Subject: Australia Cup

Yeah you’ve had a tough draw this week. Even Wednesday isn’t great for you to let your trainees free.

I’ve had a much easier week this week, even disregarding using my trainees against Achmid on Sunday. Had a soft cup match this week so that made things easy and have another soft game on Wednesday. Haven’t seen next week but expect that will potentially be a bit more awkward.

Two cupsets this week, as Gingers and Hajduk advance to the semis.

I couldn't overcome having only the weakest of my 3 strikers available and injured GK. Well done, GN.

Yeah I don’t know if my loss was an upset. I was just outplayed by a better team and tactic on the day. A few annoying moments led to goals conceded but the overall result was probably a fair reflection of the game. On the other hand if you’re going off league finishing position for past few seasons yeah I could see it being considered an upset.

If anything Hajduk should be doing better in the league.
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I assumed you rested payers - it's the first time I've ever rated higher than you if not.

I think I'm ending up where I should be in the league - maybe 2 points below where I aimed for last season. This season in line - always feels like a coin toss with Chile, GN etc but well below the top 4 if playing 1st elevens

With ratings of 66 you’re really not behind the top4. My ratings are around that at best and I’ve been 3rd/4th for a long while now. You should be aiming for top 4.

I don’t think I played my absolute strongest side against you in the cup but it wasn’t far off it. I’ll check but think only players missing was Galea/Doyle in midfield and maybe Greenwood instead of Johnston. I used more trainees against you last time in the cup last season and paid the price for it.

I’m in a bit of a rebuilding phase to so my strongest is probably not as strong as it has been

Congrats on the cup title Achmid. Been a while since you won a cup. Think your cabinet was gathering dust on cup trophies :p

Commiz’ with the cup final Major, but we’ll done on getting to the big dance.

Congrats G on another piece of silverware.

It's definitely been a trophy that I have found hard to get a hand on recently.
Thanks for the gratz both.

Congrats to majortinkle for making it to the final and knocking off some real beasts of the game on the way there. Showing that you are a real contender in Australia

Absolutely agree. What needs to come now is the belief that you can beat any of us on a given day and then you start to turn that into beating anyone consistently over a 22 match season which is harder to do. I’ve still yet to hit the league title although a few seasons ago I gave it a massive shake.