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#291032 Holliday game
Dyrim
On the plus site we did manage to win the Johnstone's Paint Trophy with a 2-0 win in extra time.
Now i can only hope my team regains thre confidence, and bring the play-offs to an good end.
#291031 Holliday game
Dyrim
The fixture list gives me 4 away matches and just 1 at home.
Luton Town are currently 19th
Shrewbury 20th
Winbledon 1st
Yeovil 13th
York 16th
Beside Wimbledon non of the teams have anything to play for anymore maybe it can work to my advantage.
#51266 Keeping up with Shedender and Dan - If it's not to late!
Dyrim
#51262 Travelling across Europe - proving I'm better than Dan!
Dyrim
#51250 The Career Of Sacha Baron Cohen
Dyrim
#291030 Holliday game
Dyrim
#51180 Travelling across Europe - proving I'm better than Dan!
Dyrim
#291029 Holliday game
Dyrim
Other highlight of the month was our trip to Wales to play Swansea in the FA-Cup. And we tried hard but couldn't pull off a major upset. We hold on the first 45 minutes, but where hopeless outplayed the 2nd 45 minutes. But we went out with our heads up high.
But in the league we had a great run not losing a single game. Most of the good form comes down to one man: Yoshiaki Takagi. What an great signing he turnes out to be. Just a reminder there are stats from an attacking midfielder.
With our current form we are in good shape to win a third promotion in a row. With good form comes a reward, climbing up to 3th posistion, and less important but still nice Motm. And in the progress we also reached the regional finals of the Johnstone's Paint Throphy. Lets see if we can keep going strong and maybe even push for the title.
#51163 The Career Of Sacha Baron Cohen
Dyrim
#51097 Getting Around Europe Quicker Than Shedender
Dyrim
#51086 The Career Of Sacha Baron Cohen
Dyrim
#291028 Holliday game
Dyrim
December started on a high. We got to the Johnstone's Paint Trophy Semi Final, and got a home draw agains AFC Wimbledon, giving us a decent chance to progress even futher. Also winning the first two league matches, which made us climb to 2nd place in the league. Takagi score an amazing goal, giving him goal if the month.
Futher did i manage to extend the contract of Ivan Almeida, Rob Kiernan, Stéphane Madeira and Richard Haklander. All on the same turns as they had.And to top things off i got my first job offer as manager of RKC Waalwijk (Dutch 2nd league), which i ofcourse declined.
The Bad:
After winning the first couple of matches, the tables turned and we are now on a 5 match slump. This made us slip down the tables again and now we are just hanging on to a play-off spot. Can it be my team can't play in the cold? Lets hope we can turn things around again or i might regret turning down RKC Waalwijk.
The Ugly:
And when you think things can't get worse you get other "great" news. Missing my goalkeeper and best central defende for the whole of januari.
#50999 Getting Around Europe Quicker Than Shedender
Dyrim
#291027 Holliday game
Dyrim
First up was round 1 of the FA-cup. Due to the match agains the butcher called Moracombe i decided to play with my 2nd eleven and rest all first team players because they where struggling with there fitness. Basicly i had peace going out the first round hoping that resting the key players would help getting into better shape in the league. But cleary my reserves felt they had something to prove and put down a supurb display beating Luton Town 2-1 away. Also the original plan work well, and we put down a good run in the league winning four in a row., before an unbilieveble draw agains Yeovil Town. having 34 shot at the goal of which 15 on target, but still failed to score. I felt hard done by the result.
Apparently my team was shocked aswell putting in a subpar preformance next match. But then they bounced back with an amezing first halve in the second round of the FA-cup, outplaying the mumber 3 in division one Brentford.
The FA-cup draw giving us a great match again Premier league strugglers Swansea. Unfortunately our fans have to travel the 130 miles to wales to see the match.
But overall a great month and we continue to clim the table, and all my promotion hopes are up again.
#291026 Holliday game
Dyrim
After which i got the work permit for Yoshiaki Takagi. A bore draw and 2 wins in the league before getting a very unlucky loss. Last match was agains the butchers called Morecambe, the manage to give a knock to 5 players and injuring an other one. But we still got a draw.
Ofcourse the highlight was the signing of Takagi. We are still working to get him to full match fitness but he is starting to make an early impression. And scored his first goal.
I will be monitoring the finacial situation closely for the time being but this month the wages didnt cause an problem.
Altho we are not climbing fast on the table we are again in contention. 2 points behinde the play-off spots and 9 points behinde the leaders, both with 2 games in hand. But its tight for al lot of team at the moment and all is open. Lucily there has opened a big cap to the relegation spots.
#291025 Holliday game
Dyrim
Salisbury fans where thrilled and worried by new signing. With the signing of Japanees U21 international Takagi the club could go into a finacial crisis having overdrawn the wage budget by a shocking 10%. But the majority of the fans are thrilled by the propect have such a wonderfull player at the club.
Manager Jörgen van den Berg explains the reason behinde the signing of Takagi. First of all we want the best players as possible at the club. And i rate Takagi as one of the best there is. Secondly we where used to an very attacking strategy. This worked wonderfully at the lower levels, but i have the feeling that at this point it leaves us to much exposed at the back. So with the technical staff we created a new tactic, and to play this tactic to its full potential we need a very strong attacking midfielder with great playmaking skill. This is where we want Takagi to shine.
Later he reacted to the question how much it would strenghten the squad. Ofcourse would it strenghten the squad enormously, otherwise we wouldnt have taking the risk signing him. We know we have taken a fianicial risk and ofcourse we are confinced it will pay off. This season we had trouble signing a good right winger, but now with this new tactic that position doesnt exist anymore. Instead we got a very strong playmaker, and or strong left winger will now play support upfront. This will also help Anréa Fileccia to get into more scoring possition. But i cant see into the future so time will tell.
On the question is he is planning to sell player to ease the wage preasure Van den Berg reacted. We have to wait and see, i think the club can get by with the current wageload and i feel we need all the players we have at the moment to realize our promotion dream. But if thing dont turn out the way we planned it, we might be forced to offlad a couple of players. Jörgen van den Berg refused to name the players he has in mind to be sold.
#50886 British Steel Challenge
Dyrim
#291024 Holliday game
Dyrim
Third round in the Capital One cup drawed us against our parent club Reading (premier). We had a good records against them in pre-season matches, so we went into the game hoping that something could happen. And eventho nothing did happen we kept a close game for the full 90 minutes, not giving away much at the back, but also not creating much at the front. Extra time was just a bit to long at the end conceding 2 goals, and to be honest it could even had been more.
The Reading game and the extra time took a lot out of the lads, leaving us without a chance in the next game. But we had high hopes for the last game of the month. With everyone fit and rearing to go we took on Oxford at home. A close game but early in the second period they pulled away 2 goals and we couldnt catch up anymore.
I feel we are better then our current position, but feeling dont win promotions. We are 5 points a drift from a play-off spot (1 game in hand) and 7 points from direct promotion. So a lot a stake in the next month because all is still very close.
#50852 The Third Team In Glasgow
Dyrim
#50838 Zinedine Zidane Succession game
Dyrim
#291023 Holliday game
Dyrim
Season started off leaving me with some mixed feelings. Ofcourse we did great in the Capital One Cup winning both from L1 side Plymouth and Championship side Sheffield Wednesday (in extra time). Also we are still unbeaten in the league. But we keep drawing our games where we should have won them. Especialy against Southend we where left wondering how we didnt win. We outplayed them the whole match and hit the frame of the goal on many occasions.
On the transfer front i did manage to get some deals done. I took a gamble on a right winger coming from the Real Madrid youth academy, then failing to break into the squad of Las Palmas. But still an U21 international for Bulgaria. I could sign him for low wage and free transfer and has decent stats. But it remains to be seen if he turns out to be better then Christian Kabeya. Further did i get in a left back on loan.
All the draws left me a bit behinde (6 points to the top) in the leaguetable but nothing is lost. A couple of wins can move me up very quickly (a couple of losses move me dow as quickly).
#291022 Holliday game
Dyrim
But no time to look back, i have to team to get ready for a greater challenge. Division2. With only Jasar Takak leaving, i managed to get Renaldo Jongebloet to sign an renewal for a decent wage and renewed Christian Kabeya as i didnt have an alternative, I start with basicly the same squad as i played last year.
Eventho the goalkeeper comes out as rather weak i have full confidence in Mustafa Amezrine abilities. So i wont be chasing any upgrade there. The weak spot is my right winger with Kabeya as only viable option i'll be looking to bring in a player there. Further i need back-up for my centre back positions and for my left back. And i want to get a centre midfielder who can challenge. David Lynch and Richard Haklander. I started optimistic as upto now i could find (very) good signings every season. But this time i ran out of luck (or skills). I did manage to find the back-ups for my centre backs, and an alternative for Kabeya, altho it isnt an improvement yet.
And then when i was about to sign a good player to compete for the midfield spots disaster struck.
As you all know these take over talks can drag on for ages. In the mean I can do no more deals and even have to worry about my job. Well I dont realy worry about my job because what other manager could have pulled of the stunt promoting two years in a row, winning both the BSS and the BSP title. But then the next day, as thunder stroke in a clear sky:
And the transfer embargo was lifted. Unfortunatly there was any funds added for transfer or wages. But I could continue in bringing in the midfielder i layed eyes on.
I am still looking to see if i can find a great right winger, but it wont be easy as i ran out of wage budget. I'll try to get a loan deal without wage cost somewhere for the back-up position for my left back. This all bring my current squad strength to this:
Pre-season matches went by without anything special or noticable, or it has to be falling to win last match. And start of the season awaits. I still hope i can be in contention to get a promotion or play-off spot.
#50643 Keeping up with Shedender and Dan - If it's not to late!
Dyrim
#291021 Holliday game
Dyrim
The last fixture wherent to bad, and i got an other Motm title.
The board seems happy aswell as the offered me a 2 years extention on my contract. I have signed for 1.2k a week.
Only thing that can be trouble is the intrest in Kai van Hese. Due to not having a brilliant financial position i am afraid the board will overrule me is i decline a good offer.
Pre-Season here i come.
#291020 Holliday game
Dyrim
Final standing
With season finisshing early for. Its now nail biting till start of next season. Final tables as follows.#50559 The conquest of Britain
Dyrim
#50543 British Steel Challenge
Dyrim
#50534 Travelling across Europe - proving I'm better than Dan!
Dyrim
This way you can keep the preasure on Dan!
#291019 Holliday game
Dyrim
With 5 games to play we claim the Blue Square Bet Premier title. Luckily we got a good gap because we seem to be stumbling towards the finishline. Altho Kai van Hese still managed to come in 3th in the Potm competition.
It all started with the Wrexham game, where we got our first straight red card after 20 months under my reign. It ended our 33 undefeated league matches streak. And some how the team seem all shocked about it. Not winning a game after so far.
Mustafa Amezrine became Marrocan international, and immidiatly earned his first cap.
Bad news is that i tried to renew the contract of Renaldo Jongebloet but he is asking to much, or atleast more then i can afford.
Good news is that Christian Kabeya played his first matches again after returning from his second muscle injury. Still have to see if i renew his contract tho. He deteriorated a lot during his injuries.
#291018 Holliday game
Dyrim
17 points ahead with 8 games to play. The title can only slip away inder very suspicoius sircumstances. With only victories i finaly grabbed a Motm award (long overdue imo).
Scoring the most and conceding the least we truly are the deserved leader (and winners) of the league.
The only thing to aim for now is to keep the unbeaten run extending.