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15/4 Update:

The Loons
How apt.

Forfar 2 Stranraer 0 - 359
East Stirling 3 Forfar 0 - 313
Forfar 1 Stenhousemuir 0 - 370
Alloa 1 Forfar 1 - 342
Scottish Cup First Round - Queen of the South 4 Forfar 1 - 1115
Forfar 0 Berwick 1 - 379
Dumbos 1 Loons 1 - 789 - How apt I've managed both
Albion 0 Forfar 2 - 487
Forfar 0 East Fife 0 - 361
Forfar 0 Elgin 2 - 396
Stranraer 0 Forfar 0 - 431

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East Fife

Started **** and my youth team keeper who came in wasn't able to stop a ****. Nearly quit as I was letting in about four goals a game.

Then I had to go and eat and my ass man won 2 on the bounce and played a completely different youth team keeper who was much better then the one I picked. Doh.

Became mediocre from that point but at least I wasn't garbage. Finished third from bottom but only 9 points from the play-off's and if I can keep my end of session form going I might do that. Only if I get really lucky though.

Top marks to my ass man for being much better at my job then I am.

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Montrose - the Pools Player's friend

If nothing else, we've become hard to beat, and somehow, despite a run of only 4 goals in 7 games, we've become top scorers in the division:

League

v Stirling (H) 3-1
v Ayr (A) 3-2
v Brechin (H) 0-0, missed pen and 70 minutes against 10 men
v Morton (A) 0-0
v Raith (A) 0-0
v Queen's Park (cyber-Keith) (H) 1-0
v Arbroath (H) 1-1
v Airdrie United (H) 1-1
v Queen of the South (H) 1-1
v Stirling (A) 5-1
v Ayr (H) 3-1

Cup

R2 v Albion Rovers (cyber-Del) (A) 1-2

Some tables (\o/) for you:

SD3:



SD2:

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[b]22/4 Update

East Fife [b]

7 games, 5 wins and 2 defeats. I'm still in 7th but only 2 points of the playoffs now and it's very tight.

Only real down point was getting thrashed 5-1 by bottom and rubbish Elgin. Seeing as I started the session with my job under pressure it was an excellent evening.

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Forfar Athletic

Forfar 1 East Stirling 0 - 362
Stenhousemuir 2 Forfar 3 - 323
Berwick 0 Forfar 2 - 343
Forfar 0 Dumbarton 0 - 400
Forfar 0 Alloa 0 - 400
East Fife 3 Forfar 1 - 373
Forfar 3 Albion 1 - 365

5th, played 27, 39 points (same as third)

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Montrose

Forget the bit about us being hard to beat, tonight it was all too easy

v Brechin (A) 1-4
v Queen's Park (cyber-Keith) (A) 1-5
v Arbroath (A) 2-1
v Morton (H) 2-4, superkeepered into submission
v Raith (H) 0-0
v Airdrie Utd (A) 1-0

Somehow only 3pts off second, but currently occupying 6th spot

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Very poor session from Berwick.

I think I managed at least one win but the rest was disappointing!

Currently 9th and must be looking unemployment in the face!

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29/4 Updates

Montrose (mkus)

v Queen of the South (A) 3-3
v Stirling (H) 2-2
v Ayr (A) 1-0
v Brechin (H) 2-0
v Morton (A) 2-3
v Raith (A) 0-2
v Queen's Park (H) 0-0
v Arbroath (H) 2-0

With one game to go, a draw would confirm a playoff spot, a defeat would be okay if Arbroath failed to win.

Airdrie raced into a 3-0 lead and Arbroath were winning. Went just about as attacking as I could for the 2nd half, but we only pulled one back in the 71st minute. By the 83rd it was 3-3, and I was struggling to revert to a normal formation. Fortunately we held on, and Arbroath ended up drawing:

v Airdrie (H) 3-3

3rd spot secured, into the playoffs we go

Playoff semi
v Queen's Park (H) 0-0 (A) 2-0

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East Fife (Crosbysleftear)

Excellent session, beaten by champions East Stirling but that's about all that went wrong. Crept into the play-off places with a dramatic win over Simons Forfar and held onto that place just.

Play-off semi against second division Stirling was won 3-0 on aggregate and now I face Dumbarton for a place in division 2.

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The tables:

SD2



SD3



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1/5 mini session

Montrose (mkus)

Playoff Final

v Cowdenbeath (A) 2-2 (H) 0-1 (81st minute pen missed)

Still, not a bad 3 seasons - two playoffs and one promotion.

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East Fife (crosbysleftear)

v Dumbarton 0-0 (h) 1-1 (a) Promoted on away goals.

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6/5 Updates

East Fife (crosbysleftear)

I hate pre-season. Couldn't attract anyone apart from a new goalie and an old DC.

Good start to the season - 3 wins in 4 games. 2 wins were in cups though so not many points picked up.

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Montrose (mkus)

Preseason Friendlies:

St Mirren (H) 3-0
Nuneaton (A) 0-1
TNS (H) 2-3
Huddersfield (H) 4-1
Blackpool (H) 2-2
Albion (Del) (H) 7-1

League

East Stirling (cyber-Gil) (A) 0-1 had my arse kicked by more than the scoreline suggests
Brechin (H) 2-0

League Cup
R1 v Berwick (cyber-Chris M) (H) 4-3 AET

Challenge Cup
R1 v Raith (H) 3-3p From 3-0 up FFS

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No updates yet from the other lazy gits!

[KingsbayYHPE]

Ouvre

[retired_pmetzger1]

Merci.

2 seasons to do a summary update on:


2009/10

Div 2

Gil's East Stirling won the league quite easily, with my Montrose once again failing in the playoffs.

Chris' East Fife went down in the playoffs

Div 3

Del's Albion Rovers won the division by a handsome margin

2010/11

Div 1

A dull season for Gil, who spent most of the season in 9th and went down in the playoffs.

Div2
Del repeated Gil's trick and won 2 divisions in consecutive seasons with Albion. I unfairly got sacked by Montrose whilst still in the playoff hunt

Div 3

Somehow Simon got Forfar promoted on the last day, Darren joined us as Alloa manager, did crap, got sacked, got hired by East Fife after they sacked Chris, who retired from the game

Chris Gillman joined, randomly picked Alloa , did slightly better than Darren, but still finished 10th.

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Question...

How do pill poppers riding in the Tour de France help me win promotion with Forfar Athletic?

Answer...
By me watching their crazy antics, my Ass Man is busy securing promotion for me.

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Ayr

A better session this week saw a return of 5-3-2 in the league and took us to 7-3-8 overall, still in with a shout of the playoffs.

Darren got sacked again from East Fife, and as for the absent managers, Albion Rovers are 8th in SD1, East Stirling top of SD2, Forfar in the relegation scrap, Berwick and Stranraer also in the SD3 playoff hunt.

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2011/12 Season Summary

Ayr

A **** start, a decent middle (when I thought we might challenge for the playoffs), and a **** end - we started the last session only one or two points behind Alloa and ended it 13 behind, in 7th.

Division 3

A dull season for the LLaMas. Darren got sacked by East Fife, only to be re-employed by Berwick just before the end of the season. Scott took over Elgin for the last session:



Division 2
Gil took East Stirling straight back up (his assman did most of the hard work); Simon spent a large part of the season able to qualify for either set of playoffs.



Division 1
Not a lot to say - Del got Albion out of the division in style

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2012/3 Mid-season update

Ayr

After a slow start to the season we won all 7 in the league last night, with only 1 goal going past us, to surge into 1st place \o/

In the Scottish Cup, we found the Holy Grail, with an away trip to Celtic awaiting us in round 3.

Div 3
After a good start, Chris' Alloa are falling away a little, while Scott and Darren battle it out for 10th spot:



Div 2
Simon maintains hopes of a promotion spot, whilst Del fights a 2nd successive relegation:



Div 1
Gil looks like he'll be the 1st LLaMa to manage more than one season above SD2:

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2012/13 Season Summary

This season saw a bunch of new LLaMas join midway, will make for an interesting season next year as their teams settle down.

SD1
Gil earns the plaudits as the 1st manager to retain his SD1 place



SD2
After flirting with relegation for most of the season Albion actually held 4th spot with one game to go, only for Simon's Forfar to wrest it back and then get stuffed in the playoffs



SD3
A year of upheaval for most of the LLaMa teams, with new managers in abundance. After leading the table for quite a while, Ayr finished second and clung on to get promoted on away goals in the playoff final \o/