God is our leader, Dragons move on up to III

[thealmighty]

I've oftentimes dreamed of being important. Wish I had known that's what it took 20 years ago.

[thealmighty]

dola...


...WOW, a page to myself in a FrogMan dynasty. How much glory and notoriety will this bring?

[mrkilla22]

Nice training update FM. I hope I am on your list too.

[FrogMan]

well, well, well, pull, pull, pull, keep on pulling and somday you'll get something other than complete crap Here's the newest Dragon...

Gavin Weston (37042922) 18 years, passable form, healthy

A pleasant guy who is temperamental and upright.
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities.

Nationality:	Canada
Total Skill Index (TSI):	820 (164 000 C$)
Wage:	1 201 C$/week
Owner:	Cerio's Dragons FC
Warnings:	0

Stamina:	weak	Goaltending:	disastrous
Playmaking:	passable	Passing:	wretched
Winger:	inadequate	Defending:	inadequate
Scoring:	poor	Set Pieces:	poor

Not a bad pull, and since we have an open slot at winger, he will get 50% training in playmaking this week. Slow learner Jackie Cherry was supposed to play in that slot, but I feel more like giving a chance to Gavin, as I feel that his value may be a bit high for the skills he possesses. The guess I'm making is that one of his skills his a high one, let's hope it's a high passable playmaking one

There is all that, and the fact that we are short of warm bodies to play in Wednesday's friendly

On the financial front, the sponsor money jump to 125k U$ this week, up 6k from last week. Here's how the team's balance sheet looks before any crowd money income...

This week
Revenue			Expenses
Crowd	0		Arena	78 180
Sponsors	250 470		Wages	83 756
Financial	0		Interest	0
Temporary	0		Temporary	4 000
			Staff	126 000
			Youth squad	40 000
Total revenue	250 470		Total expenses	331 936
Expected income/loss				-81 466

This is all in C$, and it needs to be noted that we carry an extra 8 doctors compared to our regular staff of 2, because of the injury to Jon Riser. Without these doctors on staff, the team would be only 28 733 U$ short of breakeven, WITHOUT any crowd money factored in. I am very happy about this.

Speaking of Jon Riser, tonight was the first update where he had 10 PAID doctors attending to his injury, and let's say the results were not much better. Let's see how he is coming along...

update	game	doctors	Riser	gain	cum.	status
04-07-04 2:15	23.02	10	9880			+5	guessing
04-07-05 12:00		10	4450	-5430	-5430		game
04-07-06 12:00		10	4710	260	-5170		as of 04/07/06
04-07-06 23:00	cup	10	4970	260	-4910	+4	+4
04-07-08 12:00		10	5230	260	-4650
04-07-09 12:00		10	5230	0	-4650
04-07-10 12:00		10	5750	520	-4130
04-07-11 2:15	23.03	10	6020	270	-3860	+3	+3
04-07-12 12:00		10	6280	260	-3600
04-07-13 12:00		10	6540	260	-3340
04-07-13 23:00	friendly	10	6800	260	-3080
04-07-15 12:00		10	7060	260	-2820	+2	+2
04-07-16 12:00		10	7320	260	-2560
04-07-17 12:00		10	7580	260	-2300
04-07-18 2:15	23.04	10	7840	260	-2040
04-07-19 12:00		10	8100	260	-1780	+1	+1
04-07-20 12:00		10	8360	260	-1520
04-07-20 23:00	friendly	10	8620	260	-1260
04-07-22 12:00		10	8880	260	-1000
04-07-23 12:00		10	9140	260	-740	bandaid	bandaid
04-07-24 12:00		10	9400	260	-480
04-07-25 2:15	23.05	10	9660	260	-220
04-07-26 12:00		10	9920	260	40

First thing to notice is on Friday, which is the training update for me in Canada. Jon's value didn't AT ALL then, but moved EXACTLY double the very next update. This is not the first time I've seen this. It was even nicer that Jon's value didn't change on Friday, since he was in excellent form before his injury, and still is...

When I said I wasn't impressed by the work of the extra 8 doctors, well look at the difference between Saturday morning (the 12:00 one HT-time) and Saturday evening (or 2:15 Sunday morning HT-time). ONLY 10 points more of TSI value added, dang!!! Here's how his value will be moving if that 270 becomes his new rate of improvement...

update	game	doctors	Riser	gain	cum.	status
04-07-04 2:15	23.02	10	9880			+5	guessing
04-07-05 12:00		10	4450	-5430	-5430		game
04-07-06 12:00		10	4710	260	-5170		as of 04/07/06
04-07-06 23:00	cup	10	4970	260	-4910	+4	+4
04-07-08 12:00		10	5230	260	-4650
04-07-09 12:00		10	5230	0	-4650
04-07-10 12:00		10	5750	520	-4130
04-07-11 2:15	23.03	10	6020	270	-3860	+3	+3
04-07-12 12:00		10	6290	270	-3590
04-07-13 12:00		10	6560	270	-3320
04-07-13 23:00	friendly	10	6830	270	-3050
04-07-15 12:00		10	7100	270	-2780	+2	+2
04-07-16 12:00		10	7370	270	-2510
04-07-17 12:00		10	7640	270	-2240
04-07-18 2:15	23.04	10	7910	270	-1970
04-07-19 12:00		10	8180	270	-1700	+1	+1
04-07-20 12:00		10	8450	270	-1430
04-07-20 23:00	friendly	10	8720	270	-1160
04-07-22 12:00		10	8990	270	-890
04-07-23 12:00		10	9260	270	-620	bandaid	bandaid
04-07-24 12:00		10	9530	270	-350
04-07-25 2:15	23.05	10	9800	270	-80
04-07-26 12:00		10	10070	270	190

This would not be good enough to bring him back before the friendly of week 23.04... bleh... We'll see, Riser is being evaluated every day

That's about it for today, see ya at the game tomorrow...

FM

[FrogMan]

LEAGUE MATCH (week 23.03)
Date of match:		2004-07-11									Home Crowd Analysis
Match type:		league (23.03)									terraces:				29285		63.5%
Venue:		home									basic:				11528		25.0%
Weather		fairly good									under roof:				4231		9.2%
Crowd:		46135									VIP:				1091		2.4%
Income:		604 940 C$									Capacity:				60036		76.8%
Team Spirit:		delirious (8)									Supporters:				2164
											Ratio:				21.3
POSITIONAL MATCHUPS
		Cerio's Dragons FC											podiatrists
Midfield		passable (very low)	21			58%		6					15		weak (high)		Midfield
Right Side Defence		weak (very high)	16					5		57%			21		passable (very low)		Left Side Attack
Central Defence		weak (low)	14					9		62%			23		passable (high)		Central Attack
Left Side Defence		weak (very high)	16					2		53%			18		inadequate (low)		Right Side Attack
Right Side Attack		inadequate (very high)	20					15		64%			35		formidable (high)		Left Side Defence
Central Attack		passable (very low)	21					8		58%			29		excellent (very low)		Central Defence
Left Side Attack		passable (low)	22					7		57%			29		excellent (very low)		Right Side Defence
		HATStats	172										200	HATStats
		Stars Defence	13.0										20.0	Stars Defence
		Stars Midfield	20.0										16.0	Stars Midfield
		Stars Attack	7.0										13.0	Stars Attack
		Stars Total	40.0										49.0	Stars Total
Experience		poor	3										4		weak		Experience
FINAL SCORE
Cerio's Dragons FC						3		-	2			podiatrists
GOAL SCORERS
	Reuven Zaltzman (2)						1 - 0
	Gilang Juanda (7)						2 - 0
	Gilang Juanda (22)						3 - 0
							3 - 1					Jocelyn Otis (62)
							3 - 2					Alan Pall (67)
POSSESSION
	First Half Possession					58%			42%
	Second Half Possession					57%			43%
CARDS
	Gheorghe Bãnicã (Y11)											none
	Lars Aspenander (Y23)
REPLACED PLAYERS
	none											none
MAN OF THE MATCH
	IM Reimund Brigg (4.5*)											WB Mats Forshall (8*)
DRAGON PLAYER REPORT
Nick de Hooge Juan María Cavareda Defensive Reuven Zaltzman Offensive Patrik Kvarning Extra Inner Midfield Lars Aspenander Defensive Sergio Chapin Offensive Hubert Gortemaker Offensive Reimund Brigg Offensive Gheorghe Bãnicã Offensive Lars Andersson Normal Gilang Juanda Normal Set Pieces Gheorghe Bãnicã Sub (Keeper) Francois Boisclair Team Captain Nick de Hooge Sub (Defender) Quentin Doaré Sub (Inner Midfield) Miao Thanh-Tuan Sub (Forward) Michael God Sub (Winger) Marcus Hansson
GAME COMMENTS and OTHER NOTES

Wow, just wow. As much as I was pissed off about losing in the Canada Cup last Wednesday, I think podiatrists must be even more pissed off about that one game. Midfield was my only chance, and even with that, I decided to PIC, and got away with a win, and a spot in 2nd place of III.15, repeat after me: wow! Remember what I said in my III.15 outlook report at the start of the season...

Originally Posted by FrogMan

Podiatrists finished 1st in III.15 in season 22 and seem to have been playing forever, more than three calendar years actually... They have also been in III.15 forever, since season 14 in fact... They usually play 3-4-3 with no wingers toward middle and more often than not, only two inner midfielders. This explains the rather low midfield ratings for a team that has been playing for so long... Scary fact is that while playing 3-4-3, they do get some very good defense ratings... Ball control will be the name of the game for the Dragons, but I hold little hope of doing much against the podiatrists... They have not acquired any new players since October 11, 2003, while selling many. Because of this I thought they had a lot of money stacked up, which got confirmed when I took a look at the wealthiest teams in III, as they are 5th with 17.4M C$, or 8.7M U$... They also have the 8th biggest wages of III, with a hefty 266k C$ or 133k U$ per week... Definitely a forward trainer...

We started the game strong, and after only 22 minutes, we were up 3-0. Then the nailbiting started. Thanks Coach Doaré, for pulling back after 22 minutes, idiot! Darn, I hate pulling back. We managed to hold on to the lead, but barely. One of the big thing that may jump to you, but that I definitely noticed is that they played their B set of trainees against. This is in part due to the fact that my defense isn't what could be called fearful, and also the fact that podiatrists' opponent in the Cup this coming Wednesday has a much tougher defense than my Dragons. Not only were they a B set of trainees, but they also went a combined -4 levels of form in last week's training update, compared with a combined +2 for the other set of trainees. No doubt that if he had played his top trainees, or even a mix and match of the two against my team yesterday, the result could have been much different... All in all, an amazing win, probably undeserved, as we got beat in absolutely every ratings, but we'll take it.

The match was the team's 3rd best performance overall ever, at 97% of the top performance. Our midfield performance was the 7th best midfield performance ever, at 89% of the top performance. Considering this was a PIC, I am pretty happy about that result, as the few better performances all happened in games played normal, or even on MOTS order. Not only that, but this midfield performance came without Jon Riser in the lineup, which is worth mentionning. For the second competitive game in a row, the attacks pulled the best ever combined attack performance. Two offensive middies contributed a lot to these attack ratings...

Sergio Chapin, Hubert Gortemaker, and Gilang Juanda all played their best match ever as Dragons.

The PIC brought the team spirit to a nice POE+1, which came back down to POE after the update of this morning.

As you can see from the match report, I have added some crowd analysis numbers. These number will only be present in case of a competitive home match. Since I'm out of the Cup, this means home league matches. The numbers right next to the different styles of seats, and the number farther right represent their percentage of the total crowd. I find this useful to make sure my stadium has the right split between the different styles of seats. The percentage next to the capacity of the stadium represents at what percentage the stadium was filled. The number I like to see there is 100% Only filling up to 76.8% is mostly due to the team losing in the cup this past Wednesday. Next, you can see the size of my fan club before the match and the ratio of spectators per supporter. That 21.3 is very low, and is also due to the recent Cup loss. The best we ever did is 32.7, when we sold out against The Beatdown Collective in week 10 of last season. Given how the team's fan club has grown since that time, the best we could have done this week would have been 27.7...

The Dragons are now sitting in 2nd place of III.15, hosting a match for 1st place next week, as max calcio, the current holder of 1st place, will come to play at The Dojo. This bodes sort of well for the Dragons, as I see max calcio as a team we match up well with. This should make for an interesting match indeed, seeing how the Dragons just put up a best of season 172 ratings on a PIC at home (you could probably bet on a normal setting next week ), while max calcio also just put up a best of season, this time 174 at home too but the game will be at my home...

Among other news, the rights to winger/middie trainee Kristoffer Bjerre were sold to a Nederland team called Bruse Boys this morning. Sale price amounted to 1 530 000 C$, or 1 392 300 C$ after taking out the agent fees. The rights to Bjerre had been bought for 774 000 C$ in week 8 of season 22 and he has received 6 complete weeks of training of playmaking and 6 complete weeks of winger training. The weekly average return on his training, excluding the weeks of stamina training, comes to 51 358 C$. This is the first time I compute that figure and will start doing so from now on... I calculate the average return as being (sales price net of agent and listing fees - buying price) / weeks of training...

Is anybody else keeping track of a figure like that? I already keep track of how much the player earned per week he spent with the team, trained or not, offseason or not, but this is a low figure, given the lost weeks of training and such... Maybe I'll go back and try to figure what it was for a few old playmaking trainee I have sold in the past...

That's about it for the team right now, everybody is high on life, which looks good for next week's battle for first place at The Dojo...

FM

[kingfc22]

Nice win FM.

WOW, 2nd Place!!!

[mrkilla22]

Wow, congrats FM! That's a great win!

[terpkristin]

Um, wow!!!
Great job FM!! Of course, next time you play him he probably won't be playing his reserve forwards.
Good luck in next week's league play!

~tk

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by terpkristin

Great job FM!! Of course, next time you play him he probably won't be playing his reserve forwards.

Thanks. That is pretty much a given

That and the fact that with my team sitting in 2nd place, I've lost pretty much any and all chances of any other team taking me for granted and playing me softly... But I love it.

FM

[FrogMan]

Time for a quick roundup of week 3 in III.15...

week 3	HOME					AWAY
04-07-11	max calcio (164)	174	3	2	171	SD's BOYS (179)
	Nepean United (189)	197	4	2	156	Sackers (156)
	OFV Goose Bay (153)	148	1	5	197	Thoroughbreds (192)
	Cerio's Dragons FC (165)	172	3	2	200	podiatrists (193)

WEEKLY RATINGS	venue	MID	RD	CD	LD	RA	CA	LA	HR
podiatrists	away	4.50	8.00	8.00	9.50	5.25	6.50	6.00	200
Thoroughbreds	away	6.50	7.25	7.75	6.25	5.75	5.25	4.25	197
Nepean United	home	5.75	8.00	6.25	6.75	6.00	5.25	6.50	197
max calcio	home	6.50	6.00	5.75	5.75	3.75	4.00	5.50	174
Cerio's Dragons FC	home	6.00	4.75	4.25	4.75	5.75	6.00	6.25	172
SD's Boys	away	4.00	6.25	5.50	4.75	6.50	7.50	7.00	171
Sackers	away	5.75	4.25	5.25	5.50	5.50	5.00	3.00	156
OFV Goose Bay	home	4.25	6.00	5.50	5.00	4.50	4.75	5.25	148

Goose Bay and Sackers both losing comes as no big surprise to me. As I said in my match report, the Dragons winning was a pleasant surprise, but there was another big surprise in the max calcio win over SD's BOYS. Here how the two teams matched up for that game...

WEEK 3 RESULTS	score	MID	RD	CD	LD	RA	CA	LA	HR
SD's BOYS	2	4.00	6.25	5.50	4.75	6.50	7.50	7.00	171
at		64%	54%	59%	57%	53%	57%	54%
max calcio	3	6.50	5.50	4.00	3.75	5.75	5.75	6.00	174
		MID	LA	CA	RA	LD	CD	RD	HR

Don't you find this very, very similar to the Dragons-podiatrists match? Other than the fact that calcio ended up with a better overall rating, thus maybe making him their win less of an upset, they were owned by SD's BOYS in every other ratings. Midfield is still very important in this game...

That being said, you can't afford to go in a league like III.15 with ratings of 156 and 148, and expect to be able to compete week in, week out... I could understand Sackers maybe dropping the game in order to advance in the Cup, but Goose Bay is out, so he should have been able to put in his best lineup... I'm not gonna complain though

Here's how the standings for III.15 look after 3 weeks...

III.15
STANDINGS	W	L	D	PTS	GF	GA	DIFF	AVG HR	as FOFC	BEST HR
max calcio	3	0	0	9	8	4	4	167.0	169.2	174
Cerio's Dragons FC	2	0	1	7	8	6	2	167.0	167.5	172
Nepean United	2	1	0	6	8	4	4	191.3	192.7	197
Thoroughbreds	2	1	0	6	8	5	3	193.3	197.5	211
SD's BOYS	1	1	1	4	9	7	2	176.3	174.3	183
podiatrists	1	2	0	3	6	8	-2	195.3	196.0	200
Sackers	0	3	0	0	4	8	-4	155.7	154.5	163
OFV Goose Bay	0	3	0	0	2	11	-9	151.3	150.8	155

See, I didn't lie, the Dragons are really in second place And this, despite only having the 5th best ratings average...

SEASON AVERAGE		MID	D1	CD	D2	A1	CA	A2	HR
podiatrists		4.08	9.50	7.83	7.83	6.08	6.75	5.33	195
Thoroughbreds		5.83	7.50	7.92	6.42	6.25	5.42	4.08	193
Nepean United		5.42	8.00	6.67	6.33	6.33	5.08	5.92	191
SD's Boys		4.75	6.00	5.75	5.25	6.92	7.58	5.08	176
Cerio's Dragons FC		6.00	4.83	4.25	4.67	5.92	5.42	5.42	167
max calcio		5.83	6.50	6.17	4.92	4.92	4.25	4.25	167
Sackers		5.75	5.42	5.00	4.17	5.42	4.67	3.75	156
OFV Goose Bay		4.25	5.75	5.42	5.08	5.50	5.25	4.83	151
AVERAGE RANKS		MID	D1	CD	D2	A1	CA	A2	HR
podiatrists		8	1	2	1	4	2	3	1
Thoroughbreds		2	3	1	2	3	3	7	2
Nepean United		5	2	3	3	2	6	1	3
SD's Boys		6	5	5	4	1	1	4	4
Cerio's Dragons FC		1	8	8	7	5	3	2	5
max calcio		2	4	4	6	8	8	6	5
Sackers		4	7	7	8	7	7	8	7
OFV Goose Bay		7	6	6	5	6	5	5	8

It hurst my eyes to look and see my defense ratings being the 7th and 8th in the league, but how about that midfield, huh?

Speaking of those defense ratings, they should improve at least a little if GK Nick de Hooge's form keeps on improving, but I have devised a plan that should allow me to afford a brilliant keeper, and a formidable defender (or better) around week 12 of this season. I will traing Reimund Brigg and his solid passing/defending to outstanding playmaking. This should happen at week 11. I would assume I should be able to get around 2.5M U$ for a player like that. Anybody got experience with a player like that?

By week 12, I expect to have around 2.2M U$ in the bank, assuming some pretty conservative crowd numbers of around 38000 spectators out of a possibility of 60036, so plenty of room for nice surprises .

That 2.2M combined with the possible 2.5M from the sale of Brigg would then give me 4.7M to execute part one of my plan, get a brilliant keeper. I don't want to pay more than 3.75M for that brilliant keeper, which would leave me 0.95M for part two of my plan, a uber defender. Why a defender, you may ask. Reason is quite simple. Right now, my backfield is comprised of a solid defender playing as offensive centreback (Brigg), flanked on the same side by an excellent defender (Reuven Zaltzman), with another excellent defender (Lars Aspenander) on the island, i.e. the naked side, since I usually always pull my extra middie from the centreback position. Zaltzman is currently being trained in playmaking, in order to eventually replace Brigg as offensive centreback. When Brigg will pop to outstanding playmaking, Zaltzman should be at formidable+41% in playmaking, which would be more than enough to take Brigg's place. This would leave me with one excellent defender, then a dropoff in defending quality, with a solid one who's got no experience (Cavareda). By bringing in a top notch defender to play on the naked side, I'll be able to bring Aspenander to play alongside Zaltzman, which would make that side better (double excellent compared to solid/excellent)...

Now back to the money talks So for easier calculation, I'll be left with about 1M after the keeper buy. By then, current GK Nick de Hooge (excellent keeper w/passable experience) would not be needed anymore and will be sold. I would expect to be able to get close to what I paid for him when he had only inadequate experience, which was around 900k U$. This may be high, only time will tell. Net of agent fees, that would leave me with 800k to add to the 1M, for 1.8M U$, more than enough for a formidable defender, heck this could even be enough for an outstanding with a tiny bit of wing (inadequate) to be trained in the wingback slot!!!

So what do you think about that evil plan? Anybody's got a comment about the player values and possible sale price I mentionned in there? I know this will only happen in 9 weeks or so, but isn't it nice to get excited like this?!?

Man I love this game

FM

[mrkilla22]

I would say you are pretty close with the $2.5 mil for Brigg.

[FrogMan]

FRIENDLY MATCH

Date of match:

2004-07-14

Match type:

friendly (cup)

Venue:

away

Weather

fairly good

Crowd:

3616

Income:

23 218 C$

Team Spirit:

Paradise on Earth! (9)

POSITIONAL MATCHUPS

Cerio's Dragons FC

Fizzle United

Midfield

poor (high)

11

61%

4

7

wretched (high)

Midfield

Right Side Defence

poor (low)

10

2

55%

12

poor (very high)

Left Side Attack

Central Defence

poor (high)

11

52%

1

10

poor (low)

Central Attack

Left Side Defence

poor (high)

11

2

54%

13

weak (very low)

Right Side Attack

Right Side Attack

weak (low)

14

54%

2

12

poor (very high)

Left Side Defence

Central Attack

weak (very low)

13

54%

2

11

poor (high)

Central Defence

Left Side Attack

weak (high)

15

60%

5

10

poor (low)

Right Side Defence

HATStats

107

89

HATStats

Stars Defence

9.5

7.5

Stars Defence

Stars Midfield

13.0

10.5

Stars Midfield

Stars Attack

5.0

4.0

Stars Attack

Stars Total

27.5

22.0

Stars Total

Experience

poor

3

3

poor

Experience

FINAL SCORE

Cerio's Dragons FC

3

-

2

Fizzle United

GOAL SCORERS

Jackie Cherry (21)

1 - 0

1 - 1

George Grimes (35)

Jackie Cherry (37)

2 - 1

2 - 2

Nelson Ayala (69)

Jim Hendrix (88)

3 - 2

POSSESSION

First Half Possession

63%

37%

Second Half Possession

63%

37%

CARDS

Jackie Cherry (Y89)

Marcus Doyle (Y39)

Lyndon Bassett (Y60)

REPLACED PLAYERS

Juan María Cavareda (+2)

Jean-Stéphane Demorgny (+1)

MAN OF THE MATCH

Reuven Zaltzman (3.5*)

Magnus Falér (3.5*)

DRAGON PLAYER REPORT

Francois Boisclair Manuel Velez Defensive Marcus Hansson Extra Inner Midfield Quentin Doaré Normal Lars Aspenander Offensive Jim Hendrix Offensive Reuven Zaltzman Defensive Miao Thanh-Tuan Offensive Gavin Weston Offensive Michael God Normal Jackie Cherry Normal Set Pieces Jackie Cherry Sub (Keeper) Nick de Hooge Team Captain Quentin Doaré Sub (Defender) Sub (Inner Midfield) Sergio Chapin Sub (Forward) Lars Andersson Sub (Winger) Gheorghe Bãnicã Replaced players: Juan María Cavareda

GAME COMMENTS and OTHER NOTES

I won't comment much on friendlies during the season, but I'll start with one thing: I HATE FRIENDLIES!!!! Okay, feels much better now. Crowd was nice and, no offense to my friend Tellistto, sort of unexpected from a home crowd in a division VI stadium. Let's hope we can get as many people at The Dojo next week.

I hate friendlies because of stoopid injuries that happen in them. Juan María Cavareda, who was slated to start next to Reuven Zaltzman this coming Sunday, got injured with only 9 minutes to play in the match. He is still at +2 and will likely be unavailable this Sunday.... I'll see what I'll do about it, either play trainer Quentin Doaré or pick up a young wingback that could eventually be trained...

FM

[FrogMan]

A quick roundup of III.15 through the 3rd round of the Cup...

round 4	HOME					AWAY
04-07-14	Dafts Broken Heroes (IV.38)	188	2	3	192	podiatrists (1)
	Wendigo (IV.6)	116	2	5	158	SD's BOYS (2)
	Canuckleheads (IV.16)	202	6	0	121	max calcio (3)
	Toronto Maniacs (IV.13)	157	1	3	175	Thoroughbreds (4)
	Toronto 'Beans (IV.33)	172	2	1	167	Nepean United (5)
	Sackers (7)	186	0	1	156	The 6-Pack (IV.30)

Other than Sackers who got jobbed by the engine, everybody who deserved to win got the win. Sackers achieved an "excellent (very low)" midfield in that loss. That almost gets me thinking that he could have MOTSed, although that would be very stupid of him. If that was on normal, that's one scary midfield, giving them their best ratings performance of the season by almost 20 points...

max calcio, the Dragons opponent in week 4, look like they have PICed with backups. In the series conference, he commented about having his team at the new "Walking on Clouds" team spirit, while the Dragons are at delirious and should hold it there until Sunday's match. Should make for one heck of a match!

FM

[FrogMan]

We're back with our playmaking training program this week, let's see how it went...

Training
Not much was expected of our main middie trainees this week, and not much should happen for the next few weeks, as 5 of them popped in the last two regular weeks of last season. We still have two "virgin" trainees, players who have never popped once, in Jimi Hendrix, and newly pulled Gavin Weston.

With Jon Riser still recovering from his injury, this opened up a winger spot for training. I had to choose between slow learner Jackie Cherry and the new kid Gavin, whom I felt had a high TSI value. I gambled with Gavin, and it paid! Gaving Weston is now a solid playmaker, after only half a week of training Here's his player card...

Gavin Weston (37042922) 18 years, passable form, healthy

A pleasant guy who is temperamental and upright.
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities.

Nationality:	Canada
Total Skill Index (TSI):	850 (170 000 C$)
Wage:	1 201 C$/week
Owner:	Cerio's Dragons FC
Warnings:	0

Stamina:	weak	Goaltending:	disastrous
Playmaking:	solid	Passing:	wretched
Winger:	inadequate	Defending:	inadequate
Scoring:	poor	Set Pieces:	poor

I had my mind really set. As soon as he was gonna pop, he was gonna pop. So this morning I put him on the market, for the same usual price I start my youth pulls, i.e. 99 C$... But now, I'm thinking I should have kept him and trained him up maybe another level in playmaking, then some winger, and bye bye... oh well, live and learn... I know he will sell, and I won't go out of my way to keep him, but I'll keep an eye on his price...


Form

players form up	5
players form down	-3
net	2
form levels up	5
form levels down	-3
net form change	2
starters form levels up	3
starters form levels down	3
starters net form change	0

The good: Old geezers may come back to the starting 11... WB Quentin Doaré and F Michael God both improved their form by one level, to inadequate and solid, respectively. This may be enough for both of them to make a push at a starting spot at their respective positions... IM trainee Miao Thanh-Tuan may finally be coming out of the form doghouse, improving to weak form this week...

The bad: GK Nick de Hooge keeps his form roller coaster ride as he drops back to inadequate form... IM Reimund Brigg, and W Gheorghe Bãnicã also both lost some form, dropping to solid and inadequate, respectively...


Value Changes

nb value up	14
nb value down	4
TSI value up	3390
TSI value down	-590
net value change	2800

Nice overall value gain in this first week back to playmaking training... Biggest gainers were Miao Thanh-Tuan with 1100 TSI points, and Marcus Hansson with 840 TSI points. Among the few losers we find Gheorghe Bãnicã with 250 TSI points, and Reimund Brigg with 150 TSI points...


Opponent's report
Contrary to what had happened in the last few weeks, the opponent of the Dragons in this week, max calcio, had a good form update. My projected starting lineup for them has them at +4 / -1 in levels, and 3 of their players, albeit not all starters, saw improvement of +2 in their form...

FM

[FrogMan]

Not much to report with the weekly update. Sponsor money only increased 7260 C$, but that's in line with what usually happens around week 4. We are now at 257 730 C$ per week from sponsor money, which is almost 50k C$ more than what we had achieved at week 16 of last season...

And then the shit hit the fan, the piece of shit as in this guy:

Kevin Young (37471503) 18 years, passable form, healthy

A controversial person who is calm and dishonest.
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities.


Speciality: Technical

Nationality:	Canada
Total Skill Index (TSI):	40 (8 000 C$)
Wage:	1 000 C$/week
Owner:	Cerio's Dragons FC
Warnings:	0

Stamina:	poor	Goaltending:	disastrous
Playmaking:	weak	Passing:	wretched
Winger:	wretched	Defending:	wretched
Scoring:	weak	Set Pieces:	weak

I don't know how he can technical in anything with so many wretched skills. There's gotta be a high wretched somewhere He will play in our friendly this week and be fired right after...

Next up, match report for the league match of week 23.04...

FM

[FrogMan]

LEAGUE MATCH (23.04)
Date of match:		2004-07-18									Home Crowd Analysis
Match type:		league (23.04)									terraces:				15274		57.5%
Venue:		home									basic:				8129		30.6%
Weather		overcast									under roof:				2593		9.8%
Crowd:		26573									VIP:				577		2.2%
Income:		355 385 C$									Capacity:				60036		44.3%
Team Spirit:		delirious (8)									Supporters:				2178
											Ratio:				12.2
POSITIONAL MATCHUPS
		Cerio's Dragons FC											max calcio
Midfield		solid (low)	26			53%		3					23		passable (high)		Midfield
Right Side Defence		weak (very high)	16					3		54%			19		inadequate (high)		Left Side Attack
Central Defence		weak (low)	14			50%		0		50%			14		weak (low)		Central Attack
Left Side Defence		weak (low)	14			56%		3					11		poor (high)		Right Side Attack
Right Side Attack		inadequate (very high)	20			50%		0		50%			20		inadequate (very high)		Left Side Defence
Central Attack		passable (very low)	21			55%		4					17		inadequate (very low)		Central Defence
Left Side Attack		passable (low)	22			63%		9					13		weak (very low)		Right Side Defence
		HATStats	185										163	HATStats
		Stars Defence	13.0										11.0	Stars Defence
		Stars Midfield	21.0										20.5	Stars Midfield
		Stars Attack	8.0										5.5	Stars Attack
		Stars Total	42.0										37.0	Stars Total
Experience		poor	3										3		poor		Experience
FINAL SCORE
Cerio's Dragons FC						5		-	2			max calcio
GOAL SCORERS
	Gilang Juanda (18)						1 - 0
	Quentin Doaré (22)						2 - 0
	Michael God (24)						3 - 0
	Gilang Juanda (36)						4 - 0
							4 - 1					Urban Svensson (37)
							4 - 2					Urban Svensson (80)
	Hubert Gortemaker (85)						5 - 2
POSSESSION
	First Half Possession					53%			47%
	Second Half Possession					53%			47%
CARDS
	none											François Melchior (R18)
												Tobias Andreasson (Y25)
												Gilles Vergne (Y71)
												Lenny Robidas (Y77)
												Seth MacGrath (86)
REPLACED PLAYERS
	none											none
MAN OF THE MATCH
	Reimund Brigg (4.5*)											Tomas Johansson (5.5*)
DRAGON PLAYER REPORT
Nick de Hooge Lars Aspenander Defensive Patrik Kvarning Extra Inner Midfield Reuven Zaltzman Offensive Quentin Doaré Defensive Gheorghe Bãnicã Offensive Hubert Gortemaker Offensive Reimund Brigg Offensive Marcus Hansson Offensive Michael God Normal Gilang Juanda Normal Set Pieces Gheorghe Bãnicã Sub (Keeper) Francois Boisclair Team Captain Nick de Hooge Sub (Defender) Manuel Velez Sub (Inner Midfield) Miao Thanh-Tuan Sub (Forward) Lars Andersson Sub (Winger) Sergio Chapin
GAME COMMENTS and OTHER NOTES

Dragons are in first, Dragons are in first!!! Who would have thought? Huh? Who would have thought that the Dragons had what it takes to be in first place of a division III series, at any point of the season? Nobody, not even me

With much luck and some good game planning, the Dragons won the much anticipated match for first place in III.15. Even though it took a while before geting the first update, it came as a double good news for the Dragons in the 18th minute. Right after Gilang Juanda had scored the opening goal of the game, max calcio saw their best defender being sent off and they had to continue on with one player short. François Melchior, the defender sent off, is a regular 5 to 5.5 stars contributor to their defense, making his absence a real blow to their overall defense ratings. From then on, it was all offense for the Dragons, as they mounted a 3-0 lead in the next 6 minutes. Coach Doaré showed some skills, scoring the second goal, and then thinking that if he was capable of scoring, the Dragons were just too strong, so he decided to pull back the troups at 2-0... GRRRRR The good news is that we succeeded in adding 3 more goals after going into that dreaded prevent mode...

Attendance for the game was VERY disappointing, as only 26573 spectators showed up for the highly anticipated match. That number represents a ratio of only 12.2 spectators per supporter which is the lowest since two league matches were played in the rain in weeks 20.01 and 20.02, three seasons ago. Nothing warranted these low numbers, as the weather was overcast, yet not rainy, and besides losing in round 3 of the Cup, we are STILL UNDEFEATED. Even in my worse predictions, I had not envisioned getting only 177k U$ in crowd money. I sincerely thought that my figure of 250k was about as low as it was gonna get, especially with the streak I have right now, and considering this was a match for 1st place... oh well...

Apart from the luck of having calcio'S best defender sent out, the Dragons' performance was the best ever for the team as a whole, pushing the former first to the second place, at 93%, so a pretty good difference between the two. This was also the team's ever solid midfield with the new ratings. That low solid translates as a world class in the old ratings... The good balance between attack and midfield is certainly what gave us the win this week, as the team topped it's best attack performance for the third competitive match in a row...

Among tops in that match, we had our best total in stars, with 42, our best HATStats rating, with 185, and our first game with four players that had 4.5 stars... Among them, Gilang Juanda got his first ever 4.5 stars match which, combined with God's 3.5 stars, gave us 8 stars among our forwards... Marcus Hansson, who was until now seeing only action at middie during the team's friendlies, will now start pulling double duty, playing winger in league play, and getting his playmaking training during the friendlies. We usually have a stronger and a weaker side of attack. The stronger side used to be on the side of the more experienced Gheorghe Bãnicã, but this week, it went to Hansson's side, sign that the kid is ready for primetime...

One tiny thing got me unhappy, besides the low attendance. God was injured , but kept on playing, however, he showed a bandaid after the match, sign that his player card had been updated. More than that, he scored a goal. Even with these two events, he didn't go up one notch in experience. See, I have set an experience watch for four players, God being one of them. Before the game, the price to make him an inadequate coach was 74 600 C$, well that price was the exact same after the game, that's sad... oh well...

FM

[FrogMan]

And how did it go in week 4 for the teams of III.15, let's see...

week 4	HOME					AWAY
04-07-18	podiatrists (195)	209	3	2	184	Thoroughbreds (193)
	Sackers (156)	175	2	0	153	OFV Goose Bay (151)
	SD's BOYS (176)	207	2	3	206	Nepean United (191)
	Cerio's Dragons FC (167)	185	5	2	163	max calcio (167)

Thoroughbreds revamped midfield wasn't enough to overcome podiatrists this week, in a battle of defenses that still saw 5 goes be scored...

Sacker won, as I expected. It's becoming clearer and clearer that Goose Bay isn't strong enough to play in division III for more than one season at this point...

SD's BOYS may be the unluckiest team in III.15, as they came on top in ratings, yet lost the match. Their ratings got kind of boosted by a magnificent wing attack, thanks to the purchase of a utopian winger with solid passing that carries wages of 210k U$ per week He paid 5M U$ for him and the player is now on the market for 10M... Nepean saw one of their middies get redcarded in that match, making him unavailable for their match next week. The player is a 32yo middie with excellent experience that pulled 4.5 stars in his latest match. Nepean's opponent is one you know well, the Dragons themselves

Here are the ratings pulled by everybody this week...

WEEKLY RATINGS	venue	MID	RD	CD	LD	RA	CA	LA	HR
podiatrists	home	5.50	8.00	8.00	9.50	5.00	6.25	5.75	209
SD's Boys	home	4.75	5.50	6.00	6.25	7.00	7.50	12.00	207
Nepean United	away	5.50	9.00	7.50	7.00	6.00	5.25	7.00	206
Cerio's Dragons FC	home	7.25	4.75	4.25	4.25	5.75	6.00	6.25	185
Thoroughbreds	away	6.00	6.75	7.75	6.25	3.25	5.00	5.75	184
Sackers	home	7.00	4.50	5.50	5.75	5.75	4.75	3.25	175
max calcio	away	6.50	4.00	5.00	5.75	3.50	4.25	5.50	163
OFV Goose Bay	away	4.00	6.25	5.50	5.25	5.25	5.25	5.50	153

Here are the standings of III.15 after 3 weeks of activity...

III.15
STANDINGS	W	L	D	PTS	GF	GA	DIFF	AVG HR	as FOFC	BEST HR
Cerio's Dragons FC	3	0	1	10	13	8	5	171.5	176.5	185
Nepean United	3	1	0	9	11	6	5	195.0	200.0	206
max calcio	3	1	0	9	10	9	1	166.0	167.2	174
Thoroughbreds	2	2	0	6	10	8	2	191.0	192.8	211
podiatrists	2	2	0	6	9	10	-1	198.8	202.8	209
SD's BOYS	1	2	1	4	11	10	1	184.0	189.7	207
Sackers	1	3	0	3	6	8	-2	160.5	164.2	175
OFV Goose Bay	0	3	0	0	2	13	-11	151.8	151.7	155

As I was telling you, the Dragons are in the driver seat, getting ready to pay a visit to Nepean United in another 1st vs 2nd matchup... Our reign in 1st will probably be a short one But look at this:


Promotion from 3rd Division

	Leaders	Series	Goals	Points
5.	Tytans		15 - 4	12
6.	Halifax Huskies		11 - 1	12
7.	Mississauga Fierce		10 - 3	12
8.	The Hosers		14 - 3	10
9.	Groove Modulations		15 - 6	10
10.	Furious Backattack		13 - 7	10
11.	Cerio's Dragons FC		13 - 8	10
12.	Partizans		12 - 7	10

hehe, looks nice, doesn't it?

Average ratings of everybody...

SEASON AVERAGE		MID	D1	CD	D2	A1	CA	A2	HR
podiatrists		4.44	9.50	7.88	7.88	6.00	6.63	5.25	199
Nepean United		5.44	8.25	6.88	6.50	6.50	5.13	5.94	195
Thoroughbreds		5.88	7.31	7.88	6.38	6.13	5.31	3.88	191
SD's Boys		4.75	6.06	5.81	5.31	8.19	7.56	5.56	184
Cerio's Dragons FC		6.31	4.81	4.25	4.56	6.00	5.56	5.50	172
max calcio		6.00	6.31	5.88	4.69	5.06	4.25	4.06	166
Sackers		6.06	5.50	5.13	4.25	5.50	4.69	3.63	161
OFV Goose Bay		4.19	5.88	5.44	5.13	5.50	5.25	4.94	152

Dragons still strongly in first in midfield, and I'd expect midfield to be our saviour until the end of the season. If we keep the ball, they can't shoot on goal, if they can't shoot on goal, they can't score

From HATStats, III.15 is now the 5th toughest III division in Canada...

		Total	Total	Total	Average	Total	Ave
Rank	Series	Goals	Crowd	Stars	Stars	Ratings	Rating
1	III.12	71	140,086	370.0	46.3	1561	195.1
2	III.9	69	161,247	364.0	45.5	1545	193.1
3	III.3	92	180,699	375.5	46.9	1537	192.1
4	III.16	87	168,748	358.5	44.8	1500	187.5
5	III.15	72	134,438	344.5	43.1	1482	185.3
6	III.8	68	152,258	345.5	43.2	1444	180.5
7	III.6	69	162,286	363.5	45.4	1441	180.1
8	III.1	74	157,986	347.5	43.4	1431	178.9
9	III.7	71	139,583	358.5	44.8	1419	177.4
10	III.4	71	140,349	328.5	41.1	1402	175.3
11	III.11	64	169,696	333.5	41.7	1364	170.5
12	III.10	69	135,548	333.5	41.7	1342	167.8
13	III.5	70	127,663	333.5	41.7	1329	166.1
14	III.2	72	181,307	295.0	36.9	1108	138.5
15	III.13	69	109,064	299.0	37.4	1090	136.3
16	III.14	56	160,775	291.0	36.4	1073	134.1

185 is what the Dragons got this week, so we're definitely middle of the pack. We'll keep on fighting with all we've got

FM

[FrogMan]

We played the second leg of our home and home series with Tellistto' Fizzle this past Wednesday, but before that we pulled a hole filler and sold a player.

Kevin Young, the youth pull of last week, whom I had not even said a word about, will stick with the club, if only because he's got a very low salary. What kind of salary would a triple wretched player expect anyway... From now on, Kevin's teammates have decided that he will be know as "TW" or "triple wretched"

Then, on Monday, there was the deadline of Gavin Weston's listing on the transfer market. Gavin had been started at 99 C$, so it was virtually certain that he would sell. Final price of the sale: 175 600 C$, or about 88k U$. Not bad for a youth pull who got one week of playmaking training at the winger position... That was the good news, the bad news came in the form of that message:

SAY WHAT!?!? The kid has been with the team only 9 friggin' days!!! GRRRRRR, the drop was big enough to make the team spirit fall from delirious to satisfied...

FM

[FrogMan]

FRIENDLY MATCH
Date of match:		2004-07-21
Match type:		friendly (cup)
Venue:		home
Weather		rain
Crowd:		2520
Income:		17 177 C$
Team Spirit:		satisfied (7)
POSITIONAL MATCHUPS
		Cerio's Dragons FC											Fizzle United
Midfield		weak (low)	14			70%		8					6		wretched (low)		Midfield
Right Side Defence		weak (very low)	13			50%		0		50%			13		weak (very low)		Left Side Attack
Central Defence		poor (very high)	12			55%		2					10		poor (low)		Central Attack
Left Side Defence		wretched (very high)	8					4		60%			12		poor (very high)		Right Side Attack
Right Side Attack		poor (very high)	12			50%		0		50%			12		poor (very high)		Left Side Defence
Central Attack		poor (very high)	12			50%		0		50%			12		poor (very high)		Central Defence
Left Side Attack		passable (very low)	21			68%		11					10		poor (low)		Right Side Defence
		HATStats	120										87	HATStats
		Stars Defence	9.5										8.5	Stars Defence
		Stars Midfield	14.5										10.0	Stars Midfield
		Stars Attack	4.0										4.0	Stars Attack
		Stars Total	28.0										22.5	Stars Total
Experience		poor	3										3		poor		Experience
FINAL SCORE
Cerio's Dragons FC						4		-	1			Fizzle United
GOAL SCORERS
	Kevin Young (21)						1 - 0
	Jim Hendrix (24)						2 - 0
							3 - 0					Lyndon Bassett (67)
	Kevin Young (77)						4 - 0
	Marcus Hansson (85)						4 - 1
POSSESSION
	First Half Possession					71%			29%
	Second Half Possession					70%			30%
CARDS
	Quentin Doaré (Y88)											Larry Cloutier (Y57)
REPLACED PLAYERS
	none											none
MAN OF THE MATCH
	Reuven Zaltzman (3.5*)											Magnus Falér (4*)
DRAGON PLAYER REPORT
Francois Boisclair Manuel Velez Defensive Quentin Doaré Normal Marcus Hansson Extra Inner Midfield Juan María Cavareda Offensive Jim Hendrix Offensive Reuven Zaltzman Defensive Miao Thanh-Tuan Offensive Sergio Chapin Offensive Kevin Young Normal Lars Andersson Normal Set Pieces Miao Thanh-Tuan Sub (Keeper) Nick de Hooge Team Captain Lars Andersson Sub (Defender) Michael God Sub (Inner Midfield) Gheorghe Bãnicã Sub (Forward) Gilang Juanda Sub (Winger) Lars Aspenander
GAME COMMENTS and OTHER NOTES

Not much to report, other than the rain screwed up any chance of getting a respectable crowd. No injuries is the real positive of that match, and maybe the fact that we got a ratings of 120, which is about as good as we'll get from that B squad... Kevin TW Young scored twice, despite getting only one star in his debut with the Dragons...

FM

[FrogMan]

Quick at how the teams from III.15 still alive in the cup did in round 5...

round 5	HOME					AWAY
04-07-21	Leaping Lepers (III.2)	162	3	1	201	podiatrists (1)
	FC MPS Turku (III.7)	195	4	1	194	SD's BOYS (2)
	Coquitlam Rangers (IV.2)	198	6	1	147	Thoroughbreds (4)

Well, not too well frankly... Round 5 will be the last round where any team from III.15 will have played in the Cup. podiatrists got screwed again because of their bad midfield, as did SD's BOYS... Thoroughbreds almost looked like they threw that match, or didn't take it too seriously...

Anyway, this is good news of sort for the Dragons, since now with everybody out of the cup, nobody can get the TS boost they usually get from PICing cup matches...

FM

[FrogMan]

Very quick training update...

The team overall went +5 / -6 in form levels, with a not so good +1 / -3 in form levels to starters, bleh...

Marcus Hansson is the only starter to go up...

No pops, none expected, not for a few weeks, but around week 23.10, the team could see up to 5 of its trainees pop one level... Here's the status of every trainees...

Player	current playmaking	percent toward next pop	expected to pop
Jon Riser	brilliant	0%	23.13
Patrik Kvarning	brilliant	34%	23.10
Hubert Gortemaker	outstanding	34%	23.10
Miao Thanh-Tuan	formidable	30%	23.10
Reimund Brigg	formidable	48%	23.11
Marcus Hansson	excellent	25%	23.10
Reuven Zaltzman	excellent	67%	23.07
Sergio Chapin	passable	31%	24.01
Gheorghe Bãnicã	passable	33%	24.07
Jim Hendrix	weak	70%	- - -

FM

[daedalus]

Originally Posted by FrogMan

percent toward next pop

Geek!

[FrogMan]

bah, tell me something I don't know

FM

[daedalus]

Hee hee.

[lytic]

Looks like I'm the honored one that gets to play a home/away with the excel geek (spreadsheets make me wanna puke).

[FrogMan]

what the man said is true, not the puking, but the friendly playing

I had Fear of God set up to play next, but they're still in the Cup. Other teams I have in my list of friendlies to be played this season are Real Terps FC, CC FC, and Crazydoods. These will probably have to wait until after the FOFC cup is over though, we'll see...

FM

[FrogMan]

Weekly update was uneventful, if not that I totally forgot to fire 8 of my 10 doctors yesterday, doctors that were not needed anymore since Jon Riser is about 2 updates from being 100% healthy. There was that and the fact I also forgot to hire an extra economist, which was where I was up to , with almost 1.6M U$ in the bank account at the update... Oh well, no biggie, and you'll se why a bit later on, keep reading...

The sponsor money increase is now slowing considerably. We gained 2310 U$ this week, which is about 500 more than what we gained at the same update last season in division IV, so we're not going to complain...

Youth pull wasn't all bad...

Donovan Lecompte (37791136) 18 years, passable form, healthy

A nasty fellow who is calm and upright.
Has disastrous experience and passable leadership abilities.


Speciality: Head

Nationality:	Canada
Total Skill Index (TSI):	720 (144 000 C$)
Wage:	1 492 C$/week
Owner:	Cerio's Dragons FC
Warnings:	0

Stamina:	weak	Goaltending:	disastrous
Playmaking:	wretched	Passing:	weak
Winger:	solid	Defending:	weak
Scoring:	poor	Set Pieces:	poor

Just a sad thing he only had wretched playmaking and no real other secondaries to speak of, or I would have maybe made some place for him on my winger training program. We're still not into full time winger training yet though... Winger pulls usually don't sell for much but he was transfer listed this morning. Starting price 99 C$, like 22 or 24 U$ ... Considering he cost us 2k for the pull and 1k for the listing, we'd hope he'll sell for more than that...

That wasn't the end of the day yesterday though. I have been bookmarking a few outstanding defender, usually with at least weak in winger skill. Some of them with inadequate. I was mostly getting a feel for the market, more than anything. I had placed a few bids at one time or another, usually never going over 1.5M U$, which to me looked like a bargain for an outstanding defender. Yesterday, I came accross this young fellow:

Mario Bayer (13048115) 1 21 years, weak form, bruised, but training

A popular guy who is tranquil and dishonest.
Has poor experience and poor leadership abilities.


Speciality: Powerful

Nationality:	Deutschland
Total Skill Index (TSI):	3 940 (788 000 C$)
Wage:	5 449 C$/week including 20% Bonus
Warnings:	1

Stamina:	excellent	Goaltending:	disastrous
Playmaking:	weak	Passing:	poor
Winger:	weak	Defending:	outstanding
Scoring:	poor	Set Pieces:	wretched

I had bookmarked him and many others around the end of the week and had almost completely forgotten about him, until I looged in, with 1 minute left before his deadline. I placed one bid at 1.5M U$, got outbid once, placed what would have been my last bid anyway, and it held!!! Mario is now a Dragon, bought for what I think was a very reasonable price, at 1.656M U$. Anybody wants to comment on if that is the market price?? lytic or another defender trainer??

Anyway, I liked his poor experience, and his powerful specialty, combined with excellent stamina. From what I've read, powerful defenders have few weak spots, other than losing stamina faster in the sun, but with excellent stamina, this reduces the chances of a bad event happening because of that...

I know he is +1, but this is where my non-fired extra doctors come in Isn't it a good thing I forgot to fire them, huh? And that extra economist, who needs him now???

Weak form or not, he'll most probably step in the starting lineup over one of my two excellent defenders (both w/wretched exp) currently manning the wingback spots.

I'm happy about that buy, even though this means I'm doing part B of my evil plan before part A, but hey, you gotta go with the flow sometimes Nest step is really to buy that brilliant keeper...

FM

[FrogMan]

Forgot to mention that next time you'll visit the team's page on HT, you'll see some change at the top... Look closely...

Cerio's Dragons FC (108238)

Yep, that little house means what you think it means, the Dragons clubhouse is now open!!! Official address is club.hattrick.org/cdfc. Come visit us sometimes, sign our guestboook

It still a work in progress, especially in terms of graphics and colors, but we'll get there eventually

FM

[FrogMan]

LEAGUE MATCH (23.05)

Date of match:

2004-07-25

Match type:

league (23.05)

Venue:

away

Weather

rain

Crowd:

39619

Team Spirit:

content (6)

POSITIONAL MATCHUPS

Cerio's Dragons FC

Nepean United

Midfield

inadequate (low)

18

51%

1

17

inadequate (very low)

Midfield

Right Side Defence

weak (high)

15

9

62%

24

passable (very high)

Left Side Attack

Central Defence

weak (low)

14

2

53%

16

weak (very high)

Central Attack

Left Side Defence

weak (very high)

16

5

57%

21

passable (very low)

Right Side Attack

Right Side Attack

passable (low)

22

4

54%

26

solid (low)

Left Side Defence

Central Attack

inadequate (very low)

17

11

62%

28

solid (very high)

Central Defence

Left Side Attack

inadequate (low)

18

15

65%

33

formidable (very low)

Right Side Defence

HATStats

156

199

HATStats

Stars Defence

13.5

22.0

Stars Defence

Stars Midfield

21.0

18.5

Stars Midfield

Stars Attack

7.5

8.0

Stars Attack

Stars Total

42.0

48.5

Stars Total

Experience

weak

4

4

weak

Experience

FINAL SCORE

Cerio's Dragons FC

2

-

3

Nepean United

GOAL SCORERS

0 - 1

Olov Myrhall (11)

Gilang Juanda (20)

1 - 1

Patrik Kvarning (61)

2 - 1

2 - 2

Charlie Draper (86)

2 - 3

Danny Burt (88)

POSSESSION

First Half Possession

52%

48%

Second Half Possession

50%

50%

CARDS

Jon Riser (Y8)

Danny Burt (Y22)

Lars Aspenander (Y88)

André James (Y87)

REPLACED PLAYERS

none

none

MAN OF THE MATCH

IM Jon Riser (4.5*)

W Francis Easton (5*)

DRAGON PLAYER REPORT

Nick de Hooge Lars Aspenander Defensive Reimund Brigg Offensive Patrik Kvarning Extra Inner Midfield Reuven Zaltzman Defensive Marcus Hansson Offensive Hubert Gortemaker Offensive Jon Riser Defensive Gheorghe Bãnicã Offensive Gilang Juanda Normal Lars Andersson Normal Set Pieces Gheorghe Bãnicã Sub (Keeper) Francois Boisclair Team Captain Lars Andersson Sub (Defender) Quentin Doaré Sub (Inner Midfield) Miao Thanh-Tuan Sub (Forward) Michael God Sub (Winger) Sergio Chapin

GAME COMMENTS and OTHER NOTES

I have no real reason to be mad at the loss in this game. Look at it this way. We lost the stars battle, 48.5 to 42. We lost the ratings battle 199 to 156, losing all but the midfield ratings. I went into this game fully prepared to be outclassed, so we PICed in preparation for next week's match at home against OFV Goose Bay. Yet, with a mere 4 minutes left in the match, we were ahead by 1, that's when the guys let it slip... I guess it would have hurt less if we had lost something like 1-4 or 1-5, going down early by 2 or 3 goals, heh... That was one nailbiter game, let me tell you this... More and more, the Dragons are saying: "we belong here, we will stay in III.15, and someday we will rule it..."

Among good news from this match, Marcus Hansson pulled his first ever 4.5 stars performance, pushing his former personal top performance to second place, at 92%... That low inadequate on a road PIC wasn't too shabby. It felt good to have Jon Riser back on that pitch, even if that meant a bit of a drop in attack ratings... I guess Riser also felt good being back on the pitch, as he popped in experience, now up to weak experience. Riser was a clean youth pull when we bought him, this means he has gained each and every single experience point as a Dragon... Reimund Brigg also popped to weak experience, making it a nice week... 42 stars for the team tied our best ever that we had achieved just last week...

Lars Aspenander picked up his third yellow of the season and will have to sit out next week's league match. This isn't as bad a news as one would think though, as newcomer outstanding defender, Mario Bayer, got to "bruised but playing" status with the Monday morning update. He will play in this week's friendly, in hope of improving his weak form... He should be 100% healthy before next week's league match...

FM

[FrogMan]

week 5	HOME					AWAY
04-07-25	max calcio (166)	178	1	1	204	podiatrists (199)
	Nepean United (195)	199	3	2	156	Cerio's Dragons FC (172)
	OFV Goose Bay (152)	143	5	2	188	SD's BOYS (184)
	Thoroughbreds (191)	209	1	0	139	Sackers (161)

Well, my oh my, some weird results this week...

Calcio drawing with podiatrists is big, but not as big as Goose Bay destroying SD's BOYS as they did, wow! Look at them ratings, that was uncalled for, nothing explains that loss, well like nothing explains how my team stayed in the game for so long

WEEKLY RATINGS	venue	MID	RD	CD	LD	RA	CA	LA	HR
Thoroughbreds	home	7.00	8.50	9.00	7.75	3.25	4.50	5.00	209
podiatrists	away	5.00	8.00	8.00	9.50	5.00	6.50	5.75	204
Nepean United	home	5.00	9.00	7.75	7.25	6.00	4.75	6.75	199
SD's Boys	away	3.25	5.75	6.00	6.25	6.75	7.25	12.00	188
max calcio	home	7.25	5.00	5.50	5.75	4.00	4.50	4.75	178
Cerio's Dragons FC	away	5.25	4.50	4.25	4.75	6.25	5.00	5.25	156
OFV Goose Bay	home	3.50	5.50	5.25	5.25	5.25	5.25	5.50	143
Sackers	away	3.75	4.50	4.75	6.00	5.75	4.50	4.75	139

Calcio's draw may be explained a bit by the very good midfield they pulled though... Goose Bay, while getting a shitty midfield, still got a better one than the BOYS...

III.15
STANDINGS	W	L	D	PTS	GF	GA	DIFF	AVG HR	as FOFC	BEST HR
Nepean United	4	1	0	12	14	8	6	195.8	201.0	206
Cerio's Dragons FC	3	1	1	10	15	11	4	168.4	168.3	185
max calcio	3	1	1	10	11	10	1	168.4	172.3	178
Thoroughbreds	3	2	0	9	11	8	3	194.6	198.7	211
podiatrists	2	2	1	7	10	11	-1	199.8	205.0	209
SD's BOYS	1	3	1	4	13	15	-2	184.8	191.5	207
Sackers	1	4	0	3	6	9	-3	156.2	153.8	175
OFV Goose Bay	1	3	0	3	7	15	-8	150.0	147.2	155

Dragons are still hanging in there, with the big boys of III.15 And more importantly, 7 points ahead of that dreaded 7th place and auto relegation...

		Total	Total	Total	Average	Total	Ave
Rank	Series	Goals	Crowd	Stars	Stars	Ratings	Rating
1	III.12	91	167,153	376.0	47.0	1532	191.5
2	III.3	114	110,881	357.5	44.7	1512	189.0
3	III.9	85	165,418	371.5	46.4	1486	185.8
4	III.6	88	174,777	357.0	44.6	1475	184.4
5	III.11	81	124,719	358.5	44.8	1471	183.9
6	III.8	85	98,401	347.0	43.4	1456	182.0
7	III.1	88	137,463	358.0	44.8	1441	180.1
8	III.16	100	128,211	345.5	43.2	1438	179.8
9	III.15	87	95,638	345.0	43.1	1416	177.0
10	III.7	92	120,594	354.5	44.3	1391	173.9
11	III.10	85	93,782	344.5	43.1	1355	169.4
12	III.5	88	129,679	330.0	41.3	1341	167.6
13	III.4	93	123,797	332.0	41.5	1337	167.1
14	III.2	93	108,900	293.5	36.7	1083	135.4
15	III.13	97	144,895	310.5	38.8	1073	134.1
16	III.14	74	175,113	279.0	34.9	1063	132.9

III.15 slipped a little in all of III in Canada, thanks to the bottom three teams pulling lower ratings this week...

FM

[FrogMan]

This has been too much of a nice weather week that I have fallen a bit behind in my dynasty writing... Time to play catch up...

On Wednesday afternoon, Donovan Lecompte's transfer listing deadline came. He was last week's youth pull, an 18yo solid winger with not much in terms of secondaries, but a pretty nice value of 720 TSI points, or 72k U$. With the little secondaries he had, I thought it meant he was high solid. Well, high solid or not, he sold for only 12k U$. This is sad, he didn't even pay for one week of youth squad investment... oh well...

Next up, friendly match report and training report...

FM

[FrogMan]

FRIENDLY MATCH

Date of match:

2004-07-28

Match type:

friendly (cup)

Venue:

away

Weather

fairly good

Crowd:

2226

Income:

14 712 C$

Team Spirit:

delirious (8)

POSITIONAL MATCHUPS

Cerio's Dragons FC

SouthPark Cows

Midfield

inadequate (very low)

17

77%

12

5

wretched (very low)

Midfield

Right Side Defence

inadequate (very low)

17

55%

3

14

weak (low)

Left Side Attack

Central Defence

inadequate (very low)

17

59%

5

12

poor (very high)

Central Attack

Left Side Defence

inadequate (very low)

17

74%

11

6

wretched (low)

Right Side Attack

Right Side Attack

wretched (very high)

8

9

68%

17

inadequate (very low)

Left Side Defence

Central Attack

weak (very high)

16

7

59%

23

passable (high)

Central Defence

Left Side Attack

inadequate (very low)

17

4

55%

21

passable (very low)

Right Side Defence

HATStats

143

108

HATStats

Stars Defence

13.0

18.0

Stars Defence

Stars Midfield

17.0

7.5

Stars Midfield

Stars Attack

5.5

5.5

Stars Attack

Stars Total

35.5

31.0

Stars Total

Experience

poor

3

2

wretched

Experience

FINAL SCORE

Cerio's Dragons FC

5

-

4

SouthPark Cows

GOAL SCORERS

0 - 1

Steve Crain (17)

Manuel Velez (55)

1 - 1

Michael God (goal)

2 - 2

Jamey Goode (goal)

Miao Thanh-Tuan (goal)

3 - 3

Steve Crain (goal)

Reuven Zaltzman (missed)

3 - 4

Kenneth Millard (goal)

Marcus Hansson (missed)

3 - 4

Joacim Martinsson (missed)

Juan María Cavareda (goal)

4 - 4

Everett Singh (missed)

Nick de Hooge (goal)

5 - 4

Timothy Lee (missed)

POSSESSION

First Half Possession

78%

22%

Second Half Possession

78%

22%

CARDS

Michael God (Y38)

none

REPLACED PLAYERS

none

none

MAN OF THE MATCH

IM Reuven Zaltzman (4*)

WB Timothy Lee (3*)

DRAGON PLAYER REPORT

Nick de Hooge Mario Bayer Defensive Marcus Hansson Extra Inner Midfield Quentin Doaré Normal Juan María Cavareda Defensive Reimund Brigg Towards Middle Reuven Zaltzman Defensive Miao Thanh-Tuan Offensive Sergio Chapin Offensive Manuel Velez Normal Michael God Normal Set Pieces Michael God Sub (Keeper) Francois Boisclair Team Captain Quentin Doaré Sub (Defender) Lars Aspenander Sub (Inner Midfield) Jim Hendrix Sub (Forward) Lars Andersson Sub (Winger) Jackie Cherry

GAME COMMENTS and OTHER NOTES

A good friendly, if there is ever one... All the way to penalty kicks, and funniest of all, the tie gets broken by my usually starting keeper, whom I forgot to take off the lineup for this friendly

Very good news, no injuries, and with no offensive centrebacks, backups defenders in average form, and that starting keeper all in the game, the Dragons pulled their second best ever defensive performance, with inadequates of various sorts accross the defensive board...

Next up, training report...

FM

[FrogMan]

Training
No pops are expected for at least another two weeks, and none happened this week. This is kind of a slow time for training, but we'll have a crazy 2 weeks span around week 10-11...


Form

players form up	4
players form down	-3
net	1
form levels up	4
form levels down	-3
net form change	1
starters form levels up	2
starters form levels down	3
starters net form change	-1

Not a bad update overall, could have been better, could have been much worse. Among the good news, starters Marcus Hansson, and Reuven Zaltzman both popped in form, to excellent and solid respectively. Among the bad news, a non-pop to newly arrived Mario Bayer that leaves him at weak form. Even worse, he lost some value, meaning he's now closer to poor than to inadequate. Let's hope that playing him regularly will bring back some good form for him...


Value

nb value up	11
nb value down	10
TSI value up	3270
TSI value down	-1710
net value change	1560

I don't know if you've realized, but Hattrick has now stopped showing the player value with the currency of your country. I guess now is the time to start speaking solely in terms of TSI...

Not a bad week. A monster move up went to trainee Patrik Kvarning who gained 1070 TSI points without popping in form... Same for Mia Thanh-Tuan, who went up 650 TSI points, also without any change in form...

Big drops went to Reimund Brigg, and Jon Riser, who despite being trained this week, both saw their values go down around 400 TSI points each.


Opponent overview
Now this is where the good news could be found this week, as OFV Goose Bay went +2 / -10 in form levels adjustment to their overall roster, and 0 / -5 to their forecasted starters. Biggest hit went to their forecasted starting keeper, who lost two levels of form, from solid to inadequate...

FM

[FrogMan]

Increase in sponsor money has now trickled down to what I was getting last season, as it increased only 2310 C$, the exact same amount it increased last season, for the week 6 weekly update...

We have fired the 8 extra doctors we had on staff, to go back to our usual staff of 2 doctors, and we've also fired the 2 economists, since they are not needed anymore...

As an update, here's how our staff is looking nowadays...

Goaltending Coaches:	2
Assistant Coaches:	8
Sport Psychologists:	2
Spokepersons:	10
Economists:	0
Physiotherapists:	10
Doctors:	2

And our economy sheet looks like this, before any crowd money is factored in...

This week
Revenue			Expenses
Crowd	0		Arena	78 180
Sponsors	264 660		Wages	89 172
Financial	0		Interest	10 311
Temporary	0		Temporary	4 000
			Staff	102 000
			Youth squad	40 000
Total revenue	264 660		Total expenses	323 663
Expected income/loss				-59 003

All figures in C$, this means the team is now at under 30k U$ of breaking even before any crowd money, and that is with 10k C$ (5k U$) in interest cost...

The weekly youth pull was nothing to write home about, as I started my plan of pulling keepers in hope of getting a solid one to be the team's backup of the future. We got a poor keeper who spent the night with the team and got fired from the squad right in time to take his place as popcorn vendor for tonight's game... Such is the tough life of a poor keeper...

FM

[FrogMan]

LEAGUE MATCH (week 23.06)
Date of match:		2004-08-01									Home Crowd Analysis
Match type:		league (23.06)									terraces:				18666		61.8%
Venue:		home									basic:				7362		24.4%
Weather		rain									under roof:				3045		10.1%
Crowd:		30216									VIP:				1143		3.8%
Income:		415 140 C$									Capacity:				60036		50.3%
Team Spirit:		satisfied (7)									Supporters:				2204
											Ratio:				13.7
POSITIONAL MATCHUPS
		Cerio's Dragons FC											OFV Goose Bay
Midfield		solid (high)	27			71%		16					11		poor (high)		Midfield
Right Side Defence		inadequate (very low)	17					2		53%			19		inadequate (high)		Left Side Attack
Central Defence		weak (low)	14					4		56%			18		inadequate (low)		Central Attack
Left Side Defence		weak (high)	15					3		55%			18		inadequate (low)		Right Side Attack
Right Side Attack		inadequate (very low)	17			52%		1					16		weak (very high)		Left Side Defence
Central Attack		inadequate (very low)	17					1		51%			18		inadequate (low)		Central Defence
Left Side Attack		passable (high)	23			53%		3					20		inadequate (very high)		Right Side Defence
		HATStats	184										142	HATStats
		Stars Defence	13.5										13.0	Stars Defence
		Stars Midfield	21.0										18.0	Stars Midfield
		Stars Attack	7.5										5.5	Stars Attack
		Stars Total	42.0										36.5	Stars Total
Experience		weak	4										4		weak		Experience
FINAL SCORE
Cerio's Dragons FC						5		-	2			OFV Goose Bay
GOAL SCORERS
	Jon Riser (11)						1 - 0
							1 - 1					Ignacio Banyuls (13)
							1 - 2					Constantin Voicu (19)
	Hubert Gortemaker (64)						2 - 2
	Gilang Juanda (64)						3 - 2
	Gilang Juanda (73)						4 - 2
	Gilang Juanda (85)						5 - 2
POSSESSION
	First Half Possession					71%			29%
	Second Half Possession					71%			29%
CARDS
	Lars Andersson (Y86)											Freddie Connolly (Y77)
REPLACED PLAYERS
	none											none
MAN OF THE MATCH
	IM Patrik Kvarning (4.5*)											IM Laurent Grant (4*)
DRAGON PLAYER REPORT
Nick de Hooge Mario Bayer Defensive Reimund Brigg Offensive Patrik Kvarning Extra Inner Midfield Reuven Zaltzman Defensive Gheorghe Bãnicã Offensive Jon Riser Defensive Hubert Gortemaker Offensive Marcus Hansson Offensive Lars Andersson Normal Gilang Juanda Normal Set Pieces Gheorghe Bãnicã Sub (Keeper) Francois Boisclair Team Captain Lars Andersson Sub (Defender) Quentin Doaré Sub (Inner Midfield) Miao Thanh-Tuan Sub (Forward) Michael God Sub (Winger) Sergio Chapin
GAME COMMENTS and OTHER NOTES

I went into this games fairly confident we could wint it. Going into the game with very high satisfied team spirit, had just dropped from delirious the night before, and playing at home, we were normalling this one. This turned out to be what saved us, giving the team its best ever performance in midfield, a high solid, or supernatural in the old ratings. Yeah, midfield saved us, but until the 64th minute, I was a scared manager, let me tell you that.

Even though we owned a clear advantage in possession in the first half, with 71%, we were down 1-2 at the half. Then it all happened in the 64th minute, when to quick goals changed the look of the game and gave us the lead we would never lose after that.

Gilang Juanda finished the game with a hattrick and his now the sole scoring leader of III.15, with 9 goals, with the second closest coming with only 5 goals, a 4 goals lead!!!

Patrik Kvarning stole the Man of the Match honors from Jon Riser this week, even though they are both in passable form and he is playing as the extra inner midfielder. The two extra weeks of playmaking training he received while Riser was recovering from his injury are probably what sets them apart right now...

Another player who played a great match is winger extraordinaire Marcus Hansson, who showed off his excellent form with a 4.5 stars performance, bringing him the team's best ever wing attack with a high passable.

Overall, this was the team's second best performance, according to supporter stats, at 99% of the best ever performance, played Last July 18, against max calcio. Converted to old ratings, this week's performance was a 96, wow!

More to come in my roundup of III.15...

FM

[FrogMan]

week 6	HOME					AWAY
04-08-01	podiatrists (200)	210	5	2	156	Sackers (156)
	max calcio (168)	185	0	2	189	Nepean United (196)
	SD's BOYS (185)	197	3	1	185	Thoroughbreds (195)
	Cerio's Dragons FC (168)	184	5	2	142	OFV Goose Bay (150)

No real surprises this week, even though I had picked Thoroughbreds to win against SD's BOYS on the league pools of my clubhouse, but that was more based on the BOYS's streak of bad luck this season...

Speaking of the pool, serious readers are invited to come make their picks on my clubhouse page. The clubhouse can be reached here: http://club.hattrick.org/cdfc/ and the league pool is under "The league". It's called "Series pool"...

It sure would be fun to have somebody else try their luck at picking winners in III.15

WEEKLY RATINGS	venue	MID	RD	CD	LD	RA	CA	LA	HR
podiatrists	home	5.00	7.75	8.00	9.50	5.50	7.25	6.25	210
SD's Boys	home	5.50	5.75	5.50	4.75	11.50	6.00	6.00	197
Nepean United	away	4.75	7.50	6.75	6.25	6.50	5.00	7.75	189
Thoroughbreds	away	4.75	8.50	9.25	8.25	5.75	4.50	2.50	185
max calcio	home	7.75	6.25	7.75	6.25	3.50	3.00	3.00	185
Cerio's Dragons FC	home	7.50	5.00	4.25	4.50	5.00	5.00	6.50	184
Sackers	away	4.75	4.00	5.25	5.50	6.75	5.00	5.00	156
OFV Goose Bay	away	3.50	5.75	5.25	4.75	5.25	5.25	5.50	142

Even though the Dragons only show up in 6th place, I am very pleased with this showing. Look at how close the teams from 3 to 6 are. Five mere points more, and we would have been three spots higher, this is very encouraging.

III.15					STANDINGS
STANDINGS	W	L	D	PTS	GF	GA	DIFF	AVG HR	as FOFC	BEST HR
Nepean United	5	1	0	15	16	8	8	194.7	195.2	206
Cerio's Dragons FC	4	1	1	13	20	13	7	171.0	174.8	185
podiatrists	3	2	1	10	15	13	2	201.5	207.8	210
max calcio	3	2	1	10	11	12	-1	171.2	179.0	185
Thoroughbreds	3	3	0	9	12	11	1	193.0	192.8	211
SD's BOYS	2	3	1	7	16	16	0	186.8	195.7	207
Sackers	1	5	0	3	8	14	-6	156.2	153.5	175
OFV Goose Bay	1	4	0	3	9	20	-11	148.7	144.2	155

And the Dragons are still hanging in there. More than that, we pulled a solid 10 points away from the relegation spot, which is very nice news. While we are still not among the more fearful teams in the league, we are slowly pulling away from the bottom two teams. Nice to see the team leading in scored goals, and tied for the best goal differential in the league. Offense is the key my friends...

Now let's hope the good luck will continue...

FM

[FrogMan]

FRIENDLY MATCH

Date of match:

2004-08-04

Match type:

friendly (cup)

Venue:

home

Weather

sunny

Crowd:

2784

Income:

18 555 C$

Team Spirit:

satisfied (7)

POSITIONAL MATCHUPS

Cerio's Dragons FC

SouthPark Cows

Midfield

inadequate (high)

19

83%

15

4

disastrous (very high)

Midfield

Right Side Defence

poor (very high)

12

60%

4

8

wretched (very high)

Left Side Attack

Central Defence

weak (very high)

16

55%

3

13

weak (very low)

Central Attack

Left Side Defence

inadequate (low)

18

75%

12

6

wretched (low)

Right Side Attack

Right Side Attack

poor (very low)

9

3

57%

12

poor (very high)

Left Side Defence

Central Attack

weak (high)

15

8

61%

23

passable (high)

Central Defence

Left Side Attack

weak (very high)

16

7

59%

23

passable (high)

Right Side Defence

HATStats

143

97

HATStats

Stars Defence

11.5

18.5

Stars Defence

Stars Midfield

17.5

5.5

Stars Midfield

Stars Attack

4.5

5.0

Stars Attack

Stars Total

33.5

29.0

Stars Total

Experience

poor

3

3

poor

Experience

FINAL SCORE

Cerio's Dragons FC

4

-

1

SouthPark Cows

GOAL SCORERS

0 - 1

Kenneth Millard (37)

Marcus Hansson (39)

1 - 1

Michael God (39)

2 - 1

Reimund Brigg (59)

2 - 1

Michael God (79)

3 - 1

POSSESSION

First Half Possession

84%

16%

Second Half Possession

89%

11%

CARDS

Quentin Doaré (Y83)

Everett Singh (Y38)

REPLACED PLAYERS

none

none

MAN OF THE MATCH

IM Reuven Zaltzman (4*)

GK Jamey Goode (3*)

DRAGON PLAYER REPORT

Francois Boisclair Lars Aspenander Defensive Marcus Hansson Extra Inner Midfield Quentin Doaré Normal Juan María Cavareda Defensive Reimund Brigg Towards Middle Miao Thanh-Tuan Offensive Reuven Zaltzman Defensive Sergio Chapin Offensive Michael God Normal Kevin Young Normal Set Pieces Michael God Sub (Keeper) Nick de Hooge Team Captain Quentin Doaré Sub (Defender) Manuel Velez Sub (Inner Midfield) Jim Hendrix Sub (Forward) Lars Andersson Sub (Winger) Jackie Cherry

GAME COMMENTS and OTHER NOTES

Not much to add about this game, other than I'm impressed of the midfield my B team achieved, even though it took a formidable playmaker as a toward middle winger to get it. Still, it high inadequate is nice to see for my non starters on a normal attitude...

Crowd was still complete crap, as only 2784 came to the game, even though weather was as sunny as it could ever be. Kinda sad that with that sun, God couldn't take advantage of his technical specialty. Even though he scored two goals, he didn't get the star bonus associated with the technical specialty. Specialties are still way too random to be used as a tactical tool to winning games...

Probably due to what is mentionned in his latest press announcement, lytic made some sort of mistake and ended up playing a 6-2-2, most certainly losing training this week, but who cares about training in a situation like that. My condolences go to Jay and Becky. Guys, you and yours are in my thoughts...

Up next tonight or tomorrow, training report...

FM

[FrogMan]

Training report will have to wait until tomorrow, but I wanted to thank our newest supporter in Brillig and his Slithy Toves, who just became the 28th supporters of the Dragons.

Thanks a lot to all of you!!!

FM

[FrogMan]

Training
With my ever optimistical attitude, I had a tiny sliver of hope that Reuven Zaltzman, with his 90.8% done toward formidable playmaking, would pop this week. Nope, he wasn't due, so we got yet one more week without a pop, making it the 3rd week in a row without a pop. I know, I know, we'll get major payoff in about 4 weeks, but still, blank weeks are sad...

Form

players form up	6
players form down	-4
net	2
form levels up	6
form levels down	-4
net form change	2
starters form levels up	3
starters form levels down	-2
starters net form change	1

Not a bad week for form movement after all. In fact, this ties our best net form change since the start of this season. I gotta also say that our worst week was only a net -1, we're pretty much always staying put in terms of form...

The Good: Sergio Chapin possibly getting the start ahead of veteran Gheorghe Bãnicã, thanks to a form boost to solid form. Last week, former hippo Sergio got his first ever 3.5 stars performance in passable form, we'd expect an even better performance, if only slightly, now in solid form. Marcus Hansson held his excellent form, which bodes well for the other wing attack. Mario Bayer, the outstanding defender lately acquired by the Dragons, finally moved up from weak to inadequate form and will take what should be he usual position, on the island.

The Bad: Jon Riser dropped form to inadequate. While still not catastrophic, it's worth noting, as Jon has had an history of dropping form to weak at times, albeit usually for very short periods of time. Forward and scorer extraordinaire, Gilang Juanda also dropped one level, but is still expected to give his usual 4 stars performance, as he has not reached a low in value.

The ugly: Gheorghe Bãnicã dropped to weak form, and he will probably see the match from the sidelines this week. Sadly, this is not the first time Gheorghe has been in weak form. He dropped from solid to weak form in three weeks in the middle of season 22, only to go back up to solid form in three weeks, after only two weeks. Let's hope this time around will similar... Testament to how my young players have evolved, in season 22, Gheorghe never left the starting lineup, since I had nobody able to replace him then, only one season ago...


Value

nb value up	13
nb value down	7
TSI value up	3920
TSI value down	-710
net value change	3210

This net increase of 3210 TSI points represents our best net increase of season 23 so far, and the second best increase in the last season and a half. Big gainers were three players who increased their form: Mario Bayer +820, Reimund Brigg +830, Miao Thanh-Tuan +560. Best gain without an apparent form change went to Reuven Zaltzman with +490.

Sadly, the team saw two of its main trainees drop in value, as Jon Riser went -230, with a one level drop in form, and Patrik Kvarning went -140, with no apparent form change. A drop like that while being trained halfway between brilliant and magnificent playmaking can only meant a big form drop, even if it wasn't for a full level...


Opponent overview
Thoroughbreds are kinda tough to scout as they've played some funky lineups in the past few weeks and they've put some big names on the market, whom I'm not too sure if they'll play on Sunday. They went +5 / -5 overall with what I'd guess to be +1 / -1 to their starters...

FM

[FrogMan]

Sorry for being so late on my weekly match report, but I've not been online too much lately... Anyway, here we go...

LEAGUE MATCH (week 23.07)
Date of match:		2004-08-08
Match type:		league (23.07)
Venue:		away
Weather		pretty good
Crowd:		33265
Team Spirit:		content (6)
POSITIONAL MATCHUPS
		Cerio's Dragons FC											Thoroughbreds
Midfield		inadequate (very low)	17					4		55%			21		passable (very low)		Midfield
Right Side Defence		weak (very high)	16			57%		4					12		poor (very high)		Left Side Attack
Central Defence		weak (high)	15			50%		0		50%			15		weak (high)		Central Attack
Left Side Defence		inadequate (very low)	17					3		54%			20		inadequate (very high)		Right Side Attack
Right Side Attack		passable (low)	22					6		56%			28		solid (very high)		Left Side Defence
Central Attack		inadequate (very low)	17					15		65%			32		excellent (very high)		Central Defence
Left Side Attack		passable (very low)	21					10		60%			31		excellent (high)		Right Side Defence
		HATStats	159										201	HATStats
		Stars Defence	14.5										20.5	Stars Defence
		Stars Midfield	20.5										18.5	Stars Midfield
		Stars Attack	7.5										7.5	Stars Attack
		Stars Total	42.5										46.5	Stars Total
Experience		poor	3										3		poor		Experience
FINAL SCORE
Cerio's Dragons FC						1		-	5			Thoroughbreds
GOAL SCORERS
	Gilang Juanda (7)						1 - 0
							1 - 1					Óscar López (23)
							1 - 2					Lee Lowden (35)
							1 - 3					Jack Casner (39)
							1 - 4					Björn Gustavsson (54)
							1 - 5					Björn Gustavsson (77)
POSSESSION
	First Half Possession					45%			55%
	Second Half Possession					44%			56%
CARDS
	Reimund Brigg (Y54)											Björn Gustavsson (Y34)
												Jack Casner (Y78)
REPLACED PLAYERS
	none											none
MAN OF THE MATCH
	W Marcus Hansson (4.5*)											IM Maximilien Veyer (5.5*)
DRAGON PLAYER REPORT
Nick de Hooge Reuven Zaltzman Defensive Reimund Brigg Offensive Patrik Kvarning Extra Inner Midfield Mario Bayer Defensive Marcus Hansson Offensive Hubert Gortemaker Offensive Jon Riser Defensive Sergio Chapin Offensive Gilang Juanda Normal Lars Andersson Normal Set Pieces Gilang Juanda Sub (Keeper) Francois Boisclair Team Captain Lars Andersson Sub (Defender) Lars Aspenander Sub (Inner Midfield) Miao Thanh-Tuan Sub (Forward) Michael God Sub (Winger) Gheorghe Bãnicã
GAME COMMENTS and OTHER NOTES

Well, that first big loss had to come at some point, and how about it only coming in the seventh week of the season, huh? I went into this game knowing we had to build back some team spirit, so I PICed it, leading to a total team ratings of only 159, yet still our best ever on a away PIC.

Marcus Hansson got his first mention as Man of the Match, testament to how nicely he's been playing lately. He's been getting his top performance for three weeks in a row now. Defender Mario Bayer is finally getting out of his form funk, with a 4 stars performance in inadequate form, helping the team achieve its 12th best ever defensive performance. While not even in the top ten, this performance is our best defensive showing in a lon while. The attack was its usual self, posting its 5th best ever performance, with Sergio Chapin in relief of an out of form Gheorghe Bãnicã. Chapin's performance helped give the team two passable wing attacks for the first time ever...Overall, the team got its best ever stars total, with 42.5 stars, with stars spread aroung pretty evenly, nobody getting less than 3.5 stars.

Despite the loss, which caused two supporters to leave the fanclub, the team remains in third place, a very honorable spot. We are still 10 points ahead of the relegation zone, which I'm also very happy about. This means that for us to drop to the relegation zone, either Sackers or Goose Bay would have to win 4 of their last 7, while we'd lose 4 of our last seven. Us losing 4 out of 7 could easily happen, but I have a hard time seeing either of the other two teams win 4 out of 7 after both winning only one in the first half of the season.

Right following the match, the team spirit had jumped to walking on clouds, only to drop back down to delirious the next day. Whether we PIC the return match against Thoroughbreds next week at The Dojo is still uncertain.

Next up for the Dragons, friendly match against tk's Real Terps FC...

Next up in the dynasty, roundup of III.15...

FM

[FrogMan]

week 7	HOME					AWAY
04-08-08	Nepean United (195)	193	2	2	203	podiatrists (202)
	OFV Goose Bay (149)	146	0	5	183	max calcio (171)
	Sackers (156)	169	3	5	201	SD's BOYS (187)
	Thoroughbreds (193)	201	5	1	156	Cerio's Dragons FC (171)

No real surprises again this week. podiatrists tying with Nepean isn't really news, as they were pretty well matched up, and 10 ratings point at this level, around 200, is almost nothing...

WEEKLY RATINGS	venue	MID	RD	CD	LD	RA	CA	LA	HR
podiatrists	away	4.00	7.75	7.75	9.50	5.75	8.00	6.75	203
SD's Boys	away	5.50	5.75	5.25	5.25	11.75	6.25	6.25	201
Thoroughbreds	home	6.00	8.50	8.75	7.75	5.75	4.50	3.75	201
Nepean United	home	5.25	8.25	6.75	5.75	4.50	6.00	8.00	193
max calcio	away	6.75	7.25	6.50	5.50	4.00	5.00	4.00	183
Sackers	home	5.50	4.25	5.50	6.00	5.75	5.00	6.00	169
Cerio's Dragons FC	away	5.00	4.75	4.50	5.00	6.25	5.00	6.00	159
OFV Goose Bay	home	3.50	5.75	5.00	4.50	5.75	6.00	5.75	146

The PIC definitely hurt the way we show up in the ratings of the week, but I expected that. The big picture, you gotta remember to look at the big picture, and that bic picture includes an away match against OFV Goose Bay in two weeks...

III.15					STANDINGS
STANDINGS	W	L	D	PTS	GF	GA	DIFF	AVG HR	as FOFC	BEST HR
Nepean United	5	1	1	16	18	10	8	194.4	192.7	206
max calcio	4	2	1	13	16	12	4	172.9	182.8	185
Cerio's Dragons FC	4	2	1	13	21	18	3	168.9	165.3	185
Thoroughbreds	4	3	0	12	17	12	5	194.1	197.0	211
podiatrists	3	2	2	11	17	15	2	201.7	205.5	210
SD's BOYS	3	3	1	10	21	19	2	188.9	197.5	207
Sackers	1	6	0	3	11	19	-8	158.0	159.7	175
OFV Goose Bay	1	6	0	3	9	25	-16	148.3	144.2	155

What a tight race this is turning out to be! Six points between sixth place and first place. One loss and I could drop all the way to sixth, yet still comfortably ahead of the seventh place, at least for now. We'll keep on fighting, dont' worry though...

FM

[terpkristin]

**BUMP**
FM, I know you've been busy working on stuff around the house, but it's officially been 2 weeks since we've seen an update here. Hint, hint!

~tk

[FrogMan]

I know, I know, guilty as charged

For those of you not in the know, my parents are presently camping in my driveway, as they are giving us all the materials to build a backyard shed, and my dad is building it partly during the day, partly during the evening, and I help him as soon as I get home after work. This means I've had about 10-15 minutes free a day, to spend on the computer at home, just enough to record the stuff I need to record about my team.

For the first time in my Hattrick career, I had a league game where I didn't see one minute of it live. I've had a few where I was only able to check in a few times during the game, but two weeks ago, I turned on the computer about 10 minutes after the final whistle had blown...

Anyway, the Dragons are hanging in there in III.15, after a close loss two weeks ago, 1-2 in the return match with Thoroughbreds, and a convincing 3-0 win away against OFV Goose Bay. Standings look like this after 9 weeks:

							Stars				Ratings
Rank	Team Name	+	-	Diff	Pts	Formation	Def	Mid	Att	All	Def	Mid	Att	Tot
1	Nepean United	24	12	12	20	3-5-2	17.0	19.5	10.0	46.5	65	72	72	209	W
2	Thoroughbreds	23	14	9	18	4-4-2	20.5	15.5	8.0	44.0	82	63	49	194	W
3	Cerio's Dragons FC	25	20	5	16	3-5-2	14.5	19.5	7.0	41.0	49	66	59	174	W
4	max calcio	18	17	1	16	3-5-2	15.5	22.0	6.5	44.0	61	69	53	183	L
5	podiatrists	20	16	4	15	3-4-3	19.0	16.5	16.0	51.5	91	39	77	207	W
6	SD's BOYS	26	23	3	13	3-5-2	13.0	26.0	9.0	48.0	57	54	89	200	L
7	Sackers	11	25	-14	3	3-5-2	15.0	22.5	6.5	44.0	61	54	52	167	L
8	OFV Goose Bay	9	29	-20	3	3-5-2	13.0	18.0	5.5	36.5	57	30	53	140	L

I'm very happy with that 3rd place, but even happier with the fact that we are now 13 points ahead of the relegation zone. With 5 games to be played in the season, this means that our magic number to clinch a qualifier is now 1. One win by us, or one loss by both Sackers and Goose Bay means we'd be assured of finishing no lower than 6th.

That's about it for now, training has been uneventful, as planned. Jackie Cherry finally popped in playmaking, was sold and everybody mourned his departure so much that the team spirit took a hit, GRRRRR!

The next few weeks should bring plenty of playmaking pops though...

FM

[FrogMan]

Dragons bring back old youth pull

After pulling keepers for 4 weeks in a row and getting nothing more than the second coming of James Bond in a passable keeper named Roger Moore, the Dragons turned to the transfer market and bought back the rights to one of their former youth pull, Sébastien Turbis.

The 25 year old French Canadian was a product of the Dragons' youth development program and graduated to the main club on June 29th in 2003. At the time, he took part in only 2 matches, one of them being a league match.

Since then, he has moved around a lot, as you can see from his transfer history:
Transfers for Sébastien Turbis

Date	From	To	Price	TSI then
8/26/2004	Juve2004	Cerios Dragons F	300 000 C$	3 240
6/24/2004	päronsaft	Juve2004	454 000 C$	3 210
6/21/2004	AC Laudrup	päronsaft	600 000 C$	3 550
11/7/2003	Saint John Thund	AC Laudrup	380 000 C$	3 160
7/30/2003	Pintendre Pittbu	Saint John Thund	392 000 C$	3 590

From that same history, you can also see that we paid 92k C$ less to get him back, than what we received when we sold him in July 2003.

Finally, Turbis is back home and will now serve as the official backup keeper, in case of any injury to starting keeper, Nick de Hooge. The good news is that during his tenure with in the last calendar year, Turbis has gained some valuable experience and now shows a level of experience of poor, which is always nice to have in a keeper...

I present you the newest backup keeper of the Dragons, Sébastien Turbis:

Sébastien Turbis (13313179) 25 years, inadequate form, healthy

A pleasant guy who is calm and dishonest.
Has poor experience and poor leadership abilities.

Nationality:	Canada
Total Skill Index (TSI):	3 240
Wage:	6 502 C$/week
Owner:	Cerio's Dragons FC
Warnings:	0

Stamina:	excellent	Goaltending:	solid
Playmaking:	wretched	Passing:	disastrous
Winger:	disastrous	Defending:	disastrous
Scoring:	disastrous	Set Pieces:	weak

FM

[FrogMan]

Training update for week 23.09

Marcus Hansson skipped his Wednesday training this week after being injured during Sunday's match. To give some background, I usually play Marcus at winger on Sunday, then I play him at inner mid on Wednesday, in order to give him full playmaking training for the week. He got injured to +1 on Sunday and was back to bandaid status on Wednesday, but I thought it was not worth it to risk injuring him badly on Wednesday, only to increase his training level for the week from the 50% he got at winger to the 100% he'd get at inner mid.

That and the fact that it meant I would be able to train two extra players compared to a regular week. One because I had three wingers who saw playing time on Sunday, and another one because Hansson didn't play on Wednesday.

That was a good decision, since I played Jimi Hendrix and usual wingback Lars Aspenander at winger on Wednesady, and while Hendrix still remains at weak playmaking despite having been trained 5.5 weeks already, Aspenander did pop to inadequate playmaking. This will complement his excellent defending and solid winger skill quite well, I would think... Here's his player card:

Lars Aspenander (15517225) 21 years, inadequate form, healthy

A sympathetic guy who is temperamental and dishonest.
Has wretched experience and wretched leadership abilities.

Nationality:	Sverige
Total Skill Index (TSI):	3 400
Wage:	2 513 C$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner:	Cerio's Dragons FC
Warnings:	0

Stamina:	excellent	Goaltending:	disastrous
Playmaking:	inadequate	Passing:	poor
Winger:	solid	Defending:	excellent
Scoring:	weak	Set Pieces:	poor

He'll keep on being trained as a wingback when we train winger, and will be sold when he'll hit excellent winger.

Other than that, I didn't expect any pops, and didn't get any. The next few weeks should be very interesting, as Patrik Kvarning, Hubert Gortemaker, and Miao Thanh-Tuan are all due to pop this coming week, to magnificent, brilliant, and outstanding, respectively. Marcus Hansson could also pop to formidable playmaking, but I'll have to be lucky for that to happen, as I think he'll probably pop the week after.

Overall team value is taking some interesting upward leaps, now settling at 106 460 TSI points, or 10.646 M U$. Comparing this season so far, with last season up to week 9, the team has seen its value increase 2.15M U$ after 9 weeks, because of training, compared to an increase of only 764k U$ after 9 weeks last season. Having trainees hovering around brilliant-magnificent sure bring some nice increases from week to week...

Form was not so bad, going +6 / -4, with +3 / -2 going to starters. Both starting wingers, Hansson and Chapin, are now in excellent form, while veteran Gheorghe Bãnicã can't seem to shake off the weak form he's in. Keeper Nick de Hooge stay in inadequate form, a form level he's been unable to get above since the start of season 23...

The form of this week's oppoent, Nepean United, stayed even, with an overall +4 / -4, although I have not looked at starters vs reserves.

FM

[FrogMan]

Dragons bid farewell to long time backup keeper

Even though he has started only one competitive match over the years, the Dragons were sad to see backup keeper Francois Boisclair go this Sunday. The keeper who has taken part in 42 matches, 4 of them league matches in relief of an injured teammate, will be remembered fondly. "I knew my time with the Dragons was almost over when they brough back Sébastien (Turbis). I now hope to have a chance at helping another team."

He will hopefully get this chance with his new team, FC Tricolor, a fairly new team based in Georgia, USA. The value of the transfer is said to be around 14 000 C$.

Good luck Francois, we'll see you around!!!

FM

[FrogMan]

Week 10, Dragons down 1st place team, move to 2nd place

A solid performance by Gilang "Wonder Boy" Juanda was all it took for the Dragons to win over 1st place holder Nepean United. Juanda came through in the clutch with a hat trick, maintaining his lead as the top scorer of III.15.

We PICed the game in preparation of our week 11 matchup against Max Calcio, so the win came as very big surprise. With the win, and a surprise loss by Thoroughbreds against 7th place Sackers, the Dragons moved up to 2nd place, only one point behind series leader Nepean United, but still in the middle of a tight pack of 6 teams. Only 4 points separate the top 6 teams.

Probably more important than the move up to 2nd place is the fact that, with the win, the Dragons have now clinched a qualifier match to stay up in III. With a 13 points lead over 7th place holder, Sackers, and only 4 matches to be played, or a possibility of 12 points, the Dragons can now finish no worse than 6th in the series...

No injuries to report for now, training update is next...

FM

[FrogMan]

woot!

4 pops!!!

Patrik Kvarning to magnificent,
Hubert Gortemaker to brilliant,
Marcus Hansson to formidable (wasn't too sure about him),

... and ...

Jimi Hendrix to inadequate!!!

He didn't even play this week, must be the last big doobie he smoke that put him over the edge

I expected/hoped to see Miao Thanh-Tuan pop to outstanding, but that didn't happen. Should definitely happen next week.

Form wise, +6 / -3, given some changes due to my starting lineup, because of form increase, my starting 11 went +4 / -0, so I'm happy

Sadly, Jon Riser (brilliant playmaking/inadequate defending) dropped to poor form, which could put his starter status in jeopardy...

The team's overall value is now only 32k U$ from the 11M U$ mark. It's been going up like crazy this season, which sort of has to be expected since most of our trainees are past the formidable level, and value makes bigger jumps at higher levels...

FM

[Tellistto]

Your supporters demand an update!

Tell

[FrogMan]

Well, since my last update, the Dragons have played, and lost, two away games. This 7th place schedule that we inherited this season isn't nice in the second part of the season, and with what we now know about fans seeing the later games of the season as being more important, thus drawing better crowds, it sucks a bit...

Anyway, we lost a close one to max calcio, 1-2, two weeks ago. We normalled that game, but calcio was too much in the midfield for us on the road, as they pulled a low solid midfield on their turf...

The other game, we got owned, big time. 1-6, we lost to podiatrists, on their turf. We kept midfield close, but dang did they show us how to play, putting together a ratings of 226, with only a very high weak in midfield. Among their other ratings were some excellents, and even formidables, almost like ratings pre-6.6...

The Dragons have had a rash of injuries lately, losing both magnificent playmaker Patrik Kvarning, and winger extraordinaire Marcus Hansson to +4 injuries in back-to back games. Kvarning is now at +1 and is expected to be to bandaid status for this Sunday's game, after missing two weeks of training. Hansson is still +2, and we're hoping he'll get to bandaid before this week's friendly, so he too will only miss two weeks of training...

With only two games to play in the season, a qualifier clinched, the team is gearing to get ready for this more than possible qualifier. We're currently in 5th place, playing SD's BOYS, the 6th place team, at The Dojo.

Form update was very nice, and we should put up quite a fight this Sunday...

FM