[retired_deanna69]

aston villa's results this season have been poor but it was what was expected of them at the start.

in the second half of the season villa only managed to win against:

2-0 at home to leeds
2-1 away to portsmouth
3-0 away to blackpool in the league cup only to be bet by rivals birmingham city in the next round 2-0.
1-0 at home to man city
the villans then went on a run which saw mostly losses
after a run that saw 5 defeats and 1 draw, villa entertained newcastle and won 3-2 in greatly contested match.

they then took on boro and held on to win 2-1.
next matc was away to wolves in a match where villa were hammered 3-0,this started off a run of 7 successive defeats to put villa firmly in the relegation dogfight.

in between that bad spell was some shining light as villa bet ipswich 2-0 in the FAcup but gloom returned to villa park as they then lost 2-0 to leicester in the next round.

this terrible run left manager Fran Cochrane scratching his head and wondering what his team had to do to get a win.

villa traveled to fulham and with their formation changed slightly they took the 3pts with a 2-0 win, then drew 0-0 at home to portsmouth.

after yet another loss at blackburn ,villa just about managed to scrap enough points from their remaining games to finish 1 point above to relegation zone.


during the summer transfer window Cochrane went into the transfer market looking mainly at loaning players and possibly buying 1 or2 to strengthen a side which didn't want to be fighting the same battle in the coming season.

[retired_adgjn]

Blue curse strikes again

well what a dissapointing season for boro fans, a miserable premiership finish of 16th was not what was desired by the board or the fans.

the distraction of the fa cup turned into a nightmare too, as boro lost to a cardiff team containing 5 past or present boro players (vidmar, kavanagh, stockdale, harbuzi and beirholm) surrendering a one goal lead to 2 well taken set pieces goals.

the curse of the team in blue continues for boro who have lost every cup final they have been in to a team in blue

zenith data systems 1-0 loss to chelsea
league cup 1-0 loss to chelsea
fa cup 2-1 loss to chelsea
league cup 1-0 loss to leicester
and now fa cup 2-1 loss to cardiff

will boro win a title ever, not if they keep on performing how they did this season,

the pressure is on murphy to deliver even though he came 3rd in the manager of the year awards, and fair play to oskarsson, boro's only bright spot who won player of the year

boro must improve or murphy must go either must happen soon

[retired_bmun2001]

Plymouth start off real well in new season and currently find themselves 1st (early days yet though)

As plymouth signed numerous new players for the new season to make their squad much better equipt for division 2 football this season they wanted to try the near enough all new side out to see how well they would perform as a team. The answer was very good but they still couldnt get a cup momentum going yet. The results of all the games that have been played so far in the 2nd season are listed below.

Plymouth 3-0 Burnley
Scorers: walton (2), weatherson

Start of the new season and all plymouth players were looking in superb condition after they dominated this game against the joint favourites to go back up. Even though walton got off to a great debut by scoring two goals he didnt really play that well. Continuing the trademark tradition weatherson named as man of the match for his first game this season and helped to set up waltons goals. Never the less plymouth got off to a great start.

Hull 3-2 Plymouth
Scorers: Walton, weatherson (ET)

This game was always gonna be a big game for plymouth as hull were a decent team in the same division as them. Hull started off rather strong and didnt let the front men for plymouth have much space to do something. Hull then scored one moments later due to a plymouth freekick backfiring a little. Plymouth then scored around the 83rd minute to take this game into extra time. Near enough as soon as the first half of extra time kicked off hull took the lead to make it 2-1. The second half then came and weatherson got a goal to make it 2-2. It wasnt until the very last minute that hull made it 3-2 and knocked plymouth out of the league cup in the very first round for a 2nd consecutive season.

Plymouth 1-1 Oldham
Scorer: Abbott

Due to marc walton getting injured in training which has left him out for 2 weeks Plymouth Argyle manager Lee Owens always knew that his team would struggle upfront in this game. This gave abbott his first start for the club after moving to Plymouth from Preston at the start of the season. The game kicked off rather slow and there wasnt to many chances for either team. Abbott then scored to get his first goal for Plymouth and put a smile on manager Lee Owens' face. Oldham then responded almost immediately and took that smile back off his face.

Notts County 0-1 Plymouth
Scorer: Abbott

Note: 4 players were sent off for notts county in this game

Plymouth were strong all the way through this game from start to finish and didnt let notts county have one chance. Abbott and weatherson missing loads of chances and notts county's keeper putting on an excellent display. The scoreline should of been alot more as they were down to 7 players but a win was all the Plymouth were searching for.

Wigan 0-3 Plymouth
Scorers: Aljofree, weatherson, abbott

Note: 1 player sent off for wigan

After the previous result plymouth were on great form. They started off again by dominating the game start until finish. Aljofree scored a great volley to give him his first of the season then weatherson and abbott again added to the scoreline to make the final score 3-0 to wigan. Considering wigan were another newly relegated team Plymouth manager Lee Owens thought that they would of at least put up some kind of fight but they didnt.

With plymouth currently standing in joint 1st place in division two in these early days the season is already looking a bright one for Plymouth. Their new defenders mainly brought from premiership teams is gelling together very quick and Plymouth aint conceeding half as many as what they did last season. The question is will Plymouth keep up with the good form and keep that all important 1st place???? find out in Lee Owens' next team report

Information for clan members: next session wednesday 17th december normal times all should turn up apart from the 2 or 3 that i have already heard from and wont be there (haska (conn), nick (away), ali (footy) and simon (celebrating results). all the rest should be in the session and if you cant make it please email the clan email. Also dont forget your team reports and see you all wednesday

[retired_mobsysltd]

So near yet so far to the Premiership

Cardiff came so close to gaining promotion through the playoffs at the end of last season but just fell short of the finishing line. In what would have been a glorious end to the season the bluebirds missed out on the chance to play in the premiership.

Where we last left you Cardiff were just outside the playoffs and having a mixed bag of results in with some good cup runs.

The session after that contained some highs and lows again, with Cardiff advancing to the semi's of the FA Cup but only getting 5pts out of a possible 12 pts from their home games. The results of the session were as follows.

Sheff Utd (h) 1-0 FA Cup 6th Rd
Bradford (a) 3-0
West Ham (h) 0-1
Reading (h) 2-0
Gillingham(h) 0-0
Watford (h) 1-1
Sheff Utd (a) 1-0

The next session was a mammouth one and would decide the outcome of the league, FA Cup and playoffs as well.

It started superbly with a 1-0 win over Arsenal in the FA Cup semi final, a result which we deserved. A couple of home wins including a thumping 6-1 win over Norwich and some good away results ensured we finished the League in 4th place. Meaning the playoffs beckoned against Nottm Forest followed by an FA Cup final against Boro.

A 2-0 win at home was followed up with a superb 6-1 away win at Forest to take us through to the playoff final with a 8-1 agg win. We had no time to celebrate as the FA Cup final was next.

Despite losing an early goal and being second best for much of the 1st half we managed to grab an equaliser and then with 20 mins to go grabbed the winner!

Cardiff were FA Cup winners!

Again no time to dwell as the playoff final was next. Despite the previous form the final was a massive let down and we went on to lose 1-0 to Sheff Utd, a team we had previously beaten 3 times that season. Promotion was not to be sadly but we look forward to next year in Europe! and also the possibility of promotion.

The results of the final session of that season are as follows.

Arsenal (n) 1-0 FA Cup Semi Final
Walsall (a) 1-1
Derby (h) 2-0
Rotherham(a) 1-1
Norwich (h) 6-1
Nottm F (h) 2-0
Millwall (a) 0-1
Stoke (h) 0-0
Nottm F (h) 2-0 Playoff Semi 1st leg
Nottm F (a) 6-1 Playoff semi 2nd leg
Boro (n) 2-1 FA Cup Final
Sheff Utd(n) 0-1 Playoff Final

[retired_bmun2001]

just to let all members know we have a new member starting next session on sunday 21st in place of joakim klemets who has now been kicked from the clan for not turning up for 4 sessions in a row. The new member is called stephen toner and is millwall. Also i will be posting a team report 2nite and i hope to see others continue to post team reports like they are doing at the moment

[retired_bmun2001]

Plymouth go into a bit of a bad patch for a while but still riding high in division two

After being 1st place early on in the season plymouth needed to continue this good form in the sessions to come. Plymouth carried on winning a couple of games but then a few games later their first defeat came in the league so far this season and now find themselves conceeding alot more goals than what they were before. New plymouth striker Marc Walton seemed to be working well with weatherson upfront netting 6 goals out of 7 games that he has played so far so going well for him and his future at plymouth is already looking a good one for the 19 year old star. Details of all matches that plymouth played last session in the clan are listed below

Plymouth 2-0 Bournemouth
Scorers: Walton, weatherson

First game of this session and a very good start. Plymouth were by far the better side all the way through the match and went into this match basically knowing they were going to win as bournemouths form of late was very poor.

Wrexham 1-0 Plymouth

This was one of those unlucky games for Plymouth as they dominated the match all the way through and missed loads of chances. But the only chance that wrexham had they scored.

Plymouth 3-0 Hull City

Plymouthj lost out to these in the first round of the league cup so they needed hull city to pay the price and they did and could hardly stop plymouths forwards. Hull had little chances and needed most of their players to defend for most of the match.

Swindon 2-2 Plymouth
Scorers: Walton, weatherson

This game started off just the way plymouth manager Lee Owens wanted it to as they went 2-0 within the first half. But second half was a bit worser although plymouth still had most of the possession but swindon took advantage of all the attempts they had and clawed 2 goals back to make the final score 2-2.

Rushden 1-0 Plymouth

This game was probably the hardest game of the season for Plymouth so far and probably one of the most important against's ant's rushden. The game was very evenly matched all the way through the game but a very late goal for rushden on the 89th minute meant that they got the 3 points that could of gone to any of the 2 teams really.

Barnsley 2-2 Plymouth
Scorers: Walton, weatherson (pen)

This was another potential win that was again thrown away due to poor defending. Plymouth like in the swindon game went 2-0 up within the first half then barnsley came back.

Plymouth are currently standing in 3rd place but most teams have a game in hand over them. It is looking like it is going to be a very interesting season for them. Manager Lee Owens believes that if they can get some good winning streaks together he could be going for the 1st place that he wants. Once more games have been played in the season then plymouth know what they will have to do to achieve the task that is at hand. Plymouths new players also have gelled quite quick with each other and the defence seems more tighter than last season. More to come in the next update

[mrfunktastick]

just to let eveyone know, i won't be able to play again in the clan until at least the 12th jan

[retired_bmun2001]

thats no problem mate see you then. Also our clan game is now upgrading to the new patch that was released today so can everyone who is a clan member please make sure there championship manager is the latest version (4.1.3) thanks and see you all on sunday session apart from the members i have already heard from that wont be able to attend

[retired_bmun2001]

Information about our clan games: On sunday when the next session is the clan games will still run using 4.1.2 for the time being until 4.1.3 is sorted out and doesnt cause more bugs than before. I dont want to risk losing our clan game so thats why we are still going to be playing the clan games using 4.1.2

[retired_bmun2001]

just to let all members know the clan website http://cmelclan.tk has now been giving a new layout (hope you all like it). Im very pleased with it and i hope you all like it a lot better than the last website layout.

We are also looking to create our own forum very soon just for the clan but where others can post aswell