Department Cup finals of Season 89 just finished, and as everyone expected, Hindustan Warriors are the champions again. Having won the league comfortably and cleanly without a single loss, it was a great achievement for the club. "We have done the double twice in a row now, all credit goes to the manager and the players", said the club chairman.

After being promoted from Div 6 last season, it was assumed that the club will have some difficulty in staying up. But to everyone's surprise, the players were in superb form - especially Vytautas Zitinskas who is contender for the award of department top scorer. Players also improved in quality over the season, and the young 17yr old Q65 goalkeeper Brian Saintaubin  who was promoted start of this season is now Q70 in just one season. Every player has improved on an average of 2 or more Q.

Division 4 is never going to be easy, especially with teams of far better quality, but Hindustan Warriors have every chance of staying up if they play to their best. The players need to be focussed and committed, and who knows we can even surprise one or two of the big guns there. Some older experienced players in the team might retire at the end of the season, and if that happens replacements must be found out quickly to ensure the team balance. Finances should not be a problem as it stands, with enough money in the bank to buy 3-4 really good players.

The player awards session is going to take place tonight, and 3 or 4 of the club's players are contenders for the department awards. Hope that those awards will be a big morale boost for everyone to perform their best next season.

It is half way through Season 89. So far it has been an easy run for Hindustan Warriors, with no real competition in the department. 15 rounds complete, and we are leading the table comfortably with 6 clear points.

Newly promoted to Division 5, the club management did not have high hopes about the aims and targets for Season 89. It was only the club's second season in ManagerLeague and even if they managed to avoid relegation, it was considered a good achievement. And keeping that in mind, they signed a contract with Frydaze which gave them the maximum sponsorship money based on such expectations. Moreover, with a team of average quality less than 70, even finishing 10th was looking not so easy.

We defenitely needed better players to reinforce the squad for the campaign, and it was almost impossible to attract star players to the team of such a small reputation. And afterall good players cost good money, and it was too much an ask for a small club like ours. After a bit of wheeling in the transfer market, we had to settle for 4 old but good players relative to the squad's strength at that point. And a Q65 17yr old goalkeeper came through the youth system, the manager decided to go with him as the main GK for the season, as he was better that our other two GKs.

The start was shaky, and we always lined up our best team and hoped for the best. The first two matches were draws, the young GK did not perform well, and the players were not feeling confident at all. But we never gave up. We played practice matches until we all got exhausted, trained till late in the evening, and the hard work finally began to pay off.

The players started to get better, and we started to perform well. A series of wins and away draws, now we stand in a position were we can boast ourselves, to such an extend that even syaing that we will get promoted wont be much of an exaggeration. Now our management even regrets the fact that we did not go for a sponsor that pays good money for getting promoted!

The club's league position has changed, and so has the targets for the season. The club infrastructure has been developed for better revenue, stadium capacity is more now and it is all going well to set the stage for the big times. With winning matches becoming more of a routine, the players are now more focussed on getting better quality, so that they can put up a competitions against the tough Division 4 teams once they get promoted. Let us do our part and then hope for the best.

Season 89. Only the second season of the club in the International League. Lots of hopes for the players, staff and their manager. Not a very active department in Division 5, but a promotion would mean a lot for the newly founded club, and so far it is going in the right direction.

Hindustan Warriors was established in Season 88 with a small 5000 seater stadium. The season was almost coming to an end with 3 league matches left to play and the department cup final in Division 6. Placed at 2nd position in a department full of bots and only 2 active managers, the atmosphere was perfectly poised to have a push for promotion. The top team was only 3 points ahead with not much goal difference and we were to play them in the 2nd match.

After a bit of research, the manager finally decided on his best 11 and started off for his first match. The opponent was a weak bot team and the club had a comfortable victory. The perfect start, and what more, the leaders slipped up and now we were level on points with them. Then came the real test - the match of the season - 1st vs 2nd placed. The players had a long training session where everyone boosted up their morale. We decided to play to our strengths rather than counter the opponent's tactics, and it paid off. A last minute header saw us cruising to victory and to winning the department - but who knows?

That game put us ahead in the league by 3 points, but we needed atleast a draw in the last match to make sure we had the league. The chasers still had a better goal-difference, so if we lost and they won it meant we would be facing the playoffs. Our opponents in the last match were a bot team, and we decided to play the same formation and tactics.

Nailbiting moments - we went ahead in the 23rd minute but the bots equalized in the 60th. And a 85th minute goal looked like crushing all hopes of a promotion. THe game finished 2-1, we lost. All eyes were on the other result now, but to the players' delight it was a 0-0 draw. Celebrations had already begun, we are the department champions, and that too in our first season.

Boosted by the morale given by the department victory, we slaughtered a bot team in the Department cup finals. A double to the delight of the supporters!! Not only we were going to Division 5, but with more money and glory! Glory Glory Hindustan Warriors!