WSUCougar
02-08-2006, 10:15 AM
First off, let me state that I love the game and it's only due to my deep immersion in my team that this bugs me so much.
What is with the out of the blue trouncings? My team, Gravesend, was tabbed relegation-battlers, but we have been safely mid-table (16th) most of the season. Our talent is nothing to write home about, but by late-season I'd figured out who worked well at what spots, and we had a good thing going. We'd usually lose to the league leaders, usually beat the lesser teams, and fight it out with the middle guys.
Cut to last night. We are up against York on our home turf. We are well-rested and I have my A-Team starting. Everyone's morale is okay or better. No one has issues with me. York is 4th in the league, but it's not like their talent is leagues above ours.
Well, they cut us to freaking pieces. It ended 6-0 but it may as well have been 10-0, for how awful we looked. Watching the "highlights" - literally almost all of them - it looked like we were running in molasses, hungover, or zombies. It looked like some sort of Monty Python or Benny Hill skit: okay, you 11 guys stand there and act like idiots why these York guys pass the ball around with pin-point accuracy, juggle it with their nose, cross it into a pack of defenders, and GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!
Granted, my defense is not a strong point, but it seemed like the whole team just tanked it. And York looked possessed.
Woking - the eventual league champion - did a similar thrashing (7-1) earlier on in the season. These teams looked like Premier league squads against us.
What gives?
And another thing...is it just me, or does a lop-sided percentage of your opponents' goals come from guys who never score? "His first goal ever!" "His first goal of the season!" Line up your scoring virgins, gents, we'll take care of 'em for you.
What is with the out of the blue trouncings? My team, Gravesend, was tabbed relegation-battlers, but we have been safely mid-table (16th) most of the season. Our talent is nothing to write home about, but by late-season I'd figured out who worked well at what spots, and we had a good thing going. We'd usually lose to the league leaders, usually beat the lesser teams, and fight it out with the middle guys.
Cut to last night. We are up against York on our home turf. We are well-rested and I have my A-Team starting. Everyone's morale is okay or better. No one has issues with me. York is 4th in the league, but it's not like their talent is leagues above ours.
Well, they cut us to freaking pieces. It ended 6-0 but it may as well have been 10-0, for how awful we looked. Watching the "highlights" - literally almost all of them - it looked like we were running in molasses, hungover, or zombies. It looked like some sort of Monty Python or Benny Hill skit: okay, you 11 guys stand there and act like idiots why these York guys pass the ball around with pin-point accuracy, juggle it with their nose, cross it into a pack of defenders, and GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!
Granted, my defense is not a strong point, but it seemed like the whole team just tanked it. And York looked possessed.
Woking - the eventual league champion - did a similar thrashing (7-1) earlier on in the season. These teams looked like Premier league squads against us.
What gives?
And another thing...is it just me, or does a lop-sided percentage of your opponents' goals come from guys who never score? "His first goal ever!" "His first goal of the season!" Line up your scoring virgins, gents, we'll take care of 'em for you.