retired_OrangeOne

Well Done fella. :thup: The promised land in double quick time aswell, very impressive. :thup:

Emm

Mullin is Phenomenal Jimbo, is he your favourite player their now? </BLOCKQUOTE>

I suppose so, but he's 31 already so there is little scope for him to dominate my game like Super Kyle.

Col is the guy that really makes us tick. He's the Target Man and Ross is the Super Kyle'esque support striker.

If I;m honest, Mullan is really just the beneficiary of my impressive corner tactics and benefits from being my regular penalty taker and has good fitness levels so plays a lot of games. I developed these tactics while doing dafuge's challenge and my centre-half had just started to consistently hit double figure goals from corners. I think he's got it easy, but bicycle kicks from a corner routine is special no matter where you play.

Emm

Well Done fella. :thup: The promised land in double quick time aswell, very impressive. :thup: </BLOCKQUOTE>

It's not lost on me that he's beat me to it .

Emm

Well Done fella. :thup: The promised land in double quick time aswell, very impressive. :thup: </BLOCKQUOTE>

It's not lost on me that he's beat me to it . </BLOCKQUOTE>

I'm having a good old bash at heading straight for the Champions League though. None of this Michy Mouse UEFA Cup mullarkey .

retired_elena70m

Knockbreda - End of season 2009/10

Premier Division Table

First Division Table

Second Division Table
(Lisburn Rangers have been promoted into the 2nd division)

Cup winners-
Irish Cup - Knockbreda FC
League Cup - Linfield
Intermediate League Cup - Glebe
Antrim Cup - Linfield
Antrim Trophy - Larne
Intermediate Cup - Wakehurst
All-Ireland Cup - Derry City

Delighted with the season, 7th place in the league is very pleasing considering we had a slow start to the campaign. Obviously delighted to win the Irish Cup.
Finances are quite bad, but there's light at the end of the tunnel Just received £40k annual payment from Man Utd which is quite nice.

Squad Stats

Hopefully Man Utd will send me over a wonderkid or two for the next season, but just in case they don't, I've signed a couple of players from Limavady Utd who should strengthen the first team, and I'll probably look to bring in a couple or so more.

I'll probably post some player profiles for some of my top players soon.

retired_elena70m

Well Done fella. :thup: The promised land in double quick time aswell, very impressive. :thup: </BLOCKQUOTE>

It's not lost on me that he's beat me to it . </BLOCKQUOTE>

I'm having a good old bash at heading straight for the Champions League though. None of this Michy Mouse UEFA Cup mullarkey . </BLOCKQUOTE>

You're certainly doing well, and a lot closer than I am to challenging for the league :thup:

retired_OrangeOne

Patrik Burda - Progress Report - Season 3

I love this kid, he's just been coming on leaps and bounds since his arrival a couple of seasons back. Well i'm into season 3 now with Stavanger IF and our second in the Norwegian first division (division below the top flight) where we are currently bobbing about in mid table.

Meet Burda: He is of Swedish nationality with a second nationality of Polish, the latter is where he chose to play his international football. He started out in the Polish under 21's at the age of 17. By the time he had turned 18 he had made his Polish senior team debut v Estonia but didn't score. :cool:

The first season when I signed him half way trough our campaign i'd used him sparingly and the same again the following season where he started only 18 of the possible 30 league games. This season so far it's been kind of hard not to play him as he's been playing really well of late despite a slowish start. :thup:

The Screenies:

His Profile.

His Stats.

And His History So Far.

His value continues to rocket aswell, he is now priced at 110k. That is a 100k rise in the space of a year! :eek:

My aims for him the rest of this season is to continue to help him progress and not play him too much that he gets burnt out, but at the same time maybe he can help his club maintain their first division status aswell. :cool:

retired_elena70m

Knockbreda

Thought I'd post profiles for my starting XI from last season.

GK - Aaron Riley

DR - Mark Watson
DL - Bryan Pentland
DC - Ross Hayes
DC - James Forsythe

MR - Jason Gillespie
ML - Patrick Rooney
MC - Chris Patterson
MC - David Hicks

FC - Neil Corr
FC - Keith McVitty

Only McVitty and Rooney are survivors from the first season, and I've just signed a new left winger who will probably force Rooney out the side. David Sinton (ST) and Terry McKay (DR) also still play quite frequently.
Hopefully I can improve on last season without making too many changes, the squad is very young (average age is 21) so they should continue to improve.
I really need to find a good goalkeeping coach, but there are none available. At the moment, the best rating of any of my coaches is 4!

The whole squad is Northern Irish except for David Hicks who is English. None of my players have been capped above U19 level internationally.
The Northern Irish squad is based entirely in the english leagues, except for 4 players who are at Hibernian.
The U21 squad is based almost entirely in Northern Ireland, with just two players in England. Jason Gillespie is in the U21 squad, but hasn't played for them yet.

Knockbreda are officially ranked 460th in the euro coefficients, 0.001 below all the other 8 Northern Irish teams listed.

Just arranged friendlies against Sunderland, Leeds, West Brom and Ipswich to warm us up for our European adventure. I find out who we'll be playing in about a week's time.

retired_OrangeOne

Some big friendlies for you there, will you be getting alot in gate receipts from those games?

retired_elena70m

About £5k each game, selling out the 750 capacity stadium. If i arrange a friendly away from home, do I get any money from gate receipts?