tearmanneanna wrote: Celt67 wrote: What happened Steve? 52-0...? and why is our colours still red...? That was the fifth-rated team from last time out we just played... Pity your players didn't transfer nationality along with your team! Do you think the admins would go for some form of grandparent rule? Any player worldwide whose surname begins in Mac or O automatically qualifies for Ireland?

great idea shame it wont happen

52-0 was a bad start, took a risk with a young QB and 3 wide outs. That has been corrected, more experienced QB is now under center and cut down to two wide outs and more focus on the run game. This yielded results this week although we lost I now hopefully have a good enough defensive line set up for next week.

Quit using all of your own players and we might have some chance!

Monkey wrote: donal wrote: Quit using all of your own players and we might have some chance! his team is the only irish 1 above div4 and has the highest skilled players putting in lesser players just to mix it up isnt gonna help

Thank you Monkey, at least you understand the logic behind the use of my own players.

Donal, like Monkey said, sadly I have to play a huge chunk of my own team, although 16 players wouldn't really count as huge, for the National side as the Irish player talent pool isn't huge compared to other countries in Grid Iron. I have drawn the best I can from the limited pool of decent Irish players that are available to me, which I had scouting help with from Celt67 and tearmanneanna, which I am glad they helped out with.

So please Donal don't be hating cause of the situation I am in with regards to players, the players I play, no matter from which team are the ones who have the most experience and the highest skill rating for their position.

And please unless you have a constructive argument to put forward don't be saying negative things and FYI I play my players only cause they are the highest skill for said position and remember, the team I have and the players I play from my own team I have built and trained up for the past two years. Yes two years of scouting and training, so my players have the edge in certain positions. So when you've got two years game time built up on here then I will gladly take your advice on who I should and shouldn't play but until then please understand the limits I am facing with the talent pool for our tiny island!

Steel Steve wrote: Right we lost again! 45 - 14. I am so sick of this game and it's "engine" I stacked against the pass in this game cause France favour the pass and due to this "engine" also known around here as "dice rolling suckers" or the "lucky lotto ticket" our secondary got picked apart my Frances passing game, even though I had the passing game covered! GRRRR!

Would you think of playing something like a 3-2-6? 3 x DL, 2 x LB, 4 x CB and 2 x SF? It's crazy, but it just might work... If someone is going to pass 90% of the time, why cover the run at all?