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Germany

Bayern 3 +6
Gladbach 3 +5
Schalke 3 +5 Champions
Berlin 3 +1
Stuttgart 3 +1
Hamburg 3 +1

Double winners Schalke will take some stopping but a good start for all their challengers...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Premiership

Plymouth 3 +5
Watford 3 +3 Champions
Arsenal 3 +1
Palace 3 +1

Great start for Plymouth in what was a bit of a shock result over Championship winners Tottenham by such a large score, just shows how crucial early season skill levels are...

Delighted with the start - home tie though against a club coming up so will need to see what happens once we start playing other teams - bodes well though, especially the clean sheet.

Byzantium - Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Romania

Olympiakos 3 +3
Sofia 3 +2 Champions
Lokomotiv Sofia 3 +2 unmanaged

Only three managed sides here and most teams wanting loan players.

Dutch - Holland and Belgium

PSV 3 +6
Liege 3 +4
Ajax 3 +4
Genk 3 +3 Champions
Feyenoord 3 +2

Only Mechelen of the top six failed to secure all three points this week and already have an uphill task on their hands to catch up...and PSV on top havent seen that for awhile...

Italy

Lazio 3 +4 Champions
Napoli 3 +2
AC Milan 3 +2
Ancona 3 +2
Juventus 3 +1

Only Sampdoria and Torino are unmanaged and that makes it a super tough league but the Champions brushed aside arch rivals Roma in the Rome derby this week to give themselves a flying start and they've entered the Champions Cup and that'll be exciting to see how far they can go...

Scotland

Partick 3 +8
Motherwell 3 +2
St Johnstone 3 +2
Inverness 3 +1

Another super tough league with only Dundee and Raith unmanaged and a starting defeat for last season's repeat Champions Celtic whilst newly promoted Partick bagged eight goals on their Premier debut...

Spain

Betis 3 +4
Espanol 3 +3
Atletico 3 +3

Real Betis are always around abouts the top four and sit proudly on top for the first week of the new season but Espanol have never been so high. A draw for Barcelona the Champions at arch rivals Real Madrid is probably a decent start to the season even though it keeps them from their usual position at the top of the table...

MLS

NewYork 3 +7
Chicago 3 +6
Tampa 3 +2
Cosmos 3 +1 Champions
Harrisburg 3 +1

The usual "big five" already on top makes it a good start for all of them who have all been Champions at one time or the other in the last few seasons and I fully expect it to be a very close run title race again this season...

Transfers now...

Not many transfers this week all of which will be set out on the TP special action.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Spain

Betis 3 +4
Espanol 3 +3
Atletico 3 +3

Real Betis are always around abouts the top four and sit proudly on top for the first week of the new season but Espanol have never been so high. A draw for Barcelona the Champions at arch rivals Real Madrid is probably a decent start to the season even though it keeps them from their usual position at the top of the table...

Not 100% sure if this is a point gained or 2 dropped. The match report will probably tell.

Coaching and Finances now...

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Spain

Betis 3 +4
Espanol 3 +3
Atletico 3 +3

Real Betis are always around abouts the top four and sit proudly on top for the first week of the new season but Espanol have never been so high. A draw for Barcelona the Champions at arch rivals Real Madrid is probably a decent start to the season even though it keeps them from their usual position at the top of the table...

Not 100% sure if this is a point gained or 2 dropped. The match report will probably tell.

After the Super Cup game which used the League teams I'll take a point thank you. 

Printing now then tomorrow I will send out the email turns...

Should be a fun read tomorrow then the laying the foundation begins along with trying to sign players without having to give two three of mine away at the same time lol

World Cup draw

as usual we had too many entries and only 16 places available

Group 1
Belgium John Fraser
Brazil Tom Hurst
Russia Peter Greene
Spain Robert Wilson

Group 2
Argentina Mark Sanderson
Germany Geoff Fields
Poland Ivan Klassa
Sweden Dave Collins

Group 3
Croatia Tony Zilic
France David Agyarko
Italy Dave Brothers
Uruguay Bob Younger

Group 4
England Phil Green
Holland Richard Allen
Norway Colin Hooper
Portugal Davie Gallacher

Thanks for the interest in the International sides it now means we can buy a new printer which we've needed for awhile now, so many thanks. And as a further thankyou seeing as we are in season 30 there will be increased prize money this season for all International managers plus a bonus for doing well...

World Youth Cup draw

Group One
Argentina Cameron McLean
Eire Rob Walker
Portugal Dominic Swallow
Spain Robert Wilson

Group Two
Denmark Sean Sandy
Germany Geoff Fields
Holland Richard Allen
Wales Colin Younger

Group Three
England Phil Green
Italy Dave Brothers
Russia Peter Greene
Scotland Cameron Melrose

Group Four
Belgium John Fraser
Brazil Tom Hurst
France David Agyarko
Northern Ireland Colin Hooper

Gold Cup draw ( World Cup overflow  )

Group One
Egypt Paul Best
Ghana David Agyarko
Northern Ireland Colin Hooper
USA Brandon Eaton

Group Two
Australia Geoff Jones
Denmark Sean Sandy
Eire Alan Mottram
Japan Mark Horwell

Group Three
Columbia Colin Montgomery
Greece John Horrocks
Ivory Coast Chris Mayfield
Morocco Jonathan Booty

Group Four
South Korea Dave Brothers
Mexico Robert Wilson
Nigeria John Patrick
Peru John Horwell

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Thanks for the interest in the International sides it now means we can buy a new printer which we've needed for awhile now, so many thanks. And as a further thank you seeing as we are in season 30 there will be increased prize money this season for all International managers plus a bonus for doing well...

Great stuff. Let's see if I can do half as well with Italy as I did with Germany!!!! 

Email turns all sent out.

I've enclosed a copy of the latest rulebook so everybody is uptodate and I'll continue to do that on week one of each new season.

All received , excellent work as always Paul

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Email turns all sent out.

I've enclosed a copy of the latest rulebook so everybody is uptodate and I'll continue to do that on week one of each new season.

Also everything received. For a newbie it's overwhelming information. Expecially the print out of turn 1. Lots of numbers and many things which you choose from.

pierre@fulham wrote:

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Email turns all sent out.

I've enclosed a copy of the latest rulebook so everybody is uptodate and I'll continue to do that on week one of each new season.

Also everything received. For a newbie it's overwhelming information. Expecially the print out of turn 1. Lots of numbers and many things which you choose from.

Any struggle just ask on the forum or PM. 

Happy to support

pierre@fulham wrote:

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Email turns all sent out.

I've enclosed a copy of the latest rulebook so everybody is uptodate and I'll continue to do that on week one of each new season.

Also everything received. For a newbie it's overwhelming information. Expecially the print out of turn 1. Lots of numbers and many things which you choose from.

Hi Pierre

I have just re-joined after being away for many years , any questions do not hesitate to contact me or ask on here , they are all a helpful bunch

pierre@fulham wrote:

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Email turns all sent out.

I've enclosed a copy of the latest rulebook so everybody is uptodate and I'll continue to do that on week one of each new season.

Also everything received. For a newbie it's overwhelming information. Expecially the print out of turn 1. Lots of numbers and many things which you choose from.

Yeah the first turn is always huge because of all the lists you get as well as your turn bits, might try to redesign that so its not quite so daunting in future, thanks for the feedback.

Some questions hopefully someone could answer.
I see in the rulebook there are different turn (normal/deluxe/super deluxe/expert), but I couldn't find the costs of the different turn. Does anyone knows the prices?

Is the current rating a sum of all skills together? 

Some players attributes have number until 99 (basic skills and support skills), other ones only get mentioned without numbers. How do I compare those with eachother? Which one are more important?

What does TS infront of the player skills mean?

Thanks in advance.