Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Playing With Revenue
This mornings task is to somehow allow deals to take place for more than £100m... not as easy as it might sound.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Ross Sharp, Cokebaby...
I was incredibly saddened to hear today that Ross Sharp, known as Cokebaby to many of you, had passed away after his battle with cancer. Ross was a really lovely guy, a massive part of the League Soccer world for so many years, and I know he'll be missed so much by all of us. To lose someone at such a young age, just a couple of weeks after the birth of his son Jasper, is such a terrible terrible tragedy.
As a League Soccer manager, Ross was pretty good I think; I don't have any records of what he won to hand, though I remember him asking me often enough to set up a system to record it (I finally did so a month ago, but never got round to emailing him to let him know). However, as a friend to pretty much everyone in the game he was exceptional. For the best part of five years you could always find him on the Necom noticeboards, answering questions and doing a much better job of solving problems for fellow managers than I ever could. He probably knew much more than I did and along with the likes of Jamie and one or two others, helped to create the brilliant online community that we have. All our long email exchanges and chats helped to push the game forward, Ross was instrumental in a number of improvements to the game and the website. Author of a massive 10,180 posts on the necom noticeboards, with his own custom title ('Master of puppets...') and an unbeatable signature - "unlike u ross, i am not a necom master - K.Hundal". Kieran isn't always right, but he certainly got that one correct.
My thoughts, and hopefully those of everyone who has ever been anything to do with League Soccer anywhere go out to Ross' family, his wife Faye and his son.
As a League Soccer manager, Ross was pretty good I think; I don't have any records of what he won to hand, though I remember him asking me often enough to set up a system to record it (I finally did so a month ago, but never got round to emailing him to let him know). However, as a friend to pretty much everyone in the game he was exceptional. For the best part of five years you could always find him on the Necom noticeboards, answering questions and doing a much better job of solving problems for fellow managers than I ever could. He probably knew much more than I did and along with the likes of Jamie and one or two others, helped to create the brilliant online community that we have. All our long email exchanges and chats helped to push the game forward, Ross was instrumental in a number of improvements to the game and the website. Author of a massive 10,180 posts on the necom noticeboards, with his own custom title ('Master of puppets...') and an unbeatable signature - "unlike u ross, i am not a necom master - K.Hundal". Kieran isn't always right, but he certainly got that one correct.
My thoughts, and hopefully those of everyone who has ever been anything to do with League Soccer anywhere go out to Ross' family, his wife Faye and his son.
Friday, September 02, 2011
Honours
Pretty much all the honours entries for 2011 and 2010 have now been entered into the system, and I'm pleased to say that for the past few weeks they've all be appearing on your printout sheets in two separate places. The trophies you have won as a manager (in all games) will appear on your account details sheet, whilst the titles won by each team you manage will appear on their own squad sheets (even if the team was managed by someone else at that time). I'm looking forward to getting all the rest of the information I hold into the system over the next few weeks, and then we can have some fun with manager profiles on the website and suchlike.
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