Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Season overview
Oh boy, looks mighty fine. But it started out pretty awful. Espoon Epelit managed to overgoal us and then we lost the next friendly match. That was really testing times for us. We didnt have proper bar to weigh us upon and were drifting. Not to mention this shoddy climate of Finland makes a man to drink, just to stay warm. Try to manage, coach and train your team while seeing little elfs. . . also those buggers, players I mean, speak gibberish called Finglish. Dont ask, you just have to hear it.
Anyhoo, after those two starting matches we won just about every game we had. Sure there was couple of losses but they were mainly against teams from higher divisions. Nothing major there but there was lot of excitement before we went head on towards the division leader of that time. We did everything we could and in the end, picked an easy win. After that there wasnt much drama even it could have turned out quite bad for us since our goal balance was way behind our two main competitors.
Some observations:
My mentor adviced me to focus on stamina first and only after that go for form and skill training. This truely payed off on the second halfs of our games after few weeks into training. Often we were quite even on the first half but on the second we managed to set a definitive lead.
Playmaking was the key of my training after completing the stamina training. This further increased our dominance of the midfield and combined with good stamina, and ever increasing form, we were able to control games. Downside of this is that rest of the team is not able to improve like the midfield and we need to make money in order to strengthen our weaknesses.
Now we are a one trick pony that really is not able to jump any hurdles, with these resources, we are not going to make it in VII. Have to think up something...
Anyhoo, after those two starting matches we won just about every game we had. Sure there was couple of losses but they were mainly against teams from higher divisions. Nothing major there but there was lot of excitement before we went head on towards the division leader of that time. We did everything we could and in the end, picked an easy win. After that there wasnt much drama even it could have turned out quite bad for us since our goal balance was way behind our two main competitors.
Some observations:
My mentor adviced me to focus on stamina first and only after that go for form and skill training. This truely payed off on the second halfs of our games after few weeks into training. Often we were quite even on the first half but on the second we managed to set a definitive lead.
Playmaking was the key of my training after completing the stamina training. This further increased our dominance of the midfield and combined with good stamina, and ever increasing form, we were able to control games. Downside of this is that rest of the team is not able to improve like the midfield and we need to make money in order to strengthen our weaknesses.
Now we are a one trick pony that really is not able to jump any hurdles, with these resources, we are not going to make it in VII. Have to think up something...
