Season 16 - League & Cup Banter

bossa_nova · 25-07-2012 7:38pm

Grand job, first game of the season and i forget to set tactics, now im wasting energy with my first team on normal against a bot :P

Davyboy. · 28-07-2012 2:45pm

First game against Southern Marauders... I kinda went all out TNT aggressive to see what happens... Looks close by the star rating... he still has the edge over my boys... and he probably only went normal intensity (depressing really if he did

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Wrong thread Sorry

mar-z · 28-07-2012 3:07pm

Ughh getting hammered by Forza and what makes it worse is I'm pretty certain I went ltnt rather than normal as I had meant to do.

Wish I had just wnwim'd and threw it now

Davyboy. · 28-07-2012 3:25pm

Winning 14-9 at half time.... delighted with that

Hope they can keep it up for the second half

bossa_nova · 28-07-2012 4:25pm

Avoided a bit of embarrassment today, was losing 3-10 to really poor team but ended up winning 46-17 WNIM

FewFew · 28-07-2012 4:26pm

Accidentally sent my 1sts out against a newly promoted Div 4 side. 75-0. Fail.

Edit: And just noticed I played the 2nd team prop at No. 14 . He actually didn't do toooo badly!

Davyboy. · 28-07-2012 4:31pm

Hammered 41-17!!!!

How the hell did that happen?

Davyboy. · 28-07-2012 7:27pm

Having spoken to my players, it appears that my morale boosting half-time team talk of "Win or I'll F**K YOU UP!!!" didn't have the desired affect... Oh well!:(

corny · 28-07-2012 8:29pm

BP win. Good start to the season.

Think i might go shopping for a prop now.

ormond lad · 28-07-2012 11:52pm

Threw out 2nds for first game back in div 3, lost 73-0, so i can really target next weeks game against the other promoted side.

Trippie · 29-07-2012 2:23am

Ended up losing 24-7 despite these being the game stats

47 - 53 possession
13 - 15 scrums won
0 - 4 scrums against the head
11 - 16 lineouts won
2 - 10 lineouts against the throw

366 - 346 metres gained
10 - 8 line breaks
20 - 50 Phases
4 - 12 turnovers won
21 - 57 rucks won

May have to look at my tactics as quite pissed I ended up losing such a game

Zagato · 29-07-2012 3:16am

Trippie wrote: »

May have to look at my tactics as quite pissed I ended up losing such a game

Are you using a lot of p'n'g?

Trippie · 29-07-2012 6:02am

Zagato wrote: »

Are you using a lot of p'n'g?

Ye had a big size and weight advantage over his pack so decided to go with 35% to control possession, figured i could smash through him. obviously not though

Zagato · 29-07-2012 7:53am

Trippie wrote: »

Zagato wrote: »

Are you using a lot of p'n'g?

Ye had a big size and weight advantage over his pack so decided to go with 35% to control possession, figured i could smash through him. obviously not though

Think you're better off using driving for that, you just won't gain the metres with the p'n'g, as far as I can make out anyway. With p'n'g your superior forwards are going to ground every time they meet a tackler, so you won't smash through him. Retaining possession like that is a good way to win penalties, if your opponent's got poor discipline, but you are relying on your backs only to make breaks.

FewFew · 29-07-2012 4:57pm

Davyboy. wrote: »

Having spoken to my players, it appears that my morale boosting half-time team talk of "Win or I'll F**K YOU UP!!!" didn't have the desired affect... Oh well!:(

Sure you were in the right changing room?
:pac:

Trippie wrote: »

Ended up losing 24-7 despite these being the game stats

47 - 53 possession
13 - 15 scrums won
0 - 4 scrums against the head
11 - 16 lineouts won
2 - 10 lineouts against the throw

366 - 346 metres gained
10 - 8 line breaks
20 - 50 Phases
4 - 12 turnovers won
21 - 57 rucks won

May have to look at my tactics as quite pissed I ended up losing such a game

Wow, you absolutely dominated at the set-piece and the all over the park by the looks of things, definitely want to check your tactics before meeting them again.

FewFew · 01-08-2012 11:59pm

A proper team in Round 3 of the cup!? Da fuuuuuu?!? Think they may even have a better average CSR! Gah!

eoferrall · 02-08-2012 8:02am

Bot again for me. Unlucky Fewi, very harsh this early! Though as long as no bots are playing each other then it's a good signed that the leagues are filling up?

FewFew · 02-08-2012 3:19pm

eoferrall wrote: »

Bot again for me. Unlucky Fewi, very harsh this early! Though as long as no bots are playing each other then it's a good signed that the leagues are filling up?

Yeah, it is a good sign. Doubt bots are against each other, think it's built into the system. Would have liked a nice Div IV/V team though

Lucky I checked in time, I kinda just assumed it was going to be a lower tier Div IV squad at this stag.e

MarVeL · 02-08-2012 4:44pm

Got a bot myself thank god. Seems the other teams in my league all got people (2 of them even got each other!)

eoferrall · 08-08-2012 9:44pm

Whoop Div IV team in the Cup next. their highest CSR of the squad? 15K! Boom haha!

TheJims · 08-08-2012 10:09pm

eoferrall wrote: »

Whoop Div IV team in the Cup next. their highest CSR of the squad? 15K! Boom haha!

Bah up against Dufferin RFC, dono if it's worth my while trying to take them or see if it's worth focusing on the league

[Jackass] · 08-08-2012 10:14pm

Had a great win away from home in the cup! Delighted! My ranking points keep jumping, really pleased with how well team is coming along. Would love to keep taking a big crack at the cup, but I think I'm going to throw in the towel next week, even though I'd love to keep testing myself against better teams (Div III team next), but for now I really fancy my chances in the league and passing out my main rival, so going to fully focus on that now. Promotion wasn't a target this season, but even at this early stage I may readjust my expectations!!

Damn this game is addictive.

corny · 08-08-2012 11:17pm

Getting a fairly easy run myself, so far. Decent team next up but i'm familiar with them and he hasn't logged in in a while. Need the money from a good cup run this season.

mar-z · 08-08-2012 11:54pm

Really should try to trust my team a bit more sometimes I switched from a planned wnwim with my 2nds to a normal late on. Racked up 93 points so wasted much needed energy for the league.

Need a bit of a cup run as my league form looks like it will be terrible this season. Decent draw next week got Farm Boys who play in a couple of boadsie teams league. Might have been a trickier tie but their energy is v.bad.

johnnysmack · 08-08-2012 11:59pm

Got the Porn Stars in next round. Tougher then i would have hoped but should still win. Might have to play normal...bah!

Phonehead · 09-08-2012 3:41am

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Damn this game is addictive.[/Quote]

And with the changes I expect to see over the next 12 months this game is going to become a whole new level of addictive!!

Got another bot next round, I'm convinced Canadian bots are worse than Irish bots

FewFew · 09-08-2012 3:43pm

I actually hate the new way of writing down scores...

I went with normal against a pretty solid team, half expecting to lose, but also thinking it was time I believed in the strength of my team.

Away v ITG - 24-33. At first glance I thought I'd lost, then of course when you go "wait, if I'm away then I'm the 33" all falls into place.

I was quite lucky, full on Johnny Wilkinson type victory on my part, he beat me for tries but gave away too many penos.

Div IV team in the next round, so happy enough with that.

l3m0n5 · 09-08-2012 11:50pm

I managed to find one of the few remaining bots. Nice!

FewFew · 10-08-2012 1:35am

l3m0n5 wrote: »

I managed to find one of the few remaining bots. Nice!

Unless there was an upset, that's meant to be impossible, right?

mar-z · 10-08-2012 8:08am

Fewcifur wrote: »

Unless there was an upset, that's meant to be impossible, right?

A team could have just gone bot as well either just after beating someone on Wednesday or in the week before having already grawn a bot.

Otherwise it shouldn't have happened bar someone going out to lose.

Season 16 - League & Cup Banter

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