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[Bongo]

Just had a quick browse of the market...

5. Arisen Madurasinghe  £2,000 (dirts allstars)
Plays for: Karma    Stamina:    feeble    W/Keeping:    worthless
Age: 25 years old    Batting:    competent    Concentration:    mediocre
BT Rating: 2,376    Bowling:    woeful    Consistency:    woeful
Deadline: 05/02/2008 2:22    Fielding:    abysmal       

6. Priyankara Yapabandara £0 (opening price)
Plays for: Karma    Stamina:    feeble    W/Keeping:    worthless
Age: 28 years old    Batting:    competent    Concentration:    feeble
BT Rating: 2,488    Bowling:    abysmal    Consistency:    woeful
Deadline: 05/02/2008 2:22    Fielding:    mediocre

Players like this would be ideal for you as squad fillers, especially the ones you can get for £1k...

[vegaslover]

Cheers for looking for me. I have managed to pick these up in the past week. Never paying more than £2k

Martin Harding - 17 yo, BT Rating=4,489 
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, invigorated
A defensive player with strong leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: feeble
Batting: mediocre Concentration: feeble
Bowling: competent Consistency: woeful
Fielding: feeble     

Ben Watt - 17 yo, BT Rating=4,395 
LH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler, proficient batting form, strong bowling form, sublime
A steady player with mediocre leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: woeful Concentration: worthless
Bowling: mediocre Consistency: competent
Fielding: abysmal     

Elvis Sullivan - 17 yo, BT Rating=3,148 
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, mediocre batting form, proficient bowling form, moderate
An attacking player with mediocre leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: worthless Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: worthless Concentration: respectable
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: worthless
Fielding: worthless     

Richard Coulson - 22 yo, BT Rating=5,036 
LH Batsman, LFM Bowler, competent batting form, feeble bowling form, energetic
A steady player with worthless leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: competent Wicket Keeping: respectable
Batting: abysmal Concentration: feeble
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: feeble
Fielding: feeble     

Sullivan was a youth pull, Coulson was a cheap wickie as mine was rubbish

[Bongo]

I was going to say, I think £2k for Sullivan would be a rip off, but you can't pick your youth pulls!

Are you planning on training the other 17yos?

[KeithyB]

no probs. i'd stick him on for 200k tonight to ensure u get that much. Might have to put him up a couple of times but someone will buy him.

Re: Nets. I 5 netted by best 17 yo's. Sold 1 for 3m, and the other one I managed to play in just the OD.. he's now 21k rated and he's now resp stamina strong bat, resp concentration and a superb keeper. prob worth about 5m if I wanted to sell

Financial stability is a must, as is getting to 1.6m asap. Thats how I managed. Some might not agree, but now apart from 2 players, my 1st XI are all resp at the min, which aint bad in less than 2 seasons. It also means I can buy decent players ( approx 500k) train, and sell on...to further improve my team.

   I agree, this is really beneficial as it has a knock on effect into all areas of the game!   I'm up to 1.4m now and the £70,000 interest each week takes the pressure of me financially thus enabling me to bank any gate receipts. 

The aim is to reach 1.6m for maximum interest of £80,000 each week over the next 2/3 weeks and then always maintain that as a minimum level.

To try and put this into perspective.... just three weeks ago I received the princely sum of £10 interest!   

[divaflava]

Well some of us managed our finances by winning games - but hey, if you can't do that...

[amcgrath1uk]

Martin Harding - 17 yo, BT Rating=4,489
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, invigorated
A defensive player with strong leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: feeble
Batting: mediocre Concentration: feeble
Bowling: competent Consistency: woeful
Fielding: feeble     

This guy could easily be your superstar. If I had a player like him he'd be getting a good few nets..

[vegaslover]

Aye. Have him on a couple, need to sell a player to keep my finances healthy so I can maximise my nets etc

[vegaslover]

Martin Harding - 17 yo, BT Rating=4,489
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, invigorated
A defensive player with strong leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: feeble
Batting: mediocre Concentration: feeble
Bowling: competent Consistency: woeful
Fielding: feeble     

This guy could easily be your superstar. If I had a player like him he'd be getting a good few nets..

Just looked and he got an unbeaten century today.
Also have an offer on oneill so can put some longer term plans in place

[vegaslover]

O'neill went for £204k

[Bongo]

What trainees do you have, what nets are you giving them and what are your plans for them?

[vegaslover]

Martin Harding - 17 yo, BT Rating=4,489 
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, lively fitness.
A defensive player with strong leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: feeble
Batting: mediocre Concentration: feeble
Bowling: competent Consistency: woeful
Fielding: feeble     

Ben Watt - 17 yo, BT Rating=4,395 
LH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler, proficient batting form, strong bowling form, invigorated fitness.
A steady player with mediocre leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: woeful Concentration: worthless
Bowling: mediocre Consistency: competent
Fielding: abysmal     

Elvis Sullivan - 17 yo, BT Rating=3,148 
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, mediocre batting form, proficient bowling form, fresh fitness.
An attacking player with mediocre leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: worthless Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: worthless Concentration: respectable
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: worthless
Fielding: worthless     

Davy Langhammer - 18 yo, BT Rating=3,064 
LH Batsman, LFM Bowler, competent batting form, mediocre bowling form, fresh fitness.
A cautious player with strong leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: mediocre Concentration: woeful
Bowling: mediocre Consistency: feeble
Fielding: feeble     

Ray Phiwokwakhe - 18 yo, BT Rating=2,781 
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, competent batting form, competent bowling form, moderate fitness.
An attacking player with respectable leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: abysmal Concentration: mediocre
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: mediocre
Fielding: mediocre     

Matthew Dingane - 19 yo, BT Rating=1,544 
RH Batsman, LFM Bowler, respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, energetic fitness.
A defensive player with woeful leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: feeble
Batting: feeble Concentration: abysmal
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: woeful
Fielding: woeful     

Have harding on 1 each of bat, bowl, stamina, fielding
Langhammer on 1 bat, 1 bowl
Watt on 1 bat, 1 bowl

[Bongo]

Watt - don't train his batting.
Harding - seems fair enough, be aware that training an all rounder might be quite tough as he's unlikely to be able to make a contribution on the field for several seasons.
Langhammer -I'd find 2 med/med/med 17yos and train them as single skilled players instead. (my last med/med/med/ 17yo didn't sell for 0 so you should be able to pick them up cheap!).

Are you using your 2 remaining nets?

How are you finances looking?

Do you want a friendly against me next week? - should get you an extra ~£8k in the bank...

[vegaslover]

Watt - don't train his batting.
Harding - seems fair enough, be aware that training an all rounder might be quite tough as he's unlikely to be able to make a contribution on the field for several seasons.
Langhammer -I'd find 2 med/med/med 17yos and train them as single skilled players instead. (my last med/med/med/ 17yo didn't sell for 0 so you should be able to pick them up cheap!).

Are you using your 2 remaining nets?

How are you finances looking?

Do you want a friendly against me next week? - should get you an extra ~£8k in the bank...

My last 2 nets are 1 bat for my wickie and one fitness for gascoigne,my best player
I have £389k at present.
Friendly would be good as fc game is away again this week.
Should I start to expand my stadium, and by how much?

[Bongo]

Don't do it without checking the ideal figures...

I think it's a good idea to expand it to the correct proportions to get the extra income from FC games... what dya think diva?

[divaflava]

yeah, definitely expand the stadium to get it to the right proportions. I'd actually go to 8000, just in case you go on a decent winning run.