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04-16-2007, 03:01 PM
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Aquaplaning, Cups, pre-ordained, x1ⁿ Post #21 | | Warming Up
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Before anyone starts. I have absolutely no idea how to spell mullarkey, and I don't even know if it's a real word :p.
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04-16-2007, 03:02 PM
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Aquaplaning, Cups, pre-ordained, x1ⁿ Post #22 | | Warming Up
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Malarkey  .
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04-16-2007, 03:10 PM
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Aquaplaning, Cups, pre-ordained, x1ⁿ Post #23 | | Newb
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What you did wrong, Ian, is that you should have qualified for Europe by winning the Cup prior to getting promoted. Then you'd have avoided the cycle. 
I've seen it too, in other versions (yet to get to the EPL in 07). You always seem to do too well in that first season and then get the struggle you should have had in the second one, except that now it's compounded by a Euro Cup or the like.
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04-16-2007, 03:26 PM
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Aquaplaning, Cups, pre-ordained, x1ⁿ Post #24 | | Joe Blow
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Was certainly the case in FM05, and not just in the English leagues. My East Fife reached the SPL, finished 6th in their first season, then next year we would murder most European teams we met and proceed to concede three goals in the 10 first minutes of our next league fixture. Was sacked in December  | |
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04-16-2007, 05:09 PM
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Aquaplaning, Cups, pre-ordained, x1ⁿ Post #25 | | Registered User
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no problem :thup:
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04-16-2007, 06:15 PM
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Aquaplaning, Cups, pre-ordained, x1ⁿ Post #26 | | Newb
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Quote:
Originally posted by iajafer:
19 out of 20 posts in your "View Recent" field are in GPTG...and you have the bollox to offer an opinion on what's LLM?
Pur-leeze  | I have started a game with Blyth Spartans, not fully adhering to your, forgive me saying, extremely strict criteria, but not far off. Struggling lol.
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04-16-2007, 06:22 PM
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Aquaplaning, Cups, pre-ordained, x1ⁿ Post #27 | | Newb
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Originally posted by iajafer:
Let me tell you what happens.
You're promoted to the EPL, you do okay, qualify for Europe through the Inter-Toto or Uefa Cup, season two...you struggle like a bastard, do okay in Europe, and are relegated 4 times out of 6.
How do I know? Because it's happened 4 times out of the 6 times I've done it, and that's only in FM2007...it was the same in previous incarnations.
The 2 times out of 6 I escaped relegation by the skin of my teeth.
Funny thing is, when/if you get promoted with a second, or subsequent, team...then it doesn't happen, only with the first.
I'm sitting here laughing because the aquaplaning's about to happen again. We just beat Galatasaray 5-0 on aggregate in the 2nd knock-out round of the Uefa Cup, and we have 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th in the next four league games.
"We're go-ing...down again, we're going down again, we're going down, we're going down again!"  | Bragging threads :thdn:
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04-16-2007, 06:22 PM
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Aquaplaning, Cups, pre-ordained, x1ⁿ Post #28 | | Registered User
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Originally posted by Church:
Goodness me, Ian. Are you still going on about this imaginary aquaplaning. SI have stated categorically that this does not, and cannot, happen. | If SI said that then SI are talking phuking pysh  | |
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04-16-2007, 09:11 PM
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Aquaplaning, Cups, pre-ordained, x1ⁿ Post #29 | | Registered User
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I have it on the highest (SI) authority, that aquaplaning is but a figment of the Celtic imagination.
Superior management skills will prevent it :cool:
Funny but I do seem to be <STRIKE>aqua</STRIKE>driving on a wet surface most of the season just now :eek:
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04-16-2007, 09:26 PM
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Aquaplaning, Cups, pre-ordained, x1ⁿ Post #30 | | Newb
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I've never experienced what our jock mod describes, certainly nothing which suggests our bad runs are anything more than that.
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