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All my Villa supporting friends on Facebook seem to be resigned to relegation now that they aren't going to sign anyone. It does look grim for them though.

Martin Devaney played a handful of games for us in a loan spell three or four years ago. He was a decent winger from Barnsley if IRC.

Finally drank yourselves under?

Just passed the £400 mark online.

Please don't stop donating though guys, We really want to hit the big £1k milestone as we've already raised so much with more than five months still to go until the actual walk.



Thanks!

Good luck with Leicester mate, you from round here?
Nice signings as well.

Hahaha

I've used it a few times and haven't encountered any crashes thus far.

Randy Lerner has told Lambert his job is safe regardless of if they are relegated or not as he doesn't want any more managerial upheaval there, Which in itself is a good thing but he really does need to spend some money in the few days remaining of this window otherwise I really can't see them staying up. Bringing back Warnock, Hutton and Makoun would help remedy the problem with experience without spending any cash if they are re-callable?

Same here in Leicestershire.

Millwall still holding Villa at the moment. Surly they have to sign some players this month?

Odemwingie has had his transfer requested denied by WBA BBC Sport

Jumping from West Brom to QPR seems like a bad move for him, It can only be for bigger wages.

October wasn't the most encouraging month for us, Just a single win in the league this month, Although all of our three defeats came at the hands of clubs to whom we were expected to lose to.


As expected our Copa Sudamericana run came to an abrupt end thanks to Sao Paulo who trounced us 6-1 on aggregate, Although we did give a decent account of ourselves in front of our own supporters, even leading the Brazilian behemoths for a brief period of time. My goal now is to ensure we get another crack at Continental level football next season, To do so we must reach the semi final stage of Clausura (Closing stage championship) or win the Copa Bolivia.
In the Apatura (Opening championship) we are just about maintaining our position in the Clausra qualification places, although there is still a very long way to go. Defeats to Blooming and Oriente Petrolero were to be expected, However we really should have eaten the then bottom side Real Potosi on our own ground.
Thankfully we did pick up a win over Real Memore who are directly beneath us in the table, We should be aiming to add to our points haul in our upcoming game with the now bottom placed Univeritario.


I have been trying to switch the team to 4-4-2 as opposed to 4-2-3-1 which seems to be very vulnerable to counter attacks despite supplying plenty of goals, However I need to sign some genuine wingers as I am currently having to play attacking midfielders Daner Pachi and Jorge Rios out of position. I'm looking forward to January as I will be hoping to recruit not only a couple of wingers but also replace Fernando Souza at the back who has been an absolute rock, He is leaving for Brazilian side Cerea for £275k.

Fuckin rip off mate. I've never had a game on FMC anyway as things such as team talk's which I see as vital to the FM experience are missing. No way I would ever pay for something like that. The only DLC I would like to see is additional fully functioning leagues such as Cyprus, Jamaica, New Zealand etc which unfortunately SI has missed a trick on.

I hope this doesn't kill your enthusiasm for your game.

Anybody watch Inside death row with Trevor McDonald? It was a good documentary with some quite intense interviews, Especially the final one where Sir Trev basicly tells an inmate in his cell that he deserves whats coming to him.

I also had no idea prisoners could have pets, It just seems cruel keeping a cat in a prison cell, It's not allowed to leave the cell and is kept on a rope to prevent it escaping.

I really hope Bradford have got one more big performance in them, It would be a shame to see them knock out Wigan and Arsenal and then spank Villa just to freeze up and get molested in the final.
If they play like they did in the first leg against Villa then I think they will do it.

Jimmy Kebe

Iain Dowie's still around?

Gary Megson or Owen Coyle maybe?

Not quite although it's very similar.

A lot of the clubs in South America are named after bigger clubs from this continent and Europe, The second division here in Bolvia also has a Barcelona, Flamengo and Espanyol. As far as I know none of them share a link with their more illustrious counterparts.

It's really racist in my town in Leicestershire as well, I served a black customer once, as he left the bloke behind uttered 'Is it just me or is it getting dark early round here?' The other customers in the shop burst out laughing and cracking their Favorite racist jokes together.

Growing up in a big multicultural city like Birmingham that shocked me to be honest, and not many things do shock me. It seems just way of life round here though as it's a 99% white British area.

August-September 2013


I've had a reasonable to my time with Aurora, Starting with advancing against the odds to the first round of the Copa Sudamaericana by coming from a 1-0 deficit inflicted by Paraguayan club Cerro Porteno in the first leg and winning out in a tense penalty shootout following a 1-0 win in normal time to get my career in South America off to a good start. We drew Uruguayan's Nacional in the next round with the bookies heavily fancying the opposition, However home advantage played a key part in us turning over the Favorites in a tight encounter.
I was hoping that these two strong results would set us in good stead ahead of our first league game against Guabira who are forecast to go down this year, Things looked good as we went ahead from the spot after half an hour, However we were unable to secure the points and capitulated in the second half, conceding a late Guabiri winner.

We put the disappointment of the Guabiri result behind us quickly though by making the long trip to Uruguay and advancing to the first round proper of the Copa Sudamericana, Things should have gone more smoothly as we went into half time 2-0 up thanks to two poachers goals from Jose Padilla, However Nacional came out all guns blazing in the second half and turned the game around to 3-2, It made for a very tense end to the game, they knew they only needed one more to advance, However we did manage to weather the storm and held out. Our prize for doing so? A mammoth tie with Brazilian giants Sao Paulo! I realize that our adventure probably ends here but still this is the sort of game I came to South America to manage in, It will also be a nice little earner for our bank account.
We followed up with a 1-1 draw with San Jose in the league, We had trailed for most of the game thanks to a dodgy penalty which was converted in the fifth minute, Thankfully five minutes from time we pulled level with a well worked goal finished off by left back Jorge Ayala who find himself free to belt the ball past San Jose's keeper as he cut in from the wing.

Before we made the 1,300 mile journey Eastwards to Sao Paulo we were rocked by the news that we would be losing club captain Fernando Souza who will be making the journey to Brazil permanently in January after Serie A side Ceara triggered his £275k release clause. At least that money (A club record sale) will allow me to bring in a few players of my own in January.
The game itself was not one to remember for any other reason than we were playing one of South America's premier clubs at their magnificent Morumbi stadium, We held out until the 17th minute when Flamengo loanee Negueba fired the home side into the lead, It took just one minute for them to double that advantage, Ademilson with a scorcher from 30 yards. Both of the goalscorers got another in the 38th and 68th minutes respectively to effectively kill this tie before the three times Copa Libidedores winners even set foot on the plane to Bolivia next week. I'm hoping we can put up a bit more of a fight at home to restore some pride even if we are not going to advance in the competition.

Our final game this month was against Bolivia's most famous team, The Strongest who aren't called that for no reason, They are eleven times champions of this country and were going to be a formidable opposition for us, especially with most of my squad still worn out from being run ragged in Brazil a few days beforehand. The Strongest were very much in control of the game for the first half, until stoppage time where our first good opportunity of the game forced a corner, from which centerback Carlos Oritz nodded in to give us the lead completely against the run of play.
Our lead lasted just two minutes following the start of the second period as El Tigres also made use of a corner to level up.
It looked as if the game was going to fizzle out as neither of us were really pushing hard for a winner with the only efforts on goal coming from distance, that was until we won another corner with 13 minutes to go, Oritz supplied almost an instant replay of his first by leaping higher than his marker to head home and make it 2-1. I was expecting the visitors to throw caution to the wind following that but they failed to do so, allowing us to capitalize with Jose Padilla tapping in from close range to win an unlikely three points and hopefully kick start our season.

So a mixed first month or so in charge of Aurora, It's a bit early to take any stock by the league table but here it is anyway;

The season here in Bolivia is a long one, Clubs play each other four times during the first stage of the campaign (The Apatura) and the top eight then contest the Clausura, a two legged knockout tournament to decide the champions, Meaning the season is potentially fifty games long, A bit different to Morocco where we only had thirty games.

Thus far I have favored a very South American 4-2-3-1 formation which has produced some exciting football, When facing stronger opposition I switch to 4-1-2-1-2 which is a counter attacking tactic.

I have only brought in one player so far as I'm quite happy with the squad at the moment;


I'm enjoying life with Aurora so far, The continental adventure has been fun and the quality of the football played has been to a much higher standard and entertainment value than in Morocco.

With the sort of service he get's here at Walsall ten isn't a bad haul, Sure he will do well in the Championship. Apparently Leicester are Favorites to sign him though, Can't see why they need another striker either mind.

Northern Ireland international striker who's scored ten for us so far this season.

Thanks mate.

Yeah, I tried promoting my walk on other forums where I don't have much of a post count but I didn't raise anything other than a few snide comments. I think unless your a major charity people have to feel a sense of familiarity/affinity with you in order to persuade them to hand over their money. Good luck with you fundraising either way though, It sounds like a interesting and good cause.

Good luck to him, he came and coached for nothing when there was no money to pay him so I cannot begrudge him the Bristol job. Think we may see him again next season though.

Rumors of Leicester, Forest or Wolves being about to buy Will Grigg however fail to inspire the same good grace from myself.

All over, Villa win but Bradford are in the final. Fair play to them.

Goal! Weimann with two minutes to go.

I thought Bradford had wrapped it up then.

Villa have got to start just pumping it into the box four the four strikers instead of all these impotent throughballs and backpasses.

Darren Bent is coming on, Villa going 4-3-3 with him, Agbonlahor and Benteke.

1-1.