oneteaminglasgow Posted April 22, 2021 Author Share Posted April 22, 2021 August 2051 One game this month, and we defended ok but didn't do a lot going forward and lost it to a late penalty. Not the start I wanted, but oh well. We drop into the relegation playoff spots. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 25, 2021 Author Share Posted April 25, 2021 September 2051 Incredibly predictable losses against two of the top four to start the month, before we got my first points at the club with a good win against bottom side Telavi, and a point which should have been more against Sioni. I think the rest of this season will be an absolute slog, but we'll see how it goes. Three points behind with seven games left. We'll see how it goes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 25, 2021 Author Share Posted April 25, 2021 October 2051 An excellent month, especially with some pretty difficult games. Absolutely stole a point against Dinamo with them giving away a needless penalty right at the end after missing countless chances, before a thoroughly unexpected win against Lokomotivi, where we missed a penalty as well. We were better that Dila Gori until just before half time, where we got a guy sent off, but we defended well after that to hold on to the point. That all moves us out of the bottom three and the playoff spots. It's between us and Sioni, basically, and we both have relatively tough run ins - although we face Torpedo Kutaisi and a win there could go a long, long way to keeping us up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dysartrovers Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 At least the top teams in the league seem to drop a lot of points so there might be a chance next season if you can sign some decent players 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 25, 2021 Author Share Posted April 25, 2021 November 2051 Stole a win against Semtredia, and then threw one away against ten man Torpedo. We were absolutely outstanding against Dinamo Batumi though, had something like 44 shots and was the most comprehensive victory I've had in a while. What does it mean for the table though... Just one point picked up by Sioni means that we're safe. With one game to go, we'll be finishing 7th and there's very, very little to play for throughout the entire league. We managed to hit form at exactly the right time to stay up, but there's still a fairly large rebuilding job required before next season in order to be a bit more comfortable next year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 25, 2021 Author Share Posted April 25, 2021 December 2051 An absolute non-event to end the season. If I was trying to shine a positive light, we did ok against the champions, but being honest both sides clearly couldn't be arsed with this game. Both the top flight sides won their playoff ties, so stay up. In other news... £375k for 600 odd seats seems excessive, but the clubs finances are healthy so it's not a huge deal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 27, 2021 Author Share Posted April 27, 2021 Transfers 2052 No major losses there, mostly just getting a load of utter dross out the door. The board accepted a bid for my best player, which I was fuming about, but thankfully he turned down the contract offer and signed a new deal with me. I'll start with Dino Gillies, who I signed early on in my reign but who wasn't able to be registered to play until this season. He's a centre half, and should be a solid back up option for me. Looks fine for that. Spoiler Beriashvili and Goglichidze were signed before I turned up, Both strikers, both should be fine. Beriashvili was on loan last season, and did quite well so hopefully will keep that up. Spoiler Maroales is another centre half, who can also cover at left back. He'll mainly play centre half for me though, partly because he's slow as a week in the jail so I think he'd be dreadfully exposed by any half decent winger. Looks good though. Spoiler Gil is, by some way, the signing I'm most excited about. He's a left winger who joins after leaving Santos, and he's a technically gifted player with the potential to be excellent - I hope he will be anyway because I'm paying him a fortune. When I signed him, Inter Milan were having a look at him too so I wouldn't be shocked to see him end up somewhere decent later in the save, particularly with this sort of thing... Spoiler Raul Ursuleasa is a striker joining from the Romanian lower leagues, and has a bit of a mixed record there but he was free and has decent attributes to do a job up front. Spoiler Driton Sadiku joins as my new right back, and unlike almost every other right back I've ever had, he's good going forward and a bit dodgy defensively. Excited to see how he gets on. Spoiler Ceballos is my stop gap goalkeeper. I don't think he'll be good enough long term, but he'll be fine for this season, and I can look at someone better next. Spoiler Radu is here to play left back, and look a dependable defender but little else. He should still be able to do a decent job though. Spoiler Montejano I've signed as cover, and because he doesn't count towards my foreign player quota which I've filled. Spoiler -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 27, 2021 Author Share Posted April 27, 2021 March 2052 Well, not what I'd wanted but it's not dreadful either. We should have beaten Sioni, but the rest of the games have been pretty even. Aye, just need to start getting some wins under the belt, but we're hard to beat and that's something. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 27, 2021 Author Share Posted April 27, 2021 April 2052 A really good month that, going unbeaten and winning three on the bounce as well. Gil got a rating of 10 for the Sioni game, and we've generally looked excellent. Dished out an absolute pumping in the cup as well. We're looking good as things stand. Also had this pop up this month -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 27, 2021 Author Share Posted April 27, 2021 May 2052 I'll take that, two pretty heavy defeats against some of the leagues top sides, but decent comeback wins in the other games, and comfortably into the next round of the cup. Looking good, we're comfortable in midtable. I'd say that, given we're already 14 points behind, we have no chance of the title but that was never a realistic target this season. No danger of relegation is all I'm looking for, and we're looking solid for that. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 (edited) June 2052 We seem to actually be a very competent Georgian top flight side now. I was expecting to be better than last season, but not by this much. Pleasing. Saburtalo are running away with the title, and remarkably we seem to be in the battle for European spots, and still in the cup as well. I haven't won a cup competition since I was in the Faroes, so I'd quite like to win it here. I also had some transfer activity this month. Atanackovic left, because he's shite, and I put a couple of guys out on loan. Incoming was Miroslav Ivanovic, an attacking midfielder. He's very good on set pieces, and decent all round so should be an asset. Not been fit enough to play yet, but should appear in the next few games. Spoiler Edited April 28, 2021 by oneteaminglasgow -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 July 2052 Good start to the month, although we conceded a couple of late goals against Sioni to make it an uncomfortable end to the game. We weren't very good against either Samtredia or Lokomtivi though, which is unfortunate. Aye, that loss against Lokomotivi puts us behind them but we're still in with a decent shout at the top four. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 August 2052 Some good results, some bad ones. Shouldn't be dropping points against dross like Dila Gori, and we were 2-0 up against Chikhura before being taken back to 2-2. Need to stop that nonsense. Beating Saburtalo was great though, we played very well in that game. Still in the chase for top four. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 29, 2021 Author Share Posted April 29, 2021 September 2052 Another victory over the runaway league leaders, this time in the cup, was excellent and a few really solid wins to follow that up. We do seem prone to an occasional doing though, and we took another one at the hands of Lokomotivi. The picture hasn't changed a lot. My main focus is on the cup, with the semi final coming up next against Dinamo Batumi. The other semi is between Samtredia and Lokomotivi. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 30, 2021 Author Share Posted April 30, 2021 October 2052 A great result against Samtredia which really puts us in the driving seat for fourth, and we got through to the Cup final as well. Another very positive month. Four points ahead with four games left, we should be finishing in fourth from here, and the cup final coming up too. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 30, 2021 Author Share Posted April 30, 2021 November 2052 Well, we were soundly beaten by Dinamo Tblisi, but we were extremely comfortable in the other two games - especially the Dila Gori game which was emphatic. Hattricks for both my wingers as well. With one league game to go, we've secured that fourth placed spot, and given that we play Lokomotivi in the final of the cup, we'll be playing in Europe next season. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 30, 2021 Author Share Posted April 30, 2021 December 2052 Decent way to round off the season. On to the cup final now. Very good for my first full season in charge, and we'll be going into European competition next season. If we can win the cup, I'll call it a great season. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 30, 2021 Author Share Posted April 30, 2021 David Kipiani Cup Final - 2052 This is the biggest game in the club's history, and we're facing Lokomotivi Tblisi - a side who've beaten us 3-0 in our last two meetings, so they definitely go into it as favourites. I have actually got a good record in Cup finals throughout this save - the only ones I can remember losing are an Estonian Cup final with Paide and one of my Icelandic cup finals. Anyway, onto the game itself... Spoiler Glorious. We absolutely did not deserve to win that game. 2 shots on target, 2 goals. Lokomotivi weren't at their best, but still, I'd have been fucking seething if the roles were reversed. Gil's first goal was absolutely great though, and we held out pretty well at the end. My first cup win in a while, and delighted to get some silverware in my first full season in Georgia. It also means that we go into the Europa Conference League a round later than we would have otherwise, which is another bonus. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 30, 2021 Author Share Posted April 30, 2021 Georgian Super Cup - 2053 I didn't realise that Georgia had a Super Cup, but we're in it after winning the cup. Obviously, we're facing last season's champions Saburtalo, who we actually have a decent record against. Spoiler And I add another trophy to Merani's collection. A lot like the cup final, we were second best but took our chances. Sadiku's goal was a belter, and getting back into it so quickly through Beriashvili's goal was brilliant stuff too. They definitely should have equalised on numerous occasions, and we cleared the ball off the line at least twice. Still, that's two trophies here now. Hooray. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted May 1, 2021 Author Share Posted May 1, 2021 Transfers - 2053 Right, quite a lot of outgoing players. The biggest one was Giorgi Nikoleishvili, my best centre back at only 18 years old, heading off to Benfica. He asked to leave, and I agreed if we got a bid of 750k he could go, thinking that no one would bid that, but then Benfica immediately came in over that, so had to let him go. He's now on loan at Dinamo Tblisi, which is a pisser. Rybus and Gillies are the only other ones who got regular games last season, but neither are really good enough so not as big a loss. Ivanovic I covered last season, but I'm not taking a new screenshot so. Anyway, Tsetskladze is a back up attacking/centre midfielder. He's young and pretty decent, good on the ball. Should develop a bit, and definitely gives me someone competent for when Ivanovic is injured/suspended, which I didn't really have last season, so that's good. Spoiler Giorgi Natroshvili is a central midfielder, and I'm planning on him being a starter for me. Like Tsetskhladze, he's very good on the ball, and his vision and work rate are both excellent. I'm pleased with him, he's certainly an improvement on Rybus who he's basically a replacement for. Spoiler Mirsad Omerovic is a centre half, and he looks pretty good. He's pretty limited on the ball, but he can defend solidly, and has a bit of pace as well. He's also got Georgian citizenship and doesn't count towards my foreign players quota, which is hugely important given I've filled it. Spoiler Now, I think that Petr Havel is the best signing I've made. He just looks fantastic. That's all I really have to say. Spoiler Orlando Figueroa is another centre back, I probably could have done without him, but he looks very good too. Can pass as well as defend, and should be able to form a solid partnership with Omerovic. Spoiler Lastly, I needed a left back. Neither Radu not Maroales looked particularly comfortable there last season, so I've brought in Doherty from Falkirk. I was looking for someone a bit better going forward than he is, but I couldn't find one. He's a bit of a panic signing to be honest, but he's good defensively and has the pace and stamina to get up and down the park effectively, so we'll see how it goes. Spoiler So that's my team. Again, I think we're a better side than we were last season. We'll see how it goes. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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