Season 65

[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