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The Catholic League revises its policy regarding those who criticize the pope
Dr. William A. Donohue, PhD, took issue over the weekend with my dotCommonweal post about Pope Francis's inadequate response to the sex-abuse crisis. He didn't actually disagree with what I said, at least not in so many words; rather, he took the occasion of my post and some other, similarly disappointed reactions elsewhere to air a few of his favorite themes: first, that the sex-abuse scandal was really all the fault of the gays and is totally over anyway; and second, that -- just as he predicted -- liberals never really liked Pope Francis and are now showing their true colors by turning on him. (There's also a delightfully bizarre detour into some book from the 1970s that is supposedly motivating all us liberals to this day -- the secret key to all grievances. I guess I'll have to look it up.)
That Donohue's grasp on the abuse scandal's particulars -- most especially the cover-up part -- is at best grossly misinformed and at worst actively mendacious is old news, not that it stops people from quoting him when it's convenient. But that he should be so exercised about what was, let's be honest, quite mild criticism of Pope Francis is news, because attacking people for criticizing the pope is something the Catholic League never, never does. I know that because Donohue said so way back in December 2013: "[The] Catholic League," he explained on Newsmax TV, "has never, never been after anybody for criticizing the pope or a priest or a bishop."
In that instance Donohue was responding to a question about recent comments made by Rush Limbaugh, who -- you probably remember -- was highly critical of Francis's economic views as laid out in Evangelii gaudium. "So reading what the pope's written about this is really befuddling," said Limbaugh, "because he's totally wrong -- I mean, dramatically, embarrassingly, puzzlingly wrong." (He went on to explain that trickle-down economics does too work!)
Would the Catholic League push back? Not at all. "We get involved when you hit below the belt, when you start becoming insulting, like -- Bill Maher would be a classic example," Donohue explained. As for Rush: "He didn't like the pope's views on economics. Rush Limbaugh is entitled to that. ...Everyone's entitled to criticize the Catholic Church on any public policy issue just so long as it's not hitting below the belt." So, the interviewer asked, did Limbaugh's remarks cross that line? "No, of course not." Of course!
Neither Donohue nor his interlocutor mentioned that the Catholic League also issued one of its trademark hard-hitting press releases in response to the Limbaugh interview, in which Donohue went after...Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good. They'd had the temerity to criticize Rush, forcing fair-minded Dr. Donohue (who knows from professionalism) to expose their true nature as a "bogus Catholic entity."
So, to sum up: Rush Limbaugh declaring, in response to a papal exhortation, "This is just pure Marxism coming out of the mouth of the pope" -- totally in bounds. This, however, merits strong pushback. I can only assume that some aspect of the Catholic League mission statement has been updated since December. Donohue even followed up Friday's press release with a clarifying tweet:
Re: my release from today. This is just the beginning--lib Catholics will turn on the pope. They are a miserably unhappy bunch of whiners.
— Catholic League (@CatholicLeague) March 7, 2014
Another opportunity for all Catholics to be grateful we have such a discerning arbiter of justice looking out for our civil rights.
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly is an editor at large and columnist at Commonweal.
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Since Pope Francis has become Pope, Donohue has been pretty much outed as simply a right wing political commentator; he speaks as a conservative, not as a conservative Catholic (or Catholic conservative).
For my part, I'm hoping Cardinal Dolan will be less hand-in-glove with Donohue now that what Donohue represents is so far removed from what Pope Francis preaches.
I caught Dr. Bill Donohue's rant against the film "Philomena" on an EWTN program recently.
In the book "The Lost Child of Philomena Lee" the author states that the daughter of Philomena told him that her mother had too much to drink on Christmas and had broken down in tears because she had a secret that she had kept for 50 years.
Dr. Bill's take:
She never told her daughter that she had a brother and never looked for him until she got "loaded" at a Christmas party – no sensitivity to a person who was so ashamed that she had a child "out of wedlock" and had to (yes, was forced to) give him up.
We do not need defenders of the faith like Bill Donohue (aka the Rush Limbaugh of the Catholic Church).
With Bill Donahue against you, who wouldn't be for you???
Dr. Bill Donohue, Ph.D.??? Doctor of what?
Just what institution of lower learning granted him a doctorate? I'd really like to see that dissertation, a dazzling piece of scholarship, I sure.
And just who were the bright lights who sat on his dissertation committee? They're probably in hidding somewhere in the academic witness protection program.
Follow the money! Who's putting up the money for Donohue's oversized megaphone? Really?
Let's shine a really bright light on good ole Billo Donohue.
THIS DONOHUE, is he related to Rush Limbaugh? THEY BOTH seem to see the world through rose colored glasses. I mean, after all, Rush had to take thousands of ilegally gotten pain killers to keep sitting in his EIB chair while attacking democrats for telling the truth. AND, only Rushmo could avoid jail because no republican attorney general would go after him.
POPE FRANCIS spoke as a Fransiscan who does not believe in the trappings of the rich and powerful like the Koch brothers who are trying to buy themselves a government in the UNITED STATES. POPE FRANCIS lives the life of poverty.HE upsets the ultra-conservative Cardinals who believe in rubbing our noses with the fancy robes and trappings that they love.
PEOPLE like Donohue are what is wrong with our world. They attack the very leaders who truly believe in the teachings of CHRIST.
IN DONOHUE'S world, the LIMBAUGHS of the world are his true leaders. HE worships at the altar of the KOCH BROTHERS and their trappings.
WE, as liberal catholics can not allow this type of person to tell us how to live and vote.
From what I have discovered, he has earned a PhD in Sociology from NYU (not too shabby). I assume that his dissertation had nothing to do with community organizing.
What disturbs me most of all is the violence of his anger and apparent delight in expressing it. It is almost like a psychological addiction.
As to his salary, I have no way of validating it but it may be as much as $400,000 – not bad for a president of a non-profit.
Jim J.: It's a doctorate in sociology from NYU in 1980. No indication where he did his undergrad studies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Anthony_Donohue
I remember an interview on TV with Donohue vs Richard Sipe. Countering Sipe, Bill said to Sipe: "I have a PhD and you don't."
He knows his audience and must be very convenient for the bishops to have around. That 400K a year as of a few years ago is a nice cushion (based on a report non-profits make to Uncle Sam, if memory serves).
Bill's media style seems tailor-made for creating maximum noise and frustration for his opposition; the facts be damned. It works. Reasoned rebuttal such as Grant provided in the Finn case washes over him because the facts are immaterial to his rantings. Bulllies bully, period.
But Molly, it's heartwarming to see his inconsistencies exposed every so often. Thanks.
Even Donohue may not be as bad as these Rabbis in New York who crucified a whistle blower who exposed pedophilia in the syanagogue. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/11/nyregion/after-seeing-his-family-crumb...
Fr. Virgil Blum must be turning over and over in his grave. He would have had no truck with this sort of thing.
For $400,000 a year, the bishops expect Donohue to produce a lot of outrage. He's happy to oblige.
What is notable in the link Molly provided for Dolan's blog, is that many of the comments were critical of Dolan and Donohue---they weren't deleted. Or was that early in his tenure?
Regarding comments on Archbishop Dolan's blog - I've seen a large range of comments from constructive to angry, even inflamatory, some encouraging and some demanding that he enforce orthodoxy. I can't say some aren't deleted, the web site policy says they could be deleted in some cases. But he allows some very angry comments to stay, even recently. I like that about our Archbishop, it's a sign of openness that started even before Pope Francis.
I conjecture that on Cdl Dolan's blog the contrarian comments are left when they are angry and unreasonable, and comment are deleted when they make a good, sound case against Dolan's stance. I base that on very flimsy evidence - I once tried to post a purely factual comment correcting some erroneous statement, along with a link to the reference justifying what I was saying. To my surprise, my comment got deleted. Then I thought that maybe he only left comments that went his way, but observed the blog for a few days and saw that that wasn't true. Then I conjectured that he left comments from "the other side" of whatever issue he was talking about, but only when the comment itself was unhelpful, unconvincing, or even reflecting badly on the people on that "other side". I stopped watching his blog, so I could not say if that idea is valid, but it would be a clever way to pretend to be open while campaigning for his ideas.
But maybe it's just a paranoid fantasy.
The guy is a wad.
I had the same experience as Claire- I have had comments that didn't make the cut on Cardinal Doaln's blog which were perfectly civil but disagreed with the subject of the post. That knd of censorship alone doesn't put me off, but I found it disturbing when they don't seem to moderate incredibly nasty comments that suit their purpose to leave on there. That blog doesn't reflect at all well on Dolan.
Hard to think of Cardinal Dolan as 'open' given his recent hiding away of the 57 million dollars. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10155673/Card...
"Hard to think of Cardinal Dolan as 'open' given his recent hiding away of the 57 million dollars."
Just for those who didn't' see our earlier discussion of this point, Archbishop Dolan set aside money parked in Archdiocesan accounts by parishes who needed a place to hold locally collected funds.
Perhaps it's not legal to set aside non-Archdiocesan funds to keep them from being subject to being awarded as a result of a judgement in the lawsuit against the Archdiocese. I don't know, but I wouldn't want my locally raised parish funds in an account where they could be attached to satisify a judgement against an action by the bishops of the Archdiocese.
My experience with Cardlinal Dolan's blog includes when my critical comment was allowed to stand: http://blog.archny.org/index.php/sacrament-of-penance/
I hope your experiences are not the rule there.
We have to assume that Dolan received his red hat in part due to his prodigious skills in protecting the papal "crown jewels" when he was arch in Milwaukee.
In my book, Dolan will never be a credible pastoral leader because he seems more worried about "building up treasures on earth" than caring after his brother and sisters when they were attacked and violated as children, then left in the gutter by his brother priests and bishops.
As Ricky Ricardo would have said, "Timothy, you have alot of 'splainning to do!"
Charity Navigator gives the Catholic League two out of a possible four stars in its rating. Dr. Donohue's salary is $407,000 (was that 2012? 2013? don't know.)
Details at
which shows, among other things, that just over half its revenue (over $3,000,000) is spent on program activities, and large amounts spent on such things as administrative expenses and fundraising.
Four star charities (Save the Children, Catholic Relief Services, OXFAM, etc., etc., which get 4 star ratings from Charity Navigator, typically spend from 85% to over 90% on program. Dr. Donohue's organization also gets only two stars in its financial dealings and in its transparency.
As for holding a PhD. Well, some of my best friends (in fact a good many of them, given the circles I move in) hold PhDs. But I've never been quite sure what exactly having the degree testifies to. My own mother was a PhD. But it was not on those grounds that I loved her.


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Bayshore Town Center opened in November 2006, replacing Glendale's former Bayshore Mall with dozens of new stores, restaurants, offices and apartments, creating the first such town-center-style development in southeastern Wisconsin.
Now, plans are being discussed on the next development phase at Bayshore. They include additional apartments, along with new retailers to replace one of the town center's anchors - Sears - once its lease expires in a few years.
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And in doing so, Germantown continued a season-long trend of showing up and playing great against very good competition, because these Knights (9-5 in North Shore play and 14-8 overall) had won six in a row, had held their last four opponents to under 50 points and had won 13 of their last 16 going into this contest.» Read Full Article
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I just received my NN5 and have set it up with the Quick Release System.
I am using a Nikon D700 with the Nikon 14-24 zoom.
My only comments so far are that I had to reverse the Quick Release Base in order to get clearance for the top shots. Using the Base the way it came, caused the release lever to hit the NN5 when attempting to point the camera up. Also, you can forget the case if you put the Quick Release on the NN5. It won't fit in the case.
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I hear this phrase quite often, but I've never heard the origin of it. It would be also nice to find out what it means, exactly.
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The New Oxford American has this:
It predates Perry Mason by a bit. My New Shorter Oxford English dates the following definition of rest from the mid-1800s:
But I found use of rest [one's] case as early as 1744 (check) from a British trial published in The Gentleman's Magazine Vol. XIV:
It was likely popularized by old-time legal TV shows, such as Perry Mason (I don't recall if Perry ever said that phrase, but it was common in that type of show.)
During a court trial, the prosecution presents its case, then the defense defends against the allegations made. At the end of each part, that side announces that they are finished by saying that they "rest", as in "the prosecution rests", meaning "we on the prosecution side have nothing more to say; we have made our case."
Old-time court drama TV was full of dramatics and grandstanding, so some TV personality or another probably made-famous the phrase by presenting undeniable proof and then announcing to the courtroom "I rest my case!"
The implication is: you should need no more evidence; everything is explained by what you just heard.


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I'd like to know how to get the rotation matrix for the transformation from one cartesian coordinate system (X,Y,Z) to another one (X',Y',Z'). Both systems are defined with three orthogonal vectors as one would expect. No scaling or translation occurs. I'm using OpenSceneGraph and it offers a Matrix convenience class, if it makes finding the matrix easier: http://www.openscenegraph.org/documentation/OpenSceneGraphReferenceDocs/a00403.html.
One easy way is to think of both coordinate systems as transforms from the unit vectors (1,0,0) (0,1,0) and (0,0,1). You start off in this coordinate space (I will call it '1')whose transform matrix is the identity matrix:
then your first coordinate space (I will call it '2') has the transform matrix:
and your second coordinate space (I will call it '3') has the transform matrix:
For your points to be in the first coordinate system, then you have transformed them from 1 to 2. If you want to go from 2 to 3 then you can undo the transform from 1 to 2 then do the transform from 1 to 3. You can reverse the transform by inverting 2's transform matrix.
A point v in 2 can be transformed to a point v' in 3 with this equation: v' = B(A^-1)v where (A^-1) is the inverse of A.
Note this also handles scaling even though you don't need it. This approach will work with translation as well, though you would need a 4x4 matrix instead of a 3x3.


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Is there any way with the help of an addon or a Weak Auras string to help me see how much Corruption everyone has in the raid?
I know DBM got it but im using BW.
And dont tell me to change to DBM :P
Any help would be appreciated..
Is there any way with the help of an addon or a Weak Auras string to help me see how much Corruption everyone has in the raid?
I know DBM got it but im using BW.
And dont tell me to change to DBM :P
Any help would be appreciated..
Well, don't worry about switching to DBM, it doesn't have one either. Not for the Norushen fight at least.
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I havn't been able to get DBM to accurately show me.
Just run DBM as well. I prefer bigwigs and use it as my main bossmod, but I run dbm with almost every option turned off for small features like the one you mention. Not the most elegant solution but it will fill in the gaps that bw misses
Shadowed unit frames does. Just activate the alternate power bar for the raid frames. Not sure if it's what you're looking for or not, but it'd be one way to go.
Still looking for a solution, one that can track the whole raid or say, the top 5 corrupted if possible.
DBM shows the top 5 corrupted.
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/simplepowerbar lets you move it around on your own screen.
Funkydude you have given me hope! cant wait for that update as will help organising who goes in much easier.
Sorry for the late response. While we've had AltPower support for a few weeks now, we hadn't yet enabled it for Norushen due to issues with the encounter itself. The Blizzard power function returns false values for anyone other than yourself (it randomly gets stuck at 75), you may have noticed this if you've been looking at your unit frames, DBM, or another addon that measures power on Norushen. This is most prominent if you've just come out of the other phase into the normal realm, everyone will report as 75 power, which is wrong.
To combat this we implemented power syncing so that everyone sends their own power to the raid, which is now viewable in the latest release of BigWigs. To my knowledge BW is the only addon to implement this functionality and as so will always have correct power values displayed in the AltPower frame.
You may notice that some players have a value of -1, this means:
- That player is using an out-of-date BigWigs and should update.
- That player is using an out-of-date DBM and should update.
- That player isn't using a boss mod.
Please note that although DBM implemented code for syncing, their display doesn't support it yet and still displays the Blizzard power values (incorrect) as noted earlier in this thread:
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I got into a debate with a friend about the meaning of physics and its purpose, he is the sort who will test you and if you get it wrong it somehow gratifies his own self-reflection and self-worth. That aside, I have loved physics since I got into it when I was at school, I had a great teacher who fostered that love and helped grow my appreciation for physics and ever since I have said to myself that I would one day go do my degree in physics. At the moment I have just finished my degree in computer security and forensics, I plan to study physics part-time hopefully in the next 5 years after I settle into permanent work in the software engineering field.
Anyway the conversation started with a question from him asking what temperature water boils at and what temperature does water freeze at. For the life of me I couldn't remember, even as a general question most would know the answer, well that's what we thought. For him this was a big disgrace and he continued to laugh and "then" call a friend to verify that I am being moronic. Of course he phoned our friend and pitched the same question, of which he neither knew the boiling point nor the freezing point of water. Regardless, for him he classed this as "true physics", but to me it could have been any random number for all I cared.
What he was trying to prelude to and was expecting as an answer was "it depends" and the dependency was altitude (from a documentary he watched). Of course I never got past that stage and all it became was a ridicule session. For me it didn't matter I thought the true physics was understanding why water boiled in the first place. How exciting molecules or increasing the energy within water gradually increases its temperature and when the molecules become extremely excited water gets to its boiling temperature. Understanding this allows us to understand all the states of water (phases), from a solid (ice) to a liquid or to a gas (vapour, altho vapour is essentially two phases) in one, the phase change occurs via nucleation and growth - small liquid drops spontaneously form and evaporate, but if a drop is larger than some critical radius, it will continue to grow ('nucleates'). This is the most common phenomenon of a gas-liquid (or liquid-solid) phase transition. Of course I discussed this with him but he argued blind that "knowing" the boiling point of water was "physics" but to me that was essentially just a factoid. That the boiling point of water did not matter but understanding the process behind it did.
So I ask those of you in the community who was wrong or what physics trully is.
If we take the standard definition of Physics it is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.
For me knowing the boiling temperature of water does not equate to understanding how water as a liquid, boils. Or the transfer of energy to change a liquids state occurs. It is simply just a consequence of the action or a "factoid" of the means in which we can reliably get the same testable results.


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Had a great start to the season, lost the first game and then went on a huge unbeaten run, lasting up until Christmas, our form dipped a little and we started loosing easy games as well as drawing them. The final third of the season was dissapointing, Cambridge slipped up on several occassions but each time we managed a draw and never got close to them. Fortunately after loosing the first leg of the playoffs we managed to win 3-0 at home and go through to the final in which we dominated the game and managed a 1-0 scoreline ;p.
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My full squad never got it's chance to shine, only in the first 10 games could I field a full strength side, however the depth of my squad and brilliance of my defence got us through several 1-0 wins.
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Not as many signings as last season, I think this had a big impact on our playing ability with less people having to settle in and get used to the tactics
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The board was taken over midseason which bought us just above red and getting to the 4th round of the FA cup gave me huge amounts of money, the board even gave me 100K to spend, although I'm not going to touch it.
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Craig Rodger -ST- Another amazing season from Rodger. This season saw him take his career total to 149 league goals in 225 appearances with a 7.34 rating in 5 seasons with us.
Nile Ranger -ST- Signed on a free at the beginning of the season. Formed an excellent strike partnership with Rodger for his 26 goals and 14 assists.
Ross Wallace -AML- Had a slow start to the season, but by the end his assists from the left wing were invaluable.
Ignasi Miquel -DC- One of our most consistent performers all season. His ability in the air made him dominant in some games. Our Playoff winning goal even started with a headed interception from Miquel.
An amazing season. Never expected us to do so well throughout the season with such a small squad an no youth players to speak of, let alone pull off the results in the playoffs. The problem is, I can't see how we have any hope against Premiership opposition. The board magically found £3m of transfer funds after promotion was secured and my scouts have done a good job finding some good young talent throughout Europe. But our current squad needs a total overhaul. In particular, we need to massively upgrade our defence to stand a hope of surviving, as I was using the same back four this season we had in League 1! After such a rapid rise, survival would be a miracle.Code:Season Division Position Achievements --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 BSN 2nd Playoff winners 2011/12 BSP 2nd Playoff winners 2012/13 L2 3rd Automatic promotion 2013/14 L1 1st 2014/15 CCC 5th Playoff winners
G. Keenan's FC United- 2019/2020 Season Review- Coca-Cola Championship
Season review: My trend up to this point has been; first season getting acclimated to the league, second season promotion. It looked like this trend would carry on this year as I managed to reach the playoffs after sitting around the top half of the league all year but unfortunately I couldn't make it past Bolton in the playoff semi's. Star strikers Paulo Monteiro and Paul Hammond led the line brilliantly with a combined 47 league goals.
League Table
Career Overview
Code:Season League Position Achievements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square North 5th None 2011/12 Blue Square North 1st Promoted, BSN champions 2012/13 Blue Square Premier 7th None 2013/14 Blue Square Premier 3rd Promoted, playoffs 2014/15 Coca-Cola League 2 22nd None 2015/16 Coca-Cola League 2 3rd Promoted 2016/17 Coca-Cola League 1 16th None 2017/18 Coca-Cola League 1 1st Promoted, L1 Champions 2018/19 Coca-Cola Championship 15th None 2019/20 Coca-Cola Championship 5th None
Top of the league, we're avin' a laff
My strikers are goal machines - new signing Stephen Thompson has 8 in 9, Kyle Wilson has 5 in 6, and Gareth Evans has 7 in 7
Breaking news!
SMSL takes charge at Sutton United
Yep yours truly is gonna give this a serious go and theres no better time to start than when you have a week off work.
Already kicked out over 20 players who don't even know what a football looks like.
Already fed up of my GK transfers being hijacked. A real pain seeing as I had no keepers. Finally acquired a reasonable one though.
Media predicts us finishing 20th yet the bookies have us 6-1 3rd favs for promotion. :o
well I still cant get the hang of this lower league business. I bought what seemed to be sensible buys, and still my team is hopeless. I really cant do this
Was so much fun last year.
Bradford PA BSP 2012/13 at the start of this season my board has turned the club professional.
Last edited by Swindon69; 11-11-2009 at 22:22.
I dont know what more I can do. 1 win from 4.
Is this your first season - if so there are some good players named in this thread. Check out Rangers and Celtic's released players.
I did that, but they only had one between them and he wasnt interested.
Did you select the load big clubs option on the database ?
Cant remember...
I just keep losing! I've even signed one or two players who others have had great success with but game after game its "King's Lynn lose"...
It does seem to make it a wee bit easier to get some players - I also found a pretty basic 4-4-2 worked quite well. I also got off to a fairly poor start but the squad started to gell.
2014/15 - Tonbridge Angels - Blue Square Premier
After last years 'success' shall we say after our secure mid-table in our first season in the BSP; sadly, it was not be as we endured a torrid season and ended up in the bottom half.
League Position: 16th
Position Graph
As you can see, we yo-yo'd between the mid-table positions until we eventually settled for 16th, a disappointing season to follow on our better previous one.
FA Cup
Lost respectably in the first round to Oldham and this was before our good form dipped awfully.
I would post the FA Trophy but it was so embarrassing, I'd rather not. A 6-1 thrashing by Northwich was our result sadly.
Key Player Profiles
Michal Dolinajec
Captain Michal was given less playing time and his season was less eventful this year... Nonetheless, when he played, he performed. 13 assists in the amount of games he played was great.
Ryan Mason
The summer signing, our second from the GH Academy, was a fine acquisition. 14 goals and 13 assists meant he replaced Dolinajec as our resident AMC, and rightly so.
Radoslav Vasilev
He was our goalscorer this season as no injuries pestered him. Should we have been better in the league, he could've grabbed more than the 33 goals he did, breaking all records in the process.
A honourable shout out to our awful finances.Code:Season League Position Achievements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square South 16th - 2011/12 Blue Square South 13th - 2012/13 Blue Square South 3rd Promotion 2013/14 Blue Square Premier 9th - 2014/15 Blue Square Premier 16th -
Well it's November 10th and I'm already out of every cup competition
Just rodgered Luton 5-1 away in the league though so things are looking up
GreyedOutMan, I'm guessing it's perhaps something to do with your tactics. I would suggest
Philosophy - Rigid
Starting Strategy - Standard
Passing Style - More Direct
Creative Freedom - More Disciplined
Closing Down - Press More
Tacking - Default
Marking - Default
Crossing - Default
Roaming - Stick to Position
Those will possibly help you be a bit more solid. Your players are idiots at the moment, don't give them very much freedom at all.
As for the players, it's really hard to tell without seeing them. But I would roughly go for,
Position - Role - Duty
GK - Goalkeeper - Defend
DR - Full Back - Defend
DL - Full Back - Defend
DC - Central Defender - Defend
DC - Central Defender - Defend
MR - See Below *
ML - See Below *
MC - Ball Winning Midfielder - Defend
MC - Ball Winning Midfielder - Support
ST - Poacher
ST - Target Man or Advanced Striker
First thing's first, I put my Full Backs on Man Marking, I found them drifting in far too often, and the opposition wingers cutting inside and getting a 1-on-1 opportunity.
As far as your MR and ML are concerned, take a look at what they are good at. The tactics highlights attributes that are important to the job you are giving. If your MR/L is slow, don't set them as a Winger. Play with the Sliders a bit, but remember that the pre-sets are just guidelines. If you personalise them too much, your instructions wont mirror the pre-set.
I, for instance, had a very slow (Pace 3, Acceleration 2) ML. So, I put him as a Defensive Winger. But as his Crossing was 17, and his Long Shots 18. I put those sliders at maximum. Have slow wingers crossing from deep, and fast ones from the byline. If you have a strong, aerial Striker, set him as a target man. But remember to adjust the slider for Long Shots if he is crap at them (most likely).
I'd have 2 CM's that are Ball Winners. The one on Defend Duty will hold deeper and the one on Support Duty will try and win the ball earlier. Look for Robbie Crawford as a Support CM.
Try and get a parent club if you haven't got one. You can sometimes get decent players on loan who can help you out early on.
Remember, Away from Home, you are going to have less possession. So try playing "Defensive" or "Counter Attacking". Although, the latter invites pressure onto yourself.
That's as much as I can think off the top of my head. Do yell if you have any other questions.
Just put 4 past Kasper Schmeichel
Doing alright about a quarter of the way through the season with Burscough. Pretty much as expected. Doing well at home, poorly on the road. Only real disappointment so far was losing 2-1 to Guiseley in the FA Cup 2nd Qualifying Round.
Here's the table
G. Keenan's FC United- 2020/2021 Season Review- Coca-Cola Championship
Season review: My third season in the Championship and I was expecting big things, but it didn't quite start as expected. If you take a look at the league graph you will see that we were near the bottom after the first couple of games and it wasn't until about midseason that we manged to climb into the playoff positions. We bounced arounced there for a while before finally setting into 6th position, and with it, the final playoff spot. In the playoff semi's we drew Portsmouth and won 4-2 on aggregate. In the final we drew Wigan and won a dramatic 5-4 game sealing our place in the Premiership.
League Table
Career Overview
Code:Season League Position Achievements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square North 5th None 2011/12 Blue Square North 1st Promoted, BSN champions 2012/13 Blue Square Premier 7th None 2013/14 Blue Square Premier 3rd Promoted, playoffs 2014/15 Coca-Cola League 2 22nd None 2015/16 Coca-Cola League 2 3rd Promoted 2016/17 Coca-Cola League 1 16th None 2017/18 Coca-Cola League 1 1st Promoted, L1 Champions 2018/19 Coca-Cola Championship 15th None 2019/20 Coca-Cola Championship 5th None 2020/21 Coca-Cola Championship 6th Promoted, playoffs
Oh and no new stadium for me, just a 750 seat expansion. I have a lot of weak spots that need filling on my team and I'm assuming that my £22m transfer budget isn't going to stretch very far.
Payments over 48 months would be the best way to go Gareth but be careful. Wouldn't want to go bankrupt.
Season 2011/12 Review - Guiseley in the Blue Square Premier - CHAMPIONS
League Table
Past Positions
We started of where we left of last season. With the 4-3-3 tactic and with some, eh a lot, new players. They blended in inmidiately and did wonders. The games where we scored in the first minutes always ended up with a high scoring game like 4-0, 4-1, 5-0, etc,... Cambridge was almost the whole season on top and must feel terrible since the lost in the playoffs to gain promotion.
FA Cup | FA Trophy
This season we had a great cup run, the high bonuses must helped here. The FA Cup started of not great with a close win over amateurs Farsley (3-3 and 3-1). Blyth was our next oponent drawing again 0-0 and at home winning again close 2-1. The end of the FA Cup was close when we drawed Crystal Palace (L1) in the 2nd Rnd, we managed to win 1-0! No parking the bus mentality but an overload attack. 3th Rnd we saw Macclesfield (L2) coming our way. We played great and won 3-0, meaning we made it to round 4! We draw Liverpool, at home , played ok but the 2nd half we were just like AZ against Arsenal. At the end of the 90 minutes the score was 1-3.
The FA Trophy was great this year since we won it (final vs Kettering)! OLE! Well What ever may happen in the future, I am in the history of Guiseley! Winning this Cup and the League brought me also in the favourite people list of the club.
Osman Balkaya started in the starting line-up but lost it halfway against Duran and Tutte. Every signing I did this season was great except for Davide Enrico Somma. Who is leaving my next season already for sure. Harsanyi, Archibald-Henville, Peterlin, Brouwer and Hansen were instant key players. Thanks to these guys we managed to became champions. And there is really no need of big signings next season. Going to have a look for an other, better, keeper, a central defender and an attacker.
Kyle Wilson didnt succeed to do as good as last season so will be released after his contract expires. Sorry Kyle
Aim for next season: Midtable. But I hope to finish higher since we have got the players for it.
Code:Season Team League Finished Achievements 2010/11 Guiseley Blue Square South 5th Promoted 2011/12 Guiseley Blue Square Premier 1st Promoted, BSP Champions, FA Trophy winners
Nice season, foost.
Thanks Scab, but mostly thanks to Zoltan Harsanyi who scored 40 and had 20+- assists!
I am in pre-season at the moment, and very very very curious how League Two will be like
Right I signed 3 players so far for next season:
Defender: Jeremy Helan
Defender: Michele Fornasier
Keeper: Wojciech Szczesny
Still in search for an attacker tho...
I haven't really been updating, but I just got promoted from League One as champions. Have 2 players I'd highly highly recommend anyone in that league pick up: Ablai Balde & Ivan Bolado, both notched 40+ goals last season. I also picked up Pavel Londak and he was fantastic between the sticks. They may not be interested but just offer them a contract anyway, they may come
Season 3 - SnakeXe's Merthyr Tydfil
Coca-Cola League Two - 4th, Play-Off Winners (Table)
Johnstone's Paint Trophy - Southern 1st Round (lost v Exeter)
FA Cup - 1st Round (lost v Wycombe)
League Cup - 1st Round (lost v Coventry)
After a very slow start - as epitomized by bombing out of every cup in the first round - we recovered to put on a great push for promotion, only missing out by one point in the end. In the play-offs we blasted past Rushden 4-2, before coming up against Notts County in the final.
The final was an absolute epic, we took the lead early on only for 3 County goals to put us firmly on the back foot. I gave the players a rollicking at half time, as well as tweaking the tactics and former Arsenal trainee Gilles Sunu scored twice to take it to extra time.
After a relatively uneventful period of extra time, barring a few ambitious attempts from the County midfield, it was down to a shoot-out. On-loan midfielder Tang Ho Yin, who had had a great season for us, missed the first kick, but after that we registered every time, and keeper David Pritchard made a hero of himself, saving one County penalty to take it to sudden death, and then another to win it!
The squad will need a lot of improvement to compete in League One - I still have 6 of the original squad I inherited in the first team - and (although I said this last time) I really do not see a fourth successive promotion happening. In fact, I'm quite worried about being relegated this time around!
Code:Season League Position Achievements ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square South 1st Blue Square South Champions, Promoted 2011/12 Blue Square Premier 1st Blue Square Premier Champions, Promoted 2012/13 Coca-Cola League Two 4th Play-Off Winners, Promoted
Previous Season Reports:
Season 1 - 2010/11
Season 2 - 2011/12
Last edited by SnakeXe; 12-11-2009 at 14:28.
Have anyone got Margate promoted? I just can't get my head into another team just yet
Just started up with Nuneaton, if anyones managed to somehow get a Leamington game please link the save!
11-11-2009, 06:33 G. Keenan's FC United- 2018/2019 Season Review- Coca-Cola Championship
11-11-2009, 19:55 G. Keenan's FC United- 2019/2020 Season Review- Coca-Cola Championship
12-11-2009, 04:26 G. Keenan's FC United- 2020/2021 Season Review- Coca-Cola Championship
^^ You need to sleep and take the game off fastest I think
Is there any way to make your board more open to parent club links? For some reason my board dont want to make any links at the moment (I'm playing as King's Lynn).
Lost my first ever Premiership game 4-2 at home to Wigan. We had an attendance of 1200!?! What's that all about?
Last edited by Gypsum; 12-11-2009 at 17:24.
Scooty_BAFC - Canvey Island - Blue Square South - 2011/12
Just finished my second season, had a good start, a fairly disappointing middle but a good finish to propel me into a playoff spot. And the momentum helped me win the playoffs! I'm in the BSP!!! Good job too because any more of this level and the finances would be looking seriously awful. Despite being under budget all season, and having a successful season, I find myself over £100K in the red. I unfortunately didnt enjoy a cup run to speak of so that didn't help. I'm usually good at the financial side, seems a struggle so far on FM10 though. Hopefully it improves a level up. (Please say it does..)
Blue Square South - 2nd (Promoted via Playoffs!)
FA Cup - Lost in 4th Qualifying Round (v Ebbsfleet)
FA Trophy - Lost in 2nd Round (v Tamworth)
League Table
Playoff Final (Thats one way to do it )
Position Graph
Next season I just want to survive. Will be looking to spend well under the wage budget to try and sort the finances out so can't expect to challenge for back to back promotions. Anything above 21st will do me.
Code:Season Division Position Achievements --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 BSS 14th 2011/12 BSS 2nd Promoted via Playoffs
Last edited by Scooty_BAFC; 12-11-2009 at 18:04.
I think i've found a bit of an issue with the game. In the Premiership I have a stadium with an 8200 capacity, but only 1200 seats. And as I assume the Premiership has a rule where you can only have seated fans, my maximum attendance is only 1200! I know in previous versions you'd generally have more seats added to replace the terracing, but as it has already been announced we are building a new stadium I suppose we're not going to get another upgrade. And we don't get a new stadium for another 2 years!
Oh well, we'll probably get relegated this season anyway!
Ouch. Trying to survive in the Premier League with 1200 fans a week. Good luck!
I would just think his physical attributes would be more in line with his technical ones for an ai controlled regen. He just looks like might struggle to last the pace in premiership games.
Last edited by Thebaker; 12-11-2009 at 19:39.
Seems to be doing fine
I'd frankly be a bit disappointed if a player with a Stamina of 14 would have problems lasting a game, but I see what you're saying in comparison to the mental/technical attributes.
Cambridge C - 2011/12 - Blue Square North
Season started brilliantly, sat top of the table for a while before a poor run of form saw us drop towards the end of the play-offs. Signing Spanish duo Michel and Sabino (both surprisingly accepted trials) proved to be key as both performed fantastically in the latter stages, including Sabino's terrific two goals which helped us come from 2-0 down against Rotherham United in the FA Cup, one from 40 yards. Promotion was sealed with a 3-0 win over Barrow in the play-off finale, with both Spaniards and top scorer Walker scoring.
League Table:
Player of the Season: James Walker
Other notable mention: Michel
Other competitions:
FA Cup: 3rd Round. Beat Bury Town, Chippenham, Salisbury, Rotherham and Kidderminster before losing 3-1 to Millwall.
FA Trophy: 1st Round. Thrashed Chesham before losing to Chester.
Season League Position Other Comps.
2010/11...Blue Square North...17th...(FA Cup: 2nd Qual Rd). (FA Trophy: 3rd Qual Rd).
2011/12...Blue Square North...3rd ...Promotion. (FA Cup: 3rd Round). (FA Trophy: 1st Rd).
Season 2021/22 Review - Kingstonian in the Premier League
League Table
Past Positions
More than pleased with a mid-table finish considering I haven't strengthened much since last season. Hit a good run of form around mid-season, but our spell in the top half was ultimately short-lived. We'll be moving into brand new Kingstonian Stadium for next season, so as I'll finally be able to spend some real money on signings and wages we'll hopefully take another step up in the table.
FA Cup | League Cup
Finally a cup final! Unfortunately we're not quite good enough yet to find a way past Arsenal...
Still on the 4-5-1 with Pinto up front, but I think it might be time to start rethinking that. His attributes aren't on par with the kind of strikers I can now sign and at 30 he won't be getting any better. His contract also runs out in a year and he wants a proper Premiership wage to sign a new one, so I might just try to get some money for him while I can. Lascaux isn't a whole lot better, so I'm hoping there'll be a good striker on the market that the club can afford.
Heeren from relegated Hull and Petrov from Swedish Hammarby walked right into my midfield along with Schonewille on left-back to fill the void left by Shaun Spencer. Cardiff might regret spending that much on him now that they're relegated, but in light of our loan payments I'm more than happy to be getting those £10M over the next 48 months.
Aim for next season: Sign 2-3 class players to push for a top-half finish.
Code:Season Team League Finished Achievements 2010/11 Kingstonian Blue Square South 4th - 2011/12 Kingstonian Blue Square South 1st Champions, Promotion 2012/13 Kingstonian Blue Square Premier 3rd FA Trophy winners 2013/14 Kingstonian Blue Square Premier 3rd Promotion through playoffs 2014/15 Kingstonian Coca-Cola League 2 8th - 2015/16 Kingstonian Coca-Cola League 2 2nd Promotion 2016/17 Kingstonian Coca-Cola League 1 5th - 2017/18 Kingstonian Coca-Cola League 1 2nd Promotion 2018/19 Kingstonian Coca-Cola Championship 7th - 2019/20 Kingstonian Coca-Cola Championship 2nd Promotion 2020/21 Kingstonian Premier League 14th - 2021/22 Kingstonian Premier League 11th -
League Two is too big a step up for my Farnborough players
Bottom at christmas, can't get a win anywhere. 6 points adrift already. Maybe a change of tactic, 4-5-1 counter attack maybe. Gah.
G. Keenan's FC United- 2021/2022 Season Review- Premier League
Season review: As is becoming something of a tradition of mine, I made a very slow start to the season losing each of my first four games 2-0. My next five games went a lot better as I drew three and won two of those games. I reached my highest league position of 9th after the 12th game of the season, but then swiftly went on a 9 game win less streak which included five losses and four draws. My form then proceeded to yo-yo back up and I eventually settled on my final position of 10th. Star striker Wagner (Brazilian by birth) provided me with the extra bit of quality that was required to survive this first season in the Prem, and he actually finished as the Premiership's top scorer, highest average rated player and man of the match leader.
League Table (Liverpool relegated, first of the 'big four' to go)
Career Overview
Code:Season League Position Achievements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square North 5th None 2011/12 Blue Square North 1st Promoted, BSN champions 2012/13 Blue Square Premier 7th None 2013/14 Blue Square Premier 3rd Promoted, playoffs 2014/15 Coca-Cola League 2 22nd None 2015/16 Coca-Cola League 2 3rd Promoted 2016/17 Coca-Cola League 1 16th None 2017/18 Coca-Cola League 1 1st Promoted, L1 Champions 2018/19 Coca-Cola Championship 15th None 2019/20 Coca-Cola Championship 5th None 2020/21 Coca-Cola Championship 6th Promoted, playoffs 2021/22 Premier League 10th None
I had to make a load of signings to try and compete on this level and spent the best part of a £10m budget. Which i'm sure will hit our finances big time! Fortunately they are mostly young prospects who'll probably stick with me through relegation. Still, my squad is nowhere near good enough. This shows the price you can pay for such rapid success. This will probably be the most interesting season i've ever had on FM!
I've got Arsenal next... God help me!
Also a question to those in the Premier League, how are you handling the English player requirements? My youth system sucks and in 12 years has only produced one player worthy of the first team, so as a result I only have 5 English players in my team. Needless to say that can make things a little awkward.
Lost 7-2 to Arsenal. But we had a few chances and Craig Rodger got the 2 goals, the second of which was an absolute stunner! F**k it! If we're going down, we're going down in style!!
I use a program called Irfanview to take screenshots with the press of just one button, though Windows 7 has made things more time consuming, with the Microsoft removing the abilty to rename images in the default image viewer and changing Wordpad so the forum doesn't like it's formatting
Boston United United FC - Blue Square North - 2011/12
So, after a decent first season, second season I expected to push on for promotion, even ithout adding any players.
League Table - http://img10.imageshack.us/i/fmtable2.jpg/
League Progress - http://img4.imageshack.us/i/fmprogress2.jpg/
Promoted through the play-offs Managed to win on penalties. Brilliant season overall, despite a mid season slump we never looked like falling out of the play off places.
Squad - http://img109.imageshack.us/i/fmsquad2.jpg/
Still my original team. Defence was rock solid this season.
Transfers - http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/9198/fmtransfers2.jpg
Again, no one in.
Code:Season League Position Achievements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square North 8th N/A 2011/2012 Blue Square North 2nd Finished 2nd, promoted through play offs.
Aim next season is to stay up, simple as that. Doubt my team is good enough, but still, one can hope.
Well League Two is proving to be a bit of a step up, not helped by my scouts only being able to find BSP rated players, I'm also get rather annoyed at them telling me a player is interested on going on loan only for him to say he has no intention of playing for me
Decided to try this as my first ever challenge, on holiday right now but really shouldn't be too long before 24th June.
SuperRedditch - Marine - 2011/2012 - Blue Square Premier
Another highly successful season, and another promotion. The top 5 teams all went into the final 3 games with a chance of winning the league, it was very tense at times.
Final Table
Position Graph
FA Cup - We had an excellent run in the Cup. Sadly getting a Home game against Reading in the 3rd Round. However, we only went 0-1 down after 80 mins, and did ourselves proud.
FA Trophy - Winners! A hardfought final game against 4th place Kettering sealed our names on the trophy.
Transfers - Almost as many out as in this season. The highlight being the sale of Sean Fitzharris for the mightily tasty £80k to those mugs down at Llanelli.
Robert McCormick - The 29 year old was Top Scorer again, banging in 31 goals in 49 appearances.
Dejan Rusic - The January signing was a total revelation. Scoring 17 and getting 10 assists in 26 games.
Inigo Idiakez - Sometimes blew hot and cold. but for a 38 year old freebie, was a creative force.
Mario Ruyales - Also signed in January, and his Average Rating belies his magnificent performances. 18 Clean Sheets in 27 matches! A tremendous shot-stopper.
Aims Next Season
Make some bloody money!
Stay up
Sign a tasty regen
My Career
Code:Season League Position Achievements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square North 1st Champions 2011/12 Blue Square Premier 1st Champions, FA Trophy Winners
Gadwin printscreen. It's free, saves in many formats, has many options (saving just the window, or the entire screen, or you can select the area etc) and it stays unobtrusive in the background. I didn't know Irfanview could take screenshots with a hotkey. But it's a great image viewer =)
Have started with a Kendal game. Think I'll upload my profile tonight!
Decided to go for Carshalton. Here is my manager profile
But basically his stats ain't too great and i have better players for his position.
However he just keeps on producing amazing performances. And most importantly comes up with the good at the right time, like slavaging a point against stevenage just now in a 3-3 draw, scoring from outside the box on 92 mins!
Look at this guy, what a legend!
Season Stats
Personal Stats
PS: His free kick stat may only be 14 but he seems to score a heck of alot of them, may be as he is trained in taking them with power!
Now my heart tells me to keep him in forever, as he just seems a legend! He pulls out the good stuff, but will a not so good player playing at a 7.0 be as good as a better player (Stats wise) playing at a 6.8??
Do i go with my head or my heart?
Take the guy who performs better every time, it's even more special if they're rubbish
Midtable in League One after a dozen games, looks like my fears of relegation were unfounded, but there's no way we're going to challenge the playoffs unless I pull several signings out of the bag!
I am happy with my season ticket sales. 864 season tickets sold this season which are very encouraging since i sold 262 tickets last season
Why does my team suddenly all have HG before their name ? is this a bug ?
I had that aswell... Fixed it with signing a lot of foreign players haha
Bah just lost in my 2nd game of the season in the League Cup against Derby (championship) after penals. Still quite happy that I played 1-1 after 90 minutes
"They play well against 4-4-2" - This is my current issue.
What tactics are people varying too when against these teams, I mean I destroy ones that struggle vs 4-4-2 but it's always a bore draw vs the ones that handle it.
Maybe go to 4-5-1 or 4-1-3-2? I don't seem to have the players for it. Any tips?
Currently 5th in BSN but only 3 points off top so promotion is looking like a prospect, just lacking that killer instinct vs the better teams.
Err, going to ask it again since I didnt get a response some time ago: Anyone know what the stats are for a good assman?
maybe try a diamond on the midfield vs those teams Deman?
squad screen to help with selection and spotting who's improving and who's declining, so it'd be a problem if those were constantly off. I assume that Man Management would help with the squad/player happiness related advices, Motivating with team-talks, Tactical Knowledge with tactical advice / spotting problems in the opposition, Discipline with fining... So basically pick your assistant based on the areas you feel you need the most help with; you probably won't find someone who excels in all of them.
Thanks a million Scab and Thebaker. Maybe I can find some Assman like that Scab but he will def. not join my team hehe..
Great going to have a look into this. My current Assman suck balls.
Mine has been great for us, I still have all the staff I originally hired, don't see myself replacing any as they've served me well. The scouts have improved as we've risen up the leagues too, which is good.
Jesus, it is 4 september (in game), and already out of the League Cup and the Johnstone's Paint Trophy both on penals...
Scab I found one Mauro Tassotti hehe... He is the ultimate assman hehe
On the serious note: I really found a great one and signed him right away! John Morling!
Last edited by foost; 13-11-2009 at 11:27.
This has been my ass man for the last couple of season, I also know that my brother signed him. He has found a few gems for me.
Finished my second season in league two, we were way worse (wwww) than last year, finishing 17th. Struggled to get the ball into the net this season, considering abandoning my trustworthy 4-4-2 for something more exiting. Will post an update when I get home from work. Fridays are looooong.....
Hassebasse Merthyr Tydfil 2015-2016 League Two
A poor second season in League two saw us finish 17th. We couldn't score enough, and didn't defend that well either.
League Table
My two best players were once again my injury plagued winger Scott, and this year my dc Woodward stepped up.
Goals for the new season:
Overhaul the squad
Consider giving up 4-4-2
Try to push for play-off
Despite my terrible cup run at the beginning of the season I am doing quite fine in the league. After 10 games I am 4th with 18 points (together with 2-6) and the number one, Shrewsbury, has got 19 points
Just hit 1st place with Nuneaton in BSN 19 games in but have been knocked out of both FA Cup and FA Trophy fairly early on. Lost to a 94th minute goal 1-0 to Hinckley in the FA Trophy Replay
Top 8 teams are all within 3 points of one another so lets hope I can hang on to the top spot for a while!
18 Transfers so far with about as many going out, just installed a revolving door in the office
Just been promoted to L2, the wages some players want is enormous, my wage limit is only 8.5K and it was already 7.5K. Even when i offer nearly 1K p/w the players seem to sign for someone else for 500 p/w.
Looks like its going to be a real struggle this season, i only have 21 players and 8 have been injured already in pre-season.
Drewski. Boston United. 2014/2015
At the start of the season I would have taken a 15th-20th place finish, my squad was not the best, but there were a few teams that would have made us look like World Cup winners, never did I think that we'd finish in the top 7, let alone get promoted, Crewe were the runaway winners, they destroyed the opposition, saying that, it was pleasing to see that after the first couple of games we never dropped out of the top 10, but we did draw too many, if we turned a few of those draws into wins then we may have finished in the top 3, but ah well.
Squad - defensively we were very sound, up front our main two in Paynter and Johnson managed to get into double figures, but our creativity was lacking in midfield, I'll need to bring in more firepower in that department; Farrell, I didn't actually think that Farrell would be able to make the step up to League 2 this season bu he surprised me and the league by putting in some brilliant performances, I'm just thinking that League 1 will be a bit too hard for him so he'll be mainly a squad player; O'Connor, added that extra quality that we were missing for the first half of this season, with him in the side we were able to push on and cement ourselves as a top 10 side, more of the same next season please; Paynter, enough said really, fantastic season from the seasoned striker, he'll be a squad player next season as I try to bring in some fresh legs and youth during the summer.
Transfers - same as usual, quality in, carp out, most of which did their jobs very well, in Stech our goalie, we have someone who is able to make a half decent save and organize the defense.
Finances - going up, hopefully I'll get a half decent budget next season to spend on players.
Aims for next season:
Improve squad.
Bring in more quality.
Make money.
Don't make fools of ourselves.
Chippenham Town - Blue Square South - 2010/2011
We weren't predicted to make it at all this season after a good start we had a pretty bad run and howerd on lower mid of table. Luckily got on a good run towards the end and made it into the playoff spots. Really had not expected doing this well.
Key Players:
Graeme Edwards - Great defender probably my best signing.
Daniel Ludlow - One of the few original squad players still playing at end of season. Not the best player by far but he had some key goals from left wing. Also most assists in team.
Robbie Crawford - Did a decent job in midfield. Hopefully more to come of him.
Kyle Wilson - Steady supplier of goals.
Finances - Doesn't look too good now does it.
League Table - Managed to stay in playoff spot towards the end of season but no chance to catch up with Bromley.
Caught a probably undeserved promotion in the end with some close games where we spendt most of the time defending and beeing hammered countering in some lucky goals. Feel we got some great talent but gonna have to get better wingers for next season and maybe a targetman, had no luck so far finding one.
Hopefully next season will get done faster... been a bizzy week since i went to oslo for the weekend to watch local team winning the norwegian cupfinal against rival team last weekend i'm still exhausted from celebrating. And now i cant afford to do anything but play fm
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Things are now going a little better in League Two as after 14 games we are now somehow third in the table, thanks to my Keeper Adam who's performing heroics in Goal and new striker Daniel Nardiello who has 8 goals in 7 appearances so far
Changing my tactics to Defensive from Counter-Attacking seems to have helped aswell.
Ok Well I atempted this challenge in 09 but didn't make it with AFC Hornchurch. This time I hope to make it with Tonbridge Angels. Go on you Angels!!!
I hope this link works
The Adventures of Black Mama - Canvey Island - BSS - 2010/2011
10 games into the 1st season seems a likely place to give an update - It's been tough and frustrating :o The players available to my crappy club are not capable of playing the 4-1-2-2-1 formation I like to play (Ajax, Denmark formation) so I've reverted to the classic 4-4-2 untill we reach league football - if the nutjobs I've found will make it so far :o
We are sitting 18th with 10 points so far - just managed to sneak a 2-2 draw in the last game with an injurytime goal from a corner
On the transfer side of things I've signed a total of 16 players
I feel somewhat sorry for this bloke I signed
I'm getting used to not managing Margate ( ) but If they ever get promoted I'm quitting Canvey....
On a sidenote the finances just went red
Season 2022/23 Review - Kingstonian in the Premier League
League Table
Past Positions
More than the step-up I was looking and hoped for. We got off to a decent but unremarkable mid-table start with a lot of draws and low-scoring games, but soon found our form and climbed up to 8th-7th-6th after taking slim wins against some of the bigger teams. Another terrific late-season push had us up on an exciting 2nd, but we couldn't last the pace and eventually finished a distant 14p off Man Utd, who we by the way took 6p off this season. The team certainly has talent and potential, just not the necessary consistency.
FA Cup | League Cup
League Cup winners! We've been doing quite well in this competition for several years now but always gone out in the semis, or even the final last season. Good to finally get our hands on a trophy; we haven't actually won anything since 2012/13.
Lacking that really solid defender to field next to Wilson I decided to take a gamble and throw American defensive talent Chris Conrad off the deep end and see how he'd cope, and it turns out he copes just fine. His attributes have improved a lot this season and he's even gotten a few senior international call-ups. If my assistant is anything to go by there's still good room for improvement, so hopefully I'll be able to hang on to this guy for a while. Roddy Wilson is showing similarly encouraging development compared to when he joined and is now being chased by some big-name clubs.
Decided to get some money for 30-year-old Pinto while I could and signed Panathinaikos legend Gerben Vosselman as his replacement for a lot less than I had expected. It took him a while to get going, but once settled in and taught to use his pace, dribbling and technique to round the keepers he started scoring almost every game. Come May he'd beaten Pinto's 20 Premier League goals from last season and is looking like he'll do even better next year. Other than that, offloaded some dead weight, strengthened the problem areas, and sold two of my three keepers for money I just couldn't refuse; as long as I can keep hold of Yagi we should be fine, he's got good potential according to my assistant so fingers crossed he'll grow into his role in a Wilson/Conrad-esque way.
Aim for next season: Champions League qualification. Missed out on -1 goal difference this season...
Code:Season Team League Finished Achievements 2010/11 Kingstonian Blue Square South 4th - 2011/12 Kingstonian Blue Square South 1st Champions, Promotion 2012/13 Kingstonian Blue Square Premier 3rd FA Trophy winners 2013/14 Kingstonian Blue Square Premier 3rd Promotion through playoffs 2014/15 Kingstonian Coca-Cola League 2 8th - 2015/16 Kingstonian Coca-Cola League 2 2nd Promotion 2016/17 Kingstonian Coca-Cola League 1 5th - 2017/18 Kingstonian Coca-Cola League 1 2nd Promotion 2018/19 Kingstonian Coca-Cola Championship 7th - 2019/20 Kingstonian Coca-Cola Championship 2nd Promotion 2020/21 Kingstonian Premier League 14th - 2021/22 Kingstonian Premier League 11th - 2022/23 Kingstonian Premier League 5th League Cup winners
just got promoted with guiseley to the blue square prem. I'll start my report
All this truro hunting is a little like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - all those kids searching for the golden ticket!
Guiseley Season 2 report- Board Target mid table finish- actual 1st
So in our 2nd season in the blue square north we achieved promotion in 1st place we were placed around 6th at christmas in a tight league but a good run in led us to the title.
Fa Cup: we reached the 1st round until we eventually lost to a much stronger opponent
Fa Trophy: a bit disappointed with our loss here.
Our squad: Seems to be a strong enough team to have won the Blue square north although improvements will be needed for the blue square prem
1 Value
2 Assistant reports
3 Selection
Key Players:
Laider Played great in the "hole"
Lee Reliable at dc
Mason Great up fronts lots of assists
Mclean Lead the line as top scorer in the league.
Team Stats
Player Stats
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Job Offer
Next Season:
I aim to stay in the blue square prem so hopefully i can build my club from there
That's not good Nardiello has just gone and got himself injured for 8 weeks
Well done on the top finish, good luck in the BSP
Keep at it Blackmama, Its not roses for all of us, im in my second season and things are worse than they were last season so far!!
Success will be all the sweeter for us when we finally achieve it
G. Keenan's FC United- 2022/2023 Season Review- Premier League
Season review: Another solid season in the Prem, despite the slight regression in my final position I felt like my team was quite a lot stronger than last years and as a result we could be in for a breakout next season.
League Table
Career Overview
Code:Season League Position Achievements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square North 5th None 2011/12 Blue Square North 1st Promoted, BSN champions 2012/13 Blue Square Premier 7th None 2013/14 Blue Square Premier 3rd Promoted, playoffs 2014/15 Coca-Cola League 2 22nd None 2015/16 Coca-Cola League 2 3rd Promoted 2016/17 Coca-Cola League 1 16th None 2017/18 Coca-Cola League 1 1st Promoted, L1 Champions 2018/19 Coca-Cola Championship 15th None 2019/20 Coca-Cola Championship 5th None 2020/21 Coca-Cola Championship 6th Promoted, playoffs 2021/22 Premier League 10th None 2022/23 Premier League 12th None


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15 Jun 2010 2:51 AM #1
How does Sencha Change This
With this morning's announcement, and JQTouch becoming part of the Sencha product line, how does it affect Ext Touch?--
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15 Jun 2010 3:00 AM #2
Except for a name change, it won't effect the product. JQTouch and David Kaneda have been part of Ext Touch for quite some time.
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I would have figured that people would have caught on before the name change. Having David Kaneda being the creator of JQTouch and him working for Ext made it pretty obvious that some sort of mobile lib would be in the works.Eric Berens
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16 Jun 2010 6:44 AM #4
Hi I have a doubt, if JQTouch is a JQuery plug in for mobile, Ext Touch will use jquery or extjs?
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Our touch product is a ground up rewrite melding David's design skills with our own coding experience and talent. This isn't a change, it's what you have been testing.
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Jeremy Kost is a chronicler of gender, sexuality and nightlife. Born in Corpus Christi, Texas, he now lives and works in New York City, though he regularly travels the world to capture images, whether they're of male models in the Californian desert or drag queens in Pittsburgh.
Influenced by Warhol, both in his choice of subjects and technique, Kost extends the creative potential of one of Warhol's favorite tools - the Polaroid camera. In Kost's work, Polaroid images not only form the basis of silkscreen paintings but are massed together in multilayered photo collages.
In May 2012, the Warhol partnered with Hugo Boss to present a solo exhibition, "Of an Instance," featuring Kost's work in New York City. "Friends with Benefits," the artist's first solo museum exhibition, builds upon the New York exhibition by focusing on works depicting a family of renowned Pittsburgh-based drag performers. The exhibition features new work produced especially for the Warhol, including a large photo-collage executed on the site of Andy Warhol's grave.
"As an artist in today's world, it is impossible to escape the reach of Andy Warhol's immense influence," said Kost. "For me personally, it lies more in his thinking, appreciation for things of beauty, and the way that we collectively perceive the world. We clearly share common subjects, both literally and generationally. Also sharing similar mediums and processes, it has always been important for me to add to the discourse of his legacy without being derivative, and I aspire to do that always."
"Kost brings a unique technique and sensibility to Polaroid photography that marries its spontaneity with labor-intensive studio processes," said Nicholas Chambers, Milton Fine curator of art. "He completely pulls apart the notion of the 'instant,' embodied by the snap-shot, and reconstructs it as something far more complex and inherently unstable. His beguiling images point to the layered nature of identity and place."
"Jeremy Kost: Friends with Benefits" opens during the Warhol's Naughty-or-Nice Holiday Bash featuring hostess Sharon Needles, RuPaul's Drag Race season four winner and music by Tracksploitation at 7 p.m. Dec. 1. The celebration includes hors d'oeuvres and two drink tickets.
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It seems to me that these 3 algebraic systems are closely related, but it always seems to be Noetherian rings rather than Noetherian domains appearing, and conversely I rarely seem to see principal ideal rings or Dedekind rings.
Why are principal ideal domains and Dedekind domains prominent, but I always seem to see Noetherian rings rather than Noetherian domains?
Dear Negative refraction,
I would guess that it reflects the particular literature you are looking at. If you were to look at algebraic geometry literature, you would very often see the following line (or a variant thereof)): let $U =$ Spec $A$ be open affine in the irreducible variety $X$. The ring $A$ will then be a Noetherian domain, and Noetherian domains thus arise all the time in algebraic geometry.
To a certain extent, though (as is more-or-less pointed out in the comments above), the theory of Noetherian domains is the intersection of the theory of Noetherian rings and the theory of domains, i.e. there is not so much more that the general theory says in the case of Noetherian domains specifically that is not a consequence of immediately combining the general theory of Noetherian rings with the assumption that the ring is a domain. So in a commutative algebra book the set of theorems that specifically address Noetherian domains will probably be fairly sparse.
Here is an example of one, though: if $A$ is a Noetherian domain, and $I$ is a non-unit ideal of $A$, then $\cap_{n \geq 0} I^n = 0$, a form of the Krull intersection theorem which is valid in a Noetherian domain.
Another point in the general theory where the domain condition arises naturally is in the theory of normal (= integrally closed) rings. A Noetherian ring is defined to be normal if it is a product of finitely many integrally closed domains, and so in the theory of normal Noetherian rings, one frequently reduces to the case of an integrally closed Noetherian domain.
The integral domains are certainly a very nice subclass of the class of all commutative rings. Many classical examples and constructions give rise to domains. One explanation for this is that the theory of commutative rings arose, in part, as a generalization of the theory of fields, and the subrings of fields are precisely the integral domains. Other historically important examples include rings of algebraic or analytic functions, and the necessary and sufficient conditions for these rings to be domains are natural enough to be encountered earlier in the theory of the subject. For instance, the ring of holomorphic functions on an open subset $U \subset \mathbb{C}$ is a domain iff $U$ is what is itself often called a domain in complex function theory: namely, a connected open set.
As for the specific examples of your question: there are some parts of commutative algebra where restricting to domains brings essential simplifications and there are other parts where it doesn't seem to help at all. One of the examples of the latter is ideal theory: the condition that the ideals of a ring be finitely generated is a very natural one. One sign of the naturality is that it is inherited by all quotient rings, not just quotients by prime ideals. (Note though that M. Emerton in his answer has given an example of a result which is particular to Noetherian domains.) In fact there is a theorem that a ring is Noetherian iff all of its prime ideals are finitely generated: this result seems to be inviting us to consider the class of all Noetherian rings rather than just Noetherian domains.
In contrast, the theory of factorization becomes significantly more complicated in (commutative!) rings that are not domains. It is telling that you speak of "Dedekind rings", but in fact in all my experience the term "Dedekind ring" is synonymous with "Dedekind domain": i.e., the concept is only defined for domains. The class of Dedekind domains is amazingly natural in that there are on the order of $100$ nice characterizations of Dedekind domains among all integral domains. If you look at all these conditions on the class of all commutative rings, then they fail to become equivalent, and the graph of implications between them has been the subject of much research by specialists in this area.
I am definitely not an expert on ideal theory in rings which are not domains, so I'm not sure to what extent the research here has converged to standard extensions of the definitions of the usual classes of domains to the case of arbitrary commutative rings. For instance, it seems that it is by now agreed upon that a Prufer ring is a ring in which every finitely generated regular ideal is invertible: see for instance the last chapter of Larsen and McCarty's Multiplicative Ideal Theory. On the other hand, the theory of Prufer rings is definitely more complicated than that of Prufer domains: for instance a local domain is a Prufer ring iff it is a valuation ring, but this does not hold for non-domains.
If I were to take a guess at the "right" definition of a Dedekind non-domain, I guess it would have to be a Noetherian Prufer ring. But I have never seen this definition used for anything. In particular, perhaps it is telling that the standard definition of a Dedekind scheme is a scheme which is integral, normal, Noetherian and of dimension one, so that an affine Dedekind scheme is precisely the spectrum of a Dedekind domain.
As regards principal rings, recall the following theorem of Zariski-Samuel (a proof can be found in the section on principal rings of these notes): any principal ring is a finite direct product of rings $R_i$, each of which is either a PID or a local Artinian principal ring. In particular, if you want a principal ring to be nonsingular in the sense of scheme theory, then it must simply be a finite product of PIDs. Presumably something similar holds for Dedekind non-domains?
As a sort of afterthought, the following result seems important in the role that integral domains play in arithmetic geometry: a regular local ring is necessarily an integral domain.
Let me offer a somewhat elementary version of what others have written. PID and Dedekind domains were studied because people were interested in factorization properties. In non-domains factorization behaves very badly ($0$ can be factored non-trivially, and that is bad).
To be more precise: the unique factorization property means that for non-zero elements $a,b,c,d$, $ab=cd$ forces $a=c, b=d$ up to units and reordering. In a domain, at least a special case is true: $ab=ac$ implies $b=c$. Without this, it will be very hard to solve equations. That's why (I think) domains are usually assumed.
As for your second question: when study Noetherian rings in general, we simply can't afford to remain in the domain world. Many important classes of rings commutative algebraists think about on a daily basis are naturally not domains: Artinian rings, complete intersections, Cohen-Macaulay, etc.
An example to illustrate my point: the local Grothendieck-Lefschetz theorem says that if $R=S/(f)$ is a local hypersurface which is locally regular in codimension $3$, then $R$ is a UFD! The only proof I know, which was presented very nicely in EGA, uses the Picard groups of the punctured spectra of the rings $R_i = S/(f^i)$. So, in order to study the UFD property of a hypersurface domain, one is forced to introduce non-domains. I hope this example will be as convincing to you as it was to me.
Let me add a somewhat naive and incomplete thought (as opposed to the nice detailed answers of Emerton and Pete).
PIDs and Dedekind domains, even without the domain part are much more specific than Noetherian rings or even domains. The difference is very clear geometrically: The former correspond to smooth curves (or regular $1$-dimensional schemes if you like) while the latter to general noetherian schemes (or reduced irreducible schemes if you add domain).
So, I would argue that when you study something (so) special as curves, it is natural to devote a large amount of your efforts to smooth curves. In contrast, if you are already studying general schemes, then there are advantages to not restrict to reduced and irreducible ones (see some of the comments, especially by BCnrd to Pete's answer). In addition, we obviously also want to study singular curves, even non-reduced ones. However, those are better covered by studying noetherian rings than any PI or Dedekind non-domains you may be able to cook up.


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Based on land-based pole exercises, aqua pole dance is a popular option at Ashbridge Manor in Downingtown, PA. Ashbridge is one of only two locations that offers the classes. Founded by Monica Spagnuolo, the program is oriented around a variety of fast moving workout moves. It works the shoulders, abdominals, legs and butt in up to 150 different combinations. Proponents say it improves flexibility, posture, and coordination. And it acts as great physical therapy for arthritis and injuries.
"It's completely different from pole fitness at the studio," explains Trevin Green, who runs the program at the Theresa Banks Memorial Aquatic Center, the other U.S. location that holds aqua pole fitness classes. "It's more upper body and core training because you have the water to give you the buoyancy you need." Which is why it makes it a great option for older or injured populations. Though hopefully, says Green, the fitness trend will spread. We certainly want to give it a go. [USA Today]
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The theme "Engaging National Security Policy and Challenges: Military and Civilian Perspectives" will be at the forefront of two panel discussions at the 2012 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower National Security Series: College Program to be held at Auburn Montgomery, April 2-4, 2012. This annual program is coordinated by Dr. Kalu N. Kalu of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration.
The Eisenhower Series College Program is an academic outreach program established by the Department of the Army to encourage dialogue on national security and other public policy issues between personnel and students of the U. S. Army War College and the civilian public, with emphasis on students and faculty at academic institutions throughout the United States.
The program provides a broad and unique series of fora to discuss and debate contemporary and future national security issues; examines and advances ways to focus the instruments of national power more effectively; and broadens the experience of mid-level and senior Army leaders through exposure to diverse issues, institutions, and perspectives. Ultimately, both the officers and the public benefit from an open, honest and frank exchange on significant issues of national and international concern.
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French Broad River. Canoeing, fishing (2 miles south)
Bent Creek area- Large trout fishing creek (stocked weekly in spring) (4 miles south)
Pisgah National Forest. Famous for extensive mountain biking and hiking trails (200 miles) (4 miles south)
New Asheville Outlets (1 mile)
Dining restaurants (1 mile)
Blue Ridge Parkway (2 miles south)
Large "Ingles" supermarket (2 miles west)
Biltmore Estate - (7 miles north)
Grove Park Inn Resort and Spa - (12 miles north)
Downtown Asheville - (8 miles north)
Asheville Historic Trolley Tours
Carolina Nights Dinner Show (23 miles from Asheville)
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site (27 miles from Asheville)
Chimney Rock Park (25 miles from Asheville)Craft Heritage Trails of Western North CarolinaGrandfather Mountain (75 miles from Asheville)Great Smoky Mountains Railroad (50 miles from Asheville)
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