Asunto: Australia Cup

I walked out of the room while the game was loading and missed the first 2 mins. So it took me a while to realise Butea was even missing... then... "WTF, why am I playing with 10-men? I could've sworn I selected him to play!" Took about 10mins to realise what had happened. :P

I was actually relieved, 'cos I thought he may've been lost during the issues with the server, causing the delays.

How about in the 119th min?

We will put that one down to him just receiving a SI in that case. But then again Achmid also missed a Pen in the first 10

Wow just watched that match, definitely a good game of attacking football.

Would have been very annoyed to have lost the match with that 112th minute goal, but tiger really was on the backfoot as soon as his defender was sent off.

This was the first match of the Cup I actually modified my tactic (only just flew back in to townsville yesterday, so didn't have time to start from scratch), and I think the few minute changes I made really helped out. But after watching that match, I really don't think I'd have won had that red card not occurred.
It was also nice having the option to choose between two fit (not necessarily in form) strikers, even if on this occasion I chose not to use them both.

Looking forward to next week in the final. Any season where Tribe gets knocked out early, is one that is worth putting a bit of effort in too.

is it better than last season's season-ending western derby? ;)

Good luck Achmid. If everyone stays on the pitch, it should be a tight game.

Yeah Good luck, lets hope it stay 11 v 11 the whole match

Sokker gods having a field day here, as if you can have a ball booted in to you or boot into someone else, and it land perfectly for a header, or even a through ball, and noone goes for it.

Throws in were also annoying, as I changed them so they wouldn't pass to where they were passed, and yet it still did. Absolute rubbish and its only the 34th minute

Absolute rubbish, there turned out to not be as much BS as there looked like there would be from how it started, but still, a striker standing in the box waiting to be tackled in about the 60th min (only know its around that as its when I brought him on and he'd just got on).

About the only BS thing I saw go the opposite way was a striker getting through the line and passing backwards, but that only happened due to a pass that should never have happened.

Also a defender with the order DEF running up the wing so many times when there is someone there is rare (happens occassionally but not that often), and to top it off with a red and an injury, sokker had made up its mind before the match started, and I was never given the chance.

Just watched the game and I wouldn't say it was that unreasonable. The red card came late and didn't affect the game greatly. The 2nd goal to vivski was a little odd in the sense that visually it appeared like it was crossed on the fly off a clearance straight to an unmarked player but I think what probably happened is the clearance got blocked, controlled and then crossed (which makes a lot more sense).

Congrats to vivski on his 2nd Australian Cup title. Congrats to to Achmid for making the final of the Cup

I'm certainly not blaming the red or the injury for the loss, just adding evidence to the rubbish that was dealt.
As for a blocked/controlled/passed, it is certainly not a normal thing, or else we'd see it a lot more often. normally you see rebounds, which then go a random direction not straight to an unmarked player. Even a knock out of control ball on my player went straight to their striker right near the start too.

So many inconsistencies, I could have had a 70+ rated team and not had a chance.

Yeah that deflection off your midfielder all the way back to their winger was pretty awful to witness but fortunately nothing came out of it and as such I didn't actually consider it as something rubbish, otherwise almost all backpasses or kicks backwards into touch could be considered rubbish

I understand entirely about inconsistencies, I debate them almost every game with headers,fumbles, keeper hiccups, dribbling players etc. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any clear cut reason why things appear to go one way almost the entire match other than pure luck and random number generating.

Whilst it was an unusual way of conceding a goal, I'm sure it's happened before. I think I remember a game where a ball got thumped into a defensive midfielder who without it bouncing managed to lob it back on the fly about 40 or so yards and put a striker in on goal. Certainly as you've stated it's not the normal thing to happen which makes it look ridiculous when it happens.

At the moment there a number of match engine flaws still to be solved and ironed out. Hopefully in the future these are corrected and we just have to put up with them now. In particular, I'd like to play strikers in, either by lobs or playing the ball into space for them to run onto, rather than have it directed straight to their feet. That would kill the benefit in unrealistic presses. At the same time though, I'd like defenders to react a bit quicker and to cut out balls they'd normally cut out in real life, so those annoying 70-80m passes along the ground coming out of defense should get cut out.

Congrats Vivski!

Strange game to watch. Not sure what it was about our tactics, but it resulted in some strange behaviour. The 2nd goal was very unlucky. I was almost celebrating my 3rd goal when the ball was cut out and sent up the other end for your goal. Impressive interception, but it didn't make up for some of the poor defending earlier in the game (which gifted Butea goal #1).

Bolton had a great game, aside from the time he was clear for a 1-on-1 and booted it out instead. But there's no doubt I had the rub of the green today. Things seemed to go my way today.
Still, I think we deserved the win. All my lads performed well.

Bad luck Achmid. Your front line is a potent force, and with youth on their side, I'm sure you'll be up there again next season.

Congrats Feathers!
A win is a win...