Reality hurts...Season 73 (13/04/2011 11:07)

 This is the page for Graveyard Shifters, started in late Season 71, playing only 6 games in Season 71, and promoted to 3rd division in a blink.

Season 72, another season in a league filled with 90% bot teams, everything went fine.....scoring in every match, thrashing every bot team along the way. Another promotion to 2nd division at the end of season. Life is good!

Season 73, the real test begins for this young team.......

In the 2nd division, the league is filled with teams average Q80 and above. Me being Q73 at the beginning of the season, i know i would pretty much end up at the bottom half. However, it appears that i am also losing against the few teams which are close and lower than my team Q...OMFG!

Thanks to advice from the peeps in the forum, i finally made a few satisfiable results...including a few draws against the top teams in the league. However, i failed in the last two matches to make a push for the playoff spot......that being said, i would have to start at division 3 next season.

 

Along the way, this young team often concedes goals in the dying minutes in a tight match, the strike force which had been good during the 3rd division is almost non-existance....in my own language " JI TAO CUI"...............

i also realise....the other teams have players in the age range of 24-29 and they performed really well as compared to mine(my youth in the range of 17-20 and oldies in the 30s) with the same player Q...maybe the fact is most of potential players hasn't reached the peak??

Team @end of Season 73...team Q76

Defend

Despite the lower average Q of my defenders, i am fairly happy with avg perf of them....lowest 51 to highest 61....i intended to play the 2 oldies as CB, but both failed miserably and seems to perform better as FB.....

Midfield

My 2 young 19 yr old midfielders are improving well with 2.5 stars rated Malek Awab improving at amazing speed and churning out amazing performance despite my team poor results. The 5 stars rated Eddar had been rotating between wide and central midfield roles with inconsistent results, can't seem to find any suitable roles for him though. The other 2 youths are also gaining well, hopefully they will play a major part for the upcoming seasons.

Attack

This is the most disappointing area in my team in my opinion, the cheaply acquired 34 yr old romanian is outperforming every single strikers that i have....

Goalkeeper

Pretty much i can't point my fingers to Kiss other than a few dismay displays.

 

For the next season........

i intended to purchase another striker hopefully with the limited funds available to me.....or pray hard that the 2 x 19 yr olds will mature after their stint in the 2nd division.

i would also be aiming to add a better younger defender into the team.......

 

and pls forgive my bad english and grammar.

If any veterans happened to read this and would like to give suggestions to my team, please do so and help me improve!