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Hattrick Season 77

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Postby Donut102 » January 12th, 2021, 3:04 pm

Another season is nearly upon us!

Div IV

Auto-relegated from III last season, I find myself in a competitive IV. However the league forum is starting to become active, and I think I'll quite enjoy my time in this league.
Last seasons runner-up has an awesome team, and will most like win this season. In a way it takes the pressure off, as I know I can't really compete. So I'll focus on the Cup, aiming to better my R7 performance last season.

I'm in the last throes of defense training, and will switch to PM mid-season. I also have 2 good YA prospects who I'll retain, and will need the PM training so that will work well. To make room I'll sell my ageing TDF, plus a stop gap playmaker I bought last season to replace an aged home grown player. I figure I then have another 2 seasons of training before the squad can be competitive again.

Div V

I came 2nd last season, but the champion failed to win his qualifier. I lost both games against him last season.
I'm going full MOTS in the first match - a win means I have a chance at the title, and a loss or draw means give up & train/ cup run. No half measures this time round!

Hope you're all coping with the latest lockdown. The patio heaters I ordered in August for back garden socialising have finally arrived, 3 months too late...

Cheers
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Re: Hattrick Season 77

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Postby Bink333 » January 13th, 2021, 1:30 pm

In England...

Our series winner has ducked out, and moved elsewhere.

I'm training scoring this season, and have shuffled the pack selling off some homegrown passing trainees together with my out of form unpredictable GK, and yesterday bought a £12.24m GK who is only a season older than my oldest forward trainee. I've also got a quick Wb and a head spec Wg/Wb in their early 30's bought with the proceeds of my high waged South African.

There's no reason I can't be reasonably competitive this season, my main objective is to get as many Cup games as possible for the experience gains. Promotion is less of an issue as I'm on 10% for at least 3 seasons - possibly more. Great to have Eastheath in the league with me, I'm not sure yet how we can help each other but the season is just beginning.

I'm also lined up to become England U21 Assistant manager if Jack wins the election.

In Oceania

I had more trouble shifting my unpredictable GK from this team listed for £10m, and then he picked up a +1 this week, after 77 minutes. I still want to upgrade to a NT standard GK instead of the current youngster, so I'll be looking at it again shortly. One team has gone bot in the league, and the demoted team looks beatable so the target is promotion, and a decent Cup run. My defender training should finally come to an end bar top ups to skill drops in 4-6 weeks, ideally linked to when I drop out of the Cup so I can switch to passing in friendlies while still playing CA in the league. Formation building for when I start set piece training next season is also on the agenda.

My youth team is set for a good season with 3 solid PM with ok secondaries and specs (Unpred/tech/quick) and the transfer market seems quite strong for Oceanian youngsters with U21 potential, so the funding of a 3rd forward and/or offensive IM to help central attack ratings will have to come from this as my current small surplus os earmarked to go toward the GK upgrade.

In South Africa

The NT failed to reach Q1, but we kept fighting to the last game. Friendlies planning for Cap distribution is on track, and we no longer have to worry about formation experience, as any incoming manager chooses 6 to employ with useful experience. That's a good change. I've asked for our head scout to step up to the Assistant Coach role for the coming season, he's been a useful contributor over the last season, and deserves to get another promotion!

My team is still defender training for my GKs but it was nice that my no spec homegrown Wb got a U20 cap in a friendly this week from the outgoing manager. He's not asked for me to raise stamina as yet, and neither has the most likely incoming manager, so accelerated training continues to be the focus, and surviving more than one Cup round, if at all possible, from my ranking position as a III winner.

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Re: Hattrick Season 77

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Postby Stan » January 13th, 2021, 4:21 pm

Can someone on here give an intelligent explanation what this Hattrick ................. is all about please.

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Re: Hattrick Season 77

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Postby Leothebear » January 13th, 2021, 9:44 pm

Stan it's all about fantasy football. Quite popular and probably merits its own board.

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Re: Hattrick Season 77

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Postby Donut102 » January 14th, 2021, 12:52 pm

Can someone on here give an intelligent explanation what this Hattrick ................. is all about please.


It's an online football management game here:
http://www.hattrick.org
Free to play, browser based with an app as well.
No relation to FPL.

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Re: Hattrick Season 77

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Postby Stan » January 15th, 2021, 8:33 am

Thanks both very interesting, as I'm in another one I think that's enough for me.

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Re: Hattrick Season 77

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Postby ChiliMonster » January 18th, 2021, 12:34 am

Season preview and week 1 summary in one...

Kevster's
Autopromoted to III.6 for this season. A quick review of average haststats, power ratings, total TSI etc would rank me 3rd, 4th or 5th, for what it's worth. It gives me some hope of survival anyway, which is my target. Looking forward to a bit of comptetition having won 13 out of 14 league games last time.

In the off-season I sold a trainee winger and trainee WB, and used the cash to upgrade my first team GK from [age/GK/Def] 32/14/11 to 29/15/11. I can't see any first team transfer activity during this season barring major injury.

Week 1
Cup
Straightforward 0-6 win. PIC, of course.
League
Home to the other autompromoted team Baggio Villans, who play 2-5-3 with 2 WBs. Strong midfield, and rating predictions suggested they would shade MF but my attack %ages should be much better than theirs. They sold a promoted youth for >£5million a week ago so had reinvested that in a couple more 31yo MFs. I played PIN. Actual ratings were pretty much as predicted. I was winning 2-0 at half time, but they had drawn equal within a few mins of the restart. Final score 4-3. Good win to start the season.

Hoi An Lunt Kickers
My new team in Vietnam. I've had a couple of weeks since signing up to establish a training regime, as already documented. We are in Div V.6. There are 7 new teams and 1 bot in the league. I want to promote first season as Div IV is also sparsely populated with active teams so I want to get to Div III asap. I suspect there may only be three active teams at most within a few weeks. League matches are 7am Saturday UK time, Cup/friendlies 4:30am Wed training 4:15pm Thu, so spreads the activity a bit more over the week.

I have just started a Youth Academy and we have our first league game tomorrow.

Week 1
Cup
No expectations against an esatblished Div III team in our first competitive match. PIC. Lost 1-5. One team in our league is still in the Cup following a walkover. The surprise was the £93,333 prize money "for the team's achievements in the cup" as there are only 8 rounds here. So I'm in the alt Challenger Cup now and have a winnable home match this week.
League
Away to another new team who has had little prep for the season. I expected to win on PIC and did: 1-4. I full expect to win next week's home game.

Fly Suckers
My new English team in VI.286, a few days' younger than the Lunt Kickers above. Again this league contains 7 new teams and 1 bot. Unlike the Lunt Kickers I was dropped in at position 7, not 2, so didn't benefit from any prize money from the previous season; nor will I get prize money for being knocked out of the Cup in R1. Those two bonuses totalled about £270K, so this team will have a more meagre start.

Week 1
Cup
As above. Opponents just demoted from Div IV. I took a surprise second-minute lead but it was too much and I lost 1-6. Into the Craig Wozniak Cup and have a winnable home game next week. Again one team in my league is still in the Cup, though they had a genuine Cupset and should have been spanked.
League
Nice easy home match to the only bot in the league. PIC. They scored first but we won 3-1. One of my forwards was sent off in the second half; he'll serve his suspension in the Cup and will be back next weekend.

Cheers,

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Re: Hattrick Season 77

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Postby Eastheath » January 18th, 2021, 5:57 pm

Promotion back to series IV is going as well as can be expected!
Nice to have Bink in the same league, although I have to say that while we are in the same league, we are 'not in the same league', if you get my drift. Selling players for £10m and buying for £12m is a slightly different game! Checking the stats we are the lowest ranked team apart from the bot, so 7th place is nailed on unless I do something about it.

The first league game was a mixed bag, away to a team I would lose against all over the pitch on stats, but with a decent chance of doing some counter attacking damage. One of my three IMs was also on a +1, so I had nothing in midfield to talk about. So it was PIN and CA 4-3-3 with a winger, and with team orders that, should luck have it that we got into the lead late in the game, I would take forwards off and switch to a 5-4-1 and hold on for dear life.

As luck would have it we scored first, they equalised quickly, 1-1 at HT. After 70 mins we nicked a second, and so the 5-4-1- kicked in. That was working .....until the 88th and 89th mins when they scored twice and won 3-2. They'd have scored anyway even without the change, with 8 chances to 4, and all the ratings went their way. Still we gave it a go.

Last weeks Cup was a 0-5 stroll on a PIC, this weeks Cup is unpleasantly close, against a series V team that goes 5-4-1 pressing every game. 6 of their last 7 games were 1-0 or 0-0. Now there's a challenge....

The next league game is home to the team Bink has just beaten. Hope my IM is fixed by then.
Enjoy the season!

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Re: Hattrick Season 77

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Postby Bink333 » January 19th, 2021, 2:00 pm

England

The new election system saw one of the tightest English elections in some time with Jack beating the incumbent benno by a very small margin on the old system. When the new system votes were added in, it increased the margin of victory, but not by much. Two solid candidates. Jack's asked me to be the Assistant manager, so I've opened up another Slack channel for us to discuss things, having found it a very useful workspace within the Ocianian community, and having prompted South Africa to use it, it was worth noting that the outgoing U20 manager commented that any scout not joining slack shouldn't be a scout.

Jack's new to it, and wants to use the Fed for more scout activity, so it may not take off for England in quite the same way. Yet.

In the Cup we smashed the bot 0-10. The league game on Sunday was trickier, away to a team that produced 10.5m/f (both wings TM) to my 9.75, but we edged the hatstats 370 vs 396. They had a reasonable chance to convert up the centre and a pretty meaty defence, but my forward line at kick off had a 17.75 rating in central attack vs their 16.75 defence, and my left side attack edged their right defence, although right side conversion would be trickier.

After 3 minutes they were 1-0 up, goal through the middle, and luckily for us they only converted that one of 3 central chances (missing the 3 side attacks as expected). We also had 6 chances including an SE and a PNF chance. Somewhat unluckily 3 of our normal chances all fell to our weakest line of attack on the right, but we converted one of those, and the same player, my star PNF converted his PNF chance to give us a 1-2 win. He nicked 2pts there I think.

Tonight's Cup game looks reasonably straightforward, against an active V side.

Oceania

The excitement at the club this week is over the first of this season's 3 solid PM youth pulls. Dean Ryder, unpredictable 6Def 7PM 5Wg 5Pass is due to sell tomorrow, nil listed with a lot of interest already taking his price over £670k with 82 bids and 63 views. All 3 would be good enough to build a team around, had they arrived at the start of a rebuild cycle, instead of a few weeks before the stamina goes up.

We won 1-4 in the Cup and again in the league against the demoted team. A divine+2 CA rating saw the team receive 5 CA chances. We converted 2 on the right and one in the Centre (where expected conversion was more 50/50) and missed both CA-free kick chances. The set pieces training can't come soon enough... The Wb SP taker did produce a quick pass SE (playing on the wing) which was buried by my forward. They had 11 chances, and converted a penalty. This is a reminder about why I want to upgrade the GK, as the current youngster is not much use facing dead ball situations.

We have a winnable tie in the Cup at 3am tomorrow morning.

South Africa.

We won 0-6 against an inactive manager (but not a bot) in R1, and then were at home to the team I beat on GD to the title last season. I opted to play creative, they pressed. We received 2 SE chances, missed the quick event and the own goal unpred event while they converted a corner head SE to take the lead on 14. With 4 minutes left on the clock my home grown GK trainee (playing CD) David 'Save it like' Wickham converted a free kick and it ended 1-1. Tomorrows Cup tie looks tough, but we could get a win if the match engine is willing.

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Re: Hattrick Season 77

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Postby ChiliMonster » January 24th, 2021, 11:47 pm

Week 2

Kevster's III.6 England

Cup
Straightforward 0-6 win. PIC, of course. But...Two of my three forwards got injured, +1 and +2 (my only specialist SP taker). The +1 moved to bruised in the first update on Monday.
League
Away to SkyMulder Team 2 who came second in this league last season. Predicted ratings were that they would win in most sectors. My only hope is that their team of 32/32yo with passabel stamina would drop off enough as the match progressed. I expected to lose, but contemplated playing instead of my usual 3-5-2: 4-5-1 just to keep the score down, or 3-5-2 with the bruied forward replaced by a one of my IMs playing as a def FW. Or accept defeat and PIC. In the end I went usual 3-5-2 with 2 FWs. I took the lead against the run of play in the first half, then as their stamina started to fail they equalised. Same thing happened in the second half with my goal being a free-kick by an SP taker with only. At 2-2 after about 70 mins the ratings had swung in my favour and I scored the winner. Second in the league, better than I could have hoped to start. Next week home to the current league leaders, but I have a chance.

Hoi An Lunt Kickers V.6 Vietnam
Secondary Cup
Lost 0-2. Into the tertiary Cup.
League
Home 6-0 win on PIC. Top of the league.

Today I bought a future coach with passable experience/solid leadership. He can play in defence for a couple of seasons to get up to solid experience.

Fly Suckers VI.286 England

Craig Wozniak Cup
3-0 Home win. I'll be going out this week.
League
Away game on PIC. Ratings as predicted. I got 43% possession but their attach ratings averaged 10% while mine were over 50%. However the match engine gave them 9 chances to my 1. Score 0-0.

Cheers,

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Re: Hattrick Season 77

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Postby Eastheath » January 25th, 2021, 5:41 pm

Its a funny old game, football...
Cup
was expecting a tighter game but maybe they didn't fancy the fight, we won 0-4 against a 5-4-1 pressing team.

League
The next league game is home to the team Bink has just beaten. Hope my IM is fixed by then.

The bad news from the Cup game was my best IM got a +3. That left us with an IM in OK health, another IM on a plaster, and a third IM, a 34 yo, who had just been bought in to man the barricades.
Despite that, we could still win midfield, and despite their 5-2-3 CA formation we stood a slight chance going down the middle, so we went 4-3-3- AIM.
It worked, 10 chances to 3 and a 3-0 win brought home the 3 pts, and leaves us in 4th. Early days but happy ones.

Theres always a 'but' with my lot. This weeks 'but' is that the IM in OK health got red carded, so now I only have the two IMs for the Cup, one still with a plaster and the other a geriatric.

Next Cup
At least the red card gets used up in the Cup game, in which the oppo is a 5-4-1 or 5-5-0 specialist, with better ratings all round except for forwards. I am limited in my response! There seem to be a lot of defence heavy strategies these days.

Next League
Its the league Bot fortunately. Hope to keep the pressure up on Bink... ;)

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Re: Hattrick Season 77

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Postby ChiliMonster » January 26th, 2021, 7:07 pm

the oppo is a 5-4-1 or 5-5-0 specialist, with better ratings all round except for forwards. I am limited in my response! There seem to be a lot of defence heavy strategies these days


I'm a bit naïve on strategies I think, but I've given some thought on what to do when faced with an expected 5-5-0. These are my own thoughts, but may well be commonly-practised and widely discussed; I dunno, I don't read forums much.

Basically, 5-5-0 renders your entire defence useless. I've assumed that if you don't have experience in a 2-defender formation and no time to generate some, then playing this way and experiencing confusion would be too damaging. Is that reasonable?

The next thing to do is to play three defenders offensively to at least get some use out of them. Ideally they will have PM capability and it may be better to play your next next-best IMs and Wingers in CD or WB positions.

The other possibility is to accept that if they have taken your defenders out of use, you might as well take one of their IMs or wingers out by Man Marking. Losing 65% of your CD to reduce one of their IMs by 50% doesn't matter because he's picking daisies anyway.

I've done this once in a tournament match and reduced an expected loss to a draw.

Cheers,

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Re: Hattrick Season 77

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Postby Eastheath » February 1st, 2021, 9:55 am

thanks Kevster, maybe I should develop other formation experience as 3-4-3 and 4-3-3 don't give me a wide range of options!
As it turned out, the Cup opponent went 5-4-1 and I stuck with my previous strategy (which had gone my way 0-4) and managed another 0-4 win, so I've bought some time to think about developing another formation.
The league game was a bot, so it gave me a chance to play the trainees and standbys on a PIC while saving the first team for the next cup game, which is an equally matched peer playing 3-5-2 or 2-5-3.
The league game was a 0-6 win, which puts us in 3rd - Bink has hit top spot already, looking good at this moment.
Next week I play 2nd, who have yet to let a goal in.

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Re: Hattrick Season 77

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Postby ChiliMonster » February 2nd, 2021, 2:01 am

Week 3

Kevster's III.6 England
Cup
Straightforward 1-5 away win.

League
The training update saw a significant, seemingly-targetted downturn in form of IMs, giving me less confidence of a positive outcome in my home game against the current league leaders. They were going to achieve better attack/defence ratios than me, so I was going to have to rely, again, on weaker stamina in my opponents. I scored first, but lost 1-2. Now 4th in the league. Away to bottom team next week, but it's no gimme.

Hoi An Lunt Kickers V.6 Vietnam
Cup Phong Trào (Third Tier national cup)
3-0 home win. Home again this week to a team that seems to have been around for years and has spent millions on trainees recently, but look pretty weak. Let's see what happens.

League
I was away to what is possibly the most active other team in my league. I PICed it, but perhaps should have PINed as I lost 2-1. Home gam ext week should be a win.

Fly Suckers VI.286
Craig Wozniak Cup
1-4 Home loss as expected.
League
4-1 home win. 2 week injury to my first-choice keeper. Away next week to the top team in the league. I'll learn from my away experience in Vietnam above, and PIN this one.

Cheers,

Kevster

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Re: Hattrick Season 77

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Postby Donut102 » February 4th, 2021, 4:27 pm

Apologies for being absent for a while. W*rk got in the way.

Div IV

Dropped down to IV from III, but not really expecting to bounce back straight away. The first two league games I failed to score a single goal, and last Sunday I finally broke my duck winning 4-0. Currently in 5th place.

In a strange quirk my next Cup game is against the top rated team in my league (I lost the first game of the season 0-2 at home). As the 'higher ranked' team I'm away from home for the Cup game which is going to make it somewhat more difficult. I tried 532 CA in the league game, and that didn't work. Planning on 541 Long Shot and see how that goes.

I've got two nice academy players to promote soon, so I'll be in a mini rebuild phase as I train them up and sell on older players. One is a Quick Solid Winger, and the other Head Excellent PM - both with other skills at Inadequate.

Div V

A draw and 2 wins leaves me in 2nd on 7 points, 2 points behind the current leader - who I face this week at home. I fancy my chances with a 523 CA, and a victory will set me up nicely for the rest of the season.
The team who won the league last season has had a rotten start - a draw (against me), loss and and a win. It feels as if he has thrown in the towel on the league campaign and is concentrating on the Cup. Works for me.

Out of the Cup, and the Secondary Cup, and currently battling Bots in the Losers Cup.

I also have an academy player to promote into the main squad - Head, Passable Def & Scoring, Solid Passing, Inadequate PM. Bit of an all rounder - perfect for my ever changing training scheme.

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Re: Hattrick Season 77

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Postby Donut102 » February 8th, 2021, 1:49 pm

Div IV

I'm in 5th playing 1st away from home. However 1st has had a string of easier games so far this season, and his league position flatters him. Still a good side, and I went 541 CA.
Close but no cigar - 2-2 final score.
Good enough to keep from auto-demotion for the 2nd season running, but any title aspirations are long gone.

There's always the Cup....

Div V

I'm in 2nd vs 1st at home. I've played this team 6 times - 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. I know what I'm up against and can win if I play it right.
I decided to sacrifice some PM training slots and went 523 CA, and it worked a treat. 4-0 final score, with conditional subs to bring on some trainees when we were 3-0 up.

Up to 1st place, with 2 easier fixtures coming up before the next real test in the Double Header.

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Re: Hattrick Season 77

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Postby Eastheath » February 8th, 2021, 10:30 pm

Cup
Against a decent team, I thought I'd have to try, so with our hatstats at 310 v 272, and our midfield defence and attack ratings all being higher, etc etc., we went on to lose at home 0-2.

League
At home to 2nd place (against Binks' closest challenger), they were yet to let a goal in. Well, we scored, so we managed to dent that record at least. I was hoping we could nick a draw, hatstats were 313 v 333, but not to be, we lost 1-2.
Surprisingly we remain in 3rd on GD, although same points as 4th and 5th, so it can get nasty very quickly. Top two are running away with it.

We are away in the Conspirator Memorial Cup next, then away to the team in 5th in the league. Will be nice to get back into winning ways....

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Re: Hattrick Season 77

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Postby ChiliMonster » February 9th, 2021, 1:51 am

Week 4

Kevster's III.6 England
Cup
1-2 away win, but...a 4-week injury to my currently best forward on form; and a 1-week injury to a WB (which I can live with). Next week I am away to CA team. See league report below...but I expect to experience similar ratings as below; perhaps even better possession and slightly better attack ratings.

League
Training update saw a slight reversal of my IM-form drop last week, but my 2 remaining forwards lost 3 form levels between them to each be on weak.
League game away to team that plays a variety of formations in CA: 5-2-3, 5-3-2, 5-4-1, but invariably has very weak wing attacks and a strong defence. They had 0 points so far, but with my poor form I wasn't overly optimistic. My only variation on my usual formation was to play my WBs offensive. They played 5-2-3 CA with no IMs. I got 90% possession, 23/9/15% attack ratings vs their 11/36/17% attack ratings. I lost 2-1. Both their goals were CAs.
I'm still in 4th in the league but I'm away again next week to the strongest team in the league. I'll lose.

Hoi An Lunt Kickers V.6 Vietnam
Cup Phong Trào (Third Tier national cup)
4-1 home win. Going out this week.
League
7-1 home win. There is only one other active team in the league who beat me last week. Gaining confidence of passing them in due course.

Fly Suckers VI.286 England
League
Away to top team who remain strong despite no active manager. PIN, 2-2 draw. Again there is one other active team in this league who are a couple of points below me but don't seem to be progressing so well, so again I'm still hopeful of finishing top.

Cheers,

Kevster

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Re: Hattrick Season 77

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Postby Eastheath » February 15th, 2021, 10:13 am

Memorial Cup game went OK, won 0-2 and face a similar opponent in the next round.
League game was another tight match, losing 1-0 away to a 5-4-1 defensive play. Chances were even, but I seem to have strikers that can't score so will have to look at that one carefully!
The defeat leaves me in 4th but on the same points as 5th and 6th. Next game is home to 5th. Might be an important one...

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Re: Hattrick Season 77

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Postby ChiliMonster » February 16th, 2021, 3:32 pm

England III
Cup
Won 0-3 against a CA Team, but...one of my forwards picked up a 2-week injury, leaving me with just one fit forward. To summarise, my three forwards have picked up 4 injuries totaling 9 injury-weeks in the first five weeks of this season. I have a level-3 medic.

League
In the training update, my remaining forward dropped to poor form. I bought a 30yo journeyman magnificent forward with my limited cash reserves to tide me over - more of an Ighalo than a Cavani.
I was away to the strongest team in the league, and as well as my injured forwards, my IM form continued to suffer. I couldn't see any prospect of getting anything out of this so played PIC 4-5-1 to try to keep score down. I lost 3-0 - it could have been a lot worse. 6th in the Division. Next week at home I need to get winning again.
This week's Cup match will be home (!) against Malin United, who knocked me out of the George Carey Cup last season, and who also beat me to the highest-points Div IV league champions last season. I'll be going into this with TS Walking On Clouds, I'll PIN, but it will still be very close.

England VI
1-3 away win. Second in league.

Vietnam V
4-1 home win. Second in league.

Cheers,

Kevster


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