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Title: Shining Fyre Post by: Elvenfyre on September 25, 2005, 04:56:07 am WIN FOR ME :D
Date: 25/09/2005 at 04.00 MatchID: 52711681 Arena: Shibby Hotspurs Arena Crowd: 2184 Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 2184 to Shibby Hotspurs Arena. Hotspurs tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. Lineup: Parkes - Latham, Smale, Kasnaferis, Palfrey - Atyeo, Burton, Thomas, Nash - Chan, Hurst. Shining had chosen a strategic 5-3-2 formation. Lineup: Badham - Smith, Fosdyke, Kewell, Otomo, Spruce - Paut, Pearce, Brabham - Buckler, Wedderburn. A well placed corner kick from Juan Paut was followed by Nathan Buckler?s hard but accurate header. The nice combination meant goal for Shining. The result now 0-1. Some fine manouvering on the left lead to an 10th minute Shining goal, making it 0 - 2. Chester Fosdyke was noted down as the scorer. By now Shining were drawing the troops back in order to defend their lead. The teams went for a half-time break at 0 - 2. Shining held the ball, with a clear 52 percent possession rate. Shining?s Allan Pearce made it through the home teams defence in the 55th minute, and had only to place the ball in an unguarded goal when the home side?s defender sprang up from the left, clearing the ball on the line. Shining came close to extending their lead as Mitchell Wedderburn delivered a long range shot from the right but the angle was too sharp, and the shot hit the side of the goal. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, Shining's Tatsuhito Otomo got himself booked. Shining held the ball, with a clear 66 percent possession rate. The most dominating Hotspurs player was without a doubt Daryl Palfrey. Josh Chan on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating Shining player was without a doubt Chester Fosdyke. Trent Kewell was a disappointment, however. The match ends 0 - 2. Title: Shining Fyre Post by: Devlyn on September 25, 2005, 07:47:16 am Nice dude! Is this your first match in Hattrick? ;)
Title: Shining Fyre Post by: Elvenfyre on September 25, 2005, 12:44:55 pm It's the first one I watched live :)
Title: Shining Fyre Post by: Seanikins on September 25, 2005, 06:30:25 pm they get addictive after a while :) soon you'll have a schedual around your league matches so you can watch the excitement :)
Congrats! Title: Shining Fyre Post by: Elvenfyre on October 23, 2005, 04:57:10 am Yes, well today I played my divisions leaders (who hadn't had a goal scored against them previously) and we drew, 1-1.. so I'm quite happy.
He shouldn't have underestimated me ;) Title: Shining Fyre Post by: Elvenfyre on February 12, 2006, 05:24:02 am I think I have this one in the bag.
Quote The match is in progress, 13 minutes of the second half have been played. 8222 spectators had come to Stadio Delved this cloudy day. Gostapo started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Wooders - Chady, Monaghan, Fackrell, Mullane - Summerfield, McFadden, Langmack, Hoare - Mack, Peters. Shining started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. The following players had been chosen: Badham - Smith, Fosdyke, Otomo, Spruce - Kasimatis, Pearce, Rose, Bramhall - Buckler, Wedderburn. Shining saw most attack opportunites on the wings. In the 9th minute cheers broke out as Harry Mack found his way through the guests' central defense line, clipping the 1 - 0 goal in for Gostapo. Some brilliant football from the visitor's right wing resulted in a 10th minute levelling of score as Shining's Nathan Buckler put the ball in the net for 1 - 1. Some quick footwork on the left side of the field in the 20th minute left Shining's Allan Pearce completely free to score. 1 - 2 for the visitors. After 26 minutes Shining's Ian Rose contracted a slight foot injury, but could finish the game. In the 31st minute, Shining put themselves up 1 - 3 after an attack from the right, caused by a defensive blunder. The scorer was Chester Fosdyke. Gostapo had to make a substitution in the 34th minute. Garrett McFadden limped off the field and was replaced by Neil Mulray. Gostapo's Neil Mulray cut towards the middle in the 38th minute, recieving a brilliant pass and slicing through the visiting team's central defense line, putting the 2 - 3 goal away. Halftime score was 2 - 3. Gostapo held the ball, with a clear 52 percent possession rate. The away team's Leonard Bramhall took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right in the 57th minute increasing Shining's lead to 2 - 4. I've been playing for 30 minutes some weeks and not at all others.. managing to stay afloat. I haven't obviously been playing many friendlies but I hope to change that this season and make some dough training now that I can move my 30 year old ex-captain up to coach. I've found the fact that training modes are constantly changing tough to decide on what to do. I didn't win my division last season(my first season) but it looks like I should win it this season. My question is, what happens then.. do I get a choice of whether I go up to the next division or do they force me? If I get a choice, do you recommend I take the step up or not? Title: Shining Fyre Post by: Devlyn on February 13, 2006, 08:05:21 am Nope, you either promote to the next division or you have to play a Qualification Match, depending on your performance compared to top ranking teams in other leagues :).
Title: Shining Fyre Post by: Rockin Needlepin on February 27, 2006, 07:51:38 pm Just kill the game, it's useless anyway.
Title: Shining Fyre Post by: Elvenfyre on May 02, 2006, 01:14:10 pm So I came second in my series thanks to some careful posturing ;)
My big news is that I will have a piece in the ezine Between The Lines from the Bottom Division Federation. Don't know if any of you see it, but it usually has it's latest (weekly) edition linked from the right hand menu most of the time. The issue is published this weekend and is part 1 of a weekly soap series. Title: Shining Fyre Post by: Devlyn on May 03, 2006, 08:54:35 am Nice! :D
Could you let me know when it's posted? ;) Title: Shining Fyre Post by: Elvenfyre on May 11, 2006, 01:17:24 pm (http://www.bad.net.nz/published.gif)
Title: Shining Fyre Post by: Newts on May 11, 2006, 06:18:53 pm Is Malta sorry? I have to find out!
Seriously dude, that's hecka cool! Title: Shining Fyre Post by: Elvenfyre on July 11, 2006, 06:49:41 am I'm top in my series with a 5 point buffer, but about to play the 3 next best teams in the series over the last 3 games.
Nail biting really, I really want to promote this season so that I can see the difference it makes to the game. I should have a cool million at the end of the season and will probably spend it on my arena, though some second thoughts are shooting through my mind that I won't be getting very big crowds if i lose most of my games in my new div. so I'm still humming and harring. Title: Shining Fyre Post by: Devlyn on July 12, 2006, 01:03:34 pm Nice to hear man! Seems like you're really getting the hang of it :D.
I'm 1st in my division now, with a lot of luck I might be able to promote to the II :D Title: Shining Fyre Post by: Elvenfyre on July 30, 2006, 12:05:33 pm Series: VI.126 (51858)
Country: Oceania Level: 6 out of 6 1. Shining Fyre --------- 14 (53 - 12) 38 2. Brow FC -------------- 14 (46 - 13) 32 3. Coffs Cougars ------- 14 (43 - 18) 27 4. Kelleysville ---------- 14 (38 - 31) 20 5. Adelaide RAMS ------ 14 (33 - 26) 20 6. Endeavour storm --- 14 (17 - 53) 10 7. roosters6 ------------ 14 (20 - 56) 9 8. Guerreros de Pe?aro 14 (14 - 55) 7 I won! Yep. Been undefeated for 13 weeks (since my cup loss) so I'm happy about that. Just spent $900,000 on my arena to take me to 17000 seats. This qualifies me for autopromotion, even with 2 draws in the season, so yeah! should be interesting to see where I end up in V. Title: Shining Fyre Post by: Job on July 30, 2006, 02:46:53 pm I won as well. It was a tough season. If i can win this last game i'll auto-promote to III, but it's going to be hard with two of my midfielders out.
Title: Shining Fyre Post by: Elvenfyre on November 07, 2006, 01:14:02 am OK so I'm coming second to last in my division, and there's no way I'm getting out of this alive.
However while I was away overseas I did manage to rack up a nice 1.4 million australian dollars to play with. I'm totally unsure what to buy with the money, possibly I will go with a really decent midfielder - as I pulled a great youth mid this season and have been training him, so I could start 3-5-2 ing. The lustre has gone off this game a bit for me, not sure if I can even be bothered spending the money, but I will, and see if things turn around in my ht-motivational stakes. Title: Re: Shining Fyre Post by: Elvenfyre on February 04, 2008, 09:43:49 am That season I went back into Div 5, and then made it easily against bots back into Div 4, and this time, I've made it! Coming 3rd at the moment, will just cruise in here for a couple seasons letting the money grow and then make a run for promotion.
Title: Re: Shining Fyre Post by: Job on February 19, 2008, 12:47:08 am Can someone check where my team is (Loose RS) if it's still around as a bot? I can't believe they let m go bankrupt - talk about turning away paying customers. ::)
Title: Re: Shining Fyre Post by: Elvenfyre on September 02, 2008, 11:05:17 am I'll try to remember to do that next time I'm there Job!
I have a funny story though, our div is a little stagnant, 4 of us pretty much the same skill level, then the newly relegated guy comes in and whips us all this season. Time comes for my second game against this superstar team and I just "play it cool" ... I logged in today and received this message from him: ">Good game mate, well played. A bit of a turn around from the last game eh? Did you play MOTS?" LOL, MOTS I take it means match of the season. Pretty funny, I won 4-3. Here's the match replay I guess it must have been nailbiting and infuriating for him if he was watching it. Date : 31-08-2008 04.00 MatchID: 181421638 HT Live Arena : Shining Fyre Arena Crowd: 48404 48404 spectators had come to Shining Fyre Arena this cloudy day. Shining started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Starters: MacMonies - Faye, Letelier, Shamray - Brière, Pearce, Barycki, Bum, de Graaf - Goliáš, Fydler. Wombats had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. Starters: Szkółka - Kolosov, Souto, Isakov - Wilhelmus, Drenakis, Medina, Callebaut, Martin - Mentzel, Fadeev. Shining saw most attack opportunities on the wings. After 20 minutes, Georg Mentzel sent the corner kick right to Kleovoulos Drenakis who headed it sharply past the keeper. 0-1! In the 21:th minute, Shining's Myron Shamray made a rush down the left, leaving him free to put the 1 - 1 equaliser away. The visiting Julio Medina was booed thoroughly by the home crowd in the 30:th minute, after he broke through the middle and scored, resulting in the visitors taking the lead. 1 - 2 was the score. Many in the crowd felt the referee was being too lenient when he only showed Wombats's Thomas Martin a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind in the 30:th minute. Had it not been for one of the home defenders, Kleovoulos Drenakis would have put Wombats up another goal in the 34:th minute with his audacious lob from the right wing. A foul in the 35:th minute resulted in a free kick for Shining. Finnley Bum took advantage as he curled the tying goal into the top corner, out of reach of the keeper. 2 - 2. Halftime score was 2 - 2. This half belonged to Wombats, who controlled the ball 55 percent of the time. In the 61:th minute, Shining had a chance to take the lead after being awarded a penalty, but Finnley Bum's shot was blocked by Lubomysł Szkółka. Barker Fydler hit the ball perfectly in the 65:th minute to score for Shining with a fab long shot. 3 - 2. Allan Pearce unleashed a swerving effort from the right that the visitors' keeper did well to tip wide. Shining's Barker Fydler showed his experience, anticipating the outcome of the opponent's defensive clearance and positioning himself perfectly to volley in an unstoppable shot from the edge of the box. 4 - 2. After this, Shining lowered the tempo in order to concentrate on their defensive efforts. Georg Mentzel had a lethal looking free kick that grazed the post in the 76:th minute. In the 77:th minute, an amazing pass from the left side resulted in a goal for the visitors, as Luis Souto charged ahead and scored, reducing to 4 - 3. This half belonged to Wombats, who controlled the ball 60 percent of the time. Shining's best player was Conrad de Graaf. Emilio Felipe Letelier was a disappointment, however. Merv Isakov performed admirably for Wombats. Julio Medina on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 4 - 3. Rating Shining Fyre Player rating and team formation Team Attitude Play it Cool Tactic Attack on wings Tactic skill outstanding Midfield weak (low) Right Defence weak (high) Central Defence poor (very high) Left Defence poor (very high) Right Attack weak (high) Central Attack weak (high) Left Attack inadequate (very low) Wombats AFC Player rating and team formation Team Attitude (Hidden) Tactic Normal Tactic skill (no tactic) Midfield weak (very high) Right Defence solid (low) Central Defence solid (high) Left Defence excellent (high) Right Attack weak (low) Central Attack weak (very high) Left Attack solid (high) Sold seats Terraces : 28603 Basic seats : 12161 Seats under roof : 6400 VIP seats : 1240 |