Season 22-The Next Generation!

johnnysmack

Season 22 is nearly upon us. What is everyones goals for the season?

For myself (Polk High), almost certainly relegation from div 1 awaits me after selling the majority of my team and bringing in loads of 20yr olds or younger.

Almost certain relegation from div 1 in boards league also which im sure everyone will be delighted about and looking forward to getting revenge on me.

Cup, be lucky to get past round 4 or 5.

But the plus side is im starting a youth academy and im also now sitting on a big fat wad of cash that will only get bigger during the season from all the saved wages!

Phonehead

Seeing as you are not going to be focusing on trying to win stuff with your club..... fancy the NT job?

Plus I feel your pain, my team is that aging point where it would cost too much to replace like for like so starting again with a bunch of young lads may be the way to go in a seaon or two.

johnnysmack

Phonehead wrote: »

Seeing as you are not going to be focusing on trying to win stuff with your club..... fancy the NT job?

You know i've thought about it but im so much of a dictator i don't think i'd manage the community approach. Besides id only get found out as a tactical fraud!!

However i am thinking of running for journalist.

morgan62

Try and stay up in division 3 simple as that lol

Davyboy.

I'll be dropping down a division this season, aging squad plus I need to sell to get back in the black, the bank balance is so red it's ridiculous, only question is, who to sell, I don't really want to get rid of my Irish boys, Wallace and Hamo are doing so well, it'd be a shame if they went to a club that didn't train them, but I'm sure I'd get about 6 mil for the two.

Gelio

johnnysmack wrote: »

You know i've thought about it but im so much of a dictator i don't think i'd manage the community approach. Besides id only get found out as a tactical fraud!!

However i am thinking of running for journalist.

Honestly Johnny, give it a go! I think you would be outstanding.

The squad is just coming into a peak, you've got a great support team and if you feel you aren't doing it justice resign and someone else can take over.

Having one of Irelands best club managers in charge would be fantastic!

Phonehead

Davyboy. wrote: »

I'll be dropping down a division this season, aging squad plus I need to sell to get back in the black, the bank balance is so red it's ridiculous, only question is, who to sell, I don't really want to get rid of my Irish boys, Wallace and Hamo are doing so well, it'd be a shame if they went to a club that didn't train them, but I'm sure I'd get about 6 mil for the two.

Dude do not sell Wallace.... please

daheff

S22

Well for my main team FRF, its going to be a case of trying to overhaul Fewi :cool: and hopefully aim for top 4 again. Looks tough though, my old nemisis Yermen is promoted to my league, and Cool Breeze (who won their league coz a friend of mine went bot there :eek: )

going to be a tough season.....but not as tough as for my affiliate Alling Allstars....got promoted to div 2 in Germany (won playoff final by a couple of points coz the other team played wnwim vs my ltnt)

div 2 there looks to be horrendous....so i reckon a season of normals and the odd LTNT to try and catch somebody ..but automatic relegation is already a foregone conclusion there. Still 46 new members today for them....not all bad:D

Christy42

Get better training facilities up and running is the main aim (and coaches with them). May make a stab at promoting but I have no idea if I can either get ranking points to qualify automatically or enough CSR to win the play off game.

I guess I will find out.

johnnysmack

Christy42 wrote: »

Get better training facilities up and running is the main aim (and coaches with them). May make a stab at promoting but I have no idea if I can either get ranking points to qualify automatically or enough CSR to win the play off game.

I guess I will find out.

if you want to play monday friendlies you can take a chunk of my ranking points. I just want the igt out of it for the young lads

daheff

johnnysmack wrote: »

if you want to play monday friendlies you can take a chunk of my ranking points. I just want the igt out of it for the young lads

Feel free to challenge Alling Allstars too...I just want IGT...I've written off the season already for them (before a match is played)

Christy42

johnnysmack wrote: »

if you want to play monday friendlies you can take a chunk of my ranking points. I just want the igt out of it for the young lads

Polk High?

daheff wrote: »

Feel free to challenge Alling Allstars too...I just want IGT...I've written off the season already for them (before a match is played)

Challenged. Hopefully my team gets enough training to compete next season in Div III. Couple of pops today did no harm:).

throrm

Gonna fight to stay up in Div 3 for another year

Got 3 aging players ill need to replace soon enough - but loads of young lads so should be fine!

Worked out my finances, and I'll be losing 32000 every week I don't have a match, but I'll be earning 110,000 for every home match I have so finances will be a breeze for me this year!

Anyone here want to play monday friendlies for the IGT? My average team CSR is only 68000, so I don't mind getting hammered by someone every week if it means my boys will be learning!

MilfordBud

Starting the overhaul of my team. It's a 3 season plan which should lower my average age to around 26. Will comfortably make the playoffs but not a hope of going up to Div 1, I might take a pot at a cup run if I can bring in 1 or 2 more experienced but cheap players.

cclampett

not a clue wth my goals are

squad is still steadily improving with skills and csr and such, wages still perfectly manageable, age isn't a problem (4 players in starting 15 over 24, none in squad over 28) and don't really have much cash atm for any big transfers so there's no changes needed there until I see where I am next season.

while my finances are running fairly smoothly, the extra costs to open all the lv 5's is a bit too much this season, but its all ready to go when I can

cup is luck of the draw, but it would be nice to get through to a stage that reflects my national ranking position or better again.

promotion to div2... should be my one goal, squad isn't really strong enough to win a qualifier (reddogwonders took me 35-23 on lower intensity in the qualifier just last week) so I should probably try to win my playoffs w/o HGA in order to increase the ranking points on offer in those, so its win up to and including rd 9 and try figure it out then, looks that at least one of my fixtures should work out to throw losing a much smaller amount of points than I can win back off them in the playoffs, any others will be tricky to figure out but its too early yet. maybe I can throw one earlier depending on how the table shapes up

Scrummage

S22 should make div III play offs again but need to rebuild team and get rid of the oldies. A tough 1st game against Rookie. My affiliate is in with a good chance in scotland as the team that dropped from II to III has turned BOT leaving 4 evenly matched teams. Plus cash strapped so cant buy players

cclampett

gah - forgot you are on here or at least I wasn't making the link between the usernames - there'll be no 16k csr guys included against you this season!

throrm

I think its very possible for the Knights to finish 5th in Div III this year, after finishing 6th last year!

I think its definitely within our grasps to claim 6 wins compared to last years 4

eoferrall

go back to division II - simples!!

Run in the cup would be nice also

No offense to anyone here in the boards in my division, but if i don't take my eye off the ball I should be able to auto qualify for Div II and be back up next season.

finances back in the black, training young lads to replace ageing team, actually maybe I'll stay in DIV III! :P

Zagato

Pretty impressed with my new promotion's first outing

eoferrall

Not impressed - get bloody Fight Club in the cup!!:mad:

There's still bots in it, so harsh!

Zagato

eoferrall wrote: »

Not impressed - get bloody Fight Club in the cup!!:mad:

There's still bots in it, so harsh!

Well it's Grubber next week, so don't think my run will be very long :rolleyes:

morgan62

I got tralee titans so thats me screwed:(

johnnysmack

eoferrall wrote: »

Not impressed - get bloody Fight Club in the cup!!:mad:

There's still bots in it, so harsh!

There's only about 14 bots left and around 256 games to be played this round so you need to be really lucky to get a bot! But getting fight club is still a rough draw.

eoferrall

johnnysmack wrote: »

There's only about 14 bots left and around 256 games to be played this round so you need to be really lucky to get a bot! But getting fight club is still a rough draw.

ah I knew I'd be getting a human, but all humans should be in so a team of more my level would have been appreciated. upsets me when worse teams will glide through.

Have to check if his stadium is bigger so will I at least get a decent payout. Was hoping for a cup run to bolster finances.

Christy42

Clanwilliam RFC will be ending my run next week. Still they have a much larger stadium than me so looking forward to a nice payday, especially as I have to compensate coach/youth coach to the tune of about 133000 when my lvl 3's arrive in.

FewFew

Urf! Was in hospital for the first two weeks of the league. Managed to win first two league matches despite playing the cup bots on normal energy.
Get back in charge and get slaughtered by Yermen!
Oh my.

I was eyeing up a top 4 spot, but with 7 wins required to avoid relegation (on average over the last few seasons) I'm going to be hard pressed to find those next 5 scalps.

Squad is also ageing horrible. Buying old pros to keep me alfoat in Div II has left me stuck as they retire. Very tempted to struggle on, bring the young lads up, possibly take a dip down to Div III and try fight my way back.

johnnysmack

FewFew wrote: »

Squad is also ageing horrible. Buying old pros to keep me alfoat in Div II has left me stuck as they retire. Very tempted to struggle on, bring the young lads up, possibly take a dip down to Div III and try fight my way back.

I ditched all my auld lads at start of the season and even though I'm getting a battering now, im very happy the way the young lads are progressing and im pretty confident that im gonna be back stronger then ever in a few short seasons.

If you have to take short term pain for long term gain then go for it boss!

westman1

up against bosher in cup 50 :50 game

Christy42

Went LTNT cos hey extra experience and I will win my league easy anyway. Wasn't expecting to do well but 15 meters kicked after 75 minutes is something else:p.

westman1

got through 19-14 very releived

westman1

bit worried, busy in RL didnt fully set tactics so he (Team Lomu ) has gone ltnt so our stars are equal im on normal

westman1

think im safe

westman1

got Apoel Cormosia for my next end of the gravey train at least getting big pay off

cclampett

think I might be forced to chicken out too (but maybe not who knows :P , the walls have ears )

either way its been a good run financially (even with one away game paying less than a home bot match!) and am guaranteed another $124k

oh, and that apoel/ mauling bear game last night was a cracker, ended up following the 2 that went to sudden death as they were holding up next weeks draw

FewFew

johnnysmack wrote: »

I ditched all my auld lads at start of the season and even though I'm getting a battering now, im very happy the way the young lads are progressing and im pretty confident that im gonna be back stronger then ever in a few short seasons.

If you have to take short term pain for long term gain then go for it boss!

Yeah, I'm slowly beginning to do that now. Went to the aul transfer market and instead of buying in some legendary ol' pro that'll retire in three seasons, I went for a young lad that'll be starting for about 12. Still confused as to how my last crop of "young lads" are now nearing 30! BR time is weeeeird.

Also, just noticed the new zone-by-zone defence. That's going to be yet another thing to get to grips with :rolleyes:

cclampett

FewFew wrote: »

Also, just noticed the new zone-by-zone defence. That's going to be yet another thing to get to grips with :rolleyes:

check out the NT and u20 match threads on the offsite to see how zonal defences have been used by mouse and bracken

throrm

cclampett wrote: »

check out the NT and u20 match threads on the offsite to see how zonal defences have been used by mouse and bracken

Where are the match threads on the offsite?

cclampett

throrm wrote: »

Where are the match threads on the offsite?

you may not have access to it atm, pop me a pm in game (rookie) with your offsite account username and ill see what I can do

cclampett

opted to try a normal in the cup, interesting match up.
I play kenneally on Saturday, 1st v 2nd in the league, and play 8th in II.4 tonight while kenneally play 7th in II.4, so its a cup relegation battle between III.1 and II.4

Davyboy.

Jaysus, beat Cream of the Crop, jumped me 9th in the National rankings, how long will that last haha

Phonehead

Up to the dizzy heights of 80th in the World plus I got a really nice Cup Quarter final draw

throrm

Just pulled a 133kg prop into my youth academy with 32 stars

Its the little things that make my day

Phonehead

throrm wrote: »

Just pulled a 133kg prop into my youth academy with 32 stars

Its the little things that make my day

What level training do you have?

throrm

Phonehead wrote: »

What level training do you have?

only level 2!

He probably won't be an international star, but he'll be a strong part of my team for the seasons to come!

Phonehead

focus on strength, technique and stamina. He'll lock your scrum down

cclampett

stars are painfully close in my away cup tie to Vitamin G - my LTNT to what I assume is his energy depleted normal, so little to separate these sides in the prematch even the pack weights are the exact same, should be a tense one... if we didn't do anything too stupid with tactics

Davyboy.

Thru to the last 8 in the cup, best cup run ever for the Panthers, unexpected as I went WNIM against Tralee Titans, Simpletons next, it'll be a tough one to get thru, can't see it happen but you never know

The Lost Sheep

in 5th place in div 3, 1pt ahead of 6th, 10pts ahead of 7th and 8th is gone bot. Play 6th and 7th in next 2 weeks. Win both and I should be pushing to make my first div 3 playoffs..

crisco10

RAGE! just noticed one of my stronger squad players has started dropping age 29! :mad::mad:

johnnysmack

The revival is on!!

Several team stats have gained half a star this week!