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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Jan 18, 2007 14:13:19 GMT
(Tangent time) He announed however that he'd retire at the end of the season I'm playing (at which point he will be 40.) On a not so bright note he got a red card in my last game for two bookable offences. Clearly not the real thing then Giggster! The REAL one never actually gets close enough to the opposition to risk a caution. In fact, he rarely gets his kit dirty on the field of play. If you know what I mean... ;D And, if this particualr season is anything to go by, a caution for dissent is also highly unlikely, given that the poor old chap spends so much time gasping for breath! He is though, when all is said, a nice chap.
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Jan 18, 2007 16:51:09 GMT
He does well in my football manager team and each year I kept wondering if he'd stay or if he'd decided to call it a day, in he end I figured I'd have my work cut out trying to get a 40-year old to reconsider retiring.
So far I haven't been very good at the game, I've so far managed two midtable finishes but am looking at the npayoffs this year. I'm normally there or there abouts near the end but then have a horrendous run in at the end (first season I went 12 games without a win, then after winning one I then lost two games on the trot 5-0!)
This season the top scorer so far has been Richard Pacquette including a hat-trick and a 10/10 performance in and FA Trophy match. He was the fans' player of ther season in my last season. The season before that Mo Harkin was both top scorer and fans' player of the season.
Brett Poate is usually the captain in my team (he started with 19/20 influence and that became 20 after the first season.) I was actually offered £12,000 for him which I declined only for him to get a 3/5-month injury a few games later. In the mean-time captaincy is normally either Neil Champion or a former Telford player I signed (Alfie Carter). Alfie is norally a striker but is currently covering for Poate as a left wing-back.
In the defence Matt Gray has so far played every game this season, Darren Annon is usually on the bench with two players I'm pretty sure I signed (Beadle & Whitehead) starting as the other centre-backs (I play a 5-3-2 usually which becomes 4-3-3 when I need to score a goal urgently. Tom Jordan left after the first season for the only transfer fee I've actually received so far and Michael Warner recently made a move into the Football League. Shane Gore plays almost every game, there was a slight worry when he picked up an injury in the final preseason friendly but he was back for the start of the season.
Craig Watkins is currently in the reserves but I plan to move him to the first team when Holdsworth retires, Craig O'Conner and Rocky Baptiste seem to take it in turns to be on the bench, I brought in a striker that I found aswell (Jack Midson).
This season I reached 4th qualifying round of the FA Cup before losing at home to Carshalton (who were promoted to conference south after first season) and so missed out on what was a very good 1st round tie against a league 1 team. In the trophy I've just reached 1st round proper and will be playing Sutton United away. Sutton were promoted to the conference through the playoffs in my first season so I've only played them twice, getting a draw and a defeat in the processand being very confused as to why there were two players called Matt Gray.
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Post by medibot on Jan 18, 2007 19:32:18 GMT
lol, amusingly, our Matt Gray always looks confused
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Post by peekay on Jan 18, 2007 20:51:56 GMT
Back in the 90's we had 2 players called Steve Jones. They had to be differentiated by their middle initials.
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Post by malxscfc on Jan 31, 2007 8:52:24 GMT
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