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Career Scratch Tries: Facundo Colidio 1KC [Season 24] - FINISHED


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7 minutes ago, FuddledFox said:

I had forgotten how young Colidio is still, are you in this save until he retires or is this the last season when he breaks the 1k?

Yeah, started as 16 year old. Birthday on 19th May, so only just 30 too. Can probably get another 10-12 seasons out of him if Armstrong is any guide. At this point I'm tempted to take him as far as he can go - I can't get him to score 130 or 150 like some can, but if I go long I should be able to get him to 1300 or maybe more. 

That also means I should be able to skip over FMM 2018 and go right to FMM 2019 :laugh:

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7 minutes ago, Taff said:

Great going @scratch99 and so close to the 1K now you can smell it

Thanks mate. Definitely going to reach it this year (unless he gets a long term injury)...

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10 hours ago, scratch99 said:

That also means I should be able to skip over FMM 2018 and go right to FMM 2019 :laugh:

And miss out on all my great careers? Can't have that, mate!! Get your butt in the 18Forum asap! ;)

 

Things are progressing beautifully here. Next season's the big one. The one people will remember you and your boy for. Pressure will be off once you hit that 1000 mark and it'll be a much more enjoyable ride from then on. At least ime it is. Now go get your 1kc (y)

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On 1/12/2018 at 10:37, BatiGoal said:

And miss out on all my great careers? Can't have that, mate!! Get your butt in the 18Forum asap! ;)

 

Things are progressing beautifully here. Next season's the big one. The one people will remember you and your boy for. Pressure will be off once you hit that 1000 mark and it'll be a much more enjoyable ride from then on. At least ime it is. Now go get your 1kc (y)

Haha, will get my butt over there asap, but the "as possible" part is the problem. Just no time at the moment. Will definitely get over there sometime soon though to see what crazy/amazing stuff you're getting up to! ?

Thanks mate. Going to keep enjoying the ride for next 5-6 seasons, after that we'll see how painful it gets. My inclination is to push him into the ground and keep him going to 40... But those last few seasons...

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Update - Season 15

Still plugging away! This should be the season Colidio breaks the 1K mark, so let's cross our fingers and see if he can do it...

 

Transfers, etc

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Some hard choices this season. Vida and Fernandez are world class and still in their prime, just not quite performing well enough. Tierney, Pavon, Melegoni, Rodriguez, Cristaldo, Bannan have all been great servants of the club, but time has been called on them.

We had players ready to step into their place, but we also scouted extensively and brought in a bunch of youngsters to become the next generation of this club. Some of them will be lemons, some legends.

Notably, we acquired our second Javier Castro, which has caused much hilarity amongst the fans. "Two Javier Castro's, there's only two Javier Castro's"...

 

Assist Master

Last season I was happy that we had nine players with more than 10 assists (the highest being 17), rather than one player being the Assist Master.

This year we combined both approaches, with eight players having more than 10 assists, but one player (with a very long Brazilian name) stepping up and proving 36 assists. Glorious!

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Competitions

Shock, horror, we lost the Betfred Cup Final 1-0 to Hearts (despite having 29 shots to 2). We almost lost the Scottish Cup Final too, winning on penalties after it finished at 0-0 (23 shots to 0 this time). At least it was mostly business as usual in the League - we went 35-2-1 with 115 goals for and 20 against. Not quite as good as last year, but close enough.

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Elsewhere: We won the European Super Cup, the Club World Championship and the Champions League.

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On the international level, we won the Copa America again

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Development & Awards

This is what Colidio looks like now (holding up well for someone who just turned 31):

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He was World Player of the Year again (9th time):

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Injuries & Suspensions

No injuries or suspensions this year!! Wish every year was like this...

 

Goals

Four quadruples this year:

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At the club level, he scored 86 goals in 53 appearances (which is equal to his best 2 seasons ago):

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ITN Goals

Colidio started the season with 105 ITN goals (9 scored before I took over):

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By the end of the season, he'd scored another 21 goals (in 13 games) at ITN level. Quite a few friendlies against easy African sides this year.

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Progress

31 years old (EOY) Season Total
Club Goals   86   933
ITN Goals   21   117
Totals 107 1050

A record haul this year! I played him in 66 games which is more than normal, but he seemed to deal with it much better than I expected. Perhaps I should have been playing him more all this time!

 

The Future

So, 1K unlocked, what next? He's still in great shape (long may that last) and he's remarkably consistent (scores pretty much every game), so there are goals in him yet.

He'll pass Armstrong's 1064 goals shortly and should also make it to 1K goals for Celtic next season. Really, I just want him to keep pushing. Armstrong played for another 10 seasons from this point - if I can get Colidio to do that, he may even make it to 1.5K! I can dream anyway... :D

 

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1 minute ago, Taff said:

Great Job @scratch99 and fair play for sticking with it.  Keep him going and I see him breaking the 1.5k mark

Thanks mate! Yeah, I'm starting to come round to the view he can make 1.5K. Wouldn't have believed it when I started. Anyway, I'll go for it. Mind you the price is I'm stuck over here in FMM 2017 land...

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1 hour ago, scratch99 said:

Thanks mate! Yeah, I'm starting to come round to the view he can make 1.5K. Wouldn't have believed it when I started. Anyway, I'll go for it. Mind you the price is I'm stuck over here in FMM 2017 land...

You ain’t missing too much dude a few H2H’s and @samhardy ranting so same old same old

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2 hours ago, FuddledFox said:

Brilliant stuff mate. Well done on the 1k but I know there is still more to come from you and Colidio.

Thanks mate! Yep, we're only just getting started! Current estimated completion of this career: 2019...

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1 hour ago, Taff said:

You ain’t missing too much dude a few H2H’s and @samhardy ranting so same old same old

Hehe, looks like a few good careers over there. Will try to check them out over the next week or two. I think all the FMM 2018 envy has left me, lost all my excitement for it now...

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On 26/01/2018 at 03:00, BatiGoal said:

Congrats, but, yes there's a but.. I still need to see him break the 1000 goals with no ITN. It looks so much nicer on his page :P

Thanks mate! Working on getting you the 1000 club goals! ?

And have your golf career open in another tab and have started reading it, but honestly I spend more time trying to work out WTF is going on with that challenge! LOL. Will finish it soon.

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7 hours ago, samhardy said:

Congrats on reaching the 1K @scratch99 :) Who gave you the standing ovation in the background?

Thanks mate... OMG, you can hear me breathing! I thought the mic was off... The standing ovation was a gecko in the background (summer nights in Oz).

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1 hour ago, Acidsparxx said:

Dude...well done.

Now get ya self on 18 ?

Thanks! But, not done here yet... Got another 8 seasons or so, maybe more! Going to push this as far as I can. All the mad desire to be playing 18 has eased off and I'm happy enough on 17 for the moment (partly due to the excitement fading because of time and partly because 18 feels laggy on an S7 when just navigating around the app).

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25 minutes ago, scratch99 said:

Thanks mate... OMG, you can hear me breathing! I thought the mic was off... The standing ovation was a gecko in the background (summer nights in Oz).

Good to see all walks of life enjoying the FMM entertainment.

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29 minutes ago, scratch99 said:

Thanks! But, not done here yet... Got another 8 seasons or so, maybe more! Going to push this as far as I can. All the mad desire to be playing 18 has eased off and I'm happy enough on 17 for the moment (partly due to the excitement fading because of time and partly because 18 feels laggy on an S7 when just navigating around the app).

Look forward to having you over for some fun soon then dude.

All the best in your endevours in 17.

Hope you smash it, get your self atop of that leaderboard!

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1 hour ago, samhardy said:

Good to see all walks of life enjoying the FMM entertainment.

Yeah, sometimes I let them pick the team (but not for the important games)... 

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1 hour ago, Acidsparxx said:

Look forward to having you over for some fun soon then dude.

All the best in your endevours in 17.

Hope you smash it, get your self atop of that leaderboard!

Thanks mate. Won't make the top of the leaderboard, as @PriZe is way too far out in front with 2K (once he gets added to the leaderboard) and I think @kts365 is out of reach with 1560, but I'm going to try to reach that 1,500 mark if I can. The 4 month injury he just suffered might have sabotaged that a bit. Anyway, will keep pushing!

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great work getting the 1000 club goals dude, and the injury sucks but the guy deserves some rest I think

You crank out those remaining seasons and then get over here to 18

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2 hours ago, Taff said:

great work getting the 1000 club goals dude, and the injury sucks but the guy deserves some rest I think

You crank out those remaining seasons and then get over here to 18

Thanks mate! Yeah, I told him to go away and relax for a while and recharge his batteries - then report back for 10 more years of hard training! 

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Update - Season 16

With the 1K total mark passed last season, Colidio set his sights on reaching the 1K club goals milestone.

In fact, that became the focus of everyone involved with Celtic, from the fans to the tea-lady. We were all willing him to reach that. Let's see if he did...

 

Transfers, etc

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Leaving were three top youngsters (Piatti, Roberto and D'Agostino) who'd tried hard, but hadn't quite convinced us they were Celtic material. Piatti and D'Agostino are still starters in my Argentina team, but were just not quite performing at club level, so they needed to make room for the next lot.

The next lot were Bernard, Sosa and Lemar, who came in and now have a chance to audition for a place in the best team in the world.

We also said goodbye to long time backup keeper Zander Burt, who has great attributes and is Scottish to boot, but who fell to 4th in the order, and also to Paulo Herrera, who's played 80 odd games for my Argentina team, but who has fallen to backup at club level.

 

Southgate Watch

Yep, he's still there 16 seasons in, but to be fair England aren't doing too badly:

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He'd taken them down to 63rd in season 12, that was the time to get rid of him. I guess the FA know what they are doing. Go figure...

 

Competitions

We won everything again this year. In the League, we went 37-1-0 with 105 goals for (a little low) and 8 against. We almost came unstuck in the Scottish Cup though:

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We drew the Quarter Final away to Motherwell and the replay was within two days of the ITN fixtures, leaving us with only 7 available players! I gave the entire Reserves squad contracts, then kept those with decent potential. We got through and hopefully they will turn into decent players down the line.

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Elsewhere: We won the European Super Cup, the Club World Championship and the Champions League.

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Development & Awards

This is what Colidio looks like now (lost a couple of points for Physicals due to the injury):

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He was World Player of the Year again (10th time, not bad!):

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Injuries & Suspensions

Colidio missed 2 weeks (and 6 games) in January:

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Then came the big one, out for 4 months:

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On the plus side, he'll only miss 2 months of game time as it's over the off-season, but still... I'm especially nervous as he turns 32 at the end of May and injuries at this age can hasten the decline of his attributes.

That said, he's been pretty lucky over the course of his career (I think this is his longest injury), so I can't complain (too much)...

 

1000 Club Goals

On Saturday the 10th April 2032, Facundo Colidio scored his 1000th goal for Celtic. I won't post the video or image again, you can see that above. I've decided not to publish the video of the tea-lady's reaction to the goal, but let me assure you she was ecstatic, just as the rest of us were!!!

Great job Facundo! He bought the fans at the local 1000 drinks out of appreciation for their support over the years, but I reckon that's the last time he'll need to buy a drink in this town...

 

Goals

Three quadruples this year:

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At the club level, he scored 67 goals in 39 appearances and was on track for another monster season before injury hit:

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ITN Goals

Colidio started the season with 126 ITN goals (9 scored before I took over):

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By the end of the season, he'd scored another 9 goals (in 5 games) at ITN level.

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Progress

32 years old (EOY) Season Total
Club Goals 67 1000
ITN Goals 9 126
Totals 76 1126

 

The Future

An injury racked season limited Colidio's game time and meant he only scored 76 goals - but to put that into perspective, Adam Armstrong only passed that once in my 1KC with him. So, it's still an awesome season, especially considering he's 32 now.

There's no doubt he's a special player, much better than Adam was (though he's still my favourite). I'm thinking that once this is done and dusted, I'll use the pregame editor to compare them. It won't be exact as it randomises young players a little when starting a career, but I'm dying to know how good they are (true PA wise)...

Anyway, we're approaching the long decline, here's to hoping Colidio can hold up for a lot longer yet... We ain't finished by a long shot!

 

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3 minutes ago, BatiGoal said:

Wish I'd seen the tea lady's reaction :D

Any chance of getting a son from any of the veteran players? 

Yeah it would have gone viral, but we want to protect her reputation!

I've got DÁcol Joaquim (270 assists, 35yo), Guzman (Messi regen?, 34yo), Gameiro (CR regen, 33yo) sitting in the Reserves with their mad skillz all but gone, but none of them want to retire... One of these days... Mind you my last son didn't amount to much, so not too bothered...

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