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lolesi

First Grade
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And the other thing is when I want to off-load some players on transfers but the only offeres that ever seem to come in are for people I want to keep - even faxing all the other clubs and reducing the fee does nothing. So I either release them on a free or wait until they're out of contract.

Pisses me off!!

I hate that with a passion, you just need an extra $5 mil or something and you want to offload the $10 mil hack, but he just wont leave.
 

CC_Eagle

First Grade
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7,294
And the other thing is when I want to off-load some players on transfers but the only offeres that ever seem to come in are for people I want to keep - even faxing all the other clubs and reducing the fee does nothing. So I either release them on a free or wait until they're out of contract.

Pisses me off!!

f*cking hate that.

Took me three seasons to offload Diarra and two to get rid of Pasha-Senderos.

Started a Mariners game, managed to nab Aloisi on a free transfer as well as Vossen for 50K.

However to 50K transfer budget, plus the stupid fact that you "can't sign players from the same division" is proving to be a hurdle, and the fact no one wants to buy Kwasnik, no surprises there though.
 

Tommax25

Bench
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2,959
is it just me or the longer you play on, the sh*tter the big teams get, especially the Big 4. I meat in my current game Man U are in a relegation dog fight and chelsea are barely a mid-table team

I havent played long enough to notice, but with championship manager 01/02 I noticed the opposite effect. in the years 2010 and onwards most of the best players, name players like giggs and beckham ect, retire and the big 4 replace them with lesser players yet still dominate, did anyone else notice that? I mean I would look at man u before games and think on paper I can win this but as its man u they just win it (usually). P*ssed me off
 

Tommax25

Bench
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But now my whole starting midfield want to move to "bigger clubs", so I am putting all my eggs in the promotion basket and hoping that will cool their jets for a few more seasons...

I've done that, didnt work out for me. I was hull and they started in league 2 (CM 01/02) and I was an ambitious manager. I signed many quality players, better than my clubs standard on the basis of non-promotion/relegation release clauses. It worked well enough early on, I got promoted to league 1, and then promotion to the championship that next year but that was as far as I got. I struggled in the championship and didnt get promoted and my team was torn apart. Half my team, and all my best players left for greener pastures. It taught me a lesson about writing cheques I cant cash.
 

Bomber

Bench
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Reloaded the game again onto my computer, forgotten how much I had loved it.

Started a new game managing Australia, post-Hiddink and post-Germany.

Qualifed for the Asian Cup fairly easily, only allowing two goals in six games.

Selected an all-A-League squad to take on Ivory Coast in a friendly...got hammered 3-0 and had two players (Joel Griffiths, Daniel Piorkowski) sent off.

In 2007 we face France in a friendly, followed by the Confederations Cup in June (drawn with Italy, Panama and USA) and the Asian Cup in July (drawn with Malaysia, Oman and Iraq).

Should be interesting.
 

Bomber

Bench
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Well, it was quite interesting after all. Allow me to tell the story....

Finished third at the Confederations Cup, with the following results:
1-0 v USA
0-2 v Italy
0-0 v Panama
0-1 v Brazil (semi-final, after extra time, Brazil had 44 shots on goal, we had 2!)
1-0 v Greece (playoff)

And so onto the Asian Cup. Faced one of the co-hosts in our first game, but the match was over after just one minute, with Australia eventually beating Malaysia 5-0. In our next game, Oman resisted for twice as long as the Malaysians, but would also go down 3-0. With qualification all but ensured, we rested a lot of stars in our last game against Iraq. Nevertheless, Australia still coasted to a comfortable 5-1 win, despite playing the last 20 minutes with 10 men after Scott McDonald came off with injury and no reserves available. Things were further complicated when Josif Skoko also left the field with 10 minutes to go.

Our reward was a quarter-final match-up with China in Jakarta. However, we would face them without Harry Kewell, who was playing injured against Iraq. The Chinese opened the scoring shortly after halftime, while Danny Allsopp leveled with nine minutes remaining. Lucas O'Neill came from the field just before the end of regulation time with concussion (once again leaving us with no reserves). Extra-time failed to produce a winner, and so it went to penalities. China missed once; Australia did not, with Luke Wilkshire the hero.

We would be facing the tournament favourites South Korea, who toppled Saudi Arabia 3-0 in the quarterfinals. Tim Cahill opened the scoring in the 13th minute against the run of play. John Aloisi broke the game open in the 57th minute, while Cahill again put the icing on the cake just three minutes later. In the other semi-final, holders Japan put hometown favourites Indonesia out of the competition 3-1.

In Kuala Lumpur, Japan would try to win their fourth Asian Cup in the past five tournaments. Australia trotted out the following team for their first Asian Cup final:

Schwarzer, Neill, Wilkshire, Moore, Laybutt, Sarkies, Bresciano, Cahill, Grella, Viduka, Aloisi
Reserves: Kalac, Leijer, Skoko, McDonald, Milicevic, Kewell, Kennedy

Aloisi opened the scoring in the seventh minute, and to the general amazement of everybody present, Bresciano headed in just two minutes later. One minute before halftime, the journey was complete, with Lucas Neill scoring from a Sarkies cross.

The second half was a coronation lap of honour, spoiled only by Tim Cahill's second yellow card in the ninth minute. Japan used their numerical superiority to tap in a goal, before being reduced to ten men themselves. All to no avail - Australia were the champions, with Bresciano being named player of the match. Straight after the game, Mark Schwarzer announced his retirement from international football.

The next mountain - South Africa 2010
 

Phillips

Referee
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Jono078

Referee
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What the hell did you say at half-time Phillips, you let them slack off something shocking :lol:

Awesome first half :p
 

DB

First Grade
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After losing 4-1, 5-2, and 3-1 in my three other games against them this year, finally get get some revenge.

Except I lost to Fulham the next game. :p
 
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