Vanuatu - The Road to the World Cup

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 04 Sep 2011, 20:57

Ade, are you going to be the manager of the team, or just leave the AI to do it's thang?

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 04 Sep 2011, 21:18

I'm going to manage the team

Even If my first attempt ends in dismissal I will apply for the job as someone else.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 04 Sep 2011, 22:20

ADx_Wales wrote:I'm going to manage the team

Even If my first attempt ends in dismissal I will apply for the job as someone else.

Considering you're going for a run-of-the-mill 4-4-2 you should be expecting your P45 in days rather than weeks...

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 04 Sep 2011, 23:21

kostas22 wrote:Considering you're going for a run-of-the-mill 4-4-2 you should be expecting your P45 in days rather than weeks...

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can dream and not make dreams your master,
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
And all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And, which is more, you'll be a Man, my son!

Ladies and gentlemen, Vanuatu will be playing four-four-bath-ploogin'-two!

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 04 Sep 2011, 23:36

Barbazza wrote:I'm in if I'm not too late!

Name : Andrew Spokes
Position : Right Winger
Your Date of Birth : 29/03/72 (so a veteran I'm afraid!) in Oxford, UK

You'd be 35 in 2007, with everyone else i've been bumping their years of birth back 4 years so they'd be the age they are NOW , but back in 2007. #playinggod

You will also have some coaching ability, so you may also be part of the coaching staff aswell as the playing squad.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 04 Sep 2011, 23:50

Þorvaldur Einarsson wrote:OH BATHPLUG!
Sure, it's a great honour to be made captain, but won't trying to qualify for the World Cup for Vanuatu interfere with F1RMGP racing?

Nope

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 04 Sep 2011, 23:58

dinizintheoven wrote:
kostas22 wrote:Considering you're going for a run-of-the-mill 4-4-2 you should be expecting your P45 in days rather than weeks...

If you can keep your head when all about yada

yada

yada

four-four-bath-ploogin'-two!

If we're 2-0 down to the bathplugging mexicans I will not get angry.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 05 Sep 2011, 00:17

I'll be taking over management from this legend:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngOIXdF5 ... re=related

watka · Post by **watka** » 05 Sep 2011, 19:48

By special request, Mr Rees has called me out of early football retirement and self imposed F1 Rejects exile for this:

Position: preferably GK, is not CB.

Your Date of Birth (and town/city of birth if you want to): 04/05/1989, Epsom

Your Nationality: Dual nationality English Vanuatuan (Vanuatuan through my cousin's wife's brother's gardener's dog's previous owner)

Your Height (in centimeters, unfortunately the pre-game editor only does metric not mint-emperials): 180cm (ish)

Your Favourite Teams: I have a favourite team from pretty much every country, but the main ones are AFC Wimbledon, Chelsea, Norwich City, Patrick Thistle, Hearts, Cercle Brugge, Le Mans, Udinese, Espanyol, Galatasaray, Portland Timbers, and Energie Cottbus

Your Least Favourite teams: Man United, Crawley Town, MK Dons, Tottenham Hotspur, Stevenage FC, Ipswich Town, Gillingham, Glasgow Rangers (even though I'm Protestant rather than Catholic, I think their fans are must worse than Celtic), Club Brugge

Your Favourite Players or Ex Players: Seb Brown, Jack Midson, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, David Luiz, Carlo Cudicini, Petr Cech, Arjen Robben, Damien Duff, Wes Hollahan, Grant Holt, Peter Osgood, Peter Bonetti, Gordon Banks, Emmanuel Eboue, Ali Dia, Antonio Di Natale, Lorik Cana, Karl Henry, John Spencer, Jon Pantsil Socrates

Your Least Favourite players or ex players: Roy Keane, El Hadji Diouf, Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher, Tony Warner, Stephen Kelly (long story), Jon Walters (even longer story), Tom Henning Ovebro (wait, he's a referee), Matt Tubbs

Shirt Number: 27

PS I had a bet on from the start of last season with someone (Phoenix, I think) that Bruno Senna would unrejectify himself before Jaime Alguersuari. Don't think I hadn't forgotten about that.

FullMetalJack · Post by **FullMetalJack** » 05 Sep 2011, 20:54

watka wrote:Your Least Favourite teams: Club Brugge

We'll beat them for you in the Europa League, i'm hopefully going to the away game as well as the home one. Cause i'm an extremely dedicated fan. Football is probably my main sport (awaits papayas).

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 05 Sep 2011, 21:03

Update Bump #2:

Thanks to Watka we now have the miniumum amount of keepers required for a world cup finals squad.

Ali Dia, despite his notoriety is NOT on the FM2008 database, I can only assume why.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 05 Sep 2011, 21:48

Nice to see some "Favourite Team: AFC Wimbledon" "Least Favourite Team:MK Dons" going on... Restores my faith in football

Cannot wait to see both sides face eachother.

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 05 Sep 2011, 22:09

watka wrote: Cercle Brugge

Did you know Jean-Pierre Van Rossem is supporter of this club

FullMetalJack · Post by **FullMetalJack** » 05 Sep 2011, 22:28

ADx_Wales wrote:Nice to see some "Favourite Team: AFC Wimbledon" "Least Favourite Team:MK Dons" going on... Restores my faith in football

Cannot wait to see both sides face eachother.

I can say I was at the original Wimbledon's last FA Cup match back in 2004. A bit of trivia there.

watka · Post by **watka** » 07 Sep 2011, 20:33

I was never really a fan of the old Wimbledon (was always more of a Chelsea fan), but AFC Wimbledon rocked up in Kingston, which is just a bus ride aware and I was hooked! Obviously I support everything they stand for, you can't expect your fans to go and support some franchised team up in Milton Keynes.

Re: Cercle Brugge; glad to be in good company!

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 07 Sep 2011, 21:02

Do you think there's more people I've missed that havent noticed this thread yet?

Could do with another 8 forumites as part of the squad

AdrianSutil · Post by **AdrianSutil** » 08 Sep 2011, 04:41

Name: Ashley Lilly (my real name :O)
Date of Birth: 14/1/1987, Dartford, England
Nationality: English/German
Height: Dont know. I'm 6 foot 2
Favourite Teams: Arsenal and only Arsenal
Least Favourite teams: Tottenham, Chelsea, Man Utd
Favourite Players: Jack Wiltshire, Theo Walcott, Kieran Gibbs
Least Favourite players: Cristiano Ronaldo

Position: AML, AMC, AMR

SuperAguri · Post by **SuperAguri** » 08 Sep 2011, 16:14

Well I shall join the action then.

Name: Barry Morrison
Your Date of Birth: Feb 14th 1985
Your Nationality: Wales / Vanuatan
Your Height: 178 cm
Position: Secondary Striker, Striker
Your Favourite Teams: Cardiff CIty, Barry Town, AFC Wimbledon
Your Least Favourite teams: Swansea City, Bristol City, Bangor City, MK Dons, Manchester United, Chelsea
Your Favourite Players or Ex Players: Robert Earnshaw, Phil Dwyer, Ian Rush, Dennis Wise, Sam Hatton
Your Least Favourite players or ex players: Marvin Emnes, Garry Monk, David Cotterill

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 03 Jan 2012, 16:32

I must apologise for letting this one slip...

...however, 19 players created for Vanuatu, The Other Chris Dagnall given a Vanuatu Visa, Will start the Database now.

...look out for news about your footballing alter-ego soon...

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 03 Jan 2012, 22:39

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 03 Jan 2012, 22:57

Starting XI to play Malaysia

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 03 Jan 2012, 23:08

UP, UP!

An alternate, earlier version that was discarded can be found here.

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 03 Jan 2012, 23:10

I think this thread will be interesting

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 03 Jan 2012, 23:11

5 minutes into Malaysia game, Dagnall scores again, Christopherson with an excellent cross.

9 Minutes and Dagnall turns Provider for Morrison with a similar header, its 2-0 and the game has only begun....

11 minutes, its THREE!!! Dagnall is running off to the stands claiming the goal, but it looks like one of the Malaysian defenders wants the earth to open up and eat him.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 03 Jan 2012, 23:38

That'll do for tonight, up next, Papua New Guniea :shock:

, dont look at me, the computer picked them before the game started.

JeanDenisAlcatraz · Post by **JeanDenisAlcatraz** » 03 Jan 2012, 23:55

I was a little upset not to have kept a clean sheet...then I noticed the HT sub

Jules Rimet here we come.

Jack O Melley · Post by **Jack O Melley** » 04 Jan 2012, 00:01

I suppose there's no room for a 4th striker responding to the name of Giovanni Roda. :lol:

In this case, I'll support Vanuatu trip to the World Cup.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 04 Jan 2012, 00:16

Sorry Jack, in order to add more players I will have to start the database all over again I'm afraid,

.

Pointrox · Post by **Pointrox** » 04 Jan 2012, 00:26

Jack O Melley wrote:I suppose there's no room for a 4th striker responding to the name of Giovanni Roda. In this case, I'll support Vanuatu trip to the World Cup.

There's two of us, then.
Vanuatu National Football Team Supporters' Club - that might catch on! :lol:

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 04 Jan 2012, 02:22

A goal, I scored a goal, good for me!

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 04 Jan 2012, 13:58

So... was that formation against Pakistan best described as a 4-5-1 or 4-3-3? I've never liked 4-5-1 or - perish the thought - 5-4-1. It always seems too defensive. Still, with Chris Dagnall up front, who needs another striker?

How come there's only 20 players in the squad? I thought these were supposed to be squads of 23, or will that change for an actual tournament?

Now bring on Papua New Guinea...

QuickYoda41 · Post by **QuickYoda41** » 04 Jan 2012, 15:20

I don't think it particularly matters what you call it, it can be an offensive 4-5-1 or a defensive 4-3-3. Technically, Brazil played with 5 defenders during 2002 World Cup and I bet nobody said they were too defensive.

Anyway, nice run from us so far. 8-)

And I'd like to add that our fans are the best.

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 04 Jan 2012, 20:18

Alright, those that were late getting onto the database, I'm having a redo of the database, it appears the oldest member of the forum who was granted a Vanuatu Visa was instantly turned into a coach and hung up his boots...

Think of the Pakistan and Malaysia games as a test to see if the team would work as a team, and they did work as a team.

But to make sure you get in, I need one more Central Defender and a Midfield Maestro as opposed to an Attacking Midfielder, I have plenty of them.

Also, I'm going to list those players who have found their way into a club side, if you are ok with the club that the database eventually chose for you to play with, you will be kept at that club, if you dont , you will remain a free agent for the start of the new database...

So... was that formation against Pakistan best described as a 4-5-1 or 4-3-3? I've never liked 4-5-1 or - perish the thought - 5-4-1. It always seems too defensive. Still, with Chris Dagnall up front, who needs another striker?

I call it 4-5(3)-1(3), but in some games its regarded as 4-1-4-1, its a formation used by certain top flight underdog teams in the early 2000s, such as Bolton Wanderers, at the time managed by Sam Allardyce, which kept them in the Premier League, which they still are to this day.

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 04 Jan 2012, 20:52

ADx_Wales wrote:But to make sure you get in, I need one more Central Defender and a Midfield Maestro as opposed to an Attacking Midfielder, I have plenty of them.

Guðmundur 'Hacksaw' Einarsson wrote:I'll do it, in case you missed my profile on page 1...

ADx_Wales wrote:I call it 4-5(3)-1(3), but in some games its regarded as 4-1-4-1, its a formation used by certain top flight underdog teams in the early 2000s, such as Bolton Wanderers, at the time managed by Sam Allardyce, which kept them in the Premier League, which they still are to this day.

...though for how much longer is anyone's guess. Ditto Blackburn Rovers. Place your bets now on how Ham Saladyce will fare with West Ham this season...

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 04 Jan 2012, 21:03

Guðmundur 'Hacksaw' Einarsson wrote:I'll do it, in case you missed my profile on page 1...

Axeman Einarrson, the national team captain, he's your player isnt he?

Barbazza · Post by **Barbazza** » 04 Jan 2012, 21:17

ADx_Wales wrote:Alright, those that were late getting onto the database, I'm having a redo of the database, it appears the oldest member of the forum who was granted a Vanuatu Visa was instantly turned into a coach and hung up his boots...

Was that me by any chance? I didn't see my name in the team line-ups. If so, the game's got a cheek!

ADx_Wales · Post by **ADx_Wales** » 04 Jan 2012, 21:30

It was I'm afraid, you immediately became a Coach at Cambridge United

, and only a coach, going to reduce your age on the database #playinggod.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 04 Jan 2012, 21:37

I don't want to be playing for Gretna again :evil:

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 04 Jan 2012, 21:57

ADx_Wales wrote:It was I'm afraid, you immediately became a Coach at Cambridge United , and only a coach, going to reduce your age on the database #playinggod.

Why not make him a player/coach - that should avoid the problem.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 04 Jan 2012, 22:03

Klon wrote:
ADx_Wales wrote:It was I'm afraid, you immediately became a Coach at Cambridge United , and only a coach, going to reduce your age on the database #playinggod.

Why not make him a player/coach - that should avoid the problem.

FM program makes these decisions, not ADx. So he can't be 'made' to be a player/coach. Once a player enters the database the user no longer has control over them.