Season 67 - Week 4

[Gert Funck]

Cup: The Buffs get 2 wins in the opening round of the Cup and an injury in each, as usual.

No wonder we always make a slow start in the league.

(Don't blame my TM activity - its NOT my fault - its THEM *points* )

EDIT - 1-0 win in CL, now its 3 wins and 3 injuries.

Its like war, casulties to gain a victory

[Steppenwolf]

It's always nice to see former player doing well in new club...

[Gert Funck]

18 minutes of the league match and I get injured, of course I do, I am a 7*



So this season 2 injuries 2x4 days both on 7*

thats 100% I tell you

[talisman]

Slimmed-down Palace Casuals started their Champions League campaign with a 0-0 draw against Sherif FC.

Opponent used a 4-4-2 classic, Casuals started in 3N-4-1-2 but a change to 4-5-1V got a few more chances on goal but still couldn't break down the generalist formation... Opponents DC got 9 and MoM.

Also picked up the 'it should be a free-kick but the commentary says corner' bug...


Shed two more players yesterday, now down to a squad of 16, daily wages $9.17M. Full house at $52 per for the CL game (+$5.4M merchandise sales) - raising by $2 for the next home game.

One friendly first thing this morning, tix at $22 got 130k (50%) attendance for $2.8M + $986k merchandise sales. Reducing ticket price for the next one...

[tongly45]

League : 7-1 against 2* lower team. OK
CL: 4-2 againts 1* weaker team. OK
i really worries about defenders. Some player must be bought.
42M profit without friendly matches. now it may no need to do Friendly matches anymore

[StevieV14]

Rocket Hotspur got through on penalties in the first cup round, after both legs were drawn 2-2.

We kicked off the League campaign with a 2-1 win but took an injury to one of our DC, may have to look at a formation change with two games a day for the next few days.

Our first CL campaign for two season starts in half an hour

[kynan]

My daily wage bill sat at 32.6M this morning - and since then I've bought a few better players, removed a few weaker ones, so expect that to jump up a bit again tomorrow! I'm only at level 30 too!

A plus, I've noticed that while friendly ticket price and fans have been nuked, I've been able to significantly raise my prices for CL, Cup and League games.

Last season I was getting around 221K fans at $74 in the league.

I've just played a game with tickets at $78 and maxed out the 260K attendance, so have now raised it again to $80 to see how I cope in a couple of days when I am next at home.
The same with the CL, I hit the 260K in my home game today, so have raised it again to see how I cope when I next play at home again.

Finance wise, in a profit so far this season even having brought in 9 new players (although I have sold players I don't want too I am trading at a loss on transfer fees). Looking to sell one more player and bring in 2 more if the right ones become available, but things are going well on that front.

Out of the cup having drawn a team 3 levels better than me but won my first CL game 7-0 and first League game 3-0 today.

[Steppenwolf]

[StevieV14]

Drew 1-1 in CL at home. Dominated the game but there keeper made 8 saves. Went 1-0 down in the second half, still couldn't make a breakthrough. With 20 minutes to go we switched from 3W-2-1-3W-1 to a 3W-2-2-3, hard attacking and got a goal with 5 minutes to go.

[Buffs Mad]

League: Buffs FC win their first match in the league. *faints*

It was irregular heartbeats all round when the first 45 mins passed without a goal but by 60 mins the Buffs were 3 up. Jack Harper scored 2 and then served it up on a plate for Jim Baxter to finish.

Murmurs went around the ground when the home side scored in 68 mins. The Buffs huffed n puffed but 3-1 it stayed. At least it wasn't the usual Round 1 draw.