Season 75 - Are you ready?

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Day 22 - Palace teams report - one and final for today...

Overnight, the draw for the Semi-Finals for Palace Terriers' Championship League were revealed:



Both League matches kicked off early today.

Palace Casuals were off first, and made heavy weather of defeating the 13th placed team at home. ST/AML Andre Faisca, playing in his alternate position on the left-wing, scored twice in the last 10 minutes to complete the win and his own hat-trick - the first in the League by a Casuals player for quite a few seasons...



Palace Terriers followed soon after, and continued the theme by containing the forward line of their 9th place opponents and meeting stiffer than expected resistance from the relatively poor-Q defence. Striker Samir Gross scored the only goal of the match.



With the Palace Terriers' central midfield being showered by yellow cards in the Championship League Quarter-Finals, two out of the four MCs are suspended for the 1st Leg of the Semi-Final - the Terriers Management took a look in the Transfer Market and ended up, after a protracted fight, with this NordGen MC for 5T/$19.1M. The other bidder was a Manager who I have come up against in the TM several times this season, with a 50% success rate. He popped in a Friend request during the auction (presumably hoping to distract me from the bidding). At the end of the auction I accepted the request - the Token fund can take only a limited number of these heavy auctions and hopefully, as a friend he won't compete against me...