{"id":1624,"date":"2015-12-27T13:26:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T13:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2016-10-26T20:30:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T19:30:57","slug":"fm16-who-the-fk-are-obilic-25001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/2015\/12\/fm16-who-the-fk-are-obilic-25001\/","title":{"rendered":"#FM16 : WHO THE FK ARE OBILI\u0106? 2500\/1?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Festive greetings and all that jazz.\u00a0 Now that is out of the way, let’s get down to the actually interesting stuff!\u00a0 Going into our first season in the fourth tier, I wouldn\u2019t have had as at 2500\/1. The media thought we were going to finish bottom, by a distance if you believed the odds supplied by the bookmakers. Luckily, we did not believe in predictions…<\/p>\n
Today will be a fairly standard review guys, no real theme other than telling you all about how bloody well we did. I won\u2019t keep you in suspense. If I had put \u00a310 on us winning the title I would have been \u00a325,000 better off. Considering my weekly wage and Obilic is a mere \u00a315, that would have gone down very well indeed. We won the title by a stunning twelve points.<\/p>\n
Records tumbled. Young Goran Simovic became the club\u2019s leading scorer of all time, his 14 strikes taking him to a total of 68 for me in the six seasons he has been with us. We scored the second most goals the division has ever seen. We won the most points. We won the division by the greatest margin. We conceded the fewest, fifteen. Igor Bajic set a new club record average rating, 8.08. We set a new club record attendance (well, since I got here with 1,171 coming to watch one of the games) and a league average attendance record. The squad needed slightly more rotation than last season, but even with that in mind we had a solid spine that could be relied upon week in, week out.<\/p>\n\n
Although he didn\u2019t top any tables, Vukovic grew into a man this season. He started in a central midfield position when Bajic was out for a few weeks and was brilliant, so good that I had to keep him in the side. He ended up taking over from the veteran Savic in the holding role, a position I usually prefer an older head to play. He excelled there, it was the right decision.<\/p>\n
Luto was his usual excellent self, getting another 12 goals and 12 assists. He is consistent season after season, not blinking at every step up he has to make in level. Erde was the surprise. Our highest earner on \u00a3130 a week was poor, very poor and led to me signing a new left midfielder in January. I will be releasing him over the summer if he does not accept a huge pay cut.<\/p>\n
Right back is an area I might strengthen, I think Jovic might have reached his level as his average rating slipped below 7.00 for the first time. All the other defenders kept it way over 7.00 so he did stand out as our weakest link. I am monitoring a right back, as you can see below.<\/p>\n
Other recruitment, I am going to keep faith with most of the squad to be honest. I have some quality kids coming through so a couple of those may find themselves in and around the squad next season. I will have a mass clear-out of players that are highly unlikely to make the grade, or have just been making up the numbers in the reserves this season.<\/p>\n
A few people have been asking about the tactic, #TheSerbianSwarm \u2013 (I have finally found the # on my keyboard, only taken a month!). Have a look at how I have set it up below.<\/p>\n
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