THIS WEEKS FINES

 

DIVISION 1

 

DIVISION 2

ES 20k Fine. Cannot find this player. FB A.  Lincoln

DS 20k Fine. Cannot find this player. CB M.Moonie

EW 20k Fine. Cannot find this player (sub). CB B. L. Johnson

DV 20k Fine. This position does not exist (sub). MA rkers

DT 20k Fine. This player cannot play (inj/susp). W E. Barret

LU 20k Fine. This player cannot play (inj/susp). DM A. Bsint

DIVISION 3

SH 20k Fine. Cannot find this player (sub). AM J. Jame

 

CUT PLAYERS

 

PURCHASES FROM THE DRAFT

 

 

TRADES

 

 

PRESS REPORT

DIVISION 1

Alcohol Anonymous

 

Apocalypse

 

Catbel Athletic

Well well, with only the dessert of the season left to play (the playoffs, the cup final and the world cup final), this is the last week of the regular season.

And what a season it was.

First of all, let me congratulate the managers that won the

championship: Bart, Don and Len.

Well done guys! In all 3 cases, I guess it's fair to say that the best team/manager combination won.

 

JG may have been a little lucky last week, but if I am objective I have to admit that the JG squad is better than the DL squad, and that -although very unfortunate in last weeks match- DL has been lucky a few times as well, earlier in the season. Sure, TB, AA and CA (in that particular order) proved to be strong teams too, especially in the 2nd half of the season. But the championship is not over only half a season of course. So, in JG we have a winner that div 1 can be proud of.

 

For AR, you cannot say that they have been that lucky. No, in fact, when you have to point out something that AR has been lucky with, it actually be LU's bad luck. Nuno has lost matches and points when LU was so much better, I think (No, in fact I know) that must be frustrating.

Nonetheless, I also know from experience that that is one of the risks of playing ZD. AR played attacking, and with that, they avoided that risk. That, plus the fact that they simply have a very, very good team, makes that AR is a true champion.

When you consider what Don has done to AR, and how he managed to build a Championship winning team out of a bunch of losers, you can only be impressed. That makes that I have full confidence in AR doing well next season in div 1.

 

In div 3, we have Len and SH. The combination of a great team plus an experienced manager who did not make any mistakes this season, made that already long before the end of the season, there was no doubt about SH winning the div 3 title, so that SH could get back to where they belong:

div 2. (It's up to Len now to see if the level of "were SH belongs" can get any higher than div 2 :-))

 

When it comes to my own CA: After winning last years title, it was obvious that this season was needed for rebuilding.

A lot of experienced players with high NSL were traded away, and CA welcomed young and promising players in return.

Of course, trades like that are very promising for future perspectives, but it also causes a lot of points. That is exactly what happened in the first half of the season. CA was just able to hold a spot on the good side of the danger line, and was not able to do well in the cup in the beginning of the season.

In the second half of the season, after the midseason aging had taken place, we could already see the improvement, and could watch CA take a step forward.

It was too late to make up for the cup results, as we were already out of it of course.

In the league however, we started winning our matches week after week after week, and climbed the table with brave pace.

It was only because of the fact that Nathan and AA did the same that we were not able to make it to 4th position in the end.

But that is nothing to be ashamed of, as AA is a great team, with a great manager, who are in fact further in their rebuilding process than CA is.

Altogether, I can say that the fact that we were not involved in any hunting for prizes (no cup, no league glory), plus the fact that -in spite of the relatively poor start- we were never in doubt that CA had no reason to be scared of relegation, the season was not very exciting for CA and their supporters.

Nonetheless, this is exactly what we expected, and knowing that plus knowing how CA is developing in just 1 rebuilding season, I can truely say that we are very pleased with the way things are going.

 

Which brings us to what hopefully will be exciting.

Of course, it is too early for predictions for next season, especially with both the aging plus the new youth from the draft still on the way, and you simply don't know how those things will turn out and affect the team.

Nonetheless, I hope that -with all the young and promising players in the CA roster- next  season will be exciting again for CA. Too soon yet to say if it will be exciting because CA is going for the cup, or for the league, but it is my intention to go for one of them of course.

Which one it will be, will of course depend on the development of CA itself, of course, in the first place, and the development of the competition in the second place. You have to analyse where your best chances are, and that of course also depends on the competition.

 

Anyway, there's still 1 match to play, and after that we have some even better matches ahead of us.

Let's enjoy those!

 

Druss Legends

Damn, this should have been the most important match of the century, but it isn't...I expected TB to win last week, but luck was on Bart's side, that &*^^%^**%$%$#@ communist retard @#$%##!

F.C Inferno

Time to do that classical balance of the season... In the league, we will finish 6th or 7th, depending on this week result. Not so bad, if we focused in the league we couldn't probably bother JG or DL, so the decision to go for the cup still sounds as the right one. In the first leg of the season we lacked some power and, besides that, aging turned FI in a very defensive team... This transformed FI in a very hard team to be defeated, only JG lost less games than us. On the other hand, we had a hard time scoring, with the worse attack in the whole league and more draws than anyone else. Some late additions, such as AMs Pluto and Flannery will help us next season.

 

Considering all this, the mid-table position in the league plus the top 4 finish in the league can be considered fair enough. We dreamed about winning the cup again, but un unlucky first leg in the semi-finals destroyed our plans... It's part of the game.

 

However, the season is not over. I'm still managing GER in the WC, and winning that would be lovely. Let's wait and see!

 

Thank you all for a wonderful season... Relegation battle in div. 1 was tough as always and the league title was undecided until the last rounds...

On divisions 2 and 3 we have some great teams coming, AR, LU, SH seems to be very promising. Peter, once again, was amazing this season and for all he has done for all this years he already has my eternal admiration!!! Keep SAEFL running, with Ivo and Bart sending one thousand e-mails a day is not easy, and we all have to thank him for that!

 

See you all next season! ;)

 

Grammar United

 

InterQuartile Rangers

Another game that doesn't mean much.  But I guess we have to play it.

After the last game I'm not sure I want to.  In one game we nearly doubled the number of ejections for the season.  I'd still like to see a long run of numbers from the RNG used for SAEFL.  So I have few good expectations for this week's game.  Who knows?  Maybe it we'll see a rash of injuries??

 

 

Here are the Div 1 stats:

 

TEAMS

NSL avg

EMP avg

EMP/NSL

max NSL

min NSL

max EMP

min EMP

Diff NSL

Diff EMP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AA

96.99

132.09

1.36

99.25

94

147.16

111.1

5.25

36.06

AP

97.67

122.59

1.26

101.5

78.75

141.97

87.19

22.75

54.78

CA

95

127.73

1.34

98.5

80

144.47

95.71

18.5

48.76

EW

93.3

121.61

1.3

96

84.25

141.92

90.88

11.75

51.04

FI

93.01

121.95

1.31

96.75

84.25

136.16

91.12

12.5

45.04

IQ

90.52

114.19

1.26

96.25

72

131.27

84.48

24.25

46.79

JG

97.94

132.19

1.35

103

91

167.15

116.15

12

51

LU

95.89

124.58

1.3

99.25

93

148.52

100.2

6.25

48.32

NW

92.18

117.11

1.27

95

85

130.13

97.26

10

32.87

OC

97.01

132.45

1.37

102

89.25

148.83

114.43

12.75

34.4

TB

91.5

114.91

1.26

98

76.5

139.75

75.12

21.5

64.63

TH

93.77

130.79

1.39

97.5

86.5

146.2

116.37

11

29.83

 

94.57

124.35

1.31

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NoShaKi WC98

A big win last week puts NW out of danger...for the moment.  This week the club goes to face CA in the final match of the season.  "It will be a bit odd for me to play against the club that I have so many fond memories managing" said Scimeca.

 

The Boelewieten

TB endseason press

 

Congrats to all winners! TB had some hope this season but a very small selection, an EFL competition and very bad injuries of key players made us loose to many points. I wish i could tell that at least I had beaten nr 1 and nr 2 of this season, but that damn Bart pulled me again a leg in tha TB-JG war. I have to forget about this war because i want to go for next season and i am planning to use youthplayers for 1 or two extra top-players. seeking a goallie and a top attacker, thinking about a return of Rowbottum, well, and with a wish like that i cant annoy Bart ;-)

A special thank to all commentswriters, it was again a joy to read the mr every week. Must not forget the commish, he did a good job, mr's every three weeks, alsmost no mistakes and a great future, he really can improve and let the world see he is the best, so hope for the next 10 seasons!

 

 

The Jazz

 

The Jazz Greats

YES! Another Div 1 title. That feels good, especially after such a battle with my former good friend Martijn van Tongeren :) My sincere congrats to the other winners so far, Don and Len!

Also my respect to Martijn who managed to keep things exciting in an excellent way!

 

I won one before but to be honest, this feels nicer. For the greater part because this season I didn't have a team as good as the one I had in season 9. Not nsl wise but mostly because this season I didn't have a really good second tactic. To make a long story short, this one gave me a lot more headaches and I wasn't sure I would pull it off until my fortunate victory against TB last week.

 

Since I want to write more press (and the bonus of course!) I’ll start this week with the reasons and consequences for this seasons title run.

 

At the beginning of the season 10 I had an old ONE/ZD team that did win the title but that was old. That, together with the fact that both tactics are boring as hell decided me to build a WP team again. I had to trade anything I had for a couple of big CF’s (nothing else matters when playing WP J) and some promising youth.  I couldn’t field more then 88 nsl at the start of that season and I just managed to stay in Div1. I did not win a single game in the first half of the season but midseason aging saved me.

I stayed into div1 by a point I think…

 

By season 11 I had traded in a freak CF and a freak S’r.  I had no depth but I did have a really good top 11. In those situations the choice is easy. No depth, great players? Get ready for a cup run! Too be sure a had great run but in the end I got beaten fair and square by IQ managed by Terry. I had a good team but in the end it wasn’t good enough.

 

Actually that was the first time I didn’t achieve a goal set out in the course of a season so it did came a bit of a shock. I did finish runner up in the div1 championship once (s8) but that just sorta happened, I never really thought I had a chance. Nathan’s AA was just too good Next season I did plan for the title and I got it. Yes, I truly am that arrogant :)

 

Furthermore I noticed that a cup run was a bit boring. There aren’t too many matches and even less that are close. One grudge in the quarters and two in the semis will get you a long way. This isn’t too bad if you win the final of course but if you don’t, well, wasted season right? And not a very exciting one as well. I do wonder how Mark (TH) copes…

 

After the aging and the beginning of season 12 I still (of course) had no depth, my team was noticeably older but I did have an attack that was more then excellent. I had another CF freak and now I has an attack line of: S

11 CF 11.5 CF 12.5 and a overall nsl of 99.5.

 

By the contrast you can probably tell the state my defense was in btw…

 

At first I thought the cup was, once again my best option but I didn’t really feel ok (see above) with another try. So I doubted between rebuilding or trying for the title. Basically I decided to hell with it and I gave it a shot. I made a few trades but these three trades I think influenced the team the most.

 

DS sends JG

28 CB 11.75 Foxe + 200k

JG sends DS

26 S 11 T. Janssen

27 9.5 DS Yorke

20 CB 9 Moonie

 

JG sends FE

CF 30 10 Mantorras

CB 26 9 Dawson

FE sends JG

S 24 10 Go

 

Those two are obvious I think. Both these players are 55 in stats and they are pure quality. Expensive, but quality.

 

The last one is a bit more obscure but nonetheless as important as the two above.

 

NH SENDS JG

DS J. Nicholl 32 9 + 150K

JG SENDS NH

DS Oliver 22 6.5

 

This player is also 55/54 in stats and symbolises the fact that you don’t have to have a big roster full of young players to win the title. Which is, in case you haven’t noticed is what I’m trying to prove :)

 

If you aim to get the best possible roster you need to trade for young players. And you need to “win” in every trade because want to be better off in the long run. On the other hand, if you decide to go for a prize a

32 nsl 9 player with 55 stats will do as well as an average 21 nsl 9.

Except for 1 player my whole MF and W’r departments consist of older and/or dropping players and I have less then 30 players in my roster. Very crappy in the long run, but effective enough for this season.

 

Of course as a result I have wrecked my team just at the moment it needed an influx of youth. My freaks are very very good but they are not young anymore so their value is lowered. To make matters worse I traded in my scout 10 for a coach 10. Sure it helped me in a couple of matches but the price is being paid now. But those things don’t really matter because although this makes rebuilding tougher it doesn’t make it less fun. And I did it before and I’ll manage it again. Of that I’m certain.

 

If you don’t take a gamble once in a while you’ll have a good looking roster but you’ll run the risk of finishing 8th to 3rd season after season and although that’s a great performance, games are meant to be won. Not just not played well. The way the game is played now mostly all division titles are contended by two teams with 10 teams watching. I understand not everybody has a roster that’s good enough but surely more teams then just two are good enough to try?? Be involved more and don’t respect the big teams too much!

 

For that you will need to trade(!), to take a few risks and sacrifice some talent. Just be smart about it. Value older players and please please please, ask about stats. Not every nsl 9 is as good as the other!

 

For the coming season I won’t bother anyone and I’ll trade my freaks (highest bid gets them :) and I’ll do my best not to relegate. Which is far from certain because I’ll have to trade all my high nsl players just to get some youth in. As far as I can tell the title will be contended by AA and TB. Both teams are very very impressive and at least one of them has an excellent manager on board :)

 

I’d like to see someone to kick their asses, to make a long story short!

 

Good luck for this season (playoffs and cup) and the next!

 

Tottenford Heats

 

DIVISION 2

Adirondak Renegades

Yea. I made it!

 

Jeroen, here I come!!!!!

Dead Scientists

 

Defrosted TunaFish

 

Deo Volente

 

England U-21

England Under 21 finish mixed season.

 

England under 21 has finished today a season what gives them mixed feelings. In de competion they faced releagation to division 3, but in the cup the team reached the semi's where they did even well too. For the next season the team will try to gain promotion right back into division 1 and the manager hopes his team will be able to get champion as well. "We have a decent squad and I think we have to strive for the highest. So that's becoming champion", says manager Borggreve. "We're relegated this season, but I think we're strong enough to play in division 2 and maybe even in division 1." To archieve the last the team need to get some new players as some important players are aging and won't get stronger.

 

"For now we need to focus on promotion to division two again and that can also be done with this team, but we do indeed need some new guys in the team. So I think I'll try to do some transfers inbetween the seasons", was Borggreve clear. "But that doesn't mean that I will do some panic buying. As I said before with the current team we're also strong enough to play for promotion."

 

If the team will be able to copy their strong season in the cupcompetition will be known after next season. "Bit I think it will be a tough season in the cup competition. The division 1 teams will now be watching us and every team is warned when they face us in the cup. But that doesn't mean we can't do it again." The manager announced that the final 8 is the goal for the cup competition. "It's only one round below this season, but it's not our main competition next season, where it became already soon in the past season. So that makes it even more complicated to go all the way again to the semi's."

 

"But to be honest I will be satisfied if the team plays at their best next season in both competitions and we'll see then at the end what it brought us."

Englehart Storm

 

Excelsior Warren

From The Excelsior Herald...

The faithful are still scratching their heads wondering how their team have managed to secure a play off spot this season. Many would have been happy just to halt the slide. The problem is that Excelsior are clearly punching above their weight, as evidenced by their hopeless goal difference. When they come up against a decent team, in form, they tend to get creamed. This has left many believing that next season will be of the, long and hard variety, whatever happens in the play offs. But the Herald does not believe in pessimism and in the one off cup tie atmosphere of the play offs, who knows what can happen. There may just be enough experienced heads out there to see Excelsior home and no one in this town would wish to look that gift horse in the mouth. 

 

Fanatics United

 

Lisbon United

 

Newton Heath

 

Oaklake City

One week left! Can OC avoid division 3? We'll have to see!

 

Good luck everyone!

Port of Napier AFC

Well last week we lost which was not entirely unexpected.  LU was the better team, though only by a little bit, and they did deserve the win.

So they get to be promoted and we get to go to the playoffs, for the third season in a row.  We have already accepted that we are going to the playoffs and not getting promoted so instead of hoping for a miracle and trying to beat LU out, we are just going to accept our fate and get ready for the playoffs.

 

This week, we play EW, who, like us, are already guaranteed a spot in the playoffs and do not really have anything to play for either except to move up a spot in the standings.  If they play their top string and are trying to win, then we will probably get pummelled but if they are resting players too then the game will probably turn out into a fairly even match.

 We are resting all of our top players this week so they will be ready for the, hopefully, two games of the playoffs.  We are playing a boost too, which may seem a bit weird but we had saved it in anticipation of this game being important and, even though it is not, we might as well play it or else it is wasted.  The boost may help us win but the three points (or lack thereof) really will make no difference.

 

 

DIVISION 3

Adelaide Kickers

 

African Selection

Well, with a draw against FE, the Selects assure themselves of a playoff position in their effort to claw back into Division2. The final home game of the season was a sell out (haven't seen many of those this year!!!) This will keep the Canadian manager together.

 

This week we play against Trav Spoodle, with whom we drew the first game of the season. We outshot them, but were stymied by the excellent goaltending.  If we can win this one, we will have a winning record both at home and on the road. We also have positive goal differential on the road (a big 1 goal difference). So, even though we have secured a playoff spot, we will not be sending out a second rate team.

 

I hope everyone enjoyed the U20 World Cup. I managed to take in a couple of the first round games here in Toronto! Pretty cool! Great atmosphere.

 

 

Best of luck to those in this last game of the season!!! Especially those trying for those pesky playoff spots.

 

Colin

Aros VSK

The ginger haired one led his team to another win last week with a win over Mel and Kims Rover metros(that may not mean much to anyone outwith the uk). The win lifted the mighty turtle shelled ones from the bottom of the league and things are looking up for us.

Unfortnately for us the last game for us sees us play top dogs from Stan and Hildas place and they are used to scoring about 357 goals a game!

God knows what will happen in this game but me and Len have a long management friendship and hopefully he will take it easy on me, after all he has already won the league.

Fingers crossed!

 

OCH AYE THE NOO!!!!

Blue Storm FC

 

Falcons

 

Fantastic eleven

 

Melchester Rovers

 

Smoking Guns

 

Speedsters

 

Stannington Historical

The SH squad goes into their final match of this season with a slightly different approach to the lineup going on the pitch versus AV.

Manager Lear stated," We have a number of players that provided excellent leadership to SH and have been great role models for our younger players throughout the season but haven't had a lot of playing time. So I thought it would be a good gesture to put these players in the starting lineup.

Also, I don't expect some of these players to be back with us next season so it is a fitting tribute to allow these players to go out in style."

    SH is looking forward to next season. Manager Lear commented," This was the most successful season that I have had in my SAEFL managerial career. SH had tons of team chemistry this season, along with tremendous support from our fans. SH is truly looking forward to doing battle in D-2. I can tell everyone right now that SH isn't going to lay down and take it easy next season in D-2. As the saying goes, SH is going for the jugular of D-2! We are definitely going to take a run at the top two places in D-2. We want to get back to D-1. I think we will have the horses to do it!"

     Since this is our final press release of the season, SH management has decided to announce their end-of-season awards. Here they are:

Most Valuable Player - CF  R. Garcia

Top Offensive Player - CF  R. Garcia

Top Defensive Player - GK  S. Tained

Most Sportsmanlike Player - FB A. Hirsi-Ali Top Rookie  - DM  T. Cahill_1 The Player that Contributed the Most to the Community - W  S. Brooker Most Improved Player - DM  J. Bruce

     Good luck to all SAEFL squads who are in playoff battles. SH hopes to see AS in D-2 next season. Good luck , Colin!

 

Trav Spoodle

 

Vitesse Arnhem