Sunday, 25 September 2011

FIFA12

Enjoying FIFA12 demo currently well worth a blast had to turn on legacy defending in options though. Will be reviewing FIFA12 when it comes out on Meta Reviews so I've ordered my copy already.

Saturday, 9 July 2011

Is this blog dead

Well almost it sure does look like, still blogging away on various other sites though like Jakswans oh and I started a Religion and Ethics Forum

Friday, 1 April 2011

Saturday, 20 March 2010

The Middle Years

Contuing commentary on the SFA....



After Georges departure from the scene a new force was emerging but it was immediate as Aidan's Balloon took the title in Season 7.

Although Aidan's only major title he was one of the rocks of Shearer.

Nick Hopkinsons's Amogen glory years started in Season 6 as they finished to runner's up to Balloon. Prior to this Amogen had not really made headway but the fairytale rags to riches story was completed in Season 7 as they took the title for the first time .

Amogen went on to be serious contenders at the top level but the glory years came to abrupt end in 9, the last time they lifted a major trophy.

This story is almost mirrored by the Mighty Boosh. After starting late in the GW and powered by an amazing MC in Tarrallo (who I tired to sign a lot) they were rampant at youth level for a number of seasons. Sadly though after two dominant years in the SFA seasons 10 & 11 they faded away a little.

Friday, 19 March 2010

Shearer The Early Years

Shearer began life back in late 2008 and my first adventure was trying to get into the Premiership. A chase for the SFA Qual 2 was on but John Gardiner's Macduff took the title.

John was a popular character in the SFA and spent his first seasons there before going off on tour round the FA's.

The first ever full blown title to be awarded was won and was awarded to none other than Stewart Malcolm's Unathletic Madrid.


I think Stewart went on a youth adventure after that but was fitting that they won the last SFA Premier League (later known as the Primera Division) before it was disbanded in in Season 13.

The competition sported some big names in it's day as you can see from the records page.


Real Beziers won the second title. From the start of Shearer a force was building in the SFA and it was unleashed to full effect in Season 4, it was green and it went by the name of Panathinaikos Repdien.

A trio of Premier League titles followed prior to Geogre's team ducking out.

In the meantime at UFFA level the SFA managers weren't making much headway as Paul Wallace's Hartlepool United were proving quite the force at that level. Although only two wins to show in that competition a string of final appearances hasn't been matched by any team.

Thursday, 18 March 2010

Briefly Back for the Wake

As Shearer says it's farewell's I've returned to get in place for the new GW's. So thought I'd do a quick snapshot tour of Shearer with a brief history screen-shots etc.

It'll be done from my point of view and kind of semi focused on the SFA or the NFA as it eventually became known.

Back Soon.

Tuesday, 14 April 2009

SFA end of season youth update part 2

U18s

The U18s went down to the wire as well with Mighty Boosh FC and Inter Retirement competing till the very last match but again the Boosh were just too strong and added yet another youth title to their cabinet, easy to do when you don't have a senior team.

U18 final league positions

1. Mighty Boosh FC 63
2. Inter Retirement 62
3. Unathletic Madrid 56

U18 player of the season

1. Ronald Fernandez - Unathletic Madrid 7.27
2. Peter Daly - Inter Retirement 7.22
3. Mauricio Casas - Wrexham Tigers 7.18

U18 top scorers

1. Johan Nilsson - Inter Retirement 14
1. Lucas Tavares - Wrexham Tigers 14
3. Julius Eze - Unathletic Madrid 13

The U18 cup final saw a dominant Inter Retirement take on surprise finalists North Nibbley Nobblers and Inter quickly took the lead in 15 minutes further cementing it in 56 minutes with a second. It was a nervy end and the nobblers were able to pull one back in the 81st minute but inter held on to take another youth title, congrats nick.

U17s

The U17s proved to be the most interesting league for a few people as the lead changed hands between 4 different clubs towards the end of the season and there were a few surprise results as the top 3 teams were all beaten by inactive ai team in the title run in causing a bit of teeth gnashing in consternation. Eventually the title was decided as Racing Tofflicence won on the last day of the season.

U17 final league positions

1. Racing Tofflicence 57
2. Inter Retirement 55
3. Unathletic Madrid 52

U17 player of the season

1. Vicente Virgili - Mighty Boosh FC 7.53
2. Aleksander Ismaili - Racing Tofflicence 7.24
3. Javier Medina - Unathletic Madrid 7.23

U17 top scorers

1. Aleksander Ismaili - Racing tofflicence 18
2. Johan Nilsson - Inter Retirement 14
3. Javier Medina - Unathletic Madrid 12

The U17 cup final involved yes you guess it Inter Retirement and relative newcomers Mighty Boosh FC. U17 games can throw up some surprising results but not this time as Inter ran out easy 3-0 winners but the big question on everybodies lips was would they have enough room for another youth trophy in the cabinet? Congrats again Nick.

Just a final mention of the youth world cups. In the UFFA youth gold cup we managed to get two teams to the knockout stages Jakswans and Unathletic Madrid but unfortunately both were knocked out in the first knockout stage. In the world youth cup Unathletic Madrid managed to get into the semis but there they faced the current youth world No.1 FC Bozzy, they managed to hold them for 90 minutes but Bozzy were too strong and went on to win 2-0 in extra time, they then went on to win the trophy so no shame there.