Saturday 7 March 2009

Youth Team Sell Off

So i have decided to sell off the majority of my u21s & u19s from Sunday 8th of March. I am just going to have an u17 side & use them at all ages (u21,u19,u18 & u17).Hopefully this will allow me to improve my seniors in a few key positions during the end of season wage wars & also allow me to improve my stadium.Ive already got the plans drawn up (in my head so to speak) & i am looking at a 3 tier stand with 2 corporate boxes & high value seating.At my current level it will give me roughly 205k per day stadium income :).With my media money being 50k & the sfa prize money payments i will be coining it in quite soon.

I am hoping to pay for these improvements with cash rather than the bank of SI as i currently owe 400k for my original stadium improvements with the last payment due on the 4th of April
Build the tier 1st & add the seats as & when i have the cash to do so.by doing this it should allow me to compete in the transfer market which will hopefully kick into life quite soon.

Current topic doing the rounds in the shearer chats is the amount of AI games people are having to endure (potential game killer). People are under the impression that the ai does wonders for their sides results & will help them climb the rankings. Having looked at the amount of sides inactive in the sfa we appear to be very active compared with other f.a's
Premiership - 2 inactive
Championship - 6 inactive
Division 1a - 10 sides
Division 1b - 4 sides

so realistically the only division we have a high % ai is the division 1a with over half the sides inactive, but with 22 sides out of 74 inactive it doesn't bode well for repeat subscriptions !!!!!

I have suggested an alteration via the fml forums regarding a change to how the ai rights work
but basically if both sides are online games can be played, Games gone to the AI stage can only be started during the FA's playing hours (gives the game more chance of being played live), with any ai games not played by the end of the FA's play time auto resolve as normal. I am hoping this gets looked at by the development team & maybe gets added into the game because they can see the benefit of this system.

Im still in the uffa silver cup having breezed through my group & beating fellow SFA side Wrexham Tigers managed by our SFA organiser Andy Elvis :) 2-1 down in the 1st leg with 10 mins to go a quick few tweaks to my tactics & hey presto 3-2 home win. Still all to play for in the 2nd leg. 1-0 an early goal by Alan Kardec (I'm already celebrating my win hehe) yet with Andy determined to progress himself soon battled back to parity & in all honesty looked set to snatch a winner in the game & take the tie on away goals. But it wasnt to be as half way through injury time a cross in & Kardec scored his 2nd goal of the game to take the tie & put me into the next round.

My league season as realistically ended mid table & so inconstant. Beat unathletic Madrid (1st) draw with Real Beziers lose to bottom of the table, Sounds more like Manchester United of the 80's than the usually reliable Inter i know, So i have thrown my head at learning the tactic skills in an effort to combat this form slide & help to turn it round asap