 - he was second last season. We still lie 1pt behind but the leader's nerves are frayed.

In the Cup we've had 7 wins from 7 and similarly are 6 from 6 in the CL. Just need to hold our nerve but performances have been stable lately:

[Bluebird Hewitt]

Though I haven't posted in a couple of days, I'm not really going to go to too much depth into the games as most of them speak for themselves. The only one I will go into a little is the Cup game as that is going to be an interesting second leg, and a little pointer that the league games are primarily using my reserves.

Without further ado:



Easy enough win against an inactive manager.



After the kicking I got against the team I can't pronounce, this was a much needed victory and set up the final day nicely.



The Cup match was very good viewing, as this went back and forth for most of the match, with us eventually winning and taking back a good advantage. It was also pleasing to actually be the team injuring the players rather than being injured. Though the match is in my favour, my more defensive formation didn't quite work out as expected.



Simple win against them puftas.



Another easy win as the manager has been inactive and, despite the legal formation, the players were out of position to give me the 80-20 advantage. This sums up the League and I have currently won all 12 games with no goals conceded so far. However, the next two will be sterner tests as we play the top two in Jerez Industrial and Jack Twats, the latter likely to have my finger 'accidently slip' the tackling to hard.



The Champions League match was simple. Win or draw and we were through, lose and we were out. Thankfully, we won in emphatic style and finished second due to the head to head ruling. Checking out the remainder of the teams, I can't see any reason why we can't go all the way.

[munchen]

Go go go :d

[David Grizzle]

Looking at your history buffs and I am sorry about season 10 and 12. Those had to be hard. My 2nd season was almost like that. I blew the league by the skin on my teeth and then lost the CL final in extra time. So I won the hard one and just missed the two "easier" ones.

I am not very optimistic about winning the treble in the future. The cup just gets harder as you get better so my only chance is to possibly save up a ton of green packs and real money. Wait for the draw, and then train my starting 11 from 5-6* to 9*'s. Not the most ethical way and even then not a guarantee.

So far I have flubbed back to back CL finals so I have yet to win the career treble much less the single season lol. Though not many get the experience of winning the cup their 1st two seasons or winning it at all so I should probably stop the whining.

[Buffs Mad]

Looking at your history buffs and I am sorry about season 10 and 12. Those had to be hard. My 2nd season was almost like that. I blew the league by the skin on my teeth and then lost the CL final in extra time. So I won the hard one and just missed the two "easier" ones.

I am not very optimistic about winning the treble in the future. The cup just gets harder as you get better so my only chance is to possibly save up a ton of green packs and real money. Wait for the draw, and then train my starting 11 from 5-6* to 9*'s. Not the most ethical way and even then not a guarantee.

So far I have flubbed back to back CL finals so I have yet to win the career treble much less the single season lol. Though not many get the experience of winning the cup their 1st two seasons or winning it at all so I should probably stop the whining.

Just keep going. In Seasons 1-5 I didn't really give the Cup much thought beyond trying my best with the team I was developing - I just accepted the 3 levels above cups and savoured the occasional triumph in a Round. During that time I had an alt account that I used to test things on and played various defensive counterattacking options before deciding to use some of them in the Cup. I started making better progress. Season 9 was the hardest to take because I was competitive in all 3 competitions but came away with nothing. Ofc losing in the Cup Final in S10 on PKs wasn't nice but it was my best result at that time. Iirc it was in Season 11 I decided to change tactics and do "Cup Q-manipulation Lite" by loading in 2 FAs + 1 Academy Free and deciding to carry over 14 players. Ofc chance would have it I actually won the damn thing in ET before I could enact it. Then by some weird quirk of fate my 4Q lowered team managed to get in a Lvl 16 Cup in S12 (probably just a weird 1* lvl 16 side sneaked in then got knocked out but I didn't notice it). It was just a piece of bad luck that one of the 2* level 14 teams 'woke up' bought 14 5* youngsters and left me licking my wounds again with a defeat in ET against a 7/8* team. In S13 I can't decide whether I should label it troll or just accept my Strikers had turned to crap (they had). It could so easily have been 4 Cups in a row - but it was just 1. Such is life and T11. Systems do work - I've had a level 16 Cup for 3 seasons now but sometimes your luck is just not in.

Whining is good, its even better if you can let it add to your entertainment.

Update

The powers that be didn't want it to happen, as the Buffs struggled in the Cup to exert dominance, but regardless they came away with a 1-0 win to progress to the next round. The opposition may have been crap, and the Buffs attempts to despatch them may have been too, but at least the team avoided their ratings being sullied as they all still gained 7s and 8s.

Old Timer, left winger, John Robertson, who will retire at the end of the Season, was the first to fall at the feet of the regenerative beasties as he broke a leg - 18 days out. "Aye right" said Buffs Mad, "someone call Eileen Drewery....quickly!"
Steve Nicol also succumbed with an injury (4 days) but at least young Jack Harper got an opportunity to stroke home the resulting penalty.

The Buffs march on.

Steady the Buffs !

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Oh! and after a 5-0 win in the league earlier put them in the lead the Buffs then retained top spot as the leaders slumped to a second defeat. Lets hope the new consignment of "Troll-Away" is delivered before the next round of matches in the league and CL

[HoofDaddy]

FC Hoofdrop has drawn! Twice in 3 games! Once in the away leg vs C.A.E.T FC in the CUP and once in the final group stage match of CL.
The team is fully committing to success in all competitions and will not allow minor setbacks to impede them.

[reddeviljohn]

Qualified for knocked stages of c/l but they tried to troll us, going in the final game we needed a draw but in opening 15 mins 2 injuries including g/k and we were 2 down but we came back to win 3-2 so there

[Gert Funck]

Qualified for knocked stages of c/l but they tried to troll us, going in the final game we needed a draw but in opening 15 mins 2 injuries including g/k and we were 2 down but we came back to win 3-2 so there

Don't let the machine beat you!