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This Week's Fixtures

Week 9
Perth Morning Glory v Melbourne Victory
Western Sydney Wanderers v Brisbane Roar
Melbourne City v Adelaide United
Wellington Phoenix v Newcastle Jets
Central Coast v Sid Knee FC  

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Links

https://www.twitch.tv/hero606v2

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VM9eIonYMyXCXpQOBjAJylh3wihazcw8RKtLLHiD8HI/htmlview#gid=1996389080

Team	_________	Manager
Adelaide United	_________	Hero
Brisbane Roar	_________	Fluxy
Central Coast Mariners	_________	Olly
Melbourne City	_________	Twist
Melbourne Victory	_________	Afro
Newcastle Jets	_________	Nadz
Perth Glory	_________	Marky
Sid Knee CF	_________	Nando
Wellington Phoenix	_________	Bam
WS Wanderers	_________	Tino

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Match	_________	Transfer	_________	Other
Fixtures	_________	Lawyers	_________	Rules
Table	_________	Foreigns	_________	Youth Rules
Injuries	_________	Releases	_________	Press Conferences
Tactics	_________	Confirmation	_________
Results	_________		_________
Yellow Cards	_________		_________

There's revenge. That has to be the highest ever combined rating for 3 injuries

That is a brutal set of injuries 'fro

Just submitted my tactics - think I've got it covered off tbh, and also gives me a chance to try a couple of things I have been wondering about.

Ah, my lawyers are causing me a few qualms. Promes has been handy, but tempted to try an upgrade him...

Afro wrote:Just submitted my tactics - think I've got it covered off tbh, and also gives me a chance to try a couple of things I have been wondering about.

I'm the same really, Hysaj, Di Maria and Nzonzi are all decent enough players to bring in.

What I'd like to do in the next week is trial a few games on Fifa 19. I thought I'd input in a small number of teams from the current league so if you'd be up for sending me tactics for that let me know, I'll have to provide details on the differences for you.

Hero wrote:What I'd like to do in the next week is trial a few games on Fifa 19. I thought I'd input in a small number of teams from the current league so if you'd be up for sending me tactics for that let me know, I'll have to provide details on the differences for you.

Yeah, happy to help with that

I'll get tactics done at lunch today for this week

Hero wrote:What I'd like to do in the next week is trial a few games on Fifa 19. I thought I'd input in a small number of teams from the current league so if you'd be up for sending me tactics for that let me know, I'll have to provide details on the differences for you.

me too

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:I'll get tactics done at lunch today for this week

No rush on my part.

I just try and get mine done early as I am normally a bit quieter on a Tuesday than the rest of the week.

Cheers Afro/Twist

What I'll do initially is add in your teams (and mine) and then add in as best I can your current tactics and let you know what's missing and what you can tweak.

tactics in

hero if you need another team next week i can do it, but remind me then if needed

Good luck Olly

Must win game this week if I'm gonna catch Nadz

New formation time

Tactics in. Changed it up again.

If this works I'm making it my formation for Fifa 19

Afro wrote:Good luck Olly

Best of luck to you too 'fro beans

Tactics sent, good luck Marky

Marky wrote:

Benzema
Muller
Perisic ----------------- Martins
Modric
Alaba - Matic
Howedes - Kompany - Juanfran
Perin

If this works I'm making it my formation for Fifa 19

Might kill you on the overlap or you completely suffocate my AM's.

Depends how good Perisic and Martins are at tracking back though.

Right tactics sent. Hopefully I can stick the nail in the coffin to hero's fading title hopes

well played Olly

Had wanted to win and get it all sorted this week so that I could have a bit of an experiment next week!

But good that it comes down to the final week

Think we are on:
Olly 18 pts, +6
Afro 17, +5
Hero 16, +7

Olly v Nando
Me v Marky
Hero v Twist

If possible, we should try and play those games in reverse order I reckon.

Game on!

Olly has seen the game Afro.

Had already said on FB that I'll be doing the games in reverse order so good on same wavelength!

Good game Afro - was surprised I had so much of it, and the penalty miss was just because that was never a pen in a million years!

#unbeatenseason is on

Thoroughly deserved win for you Olly and 3-1 wouldn’t have been unjust. We just didn’t play well.

Having watched it again, I have decided I am still going to try out the new formation this week anyway. Can’t stick with that and find they play that way again!

Have updated the results and table with the one game to play this week, just to show the position going into the final week. Will update once the WSW v Wellington game is played.

Also have updated the Top Scorers list, with the race for the Golden Boot hotting up. 4 players on 5 goals!

Just a note in regards to Brisbane v Sydney game, realize that Immobile came on as a sub in last few mins and should have been an injury.
I'd say as he wasn't involved in the build up to Brisbane's equaliser that the result should stand unless both parties wish to replay it?

Be a shame to expunge that game from the records. At the moment it would be my vote for game of the season, and goal of the season (Aguero's).

But ultimately up to Nando.

I wish the Pogba that plays for my team was the same one Utd bought.

I'm easy either way 

#radjasonfire

I'll take £10m as a finders fee for giving you the tip off Fluxy

Bam I'll get your game done this evening x

Already buzzing for next season!

I'm thinking the Japanese league could be a good one to work from as long as no-one picks Vissel Kobe as their starting team, whilst Iniesta may not have been good in this league I suspect he'd do okay in a league where most players are low to mid 60s.

Isn't that just too low of a starting point though? Might be fun to do a pure tactics kind of league I guess

Have you done the trial games on FIFA 19? I've missed everything that has happened for the past couple of weeks

I think the low base would be great for the reason you mention. Those players are going to have clear strengths and clear weaknesses. You are definitely going to have to tailor your tactics to your players initially.

You can come up with how you want to play, but you are really going to have to focus your spending on players with abilities to meet that style.

Or find you can't play your style and adjust - I mean, I'm sure loads of Conference managers want to play like Barcelona, but don't have the players to do it.

Plus I like Sushi

Afro wrote:I think the low base would be great for the reason you mention. Those players are going to have clear strengths and clear weaknesses. You are definitely going to have to tailor your tactics to your players initially.

You can come up with how you want to play, but you are really going to have to focus your spending on players with abilities to meet that style.

Or find you can't play your style and adjust - I mean, I'm sure loads of Conference managers want to play like Barcelona, but don't have the players to do it.

Completly agree. If it was old style tactics I would agree with Bam. But because, on the face of it, you have fewer tactical options it makes sense to start from a point where bringing in the right players is paramount.

Did we decide on a value and ability cap though?

I'm playing my way and my players will have to adapt #unbeatenseason

Would need to know what the current ability and values are of the league we go for to make a decision on caps I think

Agreed.

Step 1 - pick a league and teams from that league;
Step 2 - work out a broad average value for those teams;
Step 3 - pick the cap based on that average;
Step 4 - work out a broad average TM value for a sample of players in the teams;
Step 5 - agree budgets and weekly bonuses based on those values

Streaming me v Afro on Fifa 19 atm

Hero wrote:Streaming me v Afro on Fifa 19 atm

Incredible. Was that same match settings? Could be plenty of goals if it is.

Going to run injuries and lawyers now.

Can someone do mine, plus injuries for Marky.

Lawyers and Injuries are up

Afro wrote:

Hero wrote:Streaming me v Afro on Fifa 19 atm

Incredible. Was that same match settings? Could be plenty of goals if it is.

I didn't check what settings I had prior on Fifa18 and ramped up a couple which I think is why there was a glut of goals. I'll make a note of the current settings and see what happens with that.

Injuries

85 - Blaise Matuidi (Juventus) - £27m
84 - Kyle Walker (Man City) - £45m
84 - Claudio Marchisio (Zenit) - £6.3m

85 - Ivan Perisic - LW - 29 - Croatian - £40.5m
78 - Cristian Zapata - CB/RB - 31 - Colombian - £2.25m
75 - Jean-Kevin Augustin - ST/RW/LW - 20 - French - £18m

Lawyers

80 - Vitali Denisov (Lokomotiv) - £2.8m
83 - Raul Albiol (Napoli) - £7.9m

That injury reminded me of something about last night, Marchisio isn't in Fifa19 which was why I had to play Khedira in your midfield.

I'm doing a madness

Messi and Ronaldo up front, wonder if I can get some goals now