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Old 07-24-2011, 02:36 AM   #474
Radii
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Join Date: Jul 2001
January Update

-- We play on the 3rd, 7th, 14th, 18th, 21st, and 28th in January.

-- Constantino is the League 1 player of the month, scoring 6 goals in 5 matches.

-- Paulo is 3rd in Young Player of the month voting.

-- The board is delighted with my leadership, our league 1 performance is a main reason, Rhoys Wiggins signing is a lowlight. His 5.0 rating in our last match I'm sure can explain that one. We lost tons last month, $175k. Signing bonuses and such.

January 3rd, 2017

Bradford(8-7-9, 15th) @ Woking (11-9-3, 2nd)


Bradford are super slim 6:4 favorites to our 13:8 today. Bradford gave us one of our 3 losses back in August. Their striker Tom Elliot has 7 goals in 20 matches, he scored both in a 2-1 victory.

GK: Lynch
D: Wiggins/Taylor/Marc/Ogogo
MC: Ferry/O'Sullivan
AM: Colin/N'Guessan
FC: Harsanyi/Constantino

Bradford's Tom Elliot is only their second leading scorer, Moreno Costanzo has 10 goals to lead them. We make tons of lineup changes today since we're on short rest yet again. Our attack is solid with Colin/N'Guessan/Harsanyi/Constantino but we have two backup mids and Wiggins in for Nikolaou. We'll attack and hope to not give up 3 goals on 4 shots early :P

14': They have a free kick from 30 yards out, its taken and its a beautiful shot bending around the wall and Lynch is unable to get to it, its in the left side of the net. 0-1

20': N'Guessan makes a run down the right side, he gets all the way to the end line and crosses to the far end of the 6 yard area, Harsanyi is there and he has a really good look, he heads it, and its off the left post, so close.

26': Colin with a long run down the left, a cross, and a header by N'Guessan is just high.

36': We have 8 shots already but 5 from long range and many have not been shown.

41': We earn a corner, its taken to Taylor, two men converge, he's able to find the room for a shot but its high.

HALF: We have 10 shots, but just 2 are on target and it really doesn't seem like we're outplaying them or anything. They have 4 shots, just 2 on target. We can't lose a second match at home can we?

63': Upson in for Ferry to try to get a better shot here.

70': Marc is hurt in defense and he has to come out immediately.... I bring in Chester.

72': We've only allowed one shot this half, we've taken 7 but only 1 on target and it was a very weak header by Harsanyi that we just saw.

78': There's a counter attack as we fail again to get an attack going, their forward Elliot wins a header from Chester and heads it out a bit wide to AMR McLaggon, he fires a shot from 18 yards out, he's able to get it by Lynch and its in the left side of the net... 0-2

Nope, nothin.

Woking 0 : 2 Bradford


We shoot 17 tmies today but only put 3 on target. Are other teams figuring out Constantino? Is our service impossibly bad without Upson and Paulo? Or is it just an aberration for a couple matches?

Lynch puts up a 6.3, Chester a 6.4 as a sub, most everyone else is in the 6.6-6.8 range.


Injury Update

Marc has a hamstring injury and he's out 3-4 weeks. Ouch.




-- Crystal Palace have built up a pretty big lead now. Gillingham take over 2nd place from Woking by 1 point but they have one more match played than us. Crystal Palace are 9 points up on Gillingham. Only two teams auto promote so as long as we stay up here 2nd is critical.


-- Its early January and the transfer window is open, we've been scouting pretty hard but really haven't had much luck. We may stop at some point and seriously look for a 3 month loan or perhaps a reserve on a championship squad to help keep us playing at this high level.
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