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quote:So pretty much I just find it incredible that a group of people could found a club at the bottom of the soccer world, and they're in the exact same system as teams like Real Madrid and Manchester United. If they earned it they'd be able to reach the highest of the highs, and that's pretty cool. Yeah, there's really nothing like it in American sports. Maybe March Madness, but even then entry is limited to schools with a Division I program. Update coming probably tomorrow afternoon, but it could entirely happen later tonight depending on how late I have to work tonight. Also, I'm a bit annoyed that I got banned for a day because I said I was hungover the morning after Christmas. That's some serious bullshit.
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habeasdorkus posted:Also, I'm a bit annoyed that I got banned for a day because I said I was hungover the morning after Christmas. That's some serious bullshit. Na, it was because you said you were drunk while posting last night. If you click "PROBATION" on your rap sheet it'll take you to the relevant post. Drunkposting is historically against the rules cause people made some really, really crap drunkposts so now it's zero tolerance
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mfcrocker posted:Na, it was because you said you were drunk while posting last night. If you click "PROBATION" on your rap sheet it'll take you to the relevant post. That makes much more sense!
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habeasdorkus posted:That makes much more sense! Also, fun fact, not banned, but probated. Also, I only tipsy post. I only need two bourbons to be a good poster, and two more to be total poo poo again.
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Chapter the Ninth: Filling holes. January 1, 2015-February 1, 2015  Time to commoditize human beings by buying and selling players like cattle at the market! We've got until 12am on February 1st to remake the team.  So remember when I sold Stamp and said “I hope this doesn't come back to bite me in the rear end?” Yeah.  And just to add some salt to the wound, Duchamps wins the young player award. Stop tormenting me with my old players, arbitrary and cruel Soccer God.     New contracts for everyone! Well, everyone I'm sure I want to keep. They get deals with raises of £100-150/wk and a 1-2 year extension.  We've got £8,000 in wage budget room to play with, and £15.5k in transfer funds to start the window. It's going to mean a lot of bargain hunting, at least until after the FA Cup match in a couple days.  Right after the start of the window FC Halifax approaches me about Damian King. I guess they hadn't looked at our depth chart and seen that King was one of only three centerbacks on the squad. And since they're not even offering a penny for him, I am not at all interested. Go find another central defender, Halifax Town!  The board is displeased with our performance last month in the league. Otherwise, though, things are going pretty well.  When I told you to find another defender, Halifax, I didn't mean mine! Git!  Norwich has several very good players on their Under-21 side. I make loan offers for White, Flanagan, and Underwood which are accepted. They should all help a lot and be on board in the next week or so.  Hey, that's not supposed to happen! He doesn't think we're good enough to be worth playing at.  This is our balance sheet right before the Manchester United game. We're about £37k in the red at the moment, and relying on a bank loan to make payroll.  Excellent, a max capacity crowd. Thank you for coming today to watch our humble team. Don't mind me while I sing “Master of the House” while picking your pockets. At Manchester United, January 3, 2015 FA Cup, 3rd Round  Winning this game was never in the cards. I don't even play our best lineup, as I'd rather give some of our less fit players time to rest. I'm unsurprised that we fall into a four goal deficit before the first half is even over, and I'm only hoping that we can keep the scoreline respectable. We do, scoring two goals of our own before allowing a final Manchester United goal in stoppage time of the second half. The game wasn't exciting, but we got paid and we didn't embarrass ourselves. Manchester United 5-2 Wrexham  Check it out. We earned £1.3m pounds from that one game. We had to pay over £200k in taxes, but we're now the second wealthiest Skrill Premier team behind Tackleford City. I asked you, the Board, to increase our transfer budget by £100,000 and our wage budget by £3,000/wk, and you agreed. This significantly helps me in my efforts to strengthen the team.   Oh come on. What's the point of having a parent team if they won't make their players come to us?  First attempt to find a centerback, failed. He wanted way more money than I was willing to pay. At Ebbsfleet, January 6, 2015 Skrill Premier  We're lucky to get away with a draw here, we only score via an own goal and give 17th place Ebbsfleet plenty of chances. We're playing our best squad, too, which means that it's not because I wasn't taking the game seriously enough. We've been pretty dismal against bottom of the table squads, with two points from three games against teams ranked 15th, 17th, and 21st since November 25th. Ebbsfleet 1-1 Wrexham  Carroll hasn't gotten into a single game for us. It's about time that he hang up his boots. Maybe I'll give him a final game in the FA Trophy, or a cameo in a match we have well in hand.  Second attempt to find a centerback, failed. He fell for the allure of a first team role at a League Two side at £475/wk instead of a first team role here for double that. Damnit.    I hope running to the bloggers about reserve squad players in Leagues One and Two transferring to the Skrill Premier makes you feel like big men, leakers. vs. Braintree, January 10, 2015 FA Trophy, 3rd Round  We should have won this game handily. Braintree's goals came from a shot 30 yards out and on a wicked free kick from outside of the area. We had more chances, and we had more possession in their area, and we simply failed to do anything with it. Even our one goal came on an own goal by a Braintree defender trying to clear the ball. You can call us unlucky to lose this match, buy it doesn't change the fact that we simply failed to take our chances. Wrexham 1-2 Braintree  This left back thinks I'm not offering him enough money even though he'd be getting a significant raise. I might come back to him before the end of the window, he's pretty good. Or I might go with one of the two or three other players who are equally as good and not as snooty about slumming it in our league.  My efforts to winkle teenagers from out underneath the noses of other teams continues to not pay off.  Hey! We got one! I paid a whopping £1,000 for him, and I'm not sure how my scouts even knew about him seeing as he was playing semi-pro soccer in Orlando Florida at the time. Daniel Clarke Central Midfielder  Clarke's immediately one of our best players, and will be able to cover for Justin Bailey until he's back from his wrist injury. He's probably not going to get much better, but he'd be useful for a lower table League One team, so he doesn't have to improve to help us. Vs. Nuneaton, January 13, 2015 Skrill Premier  Clarke's just arrived and it's time to see how he performs in his first match. Nuneaton is another lower table side, in 19th place at the start of the day. Our Dragons start off with some serious fire in their bellies. In the 10th minute O'Hanlon makes like Roberto Carlos on a brilliant free kick. Then just minutes later our new signing, Daniel Clarke, adds a goal from a corner to push us up two-nil. Clarke continues his dream debut when his own rebound falls before him and he punches it into the net.  When I substitute for Clarke, his lack of match fitness won't let him play a full 90 yet, he gets a standing ovation. Nuneaton is able to scratch a consolation goal at the death when Nsangou fails to make an easy save, but we bossed the field for the entire match. Wrexham 3-1 Nuneaton  Our old dudes are dropping like flies. Tommy McGuinness Central Midfielder  Tommy comes over from Southend United, a League Two side, on a free transfer. He's not as good as Clarke, but he has a lot of versatility, isn't that expensive, and gives us an additional rotation option. He's also one hell of a leader, and once he gels with the squad will be getting the armband whenever one of our captains aren't on the pitch.  Crap. He's going to get injections, we're too thin in the back to go without him.  Huh, I wonder why he likes Wrexham so much?  That explains it. Bah was transferred from Wrexham to Crewe before the start of the 2013-2014 season. That transfer had a 20% sell on clause that required Crewe to pay Wrexham 20% of any future transfer fee they got. So, essentially, we got a 20% discount. Ibrahima Bah Striker  Bah is perfect for the same role Cannon plays, we can swap them in depending on who's on a good run of form. He's big, strong, and should be excellent at link up play. I'd like to see better composure on his part, but then we were already only able to sign him because he loves playing for Wrexham.  With two weeks left in the transfer window we've got £6.5k/wk before we hit our wage cap, and we still need to find a left back and a centerback. They'll probably cost about £2.5k/wk between them, unless I can find loaners. The rest of the wage budget will be saved for seducing hot young things when school lets out in March. We've also got almost all of our transfer budget left, which will be husbanded carefully.  This is a common sight. Tackleford is throwing their financial weight around.  Yep, we're big pimping, spending g's. All four of them. In reality, Wrexham's record transfer is £212,000 to Liverpool all the way back in 1978 for Joey Jones, back when that was a lot of money for a transfer. At Wycombe, January 16, 2015 Skrill Premier  The Wanderers have only given up 16 goals in 27 league games. Our offense matches up favorably with Wycombe, but our defense has been far more porous. Their defense remains stout, we simply can't get a goal across. Luckily, ours is as well, and we at least take a point from the fixture. We sit eight points back from the playoffs with seventeen matches left to play. Wycombe 0-0 Wrexham  Crap. I really need to bring in that additional centerback. Femi Don-Duncan Left Back  Don-Duncan is basically a more defensively adequate, slower version of Daniel Thomas. He comes to us for free after failing to break in at League One Tranmere, and is very affordable. He and Thomas will be our primary tandem at left back, though I'm hoping one of them develops into a better defender. At the very least he fits with our bombs away strategy. Stuart Martin Centerback  Martin is both our highest transfer fee at £9,000, and has a salary of almost double our next highest player. But since we got a deal on Don-Duncan it's acceptable, especially seeing as Tierney and King are getting long in the tooth. Martin is the type of centerback who's best at hanging back and playing very defensively, which also fits with our bombs away strategy.  We've brought in five players for a total of £15,000, and we still have £4,000 a week available in our wage budget. A good transfer window, and there's still ten days left! Unless some one remarkable shows up, we're done buying players. I'll also look around for players to loan out, but I'm pleased with how things have gone over the last twenty days. My only complaint is that we weren't able to offload any of our deadweight. Most of those contracts will be up at the end of the year, but it's a pity we can't save more money by getting rid of them earlier.  I extended Reynolds for the rest of the year. He's been pretty good as a defensive midfielder and I am all about having a deep squad.  I also loan Pearson from Port Vale at 20% of his salary, or £100/wk. He'll give us cover at centerback, which is important since Holtham has been, until now, our only acceptable backup. He won't be with the team longer than the rest of the season, and is fourth on the depth chart behind Tierney, King, and Martin. That leaves us with two more long term loans available for the season. At Grimsby, January 24, 2015 Skrill Premier  Grimsby is in first place, with 60 points on the season through just 29 games. This will be a tough ask for us, but we appear up to it when we jump out to a lead in the first two minutes. Nothing else happens in the first half as the defenses stymie each other. We fail to take a two goal lead right after the half when our new signing Bah blows an easy shot. Grimsby's striker draws a second yellow card shortly after, and we're a man up for forty minutes. Bah doubles our advantage in the 64th minute, and the stewards struggle to hold back our fans. Grimsby, despite having only 10 men, makes the last half hour hairy, but at the end of the day we take away a victory. We've taken down the league leaders in their own house. Grimsby 0-2 Wrexham  The game seems to think I'm willing to get rid of my centerbacks for some reason. I guess the AI doesn't realize that I'm not going to trade away one of my best defenders for nothing. vs. Hyde, January 27, 2015 Skrill Premier  Hyde is in last place, having won five, drawn five, and lost twenty. They turtle, and we can't break them down in the first half. The frustration continues into the second half, until Darren Baker finally breaks through just four minutes from regulation time. The scoreline is closer than it should be, we had thirteen shots to their one, but a win is a win. Femi Don-Duncan wins player of the match in his debut, but that doesn't keep me from chastening the locker room after the game for failing to meet expectations. We're six back of the promotion playoffs in ninth place, and certainly in the hunt. We're ten back of the league leaders, and while we'd have to pass eight other teams to reach the top it's not impossible should our recent additions mesh easily with the team. Wrexham 1-0 Hyde  Ok, fine, I'm sick of dealing with your moping.  Our final addition of the transfer window is Liam Franks from Leeds. Despite only paying 20% of his wages we're still giving him £1,900 a week, and I expect some real fireworks from him. He's worthless on defense and in the air, but his crossing and his flair should help us take advantage of Cannon and Bah's abilities as target men.  Being able to break the offside trap is an important learned ability for any attacking player. To acquire it the player needs good pace and acceleration as well as strong off the ball and concentration stats. It will result in more surging runs past the defense and fewer offsides calls against them.  Bah, what's so special about that? They're only two points ahead of us on the table.  We start February having recovered from the brief slump of December. We cannot afford to lose many more games, but we're well placed after the transfer window to reach the promotion playoff. With good health and some luck we should be playing for entry into the Football League come May.   BOARD REQUEST(Assertively) I'd like to request permission to hire additional scouts to improve not only our knowledge of players, but our ability to rapidly process scouting requests when the March youth intakes occur. (Passionately) I am certain that signing young players with high potential is key to our success as a club. (Calmly)We currently have three scouts. Each scout costs roughly £350/wk, in addition to roughly £200 a month in scouting expenses. I have prepared three options for the board. A) No new scouts, our current staff is sufficient and the additional expense is unwarranted. (no expense change) B) Two new scouts, our current staff is insufficient but the increase should be limited in order to maintain a healthy financial standing. (increase in expenses of approximately £3,200 a month) C) Four new scouts, our current staff is woefully insufficient and we need to improve this area if we are to rise to new heights. (increase in expenses of approximately £6,500 a month) Board bylaws require a compromise should there be no absolute majority. e.g. Should the voting be split 33%/33%/33% the board will allow two additional scouts. Should the voting split 20%/40%/40%, the board will allow three new scouts. Should the voting split 55%/0%/45% the board will allow zero new scouts. Etc. To help inform you prior to your decision the club's accountants have compiled the following financial numbers.  These are our expenses from the past month. Salaries should stay roughly steady, but we are unlikely to have any tax payments. Over 98% of our tax payments are a result of the FA Cup match in Manchester. Ergo, we are spending approximately £233,000 a month.  Last month's income figures are highly atypical, and as such I have included this and last season's income figures as well. Removing the outlier FA Cup income, we make approximately £300,000 a month when including pro-rated club fundraising and season ticket income, which are lump sum totals that arrive in the summer of each year. Absent those pro-rated amounts we bring in £189,000 a month, for a monthly reduction in our balance of £44,000.  Our current bank balance is £850,000. We are on course to make a profit of £929,000 this year, compared with a loss of £253,000 last year. Voting will close at 5pm, Sunday, December 29th, 2014. habeasdorkus fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Dec 29, 2013 |
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Dec 28, 2013 23:05
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C - Scouts help you find good young players, which seems to be our entire strategy (It's also a good strategy). So this seems like a no-brainer.
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Dec 28, 2013 23:13
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(Assertively) While I agree that the team needs to improve its scouting knowledge, we have our finances to consider. I authorize the hiring of two additional scouts. (B)
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Dec 28, 2013 23:20
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(Loudly) Our money should be used to buy start players, not bloody scouts! (Calmly) A.
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JT Jag posted:(Assertively) While I agree that the team needs to improve its scouting knowledge, we have our finances to consider. I authorize the hiring of two additional scouts. (B) Agreed. Another vote for B. How're we doing for coaches and trainers?
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tarbrush posted:Agreed. Another vote for B. How're we doing for coaches and trainers? We're still well short, we need four more general coaches, another fitness coach, and another goalkeeping coach. They're probably next on my list of requests. habeasdorkus fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Dec 29, 2013 |
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Dec 29, 2013 00:05
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(Sexually) Oh I'll give you two scouts alright. B
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(Cautiously) If you believe you can use these men to improve our position in the medium and long term, they would be a sensible investment. Needless to say, they'll be joining you if this course proves ill-advised.
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(Agressively) YOu made me buy this game and I'm terrible at it. A out of spite, you can't have nice things. (P.S. This will be my one and only spite vote.)
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A What kind of board keeps agreeing to a manager's requests? You got the last one, so you should be happy for a couple of years.
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(Merry and slightly hungover from Christmas) Eh, I really shouldn't, but gently caress it. We've won the last three games and our hirings showed you aren't gonna gently caress everything up when we give you money, so go buy TWO new scouts. I kinda wasted the money for the other two scouts on spiced rum and these Christmas adornations for the dressing rooms. Just mind the mistletoe, will you?
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(Vengeful) C. We're behind Tackleford, for gently caress's sake! Take all the steps to improve the team you can, this injustice can not stand!
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(Assertively) While we are doing ok at this point in time, "ok" isn't enough for YOUR-as well as OUR-lofty expectations of becoming the second coming of Manchester United. As a result we must choose C to improve our scouts, which will improve our knowledge off young talent, the backbone of any dynasty. (Vengeful, Angry, and Rude) Also we are two points behind Tackleford! We must CRUSH THOSE BUGGERS WHO WERE FOOLISH TO FIRE YOU!!!! 
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(Passionately) We must Crush Tackleford and the Conference by any means necessary - let us throw money at this problem until it evaporates!
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(Drunkenly) Shhhhhhhhkouts? WHy do you want to hire little buggers to run around setting fire to things and camping in your estate? A
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(Loudly) You take those new scouts and get us some drat world beaters! Rip them right out from under their parent club's teat! C
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(Assertively) Now is the best time to recruit, ahead of the March youth intake. But let's stay grounded, these kids need the best coaches we can find as well, so B and don't make us regret this. Find some Welsh superstars!
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B - (Assertively) The Man U money is making you cocky, and your not producing the results to match. You need to keep an eye on the payroll because we will need a second season at least to see the results of this investment, and the playoffs are a crapshoot so we might still be here with minimum revenues.
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(Reluctantly) Ok, you can have 2 scouts, but only if this is the end of your wild spending this season! B
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I added some financial data. I forgot to include it when asking the board, you at least should know our financial state. I highly doubt that we'll finish with a balance of 1.15m, the game's finance predictor doesn't seem to realize that the FA Cup match against Man U was a one off event and thinks that we're going to get a lot more match day income. So it's more likely that we end up with about 600k in the bank come June. I also had the board pay off our loan, along with a pre-payment penalty. Otherwise we'd be paying 2.5k a month until 2020. When we go into debt, I want it to be for a stadium that could fit the entire population of Northern Wales, not so that we can make payroll.
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Dec 29, 2013 03:44
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B Not having good young players is bad, but not having money is even worse.
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C Maximum money expenditure. Spending more money is always good, especially when its not yours.
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A (reluctantly) New scouts won't help us achieve promotion this season, but we may review this matter in the close season if finances have improved
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C (Passionately) I will not be satisfied until our scouting network lands us a North Korean wonderkid, and I'll be damned if bloody Tackleford beat us to him. Registered Member fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Dec 29, 2013 |
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A/B (Inquisitively) Can we not just replace our current scouts with better ones? If not, 2 more should do you fine laddy.
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Shouting while threateningly waving around an unopened can of Surströmming! Four new scouts, our current staff is woefully insufficient and we need to improve this area if we are to rise to new heights.)
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Ha! Just found an old friend's little brother on a reserve squad.
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the JJ posted:Ha! Just found an old friend's little brother on a reserve squad. Voting is closed. We shall be searching for 2 or 3 new scouts, assuming proper candidates can be found.
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I blame you for getting me to open FM 2013 again. I'm utterly useless. I won my first game with Maidenhead, though?  (I'm projected to relegate.)
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overthefalls posted:I blame you for getting me to open FM 2013 again. I'm utterly useless. This thread made me buy 2014 after being clean since '10. I wish I had the boards habeasdorkus has been getting, but as an LLM save game editors are Satan 
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Sky Shadowing posted:So pretty much I just find it incredible that a group of people could found a club at the bottom of the soccer world, and they're in the exact same system as teams like Real Madrid and Manchester United. If they earned it they'd be able to reach the highest of the highs, and that's pretty cool. While that's technically true, you can say the same for the Olympics; the thing is, if you're a decent athlete, you're going to move to an higher level. I don't think there is an example of Average Joes getting to high level competitions as a team, in the recent past. What's more frequent is the reverse of this story: a major team disappearing in lower leagues in a matter of years. What happens really frequently is the downfall of major star players when they get old. I'm absolutely a below average football player, but I've encountered a couple of them in semi-pro matches (IE: http://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/ruggiero-rizzitelli/, a former Serie A and Bundesliga player). By the way, I've always sucked at FM, and reading this LP I'm discovering the reasons...great job!
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Oh, I know it's only true in theory. That's just the part that makes FM fun, the taking the theory and turning it into reality. I mean, in what world could a team from Conference Regional win 5 successive promotions and start challenging for the Champions League in their second year as a Premier League team? Certainly not the real world. But in FM, you can pump your chest and take your local team and turn them into a world power (or in my case, the team that wears green and white and calls themselves Spartans, echoing my college team, the Michigan State Spartans).
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That Italian Guy posted:While that's technically true, you can say the same for the Olympics; the thing is, if you're a decent athlete, you're going to move to an higher level. I don't think there is an example of Average Joes getting to high level competitions as a team, in the recent past. What's more frequent is the reverse of this story: a major team disappearing in lower leagues in a matter of years. What happens really frequently is the downfall of major star players when they get old. I'm absolutely a below average football player, but I've encountered a couple of them in semi-pro matches (IE: http://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/ruggiero-rizzitelli/, a former Serie A and Bundesliga player). That's really awesome! The closest I've ever gotten to that was playing in softball leagues with college/low minors level baseball players. The Philadelphia District Attorney's office has a bad habit of hiring a ringer as a summer clerk every summer for their softball and basketball teams. And even with these guys being very low level they were so drastically better than the rest of us that I can just imagine what the game was like for professionals. One reason I'm so keen to find young players is because if we're lucky they'll develop to be good at each level the team goes up. Mair, from Tackleford, is exactly the sort of guy we could probably hang onto (by giving five year contracts every 2-3 years so he can't just up and leave on us) until we hit the Premier League, and by the time he's 22-23 both he and the team will have reached Premier League quality. I've set the update schedule for the first couple weeks of the new year. Hopefully I can stick to it. And as always, if you have any requests, feel free to ask. You are the board after all. I'm happy to post about how various leagues and teams are doing.
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Chapter the Tenth: On the fringes of contention. February 1, 2015-March 11, 2015  The transfer window is closed. We're looking at picking up only unemployed players for the time being.  The non-Goon members of the board are back to being confident in me.  I'm shifting our training for the next three weeks to focus on team cohesion in order to work the new players into the squad as quickly as possible. Five new players will take some time to blend into the mix.  What's your campaign slogan? At Kidderminster, February 7, 2015 Skrill Premier  The Kidderminster Harriers were pegged as being potential promotion candidates this season. Instead they're languishing in 18th place. Nsangou allows an easy goal off a rebound, but Wright scores his second of the season and Sumner laces a shot into the goal just before the half and my half time talk is all about not getting complacent with the lead. Nsangou continues to struggle in the second half, and I pull him for Senior. This turns out to be a good move, as Senior makes several good saves as time ticks down to protect our lead, and we take care of business. We're now just 3 points back of a playoff spot. Kidderminster 1-2 Wrexham  Bailey's back from his fractured wrist, but will take some time to be fully fit again.  I'm not exactly sure how fan trust elections work as I've never dealt with a fan owned team in the past, but I'll keep my eye on them and see if I can work them into the LP. The current President is actually pretty damned good at his job, I'm hoping he gets reelected. At Gateshead, February 14, 2015 Skrill Premier  Our old pal Billy Holsgrove is playing for Gateshead today, having been transferred during the January window from Tackleford. I give Senior the start in goal, as Nsangou has been on a poor run of form. The switch works, and Senior makes several important saves as we hold on for a win after Stuart Simpson puts us ahead with an excellent strike from the edge of the penalty area in the 13th minute. We nearly double our lead when the Cannon puts it in the back of the net, but he's flagged for offsides and the score stays at one-nil for the rest of the match. Gateshead 0-1 Wrexham  We've got a clean bill of health again.  Our three new scouts come at a cost of about £3800/month. With six scouts we should be able to find everyone worth signing.  Well, that clean bill of health didn't last long.  Grimsby's owner is looking to sell. He should wait until after the season is over, they're in first place and a League Two side is definitely more valuable than one in our current league. vs. Aldershot, February 17, 2015 Skrill Premier  We avoid going down early thanks to Aldershot's striker being unable to finish with any panache, and after the third time he breaks through our defensive line I order him to be marked tightly. We're also inept on the attack, with Ibrahima Bah continuing his tepid form and missing twice on easy goals.  I pull Bah after he takes a slight knock for the Cannon, and it pays immediate dividends as he finds himself all alone in front of the goal when Aldershot fails to clear the ball. That single goal is the only scoring in a match we should have won in a much more convincing fashion, and I tell the players so after the game. We're now level on points for a playoff spot, but behind on goal differential. Wrexham 1-0 Aldershot  Neither of our strikers is acting like they want the starting job, so I'm just going to have to keep rotating them until one gets hot.  This won't help our fixture congestion down the road.  Senior is going to get some playing time while Nsangou is away playing for his national youth team. I could have kept Nsangou at home, but he hasn't been good enough recently to merit angering him. vs. Cambridge, March 3, 2015 Skrill Premier  Cambridge is currently sixth, we've dropped back to seventh due to delayed games. Whoever wins this can go level on points with the final playoff spot. Bah puts us up early off of a corner, but Cambridge equalizes when one of their players dekes Don-Duncan out of his boots. We take the lead back on a lovely bit of one two passing between Bailey and Cannon to set Franks up, and things are looking bright as I tell the boys to drop back into a counter-attacking setup as Cambridge must surely play offensively to try and level the game. We see out the victory and Justin Bailey wins player of the match with two deserved assists and a solid performance in the midfield. We've got a game in hand against the top five, so any result in our next match would put us in line to make the playoffs. Wrexham 2-1 Cambridge At Hereford, March 7, 2015 Skrill Premier  We have a number of opportunities in the first half, but can't force one into the net. Several good chances are scrambled away at the last instant by the determined Hereford defenders. Our offensive troubles continue in the second half, and when the final whistle blows we've taken seventeen shots and put only four on target. I excoriate the team, and we've now been passed by Tackleford on the league table. Hereford 0-0 Wrexham  Fan day! I was going to ask the board to host one of these in the next update, but it's already been scheduled. It's a good way to bring out the fans and fill up the seats when you're not filling them yourselves, and it helps inculcate the next generation of fans in team traditions.  That's no way to win an election. At Forest Green, March 10, 2015 Skrill Premier  This match takes us up against one of the other teams vying for promotion. Winning here would go a long way towards our goal. Forest Green presses us early, and controls possession, but Liam Franks proves why he's on loan from a higher division when he breaks away with the ball and gives us the lead in the 19th minute. We hold that lead until Don-Duncan is caught napping shortly before the first half whistle. Things only go downhill from there, as we give up not one, not two, but three goals in the second half. While we have our own chances we fail to score on any of them, repeatedly letting Forest Green off the hook. It's a miserable result, especially given the strong start. Worse, it drops us four points back of the playoff promotion, while Tackleford City moves up to 5th. Forest Green 4-1 Wrexham  We've got nine matches left in the season. The good news is that six of those fixtures are home games. The better news is that only two of them come against teams in the top half of the league table, Morecambe (currently 9th place) and Tackleford City (currently 5th). If we can take care of business we should definitely make the promotion playoffs. Winning the league is likely out of the question, though, due to the number of teams ahead of us. 
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