Hattrick thread XXIV: I couldn't repair your brakes...

I can finally talk about this after crying for hours, but in the ultimate embarassment in my 14th season I've gone out of the cup in rd1!

my III.6 riverhawks were like the 5th or 6th highest USA team to lose, but I think I'm the highest non-bot/farm team.

what a disaster, I had a HS edge of 170-107 but no excuses. We're "concentrating on the league" as they say....ugh.

Costs me probably 1.5M (based on my 9 rd run last yr) and the pain of begging for friendlies all season.

 

DOH!

 

Well, let me break it down like this. Midfield is still king. How much of that HS is his midfield. Then does he have the attack to finish his chances. Last does he have defense to keep your goals out.

My 235 average HS is because of Multiskilled players. Both of my wingbacks have very high defending and winger. My wings have very high Winger and PM as well as solid passing. MY two main IMs are at Supernat and Mythical with Formid passing.


I think the main point you make is that he is pulling 200HS with a low wage rate

 

ouch. what did your supporters think of that?

 

they are dissapointed. Sucks cause I have a home game to start the league, not much of my new 82K stadium will be filled...

 

Has hattrick been down for 2 days now? Whats going on lol

 

It's been up and down the past few days. They've been switching some coding from one code type to another from my understanding. It's taking a while. They have a news event about it that you can read when it comes back up.

 

Well darn......When I called my scout he had a guy that could be passable at playmaking at call up and was weak in something right then...I passed on him and my second guy had no one for me

 

Anyone notice the new match engine is a little red card heavy? I've had 3 guys sent off in the 3 games so far. 2 straight reds for fighting as well. A little strange.

 

Unless both players are on the same team and your team name is Newcastle.

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Ouch.

 

Well, the manager is a "Toon" fan.

Right on, Stogey!

 

That's what made it so special...

 

Don't forget because of Daylight savings time change this weekend, matches will start at 6pm EST tomorrow.

 

D'oh, actually 8pm.

 

From the department of fun MCM/LCM, I just got a shade under $3,000 of LCM for a guy I owned for four days over a year ago.

I didn't even remember him, but his match history shows that I used him as an emergency CD in a game, spending something like $100k for the rental.

 

I got some oney for a player like this recently too.

 

New one to me:
A surprising free kick routine in the 74:th minute nearly resulted in another goal for the visitors, but the ball went just a little wide, leaving the strikers offside.

I assume this is for a missed SE.

 

i broke 250 for the first time tonight in a derby cup match. the new game engine seems to like my squad more than the old engine.

 

17,600 of a possibly 23,500 for a round 3 cup match? ******** off.

 

FK's and PK's are normal chance. CK's are SE's

Chalk that one up to a bad SP specialist or a bad-ass GK.

 

I had filled my 33k+ stadium the last 4 or 5 league games in VI. Since I promoted to V with bigger teams I went ahead and upgraded my stadium to 38k. Even though I have around 200 extra supporters here my attendances so far:

cup: 19.7k
first league match: 17.6k

wtf?

edit: nice weather for both

 

Yea, this new fan shit is ridiculous.

 

how have you done in those matches? Or the matches before that one? Supporter mood?

 

I lost my season opener to a rival and lost my round 2 cup match. But, I didn't expect them to be so fickle, so fast.