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Posted: 08 December 2008 at 5:18pm

I have a team on FTP too and I must say that now I like FTP more than BT.

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Posted: 08 December 2008 at 6:00pm

Originally posted by slogger72N/O

I like the sound of the match engine, but battrick is shortening if offseason to 1 week as of next season and has more cricket in each week, so I still reckon it's better.

I wonder where they got that idea from.

<--- (meant to be rolling eyes )

Also, the reason that BT has more cricket in is because it's fatigue system is highly unreal and rigged so it can do it.

FTP has 3 domestic competitions, T20, YOD and SOD, and always has. There's talk of introducing FC cricket onto FTP but it's from a minority of players who also play BT. Our schedule doesn't really allow it to be fitted without overcrowding the schedule.

There's also 2 friendly slots a week, which don't affect fatigue, experience or gate takings (meaning there's no reason to play them unless you want to)

That is except during times of the Pavilion Cup if you're entered into it. That takes over the Sunday friendly slot until you're out.

And there's the organised friendly competitions which have been a fantastic addition to FTP (takes over the Thursday friendly slot). Some are free to enter and have a prize for the winner (usually membership of 3-12 months depending)

The Match Engine gives more allowance to the possibility of upsets than BT, which means that the underdog still has a fighting chance. Makes the cup much more interesting because of fatigue, good sides have to make good management decisions or risk getting knocked out early in the cup, or losing vital matches in the league.

Originally posted by slogger72N/O

Anyway, I haven't got my team yet (I signed up in Sri Lanka team name W&HCC, username soliddefense) but I was wondering should I invest more in my senior team or my youth team to start off with?

I'd suggest investing just over the average in each to start getting both academies improved a bit, rather than ignoring one.

I'd suggest that the second you get your team you look through and find players with appropriate talents, especially in game talents.

These trigger depending on match situation so some are more likely to trigger than others.

Also, sign up for a mentor on the FTP forum as there's many players who can give you good advice. Your automatically assigned a log in to the forum when you sign up for the game (same username and password) so it saves the hassle of that.

I can be an unofficial advisor and let them give you there views also. That way you get 2 people to ask questions of, and it'll give you greater scope of the game.

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Posted: 08 December 2008 at 6:02pm

Originally posted by canadiancricket

I have a team on FTP too and I must say that now I like FTP more than BT.

Are you the Indian team CanadianCricket??? If so you're doing pretty well, based on ranking alone.

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Yep that's me. Well I was surprised by my ranking too as it jumped 9k from my previous highest.

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Posted: 08 December 2008 at 10:23pm

Fancy a friendly for a week on Thursday (the 18th December)???

I would say this Thursday but I play The Blind Society in a friendly.

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Posted: 08 December 2008 at 11:56pm

Originally posted by The Tyke

That's good to know. I hope people will take more of an interest in FTP as it is turning in a magnificent game.

I think your team's developing quite nicely from what you've said.

Is your team called NineTenXI??? Or is your username different on FTP compared to CricketWorld??? (searched Braddles and came up with this team only

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Yeah that's me, same username and team details as battrick too

Good to know the team's going okay then, I'm hoping for an improvement this season as I've strenthened the team quite a bit. No doubt it'll get even better as I gain a greater understanding of the workings of the game rather than just fumbling around as I have been

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Fancy a friendly for a week on Thursday (the 18th December)???

I would say this Thursday but I play The Blind Society in a friendly.

Accepted and look forward to it.

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I thought that comment about bt being better may annoy you tyke. I like the idea you can arrange 2 friendlies, some people on battrick have been trying to get that introduced, I wonder why?

Anyway I just got my team and they started playing a T20 match without me against a BOT team and won by 9 wickets, wickets were shared fairly equally and 0ne of my openers got 60*.

I've just had a look at my squad and it seems fairly ok, a few ordinary and average players in there and some nice trainees in my youth team, I may post it up later but I think I'll have a look through it first because its my team and it seems a bit stupid if you guys just tell me what to do, it looks like it will be far from simple deciding who to play with all the stats and talents, but I'll do my best.

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Posted: 09 December 2008 at 8:59am

Originally posted by slogger72N/O

I thought that comment about bt being better may annoy you tyke. I like the idea you can arrange 2 friendlies, some people on battrick have been trying to get that introduced, I wonder why?

It only annoys me because of my opinions. To each their own I reckon.

Originally posted by slogger72N/O

Anyway I just got my team and they started playing a T20 match without me against a BOT team and won by 9 wickets, wickets were shared fairly equally and 0ne of my openers got 60*.

I've just had a look at my squad and it seems fairly ok, a few ordinary and average players in there and some nice trainees in my youth team, I may post it up later but I think I'll have a look through it first because its my team and it seems a bit stupid if you guys just tell me what to do, it looks like it will be far from simple deciding who to play with all the stats and talents, but I'll do my best.

Sounds like a good start. If you need help with it then there's plenty of people who can help you out. There's myself and Canadiancricket on here, and also the mentoring program on the forums as well as the forum itself.

The mentoring program can be found in the new players section of the forum and some absolutely brilliant managers work on that, including a few of the current International managers.

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Posted: 09 December 2008 at 9:38am

We won our first game of the season on the last ball of the day today. Great result for us too given they had far superior match ratings to us. Not quite sure how we pulled it off, but very happy we did!!!

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Posted: 09 December 2008 at 10:39am

I got very lucky today in my first match of the season. It's good to get off to a winning start, especially in our first match under the new team name (changed over the off season from Jammo's Lot to Lotton Celtic).

My T20 side isn't as good as my SOD side (Ratings 105k+) but is still pretty good (Ratings are 85-87k).

We won by just 3 runs as the Hudson Hawks ran us way too close for comfort to say they're the newly promoted side. I'm hoping they can keep up the same level of performance, could cause many teams problems.

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Posted: 09 December 2008 at 12:04pm

Originally posted by The Tyke

My T20 side isn't as good as my SOD side (Ratings 105k+) but is still pretty good (Ratings are 85-87k).

I'd kill for ratings like that

. While I'll admit that today's side is made up my left overs and I don't really expect that much from them, we only got ratings of 66,687. Looks like we've got an incredibly long way to go to get to your level, Tyke.

What would you suggest is the best strategy for improving my side? At present I'm looking to sell any outstanding youth prospects I pull and hope to buy players to improve the overall depth of my side. Of course any players that I replace this way will most likely have to be sold which will also get me a little bit of cash.

I also hope this will lead to better performances which will in turn lead to happier fans, greater crowd numbers and the ability to expand my stadium. All this should, of course, lead to increased revenue to improve my academies and so on.

Is this a decent path to take? I sold a 17yo ave/ave bowler last week and sold for a bit over 200k (which amazed me tbh), used the money to buy two new players who are dramatic improvements on the players they replaced. One of those replaced was an old man who I fired - probably the last such case for me - the other I put on the market to try to earn a bit of coin. Had a bit left over to invest in my academies, so I was pretty happy with the way it all worked out.

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Why haven't I got a team yet , I registered last night.

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That was a very good bit of business Braddles.

I have an advantage ratings wise as I've been playing since season 1 so have had a long time to build up my team.

I'm still trying to catch up to the top boys, those who have ratings of about 120k (Similar to most National teams) like Eggy.

I'm also lucky that most of my best bowlers can bat as well. Spry, Donald and Tabart all have good enough batting skills to consider them all rounders so I have a very short tail.

I also believe in having no weak links in the field so I have only 1 player in my SOD starting XI below average (he's ordinary but is training up in fielding) and the other 10 are broken down like this: 2 Capable, 6 Reasonable and 2 average. My Keeper is only Reasonable/Reasonable (Keeping/Fielding)

This gives me a fielding rating of about 6.5k. That and my long batting lineup skews my ratings a bit.

I only like to use ratings as a seeding for the Pavilion Cup, or to express how the side's improving. This season I'm seed number 61 in the cup so kind of have a bullseye on my chest (like all the other Seeds).

Try find some all rounders, be they true all rounders or bowling all rounders. Even Bowlers who have ordinary batting will help strengthen the side.

Ignore ratings as much as you can, look at them to gauge how you're improving over time rather than indicate how strong you are. They were introduced to help create seedings and world rankings only.

My T20 side contains 2 former South African International players (Doug Aparo for the U19's, and Shaun Pollock played a few friendly matches for the Senior National team) so they're not exactly weak. One day some of these will be truly challenging for places (Aparo definitely is one of them).

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Ok I think I've sorted out my senior first XI (it has some youth players in it). See if yout hink I got it right

Player	Age	BT	End	Bat	Bowl	Tech	Power	Keep	Field	Capt	Exp	Fatg	Form	Wage	Rating
Frederick Adcock	27	rws	ordinary	poor	ordinary	ordinary	ordinary	ordinary	average	ordinary	poor	passable	average	$1,090	24,401
Charles Bailey	23	rfs	dreadful	poor	ordinary	poor	ordinary	average	dreadful	ordinary	poor	passable	average	$1,030	19,491
Greg Barton	18	lm	ordinary	poor	poor	dreadful	poor	ordinary	dreadful	capable	atrocious	energetic	average	$758	18,266
Michael Burchett	16	rfm	poor	poor	poor	atrocious	poor	ordinary	dreadful	reasonable	dreadful	energetic	average	$670	15,224
Gary Carew	29	rfm	dreadful	ordinary	poor	poor	poor	poor	ordinary	average	average	passable	average	$852	19,555
Peter Cuff	27	rfs	average	poor	poor	ordinary	ordinary	poor	poor	reasonable	poor	energetic	average	$820	21,452
Frank Cunningham	16	rf	dreadful	average	dreadful	dreadful	dreadful	ordinary	ordinary	ordinary	atrocious	energetic	average	$924	17,907
Jonas Eccleston	23	rfs	reasonable	dreadful	dreadful	ordinary	ordinary	average	dreadful	average	dreadful	energetic	average	$964	21,756
Graham Ford	21	rm	ordinary	poor	poor	average	dreadful	ordinary	ordinary	average	poor	energetic	reasonable	$1,032	21,737
Stuart Hart	18	rfm	ordinary	dreadful	ordinary	poor	ordinary	dreadful	ordinary	poor	dreadful	energetic	average	$718	18,196
Grant Herzberg	18	lm	atrocious	dreadful	poor	ordinary	poor	dreadful	ordinary	ordinary	atrocious	energetic	reasonable	$690	16,881
Harry Ingall	23	rm	ordinary	poor	ordinary	ordinary	ordinary	average	ordinary	ordinary	ordinary	passable	reasonable	$1,116	24,147
Neil Massey	29	rfm	poor	poor	ordinary	ordinary	atrocious	ordinary	ordinary	reasonable	ordinary	passable	reasonable	$976	19,840
Affie Mateljan	29	lfm	poor	dreadful	average	poor	ordinary	ordinary	poor	average	poor	passable	reasonable	$904	19,863
James McKell	17	rfm	poor	ordinary	ordinary	average	atrocious	ordinary	poor	poor	dreadful	energetic	reasonable	$1,180	19,743
George Moffat	21	rm	poor	ordinary	ordinary	poor	poor	dreadful	dreadful	ordinary	dreadful	passable	average	$892	17,818
Clint Moroney	18	rfs	dreadful	poor	poor	dreadful	dreadful	dreadful	poor	poor	atrocious	energetic	reasonable	$530	13,342
Sadun Muhsin	16	rfs	dreadful	ordinary	atrocious	ordinary	poor	ordinary	atrocious	average	dreadful	energetic	reasonable	$890	15,021
Dennis Peters	16	rfm	dreadful	atrocious	ordinary	dreadful	poor	atrocious	atrocious	poor	dreadful	energetic	reasonable	$648	10,934
Jimmy Poeppel	29	rm	poor	poor	dreadful	ordinary	poor	ordinary	poor	average	poor	passable	reasonable	$828	19,578
Thomas Reynolds	16	rm	dreadful	dreadful	ordinary	dreadful	poor	average	dreadful	ordinary	dreadful	energetic	average	$836	15,306
Chris Sainsbury	28	lm	dreadful	ordinary	poor	poor	ordinary	poor	poor	capable	average	passable	average	$858	18,812
Arthur Scherer	16	rfs	ordinary	average	ordinary	atrocious	poor	dreadful	dreadful	capable	atrocious	energetic	average	$962	17,013
Brian Shaw	16	lfs	ordinary	poor	poor	ordinary	ordinary	poor	poor	ordinary	atrocious	energetic	reasonable	$712	18,655
Jason Stokes	16	rfm	poor	dreadful	poor	poor	poor	poor	atrocious	poor	atrocious	energetic	average	$646	15,210
Colin Tate	21	rfm	ordinary	average	poor	ordinary	average	poor	poor	ordinary	ordinary	satisfactory	average	$1,064	22,386
Trevor Thomas	16	rm	reasonable	atrocious	poor	poor	ordinary	ordinary	dreadful	average	atrocious	energetic	reasonable	$818	19,241
Jimmy Thornton	16	rfs	ordinary	average	dreadful	average	ordinary	dreadful	dreadful	ordinary	dreadful	energetic	reasonable	$1,132	20,962
Robert Wellington	28	rm	average	dreadful	poor	average	poor	average	poor	poor	average	passable	average	$1,078	23,418

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Tate
Thornton
Carew           (gifted in technique)
Mckell (b)       (swing bowler)
Sainsbury (c)
Moffat            (skilled and gifted bat)
Ingall (b)       (boundary hitter, slower ball)
Adcock (b)
Ecclestone (wk) (gifted in power)
Bailey (b)        (skilled bowler)
Hart (b)           (skilled bowler)

So what do you think, I'll have a look at training in a minute although some advice would be appreciated on that as I'm not sure whats best to train in some players.

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I've also just brought this guy for 4000, I don't know whether it was a good deal or not, but he's my best player now and 4000 seemed like a fair price.

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Wage	$1,442	Rating	25,597
Nationality	England	Age	24
Form	average	Fatigue	rested
Experience	average	Captaincy	average
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Posted: 09 December 2008 at 8:51pm

That's a fantastic buy to be honest. He'll only be a temporary investment (2 or 3 seasons) but in that time he'll get you plenty of runs. Nice talent too. Should come in handy when the RR's a little low.

I think you've picked an ok XI for now, from what you've got currently. I find it easier to look at on the FTP squad page as I can look through and arrange by skills.

If you want me (or anyone else for that matter) to look over your team, On the My Club section (Top bar) there's an option called club (right hand side menu Club) there's an option button to reveal all players, next time you're on FTP click it and let me know (or anyone you get to help) so they can look through your squad and help you out.

I have an Exam in 6 days time so may not be as available as normal to mentor. I have fallen a tiny bit behind schedule with my revision so I'm having to make up for it this week or risk failing.

I can do bits and pieces to help out but I'm in a stage of mass revision. I can get one of the better mentors to message you if you want???

I would say post on the Mentor thread but there's a few inexperienced players who are trying to mentor on there, so if you do that just check how long the mentor has been playing the game.

I'll have a word with a few of the mentors and see if anybody's free enough to give you full attention. If they have I'll get them to send you a message in game about it.

EDIT: That was easy

. The first manager I spoke to is free to mentor. Your mentor will be Eggy, ranked 3rd in the world in Senior One Day format, and his lowest world rank is in the T20, where he's the world number 21.

I'll send you a message in game with the details about it.

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I have an Exam in 6 days time so may not be as available as normal to mentor. I have fallen a tiny bit behind schedule with my revision so I'm having to make up for it this week or risk failing.

Been there , got the postcard Tykey! I'm sure you'll pull through and then have a real good go at enjoying the festive season . Wink

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My 20-20 game was easy beating a bot. Other games won't be easy with many higher ranked teams in my league.
My youth game today isn't looking good. This season, my youth squad sucks to be honest and I might just get killed like a bot all season with lots of good teams in my league.

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Thanks for getting eggy to mentor me Tyke, he looks like a great manager, I just emailed him.

I brought a couple more batsmen because my batting's very weak, I made the mistake of buying a 30 year old, but he's quite good so he should play for me for the rest of the season and he was only 1000, same with another younger guy I brought. I've also got a 1000 bid on a bowler this morning so that I can rest one of my youths and not have him playing 3 times a week (Mckell) he's not got great endurance but hopefully I can sort that out.

170-4 in my youth game (I'm batting) and it looks like Thornton could get the clubs first ever 100

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A good win for my youth side today against a side that's consistently beaten us over the last couple of seasons. We reached our target of 226 with 3 overs to spare which I thought was a very impressive effort.

Looks like we might be on the road to becoming a competitive side which is quite exciting.

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Won my youth game by 20 runs against a BOT team, which is quite embarrassing really. Thornton only made 91 in the end, I made 270 and my bowlers bowled a whole load of rubbish to let them get to 250-5.

Got my first real team in 2 days time, looks like they'll beat me, but I've brought some decent players, so hopefully I can pull out a surprise win.

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Been there , got the postcard Tykey! I'm sure you'll pull through and then have a real good go at enjoying the festive season . Wink

If they will make it 80p for any drink all night on Wednesday when I have Thursdays off then I guess it was inevitable that my revision was going to get a tiny bit behind.

I have to get minimum 40% to pass but want to get up in the 80's and make things easier for myself in the long run.

I'll have to enjoy the festive season. It'll be the first time I've been home since Uni started (September) so get to see all my mates and stuff.

In my YOD match I won by 6 wickets with Gulliver and Rafiq picking up half centuries as we chased down 202. Have one of my toughest challenges next week in YOD, playing last season's champions and I'm looking to get my title back this season. They took my YOD crown so I'll have to take it back if I can.

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Had 4 pops today, 3 of them on first team players and 2 of them players I've just brought. I'm quite pleased with how my teams improved since Tuesday. I've gone from having 2 ordinary batsmen with the rest poor to 2 average batsmen with the rest ordinary. My bowling attack though has gone from all poor to 1 reasonable bowler, 2 average, 1 ordinary and 1 poor. Mainly because it's so easy to buy players that will improve my team on the TM. I've got one of my biggest SOD game of the season tomorrow as I'm playing a decent team that isn't a BOT. I'm hoping all my transfer dealings will have payed off.

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Wow, you did have a good day, Slogger

I'm glad you posted that cos it made me check my pops which I'd completely forgotten about

. Must say I'm very glad I did as I had the best day os senior pops I've ever had.

Two of the guys I bought from the sale of my ave/ave 17yo bowler both popped in technique (forgotten I'd bought 3, not two as I posted above). The batsman I spent 22k on popped to reliable tech, so he's now reas/reliable, and keeper batsman I paid 56k for popped to reas tech to go with his reas batting and capable keeping.

I bought a capable 20bowler (ave tech) for 5k a couple of weeks ago and he popped to reliable today to become only my second ever reliable player (along with my 18yo reliable/reas gifted bowler). Unfortunately his endurance is horrible, so he'll be training that for a while til I can use him in my SOD team.

Also had a 22yo bowler pop to reasonable bowling and a 21yo reasonable batsman pop to reasonable tech. Really happy with today, these last couple of weeks have really sparked my interest in this game

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A better week than expected as far as training goes, but I'm having to take a training hit to keep 22 players in my senior squad (10 of my SOD, my T20 team and 1 spare)

1x Endurance pop to Average on Nathan Bull

1x Batting pop to Capable on Bruce Craig

1x Keeping pop to Reasonable on AB de Villiers

3x Fielding pop. John Tabart and Shaun Pollock to Average, Harry Jeffery to Reasonable.

Happy with those pops, especially with Jeffery's as he could be on the transfer market soon so this should improve the price I can get for him.

In my friendly today I beat The Blind Society by 83 runs at home. The Blind Society are currently the reigning champions of the West Indies SOD 1.1 and have won that league for the last 2 seasons so I reckon that today was a very good win, on a pitch where we both feel comfortable.

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Well my first ever SOD game is underway today and I'm 141-3 after 27 overs. My new pinch hitter got a fantastic 0 along with another player I brought, but Fairweather (posted on this page) made 48 off 48 balls and Watson, my opening batsman is well past 50 so hopefully I can keep wickets in hand and push on to a big total to put him under pressure later.

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This is a question for Tyke, or anyone else with a greater understanding of the game than me (not overly hard...). I have a gun 17yo batsman that I'm considering selling to add depth to my squad. Just wondering how much I'd get for him and if it's a good idea to sell for profit or keep him and just keep plugging away.

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Team (Youth)	NineTenXI	Talents	Sturdy, Gifted (Fielding)
Bats	Right hand batsman	Bowls	Left arm Medium
Wage	$1,672	Rating	26,669
Nationality	New Zealand	Age	17
Form	reasonable	Fatigue	rested
Experience	dreadful	Captaincy	reasonable
Endurance	ordinary	Training	Batting
Batting	capable	Bowling	dreadful
Technique	average	Power	ordinary
Keeping	ordinary	Fielding	average

Popped in batting and tech this week. He's definitely one of my better players, but I'm thinking I could replace him with someone similar who's a year or two older and also buy upgrades for some of my other players. What are your thoughts?

The Tyke

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http://www.fromthepavilion.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=235&start=795

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Posted: 12 December 2008 at 2:02pm

If he was in my team I'd keep him as he looks destined to be a top player, one who I can place in at the foundations of a good team 3 seasons from now, but then again my team's probably in a better financial position due to 3 seasons of success and one of near success.

It's a matter of short term improvement over long term improvement. If you're looking to build a strong team quickly (like some of the Big Boys managed when we started out) then I'd get a good valuation on the FTP forum, get a player ad on there too and get the cash in the bank to improve your team.

I'll give you the link to the youth player valuations thread on the FTP forums.

I even use it sometimes as I like to see what people think of the players. I'll also get you the Youth Transfer ads thread which I know is used by a lot of people, and visited by a lot of people. This will help you lots if you decide to sell him. He should definitely be one player who'll get the Big Boys to delve in their pockets to buy.

The Youth Player Valuations thread:

The Youth Player Transfer Ads thread:

http://www.fromthepavilion.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=237&start=750

Sorry I can't be more help in this as I mostly avoid the transfer market and try to use only home grown talent.This has worked wonders until recently when myself and other sides who've been doing it have been hit hard by not having enough talent coming through our ranks.

We've been forced to look on the market to try rebuild a little bit.

In my game today I lost to Royal Ajero CFRC away. We were bowled out for a measly 173 on an uneven track with overcast weather, and they managed to get home by 4 wickets, meaning that I suffered my first loss under the Lotton Celtic name.

Match Ratings were the only positive of today.

Match Ratings
	Royal Ajero CFRC	Lotton Celtic
Batting - Top Order:	7,161	6,249
Batting - Middle Order:	6,788	5,591
Batting - Tail:	2,876	3,709
Bowling - Seam:	7,215 (6)	6,218 (6)
Bowling - Spin:	7,607 (4)	6,216 (4)
Fielding/Keeping:	5,125	7,116
Overall:	116,658	110,921

On Sunday I have my first ever home match in the Pavilion Cup and I'm looking to absolutely demolish the Snowcats.

Minn hugur er minn sver� (My mind is my sword)

Braddles

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