Season 24 week 3 processing...

Welcome to week 3 of the season.

I have order sheets from Man City, Arsenal, Birmingham, Leicester, Plymouth, Watford, Charlton, Fulham, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Schalke & Inverness.

No orders from

Newcastle, Chelsea & Inter Milan

Glad to see my turn has arrived, i ran out of stamps and had to rely on Rich@Brum to ensure my turn was sent off. Shady character to say the least haha 

p.s any deals to Birmingham are void Paul haha.

Not looking forward to this week.

U always want to take advantage of being at home and this week is no different but that brings with it that little bit of extra added pressure and when your facing a side that's fresh off a 3-0 win and lining up with the 3 amigos it's gonna be a tough one.

Big week also in the future of arjen Robben, last year the Dutch magician won this fixture and the title with it for us but the teams seemingly inability to accommodate him in away fixtures might once again mean that despite his talents and match winning abilities he may be sacrificed for the club to move in a slightly different direction.

It's time that maybe the likes of sakho, Erikson and lallana come in and give us a new impetus

There is at least one big deal on the cards this week.

Must be something in the air this week.  Big changes at Charlton too. 

Tough fixture away to the league leaders, Leicester.  The old rivalry resumes this week after a year away.  Gonna be tough at the Walkers after their blistering start to the season, but we will give it our best and hopefully try and grind out an unexpected result!  

Saying goodbye to a true Charlton legend this week.  Gonna be an emotional time....

Paul - I'll e-mail mine today. Sorry. The Brazil trip last week threw me a bit.

Paul - sent you a PM with my changes.  Thanks.

Rob@Inter wrote:

Paul - I'll e-mail mine today. Sorry. The Brazil trip last week threw me a bit.

I was told last week that e-mail turns are no longer acceptable...

No turn from me this week.

okay Ive entered all the data and the games will kickoff at 1000 hours tomorrow.

sorry guys no time this week to process non-paper orders as I now have to travel out of county and get back before the games tomorrow.

Well, I think this week will give an indication as to what sort of season the Foxes are capable of. Last weeks surprise result at Arsenal, was exactly that, a surprise. 
This week we welcome Charlton who exceeded the expectations of most last time out. We already have three points more than expected on the board, and this would be a massive indicator as to whether or not we've got enough to stand up to the rigours of the premiership. However, we lost first choice AM Carrick after his dismissal at The Emirates, and also Kaboul who did such a stirling job shackling Rooney at AM in a little midfield reshuffle last week. Which means Capoue comes in for his debut in a less than ideal circumstance. A half fit Anderson is also pressed into an early return from injury as deputy Cahill also picked up a knock in training. 
Pavlyuchenko and Keane start up top despite massive pressure from Ba and Schurrle 

Big game. 

Oh and Betis are under pressure to deliver improved performances after their boss locked them in the dressing room for three days after last weeks horror show.

Team news:

Such a tough decsion this week.

Have to give city a lot more respect this season as I believe they'll be a real force.

Was going to go for a 3 up top ISF but have elected after much deliberating for the same 442 WHV formation that served me well against them last season.
This means valenica and Robben have a chance to restore my faith in them after their no show at the valley and Milner retains his place ahead if zabaleta as my DY.
Sandro remaining as the am
The big news though is that king luis makes his long awaited league debut alongside the under pressure Mario.

Let the sparks fly !!

okay we are approaching kickoff time now as the sides come out to warm up...

Some good news for me anyway that will sort of have an impact on the game, is that I nailed the job interview I attended yesterday and am now working for Electric Crow Games in a part-time capacity from home. So I will have less time to devote to the game development, although the game is pretty well developed anyway so that's not too much of a hit, where it will affect you guys is that from now on I can only accept orders by post, and your orders will have to be here by the sunday because from now on I will be entering your orders onto the system on the sunday. The data entry is the work intensive part of running the game and that will need to be done outside of normal working hours.

We'll try this schedule for awhile until I can determine what sort of part-time work schedule I will have with ECG. It may change again in the future just depends. Once the data entry is done I fully expect to be able to run everything else along the same lines as I do now, so vidiprinter days should stay at tuesday or wednesday and you should still get your email turns by thursday.

Right back to the important stuff, the games...

No problem Paul. Congrats on the job.

and whistles blow and we're off...

first goal of the day has been scored at Gremio where it is now

Gremio 0 Botafogo 1 manco with the opening goal there.

Monaco 0 Paris 1
Roda 0 Ajax 1
Napoli 0 Ancona 1 Totti

some early goals there...

Wimbledon 1 Portsmouth 0

and our first goal of the afternoon at Barcelona where Xabi Alonso has made it

Barcelona 1 Atletico 0

on 3 minutes.

Gremio 1 Botafogo 1 Vagner freekick on 4 minutes.

Congrats on the new role Paul all makes sense.

Santos 1 Sao Joao 0 Rivaldo freekick on 5 minutes.
Wolves 0 Leeds 1

Congrats on the job.