seamus

I never said it was bad.

Cosmo-poof

seamus. I don't really like the Ring of Fire. Maybe I'm not Poof enough.

mkus

I had Ring of Fire yesterday. I blame the particularly spicy Prawn Puree from the night before.

Cosmo-poof

Next time, try eating it instead. :cool:

Kallinan

Season 2011/12
Elgin City - Scottish First Division
"Avoiding the yo-yo"

Interesting off-season. The balance is over £2M, with a £1.8M transfer budget & £17k wage budget. I felt both budgets were too generous, and kept the wage bill to around £3.5k. I lost four scouts to retirement & other teams.

For signings, I wanted a striker, midfielder, and centre back. Particularly, I wanted young players, as my squad is aging and hasn't had much recent turnover. The facilities were finally upgraded to "average," which helped lure players. I was pleased, as I was able to sign a young player for every position I wanted, although none seemed like game-breakers.

Elgin's league form was good, but inconsistent. We would lose games by narrow margins, only to blow out our next opponents. Nowhere was this more apparent than losing to East Strilingshire 1-2 in the Scottish Cup, only to blow out Gretna 8-1 next week. Same team!

Dundee Utd didn't allow a league goal until late October, and was never in danger of losing the division championship. A late surge by Elgin assured a safe 3rd place position by year's end. Oh, and Gretna? I brutalized them during the season by a combined score of 23-4.

This year's shocker was the new 20-y.o. striker. He ran riot when healthy, scoring a ridiculous 35 league goals in 24 games. My star left winger set a club record with 17 assists, and was named First Division Player of the Year. The defense leaked like a sieve early on, but eventually learned how to play in this division.

Scottish 1st Div: 3rd, 18-7-11, 83-46, 61pts
Scottish Cup: 3rd round at East Stirlingshire. £50k prize money.
League Cup: Lost in quarter finals at Dundee Utd., 1-3. £30k.
Challenge Cup: Lost in finals to Patrick, 2-3. £10k.
Old Firm: Rangers win 8th consecutive SPL; Celtic win Scottish Cup, retain League Cup, & make it to semi-finals of Champions Cup

Lukewarm

I have always wondered what "Puree" is on the curryhouse menu.

Kallinan

Summer of 2010 - Fairly Basic Facilities. Still. Even though I had requested upgrades once per year.

Summer of 2011 - upgraded to Average Facilities.

Summer of 2012 - upgraded to Top Facilities Plus Youth Academy. :eek: :eek: :eek:

Kallinan

Season 2012/13
Elgin City - Scottish First Division
"Now With Shorter Updates!"

Bah. No notable signings this year. None! What good are my top facilites?! I can't convince a lad off the streets to sign with us

Won 9 of our first 10 games, despite being marked for relegation. Even broken legs & torn hamstrings to my wingers & top centre back barely slowed Elgin's attack. Used a powerful offense to build a lead on an otherwise level table, and never looked back.

Secured promotion to the Premiership with 6 games remaining. Turned down the Motherwell, Aberdeen, Hearts, and Hibernian jobs in the process. The locals talk of "miracles" and are "looking to dedicate a statue to [me] outside Borough Briggs."

Scottish 1st Div: 1st, 25-3-8, 100-47, 78pts
Scottish Cup: Quarter Finals at Kilmanrock (£130k).
League Cup: 3rd Round by Motherwell (£15k).
Challenge Cup: 1st Round at Clyde (£2k).
Old Firm: Celtic win SPL on the last day, with a 2-0 victory over the Rangers. Rangers win League Cup.

jcb23

WAHGERTY11!! The statue comment is still in the game \o/

KUTGW :thup:

bigsamstheman

Good stuff Kallinan. I don't understand why you are reluctant to use your wage budget, it's not like your still in Div 3. But as they say, it's your game...
Euro qualification this season for sure :thup: