The Final Whistle- Daggers Blog Edition 1.05.2009

This week is sponsored by a Muller Peach Yogurt

In this Weeks Bank Holiday Blog...

The Dagger Report....Live from the Managers office, With First Team Coach.Swiss Toni
The Diccon Brown Column...This week on 5 Reasons not to play FML with a Hangover
The Lobby Pullout...Live Ranting from the Blisett lobby now in a handy pullout section
The Great AI Scandal.. A view on the state of the Worlds on Artificial Gaming and what is an MMO?
The Tabloids...Our Weekly look at the world of real life sport
Blisett opens to the World on the 4th? This week our look at why you should get your mates to give up the social lives and wives, girlfriends, mates, companions, your Xbox, PS3 and any other game you have sitting on your shelf still cling wrapped.

The Dagger Report
First we head over to The Daggers Utd coaching centre to catch up with First Team coach Swiss Toni..”After last week the league table was looking grim for the daggers push for promotion but the sun was shining as the bags of balls were wacked round the training pitch and cones were dribbled round and the changing rooms were given a quick going over with a Tin of Dulux matt emulsion...and to our 7 game in the league this week ALL against AI which was a worry as our history againt the mighty AI machine of FML was not a pretty one....but non the less 7 played, 5 wins and 2 draws catapulted the daggers to 6th in the AEFA Div 1, with 2 teams above us on the borderline AI penalties a return to the top flight of the AEFA Federation is look good...with 15 goals in the bag things are looking good and with Pardo out inj for the majority of the last 7 games, Berg, Lombardi and Brahimi have take over goal scoring responsibilities to great effect...seems strange that Berg has been scoring since Pardo was injured...must be a 40k guilt thing!! So with the end of season approaching and only to play Brusdals who are currently top of the big clubs all is looking good particularly as the Dublin hearts dropped points this morning but followed up with a Fine 5-0 thrashing of favourites WKS....my tips for promotion are..The Daggers, Dublin Hearts, Bayern Munich, Blantyre and the outsiders Buckfast Bandits on the AI rule...” Thanks Toni for that insight into the toils of the AEFA D1...or is that toilet? I don’t know!

The Diccon Brown Column
5 reasons not to play with a hangover
Diccon "Chopper" Brown says: (21:26:28)
5: you don't care that auto select has put your star striker in goal
4: you're two nil down and too apathetic to even contemplate looking at the tactics screen
3: your head hurts
2: Everything that goes wrong only increases you’re already foul mood and the general feeling that the world has it in for you... and your head hurts
1: 5 injuries later you're still not making changes because the flashing lights as you switch between pages hurt your head... and your head hurts a lot.
Diccon Brown says: (15:56:18)
I have to say... I really couldn't be clever

Extra Pullout Special...How not to sell your player...or maybe..just maybe..anyway found this on a tour of another gameworld!

KEv "Swiss Toni Flack: says: (15:13:16)


“Rod Fanni for sale Great all round right back buy him for his skill buy him for his talent buy him for his name buy him purely because you would love your daughter to lose her virginity to him he is Rod FANNI. A great right back great stats, can also play centre back. He is 30 but still has 4 green arrows. Relatively cheap wage! Auction starts today at market value!”
Or failing that kind of advert...why not just use this one...always a winner..your players is mates of someone famous..
“Taking offers for this TOP CLASS forward, friend of Samuel Eto”!
The Lobby Pullout
Away from your keyboard too long ? Need some new youth players? Or what do you reckon to this swine flu pandemic?
Andrew Hunter says: (19:03:36)
It’s me who needs money, that tom guy keeps tempting me with nice youths
Brad: says: (12:43:08)What exactly is the problem, I was eating pie so was afk..
Jim Hamilton says: (22:59:09)
'life getting you down? try new JML Swine Flu!'.
So apparently this week....AFK means I’m away from keyboard eating a pie, Andrew hunter is being tempted by tom weir with some nice youths (someone call the police!)...and Jim Hamilton is convinced JML are now selling strains of Swine flu...lovely!

The GREAT AI SCANDAL!
Is it a scandal or is the lure of spending hours playing a Football management game beginning to ware off? When our merry band of beta testers started out on this road trip many months ago..we couldn’t be AFK without so much as grabbing a quick pukka from the fridge our sitting up till midnight waiting for your ranking to change and see how much your finances had been pumped up..but! Is the novelty waring off? I think it is for some I’m sad to say, its just not fun anymore i ve seen people say..Which brings me to the point...what is an MMO...heres the Web definition..` A massively multiplayer online game. A computer game in which a large number of players can simultaneously interact in a persistent world`..well this isn’t really happening is it...its not so many human v human games at the moment..its the AI situation that is really beginning to grind...so much so that our resident lobby ranter earned himself a bit of a kickin this week..SO whats the answer?? Maybe more official tournaments...shorten the off season maybe by a few days? Theres only so many friendlies tournaments you can play...maybe every 2 seasons hold a World cup during the off season? The community i think plays a massive role in these kind of games...just playing a football management sim just isn’t enough..being able to out witt human opponents online in a controlled environment...its the future isn’t it? Or is it playing fm09 over your laggy netgear network is the answer where you’re continually asking your buddies to HURRY UP!! So for now we`ll stick with the MMO then! I think the introduction of the much hyped 1.2 patch will make a huge difference..so stick in there! Its a great game even if it does get to you sometimes.. but never forget it’s only a game and you really really need to give the grass a cut!
The Tabloids – some humour from around the world of real sport!
You gotta love our top premiership managers..although there no a patch on there FML counterparts..are they?
Sir Alex Ferguson banters with the press ahead of United's Champions League semi-final with Arsenal.
"I thought he was coming to watch Middlesbrough - or maybe because we have good red wine in the directors' box."
Arsene Wenger on learning Sir Alex attended Arsenal's win over Middlesbrough on Sunday. United play Boro at the weekend.

"He is supposed to be our best ref, but if he's the best, I'd hate to see the worst."
Spurs boss Harry Redknapp after Howard Webb's dubious penalty award to Manchester United saw the champions turn a two-goal deficit into a 5-2 victory.

"If I'm given £6m to spend like I was last time, which included transfer fees, wages, signing on fees and agents' fees, then we'll all be in trouble.''
Wolves manager Mick McCarthy gets his excuses in early after recalling his last venture into the top flight with Sunderland.

"I want to help other clubs. I speak my mind and other chairmen should too. In fact, they can come and have lunch with me at Harrods, where I can serve them stags' testicles from my Scottish estate. We all need big balls in this business.''
Al Fayed presents his fellow-chairmen with an offer they can't refuse.
"If I wasn't up for challenges I'd be out walking my dogs today. I think my dogs need a break.''
Roy Keane reveals the real reason he returned to management with Ipswich.

"Our biggest mistake was turning up."
Sunderland manager Ricky Sbragia after watching his side capitulate to West Brom.

Five Live...there funny people aren’t they!

Alan Green: "Fair play..26 miles!!..I couldn't run 100 yards!"
Lawro: "You could if there was a buffet at the end of it."

In other news...

As swine fever sweeps the globe,i bet Sven Goran Eriksson is a relieved man, not for his tactical genius but his timing on leaving mexico!

The Symptons of swine flu are grim: not being yourself, you look jaded, you choke horribly..oh no wait thats lionel messi!

Graeme Souness ,Ruud Gulitt, and Glen hoddle were the former managers telling fergie and wenger what they should have done on sky during the champions league semi..Next week Jon Barrowman, Gok Wan and boy George give there tips on wooing the ladies!

Stephen Hendry says the buzz of recording a 147 this week cost him his place in the last 4. Fans knew he was delirous when he went from a state of “soporifically lifeless” to “Torpidly bland”

Finally this week...Get your mates into Blisett...you know it makes sense!

4 Seasons ago / A crack set of Football Teams were sent to a bad FML GAMEWORLD by a military court for a foul they didn't commit.

These Teams promptly escaped from a maximum security GAMWORLD to join Blisett. Today, still wanted by the support team at SI headquarters, they survive as Football managers of fortune.

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can join .. BLISETT!!

Starring your Mods :- Marcus the Hannibal Cain, Glen "Howling Mad Murdock" Fyrth -, Deano `The Faceman` Philpin, Rich `the crazy fool` Gibson, Super Sheff and introducing Andreas Timmelstad as the man with a tool for every occasion..

Come join Blisett...with many Gameworld benefits..
http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=121486 for full member benefits!

To another fun filled week in The Blissett gameworld, will we see that much needed influx of new managers, will we set yet more de-activated accounts?? ( i hope not) will we see another Rant from our resident ranter? Hope so...he`s always game for a laugh..its D-Week for the Daggers both in real life and FML..one vying for that elusive playoff spot in League 2 and there FML counterparts aiming for the Premiership...Will Pardo and Berg fire us into the promised land?
In next weeks issues...A full report of who one what in Blisett...Have you voted for the Community manager of the year award yet?? No? Well ok you know what to do!!
Have a good one
Kev Flack.