Season 16 - League & Cup Banter

TheJims

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]

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

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

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

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

Phonehead

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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

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

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

FewFew

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

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.

FewFew

mar-z wrote: »

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.

I'll wait for the intrepid journos to come up with the answers

corny

12-10 up at ht. Always tight against Ormond.

Mar-z i see you're taking on the big boys!

mar-z

corny wrote: »

12-10 up at ht. Always tight against Ormond.

Mar-z i see you're taking on the big boys!

I'm starting to think it will be thrown away though

Edit: turned over line-out 5m from my line and then won a penalty! This match has me going from optimistic to pessimistic and back again every 20s or so!


Edit: YESSSSSS!!!!! Bonus point in the 80th minute from a break from my own 22!

Delighted I had a f**k it moment this morning and changed my plans from rolling over to go all out.

Great game Johne! You only playing normal in no way takes away any of my delight which I guess shows how good a team you have.

Love this game sometimes!!!!

Now to get back to the work I've been ignoring the last couple of hours.....

mar-z

On a slightly less joy of the moment, obviously gotten too emotionally caught up in the game topic, turns out I expanded my stadium but forgot all about it until realising my stadium had more people in it then it should!

Also my next cup opponents energy is completely shot as it looks like they are taking the suicidal ltnt everyone route!

corny

mar-z wrote: »

I'm starting to think it will be thrown away though

Edit: turned over line-out 5m from my line and then won a penalty! This match has me going from optimistic to pessimistic and back again every 20s or so!


Edit: YESSSSSS!!!!! Bonus point in the 80th minute from a break from my own 22!

Delighted I had a f**k it moment this morning and changed my plans from rolling over to go all out.

Great game Johne! You only playing normal in no way takes away any of my delight which I guess shows how good a team you have.

Love this game sometimes!!!!

Now to get back to the work I've been ignoring the last couple of hours.....

Great result.

Ormond really missing their Irish flanker, won handy in the end. 15 points from 3 games.:cool:

eoferrall

Whoop!! Beat Battai away from home, that's 10pts out of 15 in the league. played one of the top team (and got bonus pt) and two others that will be fighting to try for 4th and got two wins. Very happy!

I'd say Battai is none too happy tho as he def had designs on 4th as he placed there last season!

Orizio

Scorched Earth vs Killarney RFC vs Bogwarriors...who will get the drop? :pac:

FewFew

Orizio wrote: »

Scorched Earth vs Killarney RFC vs Bogwarriors...who will get the drop? :pac:

Oooooh, that's going to be a tough battle alright!

Great to grab that win Mar-z!


I was going through the usual routine of throwing the 2nds out against the minnows in the league... until realising that Galway French have a load of 80k CSR lads knocking about these days.
Turns out I was probably the weaker side on the day, but decided I'd trust my gut again (since it worked out well on Wednesday) and just go normal, hoping he'd WNWIM and target his games.
Comfortable win, despite his TNT.
The next two weeks are really going to decide much of the league, with me taking on the top team and then Fingal Bears taking them on a week after.

johnnysmack

Orizio wrote: »

Scorched Earth vs Killarney RFC vs Bogwarriors...who will get the drop? :pac:

bogwarriors. doesnt seem to be trying again this season.

Orizio

johnnysmack wrote: »

bogwarriors. doesnt seem to be trying again this season.

I'd say the exceptional ability of my squad just scared him off tbh...

FewFew

johnnysmack wrote: »

bogwarriors. doesnt seem to be trying again this season.

Ah no! That'd be a terrible shame, unless he has a genius plan afoot... which he quite often does.

johnnysmack

last time he was in div 2 he did the same thing and finished 7th or 8th when i thought he should have been challenging for play offs. looks like he doing the same again going by the start he's made. maybe he's saving money but he definitely has the ability to be higher.

daveharnett

johnnysmack wrote: »

bogwarriors. doesnt seem to be trying again this season.

Alas, teams full of physical freaks aren't built overnight. Almost every position in the squad I'm building has to be trained from the ground up, so it takes time. In the interim, that means being patient and not wasting money on short-term, unsustainable results.

This is why my average csr (and salary) is well below my league peers, and why imo the best I can reasonably aim for is avoiding auto-relegation this season.

See the first game of the season - I LTNT'ed vs Normal of the fourth ranked team in the league - lost 44 - 9.

corny

daveharnett wrote: »

Alas, teams full of physical freaks aren't built overnight. Almost every position in the squad I'm building has to be trained from the ground up, so it takes time. In the interim, that means being patient and not wasting money on short-term, unsustainable results.

This is why my average csr (and salary) is well below my league peers, and why imo the best I can reasonably aim for is avoiding auto-relegation this season.

See the first game of the season - I LTNT'ed vs Normal of the fourth ranked team in the league - lost 44 - 9.

See what you mean.

You've 11 lads over 2 metres; i've two!

FewFew

daveharnett wrote: »

Alas, teams full of physical freaks aren't built overnight. Almost every position in the squad I'm building has to be trained from the ground up, so it takes time. In the interim, that means being patient and not wasting money on short-term, unsustainable results.

This is why my average csr (and salary) is well below my league peers, and why imo the best I can reasonably aim for is avoiding auto-relegation this season.

See the first game of the season - I LTNT'ed vs Normal of the fourth ranked team in the league - lost 44 - 9.

Told ya he had a genius plan afoot!

mar-z

Forgot I had a friendly last night and played normal with my firsts. There goes my energy management plans

eoferrall

All gone very quiet around here lads! whose got a tough cup draw tonight? anyone looking like they might bow out?

Myself I am playing a div IV team whose best player is 15K csr. so WNWIM it is and save energy to continue my attempt at staying in Div II this season! sitting in 4th at this early stage but have two big teams to play so expect a hammering and to slide down the table!:o

SomethingElse

Have a Div. 3 team so this should be the end for the superstars

FewFew

Div IV team whose best player is 16k , so WNWIM and the seconds it is.

Feel bad about it though, his 16k player is a 17year old 133kg beast... so looks like the manager is buying well for the future.

eoferrall

good win - up against an average div III team. going away though so not sure what to do with the cup in case I win, whether to set default team at ltnt or Wnwim...decisions!

johnnysmack

got some div 4 pleb. he has a good team for div 4 but still be wnwim with b team

mar-z

Normalled with my b team tonight and won comfortably, possibly should have went wnwim but chickened out.

Got Open Side in round 5 so that's my cup run finished.

Time to concentrate on seeing if I can stay in division 2!

Trippie

Lost 25-12 at home to a much better team, gave away 5 penalties which he slotted over as had a great kicker. Dominated the breakdown and stole some of his set pieces. Had an attacking scrum 6 metres out with 10 mins to go and the score at 22-12 which he turned over his only one all day. get that and who knows. Ah well puts me up about 100k in my finances although have 3 away games coming up so cash wont last long.

corny

Another easy draw for me.:D I've never been able to WNWIM my way to round 6.

Only drawback being playing away will earn pittance in his tiny stadium.

FewFew

Easy win as expected.

Have Keep Off The Grass in the next round, are they a boardsie team? For some reason I think I should know them, but I get confused from teams I actually know and teams I scouted heavily for the journo lark.

Looks like they've a very solid squad, I'd say they're about mine + a season of training, so I'm not as gung-ho as I normally would be around cup time.

Also the match is smack-bang in the middle of my two most important league matches, so I'm not sure if another round in the cup is worth my drive to auto-promote.

eoferrall

Fewcifur wrote: »

Easy win as expected.

Have Keep Off The Grass in the next round, are they a boardsie team? For some reason I think I should know them, but I get confused from teams I actually know and teams I scouted heavily for the journo lark.

Looks like they've a very solid squad, I'd say they're about mine + a season of training, so I'm not as gung-ho as I normally would be around cup time.

Also the match is smack-bang in the middle of my two most important league matches, so I'm not sure if another round in the cup is worth my drive to auto-promote.

I play them on saturday. I'll do my best to knock some lumps out of them for you!

Had a look there, think they used to be in division with me so that's how I know them.

Looking at the results they have had and their squad look solid but nothing special (in comparason to the monsters in my league!!)

seanand

still in the cup for both my teams but after a few hard leagues game i expect to be knocked out of both next week but i look certain to stay up in zim but go down in ireland unless i buy well.

selling players from my zim team to finish playing for lvl5s and scouted a 205cm guy so the future is looking good

Gelio

Won my cup match easily. Surprised doesn't even begin to cover it!

FewFew

eoferrall wrote: »

I play them on saturday. I'll do my best to knock some lumps out of them for you!

Had a look there, think they used to be in division with me so that's how I know them.

Looking at the results they have had and their squad look solid but nothing special (in comparason to the monsters in my league!!)

Yeah, they aren't as massive as most Div II teams, certainly not a patch on Mauling Bear who went up from my league or Vitamin G who came down, but that's what makes me wary. If they've got a good solid all-round squad, well, don't really know how I'm going to argue with that.

ajeffares wrote: »

Won my cup match easily. Surprised doesn't even begin to cover it!

Who were you up against?

Gelio

Hurst RFC. They had me in terms of CSR. Must be someones second team because my normal vs their normal was 63-14 to me. Something wrong there I think.

FewFew

ajeffares wrote: »

Hurst RFC. They had me in terms of CSR. Must be someones second team because my normal vs their normal was 63-14 to me. Something wrong there I think.

Maybe they're just not very good at the game?

Thought I remembered them, and turns out I beat them 7-25 in the cup too.

Then you look at their trophy cabinet and see the best they've gotten is a bronze in Div III last season, so, on those indicators I reckon you rightly had them without shenanigans.

Having said all that, they are in the top 100 in the country in terms of rankings.

Course they could be someone's second team, though I'd expect better results, even if it was the neglected other team.

bossa_nova

Hurst is in my league and has the best team in terms of CSR by far than the rest, but doesn't seem to do much and I never have to worry about playing them to much

FewFew

bossa_nova wrote: »

Hurst is in my league and has the best team in terms of CSR by far than the rest, but doesn't seem to do much and I never have to worry about playing them to much

Odd one alright.


Ugh. My dreams of promotion are being nicely dashed. Currently 24-0 against me. Very odd match in terms of stats.

Gelio

bossa_nova wrote: »

Hurst is in my league and has the best team in terms of CSR by far than the rest, but doesn't seem to do much and I never have to worry about playing them to much

Probably a manager that is only half interested in the game

FewFew

Solidly taken apart in the league, though we both went TNT and he took the win by 2 tries, so, not as crushing as the usually Mauling Bear, um, mauling

johnnysmack

I got a badass giant killer div 4 team in next round. he beat justified ancients tonight 9-7 but his energy is screwed now so i should be safe.

i have been noticing some of the smaller teams taking chances with a LTNT knowing the big team will more then likely be playing WNWIM....the cheeky bastards! :pac:

Zagato

Easy win against a fellow boardsie tonight, feel bad as I knew I had him big time on energy, but he TNT'd and now he's last in his league with 11 players on Dead energy level.

Anyway I'll be feeling the pain next week as I've drawn a team who are 3rd in Div II, think I might be saving energy in that one

bossa_nova

ugh bit annoyed and that match last night, thought the team where gonna roll me over either way i played it so i went WNIM to save energy, was winnnig 12-0 until 65th minute and lost 12-26, normal would have done

seanand

sold a few as im out of the cup and have had a great few weeks in the league gauranteed to stay up and they well and truly payed for my lvl5s yaaaaaay

Trippie

seanand wrote: »

sold a few as im out of the cup and have had a great few weeks in the league gauranteed to stay up and they well and truly payed for my lvl5s yaaaaaay

I did that at the end of two seasons ago, didnt look like I would stay up so sold the star players, paid for training centre, coaches and stadium rearrangements, technically in a much better position that last time i was promoted but havent scored a single point yet so its looking like it is going to be tough for me. Have three u20 players ocming through start of next season though hopefully