yer its kinda deflating a little bit.
Like if i use myself as an example.
Rnd1 - CL v Warriors48 (172) - I tied and won comfortably using bench players.
Rnd 2 - ezyfrag v CL - Ezy normaled me, but i had HCA and encountered garbage time
Rnd 3 - CL v Kedford Giants(115) - He set only 3 players (but also normaled me. go figure)
Rnd 4 - Coasters (9) v CL - Ahhh a div II team! But he had a tough week, and HCA to me, he didn't set many of his starters. easy win using some bench as starters.
Rnd 5 - CL v Black Label Society - oooooooooooo so Dire has knocked me out of the cup a few times before, so it was nice to exact my revenge. One of his guys got injured, but it didnt matter anyways, he also put in more enthusiasm, but yer, his lineup was very guard focused, so that was ok.
Rnd 6 - Doncaster Flames v CL - Again, HCA to me, but my league games that week were easy which enabled me to have a full starting 5 for the game.
Rnd 7 - Eaton Boomers vs CL - HCA AGAIN for me, but his team was pretty week and he had been Normalling in the leadup so it was pretty easy in the end.
Don't gt me wrong, ive got ex-abbl team this week, ive got HCA though. (yey!).
But really, ive managed to get full training minutes for my 2 trainee's almost every week, im 2nd on the ladder in the league, and i haven't really had to try that hard to win cup games.
On the flip side, i do have a very good and flexible lineup for Div II, so that does help. But I haven't had an ABBL team yet, i haven't had a team CT me (somebody did sorry, but i normaled) - so there has been a bit of tactic, but mostly luck.