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Cityinthesea posted:I find the fans irritating; I brought in a new goalie 3/4ths through my first season in the skrill premier (I was Colwyn Bay, the superior North Welsh team This is the game accurately depicting real life.
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How important are fans in keeping a club alive in higher leagues? I men, Wrexham comes from a small town so will the small pool of fans have any tangible influence on what we'll be able to pull off in the Premier League, or is it already affecting us now? I imagine ticket sales should be getting increasingly marginal in the budget, as well as merchandise sales?
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steinrokkan posted:How important are fans in keeping a club alive in higher leagues? I men, Wrexham comes from a small town so will the small pool of fans have any tangible influence on what we'll be able to pull off in the Premier League, or is it already affecting us now? I imagine ticket sales should be getting increasingly marginal in the budget, as well as merchandise sales? Eh. We're probably never going to be Man City / Chelsea rich, but the real money comes from the Premier League TV deal and Champions league money. Everything else is nice, but not as important.
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One of the interesting issues as far as the effects of higher league reputation goes is youth players. The game includes data on local regions for teams, which means if you end up taking, say, Stockport County to the Premiership, the good youth players in your region are going to take one look at your necessarily poor reputation team and try to sign up with one of the Manchesters instead. The end result of which being that if you bring up a team in somewhere like there (god help you if it's London), even a Premiership side is going to struggle with their youth recruitment for at least a few years. It's one area where we might be relatively in luck depending on how FM treats the Welsh/English border for this purpose. Swansea and Cardiff are well away.
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Tehan posted:Into each life some rain must fall, and into each career some international tournaments must cockblock the coach. habeasdorkus posted:True poetry. Even more poetic is when you become the coach of a national soccer team, and you take kick-rear end players away from other teams at real lovely times like the Aussies did with Meteor. Full Circle. I can remember when we got him. You made a emergency post about him and we were like "Oh poo poo! One of your scouts had dual citizenship somewhere there and he found the Australian Messier, with no one knowing about him. I said he was like Viduka mainly cause Viduka is considered among the best soccer players of all time, and I have a feeling Meteor will match that.
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KDavisJr posted:I can remember when we got him. You made a emergency post about him and we were like "Oh poo poo! One of your scouts had dual citizenship somewhere there and he found the Australian Messier, with no one knowing about him. It was really only a month and a half ago? Seems like he's been with us forever. Excluding when bloody Australia kidnaps him from us 
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Tehan posted:It was really only a month and a half ago? Seems like he's been with us forever. Excluding when bloody Australia kidnaps him from us Yea good times. Our reactions were pretty loving hilarious. And gently caress Australia National Team.
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Back on sale again for $17 on Steam, along with a pile of other awesome games. Pick up Papers, Please for $5 if you don't have it yet, it's awesome and a steal at that price. It's a 24 hour sale. Zeroisanumber fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Mar 12, 2014 |
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KDavisJr posted:And gently caress Australia National Team.
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Too late to throw my hat in the ring, but here's a bizarre not-quite-ad from Mitch McConnell that's basically every 'politician working for his constituency' cliche stuffed into two minutes, "soundtracked to something that sounds like an unholy merger of Imagine Dragons and Sigur Rós." [source].
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I was taking a look back at past signings to the club, and noticed Tom Pym. He's the only man in the club at the moment with a Model Professional personality, and he even has a decent Determination stat. I'm sure this is why the coaches all say he has great potential, but since he has been performing rather poorly on the pitch as late, I think Pym would be better suited as a tutor to the wonderkids/youths. Have some of his professionalism rub off on them, and it should help to make them better players in the long run.
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Since Billy the Kid went back into a slump I've been paying close attention to The Pym Cup, and he's dealing with his lack of goals in a very professional way. And yes, that's what the game says, he's very professional about his lack of goals.
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After catching up with this LP I must say it has ignited an interest in not-American Football. I almost bought the game today on Steam.
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So with how Meteor is gonna be gone for what feels like a third to half the season... you're still having to pay his high wages aren't you? Even if you're getting nothing out of him.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:So with how Meteor is gonna be gone for what feels like a third to half the season... you're still having to pay his high wages aren't you? Even if you're getting nothing out of him. Yep and if he gets and injury the national team owes you nothing. Oh and if the injury ends your career making you potentially lose millions of dollars (people that get called up usually earn a lot) they also owe the player nothing. While all the time the national teams fans whine that you should give more effort in national matches than in club matches because NATIONAL PRIDE 
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FailAtMagic posted:Yep and if he gets and injury the national team owes you nothing. Oh and if the injury ends your career making you potentially lose millions of dollars (people that get called up usually earn a lot) they also owe the player nothing. While all the time the national teams fans whine that you should give more effort in national matches than in club matches because NATIONAL PRIDE What kind of Football fan are you that you don't place your national team before any of your clubs?? I would take a World Cup win over a Champions League win of "my" team any day.
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Torrannor posted:What kind of Football fan are you that you don't place your national team before any of your clubs?? I would take a World Cup win over a Champions League win of "my" team any day. Well, after winning two European Championships and a World Cup in the last six years, the international scene is kinda boring. I'd love if my local got promoted to First Division and became competitive again. Also,
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Torrannor posted:What kind of Football fan are you that you don't place your national team before any of your clubs?? I would take a World Cup win over a Champions League win of "my" team any day. When you are used to caviar, it is hard to go back to the detestable, lumpen sausages of international football, man. Give me the Champions' League, or even just the Premier League, any day.
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Torrannor posted:What kind of Football fan are you that you don't place your national team before any of your clubs?? I would take a World Cup win over a Champions League win of "my" team any day. Dunno about that my friend. I am fairly sure you don't earn much/if any at all in international competition. How can I pay for my 50+ bedroom mansion with National Pride?
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KDavisJr posted:How can I pay for my 50+ bedroom mansion with National Pride? Is what Meteor should be wondering as he destroys yet another lovely SE Asian national team in a zero-prestige cup competition.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Is what Meteor should be wondering as he destroys yet another lovely SE Asian national team in a zero-prestige cup competition. On top of that, wasn't he complaining earlier that Wrexham wasn't big and famous enough for him a season or two ago? And yet he still chooses to step on ants with Australia rather than help the manager he respects lift his squad to Premier League glory. E: housemate of mine was watching a Cardiff game the other day, and I could swear the other team's fans were chanting "Are you Wrexham in disguise?" 
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Fedule posted:E: housemate of mine was watching a Cardiff game the other day, and I could swear the other team's fans were chanting "Are you Wrexham in disguise?" There's a reason for this. Cardiff are owned by a Malay businessman who changed them from the bluebirds to the dragons, altering their kit from blue to red. As this is Wrexham's colour and identity, it's a good way to get at the Cardiff faithful, who have protested the changes vehemently.
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AJ_Impy posted:There's a reason for this. Cardiff are owned by a Malay businessman who changed them from the bluebirds to the dragons, altering their kit from blue to red. As this is Wrexham's colour and identity, it's a good way to get at the Cardiff faithful, who have protested the changes vehemently. He is the worst person, I would rather my team rotted in the lowest division forever than change their colour or identity. Who the gently caress does he think he is?
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A Tartan Tory posted:Who the gently caress does he think he is? The team owner? Blogkb - because you too like video games, old and new (it's just a blog)
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Dwarsen posted:The team owner? I hope he enjoys being around fans that would literally kill him for what he did then. Most team owners are smart enough to realize they don't own the mythos of the club they buy, this guy isn't.
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Yeah, Vincent Tan is one of the worst owners in professional sports. It'd probably be easier to take if Cardiff weren't sitting in the relegation zone, but when a team owner tells the fans to apologize to him after he comes in and pisses all over their history it's incredibly galling. At least the hapless misfits who run the Mets actually care about the club, they just gave all their money to Bernie Madoff and now can't really afford to run the team. New update coming fairly soon! Was sidetracked by St. Paddy's weekend. I'm ~50% Irish by ancestry, half of me enjoyed that the last few days!
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Chapter the Sixth: The other shoe refuses to drop. January 1, 2019-January 31, 2019 Announcing our candidates for the club presidency: McGavin, Shieldhill, Jaguars!, and Ferrosol. Good luck, guys. I'm also very impressed by the civility and good nature of everyone while posting political things, there wasn't a hint of strife over the single greatest source of strife on this planet excepting  As I had hoped, Baker is off for the rest of the year on loan. It saves us a minor sum, but also keeps him from being grumpy on our reserve squad.  Smissen realized that cap from England was never going to happen, and is now an international for India. Mujkic is, of course, still being held hostage in Upside-downland. vs. Leyton Orient, January 5, 2019 FA Cup, Third Round  Our bank balance is hurting. We're in January and already our bank balance is in the red. Our expenses are up in every single category, and we've been losing close to £500k each month. Salary is only a part of the problem, our wages are up significantly over last season but not to nearly the extent that we should be seeing these types of losses. If we get knocked out before earning a couple cup paydays I'm probably going to look to sell some players to recover our financial footing. This match won't help, as there's fewer than 4,000 fans are in attendance. I can sense the trap closing in around us, our Dragons have a tendency to play to the level of their competition, but it's too late to avoid it. Starting Formation: 4-5-1 Attack Starting 11: Higgs, Siegrist, Todd, Lewis, Garuti, Simpson(c), Shirra, Bailey, Coulson, Gorman, Harrison. Subs: Love, Peters, Poole, Holland, Tedesco, Rainey, Pym. We're terrible and play down to Leyton Orient's level. I hope that I can get the team going with a fire and brimstone speech at the half, but if anything we're even more lethargic after the restart. We're too good of a team to lose, fortunately, but this means we have to play another FA Cup match. Bailey and Harrison are worst of a bad bunch, and hopefully this is a wake-up call that our good run can easily end if we get complacent.   Wrexham 0-0 Leyton Orient  Will anyone depose that despot Sky Shadowing? Wake up sheeple, he's destroying this team. Just look at how much ticket prices have gone up since he took over!  I'd stop holding presidential contests, but I know that the minute I don't Sky Shadowing will resign.  Meanwhile, he'll just keep taking out “bank loans” from the “First Bank of Badaboom and Badabing,” located in scenic Secaucus, New Jersey.  If we can get past friggin Leyton Orient, we should be able to give a real game to Crystal Palace. They're in yet another relegation fight, and thus a perfect target for a hungry young team like ours.  The sole silver lining of having to play Leyton Orient again is that we'll get more revenue.  The game doesn't give me the option of talking to him about his contract, which is just as well because I'm not giving him a raise right now, and telling him that would just make him angry. I am considering selling one of our signings, if only to save some money. We need to get promoted inside of the next few years or we're going to get into very rough shape financially, Wrexham itself is not nearly big enough to support a team with a Championship payroll.  Every vs. Middlesbrough, January 12, 2019 Championship  Spell your name right, Middlesbrough! Or at least spell it in a way that makes sense. Middlesboro or Middleborough are both more sensical than Middlesbrough. Anyways, Middlesbrough is a small city of about 130,000 in northeast England, near Newcastle. Which puts it in the middle of nowhere, rather than the middle of somewhere. It's also a place where some poor dudes get their junk chopped off, which I discovered while googling the area to make sure I wasn't confusing it with some other part of England. I should have known that cock-loppage was a common occurrence on knife-crime island. Starting Formation: 4-5-1 Attack Starting 11: Higgs, Peters, Lewis, Poole, Mejasic, Troelsen, Djurovic, Tedesco, Rainey, Gorman, Harrison (c). Subs: Love, Siegrist, Todd, Holland, Shirra, Coulson, Pym. We're up 2-0 by the end of the first half thanks to a Middlesbrough own goal and a very nice piece of work from Gareth Rainey. That's all she wrote as our defense locks down in the second half and preserves the shutout. It's a solid home victory and we look much more awake on the pitch than we did in our last, lackadaisical fixture. Man of the Match: Gareth Rainey   Wrexham 2-0 Middlesbrough  We need money, and Johnston isn't anywhere near our first team plans. Clearly I should stall this offer and see if Everton want in on this bidding war at £800,000.  If we don't win this game, I might not be able to update for a while because I'll have put my fist through my monitor. At Leyton Orient, January 16, 2019 FA Cup, Third Round Replay  Come home with your shields or on them. That's all I have to say. And no, I'm not explaining the reference, Shirra. It's like you spent all your youth playing football and never attending school. Starting Formation: 4-5-1 Attack Starting 11: Higgs, Siegrist, Todd, Lewis, Garuti, Simpson, Holland, Shirra, Coulson, Gorman, Harrison (c). Subs: Love, Peters, Poole, Troelsen, Bailey, Rainey, Pym. The Red Dragons are trying my patience. We go down after 17 minutes, but are able to pull level when Gorman ties the game after Shirra's hustle wins the ball at midfield. Coulson puts us ahead on what the announcers gush was a “truly unstoppable shot” that streaks past the flailing keeper. We're not able to lock the game down, though, and Stewart Lewis makes an error that leads to an equalizer. It's no matter, he corrects his own mistake by putting us ahead on a corner, and we see that lead out. The one concern is an injury to Chris Todd late in the match, with Vaillant in the Cup of Nations tournament we're thin on centerbacks at the moment. Man of the Match: Mark Holland   Leyton Orient 2-3 Wrexham   Nothing is ever easy. With Vaillant playing in the Cup of Nations I'm going to be relying upon Poole and Lewis for every game. Leighton Chapman isn't nearly good enough to be more than an emergency substitute yet, but he'll be on the bench for each match for the time being.  This boosts us back up to nearly a million pounds in the black. Combined with our advancement in the FA Cup, we should be able to see the season out without going much into the red. Ideally we'll beat Crystal Palace and then get a big club at their stadium.  Australia is dominating all comers in the Asian Cup, how wonderful. At Ipswich Town, January 19, 2019 Championship  I played this game on the subway at about midnight on Friday. I make no apologies for what happened while burrowing deep beneath Boston. You should merely be relieved that I wasn't dragging my laptop around on St. Patricks Day. The booze miasma most likely would have wiped the save. Starting Formation: 4-5-1 Counter. Starting 11: Higgs, Peters, Lewis, Poole (c), Mejasic, Troelsen, Djurovic, Bailey, Rainey, Gorman, Pym Subs: Love, Garuti, Chapman, Simpson, Tedesco, Coulson, Harrison. As the orange line ferried me home from a friends, Ipswich jumped all over us and put us down after less than a minute. We bounced back. Pym finally plays like a good target man should, getting in position between three Ipswich players and their keeper to head in a cross for the equalizer. Bailey jumpstarts the second period with a perfect one touch ball to Rainey, who takes a shot that Ipswich's keeper cannot corral. Their keeper can only watch as the rebound falls directly to Pym, who doesn't miss the tap in. We don't make anything else of multiple chances before the match ends, but we give them nothing after that opening goal. Man of the Match: Tom Pym   Ipswich 1-2 Wrexham  I would be doing more wheeling and dealing, but I don't see anywhere that I could improve the club on the cheap. We're OK for money thanks the selling Johnston, and I don't want to risk jostling team chemistry given how awesome we've been since October.  At the very least I'll be selling them this summer rather than letting them go on a free. At Crystal Palace, January 26, 2019 FA Cup, Fourth Round  A top half Championship club versus a Premier League club battling against Relegation. How much better than us could they be? A lot, they could be a lot better than us. But I give us a solid punchers chance. We're playing good football right now, and a win here would be a nice cap on our season. Starting Formation: 4-5-1 Counter Starting 11: Higgs, Peters, Lewis, Poole, Garuti, Simpson (c), Shirra, Bailey, Coulson, Gorman, Harrison. Subs: Love, Siegrist, Chapman, Troelsen, Djurovic, Rainey, Pym. The Palace fans see us wrong foot their team for nearly the entire first half, and are at our most dangerous when Harrison has a point blank header saved at the last moment thanks to the imposition of the Palace keeper's fingertips. Not long after we play a pretty piece of possession ball which results in a lead after Harrison makes himself a moment of space and delivers an accurate finish. Despite pushing around our hosts for the first half all we get is the one goal, and Harrison misses a chance to put us up two around the hour mark, sending his shot into the side netting. Crystal Palace is able to tie it up off a corner, our continuing Achilles heel, and we walk away with a draw when we should have had the win. The replay will mean a packed house at the Racecourse grounds and, if we play as well as we did today, a trip to the fifth round of the FA Cup.   Crystal Palace 1-1 Wrexham  This is the second time our upcoming Huddersfield match has been postponed, I'm looking forward to it if only because I'm interested to see how we do against the team that gave us our most decisive defeat of the season.  Bolton and Huddersfield both made offers for Mark Holland in the half-million range. I initially accepted, but then chose to renege on them as he's a useful rotation piece for the club.  There are no easy matchups left in the FA Cup draw. West Brom away is not a good one for us, though. Not only do the Baggies play in a small stadium, they're only a season removed from finishing seventh in the Barclay's Premier League. While they're back down into the lower ranks of the Prem it's going to be hard for us to take down two higher division clubs back to back. None of that will matter if we can't win our replay, though.  Watch us, England, as we crush your fancy London club! Bwa cyn eich arglwyddi Cymraeg, Saesneg! vs. Crewe Alexandra, January 29, 2019 Championship  Crewe are risking relegation, they're buried at 23rd in the league. We're at home. We should win this game. At the very least we should score a bunch of goals. So let's finish this month on a happy note. Youth prospect Lloyd Eden is up to make the start at left wing as Gorman has gotten a bit worn down over the last two months of constantly filling in for the absent Mujkic. Starting Formation: 4-5-1 Attack. Starting 11: Higgs, Siegrist, Lewis, Poole (c), Mejasic, Troelsen, Shirra, Djurovic, Rainey, Eden, Pym. Subs: Love, Garuti, Chapman, Simpson, Tedesco, Coulson, Harrison. Poole opens scoring on a corner where he crashes unmarked towards the near post. Crewe replies immediately with their own goal on a corner kick to the near post where somehow their striker is standing unmarked not 5 yards from the net. It's not a good moment for fans of sound fundamentals. We're the better team all game, but Pym has apparently lost his finishing boots once again, and misses multiple chances. I pull the rookie Eden, who has been ineffective, and bring in Coulson to play out of position on the left side. It pays off, Coulson scores a late goal thanks to an excellent assist from Pym, who salvages something from his poor match. We keep battering at Crewe until the whistle blows, but even without another goal we take all the points. Man of the Match: Matthew Poole.   Wrexham 2-1 Crewe  Pfft. You weren't the only one unimpressed by the performance they saw. We didn't need to be at our best to see you off.  Derby and Bolton seem determined to unsettle Holland at the club, if they can't get me to sell him. It doesn't work.  Australia finally lost, to South Korea. It doesn't mean we get Mujkic back immediately, they still have to play for third place. Mujkic is due back on February 3rd, but he's looking very tired from all of the international play he's been subjected to and I may have to give him a week or two off before he's rested enough to start playing for the club.  Who needs reinforcements when we've got Meteor coming back? I mean, I wouldn't mind some, but we're pretty good with what we've got.  This dream season just keeps getting better. We won all three of our league matches, and sit just a point back of the promotion playoffs with a game in hand. Our goal differential has poked above zero, and while I doubt we'll be able to make a real run at an automatic promotion spot we're definitely in the chase for the playoffs. 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habeasdorkus posted:Every Penny is the singular, pence the plural, so the initial saying stands, see also 'In for a penny, in for a pound'. That was
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AJ_Impy posted:I could well see us doing three divisions in three years at this rate. I actually hope that we stay a year in the Championship League. Making the leap to Premiere seems like a major step, and I feel like we need a consolidation year.
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One point off the playoffs, how the gently caress.
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The only consolidation we'll ever need will be after Wrexham gets flooded with all the mad PL money, hookers and blow.
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steinrokkan posted:The only consolidation we'll ever need will be after Wrexham gets flooded with all the mad PL money, hookers and blow. Yeah, the Premier League is worth stupid money. Bouncing between the PL and Championship for a bit is a perfectly valid strategy
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My inner sperginess requires me to defend my home town. First of all it is not a city but a town (lacking a cathedral and/or royal warrant to call itself one). Secondly we are nowhere near Newcastle those Geordie bastards are 60 miles away and we want nothing to do with the entitled idiots who think they are a big club despite not winning a single trophy in the last 60 years. As for the cock lopping thing it's a once in a lifetime event. Really if you want to know what Middlesbroughs like think Detroit or somewhere like Flint a former industrial giant now rotting away while the remaining population turn to drink and drugs to get through the day. It has the highest unemployment rate in the country and highest teen pregnancy rate so it's a lovely place to live.
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Ferrosol posted:My inner sperginess requires me to defend my home town. First of all it is not a city but a town (lacking a cathedral and/or royal warrant to call itself one). Secondly we are nowhere near Newcastle those Geordie bastards are 60 miles away and we want nothing to do with the entitled idiots who think they are a big club despite not winning a single trophy in the last 60 years. As for the cock lopping thing it's a once in a lifetime event. Really if you want to know what Middlesbroughs like think Detroit or somewhere like Flint a former industrial giant now rotting away while the remaining population turn to drink and drugs to get through the day. It has the highest unemployment rate in the country and highest teen pregnancy rate so it's a lovely place to live. To someone who lives in the US, being 60 miles away is close. Heck, I live in the northeast and 60 miles is closer than my parents live (90 miles) and way closer than the next large city (Boston to NYC is about 200 miles, and they're considered quite close by US standards). When I lived in Minneapolis I had to travel by plane to get to another decent sized city in a reasonable amount of time, Madison was 300 miles east while Chicago was over 400. Also, I was going with the city appellation based on population size more than anything. At least the nickname Ironopolis makes it sound like you should be the central city in a comic book? Anyways, certainly no intention to attack Middlesbrough. It sounds a lot like both the town I was born in and the town I grew up in, old industrial cities that have been screwed by the march of time.
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habeasdorkus posted:To someone who lives in the US, being 60 miles away is close. Heck, I live in the northeast and 60 miles is closer than my parents live (90 miles) and way closer than the next large city (Boston to NYC is about 200 miles, and they're considered quite close by US standards). When I lived in Minneapolis I had to travel by plane to get to another decent sized city in a reasonable amount of time, Madison was 300 miles east while Chicago was over 400. United States population density: 32 people per km² England population density: 419 people per km²
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habeasdorkus posted:To someone who lives in the US, being 60 miles away is close. Heck, I live in the northeast and 60 miles is closer than my parents live (90 miles) and way closer than the next large city (Boston to NYC is about 200 miles, and they're considered quite close by US standards). When I lived in Minneapolis I had to travel by plane to get to another decent sized city in a reasonable amount of time, Madison was 300 miles east while Chicago was over 400. Yeah it's the old joke on the difference between the US and UK. "In the UK 100 miles is a long way away. In the US a 100 years is a long time ago." Really though I wasn't insulted by it and you won't be the first or last person to screw up the pronunciation and or spelling of the town. Also fun note Ridley Scott is from the area and he based the city in Blade Runner on several local chemical plants.
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Torrannor posted:United States population density: 32 people per km² Yeah, the Boston-Washington DC region has about 50m people and is comparable in land size size. Wiki says 360 people per square km. I guess if that was the entirety of the US I'd consider Washington pretty distant, though, rather than someplace close enough to visit easily. When I think about going to see friends in the midwest I have to make plans a half year in advance so that they'll all be around when I fly into their various cities. And really, there's no city of real size once you get past the twin cities (3.3m people) and until you hit Seattle (3.5m people). I guess Spokane is about 200,000 people, but that's "only" 250 miles from Seattle whereas Minneapolis is 1400 miles. Really, the US until you hit the Mississippi is reasonably well settled. After that it's pretty much empty until you hit the Pacific. eta: And that's not even counting Alaska, which is so big that it's easy to forget exactly HOW big it is. It's 1.7m square kilometers, nearly 20% of the entire US land area, and has under 700,000 people. But even taking that out the US has a lot of very sparsely settled areas. habeasdorkus fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Mar 17, 2014 |
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Chapter the Seventh: Kicking in Opportunity's door. February 1, 2019-March 1, 2019 We've got two matches a week for the next three weeks. And that's assuming we don't advance in the FA Cup. The team is going to be a little tired by the time they get to late February. But this update sees the return of Meteor Mujkic, so it can't be all bad.  My first of the season. If we do make the promotion playoffs I have to think I'm a lock for manager of the year. Again.  Sky Shadowing, why am I getting calls from guys named Vinny?  We're on pace to make a profit this season? I wouldn't believe this until I see it at the end of the year.  Mujkic finishes the Asian Cup in fine form, earning a 9.3 rating, an assist, and scoring a goal. I cannot wait for him to be putting in that type of performance for us. At Hull City, February 2, 2019 Championship  I'm stunned that we're doing so well in the league. We can't keep up this pace forever, we haven't lost a game since December. So I don't want anyone being surprised when we eventually drop some points. I'm good, but not that good. Starting Formation: 4-5-1 Counter. Starting 11: Higgs, Siegrist, Lewis, Poole, Mejasic, Troelsen, Holland, Bailey, Coulson, Gorman, Harrison (c). Subs: Love, Peters, Chapman, Simpson, Tedesco, Rainey, Pym. The counter works to perfection early on, and we irritate the hell out of Hull. Ryan Gorman takes a knock while fighting for a header but it doesn't stop him from scoring when Bailey springs him late in the half for a very pretty goal. Unfortunately, we let Hull hit back instantly. We're the better team, but that doesn't matter when the scoreline reads 1-1 at the end of the game. It's not the worst result we could have come away with, and it's a sign of my raised expectations that I'm frustrated with the team for failing to put Hull down for the count when we had the chance. Man of the Match: Ryan Gorman   Hull 1-1 Wrexham  Mujkic is going to be thrown right back into the fray, there's no opportunity to rest him when our only other competent left winger is out for a week.  This deal was made before I even arrived in Wrexham, and it's paid out £20,000 so far. The guy has been awful, a 6.17 average rating, but I hope he gets into five more games before the season ends.  Gorman deservedly makes the team of the week. If only he were as good when playing right wing! vs. Crystal Palace, February 6, 2019 FA Cup, Fourth Round Replay  Does our FA Cup run continue? Or do we finally get to focus on just one competition? I don't know, all I know is that Mujkic is back! So is Vaillant, which means I can stop relying upon an unproven teenager as our reserve centerback. Starting Formation: 4-5-1 Attack Starting 11: Higgs, Siegrist, Lewis, Poole, Garuti, Simpson (c), Shirra, Bailey, Coulson, Mujkic, Harrison. Subs: Love, Peters, Vaillant, Troelsen, Tedesco, Rainey, Pym. We take the lead thanks to a Poole set piece goal, and we lock down Palace tighter than a convent during it's annual “Girls of God” calendar photoshoot. Crystal Palace doesn't get a single shot off until the 56th minute. Shortly thereafter Coulson knocks one off the crossbar, and it seems much more likely that we'll go up two than they'll draw level. That all changes when confusion between Lewis and Poole leaves the opposing striker unmarked for an easy equalizer in 74th min. Palace strike again in 85th minute on just their third shot of the day, and that's the ballgame. We're out of the FA Cup after two matches where we outplayed our higher division opponent and couldn't seal the deal when we had a chance.   Wrexham 1-2 Crystal Palace  I picked the last option, if you were wondering. By far our biggest problem this season has been reliable finishing. We're getting plenty of good looks and we're not making them count. This game was a perfect example of that. Our defense could stand to be stouter, but that's a secondary issue compared to our finishing.  Here I am, completely overachieving with a tiny payroll in a better league (Championship's got the 13th best rep in Europe, Liga Adelante has the 20th) and you're only offering me an interview? That's insulting. Offers start at full control over the club, the club president's firstborn, and a salary that would make Scrooge McDuck blush. At Bolton Wanderers, February 9, 2019 Championship  The Wanderers have been struggling this season, and find themselves in 15th coming into this game. If we can win it should prevent any type of skid from developing after the Crystal Palace loss. It's going to be very chilly at game time, 16 Fahrenheit or -9 Celsius, with snow. Considering that Bolton's average low for February days is 36/2, that's a cold day. For comparison, Minneapolis in January has an average high of 19, and from several years experience I can tell you that the very last thing I want to be doing on an average January day in Minneapolis is sitting on the bench as a substitute for 90 minutes. Playing is at least a little better, but I expect any bearded starters to look like one of those Scandinavian cross country skiiers, with their faces covered in rime by the time the game ends. Oh, and it's snowing. Starting Formation: 4-5-1 Counter Starting 11: Higgs, Peters, Todd, Lewis, Mejasic, Troelsen, Holland, Tedesco, Coulson, Mujkic, Harrison (c) Subs: Love, Garuti, Vaillant, Simpson, Djurovic, Rainey, Pym. It's all Dragons early, when Tedesco pounces on a rebound to score our first goal the only surprise is that it hadn't come sooner. It looks like we'll cruise to an easy victory despite the arctic weather, but Holland gets sent off in the 23rd minute after a moronic two footed challenge in what I can only assume was an effort to get sent into the heated locker room. I have to significantly change our plan, going three at the back by bringing in Vaillant and replacing Holland with Simpson. The makeshift defense keeps Bolton off balance over the final 20 minutes of the first half. I have real concerns that we won't be able to survive a whole half of being a man down. Those are at the forefront of my mind as I watch a feisty Bolton try to unlock us in the second half, but we limit their chances. That's not to say they didn't put a scare into me a couple times, most chillingly in the 89th minute when I'm beginning to relax. They hit us on the break, and it's a cruel late equalizer after our defense had played so well despite Holland's desire to avoid frostbite. Fate smiles on us, however, and the goal is waved off. Bolton's goal-scorer was clearly well off sides on the far side of the pitch when the ball was crossed. The nerve wracking and finger numbing game ends. We take our third victory of the year when playing a man down. Man of the Match: Antonio Tedesco   Bolton 0-1 Wrexham  Next time I'm going to light your pay on fire in front of you.  Sure, fine, why would I need a fully healthy set of centerbacks?  Good job, loaner! We have a glut at central midfield, which is preventing any single player from getting enough playing time to settle into a real groove. It's not ideal. vs. Huddersfield, February 12, 2019 Championship  Huddersfield is still in the playoff hunt, though they're now only a single spot above us. If we win here we move into a playoff spot. I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop. I'm not going to change up our play style, though. We've gotten here through playing unafraid, we're going to live and die on it. For this season, at least. Starting Formation: 4-5-1 Attack. Starting 11: Higgs, Peters, Vaillant, Poole, Garuti, Simpson (c), Shirra, Djurovic, Rainey, Gorman, Pym. Subs: Love, Siegrist, Todd, Troelsen, Bailey, Coulson, Harrison. The good news about the first half is that we're decidedly more spritely than the team that Huddersfield soundly thunked back in August. That doesn't mean too much, Huddersfield edges the first half, has better opportunities, and we're lucky to hold them scoreless. I'm forced to pitch a fit at halftime in an effort to wake them up, I'm concerned that telling them that their performance wasn't bad and that the result would come could only lead to more danger after the restart. We come out stronger in the second half, and Vaillant puts us ahead from a corner. Pym then ices the game in the 79th minute with a goal of his own after having previously looked hapless before the net. Gorman adds an emphatic exclamation point by adding a third goal in the 81st minute. A great deal of credit has to go to Dejan Djurovic, who for the first time this season bossed the midfield and was integral in each goal we scored, notching assists on the Vaillant and Gorman goals. Moreover, we were incisive with our finishing, which is a wonderful thing to be able to say. That sharpness allowed us to win comfortably despite Huddersfield not giving us an easy win. The difference between now and just six months ago is apparent. Man of the Match: Dejan Djurovic   Wrexham 3-0 Huddersfield  We are a long way from lower league tiki-taka.  Going through an ownership transition is not a fun time. You get a transfer embargo set upon you and your position as manager is called into question. They're much more enjoyable to watch from the outside, especially if it's happening to your bitter rivals.  Aww, I'm talented. Also, who's criticizing me for not signing enough Englishmen? We play in Wales! vs. Derby, February 16, 2019 Championship  Derby sits ensconced in first place at the moment. It was a 1-1 draw against them on September 22nd that marked the start of our remarkable tear. Since then we've only lost three league games out of twenty-four played. We've won thirteen. It's the most surprising season I've had in Football Manager, and one that I want to see continue all the way to a glorious finish and an unheard of three straight promotions, our fourth in five years. Derby won't be an easy foe, they're on a torrid streak of their own and haven't lost in their last ten matches. Starting Formation: 4-5-1 Attack Starting 11: Higgs, Siegrist, Todd, Vaillant, Garuti, Troelsen, Shirra, Bailey, Coulson, Mujkic, Harrison (c). Subs: Love, Mejasic, Poole, Simpson, Tedesco, Gorman, Pym. Derby is at our gates early, but after a shaky first 10 minutes we're in control. Coulson puts us on top before the end of the half, and things are looking good. It turns out to be the best they'll look all day. Derby comes out firing and crushes our pretentions, scoring three in rapid succession to take a commanding lead. Coulson gives us some hope with his second goal of the game in the 76th minute, but Derby slams that door shut immediately by regaining the two score advantage. It's our worst performance in months, coming almost entirely after half-time. We got complacent against a very good team and paid for it.   Wrexham 2-4 Derby  Holland's brutal tackle merited further suspension. I saw no point in objecting when it came up for review after looking at the tape, it would have only given him the impression that I condoned his bloodthirstiness.  You see that we're in a promotion playoff spot, right? And that this club has gotten there despite you being gone for about a third of the season?   At least I can still get him to respect me. I don't want to promise promotion this year, he'll get upset if we don't make it and a playoff crapshoot is a playoff crapshoot. I don't think we can earn automatic promotion, we're still eight points back with fourteen to play, and I put our odds at making it through the playoffs at maybe one in three. This makes for our sixth player coming to me complaining about something.   Followed immediately by the seventh player. You'd think he'd realize why I'm not going to send him on loan, especially since he gets it the moment I tell him he's needed as backup.  I imagine I have a bulletin board up somewhere in the club facilities with team of the week clippings and a dry erase board showing who's made the team and how many times they've made it during the current season. vs. Peterborough, February 23, 2019 Championship  From a game against the first place club to a game against the last place club. Let's get right back to winning, boys. Starting Formation: 4-5-1 Attack. Starting 11: Higgs, Siegrist, Todd, Poole, Mejasic, Simpson (c), Shirra, Djurovic, Gorman, Mujkic, Harrison. Subs: Love, Garuti, Vaillant, Troelsen, Bailey, Coulson, Pym. Our offensive movement has been a sight to behold for most of the season, with our speedy players tirelessly stretching the opposing defenses. Yet despite three chances in the first ten minutes we have nothing to show for it. That number doubles by halftime, and we still are empty handed. I'm concerned, this is the type of game we could easily lose on an unlucky goal and continued failure to take our chances. When play resumes we don't give Peterborough a chance to take a lead on us, but we also stop creating good looks for our attackers, and I'm forced to pull Harrison and Gorman to try and spark the team. It doesn't appear to work, and we're facing the likely prospect of a draw as stoppage time begins, but Coulson finds us a very late winner as the seconds tick down. I don't ease off the team, and scald their ears with exhortations on how we can't afford to be so sloppy when we face better clubs. Man of the Match: Michael Coulson   Wrexham 1-0 Peterborough  Our potential future striker is now Qatari. Odd. This makes no difference to us, but in some leagues there's strict foreign player rules. Naturalizing players means you don't have to use one of your limited foreign player slots on them, and can enhance the team.  To say we're exceeding all predictions is to understate the matter considerably. I feel confident at this point stating that May will see us still in contention for promotion, but I'm not going to go beyond that. Before I worry full time about the possibility of moving to the highest level of English football, though, I'm going to be stocking our youth system with talent from all over Europe. Voulez-vous jouer avec moi? Répondre oui, s'il vous plaît. 
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