retired_atlspiderweb

Now that would be tempting, i'm not sure whether to or not

prof101

Bulgaria/Poland will be my game once the patch appears. Feel free to delete my name off the table gundo as I was playing short term in Croatia. :thup:

retired_makaylalldredge

Well, survived 2nd season in the top flight. :cool:

Update to follow soonish.

retired_ironmaden

NK Slovan, mid-season update

It's gonna be one tough spring.

Standings are:

1. NK Mura, 14-1-0 (!!!), 43 pts
2. Bela Krajina, 8-3-4, 30-23, 27 pts
3. NK Slovan, 7-4-4, 25 pts
4. Triglav 6-5-4, 23 pts

The rest is well behind.

I think we can already present the automatic promotion spot to NK Mura, except if the end of the world comes sooner as the championship finish Being tipped for only 7th they stormed the league. Only draw came against Triglav.

Bela Krajina are at the same level as us. They are playing a strange 3-5-2 which is a tough nut to break.

We could be higher if only for the 4 lost points against newly promoted Izola. There is something in their uptempo game which definitely doesn't suit us.

Triglav has by far the most quality in their squad from the top 4. They seem to have internal problems an never really got going. If they sort out themselves, they'll be the most probable contenders for the promotion playoff spot.

The bottom half is much more balanced than last year, as now there are two decent newly promoted teams. Izola are at 7th, while Zavrc are occupying 9th spot, 2 points from safety.

Spring will be very interesting.

My key matches will be:


- Mura (A), Rd 20
- Triglav (H), Rd 21
- Bela Krajina (A), Rd 24

Back-to-back Mura and Triglav games will be tough. I don't like the fact that the Mura away game comes first as it might harm morale.

retired_OrangeOne

iacovone Good season of consolidation. :thup:

emgergo Good Luck in your remaining few games, you can do it! :thup:

retired_makaylalldredge

Vidir Gardi, 2010 (3rd Season), Icelandic Premier Division

League Table
League Graph
New Record
Finances
Club Info

A much improved season, unlike last year it wasn't a nailbiting end to the season. Largely due to the poor standard of Fylkir and Stjarnan we were safe from relegation with about 4 games to play. We have become much harder to beat and my young centre backs are beginning to mature into the potentially top class players I hoped they would. We still lack a class striker and after moving to a 4-4-2 formation this season, it has really shown with only 9 goals scored between my 4 strikers!

Upper League Cup didn't go well. For those that don't know it's a sort of pre season cup where there are two groups of 8 teams. Top 4 in each group qualify for the quarter finals, etc, etc.
Well this is how we did
Then there is the Icelandic Cup which we also flopped in.

So next season's aims are to continue progress in the league but more importantly go on a money spinning cup run.

Key Men (all nicknames)
Ellert
The Urn
and the new superstar - Hanson

Onto season 4. :cool:

retired_makaylalldredge

Sorry for double post but...New contract

prof101

Congrats Iacovone on consolidating your position and the new contract. :thup:

retired_george-leo

Meldert, Belgium - December 13th 2009

Mid-season table

Media prediction: 10th
Board expectation: safe mid-table

With that in mind, being top of the table to go into the winter break is something I should only be pleased about. But we gave away some valuable points in the last few matches, which could have put us several points clear.

34 goals scored in 15 matches is certainly very good, but we drew four of our last five matches - three of them scoreless - despite being by far the dominant team. This one was the most frustrating of the four. The others were a touch less extreme, but still enough to curse at the screen and call the game a dirty rotten cheater.

Luckily the other teams at the top lost some points as well, and so it remains a tight affair. My defense has been absolutely spectacular so far though, and if we can keep that up we have a good chance of pulling this off.
At least we managed to sneak into first place on match day 10, so we already secured the playoff spot.

Four of the back five players are the same as last season, but the strengthened midfield plays an important part in our great defense as well (by simply being able to keep the ball in the team a lot, and spending a lot of time on the opposition's half).

In midfield/attack, only Matthew Bartholomew, my star Trini&Tobago striker - who was called up for the Gold Cup last May and since earned 11 caps - remained in the starting eleven. The other five are loan players, mostly from First Division teams.

The reliance on loan players has multiple benefits. Not only does it strengthen the team considerably (perhaps even a bit too much so - I didn't quite expect to get all those players). It also allows me to stay firmly under the wage budget limit, so my financial situation is improving - slowly but surely - each month.

That'll be helpful in the long run, because with a 2400 stadium and basic training and youth facilities, we'll need to do some major investing in coming years.

But promotion to the Second Division is the first objective, and I'll be disappointed if we don't manage to do that this season.

retired_zoe77tb

gundo

you can take me off the list for now. strokspor [or whatever they were called] were as bad as i expected. i finished dead last, relegated in march, and obviously sacked.

i'm now playing the same season as the other team i had on offer, puchev. total contrast. i'm approaching the midseason break and i'm in 3rd and looking pretty hot. the difference between the 2 sides in terms of quality of players i'm able to attract is incredible.

i doubt i'll be promoted in my first season, but its not impossible. i'm really just giving myself a feel for the league before i start properly when the official patch is released