Journo Updates

FewFew

Zine has some new stuff, some spotlights on Div 2 managers, Div III.3 preview, interview with Ruck_Maker etc., Boardsie Cup mid-stage review...

More to follow once people get back into the swing of things.

Leadership

Very informative and impressive so far, I for one and reading the content regulary so top marks for your effeort in this.

Do you have any idea how many managers are reading this?

FewFew

Leadership wrote: »

Very informative and impressive so far, I for one and reading the content regulary so top marks for your effeort in this.

Do you have any idea how many managers are reading this?

Glad you're enjoying it.

Not too sure about the amount of managers, I'll have to dig up my hit-counter details and see how popular it is, but judging by the comments we've been attracting a fair few of the regulars.

My current project is a genius plan to drag in more views... I'm previewing every Round 5 Cup match! So that's 128 managers that should drop by for a look at the journo team's predictions

Matches 1-20 are already up!

Gelio

Frankie you are some journo . . . i'm inspired

FewFew

Matches 21-30 in the cup are now done.

FewFew

It may have taken til 5am, but every single cup match has now been previewed! Got get some! Now to sleep, perchance to dream.

daveharnett

Absolutely brilliant work. How on earth did three bots make it this far?! I've had to fight tooth and nail to survive the last two rounds :eek:

Your observation on Glenagragra is well made - their academy seems to have a habit of churning out monster players.

FewFew

daveharnett wrote: »

Absolutely brilliant work. How on earth did three bots make it this far?! I've had to fight tooth and nail to survive the last two rounds :eek:

Your observation on Glenagragra is well made - their academy seems to have a habit of churning out monster players.

One of the bots, the team Yermen has, apparently just went bot between last week and this. Not sure if the others are the same, I might check that out, but some managers are very lucky.

Gelio

It shows how many active teams there are. Of these active teams only a small proportion are involved in the off-site. What could be done?

satory

Im "on" the off site but I dont participate in any form of conversation there...

I've always seen it as mainly an International setup site, and as my youth system is slowly getting up to scratch for me to even consider joining the next UTP(S14?). This site here is where I come to first when I look for answers, etc.

FewFew

Yeah, I've always found the off-site very hard to get into. The only reason I go there now is this Journalist lark and I feel I'm obligated. It's a hard one to figure out really, but there seems to be a much greater sense of community here on boards than on the off-site.

Wylie Luke

You guys make me feel at home here......blagh

eoferrall

frankie you better not have cursed me... and also that was a very short write up for my game. you think it will be that cut and dried do you!? thinking of going WNWIM, manager hasnt logged in since 15th and energy levels are good so must be default to this or normal no? I think I could take him on wnwim and him on normal.. despite very few of my "stars" playing... his csr levels are pants.

daveharnett

Fewcifur wrote: »

Yeah, I've always found the off-site very hard to get into.

Mostly because it's a mess tbh. It really needs active moderation to establish some semblance of order.

crisco10

Fewcifur wrote: »

It may have taken til 5am, but every single cup match has now been previewed! Got get some! Now to sleep, perchance to dream.

Stunning work fewcifur. I am completely in awe.

satory

Fewcifur wrote: »

It may have taken til 5am, but every single cup match has now been previewed! Got get some! Now to sleep, perchance to dream.

Not too bad...

Only 12 predictions wrong out of 62, a success rate of 83%

FewFew

satory wrote: »

Not too bad...

Only 12 predictions wrong out of 62, a success rate of 83%

12 wrong?! ****sake... guess it's time to write up a post-mortem :rolleyes:

Gelio

satory wrote: »

Not too bad...

Only 12 predictions wrong out of 62, a success rate of 83%

Im happy to say my game was one of the wrong ones:D

FewFew

ajeffares wrote: »

Im happy to say my game was one of the wrong ones:D

I just posted up a post-mortem of the Round 5 adventure. I may have got some of my analysis wrong, but I reckon I've figured out the majority of my mistakes.

... except for Porn Stars, still no idea how they dominate in the line-outs when they have shiiiiiite locks :P

crisco10

Fewcifur wrote: »

I just posted up a post-mortem of the Round 5 adventure. I may have got some of my analysis wrong, but I reckon I've figured out the majority of my mistakes.

... except for Porn Stars, still no idea how they dominate in the line-outs when they have shiiiiiite locks :P

More excellent work. Where do you find the time!?!?

And I notice you got Vagrant's prediction wrong also. He hasn't logged on since 5th June and has been playing pretty much the same team and they are all wrecked. (hence they are 5th in the league!)

FewFew

crisco10 wrote: »

More excellent work. Where do you find the time!?!?

And I notice you got Vagrant's prediction wrong also. He hasn't logged on since 5th June and has been playing pretty much the same team and they are all wrecked. (hence they are 5th in the league!)

Hah, ah, I'm on holidays from one job before starting a new one, so this is one of my ways of keeping up productivity, in an odd way.

Ah so Vagrant hasn't logged on in weeks! Damn, that was one element I didn't really have time to check, I only copped the Whitehorse one because of you guys talking about it here. Ah well, that's one confusing match out of the way. Now, if anyone has an answer to the Porn Stars question I'd be happy

eoferrall

Fewcifur wrote: »

Now, if anyone has an answer to the Porn Stars question I'd be happy

If someone could tell me that too, the skill levels must be huge..but csr isn't so I duno! He's in my league challenging myself & orizio!

FewFew

eoferrall wrote: »

If someone could tell me that too, the skill levels must be huge..but csr isn't so I duno! He's in my league challenging myself & orizio!

That's just it! His csr is crap, his guys are pretty short and they're really light. He has good CSR on his team, but it must all be in the backs. I would have said he wins by just overloading with the backs, but in that last cup match he dominated in the lineout and pretty much made it the centre piece of his game.

jprender

Fewcifur wrote: »

That's just it! His csr is crap, his guys are pretty short and they're really light. He has good CSR on his team, but it must all be in the backs. I would have said he wins by just overloading with the backs, but in that last cup match he dominated in the lineout and pretty much made it the centre piece of his game.

Keep it in the forwards all day long and play drift defense.

FewFew

jprender wrote: »

Keep it in the forwards all day long and play drift defense.

Yop, but the thing that's confusing me is how he was so good in the lineout when it should have been his weak spot! His locks are about 10k and he was against taller, heavier locks on 20k. Bizarre.

Orizio

Fewcifur wrote: »

Yop, but the thing that's confusing me is how he was so good in the lineout when it should have been his weak spot! His locks are about 10k and he was against taller, heavier locks on 20k. Bizarre.

How do the hookers match up?

eoferrall

Orizio wrote: »

How do the hookers match up?

Osvaldo Corbo
19 years old | 12,824 CSR | 180 cm | 102 kg | Argentina
Left handed, left footed, in moderate form, and perfect energy levels.
A psychotic player with controlled discipline, average leadership, and non-existent experience.

nothing special... at only 13k...

He's played this guy a couple of times,
Romain Gérout
23 years old | 41,769 CSR | 175 cm | 96 kg | France
Right handed, right footed, in decent form, and pumped energy levels.
A conservative player with collected discipline, average leadership, and horrible experience.

FewFew

Orizio wrote: »

How do the hookers match up?

He played Cordo, at approx 12k, against Fukuda at 18k.
So he's lost in the hooker-off.

His two 2nds were 12K and 13K, measuring 201cm and 200cm respectively.
They beat ... holy ****... I think we have our answer... the competition fielded a 194cm 2nd row of 16k and a 201cm 22Ker. Could that painfully short number 4 be the reason for the stealing?
Fair enough, Ravenhill deserved to lose, they had 5 players taller and more skilled than that 194cm chap. I no longer feel bad.

eoferrall

Fewcifur wrote: »

He played Cordo, at approx 12k, against Fukuda at 18k.
So he's lost in the hooker-off.

His two 2nds were 12K and 13K, measuring 201cm and 200cm respectively.
They beat ... holy ****... I think we have our answer... the competition fielded a 194cm 2nd row of 16k and a 201cm 22Ker. Could that painfully short number 4 be the reason for the stealing?
Fair enough, Ravenhill deserved to lose, they had 5 players taller and more skilled than that 194cm chap. I no longer feel bad.

Think I need to roll out my tallest and nail the forwards!

coyote10

eoferrall wrote: »

Think I need to roll out my tallest and nail the forwards!

Nice to come across some in-depth analysis here on one of our league opponents!


So who's next ... Scorched Earth anyone? ... Big match coming up on Saturday :pac:

eoferrall

coyote10 wrote: »

Nice to come across some in-depth analysis here on one of our league opponents!


So who's next ... Scorched Earth anyone? ... Big match coming up on Saturday :pac:

****e! your b team at WNWIM should take that joker!

I would not advise the above tactics in anyway!

Gelio

coyote10 wrote: »

Nice to come across some in-depth analysis here on one of our league opponents!


So who's next ... Scorched Earth anyone? ... Big match coming up on Saturday :pac:

Please please beat Scorched earth, I don't know why but it makes me so happy when Orizio loses.

Edit: actually i do know why . . . shut Orizio up

FewFew

coyote10 wrote: »

Nice to come across some in-depth analysis here on one of our league opponents!


So who's next ... Scorched Earth anyone? ... Big match coming up on Saturday :pac:

It's only because Porn Stars made me unexplainably wrong. If Orizio proves the world wrong and actually wins a league, then I may just target him for such "how did he DO that?!" action :pac:

Orizio

Oh, am I playing you on Saturday Coyote? I suppose I should probably set my team for that or something *yawns elaborately* I'm thinking of packing this whole Blackout Rugby lark in actually, maybe turning to Buddhism, moving to the Tibetan mountains and selling my laptop in the process...

if only to get out of writing those ****ing articles for Fewcifur

Gelio

Orizio wrote: »

Oh, am I playing you on Saturday Coyote? I suppose I should probably set my team for that or something *yawns elaborately* I'm thinking of packing this whole Blackout Rugby lark in actually, maybe turning to Buddhism, moving to the Tibetan mountains and selling my laptop in the process...

if only to get out of writing those ****ing articles for Fewcifur

*Orizio waiting for people to care*






*nobody careing*

Orizio

ajeffares wrote: »

*careing*

Gelio

Just noticed your little white type there

FewFew

heh heh, I didn't see the white type until it was quoted! Good job Jeff, once again highlighting Orizio's cunning scheme!

Gelio

Fewcifur wrote: »

heh heh, I didn't see the white type until it was quoted! Good job Jeff, once again highlighting Orizio's cunning scheme!

typical Orizio with the hiddden agenda . . . this place is corrupt . . . we need reform

Orizio

Fewcifur, the 'bigger boys' aren't going to come and beat me up are they?

satory

Not really sure, but if you have the time it may be better to looking into a follow up for the Cup predictions article at some point over the weekend, just to see if you get more traffic to the magazine site, with a bit more notice, and all.

FewFew

Orizio wrote: »

Fewcifur, the 'bigger boys' aren't going to come and beat me up are they?

They might just do that, they're all about national this and national that. They terrify me.

satory wrote: »

Not really sure, but if you have the time it may be better to looking into a follow up for the Cup predictions article at some point over the weekend, just to see if you get more traffic to the magazine site, with a bit more notice, and all.

Already done bro, already done.

FewFew

Cup Round 7 preview is up. A lot of tight games and at least two division 1 teams going home in black bags.

dreamer_ire

Just catching back up on things before vanishing for another little while. Cracking write ups Fewcifur.... really impressed with the quality and the quantity. Keep it up and I'll be stuck reading them for days when I'm back again!

FewFew

There's now an NT write-up from Orizio, a Div II piece by Keogh and a Div III dealie from Fetch.

Gelio

i have a big piece on the way also

FewFew

NT update, more Div II manager spotlights and part one of the final four cup preview.

www.brirelandzine.com

Orizio

Any ideas as to when we'll get a review of the most important league in Div.3?

satory

Orizio wrote: »

Any ideas as to when we'll get a review of the most important league in Div.3?

you mean 3.13? :cool:

eoferrall

satory wrote: »

you mean 3.13? :cool:

no 3.14!:rolleyes:

FewFew

Orizio wrote: »

Any ideas as to when we'll get a review of the most important league in Div.3?

I'll have to check who's meant to do it. It obviously wasn't one of yours Orizio so I don't thinnnnnk it's mine, but I'll find out.