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181476.108 in reply to 181476.107
Date: 5/8/2011 8:24:27 PM
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Teams like mine will be fighting in relegation battles for seasons to come.. thats why every season spent in the ABBL should be cherished and not taken for granted.


Thinking of relegation already?? We're not even a third through the season.

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181476.109 in reply to 181476.108
Date: 5/8/2011 8:26:36 PM
Koopasaurus
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hahha have a look on my side of the conference and tell me who I can beat?
I'll be lucky to even get 6th or 7th spot.

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181476.110 in reply to 181476.109
Date: 5/8/2011 8:31:15 PM
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You've already got a 2 game lead over 7th/8th placed teams right now. you're doing fine. With a bit of luck, you might finish 5th.

If you think your side is tough, look at my side! Everyone is a lot more rounded and harder to beat.

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181476.111 in reply to 181476.110
Date: 5/8/2011 8:36:52 PM
Koopasaurus
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that 2 game lead will dwindle in no time with my meek roster of 6 players. How much luck can a team with 240k salary bring you. Don't me wrong I have been pretty lucky in the past, but it'll be a miracle this time.

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181476.112 in reply to 181476.111
Date: 5/8/2011 8:38:17 PM
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Maybe its time you spend some of that cash you got to bring in some 100k+ players! :D

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181476.113 in reply to 181476.112
Date: 5/8/2011 8:50:55 PM
Koopasaurus
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Oh the time will come.. don't you worry.
There is a time and place for everything LOL

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181476.114 in reply to 181476.113
Date: 5/8/2011 10:58:36 PM
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I agree that it's hard to stay up but i wanted a team that was good enough to stay up once i got there. Hence biding my time in div 2. Div 2 is now harder than when i was there but is it still possible to promote to the ABBL for the 1st time and have a realistic chance of staying up without a relegation game?

Just curious to know weather it's possible or weather it more of a mindset of the current managers to "just get up there" no matter what the cost that is making it hard for managers to last more than one season up here


Also Koop your rise was no different to mine in terms of seasons played. You started in season 9, 3 after me and made the ABBL 3 seasons after me also you stayed up like I did - albeit with a bot in our half last year.

I just wonder if i had a good plan or i just got lucky!


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181476.115 in reply to 181476.114
Date: 5/8/2011 11:32:25 PM
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I just wonder if i had a good plan or i just got lucky!


It was pure luck. To have a ABBL bot and then survive a relegation series decider where the opponent's best player got injured after 1 minute of play....and only survived by 2 points in that decider as well!

Here we have the luckiest team in Australia

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181476.116 in reply to 181476.115
Date: 5/9/2011 1:05:14 AM
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I was talking about me not koop being good or lucky! - i finished 5th (PD away from 4th) my 1st 2 seasons in a row! - Koop definitely got lucky!

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181476.117 in reply to 181476.115
Date: 5/9/2011 1:31:04 AM
Koopasaurus
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Here we have the luckiest team in Australia

hahahahha like I've said many times before..
and I'm getting tied of saying this.. but you create your own luck.

I put my team in a situation where should my opponent falter, I can take full advantage..
You do not stumble into the ABBL with luck, div2 is just way too competitive these days.

I was the underdog in div2 and won the title without HCA (opponent played wrong tactics)
and did it again in the relegation series without HCA (opponent's best center got injured)

would you call that luck or good planning? =P
I have a feeling with the current crop of new ABBL teams cming through, gone are the days of ABBL teams lingering in the ABBL who have no idea of what they are doing.

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181476.118 in reply to 181476.108
Date: 5/9/2011 3:43:42 AM
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Guilty, I pushed my way into Div 1 with some aggreesive management ( perhaps ahead of my time ) and a bit of gamesmanship on the forum to undersell my perilous financial state.

If some one hadnt of brought one of my players on the sunday (day of the 3rd final) I would have been bankrupted despite winning the championship.

I run the risk of returning to div 2 in a worse financial state than what I was two seasons ago if I don't start thinking about relegation.

As stated before Koops has stripped his roster knowing he's safe from auto relegation, and can just stash cash so that he can survive another relegation series (smart playing)

Even if I jump out of 8th I'm going to be stuffed coming up against a cashed up Koops or Doncaster Flames in a relegation series

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