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Originally posted by Antepli Ejderha View PostThat's one of the reasons that I decided to call it a day foxy.
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Football, eh? Bloody hell.
Sneaking suspicion the Turds are going to stink the place out in the OTF top division. It's a promotion that was not on the cards - as recently as week 8 we were ninth in the table. Something just clicked halfway through the season (wish I knew what it was so I could c&p...)
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The Kneebiters will visit the murky depths of Division 2 for the first time in club history next season. Relegated on goal difference, after an abysmal performance in the last game. Thoroughly outplayed by the direct competitors, who completely deserved their continued membership of Division 1.
Iko Ka Kansai will once more visit the GLX next season. Relegated on goal difference.
De Stroppendragers are only two points above the relegation line with one game to go in the J4GL Championship. However, if we win that game by three goals, we end in fifth place, which would be the best ever league finish in the 33 seasons of this franchise's existance (during 12 of which I've been in charge).
Following the flukiest of all away wins against a direct competitor, Lokomotiv Leiden find themselves four places but only three points above the relegation line in HLC 2, with six games to go.
Midway through the season, Märkische Mädels somehow find themselves in third place in the Human League top flight. We're closer to the relegation line than to the runaway league leaders, though.
Only Eintracht Eindhoven are relatively comfortable, in a playoff place in Dream League division 4.
It's not exactly a vintage period in the Wouter D stable of X11 teams. IKK better go on to win that vase, because there is very little to celebrate otherwise.
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Where are my manners? Many congratulations to Sits, of course! Well deserved.
The Kneebiters' season is the first time I ever really experience trouble due to a fragile player. At the start of the season, I sold our 32-year-old defender and our 32-year-old midfielder. This left 28-year-old freekick specialist Neo Myhill as my only defender over the age of 25. Together with a 32-year-old goalkeeper, they keep the average age in defense high enough. Neo, however, is also fragile. Two red cross injuries in this season meant that we had to field a lineup with far too young a defense. In the last game, Neo was accompanied in the sick bay by my oldest midfielder, 28-year-old Marciello Franco. The practical upshot is that we fielded a lineup with an average age of 23.82, which is not exactly the perfect situation in which to start a relegation six-pointer.
I never hesitated in taking on fragile players, since I thought that their drawbacks were not quite so big and the reduced transfer fee might be worth it. But now I'm not so sure anymore.
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Outstanding. Left it all out there on the park then, clearly! I was wondering if you'd be able to afford to bet the farm on our game today, considering the prize at stake, but well knowing the ruinous effect of trying to maintain a title push while keeping recalcitrant players in form. (Royal Atlantis in the Heineken are the poster boys for this, having had a terrific first crack at the top flight so far, yet with our finances non-existent, our form terrible and our DVs shocking we're in real danger of imploding horribly over the second half of the season.) Whatever it was you did, it's worked like a dream all told. Many congratulations Sits -- having attempted to maintain professional distance previously as your final opponents' manager, I can now say I'm delighted for you! And yes, it's another case of a newly-promoted side winning the title out of nowhere; what odds would you have given the Swine before the season started, eh??
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