Season 74 - Are you ready?

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Palace Terriers Season 07 Review.

Palace Terriers' seventh season in Top Eleven was their most successful to date, winning the League Championship and losing a Champions League Final by the narrowest of margins. Terriers gained their most number of points, most goals scored and least goals conceded in a League season, but were still pushed to the limit by a determined challenger who only ceded the title with a couple of adverse results right at the death.

With League and Champions League campaigns meaning the team were playing three matches every two days, there had to be a certain amount of squad rotation and all of the squad played at least 10 matches each. From the original 19-player squad at the start of the season, 5 were released and 6 more brought in, all in the defence and midfield, with an emphasis on the latter as the injury rate amongst the central midfield was extremely high in the first three weeks of the season. In all, there were 10 individual injuries during the season, for 39 days total.

For the Cup, we will draw a discrete veil over the first couple of days of the season, two defeats meaning a Casuals-ish Preliminary Round exit that in hindsight allowed the team to be more determined in the two remaining competitions.

The League final table makes satisfying reading



...and several appearances in the player rankings



The final playing squad, season and Terriers career statistics



Palace Terriers Player of the Season - a lot of debate over this one, although there were players with better match ratings, it was the fact that this player kept doing his job while receiving less-than-stellar ratings tipped the balance in his favour.