Barbu's Barbiers

[barbu1977]

I've been awarded a team in Canada's V.176

My team is the folowing:
Your 18 players

Ben Izzard
TSI = 680 , 25 years, poor form
Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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

Benjamin Jawaid
TSI = 160 , 25 years, weak form
Has poor experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Technical]

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

Dan Gresham
TSI = 90 , 23 years, weak form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities

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

David Sinclair
TSI = 0 , 46 years, weak form
Has formidable experience and inadequate leadership abilities

Stamina: disastrous Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: wretched Passing: wretched
Winger: disastrous Defending: disastrous
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: disastrous

Dorus Heerschop
TSI = 290 , 22 years, weak form
Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities

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

Eric Valois
TSI = 150 , 24 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities [Head]

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

Gilbert Hall
TSI = 190 , 21 years, weak form
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities

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

Idan Afek
TSI = 250 , 26 years, wretched form
Has poor experience and wretched leadership abilities

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

Israel Amsalem
TSI = 420 , 23 years, weak form
Has wretched experience and disastrous leadership abilities [Quick]

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

James Mellor
TSI = 290 , 25 years, weak form
Has poor experience and poor leadership abilities

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

Joey Hines
TSI = 310 , 24 years, weak form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities

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

Koen van Elk
TSI = 110 , 24 years, poor form
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities

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

Larry Milot
TSI = 110 , 27 years, weak form
Has poor experience and inadequate leadership abilities

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

Lee Cuninghame-Green
TSI = 80 , 19 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities

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

Mathis Parr
TSI = 300 , 23 years, poor form
Has wretched experience and poor leadership abilities

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

Philippe Voyer
TSI = 800 , 25 years, weak form
Has poor experience and disastrous leadership abilities

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

Quentin Cullen
TSI = 740 , 27 years, weak form
Has poor experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: weak Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: weak
Winger: weak Defending: passable
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: inadequate

Ronnie Walden
TSI = 320 , 26 years, inadequate form
Has wretched experience and wretched leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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

[Dell19]

You seem to have been given a good starting defence: (plus a couple of others)

Ben Izzard
TSI = 680 , 25 years, poor form
Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Unpredictable]

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

James Mellor (Probably your SP taker)
TSI = 290 , 25 years, weak form
Has poor experience and poor leadership abilities

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

Philippe Voyer
TSI = 800 , 25 years, weak form
Has poor experience and disastrous leadership abilities

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

Your midfield isn't great. You only have two passable playmakers and only one of them has stamina so I think I would suggest training playmaking since you could keep Hines until he pops to solid and Lee Cuninghame-Green would be trainable since he is 19 and you could initially do 4 weeks of stamina training to get him and some other trainees to a decent level of playmaking.

Joey Hines
TSI = 310 , 24 years, weak form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities

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

You should also try to get an inadequate keeper with a TSI over 1000 for about $2000 since you don't seem to have a goalkeeper. Idan Afek is weak but really that isn't good enough so you could just keep him as the sub. David Sinclair is probably your coach so you should get a passable training coach with poor leadership and then sack Sinclair.

[Kemal]

Congrats on getting the team, and as Dell pointed out, some very nice defenders in your starting selection, no worries there.

Since indeed your midfield/playmakers is something your team is lacking in, starting off a training program with those guys in place could very well be worth the effort, as it is the most important part of the team by far in lower divisions. And since you do not have any good midfielders at all atm, you might want to consider doing a stamina gambit since no matter what you are going to train, you'll have to train on stamina early on anyways... if you'd do the stamina gambit, you'd only need to train like 2 or 3 weeks more of stamina, but you'll get some very easy money plus some good midfielders quite rapidly.

For more info on the stamina gambit, you can read up either by visiting yndy's team "Chimica Tarnaveni" on HT and look at his club page, or try to figure out some details in the forum about it, especially in my own team's thread, located here: http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1944

Note that when training stamina, coach level has no or very little impact, so a weak trainer (which you have now) would be as good as any other, so that would free up some money early on for your team to spend on the gambit.

It's really a shame you're just a few days late for participating in the CDZ Cup, but hopefully you'll enjoy the game as much as we all do so that we will see your team competing in editon 7 next season. :)

[barbu1977]

Looks like the Barbiers will reach round 2 of its national cup :D

The number of teams in Canada has been increased from 2728 to 10920.

I'll finaly be able to see what a bot team looks like.

[Tubby Rower]

meh... you see one, you've seen them all. [:p] You could likely reach round 3 or higher if there is that big of an influx of bot teams.

[Dell19]

What did you end up training?

[barbu1977]

I trained passing for a while, but the program was not very well done.

Now I'm a keeper trainer.

[barbu1977]

Barbados Friendly scheduled.

My rare flag collection is improving:
http://www.maptrick.org/coolness.php?team=108306#results

[socralynnek]

I guess, we can do something about that Paraguay flag...

[Shabbaman]

Nice.

[barbu1977]

I'm trying, like so many, to get those away flags before the home ones

[barbu1977]

A few months ago, having nothing to do in the game, I asked to become a trainer for the NT. Last week, one of my player had his first NT selection.

[socralynnek]

Congratulations!

I am currently training a U20-player of Parguay in my 2nd team (at least I hope he will get some matches again soon). The player even comes from my own youth squad...

I also think it's a nice shift of attention to do something different.

[barbu1977]

So,

I put my B team on the field to get my best players for the CDZ cup and I loose 0-1.
Therefore here is the promotion status.

Leaders Goals Points ±
29. Blitzers United 43 - 9 37 34
30. Internazionale FC Di Milano 42 - 14 37 28
31. AFC Regina 49 - 6 36 43
32. kentus 49 - 9 36 40
---------------------------------------------------------------
33. Toronto Football Club 51 - 12 36 39
34. Barbiers 47 - 10 36 37
35. F.C. Sputnik 42 - 14 36 28
36. QUEBECOLOMBIANO FC 32 - 5 36 27



I go to see who I'm playing my qualif game, it turn out, I'm playing against the guy who I played 2 weeks ago when I entered my name in the qualif pool when Shabba did not accept the challenge for the CDZ cup.

I guess it's not big news, but at least you have something to read when you read "new post"

[socralynnek]

And you will lose in the CDZ cup anyway


(No, I don't really think so)

At least the qualifier gives your players more experience.
I have to play qualifiers for avoiding demotion with both of my teams. Unlucky for first team, lucky for the 2nd team where I expected to demote directly after a few matches.

[akots]

So,

I put my B team on the field to get my best players for the CDZ cup and I loose 0-1. ...

[rotfl]

Not my fault this time. We should all breath easier once you finally win the CDZ cup.

[Shabbaman]

I guess it's not big news, but at least you have something to read when you read "new post"

Yay!

[socralynnek]

Too bad you lost your qualifier, but maybe you can win your league next season again. I was lucky with my two qualifiers that I had opponents which were easily beatable.

[barbu1977]

Too bad you lost your qualifier,

It's not as if it was more important than the CDZ cup!

I Picced and played my B squad.

[socralynnek]

Well, then, congratulations: You reached the important goals!

[barbu1977]

Tadam.

http://www.civduelzone.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=591&stc=1&d=1455504603

[Shabbaman]

Your coolness rating is 100%!

[socralynnek]

Kamerun is the rarest flag? Not expected.

Which country is it that you did not visit? Is that Costa Rica?
Should be doable then as well...

Anyway: Congratulations!

[barbu1977]

Which country is it that you did not visit? Is that Costa Rica?


Yes, Costa Rica. It was my last country to visit, but I mixed up my request and the match was played in Canada. I will go there as soon as I'm out of the national cup.

After that, only 104 nations to host. Maybe...

[arne1]

Yes, Costa Rica. It was my last country to visit, but I mixed up my request and the match was played in Canada. I will go there as soon as I'm out of the national cup.

After that, only 104 nations to host. Maybe...


How is your quest going?

[barbu1977]

Nice flag season (since we did not play the CDZ cup)

visited 128 100.00 %
hosted 31 24.22 %

http://www.maptrick.org/coolness.php?team=108306

[arne1]

feel free to contact me if you want to CDZ-cup again.
And good luck with the flag hunting.

[barbu1977]

I realized I just crossed the halfway mark in the hosted countries column, only to realize I still have over a year to go until I finish the damn thing.

http://www.civduelzone.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=598&stc=1&d=1490991152

[Shabbaman]

So another year of hattrick premium down the drain.

[barbu1977]

I have never put a penny in the game. IMHO Hattrick is worth at most 20$/year. Good thing Mapttrick tracks my flag collection.

Edit: I did click on a couple Evony ads.

[Shabbaman]

I didn't know that was a thing. Perhaps that'd have kept me interested.

[socralynnek]

I didn't know that was a thing. Perhaps that'd have kept me interested.

The evony ads or the maptrick map?

[Shabbaman]

I don't even know what evony is...

[yndy]

I'm scaling down on Hattrick since one year, my Platinum expires in June and I'll let my second team die. I'll keep the main team for the history's sake.

I did a nice experiment with my second team over the last 3(?) years, I'm planning to write an article on hattrick about that.

PS: Hi guys, it's been 4 and a half years since my last visit, happy to see you're still around.

PPS: My wife still plays Civ III.

[Shabbaman]

[wavey]

[barbu1977]

Hard part of the hosted table is done.

Should be easy for the remaining 40 flags.

http://www.civduelzone.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=602&stc=1&d=1507209848

[Shabbaman]

Those 102 teams from Cameroon are all 2nd teams?

[barbu1977]

Those 102 teams from Cameroon are all 2nd teams?

Apparently, there are 17 users from Cameroon.

[Shabbaman]

I wonder how many of those have emigrated to France or something.

[Plux]

does anybody know what they are living for?

[Shabbaman]

Hattrick?