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October 7, 2011
The New York Institute for the Humanities (NYIH) at New York University will host "Eichmann & Drones," an evening that will include U.S. premiere screenings of "Nacht und Nebel," ("Night and Fog") by Dani Gal, and "5,000 Feet is the Best," by Omer Fast, followed by a discussion on art and politics with the two artists, writers Lawrence Weschler and Maggie Nelson, filmmaker Errol Morris, and two leading human rights figures, on Saturday, October 29, 6 p.m. at the NYU School of Law, Vanderbilt Hall (Tishman Auditorium), 40 Washington Square South (between MacDougal and Sullivan Streets).
The event is free and open to the public. Call 212.998.2101 for more information. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis. Subways: A, C, E, D, F, M (West 4th Street).
"Nacht und Nebel," by Dani Gal, focuses on the disposition of Adolf Eichmann's cremated remains by a group of Israeli soldiers following his 1962 execution. "5,000 Feet is the Best," by Omer Fast, centers on U.S. military pilots based in Las Vegas directing lethal robotic drones half way around the world and the nervous breakdowns to which they have been succumbing. Both filmmakers reside in Berlin and their works have been critically acclaimed at the current Venice Biennale.
After the screenings—each film runs approximately 25 minutes—the filmmakers will join NYIH director Lawrence Weschler for a short conversation on their works. This will be followed by a roundtable discussion on issues raised by both films—everything from the legality of drone attacks and the possible culpability of distant pilots acting under military orders, to the ethics and aesthetics of the representation of death, killing, and the otherwise unthinkable. Panelists include: NYU School of Law Professor Philip Alston, co-director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and former UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions; documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, whose credits include "Mr. Death," "Fog of War," and "Standard Operating Procedure"; Aryeh Neier, a founder and former executive director of Human Rights Watch and currently president of the Open Society Foundations; and CalArts Professor Maggie Nelson, author of Bluets, Jane: A Murder, and The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning.
For all press inquiries, please contact the NYIH's Stephanie Steiker at firstname.lastname@example.com or 212.998.2101. For further information, a complete list of speakers, and schedule updates, click here.
The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University was established in 1976 for promoting the exchange of ideas between academics, professionals, politicians, diplomats, writers, journalists, musicians, painters, and other artists in New York City--and between all of them and the city. It currently comprises over 220 fellows. Throughout the year, the NYIH organizes numerous public events, including conferences, symposia, readings, and performances. For further information, please click here or contact firstname.lastname@example.com or 212.998.2101.
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In the registration form for a website, what is the best way to prevent the user from continuing until all the required fields are filled in? For example should the "submit" button be grayed out until the username, password etc. be filled in? By the way, beside the field where the user chooses a password, as they type it indicates the acceptance: "too short" "good", "passwords don't match" etc. (I know some are against making the user confirm their password but I've made my mind on this).
Although I actually support the idea of disabling the submit button until the form is 'submittable', that behaviour in itself does not indicate the field(s) with issues.
The asterisk is a good indicator on which fields are required, but does not tell if a field is in error, nor the kind of error.
So, in short:
I'm a fan of putting a red asterisk next to required fields, with a popup explanation when the asterisk is hovered.
Outlining fields in red if a user focuses and then blurs from that field without entering a valid entry is also useful.
Greying out the submit button would confuse the user in my opinion. Follow the standards and make it easy for the user. Just a small asterisk next to required fields or an outline is enough to let the user know these are required fields. A good design pattern is to provide instant feedback as soon as the user fills out a field:
If you have both required and optional fields, it must be obvious to the user which ones are what.
A simple tag or badge with "required" or "req" would probably do the trick. Beth's suggestion of an asterisk would work as well, though it's more subtle.
You could also make the required field's stroke a different color as well. Perhaps, put an exclamation point icon next to the field?
Whatever you decide to do, it should be consistent and feedback should be provided immediately if the user has made a mistake without submitting first.
I wouldn't gray out the submit button unless you have these indicators in place. Otherwise, the user wouldn't know what fields are required.

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text: Doesn't every movie have to have a villain? Well in Epic's case the bad guy is this blue faced fella you see before you now. Up next, we will learn "how to draw Mandrake", step by step. Now, Mandrake is one cool looking dude. I love his face, his hunched over body style, and the fact that he is blue makes everything that much better. I really love the way that Mandrake came out, and if you are still not familiar with what Epic is, you have to watch the trailer. Epic is going to be a film that will make everyone think twice about whats living in our own backyards. Drawing Mandrake is going to be cool, and the lesson will also be a learning challenge. I have to bounce out of here because there is still more to upload. Be back soon folks, enjoy.


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I'm looking for hints about secure linux desktops. Securing servers is no problem. Most recent Software Updates, run only the services required etc. But what about desktops? I'm thinking about details like Noscript for Firefox. ASLR, PIE and similar are enabled in Ubuntu https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features by default. What should I change additionally? Are there any distributions focusing security?
I recommend the following steps, in rough order of priority:
First let me say, I'm not a security expert by any means. While you ask about securing linux desktops, I take your question to mean "how do I implement overall security using free unixes as a person who does personal computing as opposed to web serving." So I thought I would gather my thoughts on the subject and see what other people have to say about it. I share this in the spirit of helping people not to have to rediscover the whole process from scratch. I won't give howto tutorials--many are on the web and this is already incredibly long. This is meant to be a starting point for searching the web.
Security is a process and also a system that needs several computers to implement effectively. For example, it's not enough to configure your computers properly. You also have to read logs and respond to alerts. For the best possible security, one must also make some commonsense behavioral changes in the way one uses a computer. Some operating systems are better suited to certain aspects of security than others. Since they are free, it costs nothing except your time to use all of them.
The first part of this process is figuring out what you are protecting your computers from. For example, if you live in a high crime neighborhood, you might want to lock them in a securely locked safe anchored to the building. I assume though that you want all the normal forms of general security available when doing things with a computer that can be implemented either in software, computer hardware or with behaviors towards software and hardware.
Also, I'm not sure how big your setup is. Many of my recommendations are things that get used all the time by businesses but there's no reason in the world why an individual couldn't and shouldn't also use them at home. If any of these things were done by a business they would be praised for doing due diligence, following regulatory standards, implementing best-in-breed practices and whatever other buzzwords are current.
Network Security
The most important tip I have for network security is to isolate computers containing sensitive data from the internet. Most people have more than one computer. Use one of them exclusively offline. You can get updates and software for any debian/ubuntu-based distribution using utilities like apt-offline.
If you have one or more computers not exposed to the internet, it makes it much more difficult to hack them. Theoretically you could still download binaries or documents from the internet that could gather information about this unconnected computer that could then relay the information back on a corrupted USB flash drive. Some people try to get around this by only mounting their flash drives in a virtual machine running on their offline computers. You can also reformat the flash drive before bringing it back to computers exposed to the internet. This still leaves a remote risk of trojaned flash drive bios. I think buying a drive that you can flip a switch on the side to make it read only would prevent your drive from gathering information from the non-connected computer. If I'm not mistaken, Ridata sells such drives. Most SD cards have them too but you'll need to find an adapter that enforces the read-only switch in hardware.
Tip 1: Have a computer that you use only offline.
Tip 2: View/check material gotten from the internet in a VM.
Tip 3: Scrub your flashdrive, or whatever kind of storage you are using to transfer data between computers before it goes back to a computer connected to the internet.
Tip 4: Better yet than tip 3, use USB drives with read-only switches.
OpenBSD does manage to do some things right. For example, they make it relatively simple to set up a bridging firewall, an ipsec VPN, run a virtual honeynet, or make a wireless access point with
Here is some config to get started with
That's it, you have a bridge. Then you edit
There's much more you can do with pf, and it's described in the man page for pf, the pf faq, and the Book of PF.
Tip 5: For a firewall invisible to attackers, use a bridging firewall with OpenBSD/pf.
Tip 6: If the box has enough power, you can/should also have at least two NIDSes like snort or bro on this box.
You'll need to hand apply new signatures at least weekly.
Many people will buy a separate low powered computer for this purpose like an Alix or a Soekris because of their low power consumption. You can find them used online at various websites like ebay too. You could also use just about any old computer with 32mb of ram or more, and 486 or better processor (which is all some Soekrii have). Whether you should buy a separate computer or use an old one depends on how much electricity you will save and how much electricity costs where you live.
Another indispensible security product from the OpenBSD crowd (not forgetting SSH of course!) is a computer running a
Tip 7: have a computer running a virtual honeynet with
Tip 8: tee logs off to a dot-matrix line printer, and if you have yet another spare computer lying around, a separate computer whose sole purpose is to collect logs from network computers on a UDP port.
rsyslog can configured to do this.
There's a lot more you can do with network security, but the main ones are to do what you can offline, use a firewall, use at least two NIDS, use honeynets, and be vigilant in monitoring and responding to attacks. In general though, I recommend you keep your setup as simple as possible depending on how interested you are in doing things like reviewing logs and the value of what you are trying to protect.
Data Security
Securing data means many things such as protecting it from corruption and from being lost, to making sure it's securely erased or that only certain people can access it. (The CIA triad in information security.)
Whole disk encryption is something that everyone should be using at a minimum. It's offered now everything time you install a debian based linux, and can be set up in BSDs too with a little more effort. For example, look at
Tip 1: use whole disk encryption
Offsite storage is also recommended. I recommend using a computer with some hot swappable or external drives, at least for all files containing documents and files you create yourself. Then regularly rotating these drives through bank safe deposit boxes or friend's homes. Then if your harddrives do get stolen, you haven't lost any data/writings/family photos etc. I DO NOT recommend cloud storage!
Tip 2: Store copies of data offsite
For preventing corruption of data due to device failure and age there is a fairly standard set of processes like using multiple copies on mulitple media and types of media, (allows for restoration with utilities like ddrescue), checksumming the data, then checksumming the checksums (the BSD utility mtree is a great tool for this), migrating the data every few years to new media, checking media every year or so for corruption problems, and storing media properly.
For example, let's consider optical media. For your important documents and multimedia, these should be burned at low speed on archival grade gold media (for example MAM-A, JVC, or Verbatim gold archival media) in a single session. The cd burning program should then verify them. Then you should go through and manually verify they were burned correctly. Nothing should be written on them with markers. They should be placed into a non-transparent jewel case holding them only by the outer edges. The jewel cases can then have labels attached to them. Then they should be stored upright not stacked on top of each other in a dark place with constant temperature somewhere between 40-60 degrees F with low relative humidity. This is the gist of the NIST guidelines at least.
Tip 3: Make multiple copies
Tip 4: Test them initially and periodically using checksum tools
Tip 5: Follow guidelines for proper storage and handling of media
Tip 6: Migrate data as new media become available
ZFS can be used to do a lot of this and easily, however ZFS is still somewhat experimental and future versions are not guaranteed to be backwards compatible with previous ones. Thus, I recommend running a distribution like Open Indiana when the first stable release is released, and using it for backup, mirroring, taking snapshots and exporting/importing pools.
Tip 7: use ZFS for backups/mirrors as opposed to original archives
Another issue in data security is verifying its origin for data and binaries you haven't produced yourself. If a trusted friend hands you a flash drive with a program she says she wrote, then there is no problem. However, if this friend has you go to her website to get it you will probably use the public key infrastructure (PKI) to verify it. Then you should have gotten her public key, and she should have signed it in your presence. Often, the end person offering the software or source code is someone you don't even know. In that case, it helps if more people get together to exchange public keys and sign each other's keys. You might not trust these people as much as your friend, but at least you will be able to verify the origin of their data, if only through a chain of key signatures.
In many cases, you won't have any friends of friends who have developed something you want to download. In that case you'll have to download untrusted signature files. A possible way to mitigate rogue signature files is to download the same file using several proxies and then compare them.
tip 8: use the PKI and tools like gpg to verify the origin of what you download
tip 9: Verify checksums of files you download when checksums are provided
tip 10: Whenever you meet someone exchange and sign keys if you haven't already
For secure deletion, you need to have a non-journaling filesystem like EXT2 (not EXT3 and EXT4) to use utilities like shred effectively.
For whole disk erasure, you can use HDDerase which implements the native erase built into modern harddrives, followed by the DBAN utility.
tip 11: use available utilities like
Finally, for files and photos that you want to be sure to preserve, keep hardcopies on acid-free paper. Hardcopies when well preserved should outlast any digital media by at least a century.
tip 12: make hardcopies
Program Security
Programs usually have bugs. In addition the program or protocol architecture itself can be a source of security exploits. For example, most graphical web browsers and programs from adobe or microsoft (since they are so widely used, not because they are significantly worse than any others) are an inexhaustable source of bugs and security exploits.
Furthermore, you can harden your operating system until it's as hard as you want with all available tools, audit the source code until you die, verify the source with proof checkers etc. but the web browser itself by becoming compromised could still compromise you even if it doesn't compromise your operating system.
Even so it's worth taking a few minutes to harden the operating system. Again, OpenBSD makes it easy by providing most security features like correct permissions by default.
Tip 1: Take a few minutes to harden your OS.
Here are my suggestions for OpenBSD. Some of them probably also apply to other BSDs and linux, like points f.) and g.) for example.
a.) Write a decent
b.) change
c.) turn off ttys/gettys. If you're the only one using your computer, you only need one and you shouldn't be logging in as root. So remove the word "secure" from
d.) use TCP Wrappers (
e.) use
f.) deny root login and port forwarding/X11 forwarding in
g.) in
h.) be very specific about commands allowed to users in
i.) follow "stable". Get alerted whenever a new patch comes out and patch your system immediately. I recommend building everything on separate machine or a separate partition on that machine so you don't have to install comp.tgz on production machines. Alternatively, sometimes it's easier to just reinstall from the snapshot branch and merge your config files. In addition snapshots let you run the latest versions of software if you decide to deviate from the default install. On the other hand, sometimes the snapshot branch breaks some software outside of the default install and tracking down the problems can be an even bigger pain than recompiling userland. When you (re)compile one trick is to mount /usr/obj in a memory file system (MFS) if you have the ram in order to speed things up (just remember never to reboot until you're all done making your new distribution). Also when you recompile, you can disable loadable kernel modules (LKM) in the kernel config--just a pet peeve of mine.
k.) If you do use Xwindows, use
Although most passwords can be cracked, it helps if they are longer and have high bit entropy per character. You can get passwords with relatively high entropy from
Tip 2: Use long passwords (>25 characters) with high per bit entropy
Flash and enhanced PDF files are huge security issues. Many flash files can be downloaded directly using
tip 3: Use a text based browser where possible
tip 4: use wget and flash downloaders to get pages where you want to see images and open and view them in a VM.
tip 5: for everything else, use the noscript plugin with firefox.
Of course if you want to spend hours and hours, you can play with RBAC/MAC, Jails, and ACLs with stuff like SELinux, GRsecurity, and other FreeBSD equivalents. Always there is the tradeoff between security and usability. Ultimately you or your users need to make an assessment of how much security to trade off and how much time you are going to spend fine-tuning while trying not to lock yourself out of your own system.
Internet privacy and anonymity
Even TOR claims not to be able to give you much of it, and that it is just experimental. Given that, I have some tips for relative privacy/anonymity.
tip 1: Use https://startpage.com or https://startingpage.com
Once you've found the site you want to read, use their ixquick proxy service by following the "proxy this" link below the entry. This works for viewing all webpages except ones with certain active content.
tip 2: tunnel your DNS requests through HTTPS
You'll need to install
socat and
stunnel. If you do use this service then you can close off
port domain in
/etc/pf.conf for outgoing requests.
tip 3: Liberte linux
tip 4: use http://furk.net/ to fetch/proxy torrents and serve them to you over https
tip 5: encrypt your email
Even more importantly, don't open spam email, and for goodness sake don't run
tip 6: Actually examine the certificates at https websites
tip 7: If you must use social networking, use diaspora
tip 8: Don't use public email servers/services whenever possible.
This prevents the problem of having untrusted third parties data mining and selling your private communications on their mail servers, or even having access to your encrypted files if you use encrypted email
tip 9: Don't use 3g/4g internet and keep your cell phone battery out of your cellphone except when you are talking on it or expecting a call.
tip 10: randomize your MAC address at public wifi hotspots.
tip 11: use the Tor browser bundle.
It's probably the best known way to outwit browser profiling as explained on panopticlick.eff.org. Note from that site that using lynx or any other text based browser can be used to uniquely identify you.
Are you paranoid enough? If yes, try http://qubes-os.org/Home.html It's a very interesting project, still in beta though, developed by Joanna Rutkowska and her team. It uses virtual machines to enforce isolation between user gui applications, and many other nice tricks. It's solely focused on being a secure environment for desktop computing.
If you don't want to go there, there are distribution focused on security.
I could make a list, but Wikipedia has a nice summary already: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-focused_operating_system
The problem I think we're all having is saying which is a threat that you are concerned about. Someone that surfs all day long and goes to less than safe websites has a higher risk of being attacked than a grandmother trying to check email. But the grandmother has a higher risk because she can't tell the difference between real emails and phishing attacks.
Also something to consider is the tradeoff with usability. I'd say that running lynx is inherently more secure than running Firefox just because there are less features to exploit with a text based browser than a full featured browser.
For Privacy Paranoia: I really like the Tor Live CD's for the uber paranoid. https://tails.boum.org It's allows a user to create a user session, do their work, and then reboot and wipe all proof that it happened. Privacy and Security are two different games but some of the same precautions overlap.
Overall Security: BSD is intensely secure but I think it's pretty tough to pick up out of the box.
In my opinion, an up to date, actively maintained, well developed distribution like Ubuntu or Centos keeps a balance between security and usability but still gives you the control of the environment to lock it down to the threats that are specific to your environment.
That's a tough problem, with significant differences from the server space in terms of threats, attack surface, and vulnerabilities.
The "easy" part is to start with Hardening Linux Server which also has some links relevant to the desktop.
But then you run into the insecurity of both the older and newer windowing systems:
And of course the range of applications that users want is so vast that hardening them all, and the associated hardware, desktop buses,formats etc. is a big task.
Google Chrome attempts to sandbox away lots of dangerous browser issues. Chrome OS expands the approach to the whole desktop.
This is a bit old, but it's a good place to start: http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/towards-a-moderately-paranoid-debian-laptop-setup--part-1-base-system
For Firefox, DEFINITELY enable NoScript and RequestPolicy, and set up a proper AppArmor profile.
OpenBSD might be of interest as well - it's highly focused on security (but not actually "Linux").


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National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
The mission of NEDAwareness Week
The aim of NEDAwareness Week is to ultimately prevent eating disorders and body image issues while reducing the stigma surrounding eating disorders and improving access to treatment. Eating disorders are serious, life-threatening illnesses — not choices — and it's important to recognize the pressures, attitudes and behaviors that shape the disorder.
NEDAwareness Week is a collective effort of primarily volunteers, eating disorder professionals, health care providers, educators, social workers, and individuals committed to raising awareness of the dangers surrounding eating disorders and the need for early intervention and treatment.
How NEDAwareness Week Works
This year, NEDA is calling for everyone to do just one thing to help raise awareness and provide accurate information about eating disorders. NEDAwareness Week participants can choose from a huge range of ways to contribute: Distribute info pamphlets and put up posters, write one letter for Media Watchdogs, register as a Volunteer Speaker or host a Volunteer Speaker, coordinate a NEDA Walk, or arrange interactive and educational activities such as panel discussions, fashion shows, body fairs, movie screenings, art exhibits and more. As an official NEDAwareness Week participant you can be involved in any way that works with your schedule, resources, community, and interests. These events and activities attract public media attention - on local, national and international levels.


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borgom wrote:Yes it's stage 3 for me too i'm afraid. The comment about closets full of bottles gave me a chuckle.
Ganga wrote:Very much agree with you on the "not mutually exclusive". I know of at least one person who does both.
Ryguy wrote:I actually read your blog the other day Jeff, very nice. I keep tabs through Facebook on your posts, and I enjoy reading them.
After reading it, I'm definitely at Stage 3, and probably quickly approaching Stage 4.
borgom wrote:OK so who voted for 5? Time to own up! C57 or Jazz i'd wager.
borgom wrote:OK so who voted for 5? Time to own up! C57 or Jazz i'd wager.
Wub wrote:I voted enthusiasm (of the connoisseur variety), but perhaps I am a fanatic without the financial resources to express my true nature.
I aspire to be a fanatic.
ClubSmed wrote:I think I am in mid stage 3, though have ambition of reaching 5!


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I was discussing this with some coworkers, they would like a wiki, but are turned off by the need to constantly [browse] and [upload] files.
They like the functionality of Lotus Notes that they can copy & paste screenshots (or crops etc) directly into Notes databases / libraries. But they are not fans of Lotus notes behond that (performance, etc,)
Anyone work with a free (open source hopefully) wiki of documenting application that just allows copy & paste of text & image content?
Would be great to have one internally installed that we could use for documentation without constantly uploading/attaching files.
Not sure if I am asking for functionality that is not available in a browser.


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(January 30, 2013) -- The McLennan Highlanders defeated the Wharton Pioneers 11-7 today in Wharton in the season opener.
Conner Camacho picked up the win on the mound. Kyle Thornell led the Highlanders at the plate, going 3-4 with a triple, home run and four RBIs. Zach Valenzuela was 3-5 with a solo home run. Matt Hillston was 2-3 with two doubles and 3 RBIs, and Evan Williams was 2-4 with two RBIs.
MCC will host Howard for a doubleheader at noon on Saturday.
The Highlassies opened the 2013 softball season with a two-game sweep of the San Jacinto Coyotes at Bosque River Ballpark.
Laura Wilson picked up the 4-2 win in game one. Taylor Davis led the Highlassies at the plate, going 2-4 with a double and two RBIs. Kady Crow was 2-3 with two RBIs.
The Highlassies defeated the Coyotes 3-2 in the night cap with Veronica Garcia picking up the win. Davis was 2-3. Courtney Mica and Natali Duron both recorded RBIs.
MCC will compete in the Galveston Tournament on Friday and Saturday.


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Excellent 1st season, you should be alright at the next level as there isn't too much difference. Don't worry about the link with Grimsby, you'll be above them soon
Excellent 1st season, you should be alright at the next level as there isn't too much difference. Don't worry about the link with Grimsby, you'll be above them soon
Another fine season with Methyr town (did they used to be Merthyr Tydfil?) How do you think you will fare in your Blue Square Prem Season. Also how do you do the "code" thing at the bottom of your update posts?
If I remember right, would that be around 2001/02 season as I clearly remember watching Man City vs Grismby.
Thats right, they used to be Merthyr Tydfil, with what I have seen so far, I should be at least challenging for the title.
it is [code][/code ] (don't leave a space between the e and the ], I was just using it to show you.) Your text would go in the middle, use notepad to get everything straight before copying and pasting it in the middle.
Great progress B.W.G & a great first season Wes
Finally decided to buy FM11 and I'm going to give this ago.Just waiting for the patch to download.
I'm done in Brazil so it's time to start this. Introducing the new manager of Sun Postal Sports who play at Level 10 of the English system in the Molten Spartan South Midlands Football League Division One.
Welcom to the challenge daemonic.....I expect another run of titles for this seasons challenge
Good Luck with the challenge daemonic, just had a FA Cup Run to the 1st round (level 9 atm)
B.W.G - Merthyr Town - Blue Square Premier (Level 5) - 2015/16
Transfers - I got what I needed and was hopeful I could make a challenge on at least the playoffs. Ray Burns was my pick of the transfers as he is dubbbed the new Michael Owen although he is alot less injury prone!!
Blue Square Prem - Table - Well that was easier then expected, I thought that recently relegated Crawley Town and Kettering would at least provide some type of challenge but no. The thing with this season was that the games were even but we managed to convert alot more chances than the opposition. Biggest win was 7-2 against Corby Town.
FA Cup - 5th Round - Thats right we made the 5th round!!! We beat Ebsfleet (BSP) 1-0 in the 1st round, 5-1 against Nottingham Forest (L1) in the 2nd round, 6-1 against Wycombe (L2) in the 3rd round and Brentford 2-0 in the 4th round so it was a easy route to the 5th. We had no chance against Villa though as they dominated for long spells and did actually put the ball in the net 5 times but thank god for the offside rule to make it look more respectable. This however was Villas 1st team so I can't really complain except for the tie not being at Villa Park.
FA Trophy - Winners - How we didn't put the ball in the net is beyond me as we practically dominated the entire game. Lucky enough we managed to keep our nerve in the penalty shoot out. With this victory it made it 4 FA Trophys in a row!!.
I won Manager of the Year for the 1st time in a few seasons and well deserved it was.
Loanee Ray Burns was top scorer hitting 36 goals in 49 apps. He was Top Scorer in the Blue Square Prem and won Player of the Season.
Pat Ulor topped the assist chart with 24.
Centre back Jose Quintas won Fans Player of the Year. He deserves an award as he is always one of the most consistent performers I've ever had. The fact he heas the potential to play in the premiership shows that I need to keep him at all costs as well.
For this season, the new chairman wants us to avoid relegation, reach the 2nd round of the FA Cup and just learn from the experience in the league cup and the JPT Trophy.
With the amount I will be spending on wages this season, I will be aiming for promotion, good runs in the FA Cup and league cup and I recokon I could reach the quarter finals in the JPT if the draw is kind. I have decided this as I will be maxing out a 2,000 capacity stadium so I will need other ways to cover wages and I need to aim higher to try and help income if I can get promoted.
I hope the new signings come good as they are all have the potential to play in the premiership which took ages to scout through!!.
The Exiles 2015/16
The exiles are the Welsh Clubs who turned down the chance to play in the League of Wales and opted to keep playing in the English leagues. I thought I would keep track of how they perform to see what the future holds for the Welsh team, I will include Merthyr Town in this list as well.
1 - Cardiff - Finished 19th in the Premiership
2 - Swansea - Finished 19th in League 1
3 - Merthyr Town - Finished 1st in Blue Square Premier.
4 - Newport County - Finished 5th in Blue Square South (Promoted via Playoffs)
5 - Colwyn Bay - Finished 13th in Blue Square North
6 - Wrexham - Finsihed 19th in Blue Square North
The other exiles other then us and Newport had disappointing seasons although Cardiff would have gained quite a considerable amount of money from playing which hopefully can go towards facilities to help the national team.
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I have no staying power at all Fed up with players in reserves of clubs below the conference having no interest in joining us at Bedford in League 2 so I'm going to start again in level 11. Annoyed me that they didn't even make us pro in the BSP either.
Unluck TAoD,hope you can find a club that suits your needs. It also sounds like that your board were unambitious as well.
Thanks B.W.G, I am just very impatient it seems. Wonder how long I'll last until I realise running all the way down to level 11 makes the game far too slow
I'll give it a go though, think my plans for dominations with my 1st and reserve team was far too ambitious. Still enjoying reading the great progress you're making.
Thanks I personally think you should takeover A.F.C. Blackpool in the Vodkat League Division 1. They seem to have been pretty successful on my save as they have made their way up to Evo-Stik league 1st division north (level 8). Also you could try and make it so there are 2 successful teams in Blackpool
Well you know what they say...Great minds think alike
Another great Season BWG, unbeaten too very impressive.
Looks like you need an expansion/new stadium! Quintas looks a bit special.
Unfortunately, my new board seem more fond of facilites, they have given in to training facilities, youth facilities and are in the planning stage of youth academy. When I asked about the stadium, they said they felt they didn't have a big enough fanbase to warrant a new stadium.
Quintas is very special. He has the potential to be a good premiership player, he is also the best in my squad! The new season has seen me just buy players with premiership potential so I will not be signing except for squad players who will be backup or rotation, the only position I am looking to improve is my AMR position. So the next few seasons will see very little transfer activity hopefully.
I asked for training ground improvement they said no, so i coaxed them in with the "rivals" comment and they said yes. Just finished my second season won Level 9, update will follow!
That's a ambitious step premiership potential only! Good luck non the less, if your on large database search for Cristian Tiboni, on a previous save with Grimsby town he fired me into the premiership!
Wes_Coulam - Grimsby Borough - Kool Sport Northern Counties East Premier Division - (2011-12) - Level 9
Transfers - Didn't really bring any good players at the beginning mostly squad players but the early signing of Ashman was nice! Later on in the season i got my new goalie Gilpin (Ex doncaster 4 years ago that is) & Micah Evans who is playing nicely (ex blackburn)
Kool Sport Northern Counties Premier Division - Table - Was complete domination for the second year running the standard wasn't much difference won the league with 8 games to go had lost 1 game up to then just started playing some squad players make them happy for the following year. Gifton ran riot again.
Fa Cup - 1st Round - Was very happy with this years cup run to get to the first round real, Farnbourough although higher in the league than me wasn't the better team and we was very unlucky to lose!
Fa Vase - 3rd Round - We dominated this game 4 CCC to their 0 and somehow came away with a loss, was dissapointed i fancied us an outside bet for the Vase.
Key Players
Gifton Noel-Williams - Another Amazing Year From My Experienced Striker, he was fans player of the year for a second year in a row, League top goalscorer, League player of the season, a pure clean sweep his immense.
Micah Evans - Joined late in the season but he's quite quick , low finishing but at this level he will do the job!
Antony Ashman - My new solid centre back and at 6"4 and 15 jumping at this standard he's a menace at the back post as he showed with 10 goals!
Another good year securing promotion to Level 8, very happy with Noel-Williams only thing is im worried about who is going to replace my star striker he's 32 new year we have a good relationship he's just singed a 3 year contract to see out his career with me! Also good old Darren Barnard is retiring at the end of they year, one last year for the Borough! at the tender age of 40. League was quite easy the standard didn't change, i was very dissapointed with Fa Vase , Fa cup we was lucky but aslong as we rise through the league's that's my main focus.
We're still Semi-Pro we had 300k in the bank and i was strangely hoping the board might fancy going pro but at level 8 its probably too early for that! The board agreed to upgrade the training facilities which should help us out! They also gave me 40k to spend and a wage budget of 2.3k a week so ill see what else we can pick up. As for the league the board expect mid table and so do the media although they gave me 5-4 odds about 4th best, Fa cup 4th qual round, fa trophy second qual round, Northern League presidents cup & northern league challenge cup the board don't count as important (going up in the world) so that will be nice for the squad players. Random future i feel close to Noel-Williams (ON FM that is) so i want him to retire at the club a legend (hopefully) then take him as a coach.
Another excellent season Wes, don't expect level 8 to be any harder then you have previously done.
I'm afraid Tiboni isn't on my save even though I have a large database.
Has anyone else been allowed to scout the World? I'm in level 8 (3rd Season) I asked the board to expand scouting they said no persuaded them to say yes, they had already "upped" it once in the first season they have done it again now in the 3rd season and i can now scout the whole world @ Level 8! (Seems Bizzarre) Good for me though
Thats a shame BWG he was a star for me and a coup at 2k.
Last edited by Wes_Coulam; 07-01-2011 at 13:09. Reason: bwg response
Bloody hell!!! I can only scout the continent as my board won't let me go any further afield and I'm in season 7!!!
Hopefully though at the end of the season (in March, so not long to go!!) they will let me go around the world.
EDIT: Just found something out, on the boardroom if you hover over a greyed out request it will tell you why its greyed out.
As you can see it says board request to build a new stadium (We pay £500 a year in rent) is greyed out, as you can see,it is being actioned but if you look at the screenshot below you can see that the only request is the youth academy....strange!!
Last edited by B.W.G; 07-01-2011 at 14:59.
B.W.G - Merthyr Town - nPower League 2 (Level 4) - 2016/17
Transfers - I took a massive gamble on signing players with premiership potential and letting them develop. I needed brilliant 1st team players who were a step up from what I had. My personal favourite was Fabio Moussi as he had never had a club before but had high stats in the right areas and can take a mean freekick.
League 2 - Table - It was slightly more difficult but it looks like my transfer gamble really paid off as we walked the league and scoring alot in the process as well as keeping a tight defense. Our biggest win of the season was 6-1 against Torquay. Next season will be alot tougher especially with the teams relegated from the Championship so we could be in for a massive wake up call.
FA Cup - 3rd Round - I'll be blunt, I had no idea that Peterborough were a premiership team so I should pay more attention. It was fairly even but they were able to convert better and had more shots in the 1st half. It was a deserved defeat so I can't complain although it wasn't the dream draw I was hoping for but a few years ago we would have got slaughtered by that standard of a premiership team.
League Cup - 2nd Round - This was a better performance against the Villains, I was lucky to get this far as I left it late in the 1st round. This was Villas 1st team as well so maybe in a few years we may be able to compete more evenly with premiership teams.
JP Trophy - Winners - The only shock here is that it was league 2 vs league 2 as we both knocked out league 1 opposition in the regional finals. We dominated this game so 3-0 was more then a fair result. Nice to have a trophy even though the league 1 sides didn't take it seriously, I will take it seriously in League 1 as it should be straight forward to win.
I won Manager of the Year!!!. Well deserved as I was supposed to fight against relegation.
George Fletcher was top scorer with 36 goals in 53 appearances. Spurs had released him, I was amazed I could snap him up as he wanted cheap wages. The problem with him is his attitude as he keeps going out on the night before matches but I can't really do anything as he is the nest striker in the team. To let him off though, he thrived on first team appearances and it helped him develop immenslety just like his partner in crime (see below!!)
Adam O'Brien topped the assist charts 21 but he also chipped in with 34 goals. He really is Fletcher's partner in crime as he was also released by Spurs and also likes a good drink the night before matches although its less frequent then Fletcher.
Andrew James won Goal of the Season in which another Merthyr Player came 3rd.
Jose Quintas won Fans Player of the Year for the 2nd year running. He continues to improve and chipped in with 13 goals throughout the season. If he is like his potential says he is then England could have a future centre back as he only needs another 382 days in England.
The board want me to avoid relegation, and reach the 2nd round of both the FA Cup and the Johnstones Paint Trophy. I will be aiming for a playoff place, 3rd round of the FA Cup and to retain the JPT.
No sign of a new stadium which is still greyed out so I am betting either after the new season is over or the season after to when it will be announced.
I will be looking strengthening in the AMR and MC positions as Ruper (MC) won't sign a new contract and his agents wants him earning £10k p/w while I need an AMR with potential which I may have found one from Croatia of all places.
The Exiles 2016/17
1 - Cardiff City - 3rd in Championship (Lost in Playoff semi)
2 - Swansea - 9th in League 1
3 - Merthyr Town - 1st in League 2
4 - Newport County - 12 in Blue Square Premier
5 - Colwyn Bay - 8th in Blue Square North
6 - Wrexham - 11th in Blue Square North
Improvement all round for the exiles on the previous season. Cardiff were hard done by in the semis after having 5-4 on agg even though they had 2 goals wrongly disallowed for offside and Derby were given a very dodgy penalty. The national team doesn't look to have a bright future as the best Welsh Player in the future is Andrew James as he is the only one I have found with premiership potential and he came through at Arsenals academy!
Code:Season Division Position FA Cup Champs League Euro CUp Acheivements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Toolstation D1(L10) 1st 2nd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion 2011/12 Toolstation Prm(L9) 1st 2nd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion 2012/13 Zamaretto D1SW (L8) 1st 3rd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2013/14 Zameretto Prem (L7) 1st 3rd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2014/15 Bl.Square South(L6) 1st 4th Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2015/16 Bl.Square Prem (L5) 1st 5th Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2016/17 nPower League 2(L4) 1st 3rd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,JPT Winners.
Brilliant season again B.W.G
Thanks daemonic still nowhere near your 31 titles in a row on last years though
Another Great Season BWG, George Fletcher Looks Very Special!
He's not too bad but he can lack consistency as well, he scores lots in a short space of time then decides to have a goal drought!
I'm hoping he gets better with age as I don't really have anyone with high determination!!
B.W.G - Merthyr Town - nPower League 1 (Level 3) - 2017/18
Transfers - Not much to say, Dennis Berger was bought in as back up while Negro and Mkhize were in as first teamers. Mkhize was touted by his agent who he then fired after signing!
League 1 - Table - Rather amazing but what was more impressive was that Fletcher, O'Brien and Ferguson scored 97 goals between them out of the 149 scored. Fletcher hit 44, O'Brein hit 28 and Ferguson chipped in with 25 from centre midfield. The defense held up very well as well but it was the 1st season of the new pairing of Quintas and Negro so I was quite pleased. Biggest win was 7-1 against Charlton!!
FA Cup - 5th Round - I'm sick of the sight of Blackburn now but not really much to say as they are a mid table side but we kept it respectable. We did however beat Southampton in the 4th round 3-2 who were in the premiership (they finished 20th but it still counts ). I can beat the relegation battlers, hopefully by the time I go up then I may be able to match the mid-table sides.
League Cup - 3rd Round - Still not up to premiership quality but that is hardly surprisng but we kept it respectable, we were never at the races but give it a couple of season then we should be able to match them when we have quality in depth.
JP Trophy - Winners - In what was a repaeat final of the previous season, it was a quite an even game but 3-1 did flatter us as we finished our chances whereas Shrewsbury didn't. I won't be playing in this competition again unless things go tits up next season.
I won Manager of the Year....woooooooooooooooo!!!!
George Fletcher was top scorer hitting an impressive 58 goals in 57 appearance with 44 in 44 being in the league which made him Top Scorer. He won Fans Player of the Year.
Andy Whitham topped the assist chart with 53 assists which beat the previous record by 26.
We dominated Team of the Year by having 10 out of 11 players in it. I think this is a tad harsh on centre mid Glen Mkhize as he rated 7.22 in 40 games compared to Smiths 7.14 in 40 games.
No sign of my stadium as its still greyed out on the requests.
My chairman is a *****, enough said as hes not been very kind with the wage budget as Leyton Orient and Hartlepool are able to offer more in wages then we are. My top earner is £6k a week, Leyton orient is £7.5k a week and Hartlepool is £8k a week.
This season we are to fight relegation, 3rd round of FA Cup and the 2nd round of the League Cup. I'm aiming for mid-table, not too bothered about the cups as I should be able to get further if I get kinder draws and not draw premiership teams straight off the bat.
Code:Season Division Position FA Cup Champs League Euro CUp Acheivements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Toolstation D1(L10) 1st 2nd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion 2011/12 Toolstation Prm(L9) 1st 2nd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion 2012/13 Zamaretto D1SW (L8) 1st 3rd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2013/14 Zameretto Prem (L7) 1st 3rd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2014/15 Bl.Square South(L6) 1st 4th Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2015/16 Bl.Square Prem (L5) 1st 5th Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2016/17 nPower League 2(L4) 1st 3rd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,JPT Winners 2017/18 nPower League 1(L3) 1st 5th Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,JPT Winners.
On a side not there are 5 teams(out of 24)now in the Blue Square Premier who started in the tiers 7-10.
In the Blue Square North there are 8 teams (out of 22) who started in tiers 7-10.
In the Blue Square South there are 11 teams (out of 22) who start in tiers 7-10.
So it should only be a matter of time before another team from tier 7-10 who go up to the football league.
On a side note, there have only been 2 tycoon takeovers to date, Ellesmere(Peruvian Tycoon) who are in Blue Square North and Hemel Hempstead (Hungarian Tycoon) who are in Southern Premier.
Another great season B.W.G.
I finally finished my first season and it was a bit of a walkover. Should have the end of season post up tonight.
Thanks Daemonic I'm actually tempted in a feeder club to see how far I can send them up the league, might have to go for Sun Postal Sports, if iI'm allowed to pick my own
I actually played Ellesmere in the new pre-season, we drew 0-0.....I could not get anything past them!!! Its their first season in the BSN and in their 1st game they win 4-1 so I'm expecting another promotion if they keep that up.
Uri-Southill Alexander-Bedfordshire Premier (2011-12)-Level 11
I have been waiting unemployed for the first season letting all teams hire their managers & signing all free talents out there..
By the end of season there was not one single team that suited my needs...I had to wait ,but eventually I managed to get a Club to manage...
They finished 15th out of 16th last year & after 8 rounds they are 8th at the League...
Here is my profie part 1 & part 2...
The media predict the club to end 14th & the board will not judge me this season since I haven't been there from start of season...
The most important factor to apply for this team was that their Chairman Loves his Club
I will take it slowly since I'm playing other games, bye for now...
Last edited by Uri; 11-01-2011 at 12:29.
Good luck Uri, nice to see you back!!!
That chairman is gone.....my new one has been at the club for two and a half years and is only Enjoying life so it looks like I could be in for chairman number 3 in a couple of seasons.....maybe the next one will be a bit more generous and give me a decent budget to play with
Well it's good to know someone is actually enjoying life...I'm not enjoying a bit here...After all the the trouble I took to get a better challenge the game refuses to play and just keep crashing on me...I have downloaded the new level 11 build...So I'll have to start all over again one last time before I dump this game into the trash....:confused:
Last edited by Uri; 11-01-2011 at 18:50.
Sun Postal Sports - Molten Spartan South Midlands Football League Division One (Level 10) - 2010/11
Constant merry go round as players came in and were then replaced as our scout unearthed an upgrade. The joys of amateur status and no annoying fees to worry about.
Molten Spartan South Midlands Football League Division One
Predicted: 8th | Final Position: WINNERS | Graph
Absolutely cruised to promotion, sealing the title with 9 games to spare. We eventually finished 45 points ahead and with 145 goals in the for column.
FA Cup - 5th Qualifying Rnd
Decent run which was ended by Frickley who play at Level 7 of the pyramid so no complaints.
FA Vase - WINNERS | Final
Our first cup and it bodes well as we handed out some heavy defeats including a 6-0 thrashing of Level 9 side Stokesley in the final.
Other News
Finances - No wages meant very few outgoings. Could be board changes on the way however as the Chairmans status is 'Will listen to offers'
Club Records
Most Assists: San Lee - 27
Most Goals: San Lee - 60
Most MoM: San Lee - 14
Highest Avg Rating: San Lee - 7.86
Fans Player of the Year: San Lee - Hardly a shock decision, amazing season.
Best Eleven: Season | Overall
Sun Postal Sports Trophy Room
South Midlands Football League Division One x 1 - 2010/11
FA Vase x 1 - 2010/11
Code:Season League Pos. FA Cup FA Vase/ Lge Cups Europe Achievements FA Trophy _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2010/11 SM1 (L10) 1st 5th Q Rnd FAV Winner N/A N/A South Mids. D1, FA Vase
Great Season Daemonic
That's alot of goals.....I bet the rest of the teams are glad to be rid of you and the level 9 teams are fearing you already
We're predicted 4th and were 1/4 favs with the bookies so i think the expectation is we'll go up again. Wasn't helped by only having a wage budget of £25 for a few weeks so a few players left cause I couldn't give a contract after I'd made sure to tie San Lee down to a 2 year contract. Board have upped it to £1200 now so pretty good seeing as players will accept £50-£90 a week.
Season 3 - Level 8 - Grimsby Borough (Started Level 10)
Biggest Game In History?
Managed to take Millwall to a replay unfortunately its away though but if by some minor miracle we win, it will undoubtedly be the biggets game in our history. Was a sell out crowd of 3,000 at the home leg that's 2800 people standing in the ground too, seats are like gold dust!
Daemonic - Trust me, whatever you do....your still better then the AI manager of Sun Postal Sports on my save.....they've never made it out of level 10.
Wes_Coulam - Hope you get past Milwall for potentially your biggest game of your career. My biggest game of the career so far was this season.....I lost 3-1 on penalties to Man Utd in the league cup at Old Trafford so yours has come much earlier then mine.
The Dream Is Over...
Another good run following on from the 1st Round last year, but after this years run we're quietly sat on a heap of half a million that's 50 million pennies.
Unlucky... One day you will be bigger then that lot, just make your first victory over them a big one to show them you have not forgot about losing!!!
Just achieved my biggest result ever in the FA Cup. I just beat Man Utd in the FA Cup Quarter Finals. Ok the red card was errrrr controversial but still.
My reward, a semi final tie with.......Tottenham who are 3rd in the premiership (1 place above Utd!)......Bugger.....
B.W.G - Merthyr Town - nPower League Championship (Level 2) - 2018/19
Transfers - I basically threw a tantrum and went to board to request more budget using the rivals will get ahead option, needless to say it worked
Championship - Table - Well that was a bit too easy. I honestly thought with all the ex-prem sides, it would be a bit harder. 6 was our magic number this season as we beat Scunthorpe and Sheffield Wednesday 6-0 while we beat Coventry and Nottingham Forest 6-1. Its also a sad day for Newcastle as I don't think they will be in the Championship much longer as you saw they finished 20th, but they will be losing money due to the reduced capacity of St. James Park as it now only holds 38207 and their finances are insecure!!!
FA Cup - Semi-Finals - Our run to the final was winning 4-0 against Bristol City in the 3rd round. Beat Watford 5-1 in the 4th, 5-2 against Birmingham in the 5th before we took the scalp of Utd in the quarter finals by beating them 1-0. As for the semi, all I can say is Tottenham got lucky. On another day we could have won the match but thats football for you, to win the game game you have to bury the chances. In the 5 matches we had in the FA Cup, we faced 4 premiership sides (Bristol City, Birmingham, Utd, Tottenham) so I definetely got a good view of what I am up against next season.
League Cup - 3rd Round - We beat Bristol Rovers 4-0 in the 1st, beat Leicester 3-0 in the second before we faced Man Utd in the 3rd. To be fair, Utd should have won in normal time but they couldn't convert their chances. We got lucky and managed to hold out till the penalty shootout where we had no luck. When my squad is fully developed then maybe we can do better in this cup.
I won Manager of the Year in which I deserved seeing as I was predicted 24th!!
George Fletcher was top scorer hitting 50 goals in 51 appearances and this included a 10 hour goal drought!!! He was Top Scorer in the championship and also won Fans Player of the Year and he is still only 21......frightening.
Andy Whitam topped the assists chart with 26.
We had 9 players feature in Team of the Year
Also Jose Quintas has been capped by Portugal at the age of 26. He is also now Merthyr Town Captain!!
First off, we're having a nice expansion of 10500 which will give it a capacity of 12,500. I will be playing in front of 1760 people till 5th April 2020. One word for my board.......morons.
We are expected to stay clear of relegation, 4th round of the FA Cup and 3rd of League Cup. I have other ideas.....I'm going for mid table and later stages of the cups. My aim for this season is to make a statement......Merthyr Town are here and we're here to stay.
While we made the Premiership, its also a brilliant day for Gedling MW fans everywhere as they have been promoted to League 2! They are the first team out side the top 6 divisions to do so. Gedling MW started in the East Midlands League (Level 10!!!) What makes it sweeter is that they won the Blue Square Premier and have only had 1 takeover which was a consortium.
Code:Season Division Position FA Cup Champs League Euro CUp Acheivements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Toolstation D1(L10) 1st 2nd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion 2011/12 Toolstation Prm(L9) 1st 2nd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion 2012/13 Zamaretto D1SW (L8) 1st 3rd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2013/14 Zameretto Prem (L7) 1st 3rd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2014/15 Bl.Square South(L6) 1st 4th Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2015/16 Bl.Square Prem (L5) 1st 5th Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2016/17 nPower League 2(L4) 1st 3rd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,JPT Winners 2017/18 nPower League 1(L3) 1st 5th Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,JPT Winners 2018/19 nPower C'ship (L2) 1st Semi-Finals N/A N/A Promotion.
Last edited by B.W.G; 13-01-2011 at 10:42.
Congrats again B.W.G, fingers crossed for a 10th title in a row
Bloody hell BWG - how do you do it? I follow the Gundo thread as well, so this is two in a row where you've basically stormed it. I make it 24 seasons of yours that I've read (and kudos, btw, on your reporting style - always a good read) and you've won your league 23 times (and runner-up in the 24th, your first season in the Welsh Prem with a newly-promoted semi-pro team). Granted, a lot of them were the Welsh Premiership ;-)
Seriously though - with the funds you've had and the transfers you've made it just seems so outrageous that you've had straight promotions. You won the Championship with 80% of a squad that wasn't a favourite to get out of League 2 two seasons prior! So come on - what's the secret?
daemonic - ye I'll be lucky if that happens but man city release a wonderkid who I managed to snap up 10k a week and hes been capped by England as well so you never know
[c] - the quote below is from daemonic in the hall of fame thread from fm10 which I think it probably sums it up best.
Basically due to my managers rep, I have been able to sign players who are way too good for the division they have been in. I had World Class managers rep in the Championship. This year seems to be more of the same as I have even seen level 8 teams, with their managers having had national rep as well.... but it does seem to allow you to build a bit of a snowball effect when you start so low down the leagues.
A few league wins and maybe a cup and even with a starting rep of Sunday League Footballer your rep will increase to regional or even national. So by the time you reach the BSS/BSN your manager rep is probably similar to starting a game with your rep set to Professional Footballer allowing you to attract better players than can usually be done in the dafuge challenge.
And thats just the effect on your manager rep, the club rep also gets a 'head start' as my teams was already National by the time we hit the BSN.
Other then that, I have normally done quite well in cups and kept wages down so they wouldn't burn my finances. The players I signed all had premiership potential and some have responded much better to first team football then I had hoped for but when they were signing it because they wanted to work with me so I'm guessing that would be from the managers rep I had built up.I actually expected to but from the championship in 2 seasons. This however will go down the pan in the premiership. Also its my tactics......its the same tactic I used with Bridgend.
Last edited by B.W.G; 13-01-2011 at 10:46.
Congrats B.W.G, you always seem to pick up some absolute gems in young players. You don't half complete seasons quickly either.
Thanks TAoD
Its took me absolutely ages to scout them and I mean ages.I never realised how long it took to go through every player that I could scout, all the players with expiring contracts in every country I could scout as well as looking at under interested players.
With the seasons, it because I work in retail and at the moment their is little hours to work, normally I work between 38-45 hours a week, but with sales being so poor at the moment its been more 20 - 25 hours a week. Also my gf lets me play a lot of fm as it keeps me out of trouble and she knows where I am
Just wish I could find a team and stick with it right now. Really enjoy reading your updates and it makes me want to start a game but then I just get bored
Nudge Up Much?
I'm in as level 10 Lancing (my home town)
is there any kit/logo packs for this low?
reddevil4ever - Hardwick - Cambridgeshire Premier League - 2010/11 Season - Level 11
hi guys new to this challenge meet the new manager of Hardwick AFC
Welcome and best of luck to both of you.
@The_shocker, you should check the forums on sortitoutsi.net, lots of links to logo packs. I'm using one from there and although not all Level 10 teams have a logo, from Level 9 up almost all do.
Good luck to both of you
Another great season BWG i wonder how you will get on , in first prem season??!?
Question when did your reserves start playing in the reserve league?
My reserves started playing in the reserves while I was in the Blue Square Premier. Not too sure though because when I looked at the reseve fixtures, it just said no upcoming fixtures when selecting the season.
As for the prem season so far my record reads......P8 W6 D2 L0 F22 A6 Pts 20 and I am sitting top but teams have got games in hand (Arsenal have 4 and will go top if they win them all)
Can you upload your save game?
FA Cup 3rd Round:
Watford 0-0 Yorkshire Amateur
They injured our best player, out for 6 months the absolute *****.
The ******** have kicked us off the park again, injured 3 of our best players over 2 legs. Legwinski and Noel-Williams stretchered off in the 2nd leg as we are unlucky to lose 1-0.
got promoted with Lancing in my first season, bit of a strange thing though, instead of being promoted to Sussex County 1 in level 9 im now in the South Midlands League!
Lancing are on the south coast!!
also we've turned semi pro....
TAOD - Yorkshire Amateur - Kool Sport Northern Counties East League Division One (Level 10) - 2010/11
Transfers part 1
Transfers Part 1 - Standard stuff at amateur level as I just filled our squad seeing as we didn't need to pay any wages, was quite handy when the stupid cup competitions came thick and fast.
Kool Sport Division One - Table - Was as expected to be honest, very easy and I'm especially pleased that complacency didn't set in and we managed to go the entire season undefeated. A 7-0 Win at Brodsworth was the highlight.
FA Cup - 3rd Round - Can't really ask for much more from a level 10 side and we were unlucky to eventually lose to a strong Watford side. They were filthy in both games.
FA Vase - Winners - Seemed like every round we faced a team who was currently top of their league so I was quite pleased about this. Not so pleased that hardly anybody turned up
Wilkinson Sword Shield - Winners - Rubbish competition really but it all helps boost our reputation.
Key Players
Abdeltarec Sakali He was far too good for level 10 and dominated the right wing until the Watford cloggers got to him and put him out for 6 months.
Gifton Noel-Williams Think everyone knows about this guy, 47 goals says all that is needed.
Oliver Hewitt - Fisher Went for a 1 up front system with an attacking midfielder just behind and this guy was perfect for the role, lots of goals and assists.
First off I think it's quite clear I've shamelessly stolen the posting format from B.W.G, hope you don't mind but it always seems quite easy on the eye. Perfect season for level 10 as we won the league and non league cups and had a great FA Cup run. Also signed quite an interesting player in Paul Taylor, check out this article about him: http://lesrosbifs.net/2010/08/the-cu...om-anderlecht/ he's had quite a strange career already.
Code:Season Division Position FA Cup Champs League Euro CUp Acheivements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Kool Sport D1(L10) 1st 3rd Round N/A N/A Promoted .
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Great Season there, hope you don't get bored of this save
Also I don't mind one bit you copying my report format
B.W.G - Merthyr Town - Premier Division (Level 1) - 2019/20
Transfers - Did not care about those who left other then Yonkov who I got £2.2 mill for even though I wouldn't of given £2.20 for. For the in's only Greg Browning and Patrick Mkhize were 1st Choice. Browning had been capped twice for England so I couldn't beliece City let him go. The last three on the in side are for the future my top choice would be Martin Lassen as I just have this really good feeling about him as do my coaches as he has 4* PA and can be better then my 1st choice AML.
League - Table - The perfect 10. We had City battling us but they blew it in their 37th match against Arsenal (The officials actually screwed them) as they lost 2-1. Even though we won the league setting a new record for goals, I feel I was too over reliant on George Fletcher who hit 40 in the league but there is one issue I need to sort and I won't be happy till its sorted......Man City did the double over me Biggest win was 8-1 against Bristol City at Ashton Gate.....my biggest win since 2010 which was 7-0 in the FA Cup.
FA Cup - Winners - To sum the final up in one word......easy. Bristol City will really hate us now as we beat them 6-0 in the final, a few weeks after tonking them 8-1 at Ashton Gate in the League. The fact Fletcher was injured so early in the game might have saved Bristol City but we still dominated. Our Captain Jose Quintas truly deserved Man of the Matach. I was involved in a 10 goal thriller with Man City in the 5th round (Will post screenshot in my next post).
League Cup - Winners - To be perfectly honest.....I deserved this cup for who I had to beat to get here......I had to get past Chelsea and Man City just to get to the final while Steven Gerrard's Peterborough hardest team was West Ham. We dominated from start to finish and the red card just solidified our position during the game. I didn't even really break a sweat during the game.
I won Manager of the Year....not really surprising as I was predicted 20th at the start of the Season!!
George Fletcher - How has he not been capped by England yet?????? He was top scorer for the season hitting 54 goals in 48 appearances. He broke Andy Coles record of most league goals in a season as he hit 40 which made him Top Scorer. He won Fans Player of the Year, European Golden Boot,Footballer of the Year and came 2nd in European Striker of the Year!!!.
Adam O'Brien - Topped the assists chart with 25, not a great season for goal scoring has he suffered a 15 hour goal drought. Now a England international....I think Quique Flores got confused for which striker to call up.
Andy Whitham - He won Young Player of the Year which was a clean sweep for Merthyr Town.
I now have been given a new stadium called Richardson Arena...unfortunately this news was overshadowed by Man City's new stadium called the Man City Stadium (will hold 64,256).
The expecatations for the new season are respectable position in the league, 5th round in the FA Cup, QF in the league cup, group stages in the CL and they don't care about the Charity Shield.
My aim......win the lot....that is all.
Also my chairman's status is down to Happy to Stay so I am will be expecting a takeover soon.
Code:Season Division Position FA Cup Champs League Euro CUp Acheivements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Toolstation D1(L10) 1st 2nd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion 2011/12 Toolstation Prm(L9) 1st 2nd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion 2012/13 Zamaretto D1SW (L8) 1st 3rd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2013/14 Zameretto Prem (L7) 1st 3rd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2014/15 Bl.Square South(L6) 1st 4th Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2015/16 Bl.Square Prem (L5) 1st 5th Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2016/17 nPower League 2(L4) 1st 3rd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,JPT Winners 2017/18 nPower League 1(L3) 1st 5th Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,JPT Winners 2018/19 nPower C'ship (L2) 1st Semi-Finals N/A N/A Promotion. 2019/20 Premiership (L1) 1st Winners N/A N/A Domestic Treble.
This is the 10 goal thriller in the FA Cup against City in the 5th Round, this would have been a match to remember in the cup.
Congrats B.W.G, fantastic season. Just hope it doesn't take you as many seasons to win the Champions League as it took me on FM10. City were my nemesis for the first few seasons at the top too Hopefully your cup success against them continues
Thanks daemonic Its weird having City for a nemesis, I actually support them IRL so I am pleased they have been doing well but I hate them for trying to overshadow me
I'm looking at matching my 12 seasons it took me last time for completing the challenge although I think I could do this year depending on the kindness of the draw.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, Tycoon owned Ellesmere are now in league 2. Will history repeat itself and they make it into the premiership on your fm10 save???
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Fantastic season B.W.G, not surprised at all by your success. You'll probably win the Champions League next season
Well thats my aim but got quite a easy group even though I was 4th seeds. Had quite a difficult start to the season has 7 1st teamers were called up for the olympics which England won!!!
My 1st game in the champions league and I'm speechless.....10 shots on target and 9 goals. This is also my biggest win with Merthyr Town!!!
Europe going ok then B.W.G? :P
TAOD - Yorkshire Amateur - Kool Sport Northern Counties East League Premier Division (Level 9) - 2011/12
Transfers - Mostly players coming in ready for next season there, Calderon was signed as we didn't have too many options for pace on the left wing.
Kool Sport Premier Division - Table - Kind of gutted we lost a game but really no need to complain about that, an absolute breeze yet again.
FA Cup - 2nd Round - Wanted a repeat of last year but we had a much trickier route, managed to see off Blue Square Prem high fliers Wimbledon and Rushden but came unstuck against Welling who are in the BSS. Poor defensive performance.
FA Vase - Winners - Was really easy to be honest, pleased we retained it.
West Riding Senior Cup - Winners - RubLiterally nobody cares about this stupid competition but we won it anyway.
Key Players
Will Grocott Can play central midfield and if I change my formation he fills in on the left too, decent player..
Ibrahim Sissoko The dominant aggresive force in midfield had an even better season than the last, fantastic at this level.
Danny Uchechi With Gifton being stupidly injury prone Uchechi stepped in and was more than capable, his pace kills teams and he creates a lot of chances for himsel. He misses a lot of them too.
Another great season but we need to push on now, got a few more players I want to add to our squad for next year and it might involve breaking quite a tight wage structure. Was pleased with other players who didn't get a mention before. Paul Taylor in particular was awesome.
Code:Season Division Position FA Cup Champs League Euro CUp Acheivements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Kool Sport D1(L10) 1st 3rd Round N/A N/A Promoted 2011/12 Kool Sport Prem(L9) 1st 2nd Round N/A N/A Promoted .
Another good season TAoD, I predict another 1st place for the next season
Cheers, got to be the aim again. Just checked Merthyr Town on my game, promotion every year and they are top of their league again now. Have you sneaked in and managed them on my game?
I wouldn't be surprised if I did Although on a level 10 holiday save I've been running in work....Merthyr are in the Blue Square South (2025/26), the big surprises in that are Walsall Wood and Borrowash are in the premier league
according to your mail, because of the stadium being built, you're going to groundshare with yourself, in the stadium thats being built.........
Its a bug although its quite a funny one
We currently play in Rhiw Dda'r Taff Wells which is what we started in, SI will probably fix the bug in the next patch.
TAOD - Yorkshire Amateur - Evo Stik First Division North(Level 8) - 2012/13
Transfers - Players like Blackman and Hogg should be playing at a much higher level but I can't complain there.
Evo-Stik 1st Division - Table - Again annoying that we lost a game, it was after the league had been wrapped up and I trusted my assistant, still a fantastic season again.
FA Cup - 4th Qualifier - Stupidly got complacent and played our reserves. It backfired.
FA Trophy - Winners - Stunned by this to be honest, we beat some top sides along the way like Grimsby but the final was easily the best of the lot.
West Riding Senior Cup - Winners - Gives us a lot of money but it's a stupid competition.
Presidents Cup - Winners - Another rubbish thing to win.
Challenge Cup - Final - Way too many annoying competitions and we lost this one in the final.
Key Players
Abdeltarec Sakali He's been a star ever since I signed him in the 1st season, he'll have better competition now with the arrival of ex Arsenal forward Gilles Sunu.
David Mooney irish striker is one of many options for us up front, a great foil for Blackmanl.
Nick Blackman Far too good for this level, he just destroys everyone. I reckon he is a capable league player.
A fantastic season again, with the new players I'm brining in I now think we can field an entire side of Arsenal reserve/youths that they have released Will be aiming for promotion again and a better FA cup showing.
Code:Season Division Position FA Cup Champs League Euro CUp Acheivements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Kool Sport D1(L10) 1st 3rd Round N/A N/A Promoted 2011/12 Kool Sport Prem(L9) 1st 2nd Round N/A N/A Promoted 2012/13 Evo-Stik D1(L8) 1st 4th Qual N/A N/A Promoted .
Another brilliant season, I am quite upet that you managed to get Blackman as I wanted him but he was never interested in coming to Merthyr. I'm predicting another promotion with a title win for you, not too long and you'll be in the football league
I did go pro but I started off as semi-pro whereas you probably started as an amateur team so I had a bit of advantage at the start.
Wow, sooooooo jealous of the players you're attracting at Level 8 TAOD. I'm still signing players whose only claim to being footballers is they own their own boots. Best of luck next season.
B.W.G - Merthyr Town - Premier Division (Level 1) - 2020/21
Transfers - All the transfers were for the future bar the last one who I am shocked with, he was valued at £11 million and had a minimum release fee for £10,2500,000. I had kept an eye on him all season but waited till I had more finances available. Here is Yury Proshin
Premier League - Table - It was easy throughout the season, our 1 loss came at Man City about half way through the season, I did get revenge on the last day of the season when we beat them and Gary Johnson was sacked after the match even though they finished 2nd. We set new records for goals scored and points earnt, our biggest win was 9-1 against Bristol City.
Champions League - Winners - We were gived what looked a tough group of Valencia,Leverkusen and Fiorentina, we won the gorup with 5 wins and a loss (against Fiorentina), scoring 27 and letting in 9 which included a 9-1 tonking of Leverkusen. We given a easier tie in the knockout as we faced Benfica and we disposed of them 6-1 over 2 legs, we were given another trip to Portugal with it being Sporting Lisbon this time. We beat them in a slightly more difficult match 3-1 on agg. The semi saw an all English clash with Chelsea, we continued out form against them as their bogey team as we disposed of them 4-1 on agg to set up a clash with 11 time winners Real Madrid (they knocked out holders Arsenal in the semis). This game was ruined by the ref as Real should of finished with 10 men as Marcelo was harshly sent off. Adam O'Brien was an assasin throughout the match as Real could not handle him. Don't let the stats fool you as it was close up untill the 1st sending off. If its a consolation, Real did beat us 3-1 on hitting the woodwork
FA Cup - Winners - Was a tough game for breaking them down, they fluked their goals in a game we dominated (1 goal from distance, other goal hit crossbar and went over line). We deserved the win for the domination we showed, it was out clinical finishing which won the game. Our biggest win in the FA Cup was 9-0 against Fulham
League Cup - Winners - We should have wrapped this up in normal time but their keeper was exceptional throughout the game. It was a deserved win even though it took right near the end of extra time to break them down and score the winner through Fletcher. I was however disappointed that we threw a 2 goal lead and did let the players know about their rubbish performance.
Charity Shield - Winners - Always have a good ding dong battle with City and this was no exception, we had 7 players missing due to the Olympics (England won them!!) so it was mainly a youth team. This is football and it would have been fair to settle it with penalties but we took our chances.
I won Manager of the Year but I don't think anyone will be surprised at that.
George Fletcher - Profile - Quiet season for him, hit 37 in 56. He did however win Player's Player of the Year and came 3rd in European Striker of the Year
Adam O'Brien - Profile - Was top scorer for the season with 38 in 53 apps. He was awarded with CL Golden Boot and was 2nd in the CL Best Player which Andy Whitham won, he was also 2nd in the European Striker of the Year.
Jose Quintas - Profile - Merthyr Town Icon and captain. Always led by example and chipped in with 17 goals in 56 apps. He came 3rd in European Defender of the Year
Andy Whitham - Profile - This was his year, he topped the assists chart with 45 and chipped in with 20 goals and is now a regular feature in the England team. He won Footballer of the Year, Fans Player of the Year, CL Best Player and came 2nd in European Midfielder of the Year
Ognyan Paskalev - Profile - Best season yet for the youngster, 18 assists and 23 goals for the season and this was followed by winning Young Player of the Year
My chairman is looking to leave so will probably get a new one during the season.
Its my last season at the current ground before moving in to the Richardson Stadium so I want a complete global conquest before we do, so in other words, I don't care what the board want....I want a clean sweep.
The final thing is to beat Man City twice in the league.
Code:Season Division Position FA Cup Champs League Euro Cup Acheivements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Toolstation D1(L10) 1st 2nd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion 2011/12 Toolstation Prm(L9) 1st 2nd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion 2012/13 Zamaretto D1SW (L8) 1st 3rd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2013/14 Zameretto Prem (L7) 1st 3rd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2014/15 Bl.Square South(L6) 1st 4th Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2015/16 Bl.Square Prem (L5) 1st 5th Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,FA Trophy Winners 2016/17 nPower League 2(L4) 1st 3rd Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,JPT Winners 2017/18 nPower League 1(L3) 1st 5th Rnd N/A N/A Promotion,JPT Winners 2018/19 nPower C'ship (L2) 1st Semi-Finals N/A N/A Promotion. 2019/20 Premiership (L1) 1st Winners N/A N/A Domestic Treble. 2020/21 Premiership (L1) 1st Winners Winners N/A Domestic Domination + CL Winners
Congrats on the 'perfect' completion B.W.G, not a single season wasted
Thanks daemonic
It was a hard battle but it was worth it. Also got a new striker for the new season to see if I can break my own records for goals scored!!
Thats incredible B.W.G, congrats. Put a lot of pressure on the rest of us now
Daemonic - The best way to attract good players at that level is to wait until about 4 or 5 games are remaining, some players who have been unavailable but uninterested in ages suddenly become interested.
I think it goes along the lines of "Pressure is Off" :P
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El33t's Pre-W33kend Post: Fending off flu and fighting for funWritten by: / / 6 Comments
The clock is ticking towards a very special time of the week, and once the ticks of Friday have tocked their last, we can guaranteed you'll find yourself in the loving embrace of Saturday and its cute and cuddly counterpart, Sunday – aww, just look at that button nose!
How do you intend spending your time over the next two days? Members of El33tonline know what they'll be doing, as you'll find out below, but be sure to let us know what plans you have up your sleeves, too.
"Ok, so here I am at work, bored but with so much work to do (does that happen to anyone else?). So I thought I'd pre-empt Oliver and get my pre-weekend post in early.
Friday night I will be playing BF4 – yes, Poitjie and Erick finally twisted my arm and I purchased it. Was fun last week and I am hoping to get some more practice in.
Saturday and Sunday I am bowling in a Tenpin Bowling Tournament in Amanzimtoti. Back into my bowling and it really is awesome. Toti sure is a long way away though but… soon the Pavilion centre should be restored.
I also have kids this weekend. Can't wait to spend some time with the guys – their lives are so busy and so much happens whilst I am at work. Trying to teach them Settlers of Catan and the eldest likes it but the younger guy gets so bored he starts sticking the settlements up his nose. That's just "snot" on. Haha.
Ok, have a good one awesome people."
"I just can't believe it is w33kend already. Been one hectic week. But let's have a look what I am going to be doing….
Well tonight I am helping out at a Youth Stay Awake evening, will have two Xbox 360's setup, so will play some games when I get the chance.
This is also the last w33kend in the current house, we will be moving in just 5 days. So excited. So might get some gaming in. Will have a look at Minecraft PS3 Edition and some Halo: Spartan Assault that released today for Xbox 360.
Other than that, I will be packing and trying to get rid of this silly flu virus I have. Enjoy the w33kend and have super fun."
"You know you're getting old and stuff when you are booked off work for four days and you haven't even touched a game controller the whole time you're off. It seems that sickness my family was afflicted with last week caught up with me and I spent the entire weekend and Monday to Thursday at home feeling sorry for myself.
The most agonising part of it has been watching my Xbox beckon for me but not being able to reach out and play because as a parent, I have something called "responsibilities" so in between my blacking out into fever-induced delusional coma's I had to keep a dreary eye on my kidlings.
Thankfully I am much better now and I have a backlog of lost hours to make up so I intend to (nay, I shall) play some Xbox this weekend! Perhaps some Guardian of Light with my wife? Perhaps I'll wrap up Final Exam? More FTL… not entirely sure yet but you can be certain I will make up for some lost time!"
"It seems like those around me are all going down with flu at the moment so what I get up to this weekend will very much depend on how my wife is feeling over the next two days. I hope to get down to the beach at some point as well as sail the virtual ocean of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag in my quest to complete the game.
I'm looking forward to the rugby season getting underway but in the meantime there's some domestic 20-overs cricket to keep me entertained.
Have an awesome break p33ps!"
"I was almost to the end of the week without a new game to play when I had the opportunity to give Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition a whirl this weekend, and seeing as though the original version was one of my favourite games of 2013 there wasn't a chance I was going to pass it up!
This weekend will mostly be about chillin', relaxin', and tomb raidin', but I'm also going to be on the look out for a magical number, and you might want to keep your eyes peeled, too, and snap the moment for posterity.
I hope you all have a great weekend!"
So what are you up to this weekend? Any big plans, or do you intend staying indoors and taking a break from the world with some good old fashioned videogames?
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5 Screw-Ups on the Battlefield That Accidentally Won the War
Life is full of happy little accidents, mistakes that wind up working out in the end. They're the best part of, say, painting a picture or baking a pie. But where you don't find happy accidents is on the battlefield, where brilliant commanders will use the slightest misstep against you. In war, you do it right, or you die.
That's what you'd think, anyway. Sometimes, even in war, a little stupidity can work to your advantage.
#5. The British Accidentally Announce Their Surprise Attack on the News
In 1982, Great Britain and Argentina were fighting over a small island grouping called the Falklands, and Britain was losing. In need of a quick victory to reinvigorate the campaign, operational planners closed their eyes, took out a map and (we can only assume) played pin the tail on the Falklands to decide where to attack.
We attack here, at "Cow Pasture City."
The selected town was called Goose Green. To prepare, 690 Royal Marines stealthily broke off from the main contingent and moved down to set up the attack. It was all ready to go for May 28, but then ...
The Screw-Up:
... the BBC announced the upcoming attack on their worldwide news, and yes, you guessed it, the Argentinians were watching.
"Look, we're on the news! Oh ... crap ..."
The British commander of the Royal Marines in the upcoming battle was furious, threatening to sue the BBC for ruining their plan of attack and spoiling their element of surprise.
But It Turned Out ...
The Argentinian commanders saw the broadcast and concluded that no attack would ever come, under the assumption that only total arrogant idiots would announce their plans via worldwide news service. The British, however, continued with their plans anyway. Did they know the Argentinians had let their guard down? Or did they just decide that if they had already gone through all this trouble, they might as well follow through?
We didn't drag this flag all the way here for nothing ...
When the British actually attacked the following day, the Argentinians were caught by an even more complete surprise, and the British easily won the battle, retaking Goose Green, reinvigorating the Falklands campaign and ultimately earning a victory.
#4. Unauthorized Invasion of France Leads to Victory on D-Day
On one morning in 1942, the British Lord Louis Mountbatten up and decided to invade France. Normally an easy task for anyone to accomplish, this time there were a few key differences. One, this was in the middle of World War II, so France was being occupied by the Nazis. And two, he did it without bothering to tell anyone on his side.
Mountbatten can be seen here with his medal for the smuggest-looking face ever.
He literally launched an invasion and didn't bother to let his superiors or just about any of the Allied command know what he was about to do. He ordered thousands of Canadian, British and American troops to capture the French coastal town of Dieppe and create a beachhead. What could honestly go wrong with this?
The Screw-Up:
Since Mountbatten didn't bother to tell anyone about his plans, the force was sent in lacking many things a normal invasion force would have, such as proper resources, intelligence and also the backing of the British Home Command. Generally speaking, half-assed attacks without any support never really end well, and the Dieppe Raid was no exception.
"OK, here's the plan, run up that beach and shoot. That's it, really."
To start things off, Mountbatten's "plan" relied heavily on surprise, of which the British had none since SPOILER ALERT: the Germans knew they were coming.
From the moment the troops hit the beaches, the whole operation was screwed. Mountbatten had set his "plans" up like dominoes; if one thing went wrong, everything else failed. Sure enough, mere minutes after leaving for the beaches, boats began to get disoriented in the early morning darkness. When the Allied troops hit the beaches, all hell broke loose.
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"Stop hogging all the kills, Hans."
They suffered a mind-blowing 73 percent loss rate. A whopping 100 percent of the equipment (tanks, jeeps, etc.) that landed on the beach was lost. After several hours of fighting, what was left of the Allied troops ran back for the boats in the most unorganized retreat imaginable, leaving the Nazis with a huge victory, and left Mountbatten as pretty much the most hated military figure in Canada.
He would go on to cup the Prince of Wales' man-breasts.
But It Turned Out ...
It's comforting to know that your disastrous failure could at least show somebody smarter than you how to succeed. That's exactly what happened here -- that clusterfuck of an invasion attempt gave the Allies precious info on how to handle an amphibious invasion in the future, particularly on D-Day.
German Federal Archive
"We should have brought floaties."
They now knew they'd need a large artillery barrage beforehand, paratroopers to land behind enemy lines and a far more flexible plan to account for conditions on the shore. It even led to the creation of a special tank just for D-Day, after every tank that landed at Dieppe was destroyed.
After the war, many military commanders remarked at the importance of the Dieppe invasion toward the victory at D-Day, with Winston Churchill himself saying that Dieppe was "an indispensable preliminary to full-scale operations."
But the most important lesson was never put this man in charge.
#3. Stalin's Disaster in Finland Helps Him Beat Hitler
When World War II broke out, Germany invaded Poland. Very soon thereafter, Soviet Russia decided to get in on the action and flex their muscle by attacking Finland. And what a laughably easy attack it would be -- Soviet tanks outnumbered Finland's by a ratio of 200 to 1. In aircraft, it was 34 to 1. The Soviets had triple the number of troops. Shit, wars like this shouldn't even be legal.
"Comrades, we vill be home in time for borscht and unsatisfying sex with our dour wives!"
The Screw-Up:
The problem was that at the time, most of the Soviet military was kind of a joke. This made itself obvious when six months after attacking, Stalin had a few miles of territory in Finland and two great big buckets of casualties to show for it. The overwhelming Russian force inflicted 70,000 casualties on the Finnish military ... and suffered over 300,000 for the effort. More than 3,500 of their tanks and a few hundred aircraft were left in burning chunks of twisted metal at the hands of the tiny Finnish force. Eventually Stalin decided to settle with the Finns and end the embarrassment they were causing him.
But Hitler was watching the whole thing.
"Holy balls, Finnish people are terrifying."
Hitler already had his eye on Russia, and was just waiting for a sign that he could feasibly take them on. A sign like Russia invading a country of semi-frozen sardine-eaters and suffering a disastrous loss.
But It Turned Out ...
Stalin's fuck-up made Hitler so over-confident that he said, "We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down." We can't blame him. We mean, if we were watching this happen, it'd be easy to come to the same conclusion.
But if you know even a tiny amount about WWII history, you know what came next.
German Federal Archive
Germany won and the whole world was Nazis.
In 1941, Germany launched Operation Barbarossa and, sure enough, made huge gains into the Soviet Union. By the time Stalin got his act together, Hitler's forces weren't too far from Moscow. But, it turned out the Soviets just needed time to get the production of war materials really rolling, and to get reinforcements from Old Man Winter.
The Soviets pushed back, and the Nazis eventually had to retreat, until Hitler demanded the city of Stalingrad be held at all costs. That decision ended up costing several hundred thousand men that Hitler couldn't afford to lose and gained him exactly zero Stalingrads. From then on, it was downhill for the Third Reich. Stalin's fuck-up in Finland wound up being the perfect bait for his Hitler trap.
He wasn't the sharpest Hitler-Jugend-Fahrtenmesser in the gruppe.


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