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Season 17 League and Cup General Discussion/Woe sharing!
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You have to be very careful buying 30+ year olds though. In a desperate to stop getting my lineout shafted bid I panicked and bid a 32 year old lock only to see when I looked more closely that he had lost csr from his last transfer and was on the decrease. I ended up selling him at a loss less then a year later
I'm somewhat inclined to buy dropping CSR players, if they will be useful for the short time. You can get a great bargain. Say, I buy a player 180k CSR, losing about 2k CSR a week for about $250k, I will prob get $175k for him about a season later when I sell him with 150k CSR. that's a total cost to the club of $75k per season per player. If it gets you a few more places in the league, 1 or 2 players like that are worth it.
Another (slight) benefit is having people whos salaries are declining in the squad, reduces the painful bang on the first Tuesday of the season when you don't have a new minor sponsor.0 -
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Ugh. Looks like I'm now 95% destined to auto-relegate down to Div III.
Such a close game according to the stats, but never managed to cross his try line. No idea what I could have changed, like, it was pretty much 50/50 across all the stats, if anything it seems I had the better attacking game. Bah!
So now I somehow have to get a win against Apoel Cormosia (near impossible) and assume nobody else in the bottom 4 wins.
Hello Div 3!
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Ugh. Looks like I'm now 95% destined to auto-relegate down to Div III.
Such a close game according to the stats, but never managed to cross his try line. No idea what I could have changed, like, it was pretty much 50/50 across all the stats, if anything it seems I had the better attacking game. Bah!
So now I somehow have to get a win against Apoel Cormosia (near impossible) and assume nobody else in the bottom 4 wins.
Hello Div 3!
Hard luck Fewi, you're doomed alright.:(0 -
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Ugh. Looks like I'm now 95% destined to auto-relegate down to Div III.
Such a close game according to the stats, but never managed to cross his try line. No idea what I could have changed, like, it was pretty much 50/50 across all the stats, if anything it seems I had the better attacking game. Bah!
So now I somehow have to get a win against Apoel Cormosia (near impossible) and assume nobody else in the bottom 4 wins.
Hello Div 3!
Expectations and perspective are everything.
Whilst Division III is the bottom feeding slum you are gutted to be in, on the other end of the perspective, I am fighting for my life to hang on and stay in Div III as the meca for me! I have a last day decider at home to see who auto relegates.
If I win, I stay up (for play-off at least) if he gets a losing bonus point I'm done for!! I'm confident of getting the win, but getting it by more than 7 is the tricky part.
I really hope I stay up, as the team that came up with me last season was Simpletons, who are DIV II standard at least (made quarter final of cup), so I didn't really have a fighting chance with my Div IV promotion colleage, so had to fight with th existing teams in Div III to stay up - hopefully if I do, next season there'll be a better chance of me being better than 2 teams, as I try to catch up with the rest in the league.
Not the end of the world if I go down, but I really really hope I don't!0 -
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Expectations and perspective are everything.
Whilst Division III is the bottom feeding slum you are gutted to be in, on the other end of the perspective, I am fighting for my life to hang on and stay in Div III as the meca for me! I have a last day decider at home to see who auto relegates.
If I win, I stay up (for play-off at least) if he gets a losing bonus point I'm done for!! I'm confident of getting the win, but getting it by more than 7 is the tricky part.
I really hope I stay up, as the team that came up with me last season was Simpletons, who are DIV II standard at least (made quarter final of cup), so I didn't really have a fighting chance with my Div IV promotion colleage, so had to fight with th existing teams in Div III to stay up - hopefully if I do, next season there'll be a better chance of me being better than 2 teams, as I try to catch up with the rest in the league.
Not the end of the world if I go down, but I really really hope I don't!
I'm not really that gutted to be heading towards Div III again. Realistically my team wasn't Div II class, so I'm taking the drop down to Div III as a chance to restructure. Most of my first team are all nearing 30 and my squad of young lads are now getting into their mid 20s, so I'm going to have to sit down and do some long-term planning. Possibly get rid of my long standing two-team system.
You're lucky to be fighting for your spot though Jackass, makes the game massively exciting
Hard luck Fewcifur this year! Just think of all the members and gate receipts you gained this year, and don't dwell on the contentment hit coming your way. :-P
Ugh, I hadn't even thought about the contentment hit! D'oh!0 -
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Well, it's half time and I have one foot in Division IV as I have made a complete arse of this game. I just don't understand it really. I have a strong advantage in energy, my pack is about 120KG heavier than his, and man for man I edge it on CSR in the pack, my set-piece is stronger, winning mine and turning over a portion of his, his 9 / 10 / 12 axis is considerably stronger, outside of that it's close with a slight edge to him in the backs, but I'm playing very heavily with drive as my main go to move, followed by some pick and go and then about 10% wide, more or less to keep the ball tight and use the considerable weight advantage and slight pack advantage to bully him out of the game and deny his potentially lethal backline any ball...
So far my two worst kicking players (both centres) have been the ones sweeping behind, who kicked loosely and cost me 2 tries, they also got a try from the first kick off!! :eek:
So I'm not even looking like getting close to winning the game, they're 1 try away from a bonus point, and I need to win the match and get 4 clear match points (i.e. no losing bonus, or if they get BP I need one too, and no losing bonus)...
Every time I get the ball though, I'm just being hit on the gain line, every drive is seemingly started by a wing or something, my pack just wont exectute their dominance, as a result I have lions share of possession, but getting pinned back in my half, blowing any territory advantage I have - even though I'm turning over both his set piece and conceeding less penalties - in theory everything is going right - except on the field and score board!
Oh well...back to the bargain basement with me. Very disappointing, deep down I was confident I could do it, this has been a disaster, and hopefully a learning experience if I can learn where it all went wrong, why my driving game plan failed so spectacularly..0 -
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