Subject: training results

Very good point Qpeg! :)

Different culture/tradition here - we open them on 24th:)

And the lads above should know their own history, Boxing Day, the 26th, was the traditional present-exchange day.

I heard somewhere that the 26th was the day all the servants used to get to exchange gifts (boxes)etc, but on the 25th they were still busy running around cooking / cleaning for their Lords and Masters etc etc.

So it was who you were that determined when you opened gifts......

Origins
The celebration is traditional, dating back to the middle ages, and consisted of the practice of giving of gifts to employees, the poor, or to people in a lower social class. The name has numerous folk etymologies[3]; the Oxford English Dictionary attributes it to the Christmas box; the verb box meaning: "To give a Christmas-box (colloq.); whence boxing-day."


[edit] Folk etymologies
The more common stories include:

It was the day when people would give a present or Christmas box to those who had worked for them throughout the year.
In feudal times, Christmas was a reason for a gathering of extended families. All the serfs would gather their families in the manor of their lord, which made it easier for the lord of the estate to hand out annual stipends to the serfs. After all the Christmas parties on 26 December, the lord of the estate would give practical goods such as cloth, grains, and tools to the serfs who lived on his land. Each family would get a box full of such goods the day after Christmas. Under this explanation, there was nothing voluntary about this transaction; the lord of the manor was obliged to supply these goods. Because of the boxes being given out, the day was called Boxing Day.
In England many years ago, it was common practice for the servants to carry boxes to their employers when they arrived for their day's work on the day after Christmas. Their employers would then put coins in the boxes as special end-of-year gifts. This can be compared with the modern day concept of Christmas bonuses. The servants carried boxes for the coins, hence the name Boxing Day.
In churches, it was traditional to open the church's donation box on Christmas Day, and the money in the donation box was to be distributed to the poorer or lower class citizens on the next day. In this case, the "box" in "Boxing Day" comes from that lockbox in which the donations were left.
Boxing Day was the day when the wren, the king of birds,[4] was captured and put in a box and introduced to each household in the village when he would be asked for a successful year and a good harvest. See Frazer's Golden Bough.
Evidence can also be found in Wassail songs such as:
Where are you going ? said Milder to Malder,
Oh where are you going ? said Fessel to Foe,
I'm going to hunt the cutty wren said Milder to Malder,
I'm going to hunt the cutty wren said John the Rednose.
And what will you do wi' it ? said Milder to Malder,
And what will you do wi' it ? said Fessel to Foe,
I'll put it in a box said Milder to Malder,
I'll put it in a box said John the Rednose.
etc...


St. Stephen's Day is also celebrated in Ireland as Wren Day or Wren Boys' Day [2], particularly in rural areas (notably Kerry - see John B. Keane's book The Bodhran Makers), and also in Sandymount[3], in Dublin.



Because the staff had to work on such an important day as Christmas by serving the master of the house and their family, they were given the following day off. As servants were kept away from their own families to work on a traditional religious holiday and were not able to celebrate Christmas Dinner, the customary benefit was to "box" up the leftover food from Christmas Day and send it away with the servants and their families. (Similarly, as the servants had the 26th off, the owners of the manor may have had to serve themselves pre-prepared, boxed food for that one day.) Hence the "boxing" of food became "Boxing Day".
Similar to above, leftovers and food were boxed up and shipped overseas in times of war to the soldiers of the Commonwealth Nations.

Well done, very interesting

Just a quick c+p off wikipedia. :)

Interesting to see they have a Rent Boys Day or Wren Boys as they call it. Very Gay of them. :D

Trained Pace again this week

6 pops including a winger to brilliant
1 random ( keeper in scoring )

i had 2 pops in youth school and form was -4

not too bad overall

2nd week in a row where i've had no pops =[

Juniors weren't too bad tho:

--> formidable 0
--> outstanding 1
--> very good 14
--> good 17
--> very good 18
--> excellent 20 (popping every 4weeks)
--> average 23
--> average 24

3 tech pops

16 --> Unsatisfactory :D
19 --> Incredible
23 --> Outstanding (+ random popped in passing to Formidable)

Hate it when you get no pops, I didn't get many.

Your youth school more than makes up for it though.

WOW.

I had some promising pops in my youth school....but nothing like yours.
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trained pace

20 yr old romanian NT -> outstanding
21 yr old -> formid
New Brilliant pull -> solid
#1 striker -> unearthly ;)

randoms
19 yr old german -> poor striking

youth squad

-> very good + 12 (popping every 6 weeks)
-> very good + 13 (popping every 5.5 weeks)
-> solid + 15 ( popping every 4.3 weeks)
-> solid + 24 (popping every 6 weeks)
-> weak + 26

2 youths ready to pull...

"#1 striker -> unearthly ;)"

Oh smeg. I'm in trouble on sunday.

Trained Playmaking:

21y def --> adequate
23y winger --> very good
23y winger --> outstanding

Randoms:

24y mid -- solid defending


Youths:

--> adequate 3
--> excellent 4
--> incredible 5
--> average 5
--> very good 15

trained pace

21 yr old Eesti NT -> outstanding
19 yr old German NT squad memeber -> excellent

randoms
21 yr old -> solid tech
+1 stamina

youth squad
-> formidable +2

promoted 1 youth with mega talent