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Old 03-10-2014, 08:54 PM   #74
Izulde
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Join Date: Sep 2004
@Dartford 10th)
GK Chad Collins
DL Bernard Williams
DC Pat O'Connor
DC Chris Blackburn
DR Jamal Hackett
DM Medi Abilamba
DM Michael Roberts
ML Jack Maloney
MR George Colson
ST Elliott James
ST Michael Drennan

ML Kenny McGoinigle got hurt in the interim and is out 2-3 months.

15 - Knock for O'Connor but he'll fight through it.

...Yeah, until people start really getting familiar with our system, we're going to struggle to score or do anything offensively.

51 - Hateley on for Colson, Kearns in for O'Connor

79 - A couple yellows for our guys, and here's Dartford with an amazing goal. That'll be enough for the loss 0-1

Our wing play has been absolutely dreadful.

Transfer In - ST Mark Postle (18)
Pace and Finishing combo (12/9) should be the best on the team, and he's cheap at $200 PA and $200 PG. Great mental attributes, too, so he'll get a start and see if he can enliven this offense.

Transfer In - MR David Wheeler (26)
Spent way too money - $27k guaranteed, up to $36k next year after he reaches 30 games, but he was great when I was with Staines, so I had to pull the trigger on it to try and fix our midfield.

Bad Trains
Mark Bower
Bernard Williams
Sonny Pullan

We somehow lost $15.6k last month despite a low salary budget, unless it was all the buyouts. Oh well. Board is only satisfied, which is fitting.

vs Bognor Regis (22nd)
GK Chad Collins
DL Bernard Williams
DC Pat O'Connor
DC Chris Blackburn
DR Jamal Hackett
DM Medi Abilamba
DM Michael Roberts
ML Jack Maloney
MR David Wheeler
ST Mark Postle
ST Michael Drennan

If we can't beat the worst team in the league at home, we're in deep, deep trouble.

21 - Trouble's here 0-1

Hateley in at MR, Wheeler sliding to ML and out goes Maloney, who I deeply regret having gotten.

54 - Drennan's hurt, so on goes Malsom.

FFS.

@Braintree (19th)
GK Chad Collins
DL Bernard Williams
DC Pat O'Connor
DC Chris Blackburn
DR Jamal Hackett
DM Medi Abilamba
DM Michael Roberts
ML Jack Maloney
MR David Wheeler
ST Mark Postle
ST Michael Drennan

1 - Been so long since this has happened I don't know what to think. Abilamba gets the ball and slides it to Maloney, and shortly before his loan ends, we finally see our ML make a good play to put it in front of Drennan inside the box, and the kick is good! 1-0

Our defense has been phenomenal, but Maloney looks exhausted at the break, so Wheeler moves over to ML and George Colson gets a redemption try.

57 - The top bar robs Postle of his first goal after a precision pass from Ablilamba

64 - Missed sitter by them gives us a spot of luck

84 - Terrible pass by Collins goes unpunished.

Finally a win! Tons of 7s, led by Drennan's 7.5, O'Connor's 7.4, and Abilamba's 7.3. Maybe this is the break we needed to finish strong.

Heh. Izak Reid is on the shortlist of Player of the Year.

vs Gloucester (11th)
GK Chad Collins
DL Bernard Williams
DC Pat O'Connor
DC Chris Blackburn
DR Jamal Hackett
DM Medi Abilamba
DM Michael Roberts
ML Jack Maloney
MR David Wheeler
ST Mark Postle
ST Michael Drennan

8 - Knock for Drennan, but he'll play through the half.

[b26[/b] - Postle chases down a cleared corner and passes it to Maloney, who centers it to O'Connor for the crane volley kick and goal. 1-0

35 - Sigh. Flubbed shot by Postle.

Colson and Malsom hop in for Wheeler and Drennan, though that might be a mistake.

49 - Roberts is forced off with injury, requiring Kearns to go in.

64 - Dafuq? Should've been tied game there. Totally weak effort on their part.

74 - And there's the tie on Collins' piss-poor pass. 1-1

77 - They should've scored there. Come to think of it, not once have we scored on a bad goalie pass. Or at most once. I hate this engine sometimes.

80 - Great, Postle has to go off and we're out of substitutions.

8.1 for MotM O'Connor and 7.2 for Maloney. While we're lucky to get the point, I'm bitterly disappointed about that bad pass goal which happens to almost all our fucking goalies it seems, so I rip into Collins.

Great. Mark Postle, who I have high hopes for, is done for the year.

We're not yet safe from the drop, with three games left, but we're perpetually Sweet 16th.

vs Bath (12th)
GK Chad Collins
DL Bernard Williams
DC Pat O'Connor
DC Chris Blackburn
DR Jamal Hackett
DM Medi Abilamba
DM Michael Roberts
ML George Byers
MR David Wheeler
ST Sam Malsom
ST Michael Drennan

Bognor Regis officially relegated prior to this game, so that's one out of the way.

3 - ...wow. Everyone just stands there and watches them kick it in. Pathetic. 0-1

Drennan and O'Connor are benched for James and Kearns at the break.

Second half as pathetic as the first. Sigh.

We drop to 18th and are still not safe from the drop. Jack Maloney goes back to Portsmouth and says it was a complete waste of time playing for us. Fuck you, dick. Maybe if you didn't play like a total fucking shitbag, you would have learned something. Michael Roberts also sees his loan end, which sucks, because he was great for us at DM.

@Farnborough (3rd)
GK Chad Collins
DL Bernard Williams
DC Pat O'Connor
DC Chris Blackburn
DR Jamal Hackett
DM Medi Abilamba
DM Adrian Kearns
ML George Byers
MR David Wheeler
ST Sam Malsom
ST Michael Drennan

All you need to know is we lost 1-4. Moving right along.

Good news is, we've cleared getting dropped.

@Hayes & Yeading (15th)
GK Chad Collins
DL Bernard Williams
DC Pat O'Connor
DC Chris Blackburn
DR Jamal Hackett
DM Medi Abilamba
DM Adrian Kearns
ML George Byers
MR David Wheeler
ST Sam Malsom
ST Michael Drennan

42 - Whatevs. 0-1

To be perfectly honest, it wasn't a bad effort to end the season on. Not great, either.

Board's slightly disappointed in how things have started, but the offseason is a fresh new page which will probably see drastic changes.
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