[retired_sara maria]

End of season \o/, one to forget.

Yet we've done no rebuilding in the offseason. I've received one young future star (hopefully) from Famalico or wherever Remco was previously. I at the end of the session I loaned in a Striker from Spain in hopes of curing my scoring woes. I don't know what it is, but we didn't score more than one goal all pre-season...except maybe against Remco in the final of the LLaMa Cup, which we won for the 4th time of 5.

Let's hope that proves to be our good luck charm as we didn't win it last year.

[retired_emanali]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Kfoolmoon:
At least he's European and playing in Europe, not an Iranian playing for a Tunisian club or something, like the other time my scout was in Spain... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Tunisia is still closer to Spain than Switzerland is, right?

[retired_babygirlgiggles]

It took a bit of help of Julian (thx) to get me hosting but finally the game took off.

While I was a bit unemployed I killed my time watching a game here and there and sending out some applications for jobs, all of them turned down of course.

THEN: the message came that (the again relegated) Boavista have appointed a new manager. I check to see what his last job was: Alverca!. Immediatley I send out a letter that I'm available. Strangely enough they accepted! :eek:

Alverca

While we were holidaying through the summer I get one message after the other that a player is loaned out. In the end it appeared that my ass.man has loaned out almost my entire midfield by loaning out 5! players.

Attracted a few scouts, a coach here and there and am starting to make the squad complete again.

For a change Alverca does have money and even a transferbudget so now I can wreck a club professionally

Bought two players from U.Madeira, a GK and a young D/M L, loaned in a striker from Academica who was two seasons on loan at Famalicão. Bought a certain ex-Louletano, ex-Odivelas Guinea Bissau player for a whopping 0k. Still looking for an extra player for the midfield (ass.man: )

Llama Shield started with a game against Cyber Jordi's Felgueiras. A quick 2-0 was slowly followed by a 2-2 meaning penalties. 2 early faults from Jordi's players ment that I was almost cheering for the victory but then my players started to make mistakes either. Finally on about the 9th penalty taker the game was a victory. ouch.

Second round against Cyber Julian, the real Julian forgetting to take control for this match. Eventough Cyber Julian fielded some donkey's my team did pretty fine and ran out 3-1 winners.

Meaning that for the first time in history I reached the final of the Llama Shield against Seamus' Louletano. Hmm. We didn't make much of an impression. Game ended in 2-1 for Louletano and our only goal was only possible because of an injury on Louletano's side. Ah well.

[retired_babygirlgiggles]

slight edit:
the Academica player was two seasons ago on loan at Famalicão.

Oh, and after checking my resume the board gave their expectations for this year: Rebuild the squad and invest in new players

[retired_sara maria]

I may be a bit late today as per my interview thread elsewhere, but if all goes according to form I'll kick her out in ten minutes and be on time.

[retired_kswansonwoolf]

Olhanense

It looks like last session's humpings and awful performances weren't just a matter of luck.

We hosted Portimonense, a D3 club for our last friendly. 0-0 draw, their keeper got MOM .

Espinho (H): First league match of the season, against a seemingly weaker team than us. Guess what, we lose . Manage to equalize 2-2 with 7 minutes to go, but they grab the winner on a counter attack. Same ol', same ol'...

Guimaraes (A): This lot just got relegated from the Superleague (i think). First half ends 0-0. we score twice in the second half through the M/SC \o/. They equalize almost immediately, with 15 minutes to go. We go gung-ho and it pays off. M/SC completes his hat-trick, super FRC gets his first of the season. A change of fate?

So, one win and one loss. But we need to win our home games if we're challenging for promotion, i can't emphasize this enough.

Seamus made an enquiry for the M/SC (worth 100k), but we couldn't agree terms. I doubt i would sell him even if we did agree terms . One of Adam's strikers interests me, but Adam isn't too keen to sell. I also tried to loan an AMC from Benfica, but he rejected me. Maybe at a later date.

[retired_mrsjb]

Maia

A brief update from me, since I was otherwise distracted during the session by either real football or the baby.

Maia made an unbeaten start to the season, with two away wins (Vianense and Fafe, 2-1 and 4-0). Our lone home game was a 0-0 draw with Infesta (who I also drew 0-0 with in a one-sided game during the run-in last year :bogeyteam: ).

Unfortunately, when I last checked, this was only good enough for 5th or 6th (I think) and left me as last placed human manager in the division :eek: What the heck have Jordi and Adam done to their teams to make them so much better?

Hopefully I'll be more focused on Sunday.

[Uknowmehfo]

Shortish Update

We land 3rd spot after the 3 first matches. The key? That would be not having allowed the opposition teams score even one :cool: because our Goals For count is rather poor...

However: 1 home win, 1 away win and 1 away draw...

[retired_babygirlgiggles]

Alverca

Not that many games played this session; partly because of some network difficulties and partly due to the slowness of the transferwindow.

I started off with 2 friendlies against former teams. Didn't convince in both.
A 94th winner scored against Santo Antonio and a 1-1 against Adam's Famalicão where Adam's goal was achieved because of the biggest blunder of any goalie I've ever seen. Goalie what were you doing running to the midfield?

Two home matches when it's for real
First a 2-1 against Rio Ave, followed by a 2-0 against Moreirense. Result: Alverca is top of the league :eek:
(that will undoubtly change when the away games are coming..)

[retired_mrsjb]

Maia

16.9.07 Boavista (H)
We lose our DR to a red card after just 6 minutes. Despite the setback we take a lead which our illustrious visitors need a dodgy penalty to equalize. A 1-1 draw is disappointing for a home game, but I'll take it given the circumstances.

19.9.07 Famalicao Adam (A)
We travel to the 100%-ers minus our star DR who is suspended. A 3-2 loss is in some ways attributable to the acres of space Adam's ML finds. His 9.75 av. rating SC is marked out of the game by my DC, which was pleasing, but I'm disappointed with our less than stellar performance, probably brought on by Kostis' voodoo doll as usual

23.9.07 Marco (H)
A win we barely deserved ends up with a deceiving 3-0 scoreline. Fortunately our forwards took their chances and the opposition SCs left their shooting boots at home. I'll take the points, but it's as poor a 3-0 win as they come.

We're currently in 6th, already 7 points behind likely champions Famalicao.

30.9.07 Lourosa (A)
We're unconvincing again. An away point is an away point, but we never recover defensively from the loss of our DL to injury early on and give up two sloppy goals in a 2-2 draw. We hold 6th spot. Adam's men continue with their 100% run and are now 9 points ahead of me.

7.10.07 O. Moscavide (H) Cup 3rd Round
Why can't we play like this in the league? I'm hoping for a money-spinning cup run, and my players seem to want that too. A comfortable 3-0 win in a match in which we dominate our D2BS visitors.

10.10.07 Sanjoanense (A)
We lose two players to injury in the first half, one of them the GK. A third substitution late on is also required by injury Despite an (unsurprisingly) disjointed performance we record a 3-1 win.

17.10.07 Vila Real (H)
The start of a run of 6 home games in my next 8 :eek: GK will miss them all with a groin injury. The first is a very comfortable 2-0 win (20-2 in shots). We're up to 3rd. Still 7 pts behind Adam though

21.10.07 Vizela (H)
Another comfortable 2-0 win in which we are rarely threatened.

28.10.07 Estarreja (H)
Another very comfortable win. 3-0 this time. We're enjoying home comforts here Adam's Famalicao is held to another draw, and we've closed to within 5 pts. Ominously, we are third behind fallen giants Boavista, but only on goal difference/alphabetical order/whatever is used in D2B.

A good session. I just hope Adam starts to lose the odd game so I have a hope of catching him