Ultra Nox: Short and Sweet

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Third season: New faces, new challenges.

I'm not going to go into everything. I'm going to make this short and sweet.
Last season we held out for third place...Riddle lost to BlueMage and returned back to our league.

Two new teams enter the fray:
coolboys (bot team now)
White House Soccer (an active and gritty team)

Love the fact the new guy has chosen to make our conference chat active.

From our conference, these predictions:

From White House:
coolboys
White House
Nationals
Ultra Nox
Mesa Mehados
Heavy Metal
Riddle
Ring of Fire

He apologized for accuracy. I feel I should be rated higher, but we'll see what happens.

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New faces, old goodbyes

Facing with the daunting task of upgraded a young midfield, I wanted to set a new talent level, and I wanted a capable winger to dish out on the attack.

This meant money...

So I sold:

Xu Hey-You (550k)
Frederic Amoudry (211k)
Soren Gyllengren (333k)
Gary Grewar (1.432 million)

In came excellent midfielders

Frank Guttermann (370k)
Albert Logan (715k)
Hubert Heuts (514k)

and a formidable winger with inadequate PM

Tso Wu-Jiang (744k)

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In the offseason I had decided that against opponents like Riddle and Ring of Fire, that it may be better to play the 3-5-2 rather than a 3-4-3. So I was going to sell Hey-You and be done with it, except my youth squad gave me two gems

Youth Squad pulls:

Jean Duplessis (27898169)
19 years, passable form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is calm and dishonest.
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 45 000 US$
Wage: 740 US$/week
Owner: Ultra Nox
Warnings: 0


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

Career Goals: 0
Career Hattricks: 0
League goals this season: 0
Cup goals this season: 0

If he had been 17, I would have sold him, but he'll be a decent starter/reserve.

Hattrick » Ultra Nox » Player » Waylon Moore


Waylon Moore (27366487)
17 years, passable form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is balanced and honest.
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 30 000 US$
Wage: 620 US$/week
Owner: Ultra Nox
Warnings: 0


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

Career Goals: 1
Career Hattricks: 0
League goals this season: 1
Cup goals this season: 0

Waylon basically forced my hand...sell him, and I am defeating the purpose of training scoring (plus it being so early in the season I could probably get him to formidible before the season it out). So Grewar was gone. Waylon will need some stamina training, but he'll be dedicated to friendlies anyway.

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Strikers:

Óscar Alvarez
611 000 US$, 20 years, poor form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities [Head]

Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: passable Passing: passable
Winger: inadequate Defending: poor
Scoring: formidable Set Pieces: inadequate


Branko Manenica
245 000 US$, 19 years, solid form
Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities

Stamina: inadequate Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: poor
Winger: wretched Defending: poor
Scoring: formidable Set Pieces: poor


Tudor Lazãr
186 000 US$, 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities

Stamina: poor Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: poor
Winger: poor Defending: passable
Scoring: excellent Set Pieces: poor



Erick Weller
170 000 US$, 19 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities [Quick]

Stamina: weak Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: inadequate
Winger: wretched Defending: passable
Scoring: excellent Set Pieces: poor



Waylon Moore
30 000 US$, 17 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: wretched Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: poor Passing: poor
Winger: weak Defending: wretched
Scoring: solid Set Pieces: poor



Alvarez and Manenica take the A squad spots, but really Weller and Lazar are close. Moore holds the fifth spot. I'm quite pleased with the training progress.

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Midfield (some wingers are interchangeable):


Avi Abutbool
256 000 US$, 24 years, passable form
Has poor experience and poor leadership abilities

Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: excellent Passing: weak
Winger: weak Defending: inadequate
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: solid


Albert Logan
232 000 US$, 24 years, inadequate form
Has poor experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: excellent Passing: inadequate
Winger: inadequate Defending: poor
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: inadequate


Dennis de Waal
197 000 US$, 25 years, inadequate form
Has poor experience and passable leadership abilities

Stamina: excellent Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: excellent Passing: weak
Winger: wretched Defending: inadequate
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: passable


Hubert Heuts
188 000 US$, 20 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities

Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: excellent Passing: poor
Winger: passable Defending: weak
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: inadequate


Frank Gutermann
87 000 US$, 23 years, poor form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: excellent Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: excellent Passing: wretched
Winger: weak Defending: poor
Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: solid


Abutbool, Logan, deWaal are the main three. Heuts, I envision as a winger (towards mid). Gutermann is low but unlike Gyllengren he is not unpredictable, and the solid set pieces plus excellent stamina makes him usable as the extra midfielder. And it's nice depth. They're all pretty young so I can hold off on upgrading for several seasons, I hope.

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Winger:


Dennis Hanssen
228 000 US$, 26 years, weak form
Has poor experience and poor leadership abilities

Stamina: passable Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: weak
Winger: passable Defending: passable
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: poor



Laurentiu Axinte
201 000 US$, 27 years, weak form
Has wretched experience and wretched leadership abilities

Stamina: passable Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: poor
Winger: solid Defending: inadequate
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: inadequate


Hubert Heuts
188 000 US$, 20 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities

Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: excellent Passing: poor
Winger: passable Defending: weak
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: inadequate


Tso Wu-Jiang 1
130 000 US$, 22 years, inadequate form
Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities

Stamina: poor Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: poor
Winger: formidable Defending: inadequate
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: inadequate


Bay Farr
116 000 US$, 28 years, inadequate form
Has poor experience and inadequate leadership abilities

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


Ferdinando Galli
89 000 US$, 29 years, solid form
Has inadequate experience and passable leadership abilities

Stamina: weak Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: passable Passing: weak
Winger: passable Defending: inadequate
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: weak


That's it...This is an odd position. Axinte if he holds form with Jiang would be I think a hell of a winger set. Hanssen is an odd man out...as a solid midfielder, he's outclassed by most of the midfielders, as a passable winger, he's outclassed by other wingers...passable defense is outclassed by all starters...he could be on the waiver wire soon. Farr and Galli are b team reserves, Galli is valuable for experience.

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Defense:

Ike Noe
182 000 US$, 25 years, passable form
Has poor experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Powerful]

Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: weak
Winger: inadequate Defending: solid
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: passable


Adam Stark
127 000 US$, 19 years, passable form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: passable Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: passable Passing: poor
Winger: poor Defending: solid
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: poor


Rob Dunn
95 000 US$, 20 years, weak form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: wretched
Winger: wretched Defending: solid
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: wretched



Jean Duplessis
45 000 US$, 19 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities

Stamina: passable Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: wretched Passing: poor
Winger: wretched Defending: solid
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: wretched

I'm proud to say that my defense is completely home grown, Noe started with the team, and the other 3 were all youth pulls, but this is now becoming an area left behind, I'm concerned, but as the hattrick engine goes, I may ultimately upgrade my goalie before I even think of grabbing a defenseman

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Keepers:

Antonio Cambra
400 000 US$, 21 years, solid form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: passable Keeper: solid
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous
Winger: disastrous Defending: disastrous
Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: disastrous


Saphou Supriyadi
213 000 US$, 23 years, weak form
Has wretched experience and wretched leadership abilities

Stamina: solid Keeper: passable
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous
Winger: disastrous Defending: disastrous
Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: disastrous

Nothing new here, this hasn't changed in ages...Cambra mans the pipes quite well, Supriyadi is a capable backup

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B team, clowns, and other things:

Lucio Cabras
83 000 US$, 23 years, solid form
Has inadequate experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: passable Passing: poor
Winger: wretched Defending: inadequate
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: passable


Ismael Sivit Gañán
60 000 US$, 31 years, passable form
Has passable experience and inadequate leadership abilities

Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: passable Passing: weak
Winger: poor Defending: passable
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: poor


Guillermo Sala
45 000 US$, 21 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and solid leadership abilities

Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: inadequate
Winger: wretched Defending: weak
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: wretched

Cabras and Ganan are quite expendable save their experience which puts them in line for future coaching positions (especially Ganan with passable/inadequate skills). They can play the game in a pinch. Sala is our resident clown (pseudoclown), without him our solid coach with wretched leadership would make things harder than they are now

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enedetto Amici (10504267)
45 years, weak form, healthy
A solid coach who is defensive minded
A pleasant guy who is calm and honest.
Has inadequate experience and wretched leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 0 US$
Wage: 500 US$/week
Owner: Ultra Nox
Warnings: 0


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

I keep him because he's a solid, been with the team since the start.

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3/4/2004 (Cup): whitenblack - Ultra Nox 0 - 5
3/8/2004 (League): Ultra Nox - Nationals 4 - 1
3/11/2004 (Cup): Kirilenko Fans - Ultra Nox 2 - 3
3/15/2004 (League): cool boys - Ultra Nox 1 - 2
3/18/2004 (Cup): Ultra Nox - Midtown Metros 3 - 1

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Some close games, but we're in first. We almost lost to cool boys but that was because we dusted off the 3-5-2 formation.

We play Ring of Fire next...tough game.

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<pre>Series: V.56 (8429)

Country: USA
Level: 5 out of 6

Team Played Goals Points
1. Ultra Nox 2 6 - 2 6
2. Riddle 2 4 - 0 6
3. Heavy Metal 2 5 - 2 6
4. White House 2 7 - 4 3
5. Ring of Fire 2 4 - 3 3
6. Mesa Mehados 2 0 - 3 0
7. Nationals 2 3 - 8 0
8. cool boys 2 1 - 8 0
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LAST ROUND

Mesa Mehados - Riddle 0 - 2
cool boys - Ultra Nox 1 - 2
Ring of Fire - White House S 4 - 1
Nationals - Heavy Metal S 2 - 4


NEXT ROUND

Ultra Nox - Ring of Fire
Heavy Metal S - cool boys
Mesa Mehados - Nationals
White House S - Riddle

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