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Doug5984
10-18-2003, 07:54 PM
I will give myself the I hate you award this week....

Jarrod Kaplan (17617014)
17 years, passable form, healthy
A popular guy who is temperamental and upright.
Has disastrous experience and disastrous leadership abilities.


Speciality: Unpredictable

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 400 000 US$
Wage: 2 440 US$/week
Owner: Louisiana Cyclones
Warnings: 0


Stamina: passable Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: passable
Winger: wretched Defending: solid
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: weak


:p :eek: :D :p :eek:

Any idea how much I should start the bidding at?
lytic
10-18-2003, 07:55 PM
$1
daedalus
10-18-2003, 08:33 PM
You, we do not like. Alas, congrats AND -ulations 'nyhows. :)
illinifan999
10-18-2003, 08:38 PM
What's in the water your givin to your youth squad? Nice pull man, congrats! Too bad it didn't come a little sooner in the season though.
YoSoySean
10-18-2003, 08:54 PM
I say you just fire him...
Masked
10-18-2003, 08:56 PM
Bah, his winger skill sucks.
Havok
10-18-2003, 09:09 PM
thats fucking incrediable......
The Afoci
10-18-2003, 09:16 PM
If you would have pulled him the first week of next season, you could have been the richest man in all of hattrick.
The Afoci
10-18-2003, 09:16 PM
If you started with 20 million.
terpkristin
10-18-2003, 09:31 PM
ARUGH!!!
DOUG I HATE YOU!
Ok, maybe not hate. But man am I jealous.
What's your ritual for youth pulls? What do you sacrifice to the HT gods?

~tk
PilotMan
10-18-2003, 09:36 PM
you suck flying ass monkeys.........yeah, I said ass monkeys
Vince
10-18-2003, 10:08 PM
Damn Doug...nice pull. Wish I could tell you what to start a kid like him at, but I'm not up on kids with that good of secondaries. You're looking at a lot of money, though :)
YoSoySean
10-18-2003, 10:31 PM
I still say fire.
thealmighty
10-19-2003, 12:13 AM
If I were you, I would trade him for my back-up keeper (I am sure the GMs would approve).

My keeper will not be a drag on your weekly cost, as Jarrod will be.

Also, at 21, my keeper is much more mature.
thealmighty
10-19-2003, 12:15 AM
dola...

BTW, my keeper is VERY predictable, giving up goals each week, which will cut down on the Grecian Formula you need.
sterlingice
10-19-2003, 06:31 AM
Originally posted by daedalus
You, we do not like.

Daed, you seem to have a knack for turning a phrase well :D

I think you should trade Tom Sande-- I mean Jarrod Kaplan to the Hippos for a bag of soccer balls.

SI
FrogMan
10-19-2003, 08:24 AM
yeah, flashback, having flashback, IT'S TOM SANDERS ALL OVER AGAIN!!! OH man we're gonna hear about this one for a long time!!!!!

Great pull man. Beware of not getting your rectum welded shut. Nyar has some very fast hands for a flower vendor...

FM
illinifan999
10-19-2003, 10:17 AM
It's just that Tom Sanders had such a likeable name. ;)
Doug5984
10-19-2003, 11:32 AM
I can really feel the love in this thread :D I pulled this player from my grandparents house...I might have to drive back there very weekend to make my youth pull.

Jarrod Kaplan = the new tom sanders

I started the bidding at $200k - If he sells for any less than $500k I might buy him back and train him at defender, he could be a great offense defender running the 4-4-2 with counter attack.
FrogMan
10-19-2003, 12:00 PM
dude, if he sells at less than 500k, the world is coming to an end!!!

My 17yo solid winger/solid defender sold for 600k just last week, and he was only worth 106k, but with many wretched useless skills...

FM
Doug5984
10-19-2003, 12:04 PM
Well 4 different teams have already bid on him, so that means he is atleast getting some interest. Hopefully he will sell for a ton of money so I can buy a formidable scorer and midfielder as the season comes to an end and the market floods with older players to sold and replaced by younger trainiees.
Havok
10-19-2003, 12:53 PM
keep us updated Doug... this is by far the best FOFC youth pull i've ever seen.

2 solids and 3 passables.... thats just fucking amazing!
Doug5984
10-19-2003, 01:05 PM
Well a slight update, since I am playing the # 1 team today I have been shopping for a formidable scoreer all week and I finally got one. I paid 1.2 million, but after losing out on bidding wars all week I finally got one, might have slightly overpaid but since I was so lucky with that youth pull and I needed one for today I think I got a good deal.

The bidding on Jarrod Kaplan is up to $219,000...hopefully someone will just up the bid by a few hundred thoussand
FrogMan
10-19-2003, 01:29 PM
You should announce him in whatever the thread is for youth pulls in USA in the HT conferences. It's when I did that last week that peolpe started talking about 600k and plus possibilities...

FM
Doug5984
10-19-2003, 05:38 PM
Originally posted by Havok
keep us updated Doug... this is by far the best FOFC youth pull i've ever seen.

2 solids and 3 passables.... thats just fucking amazing!

well I left home for a few hours, get back a few bids but nothing great...just upped the bidding to about $250k, then while I am waiting for my game to start someone just put a bid on the player upping the price to $478,000. Tom Sanders who?
Havok
10-19-2003, 05:53 PM
he'll go for at least a million. That assessed value is huge!

lucky SOB
Doug5984
10-20-2003, 11:54 AM
The bidding on the new tom sanders has only upped to $488k, but there is one team that ups the bid everytime someone else does, so there might be a nice little bidding war near the end...Hopefully I get enough money to get a solid coach + a little extra spending cash
NAIWF
10-20-2003, 12:40 PM
Dude, you're gonna get at least a million dollars, checking on him every few hours is just gonna give you an ulcer :p
Bee
10-20-2003, 12:50 PM
I think I'd have started the bidding at 800K just to skip all this unnecessary bidding. :D
Doug5984
10-20-2003, 02:06 PM
Originally posted by Bee
I think I'd have started the bidding at 800K just to skip all this unnecessary bidding. :D

but that is not as fun....and watching the bidding slowly go up is much better than studying for big ole physics test tomorry.

and it is up to $498k
Raven Hawk
10-20-2003, 03:16 PM
Up to 550k after a Gargoyles bid. ;)
FrogMan
10-20-2003, 06:21 PM
don't know how long it's been like this, but it's now up to 1 million :eek:

Geee and it's a Canadian that put that bid there!!! :)

FM
BreizhManu
10-20-2003, 06:31 PM
Originally posted by FrogMan
don't know how long it's been like this, but it's now up to 1 million :eek:

Geee and it's a Canadian that put that bid there!!! :)

FM

and this guy is obviously training Strikers, a future defensive Striker ?
sterlingice
10-20-2003, 06:33 PM
Originally posted by FrogMan
don't know how long it's been like this, but it's now up to 1 million :eek:

Geee and it's a Canadian that put that bid there!!! :)

FM

Is this where I should make some silly comment about how you should accept $100K in American dollars before $1M in Canadian?

SI
FrogMan
10-20-2003, 06:45 PM
nope because the Canadian dude is gonna be paying 2million Canadian, should be plenty enough :p

FM
FrogMan
10-20-2003, 06:47 PM
Originally posted by BreizhManu
and this guy is obviously training Strikers, a future defensive Striker ?

If that's what he's gonna do, he's an idiot. An idiot with a lot of money, but an idiot nonetheless. Unless I'm mistaken, a defensive striker (or forward) uses only playmaking as a second skill, not defending. So that would be like wasting a solid defending skill...

FM
NAIWF
10-20-2003, 06:51 PM
Is this where I should make some silly comment about how a Canadian fool and his money are soon parted?

not SI ;)
FrogMan
10-20-2003, 06:56 PM
yeah, that one I'd live with ;)

Seriously, paying that kind of money to waste a solid skill. That player is a killer inner mid with a waste passable scoring that is not completely wasted. Scoring can still be used on some special events doesn't it?

FM
BreizhManu
10-20-2003, 07:01 PM
Originally posted by FrogMan
If that's what he's gonna do, he's an idiot. An idiot with a lot of money, but an idiot nonetheless. Unless I'm mistaken, a defensive striker (or forward) uses only playmaking as a second skill, not defending. So that would be like wasting a solid defending skill...

FM

I know but this guy can't be used everywhere, he'll be either a Offensive Defender (Construction/Stamina + Defense), a Defensive Midfielder (Construction/Stamina + Defense + Passing) or a Defensive Forward (Scoring + Construction/Stamina + Passing).

This guy is a pure Offensive Defender, but since he is training forwards, he'll convert him in a Defensive Forward or else he won't be trained (unless he uses him as a defender for league games and trains him at forward for friendlies).

Maybe he wants to change is training regime too, who knows ?
FrogMan
10-20-2003, 07:09 PM
Originally posted by BreizhManu
I know but this guy can't be used everywhere, he'll be either a Offensive Defender (Construction/Stamina + Defense), a Defensive Midfielder (Construction/Stamina + Defense + Passing) or a Defensive Forward (Scoring + Construction/Stamina + Passing).

This guy is a pure Offensive Defender, but since he is training forwards, he'll convert him in a Defensive Forward or else he won't be trained (unless he uses him as a defender for league games and trains him at forward for friendlies).

Maybe he wants to change is training regime too, who knows ?

Sorry Breizh, I wasn't calling you on that. Just my take on this :)

I hate playing a central defender offensive because you cut into his primary skill to try and improve a secondary one.

Being a playmaking trainer myself, this player would either be a defensive inner mid (boost to solid defending, decrease of passable passing, you don't touch his primary solid playmaking) or even a normal inner mid, the one you play as the extra for example. It's sometimes easier to get a defensive inner mid who's got passable or solid defending, but only poor or worse passing. That way you waste less skill... Just my opinion though...

FM
YoSoySean
10-20-2003, 08:05 PM
Originally posted by FrogMan
If that's what he's gonna do, he's an idiot. An idiot with a lot of money, but an idiot nonetheless. Unless I'm mistaken, a defensive striker (or forward) uses only playmaking as a second skill, not defending. So that would be like wasting a solid defending skill...

FM

Maybe he's a big fan of the pressing tactic...
Doug5984
10-20-2003, 08:05 PM
I go away for a few hours and get a message that only one player has upped the bid. It is at 1 million, but kinda takes the fun out of watching the bidding slowly go up :p The only thing I can think of is if he is training forwards he plans on using him with the pressing tactic, but training forward and using the pressing tactic are kinda contradictory (sp?). I think using him as a midfielder is the best option but he can be used at any position except winger, and keeper. Hopefully there will still be a little bidding war and maybe I will get 2 million, or is that just being to gready :D?
YoSoySean
10-20-2003, 08:09 PM
I seriously doubt you'll have a bidding war...

Hey Dougy... check out my transfer history now ;)
Doug5984
10-20-2003, 08:17 PM
Originally posted by YoSoySean
I seriously doubt you'll have a bidding war...

Hey Dougy... check out my transfer history now ;)


yeah but your going to use all that money on a U-20 keeper next season? right....please.... Good luck against Flaps, he might have PIC against Sparrows so I don't know what your chacnes are .
YoSoySean
10-20-2003, 08:19 PM
If I do lose, it's you vs. me in week 1 next season!
Doug5984
10-20-2003, 08:22 PM
Originally posted by YoSoySean
If I do lose, it's you vs. me in week 1 next season!

excellent - that means we would also play the last week of the season, a battle for first place? could happen...
Havok
10-20-2003, 09:50 PM
Doug... have i told you how much i hate you lately???
Doug5984
10-21-2003, 10:32 AM
Havok- yes i think you have... :p

I thuoght the 1 illion dollar bid would be the last, but I was wrong someone else just upped the bid by $20k...about 10 or so hours left...Now the question I will have to ponder is do I buy a formidable playmaker or hold onto the money, expand my arena a little and rename it the Jarrod Kaplan Dome :D, or also I coudl just hold onto it and get a solid coach pretty soon...choices
Qwikshot
10-21-2003, 12:45 PM
Well I wouldn't do anything except expand the stadium, all player acquisitions should wait till next season.
daedalus
10-21-2003, 01:32 PM
Originally posted by sterlingice
Daed, you seem to have a knack for turning a phrase well :DI'm eloq . . . I'm eloqu . . . I talk good.Originally posted by Havok
Doug... have i told you how much i hate you lately???My first thought: a new Rod Stewart song?!? :D
daedalus
10-21-2003, 01:34 PM
Originally posted by Qwikshot
Well I wouldn't do anything except expand the stadium, all player acquisitions should wait till next season.If the right one comes at the right price, though, it's probably not a terrible move. For example, since Doug doesn't train playmaking, a 24-25 year old good playmaker wouldn't necessarily be a horrible buy. He'll probably have more choices at the beginning of next season, though.
Doug5984
10-21-2003, 05:53 PM
small update a few more bids...up to $1,275,000 but the important thing is an FOFC member upped the bidding....

2003-10-22
Shaolin Landfills offered 1 275 000 US$ for Jarrod Kaplan and thereby took the lead in the bidding.
YoSoySean
10-21-2003, 06:34 PM
Originally posted by Qwikshot
Well I wouldn't do anything except expand the stadium, all player acquisitions should wait till next season.

Why's that? I figure I'll upgrade my team now before other teams get money for placing/supporters and while a team spirit hit wouldn't hurt me.
Qwikshot
10-21-2003, 07:09 PM
With money like that I would save it till the start of next season, hire a few accountants to boost interest...add to the stadium, then buy some nice promising youths maybe a U-20 or someone close to potential for a U-20...

Of course, you could buy to upgrade the team, I just stated my preference...
YoSoySean
10-21-2003, 07:14 PM
My arena is already overbuilt, I already have 10 econs, and I already do plan on using my one open training slot to buy a potential U-20 player ;)

... of course I do have a little more money than Dougy has..
Doug5984
10-21-2003, 08:25 PM
Originally posted by YoSoySean
My arena is already overbuilt, I already have 10 econs, and I already do plan on using my one open training slot to buy a potential U-20 player ;)

... of course I do have a little more money than Dougy has..


7 million, 1 million no difference....I am watching a few midfielders right now, but chances are I will just hold onto my money for a while and upgrade my coach and stadium for next season, but I do need a upgrade at midfield also.

well the bidding is over, and he osld for 1.3 million...to a Div IV team in Espana it appears that he trains playmaking.