While I was working on a lazy wednesday afternoon a friend of mine shared something with me and I decided to post it in here.
So let's see how many five year olds could you take in a fight...
My score is 23 and I'm proud of it. Go get them tigers...
23
August 20, 2008
How many...
August 6, 2008
Manta Friendly Tournament
Tournament format:
- Two groups of 4 teams playing home and away fixtures
- Top 2 from each group play in a direct elimination, single-fixture phase with lower ranked teams given home advantage, while the ones finishing 3rd and 4th play in a another tournament with the same rules. There will be 3rd-4th and 7th-8th place games. Every fixture in this phase will be arranged until penalties
Groups:
| Group A | ||||||||
| Team | P | W | D | L | GS | GA | GD | Points |
| Botev Plovdiv | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 13 |
| Liverpool City | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | -1 | 8 |
| Inter Milager | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 7 |
| Tomson Ramblers | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -4 | 3 |
| Group B | ||||||||
| Team | P | W | D | L | GS | GA | GD | Points |
| Volvo United | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 16 |
| Chaos Shumen | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 12 |
| Killamarsh FC | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Burnthouse | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 19 | -19 | 0 |
Fixtures:
| Group Fixtures | ||||
| Round 1 – 09.08.08 | ||||
| Botev Plovdiv | 2 | v | 1 | Inter Milager |
| Tomson Ramblers | 1 | v | 2 | Liverpool City |
| Chaos Shumen | 1 | v | 0 | Killamarsh FC |
| Burnthouse | 0 | v | 3 | Volvo United |
| Round 2 –10.08.08 | ||||
| Liverpool City | 1 | v | 1 | Inter Milager |
| Tomson Ramblers | 2 | v | 2 | Botev Plovdiv |
| Volvo United | 1 | v | 0 | Killamarsh FC |
| Burnthouse | 0 | v | 4 | Chaos Shumen |
| Round 3 – 11.08.08 | ||||
| Liverpool City | 1 | v | 2 | Botev Plovdiv |
| Inter Milager | 1 | v | 1 | Tomson Ramblers |
| Volvo United | 3 | v | 1 | Chaos Shumen |
| Killamarsh FC | 3 | v | 0 | Burnthouse |
| Round 4 – 12.08.08 | ||||
| Botev Plovdiv | 3 | v | 1 | Liverpool City |
| Tomson Ramblers | 1 | v | 1 | Inter Milager |
| Chaos Shumen | 1 | v | 2 | Volvo United |
| Burnthouse | 0 | v | 3 | Killamarsh FC |
| Round 5 – 14.08.08 | ||||
| Inter Milager | 2 | v | 2 | Liverpool City |
| Botev Plovdiv | 3 | v | 1 | Tomson Ramblers |
| Killamarsh FC | 1 | v | 1 | Volvo United |
| Chaos Shumen | 3 | v | 0 | Burnthouse |
| Round 6 – 15.08.08 | ||||
| Inter Milager | 2 | v | 1 | Botev Plovdiv |
| Liverpool City | 1 | v | 0 | Tomson Ramblers |
| Killamarsh FC | 0 | v | 1 | Chaos Shumen |
| Volvo United | 3 | v | 0 | Burnthouse |
| Final Phase | ||||
| Semi-finals - 17.08.08 | ||||
| Chaos Shumen | 2(5) | v | 2(4) | Botev Plovdiv |
| Volvo United | 1 | v | 2 | Liverpool City |
| 3rd Place Playoff - 18.08.08 | ||||
| Volvo United | 1 | v | 3 | Botev Plovdiv |
| Final - 18.08.08 | ||||
| Liverpool City | 2 | v | 1 | Chaos Shumen |
| Semi-finals - 17.08.08 | ||||
| Burnthouse | 0 | v | 3 | Inter Milager |
| Tomson Ramblers | 0 | ff | 3 | Killamarsh FC |
| 7th Place Playoff - 18.08.08 | ||||
| Burnthouse | 3 | ff | 0 | Tomson Ramblers |
| 5th Place Playoff - 18.08.08 | ||||
| Killamarsh FC | 2(4) | v | 2(3) | Inter Milager |
* Lower ranked clubs play at home
Stats:
| Goalscorers | ||
| Name | Team | Goals |
| J Yates | Chaos Shumen | 8 |
| L Much | Inter Milager | 8 |
| B Lysen | Botev Plovdiv | 7 |
| M Genest | Volvo United | 5 |
| Q Dudfield | Botev Plovdiv | 4 |
| B Patasso | Liverpool City | 4 |
| I Brekke | Liverpool City | 4 |
| Assists | ||
| Name | Team | Assists |
| M Abrantes | Botev Plovdiv | 3 |
| D Bishop | Chaos Shumen | 3 |
| H Nyborg | Inter Milager | 3 |
| A Lopez | Inter Milager | 3 |
| B Castonguay | Volvo United | 3 |
| Discipline | |||
| Name | Team | YC | RC |
| M Hadfield | Chaos Shumen | 3 | 0 |
| T Ison | Chaos Shumen | 3 | 0 |
| D Horner | Killamarsh FC | 3 | 0 |
| C Vinson | Tomson Ramblers | 3 | 0 |
| Name | Team | MoMs |
| M Hiuspää | Volvo United | 4 |
| C Walsh | Inter Milager | 4 |
| J Huntley | Chaos Shumen | 3 |
| I Brekke | Liverpool City | 2 |
| D Cameron | Killamarsh FC | 2 |
August 1, 2008
Manager Nationalities in Manta
For a number of reasons, my posting regularity has declined severely and in an attempt to make up for this, I thought it would be a good idea to acquaint the Manta managers with the variety of nationalities our beloved Itsagoal has presented us with.
Now then, there's little to say on the subject and I'll leave any comments to you, so here's the table:
July 25, 2008
Bombers' Financial Decline
As some of you may know, I've recently been thinking of moving on from my team Lancaster Bombers due to the very restrictive situation I find myself in.
Being in debt means I can't buy any new players or employ any new staff, which means I can't improve my team. I have plenty of good players who are not maxed out on any skills that could no doubt benefit from better quality coaches.
I've tried selling players to make some money but I never get any bids. Perhaps I'm overpricing, I dunno. Whatever.
I've taken a look at the financial history of the club and notice that in season 6, my first season in the premiership, my ticket sales were 4,262,470. Last season though, season 9, they were down to 2,811,180. Quite a difference. As my club rating has gone down, demand for tickets has dropped off. I've reduced my ticket prices down to around 23 from 29 or 30 from season 6. I must say I don't think I should need to reduce ticket prices below 20 to sell out. I am in the premiership after all. I look at other clubs and see ticket prices in the 40's.
Anyway, here's a screenshot of my financial history:
Disturbing huh?
I'm gonna try and get my ticket price up. After spending a lot of last season renegotiating contracts, I don't need to worry about any of those this season.
Thoughts?
Being in debt means I can't buy any new players or employ any new staff, which means I can't improve my team. I have plenty of good players who are not maxed out on any skills that could no doubt benefit from better quality coaches.
I've tried selling players to make some money but I never get any bids. Perhaps I'm overpricing, I dunno. Whatever.
I've taken a look at the financial history of the club and notice that in season 6, my first season in the premiership, my ticket sales were 4,262,470. Last season though, season 9, they were down to 2,811,180. Quite a difference. As my club rating has gone down, demand for tickets has dropped off. I've reduced my ticket prices down to around 23 from 29 or 30 from season 6. I must say I don't think I should need to reduce ticket prices below 20 to sell out. I am in the premiership after all. I look at other clubs and see ticket prices in the 40's.
Anyway, here's a screenshot of my financial history:
Disturbing huh?
I'm gonna try and get my ticket price up. After spending a lot of last season renegotiating contracts, I don't need to worry about any of those this season.
Thoughts?
July 24, 2008
Team Ratings and Matches
First post of the new season and it's one that looks back over that last two...
Well, not so much looks back as quickly summarises them with a pair of pictures apiece - but as they're each worth a thousand words, it all counts :)
Above are the team ratings in season 9 and below, the season 8 ratings:
Like the graphs posted for season 7, it's much better to be next to a blue or green team name... And, as before, the drop when managers resigned from a team is quite noticeable.
And the matches that played a part in affecting those ratings; for season 9 -
And for season 8:
I'll eventually get around to doing a team rating graph of the Premiership since season 6, but I wouldn't hold your breath ;)
oh, ps. Webby, I can't seem to get this post to have just an excerpt on the index pages - has something changed from the last time I posted or have I just forgotten how?
July 18, 2008
Techie Friday
As it's close season on itsagoal, I thought I'd get all techie on you. Just yesterday, I added an RSS button to this blog. There it is under the 'Subscribe To Manta Banta' section of the sidebar -->.
Briefly, RSS enables you to subscribe to a website's content. Whenever new content is added, the RSS feed will update. This means that if, for instance, you visit many different websites that add new content, whether that be daily, or as infrequently as once a month or even less, you can simply check the RSS feeds for those sites.
There are a few ways in which you can employ the feed. One, your browser may have RSS built in, so, you can add the feed to your bookmarks folder, or bookmarks toolbar and access it from there. Two, you could use a web based RSS reader such as Google Reader. This requires copying the feed address and adding it into the reader. The third way is to use an actual RSS application on your machine. This works in much the same way as the web based kind.
I'm using the RSS function built into the browser; for me, that's Firefox 3. I know that IE7 has support for RSS, as does Safari. They all work in slightly different ways to achieve the same result. Note: IE6 doesn't work with RSS.
To learn how to use RSS in Firefox, there's a simple tutorial here.
More...
I've been using Firefox 3 a bit recently. IE6 is the default browser on the machines where I work and they won't let us install IE7 because our HR websites are incompatible with it!
So anyway, using FF3; impressed. I like how you can tag bookmarks. Save a bookmark, give it a tag or 3. Easier to find 2 months down the line.
Another thing I like about FF is the add-ons it has. I'm writing this post, and I'm not even logged into my blog. I'm using an add-on called Scribefire. I access it from the bottom right of the browser and up pops a text entry window. From there I can write and publish directly to my blog. Brilliant. It's easier to use than the text entry box within blogger itself, so if you're a Manta Banta author and you're using Firefox, take a look at Scribefire.
Well, I think that's enough techie stuff for now. Have a good weekend chaps. See you in the new season.
Briefly, RSS enables you to subscribe to a website's content. Whenever new content is added, the RSS feed will update. This means that if, for instance, you visit many different websites that add new content, whether that be daily, or as infrequently as once a month or even less, you can simply check the RSS feeds for those sites.
There are a few ways in which you can employ the feed. One, your browser may have RSS built in, so, you can add the feed to your bookmarks folder, or bookmarks toolbar and access it from there. Two, you could use a web based RSS reader such as Google Reader. This requires copying the feed address and adding it into the reader. The third way is to use an actual RSS application on your machine. This works in much the same way as the web based kind.
I'm using the RSS function built into the browser; for me, that's Firefox 3. I know that IE7 has support for RSS, as does Safari. They all work in slightly different ways to achieve the same result. Note: IE6 doesn't work with RSS.
To learn how to use RSS in Firefox, there's a simple tutorial here.
More...
I've been using Firefox 3 a bit recently. IE6 is the default browser on the machines where I work and they won't let us install IE7 because our HR websites are incompatible with it!
So anyway, using FF3; impressed. I like how you can tag bookmarks. Save a bookmark, give it a tag or 3. Easier to find 2 months down the line.
Another thing I like about FF is the add-ons it has. I'm writing this post, and I'm not even logged into my blog. I'm using an add-on called Scribefire. I access it from the bottom right of the browser and up pops a text entry window. From there I can write and publish directly to my blog. Brilliant. It's easier to use than the text entry box within blogger itself, so if you're a Manta Banta author and you're using Firefox, take a look at Scribefire.
Well, I think that's enough techie stuff for now. Have a good weekend chaps. See you in the new season.
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