season 49
 

It is looking promising, 2 teams that have no actual team at the moment. this means I could get a Qualifier! Hurray!

Looking at my league I should be able to promote. Wednesday's cup match is winnable, but I'm very catious with the disaster season just a few weeks behind me. Would be nice to have a home cup match again though...

I *should* hopefully not relegate automatically. My team is improving and the other teams don't seem to be doing the same/just working on defence so I don't have tonnes to worry about defending wise!

I made a mistake in fielding the wrong player as left back, but still I should have won my first cup game. I didn't, so we continue to lose games we should have won...

easy 0-9 victory with pic versus a bot, next round should be easy as well. I will most likely have a walk over in the league

Did something new. Played 2-5-3 CA. And despite that, I even wonder why I only won 0-3. Never saw such a team before that really has only midfield.

Didn't analyse the new league properly yet. At least I shouldn't relegate again...

Who has a nice new name for my team? I choose it a zillion years ago and regretted it almost from the start. Didn't change it because of the supporter-penalty but now I don't care anymore. So at the end of the season we will be called differently. I hate both parts of the name by the way...

It is somewhat personal. I'm pretty happy with Chemists. Of course not as a team but with the name itself. And mistfit's logo was splendid...

I am playing another season in the same place.. so it is a known quantity what I need to do.. I need to beat the only other human in my league weeks one and 14.. autopromotion would be great but I cannot guarantee it.. The other human in my series beats me handily in midfield but I crush him in defense.. games tend to go to a draw.

I pulled the trigger on a solid leadership coach this season so I get to play with TS management which will be something new. I hope to PiC weeks 2-13 and have some serious TS to burn away against my rival the last week.

BCLG United II?

You can call it "Any name is better than the old club name"

FC die matchengine, die!

Why M.E.?
Schade holland alles ist vorbei!
FC Appelvlaai
Doc Unluck

Completeley within expectation I won 5-0. But none of my players scored!

I won my cup game and my opening league game by PIC'ing. I was surprised i won my league game and it turns out my team is better than I thought it was. My cup match looks like it could be quite tricky as it's still away.

That team possibility thing puts me as finishing top this year. It would be nice to finally get out of this league as I've been in it for 10 seasons.

shabba, arne, great ideas!!!!

We won our first league match away 0-4, playing normal. Next week should be easy as well.

And my idea?!

And my idea?!

Questions: Do you prefer a Dutch name? Then I can't help. Probably. Only if you want to name your team "gevulde koeken", "frikandel", "vla" or "Poffertjes"

If you'd like something Civ related: "Just. One. More. Turn."

All ideas are great actually...

I'm now really considering a name refering to the match engine / mats. Still almost a season to think about it...

won my second cupmatch. 0-6

@ Aggie: FC Bottenkraker.

"All ideas are great, but my team sucks".

Oh wait.

"Eternal TAFKABCA winners"

BTW, lost my 2nd round cup match 3-0 away. Disappointing as I was playing CA with 40-45% posession, my defense was twice as good as his attack, I won the attacking wings against his defense and all three goals were normal goals.

Now I can reinstantiate my faboulous training scheme.

This would make BCLG United happy as well...

And it rolls off the tongue.

PiC-ed and won 5-0. We are nr 1 at the moment and the fans are calm only. Seems they didn't forget last season and the cup disaster. If we win next week we will probably be 5 points clear already.

Won 3-0 to go top of the league after previous 1 & 2 duked out a 4-3 game. The only problem is that my defender and set piece guy got ball bagged for 3 weeks.

Won 1-3 with CA away vs one of the stronger teams of the league. So at least I won't be struggling to stay in the league...let's see whether we can hold the top spot.

Lost 0-1 against a team who decided to press. It's the first time I've had this tactic used against me!

Aggie, you're suddenly quitting hattrick? What happened?

Where did you see that?

It's just better that I quit the game. I decided to focus 100% on my RL. This little game was getting more and more in the way... I had a good time playing the game and sharing it with you. Thanks and goodbye!!

:O But now no-one will get close to my award!

Sorry to hear that. I fully understand and sympathize. I myself just compromise and keep it going without spending too much time or paying real attention. I think I'm maxing it at 30 min/week and have little desire to spend more. Or course, it comes at the expense of performance and causes lack of money in the team's coffers but I still like the game and would not want to quit. It is free and it is funny, and I don't particularly care how well I perform.

Welcome to the club! Shabba is a lifetime member, he's handing out spam.

Ok, it's been good to have had you around for all those years.

And yet, maybe you'll reconsider... ;)

Well, after so long I can understand you quit hattrick, but I'm sad to see you leave here! :(

I have 7 points now, looks good so far (despite not putting any effort in it).

My season is going as planned.. I promoted a solid/solid coach so I can actually make use of these Bot matches to help me win the series.

My trainees are getting better as well. I have 9 DEF trainees plus my keeper.

Keeper = 12.98/8

2 guys at 10 DEF
2 guys at 9 DEF
5 at 8 DEF

My plan is still to train DEF for the rest of this season and then switching over to PM training.. or possibly passing first.. I will have to see how the rest of the season goes.

btw.. did anyone else notice Tubby Rower is playing again?

Really? Awesome. Maybe we can force him back here as well :D

My season is a disaster. I managed only 2 draws in my league, and just got kicked out of the cup.

I should sell all my players and prepare a new team, but I just don't have that much time to pass on the transfer market.

You can't force me back... doh!