22nd Press Conference

1. Do you have any transfer targets in mind? Or an area to improve within your squad?
I have a massive list on SoFIFA, and every time I get money I just improve the area I believe is weakest.

2. Where do you expect to finish and where would you hope to finish this season?
I expect to finish bottom, and anything else above that is a bonus.

3. Who was in the wrong, Aston Villa players and expecting the ball to be kicked out, or Leeds United and continuing to play on? And would you have allowed Aston Villa to score an equaliser?
Villa have always been cheating scumbags, I'd have let the goal stand and scored another for good measure.

4. Which would you rather win the EPL, Citeh or the Pool? And who will secure the European spots?
City. And I think we're only sending two teams into the Champs League next season, because it looks like no-one actually wants to finish 3rd or 4th. Remember when teams didn't want to play in the Europa League?

5. Apart from Bond himself, which James Bond character would you want to be?
The guy who gets to cover for him when he takes his annual leave. They'd never give you a big job because you're only in for a week, so you'd likely just be whoring and drinking for a few days.

6. What individual footballing record would you want to hold personally? (e.g. fastest EPL goal)
Most money made in career. If you mean on the pitch, most backwards passes made in a season. Take the pressure off Michael Carrick.

7. What advice would you give yourself, when you were the young, naive, looking to take on all comers football manager, at the beginning of this season?Don't worry about doing tactics against Macclesfield, that's an easy three points there kid.

8. Would you ever want to run the London Marathon?
Never again. I did five in total, plus the Vancouver Marathon and more than a dozen half marathons, and I am literally too old and fat now. I mean, I could train for it and run round in 4 hours, but that's no fun.

1. Do you have any transfer targets in mind? Or an area to improve within your squad?

Yes, I have my eyes on one youngster in particular with decent potential. Other than that, its a waiting game. I don't want to buy players 70 rated now because I'm going to be honing in on 74-75 rated players for season 2 and 70 rated payers will be nowhere near the team.


2. Where do you expect to finish and where would you hope to finish this season?

I expect to finish 8th. I'm aiming for the second spot, but anywhere top half would be alright

3. Who was in the wrong, Aston Villa players and expecting the ball to be kicked out, or Leeds United and continuing to play on? And would you have allowed Aston Villa to score an equaliser?

Villa shouldn't have stopped. I don't think the Leeds player stopped enough for you to be sure he was going to kick it out. First thing you are taught, play to the whistle. I'm with Pontus Janssen, Leeds should never have given the goal back

4. Which would you rather win the EPL, Citeh or the Pool? And who will secure the European spots?

City. Liverpool winning would not be good for football. And I liked Sevilla's tweet to the EPL that if none of our teams want the CL spot for 3rd and 4th, they'd have it!! But Spurs and Arsenal still for me.

5. Apart from Bond himself, which James Bond character would you want to be?

Q. He gets to try out every single gadget, which would be like a man's heaven. Think I'd invent an umbrella that dispensed cider.

6. What individual footballing record would you want to hold personally? (e.g. fastest EPL goal)

Most accidental goals in a season. So counting the number of goals you score but didn't mean to, or know anything about it. Better to be lucky!


7. What advice would you give yourself, when you were the young, naive, looking to take on all comers football manager, at the beginning of this season?

Don't bother against Dons, Crawley, Bury and Newport. You might as well have had 0 points taken off you and had a bit of an experiment, than try properly to have those points gone

8. Would you ever want to run the London Marathon?

No thanks. Never been built for endurance me. I was small and slight when I was younger, and more about short bursts of speed. Now I'm built for long bursts of no speed and would never make it around.

1. Have a few players in mind that I’ll go for. Decided to go for potential over rating now seeing as a title race never got going.

2. Top three is still the aim. Been on track so far, but horror injuries for a double game week and also next week aren’t ideal. 

3. Villa shouldn’t have stopped. Haven’t seen it but not a fan of crying  after you could’ve stopped something. Fair play to Leeds all the same

4. Would prefer Liverpool won the league. Ideally United come fourth, Chelsea win EL and Spurs win CL, just so that United don’t actually get CL football 

5. Oddjob, him and his killer hat on Goldeneye was always a favourite.

6. Most goals of the season. 

7. I wouldn’t listen anyway so it wouldn’t have mattered. I’d also be worried it’d be like Rick and Morty and they’d have to kill me so that there’s not two of us in the same dimension l.

8. I used to enjoy long distance races and have done a half marathon before. The idea of training though meant I’d never be fit enough to do  it, that and I now have a beer belly make it a no.

1. Do you have any transfer targets in mind? Or an area to improve within your squad?
I've zoned out recently so have no idea what I'm doing.

2. Where do you expect to finish and where would you hope to finish this season?
I expect to finish around the bottom three and I hope to finish outside the bottom three.

3. Who was in the wrong, Aston Villa players and expecting the ball to be kicked out, or Leeds United and continuing to play on? And would you have allowed Aston Villa to score an equaliser?
Both were wrong. Leeds wouldn't have been, had their player not faked to kick it out then carried on. Should have been about three red cards in there.

4. Which would you rather win the EPL, Citeh or the Pool? And who will secure the European spots?
City, definitely. No one likes Liverpool fans. Tottenham and Chelsea because Arsenal and Man United are mismanaged.

5. Apart from Bond himself, which James Bond character would you want to be?
Oddjob threw that hat like a don.

6. What individual footballing record would you want to hold personally? (e.g. fastest EPL goal)
Most number of goals scored in a consecutive winning World Cup finals.

7. What advice would you give yourself, when you were the young, naive, looking to take on all comers football manager, at the beginning of this season?
Just buy players that will increase in TM value

8. Would you ever want to run the London Marathon?[/quote]
Kind of, but I bet you I won't.

1. I wrote a shortlist of five players on a post-it note at work. I lost the post-it note. Might try and find it if I have the time.


2. We're three points off second, so we'll be looking at that as a minimum. If it's not mathematically impossible to win the title then we will fight to the death to try and win that.


3. On that occasion the player appeared to be seriously injured and did in fact go off. So yes, in isolation, I would probably say that the ball should have been kicked out. But there's so much play-acting in football that it's hard to know what to believe any more, so I can't really blame Leeds for going on to score.

Given the situation and the fact that they weren't going up anyway - allowing Aston Villa to score was the right thing to do. Would have been more interesting if that happened in a playoff game.


4. Arsenal and Tottenham will get the European spots. I'd prefer Man City to win the league but that's a horrible thing to say.


5. I'd be one of the villains - Christoph Waltz's character perhaps.


6. Record for most yellow cards for dissent?


7. To have fought harder for a proper tactics based league. I didn't get my point across enough, and had I been more adamant than I was then I would have succeeded.


8. I'd like to run a marathon for sure. But the London marathon, no. Running in that sort of event just doesn't look like fun at all, I'd be much more interested in doing hill running or just generally running through the countryside.

1. Do you have any transfer targets in mind? Or an area to improve within your squad?
Haven't done any scouting in ages, I've got a bit of cash to spend however no targets in mind. With the ratings cap going up next season I'll probably just look out for any youngsters with the potential to rise.

2. Where do you expect to finish and where would you hope to finish this season?
Haven't checked the table since it became virtually impossible to win the league. Will likely ship out a few of my better older players to accommodate some up and coming talent which will likely have an adverse affect on results. Anywhere within the top 3 or 4 and I'll be happy.

3. Who was in the wrong, Aston Villa players and expecting the ball to be kicked out, or Leeds United and continuing to play on? And would you have allowed Aston Villa to score an equaliser?
Was always taught to play until the whistle, granted the Leeds player probably shouldn't have slowed down to make it look as though he was going to kick the ball out of play however I didn't see anything wrong with the goal. Suspect if they were still in 2nd rather than 3rd then they may not have allowed Villa a tap in at the other end.

4. Which would you rather win the EPL, Citeh or the Pool? And who will secure the European spots?
Liverpool
Tottenham and Chelsea for the other spots.

5. Apart from Bond himself, which James Bond character would you want to be?
M

6. What individual footballing record would you want to hold personally? (e.g. fastest EPL goal)
Most hat-tricks ever

7. What advice would you give yourself, when you were the young, naive, looking to take on all comers football manager, at the beginning of this season?
Go for the players who'll get a big TM rise, you'll be minted in season 2 kid.

8. Would you ever want to run the London Marathon?
Whilst I don't mind a few HIIT sessions to get my cardio in I certainly don't hold the same enthusiasm for long distance running. I'm all about the short bursts so the training alone sounds too much of a chore.

1. Do you have any transfer targets in mind? Or an area to improve within your squad?

I am looking for a GK and CB now. I think I am sorted in all other areas


2. Where do you expect to finish and where would you hope to finish this season?

2 wins on the trot so hoping I have finally found the right combination. Mid table is the hope now.

3. Who was in the wrong, Aston Villa players and expecting the ball to be kicked out, or Leeds United and continuing to play on? And would you have allowed Aston Villa to score an equaliser?

The problem I have with this is that when footballers go down injured I mostly don't believe they are hurt. The ref didn't whistle so it is not up to Leeds to stop. And no, I wouldn't have let them score the equaliser. Makes a mockery of the game and how pissed would you be if you bet on a Leeds 1 nil win.


4. Which would you rather win the EPL, Citeh or the Pool? And who will secure the European spots?

City just to see the Liverpool breakdown. I think it will be Spurs and Chelsea for the other spots

5. Apart from Bond himself, which James Bond character would you want to be?

Jaws

6. What individual footballing record would you want to hold personally? (e.g. fastest EPL goal)

Best shot to goal % in the season


7. What advice would you give yourself, when you were the young, naive, looking to take on all comers football manager, at the beginning of this season?

Choose your targets wisely and don't try and rely on previous successes when it came to tactics

8. Would you ever want to run the London Marathon?

Yes, hoping to do Brighton next year and then London the year after.

TwisT wrote:3. Who was in the wrong, Aston Villa players and expecting the ball to be kicked out, or Leeds United and continuing to play on? And would you have allowed Aston Villa to score an equaliser?

The problem I have with this is that when footballers go down injured I mostly don't believe they are hurt. The ref didn't whistle so it is not up to Leeds to stop. And no, I wouldn't have let them score the equaliser. Makes a mockery of the game and how pissed would you be if you bet on a Leeds 1 nil win.

Interestingly, some of the bookies paid out on no goalscorer/0-0 bets.

1. Do you have any transfer targets in mind? Or an area to improve within your squad?
Nope. I'm the equivalent of Sam Allardyce, laying in a bath of gravy watching and laughing while everybody else has to work hard.

2. Where do you expect to finish and where would you hope to finish this season?
On a proverbial sun lounger in the Caribbean.

3. Who was in the wrong, Aston Villa players and expecting the ball to be kicked out, or Leeds United and continuing to play on? And would you have allowed Aston Villa to score an equaliser?
Villa players were in the wrong for not playing to the whistle, but the biggest culprit was the referee, who could have just blown his whistle for the injury instead of watching the shenanigans unfurl.

4. Which would you rather win the EPL, Citeh or the Pool? And who will secure the European spots?
City, 100%. European spots, outside of City and Liverpool, probably Spurs and Man U, as Man U wont have the Europa distraction.

5. Apart from Bond himself, which James Bond character would you want to be?
Scaramanga. Loaded, has a deadly weapon, and is surrounded by beautiful women. Well, was surrounded by beautiful women. Most of those women are probably dead now.

6. What individual footballing record would you want to hold personally? (e.g. fastest EPL goal)
Fastest hat trick would be pretty cool. Ideally in front of the Kop, to guide a team to a 3-2 win from 2-0 down in the last few minutes.

7. What advice would you give yourself, when you were the young, naive, looking to take on all comers football manager, at the beginning of this season?
Don't bother. You'll only quit.

8. Would you ever want to run the London Marathon?
Yes and no. I would like to one day have the desire and fitness to do it, but I hate running and I'm all about that slob life to change that.

1. Do you have any transfer targets in mind? Or an area to improve within your squad?
I'm still far off from aquiring my dream team i'm just saving up for now.

2. Where do you expect to finish and where would you hope to finish this season?
I haven't looked at the table so as long as I don't finish last i'd be pleased.

3. Who was in the wrong, Aston Villa players and expecting the ball to be kicked out, or Leeds United and continuing to play on? And would you have allowed Aston Villa to score an equaliser?
Sorry I don't watch the efl.

4. Which would you rather win the EPL, Citeh or the Pool? And who will secure the European spots?
I wanted Pool to win but alas it just wasn't to be.

5. Apart from Bond himself, which James Bond character would you want to be?
The man with the frisbee hat.

6. What individual footballing record would you want to hold personally? (e.g. fastest EPL goal)
Most red cards ever, Sergio Ramos would be so proud

7. What advice would you give yourself, when you were the young, naive, looking to take on all comers football manager, at the beginning of this season?
As Sun Tzu once famously said "Do not show fear when starting out in the ranks of the legion. You must stand your ground and show everyone how brutal and savage you are. Only then will you earn respect and move up the ranks. Make allies, but be wary of them and their intent to double cross you. Strike them before they strike you. Believe in yourself and you will have the whole world bowing down at you feet"

8. Would you ever want to run the London Marathon?
Sure, if I can use a stunt double.