Season 23 Week 2 Processing

Paul, is it too late for me to request email turns for both clubs?. I cant hack not having anything to read on Sunday morning... it'll disrupt my rythm and mojo

Happy with my teams' performance but amazed by how both leagues have started. River Plate on 0 points after 2 games and a big minus goal difference. Think they only lost 2 or 3 all last season. And some slow starts in Serie A .... although Milan seem to be back with a bang, Lavezzi and Gilardino firing.

Cheers Paul for another great week, and thanks for putting in the extra effort to try and get the turns out to us quickly. Very much appreciated.

Good wins for both Barcelona and Flamengo, 2 clean sheets is always good to have!

Now for the European Cup and Copa Libertadores, big game against Bayern to kick things off.........

Paul Hemmings wrote:

this game suddenly came to life with 10 minutes left to play and it is Newcastle who have taken advantage of the change in play to score what is surely thr winning goal from Romelo Lukaku on 90 minutes and now it is

Newcastle 2 Fulham 1

in what has been a great game.

Wow 2 goals conceded in the 10 min spell I went from WHV to WHD ?????????

Very confused doesnt begin to explain it. to do what I consider to be the sensible thing away from home when defending a one goal lead and ship two goals straight away is very disheartening / mind blowing

Very confused and frustrated with that

That's another tactic to put into the redundant pile

ok. Happy.

Leicester pick up a much needed win, and whilst grumbling that the games are about as entertaining as sh*t, it's a results business.

Leicester had alot of change over the passed 6 weeks, the TU and Squad effectiveness took a battering. Need to trim down the squad, get back to three languages, squad to 24 (ideally), and keep training hard. Performance poor, result good. move on.

Betis. Big Diego Milito finally fulfills talent. Last year it was all about Bojan, this year Milito is on the money. 6 points, joint top....and i dont play the big two for ages... until I play them back to back... lol. Chuffed with Valencia's draw.

edit: oh... and Will's annoyed. The perfect week

Well well how to solve a problem like Chelsea?? no signings or disruption and two 0-0 draws with not even a mention in two turns,need to find a way of hitting the onion bag and quickly or are chelsea suffering from the 0-0 reserve and youth result bug from last turn lol



Great win for Cska 3-0 gotta be happy with that at least

Very happy with two wins, especially the big win at the newly developed Valley.

Made all the sweeter by getting one over Ol' Whiskey Nose.

Showed faith in the team despite the shocking first half of the first game of the season, and it has been repaid so far. Think the half time team talk from Watford is still ringing through their ears!!

After last years perfect 11-0-0 home record, pleased to get off to a good start in front of the Valley fans. Think it might be harder this year to create a fortress!!

Please to have a 0-0 that's 2 clean sheets for arsenal and well a point is a point. Especially with the disruption to my team this week can't complain.

Also at lille started off quite well in France to my surprise lots of good players floating about in France and 3 points are hard to come by nice to sew falcao score aswell hopefully increase the attention hes been getting!

Now to wait n see how the euro games go!

Anybody else, apart from Will becoming concerned at the dominance of FAS?

Not particularly.

I agree that quite a few managers are playing that way now, but I think that is to take advantage of the bigger spaces on the pitch.

Also, there are a lot of good target men out there at the minute.

I can understand Will's frustrations at the minute, but sometimes the game develops and changes and it is up to the managers to change with it.

I have changed from WHV to FAS to SLO to FAS, trying to figure out which tactics were best for my payers at the time. Sometimes what seems obvious isn't always the best way to go tactically.

Thats what great about the game, you always have to be thinking and on top of things.

I remember not long ago WHV and FLY were dominant and churning results out every week.

The game reflects real life too, as formations come and go, trends change. I can remember tactics becoming popular during various times of my growing up.

3 at the back, christmas tree, 442, 451, 433, Diamond, and nowadays 4-2-3-1 seems more and more popular.


Lets not forget either, that the pinnacle of Hemsoft last year was won by Jamie, who I believe doesn't pay FAS?

Just my thoughts.

Matt@Barcelona wrote:

Cheers Paul for another great week, and thanks for putting in the extra effort to try and get the turns out to us quickly. Very much appreciated

Echo these thoughts too. Many thanks.

Just doing the transfers atm

got one problem Newcastle & Leicester ... Mark has swapbuy/swapsell Michu+7.5m for Anderson Leicester have buy Anderson for 7.5m ? so I cant put that thru unless you clarify one way or the other.

also feyenoord and real madrid, Will you have buy dzagoev for zero, Iain has sell him for 12m.

late night processing! If it helps I'm sure Iain told me he was selling Dzagoev for 12m this turn?

Can't imagine he'd have been free!!!

Yeah Iain's too tight to do that!

all processing now finished, will email turns out in the morning first chance I get, to everybody who has requested an email turn. Paper turns will be posted asap, not sure when that will be, maybe not til monday morning, depends when PO is open. thx

Champions Cup results

Man City 1 Arsenal 1 Real 1 Benfica 0

Birmingham 1 Plymouth 2 Schalke 0 Ajax 0

Watford 0 Fulham 1 Barcelona 2 Bayern 2

Charlton 1 Inter 0 Man United 0 Juventus 0

Europa league results

Newcastle 0 Sevilla 1 Lille 0 Napoli 0

Leicester 2 Lyon 0 Chelsea 0 AC Milan 0

Feyenoord 2 Nantes 3 Liverpool 2 Berlin 0

Betis 0 Ancona 1 Spurs 4 Gornik 1

Copa Libertadores results

Flamengo 0 Bolivar 0 Catolica 3 milanarios 0

Santos 4 River Plate 1 Emelec 1 Necaxa 1

Boca 0 Vasco 0 Corinthians 0 Olimpia 0

Sao Paulo 0 Cristal 0 NAcional 0 Caracas 0

Confederations Cup results

Cosmos 0 Galaxy 2 Shimizu 3 Bourgas 0

Tampa 4 San Jose 0 Yokohama 0 Slav 0

Chicago 0 Jubilo 0 Kashiwa 3 Pleven 0

Dallas 0 Grampus 1 Osaka 1 Varna 0

0-0 again, I'm becoming a speacialist in this result lol

Couldn't be happier with this weeks results.

Massive shock in the Champions Cup, the biggest result since my tenure began.

And also the small matter of beating Will in the Europa in what sounded like a real ding dong, never thought that result would be second to anything....largely with the reserves and new boys too.

Tom@Charlton wrote:

Couldn't be happier with this weeks results.

Massive shock in the Champions Cup, the biggest result since my tenure began.

And also the small matter of beating Will in the Europa in what sounded like a real ding dong, never thought that result would be second to anything....largely with the reserves and new boys too.

Very unhappy my turn didn't arrive so wasn't able to revise my cup team but good win Tom. Please tell me you didn't bribe the postman?????

Didn't you phone it through Rob?

Couldn't get all the team changes in, only dealings, training and special actions. If Paul hadn't tipped me off I'd have had nothing done. Biggest disappointment was not getting the 3 reviews I sent in done.