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Career The Augusta Challenge: Ian Vs Foxy - 18th Hole Results


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So @BatiGoal with a successful bet last time around. The bookies are offering him "double or quits" this hole, with the opportunity to double his prize if betting successfully, despite not actually knowing what the prize is.

Ian finally broke the deadlock in hole 4 and for the first time now both competitors cannot be split in the odds.

Overall Odds

@Foxy - 10/11

@Ian - 10/11

Hole 5 is a tricky little hole and more difficult than it looks. A winner is certainly possible but perhaps a half is the most likely outcome. Could go either way though. Who are you backing? Will Foxy pull it back immediately or can Ian consolidate or even extend his lead?

Hole 5 Odds (Magnolia)

@Foxy - 11/8

 Hole Halved - Evens

@Ian - 11/8

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1 hour ago, samhardy said:

So @BatiGoal with a successful bet last time around. The bookies are offering him "double or quits" this hole, with the opportunity to double his prize if betting successfully, despite not actually knowing what the prize is.

Oh you're going to owe me so much $$ at the end of this H2H. 

I'mma go double on this one below. 

1 hour ago, samhardy said:

Will Foxy pull it back immediately

You bet my bucks he will 🤑

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I’ve made a nice start to my round having Birdied the first four holes whilst my opponent missed a tricky putt on the last hole and had to make do with a Par which meant I went into this hole with a rather slender lead.

Can I keep my lead or will @Foxy claw his way back?

Challenge

For this hole we had to buy two American wing backs and try to get them to assist as many goals as possible in one season. If they could manage a combined 50+ assists we’d get a Birdie, a combined 30, a Par, a combined 20, a Bogey and below 20, a dreaded Double Bogey.

Players

Now I will introduce the players I chose to use to embark on this hole. I’d love to say it was a tricky decision but quite frankly it wasn’t as these two were by far the best of the options available.

Sergiño Dest

Decent looking player I’d say and definitely better than I thought would be available. Nice age at 23 too so should be over his youth days and heading towards his peak.

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George Bello

Again a nice enough player although not quite as good as Dest you’d think. Hopefully they will both improve a bit with our top training facilities.

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Transfers

I just brought in the two American wing backs and a decent young striker. A few players left notably Andrew Robertson who went to Man Utd and Scott McKenna who had never really featured for us as much as I thought he would.

Spoiler

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Halfway Stage of Season

After 19 league games the team were top of the league having just drawn and lost one game and scored a decent 54 league goals. Dest had managed just six assists and Bello 10 so my Birdie hopes had kind of gone but the respectable Par looked highly achievable.

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After 28 League Games

We had lost a further league game but had kept our decent scoring record up having scored 86 goals. Dest was now on eight assists whilst Bello had amassed a decent 17 so only five more were needed to make Par with 10 league games and a good few cup games still to play. More than doable you’d think unless both were to suffer horrible injuries.

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End of Season

At the end of the season Bello had 24 assists and Dest 15 so that’s 39 in total and a comfortable Par scored. I had Dest on corners at the beginning but I felt he wasn’t performing so put Bello on them who had a decent run so kept it that way for the majority of the season. They’ve both turned into good players so I’ll probably keep them for a few seasons anyway. The team won the league as expected with just three draws and two defeats and a nice goal difference of 98 which surprised me as I did try a few wild things at times so to only conceded 12 league goals I’m more than happy.

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Spoiler

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Other Competitions

We had no hiccups this year and won the lot.

Spoiler

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Score

Hole 5 (Magnolia): 4 Shots (Par) 0

Running Total: -4

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So I’ve failed to get a Birdie and if @Foxy can fare better and play out a Birdie we will be back level pegging. Of course that’s if he can Birdie as it’ll only take one wild shot into the rough and we could be looking at a Bogey or even a Double Bogey which would then put me in a commanding position. 

Find out how he got on later.

Thanks for reading.

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Par is good @Ian

Tricky hole this one as it may force a manager to do a formation swap to suit these Americans. Depending on that, @Foxy wouldn't be a fox if he wasn't smelling blood at this point. 

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12 hours ago, Foxy said:

You payed a lot less for Dest than I had to :O

Deceptively tricky this hole so a par is a good result.

Thank you Mr Fox, I often put a sell on fee to lower the initial transfer fee and I probably did here so it’ll probably even itself out if we both were to sell him although I think I’ll keep him as he’s decent.

10 hours ago, BatiGoal said:

Par is good @Ian

Tricky hole this one as it may force a manager to do a formation swap to suit these Americans. Depending on that, @Foxy wouldn't be a fox if he wasn't smelling blood at this point. 

Thanks BG, I tried one or two little things during the season but the Par didn’t always look totally safe so I didn’t want to make too much of a drastic change that could scupper that. I actually have a system in my head now that I think might be better so I’ll save that for my next attempt.

10 hours ago, Lord Danish said:

Nice try @Ian.

looking forward to see how @Foxy will do this

Thank you Lord,

Yes we’ll have to see. Hopefully he’ll shank one into the rough and double bogey.

2 hours ago, Woody said:

A nicely played Par Ian mate. 

Thanks Woody, I’m happy with it as I’ve been using inverted wing backs a lot recently and I wasn’t convinced they’d be so good for assists so went to normal wing backs. I struggle to control assists at the best of times so I take it and move on.

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18 minutes ago, Ian said:

Thank you Mr Fox, I often put a sell on fee to lower the initial transfer fee and I probably did here so it’ll probably even itself out if we both were to sell him although I think I’ll keep him as he’s decent.

Trust me the price won’t even itself out as Ajax played major hardball with me but you will see all that later.

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With a par on this hole it looks like @Ian has left the door ajar for me to get back to level pegging in this H2H.

I have to admit I was quietly confident going into this hole as the two best American WBs look pretty good and I tend to use WBs a lot albeit not necessarily as my main assister in my tactics.

I went with the same pair as Ian with Bello and Dest being my chosen two although Dest cost me a huge amount more than Ian had to spend. Ajax played hardball and originally wanted £150m for him but I got them to come down to a still extortionate £115m + a hefty % of his next fee. At that price I will be trying to use him in the upcoming seasons as well to try and get some kind of value.

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Transfers Out

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If he could get me the assists I needed for a birdie then it would be money well spent and as he was my corner taker I hoped he would be my main man in this challenge.

I have some top quality strikers with Mbappe, Isak, Haaland and Morgan so plenty of players for the boys to set up goals for.

In challenges like this it is always good to get some easy cup ties and in an FA Cup third round tie with AFC Wimbledon Dest really filled his boots.

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Overall Dest was the best assister by a long way as he set up 39 goals.

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This meant that Bello needed at least 11 assists for me to get that birdie but he was slowed down by a couple of injuries.

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Bello was far less impressive but then he only took corners when Dest didn’t play but he did enough for me with 14 assists.
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This gave me a total of 53 assists which was enough to get that birdie and make the H2H all square again.

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Any Other Business 

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Competitions

After a poor season last year on the trophy front we were back at this year with a clean sweep of everything we entered.

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Player Stats

Dest was well out in front with the assists but Bello was one of no less than five players who all had 14 assists.
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 Hole 6 - Juniper Preview

So you're through 5 holes on the course and will have completed 6 seasons in total. If everything is going to plan you'll be under par and cruising at this point. However this short, snappy half season challenge can be a bit of a brute without the right preparation. Juniper has tripped up many world class golfers in the past.

Challenge - Team needs to score 2 or more goals every single game for half a season (up until Jan.15) in all competitions. Failing to do so:

Birdie - 2 or less times

Par - 3-4 times

Bogey - 5-6 times

Double Bogey - 7 or more times

All about team goals for the next hole then and as it’s just a half season challenge I’m sure it won’t be long until I am back with my update.

Thanks for reading and most comments are appreciated.

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I can only assume Ajax didn’t want to do business with you! Just a shame they didn’t take it a step further so you couldn’t get him!

Excellent hole though, well played. I’ll just have to dust myself off and go again. 

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Phew, those injuries nearly cost you that Birdie. Well played, you grabbed that opportunity like a true fox. And you made me a rich man. 

On 18/12/2019 at 08:43, BatiGoal said:

I'mma go double on this one below. 

On 18/12/2019 at 07:36, samhardy said:

Will Foxy pull it back immediately

You bet my bucks he will 🤑

@samhardy you'd better pay up or I'll send my "caddies" after you. 

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@Foxy bounced back straight away on hole 5 and re-assumes favouritism in the H2H but more importantly a large threat to Black Cat Betting has appeared in the shape of @BatiGoal threatening to take huge money from us!! Rumour has it he hasn't accepted his payout instead opting to be greedy and continue on :O

Overall Odds

@Foxy - 8/13

@Ian - 11/10

There has been criticism from all parts for so called "stingy" odds so far so get a load of these. The bookies can't see anything other than a halved hole on this cakewalk so could anyone be tempted by these prices. Will Foxy make it two on the bounce, can Ian retake the lead or is it a guaranteed half? 🤔 

Hole 6 Odds (Juniper)

@Foxy - 3/1

Hole Halved - 2/5

@Ian - 7/2

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We move onto hole 6 and it’s another half season par 3 challenge. 

With my birdie and @Ian par on hole 5 we are back all square and @BatiGoal will be hoping it stays that way as he has lumped his entire wealth on this hole being halved.

This is a simple challenge in terms of what we need to do but it doesn’t leave much room for error. We must win every game by 2 or more goals, if we fail to do so more than twice we will only achieve a par and open the door for one of us to take the lead again.

My Attempt

I didn’t need to do much business this summer as my squad is well stocked with attacking threats but I did bring in wonderkid ST/IF from Southampton and replaced a couple of disgruntled squad players.

Spoiler

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My attempt started in June/July as the World Club Cup was on and although the group games are before the season change the knockout rounds are after and so must be included in this challenge.

June/July

The new format of the WCC makes for a much more interesting tournament as you get some European teams in there as well and so more of a challenge. We failed that challenge as we crashed out to Inter in the semi final but we still got the 2 goals needed so no harm done.

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August

We made no mistakes in the Super Cups either in terms of goals or lifting the trophy. I also had tough games against Arsenal and Liverpool but again my boys got the job done.

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September

It can be the smaller teams that cause more problems in these types of challenges as they simply park the bus but we still managed to sneak past Derby and Barnsley and get the 2 goals needed.

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October

We dropped our first league points this month as Spurs nicked a last minute equaliser but it was another high scoring game and we get to the half way point of the challenge with no slip ups.

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November

The first slip up happened this month though.

Its one of the quirks of this challenge that the lose and draw I have had so far was less disappointing than a 1-0 win over West Ham. I still have some breathing room though as I can afford one more slip up in the final two month.

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December

The busiest month of the season is a real test of the whole squad and it was one we passed with flying colours as we won all the matches and got at least 2 goals in every game.

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January

The challenge finishes on the 19th January so I didn’t need to play every game this month.

Spoiler

Three tight games this month but we still got the job done with just one game in the whole half season were we failed to score 2 or more times.
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That gives me a birdie for this hole and puts me 5 under for the round.

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The Rest of the Season

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Except for the WCC we won everything else.

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Player Stats

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Thanks for reading and most comments are appreciated.

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Excellent tee off and fantastic putt, Well done!

It seems I consider this hole to be a touch harder than most as it’s surprising how even if you’re banging in the goals you often still get the odd poor game. Anyway, you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out how I got on.

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1 hour ago, samhardy said:

🤔

Are you looking forward to enjoying Bati’s beers when he loses his bet?

1 hour ago, Ian said:

Excellent tee off and fantastic putt, Well done!

It seems I consider this hole to be a touch harder than most as it’s surprising how even if you’re banging in the goals you often still get the odd poor game. Anyway, you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out how I got on.

I had plenty of games were I only scored 2 and I did have a couple of games with goals in the last 10 minutes to keep me going. Luckily I had a tactic which I used on hole 4 and didn’t do the job for me on that hole but then but I noticed almost guaranteed 2 goals a game that season so I stuck with it.

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