Season 82 - Are you ready?

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Days 7-9 - Palace Casuals report.

Day 7 - Casuals were up at 0-dark-30 for a League match away in the far East, taking with them a 30% advantage in Quality, but the home side took advantage of the understandable absence of the Casuals Management, who was still fast asleep at 04:53AM BST, and inflicted a 1-2 defeat on the visitors. The hosts were two goals up in the first ten minutes, but Aleks Dumont pulled one back half-way through the first half.

Casuals went away in their Champions League Group match, and won 1-0 away at their fellow-Level 34 opponents, Oystein Pedersen netting a 5th minute free-kick and the defence shutting out the home side from then on.

In Associations, Casuals had a 1-1 away draw and 3-2 home win to help their Association qualify for the Final. Pedersen equalised the home sides 3rd minute opener in the third minute of the second half in the first match, and after going 0-2 down by the 53rd minute of the reverse fixture, Duplex Kome started a dramatic revival, which Dumont and Jack Auger finished off for a late win.

Day 8 - Away at a better-Quality Level 35 Cup opponent, Casuals played out of their skins to record a 2-2 draw to keep them in with a chance of progressing to the next round. After going a goal down in the first minute, Auger and Pedersen engineered a match turnround before the hosts levelled the match just before the break.

Returning to home soil for the day's League match, Casuals shaded a tight match against an evenly matched team, Dumont providing the goal in the 33rd minute.

After their heroics yesterday, Casuals' two Associations matches ended in 0-1 defeats against a hard-attacking poorer-Quality team. The opponent Association obviously had this as their default tactic, as the other Association members recorded mixed results as they went down to a comprehensive defeat, finishing 2nd over the weekend.

Day 9 - Casuals recorded their usual post-Association weekend hangover in the Champions League match of the day, losing 1-3 to the team they had beaten only two days previously. the visitors were 3 goals to the good five minutes into the second half, then Dumont pulled a goal back giving the home side some hope, but it was to be in vain.

Casuals were 18% better than their visitiors in their League match, but struggled to make any impact. Dumont put the hosts into the lead in the 19th minute, but a quarter-hour later, their opponents levelled. Veteran striker/right-winger Maarten Weigman provided what proved to be the winning goal just before the hour mark.