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Career Foxy Presents: The Teutonic Treble - The Finale


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2 hours ago, samhardy said:

The trophy cabinet one as that means it's near the end :P

I'm sure Arp can carry on until he is 47 so I'm with this save for the full 30 years😛

1 hour ago, Rob2017 said:

I do worry with some of the gifs you find 😭

I had to mod myself as I could have found much worse😲

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I needed 88 goals from Arp to complete the 1k and 9 more unique timed goals from Goretzka and that would be those two challenges ticked off. Nice and easy then!?!

Goretzka GaM

The less times I need to tick off the more likely it is I will have a season when I don’t tick off any and although I hadn’t yet had a zero season this one looked like it would be. Despite Leon getting a career best 31 goals this season, helped in no small part by Arp getting an injury at the end of the season leading to Leon scoring 11 goals in the final 8 games of the season, it looked like he wouldn’t tick a single time off. That was until the 11th of May and he got a hat trick versus Eibar and got 2 times in one match! That was a major relief and means that he is now 7 times away but the seasons are running out.

Leon is 35 now but still looks very good in fact I would say world class. I changed him to a fitness training regime at the beginning of the season to try and maintain to physical attributes. Towards the end of the season his physicals did drop a little as his progress report shows below and although he made 57 appearances I have to add that I played him so long as his condition was above 85% and he got subbed off in every game some times at half time if he was unfit and other times on 80mins as he has all the times after that. I expect that in the next season or 2 we will see a dramatic drop in his physical attributes.

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Arp 1kc

If Arp was going to get the 1k this season he was going to need 88 goals to do it which is possible for him as he has scored that many or more 4 times so far but that was back when he had all set pieces and since I put Leon on to pens and FK’s  the closest he has got is 85 last season. He was hampered by a two week injury which caused him to miss 5 games in December and then as I mentioned above he got a knock towards the end of the season which was only a 1 week injury but he missed 5 games by the time he was back to 95% condition. Those 10 games he missed cost him perhaps 15 goals on his total of 71 for the season so either way he would have missed out this year but he would be much closer than the 17 goals away that he is now.

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Amiri vs Havertz Assists Challenge

Last year Amiri broke my 400 assists target I had set him at the beginning of the career so I see everything now as a bonus but as it turned out both him and Havertz had there best seasons for a number of years despite them both missing 12 games this season.

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Any Other Business

Transfers

In pre-season I said goodbye to one of the unsung hero’s of this save as Jonathan Tah moved to Liverpool on a Bosman after 630 appearances, 33 goals and 48 assists for the club. I didn’t really want to let him go but he had started to take a back seat over the last few seasons with most of his appearances coming as a sub due to his versatility.

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I brought in a Brazilian attacking midfielder and a CB to boost the squad.

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Competitions

We had a clean sweep again this season although we left it late in the Spanish Super Cup with Arp scoring with 3 minutes to go and prevent us losing on away goals that also preserved our 100% record in that competition with season 1 when we weren’t in it being the only time we haven’t won it.

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European Super Cup

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World Club Cup

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Copa del Rey

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La Liga

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Champions League

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Team Stats

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I hope Arp can knock those 17 goals off in around about 10 games at the start of next season and then he will take a back seat (probably on the bench) to Leon as I see if I can get him nearer that GaM.

Cheers Lads

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77 and 80 are going to be tricky if his stamina drops. I can see you starting Leon on the bench in future games.

Arp is pretty much done and dusted. Well done mate. Great stuff

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13 hours ago, Rob2017 said:

77 and 80 are going to be tricky if his stamina drops. I can see you starting Leon on the bench in future games.

Arp is pretty much done and dusted. Well done mate. Great stuff

 I would love to get either of halves ticked off quick so I can either play him in just the 1st or 2nd halves.

12 hours ago, smoggy90 said:

Great work! Goretzka is still a beast at 35!

He really is! I would love to take credit for that with some fancy training regime but its simply the fact the guy is amazing.

 

10 hours ago, samhardy said:

Havertz has well and truly failed over this career 😂 Still looking good although can't see the GAM happening.

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I've been reading this for a couple of days now - truly Epic!

You're making me feel bad because I only went for a 1KC instead of a multi-challenge combo! And also, getting 100 goals in a season is magic (I've only done it once or twice and that was with ITN goals too). So you are well and truly killing it. 

The only doubt at this point is the GAM - so close, but so so so far. Hope he hangs around long enough for you to finish it. As for Arpe, I think the 1.5K is on for him. Go for it!! 

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9 hours ago, Foxy said:

The fact you spent the time to catch up on this is awesome! Thanks @scratch99.

The GaM is going to be very tough but then it was always going to be. Agree with you on Arp that a 1.5k needs to be the aim now.

Mate, it was an awesome read! I still have "Yellow and Blue Blood" open in another tab and will get to that soon. I've missed so much being away (and busy), but trying to catch up some of it now.

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This season I can tick off one of the challenges as Arp only needs 17 goals to get the 1k so unless @samhardy has been using his voodoo doll again and he broke his spine that should be easy enough to tick off. Goretzka could also complete the GaM as well but that would need a miracle as he still has 7 times to tick off.

Arp 1Kc

We shall start with Arp today. I’m not going to build any suspense as he only needed 17 goals and despite frustratingly sitting on 999 for 2 games he emphatically completed the 1kc on the 5th October when he scored 5 versus Girona.

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I have to admit getting the 1k is pretty sweet. This idea of this career at first was that it would be a simple 1kc using Arp but then I added Amiri with the assists and @Ashez suggested the GaM to me as well. I guess the GaM has taken over this career a bit as it seems to have captured the imagination of you readers but the 1Kc was always my biggest goal and I now can say I have completed this staple Vibe challenge😀

That said I didn’t rest on my laurels for long as I had a decision to make either I sell Arp as he has done his job and concentrate on the GaM, I keep Arp and hope he is happy with less playing time as I go all in for Leon or I try and find a way to keep both Arp and Leon scoring. I honestly can’t bring myself to get rid of Arp and in fact I want him to get a 1.5k as I know he is good enough for that so it has to be option 3.

Arp had a good season in the end as he only missed 2 games all year and finished with 77 goals to his name.

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Goretzka GaM

With my mind made up that I want to keep going with Arp I needed to find a way of getting more goals out of Leon whilst also keeping the goals coming for Arp. I also need to keep in mind that Leon turned 36 this season and the decline in his attributes is starting to take place.

Throughout this save I have used a strikerless formation when Arp wasn’t playing and my initial thought was drop Arp and play that as much as I can but with me resetting my goal for Arp I needed to come up with another plan

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You can see that in the strikerless formation Leon plays as a Treq and it’s a role he loves, lets be honest the guy is a beast and loves every midfield role. I wanted to keep Arp as a poacher as he has played that this entire career and hasn’t gone far wrong so I moved to an asymmetric formation that I used a lot on the PC game around the time of FM15 and FM16. Having Leon offset I hoped him and Arp wouldn’t get in each other’s way to often and also we still have Amiri nice and advanced to get the crosses in. In fact it’s not a big change from my Arp 101 tactic with just Leon moving forward as a Treq instead of his usual AP role and Havertz dropping back as a WM instead of his usual AP on the left wing, I also have a right sided BBM instead of a left sided CM.

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Goal scoring wise it worked well with Arp getting 77 and Leon beating last years total of 31 by scoring 33 a large amount of them come from FK’s and pens but he does get into the box and score a few as well. It does leave gaps though and hampered results of the team a little as we had a few frustrating score draws in the league.

More goals for Leon means more chance of ticking off the final times he needs and he managed to tick 2 times of this year which was awesome and not something I expected. That leaves him with 5 more to get but this is the last year of his contract and his attributes are dropping so let’s hope he doesn’t retire just yet.

Just a note why it say A.Madrid B on his history. I pressed the wrong button and demoted him instead of the player interaction so he spent 30 seconds at least in the B team but it still shows up on his history.

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Amiri vs Havertz Assists challenge

Amiri still keeps getting those assists and being the only advanced wide man seemed to suit him as he got 39 assists this year and is now 21 away from 500 for his career. Corners are his main source of assists as even though Arp has poor aerial his excellent movement means he gets a good number of goals at the near post every season as well as other players scoring from corners as well. The biggest obstacle at the moment is that Amiri won’t sign a new contract even if I max out his terms and his ends in the summer so this could be the end of the road for this challenge if he leaves.

Havertz had a decent year by his standards but if I stick with the asymmetric he doesn’t really suit it as he lacks the pace to play as a deeper wide man and as he has well and truly lost this challenge to Amiri he might start taking a back seat next season.

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Any Other Business

Transfers

Just the one in this year as I brought in a DLP from Valencia whilst an ageing Locatelli left for the potteries. This summer I think I will be busy in the transfer market as I have a few lads who are getting on a bit especially at the back so I plan to rejuvenate the squad with some younger players.

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Competitions

We were a little disappointing in the league this year as we failed to reach the 100 point total for the first time in 10 years. We still got a clean sweep of trophies but I need to make sure that our league form isn’t an indication of a decline in the team.

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European Super Cup

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World Club Cup

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Copa del Rey

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La Liga

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Champions League

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Team stats

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A side note is that Goretzka has scored 249 goals for me in this save so far and Arp 1060 meaning that they have an unofficial double trouble between them now which is cool even though it isn’t eligible for the leaderboard as Leon plays as a midfielder. As I lost a DT attempt earlier in the year I’m chuffed that I still sort of completed it this year even in an unofficial way.

That's 14 seasons completed and I'm still loving this save and plan to continue for a good few seasons yet.

Cheer lads

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Brilliant stuff mate 😁 congratulations on the 1K and ticking off two time in the GaM is pretty good at this stage. All down to luck now though I’m afraid. Well done mate

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Great stuff. I love that he smashed five in to make sure. Only thing I’d add is that your target is 1kc and GAM. Just my opinion, but don’t let the lure of 1.5k distract you from the overall target. 

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congrats on the 1K and assist challenge dude, 5 more times now just to knock off the GaM, but that's going to be tough with a very aged Goretzka, but I still have a bit of faith 

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about this this much faith

 

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Your so close now dude...kiu you can do it.

Despite Goretzka getting older i think its still on.

Had a little chuckle about him being in the B squad. I did that too in my Sam Hardy save. 😂

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Great stuff. Going way past 1.5K with Arp I reckon. 😄 Amiri is ... what's a word for better than fantastic? That! I can't get the same out of him (in the first season since buying him anyway). Brilliant. It's just that GAM which is the problem. Keep going, it'll be one of those down to the wire things... Good luck!

14 hours ago, Foxy said:

I pressed the wrong button and demoted him instead of the player interaction so he spent 30 seconds at least in the B team but it still shows up on his history.

LOL, I do this all the time... I wish they weren't next to each other. At least they don't get upset about it. "It's okay boss, I know how it goes, you were trying to tell me I'm great but you sent me off to the B squad by accident. No worries, happens to me all the time"...

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Thanks for your comments lads.

I have a plan for next season which I hope will help Leon stay fit and hopefully tick of some of those final times but time will tell if it will work.

7 hours ago, scratch99 said:

I do this all the time...

 

17 hours ago, Woody said:

Had a little chuckle about him being in the B squad. I did that too in my Sam Hardy save.

Glad it's not just me😂

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RANT ALERT!!!!

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I mentioned in the update that Amiri's contract was running out in the summer and he didn't want to sign. I hoped that as his contract run out he would change his mind but I kept offering the max I could but no joy.

 

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In the end his contract expired and offers came in from Arsenal and AC Milan, so I gave it one more try but no luck and he moved to Milan on £245K when I was offering £475K:@

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So I then had to try and buy him back as I want him to break the 500 assists mark, so £25m later and he is back at the club on less money than he was on before and rejected before but at least I got him on a longer contract.

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STUPID BLOODY GAME!!!😡😂

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Going great Foxy and a massive congrats on smashing the 1k! Like you said though it's the GaM that's really caught out imagination so best of luck with that! 

On 22/07/2018 at 09:46, Foxy said:

RANT ALERT!!!!

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I mentioned in the update that Amiri's contract was running out in the summer and he didn't want to sign. I hoped that as his contract run out he would change his mind but I kept offering the max I could but no joy.

 

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In the end his contract expired and offers came in from Arsenal and AC Milan, so I gave it one more try but no luck and he moved to Milan on £245K when I was offering £475K:@

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So I then had to try and buy him back as I want him to break the 500 assists mark, so £25m later and he is back at the club on less money than he was on before and rejected before but at least I got him on a longer contract.

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STUPID BLOODY GAME!!!😡😂

That's FMM haha

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Whew, I feel a lot better right now! Pinamonti won't sign a new contract in my 1KC. There's 4 years to go and hopefully we'll have won enough to change his mind, but I worried about what will happen if I can't convince him to stay. What a way for a 1KC to end... But now I know there's hope - if that happens, I'll just buy him back! Great! 😄

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2 hours ago, Ashez said:

Going great Foxy and a massive congrats on smashing the 1k! Like you said though it's the GaM that's really caught out imagination so best of luck with that! 

Cheers mate.

15 minutes ago, scratch99 said:

Whew, I feel a lot better right now! Pinamonti won't sign a new contract in my 1KC. There's 4 years to go and hopefully we'll have won enough to change his mind, but I worried about what will happen if I can't convince him to stay. What a way for a 1KC to end... But now I know there's hope - if that happens, I'll just buy him back! Great! 😄

I think I was helped that he is getting on a bit so Milan were happy to take double his value to sell him but it would be risky with a player in his prime so I hope you can tie Monti down on a new contract very soon.

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Five goals that’s all it will take! Just minutes 29, 56, 60,77 and 80 and the GaM will be complete, so could I do it this year and if not would I get another season next year to try now that Leon is 37? 

Before that though I had one unexpected bit of news come through before the season started with my son Simon Fox being promoted to the squad.

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The best thing is he is a striker and has some fairly good potential, so although you won’t be hearing about him in this specific save I’m hoping in the next few weeks to announce a new save involving my Fox cub.

One other bit of news but less unexpected was that Koke retired before season 15 began. He has been at the club his entire career and been an important part of my team throughout this save playing at times as an AP, BBM, CM and latterly as a back-up DLP. I was a bit gutted I never got a chance to screenshot his history before he bowed out.

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Leon GaM

I thought this season might be Leon’s last for the club as he wouldn’t sign a contract extension and although he never said he would retire I did wonder if he would once his contract run out. Luckily I did manage to get him to sign a 1 year extension just before he became a free agent and we will get at least one more year from Leon.

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As you may have guessed with me worrying about his contract situation he didn’t complete the GaM this year and lets face it five times ticked of would have been some feat. In fact it looked bad and I was expecting my first 0 season but he got a vital goal versus Man City in the Champions League which sent us through and was also in the 80th minute meaning he did get 1 time ticked off this year and he has 4 left to do. If next year is his last then 4 times is a hell of an ask but at least we are still fighting.

He played 61 games this year but don’t be fooled by that as he mostly played the 2nd half and he never played 90 minutes once. As he needed 4 times in the 2nd half I tried to focus more on that in the hope it would just leave the 29th minute left to get but it didn’t quite pan out that way.

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Arp 1Kc

Arp has completed his challenge but he is still plugging away on improving his final total although unfortunately he did take it easy this year. He was slowed down by a 2 month injury but I cannot complain on that front as he has been pretty much injury free for a few seasons now.

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In the end he scored 58 goals in 55 games which is his lowest goal total since season three and the first time since then he has had an AvR below 8 as well. I never changed any tactics from last year but the goals just seemed more spread out this season so maybe it was a one of or it could be the start of the end for Arp.

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Amiri v Havertz Assist Challenge

I knew that a good season from Amiri this year could take him above the 500 assists total for his career which is far more than I ever expected when I started as I would have been happy with 300 and delighted with 400. Amiri was on fire this year especially in front of goal as he scored 23 goals which is much higher than he has managed at any point in this career and coupled with 38 assists means he was by far our best player. I have no way of explaining the goals and to be honest I’m annoyed he scored that many considering Arp struggled this year and I would have preferred him to have them but I won’t complain about the assist total as although he isn’t hitting the heights he did 8 seasons ago they are still great totals.

He finished the season on 517 assist meaning that if he never plays another game for me in this save he will still be top of the leaderboard having overtook @samhardy total of 511 scored with Kimmich or at least until someone comes and smashes that total at some point. Even if his final total does get beat I’m really proud of what I have achieved with Amiri in this save especially considering this has always been the challenge I pay least attention to. I have always just let Amiri get on with it, perhaps checking his total 2 or 3 times a season save in the knowledge that he will be racking up those assists.

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Any Other Business

If you wonder why Amiri left for a free and then signed for £25m then look a couple of posts up. A few new signings this year with some older lads moving out the club with one signing be familiar to me if not you guys as I resigned Nils Schaschko a regen right back from Juve who had left a few years ago but now I feel he is ready to replace TAA.

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Competitions

We completed our 4th clean sweep in a row but man did Dortmund make us work for it in the Champions League final as it took an 86th minute O.G. for us to equalise and then a sudden death penalty shoot-out to lift the cup.

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European Super Cup

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Spanish Super Cup

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World Club Cup

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Copa del Rey

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La Liga

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Champions League

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 Team Stats

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This save is fast approaching the end now with Leon having 1 at least and maybe 2 seasons left to complete the GaM whilst Amiri is getting on a bit and won’t stay looking as good as he does for long, and whilst Arp is still a whippersnapper at 32 he had a poor season by his standards and might not have many good years ahead of him.

Makes me kinda sad actually😥

Cheers lads

 

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Ahh the end of a save, so many emotions. It’s been a cracking read so far Foxy, now give Leon one final push, failure or not it’s been a hell of an accomplishment either way

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Oh, that's so hard to hit 29 and the others. Kind a like that ten pin bowling thing where there is a pin on the left and one on the right... Keep pushing him and pushing him. 

I still reckon you have another 8 seasons on the 1.5KC though... :D

As for Amiri.... Pain he's scoring too much, but still... Legend.

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12 hours ago, Rob2017 said:

Makes me sad too. This has been a cracking thread to follow.

Thanks matey but don't get too sad as I don' t think this save is dead yet.

11 hours ago, Nucleus said:

failure or not it’s been a hell of an accomplishment either way

I have a feeling he will retire with 1 time left just to take the piss!

8 hours ago, scratch99 said:

still reckon you have another 8 seasons on the 1.5KC though... 

The emergence of My Fox Cub means that the 1.5k may not happen but also that this career has plenty more to come😉

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