Bressone asks:
"Can you tell me the difference between Set pieces and shooting training? Thank you"

sersgiu answers:
"the set pieces training consists in learning to hit the goal in a specific point, while shooting is used to find the goal not necessary in the point you choosed, anyway as long as the ball enters...!!!"

"...he is a genius of the market. In 4 days see what he bought and sold: A Irish NT player took for 400.000 and sold for 13 millions!
14/05/2004 Halmstad FF Arvidsjaur BK 13 000 000 €
10/05/2002 SoccerBunnies Halmstad FF 400 000 €"

Animal3000 answers:
"4 days?It took two years..."

The owner o team #431751 appeared in an apoch-making series of deliriums!
First of all he hired a solid coach and two passable ones. Then he enlarged his arena much more than he neede (30000 seats. But the most incredible thing: he hired 255 specialists of every kind (total=1785 specialists) He is in VII league, he won't never afford the salaries of 1785 specialists. He has to pay 4.000.000 reais, something like 2.000.000 euro. Anyway the best things are his claims:

"I hired a coach and 255 assistant coaches hoping that in the first week of training the players could reach mythical level"

""255 was tha maximum number to hire... at 256th I got the message page error"

"I fired the solid coach for his salary was too high"

"I thinking of sending a message to HT developers praying 'em to forgive my errors and be merciful with me... well, we have to cooperate... to make hattrick grow in Brasil... Did you think if nobody helped peopple hit by tsunami? For I've already given a kilo of rise to help people in Sri Lanka!"

"I'm not lying, my username is monsim and my password is ***********"

"Untill now I had a coach with speciality Head, I though he trained well the Head players, and infact I cant complain... ^_^
Anyway how do the speciality affect the work he will do on the team?
Any idea?
Thank for the answers"

Luca4president answers:
"It doesn't really count, as nothing counts but his skill, tactics and leadership"

ninco again:
"in remembrance of the times he was a player?"

"I've studied theory of games since 10 years and theory of games applied to internet since more than 6. Moreover I'm studying the interaction theese have with theorically thinking subjects (who I usually call operating choiches).
One of the byways of informatic games (wether on internet or not) is the ability of deal with those player's behavioursthat lead to an automatic win or, in general, to an automatic advantage.

One of the first examples in this sense was the Asteroid theory (the little triangled starship wich shooted splitting meteorites) wich saw the best scores on the shortest matches passed swaying near the side of the monitor (playing this way you got 10k points that you would have never got staying in the fray).

There's no doubt that the game allowed to do this. It was to establish if this was appropriate.

I'm talking about Asteroid, wich was the first, but I could talk about any other game with the socalled tricks. A famous and recent one was to play on pitch-edge in Virtua Striker, I think.

So... training well is legitimate. The game allows it. Untill now the fact that a 17y player, trained by 10 assistant coaches in VI, series became a kind of Ronald, multipling 30 times his value in 2 years, maybe didn't sound strange to anybody.
The point, as I said, is "Is it appropriate?"

Let's think of the teams that come from an lower series and find 5 teams like theese...
I think a good manager, who manage to leave the VII in 1-2 seasons... what does he do then? Hang himself?

It's not the way that Hattrick has series composed by 20 teams, so if there are 4 of them out of scale, patience, you have to work and grow. It's not this way, and the game shows the consequences of this when there are people, in most cases, who don't want to move up.

Some times ago, people moved their region to play all derbies. It was allowed, possible and even logic. But it was logic in a deviated scheme of game.

And the situation that leads a just moved up team to play against teams who have players 10 times better than they are (and who could and should play in some upper series) is a deviated scheme of play.

Moreover, more than a player feels this deviation, otherwise there would not be so much talking about in Italy as globaly.

So, we're talking about the concept of cheat. That from my point of view is also taking advantage of a deviation of the game (wether allowed or not). That in this specific case consists of:
"a player with great abilities should aim for playing in upper series forcing the manager who wants to keep him to strive to move up."
Supporters and gates should go in the same direction, to press on this target.

Then maybe we have to understand how to realize this thing, but taking advantage of badly developped features of the game is, in some sense, cheating.
The result, then, doesn't take a long time to show itself and can be summed up this way:
"the player (in our case the manager) ends to make actions not aimed to the achievement of the target of the game"

Usually even getting on wick of people who want to achieve that target of the game but find themselves unable to do it, not only by other people, but also by the aspects of the code that make room for theese people.

I'm not used to get hold of the wrong end of the stick, best regards

Ou"

"I'm very glad to announce that a 120k seats arena has been ultimated in VI series;

Left Side Of 40-Stars Arena (236226) ( 60.000 seats ) +
Right Side Of 40-Stars Arena (235596) ( 60.000 seats ) =
Magnificent 40-Stars Arena (club.hattrick.org/newenterprise/ID_8861_image_fIgg) ( 120.000 seats ).

Now I would like to make a question:

When the server check for the arena to establish wich one is the greatest in Italy, does it count ours as two 60.000 seats arenas, or as one 120.000 seats?

This is important, 'cause if the server was flexibile enough to consider our arenas as a single one, we could add other 11.000 seats for each one and break the record of Flesh & Blood Arena."

"It's 13.30 and a player expiring at 13.27 whom I made a bid for is still there... I also made some cache-refresh and logged off and on again two times but nothing..."

JohnHolmes--S4F answers:
"Maybe because he will expire tomorrow?????"

fair play prize to the author for having proposed himself

"How is this sentence possible?:
Cantoni bringing the final ball possession rate to 59 percent, dominated the battle."

Renso_Dj_Sga answers:
"What's strange???"

romeuccio:
"How can a team dominate a match with final possession rate to 59 percent if the minimal is 61?"

"Hi, I have a question to ask."

after 3 minutes and 5 messages of people urging him to ask it…
"As I'm a new user... how can I lineup a 5-4-2?"

"Nobody could answer me last time, let's see if today it will be better…
Talking about the weeks needed to make players improve, how much does it change if I train my team for example at 97% rather than at 100%???
Thanks"

CapitanSlaff answers:
"It changes in the order of 3%…"

DanielDj:
"Thank'u very much, I see this is just something nobody knows"

GM Baluba replies:
"*cleaning my throath*
It changes in the order of 3%"

When everything was almost clarified it came torcia99:
"training at 97% means you need three weeks more before your improvement."

Taised:
"Fancy that!… 3% of 7 weeks hardly is 3"

torcia99:
"This is what Hattrix-files says, and I think it's a weel-done website…"

DanielDj closing:
"Thank'u, this is just what I wanted to know... if it took some extra-week.. for god's sake, even 3... are you sure?
So I go and change the intensity..."

508Airborne asks:
"Hi everybody.
First of all I ask you how to sell a player.
I'd like to sell this one:

---

Carlo Sgroi
43 years, weak form, healthy
A weak trainer who is defense minded"

skidlele's answer:
"I think you'd better make him a trainer..."

trycorder answers:
"It's not allowed to ask for players' pricing on conference."

"I've got an idea: we could introduce the death option!
I say, as I really like the so called randomHattrick, I thought that would be nice to insert another random option.
It's normal, for example my Edgardo Puccio after having made a night of it, he crashes with the car and that's it... he's dead!
Otherwise the flight is taking us to an international friendly falls down.
Or the wife of dear Pekka Larson is a kind of... you know, the half of the team bangs her, but then she takes the Aids and dies.
What do you think of it?"

*note of the translator:
The author (the Japan U20 coach) tried to translate his U20-requirements message with Babelfish translator with obvious misunderstandings...
It has been hard for me to translate the message he wrote in this unusual Italian, in an English version that was able to have the same effect on you, I hope to have achieved it.
The most funny misunderstandings remain the "carriage with strong direction" instead of "coach with solid leadership", the "bowl of the world" instead of " world cup" and the "shiny Warden/Protection/Further" instead of "brilliant Keeper/ Defender/ Foward"*

"Requirements Of U20 Japan [Japan]
Hello! I ask excuse for this translation faulty.

The U20 Japan is looking for the players and a carriage. If anybody has players of Japan who consider is of 20 under or the quality national of the team, send them please to our base of date of NT to:(nippon.a-pack.org/).

Actually, the U20 is looking for a carriage with strong direction. All other skills are an allowance. If you have a japanese carriage with strong direction, Ht send please directly by mail.

We are looking for players with the following skills. If you have a japanese player that faces theese requirements, send please your player to the base of date of NT and send him by mail.

Note please that theese are our demands instant for the season of the bowl of the world. We are lookin ALWAYS for the new tables. If you have a player who can be a star, send him please to the base of date of NT to: (nippon.a-pack.org/)

Age: 17-20
Warden: shiny (old 18 years or less)
Protection: shiny (old 19 years or less)
Wingers: supernatural (old 20 years or less)
Midfield internal: exceptional (old 19 years or less)
Further: shiny (old 19 years or less)"

"I'd like you to help me to understand how to keep back as much as possible this team [...Real Piccaratico...].
The match is going to take place next week for a de-luxe friendly... I'm not allowed to lose, it's a fight to the finish...
I would be grateful to you for your little help.
THANKS TO EVERYBODY FOR YOUR COLLABORATION"
 
dr_ric, manager of Real Piccaratico, answers:
"It's really great to see in conference somebody asking how to keep back your team...
There're satisfactions :))"
 
S4nD_7 replies to dr_ric :
"Instead of rolling on floor because of your really FUNNY assertion... try to use a littlebid of experience (if you have) and put forward your own idea... don't you think the conference would work better this way?"
 
Lele82:
"The guy answered you before and whom you ask for advice about the tactic to use putting forward his own idea is the opponent of your friendly!"

"I missed a purchase of a 22y with outstanding playmaking, passable passing and excellent stamina, sold at 78k.
I've lost a golden opportunity or do sometimes similar occasions happen?"
 
Gianlu answers:
"Between you and me... you're completely gaga ;)
This guy was transferlisted at 78k on 2004... last transfer is on 2005 at 1.900.000."

"Matchid 37654550:
SenzaRegole -coach had an extra briefing during the break, and after that his players had passable organisation.
Sorry if I'm a newbie, but how could I have an extra briefing with my players too?
Or is it a random sentence generated by the system?"

"What the hell happened? All of the sudden all my players got one year older! What's the statistical probability of all of them AND the coach, having the exact same bithday? Smells fishy, if you ask me! Anybody else experienced anything similar?"

And then a brilliant reply :
" The same thing happened to me! And my friend! It's spreading, it's a plague! Aaaaah! Is it a virus? Do I have to print my team on paper, so I can send it to HT when everything has crashed?"
*runs away, screaming in terror*

"Here you can see what has hapened with my club...
i have changed my pssword 3 times and he comes back and sells my good players cheap...

23.02.2005 Gained money for a player that has previously belonged to the club: 75 €.
21.02.2005 Gained money for a player that has previously belonged to the club: 5 €.
21.02.2005 Received mother club money for a player: 20 €.

some1 plz help me find him and bann his ass out of the world of "fair" hattrick.."

Oxidus answers:
"That's money you gain from players that you've sold that get sold on again.
It's a bonus.
...
Read the rules about mother club money and
previous owner money and calm down."

"Hi everybody, yesterday during my friendly I had a player I wanted to sell injured. In the commentary (set in german) it says that he had a little brain concussion; well I think at least a week or maybe he already has the plaster, instead I found a fucked +3!!! So I made a little linguistic tour to see what he did in the other languages and this is what:
in italian, catalan, dutch, french, english and portuguese he had his knee hurted; in spanish he had a muscle pull to his right leg; in russian it's his elbow wich has been hurted while in german, as I sad, a brain concussion!!! Lucky who understands this game!!!
Bye bye"

MajorShivan answers:
"Actually what did that wretch have in japanese, turkish, arabic and icelandic? Are we really sure he is still alive?"

"Ladies and gentleman,
I can guess it's happened to you to see in this begining of the season too many "strange" match, and I think that it is a common opinion the fact that something is changed in the game-engine...
I want to start by saying that I don't really believe in the so-called random-hattrick (or at least, less than other people) and today, while I was thinking of the lineup, I had a sort of illumination: the chinese morra game.
Considering the three aspects of a team (defence, midfield, attack) and assigning to them the three figures of the most stupid game in the world, the chinese morra (rock, paper, scissors) we can guess that a team that rules in an aspect prevails over a second and loses against the third one.
I give a scheme:
- defence (rock) wins attack (scissors) but loses against midfield (paper);
- attack (scissors) wins midfield (paper) but loses against defence (rock);
- midfield (paper) wins defence (rock) but loses against attack (scissors).
Well, I think that this mechanism, if it exists, overrode the old one and plays in a non-neat percentage (40%) in order to shake not too much the game...
What do you think? Am I completely mad?"

(Title: Best Idea Ever)
"For every minute your logged onto hattrick your team gets £1000 or equivalent?
Cunning or what?
;p
Ive been thinking about this idea for ages (well, 5 mins), and feel it would solve all the current HT problems....apart from maybe the server load......but we can cross this bridge when we come to it.
And its maybe a bit unfair on those people who can't always log in......but who cares about them eh?....and life is unfair anyways.....so it would model real life better.
So apart from these minor glitches...its perfect...
whats everybody think?
:D
*waits for inevitable torrent of insults and abuse*
It would be nice if an HT would comment too :)"

"Help me, I've set the chinese language by error and I can't see anything, I don't know how to come back 'cause if I go gropingly in the preference page, it loads just a lot of question mark and I can't see the drop-down menu right in the topwhere I selected the language...

I know it, I know it, just try not to insult me too much...

Help please
:-(

Edit: Ok ok, done. I managed!"

AAA Wanted!
by Miky90 02/03/2005 at 15.14
"Hi, I'm looking for a three stars playmaker or more wich doesn't cost more than 50k. Contact me"

To the one below
by Juyos 02/03/2005 at 15.17
"If you find one at that price, whistle me!"

"On 25/10/2004 I bought this player:(44986907)
He was a 17y hopeful... so I reported him to the U20 coach... he answered giving me all the necessary tips... also saying that he had good chances to play in the U20...
Since that moment he has grown 2-3 times in his skill and everytime I reported the happened improvement...
Today I was giving a look at the country of my players and I realized that this one was Dutch... when I had always believed (I don't know why) he was Deutsch...
Ok that I'm zonked out since I was born... but how was it possible that the deutsch coach didn't realize it?????
o_O
Mac
P.S. Anyway I still believe he changed his country... he was from Deutschland!!!!!"

"Ossi Ulpovaara came close to extending the visitors lead as he, completely unmarked in front of the keeper Matteo Galati, lifted a ball over, hitting the bar.
What does it mean?? A player came close to score when another one lifted a ball, hitting the bar??"

PeppinoPrisco answers:
"Matteo Galati is the keeper"

frauen, president of fc samira, won against kuhbold, president of köbis kobolde.
In Germany they had a scandal concerning betting in football games and kuhbold's next press release was:
06/03/2005 First defeat in this season.
Manager kuhbold could hardly believe it! The team had to take a loss after a 4 win strike .. !! At the start of the game, they were very sure to win the game. Fc samira took the chance and smashed köbis kobolde 4:1. But there are rumors about the betting-mafia is behind this and the referee wasnt really neutral. These rumors are going to be analysed..!!

After some days frauen wrote on Deutschland Conference:
"Hello,
I have unexpectedly won against my opponent in the league.
Now the press says, there is the betting mafia behind this and they are going to investigate.
Is this a joke, because of betting mafia?
greez mario"

"Well, let's treasure my experience: seeing that hattrick has become a drug, like ultima online (who has played it knows what I mean), every occasion is good to make something interesting and constructive, everything in order to steal time to one's studies and social life! Well, yesterday, so excited, I was looking for players with pornstars' names, and I found some John Holmes, one of which was EVEN FOR SALE. I didn't hesitate, neither a minute, and I offered 1k, getting the player expiring in an hour. So happy, this morning I went to check my John, dreaming about how much he could have in "penis' measure" (obviously titanic) and in "picking-up girls" (obviously extra-terrestrial), but I find out he's a fucked devil with a TSI of 40 and he brought the TS from composed down to IRRITATED...
Seized with rage I fired him on the spot, regreting doubly!! I knew it, no more foreigners, from now only Rocco Siffredi."

"What could be the reasons why it's 5 consecutive matches I lose just for a goal?"

Andyvandermeyde answers:
"Well, let me think...
mmm...
I don't know...
maybe because the opponent team makes a goal more than yours?"

BrunoPizzul replies:
"Don't say bullshit! It's his team which makes a goal less than his opponent's."

*note of the translator:
The italic part in which the coach is named is one of the Italian sentences made by our LA to add flavour to the report of the match.*

"In my league, during the match AS Darksteel - Impudente this sentence appeared in the report:
GOAL! Renato Vandini comes forward from the left dribbling his direct opponent and, caught the guests' defence off-guard, easily scores. Few seconds later he's already hugging his coach who, just some minutes before, had suggested that movement to him.
Is it a special event of the coach???"

"Excuse me but how is it possible to set in red the players' number when you want to sell 'em?"

E Adesso Hernan answers:
"A marker directly on the monitor!!"

"Are the rain and the bad weather variables of which Hattrick considers only during the 90 minutes of the match?
Or if it has rained the day before so that the day of the match there is mud but no rain, does it change anything in Hattrick?"

Shortly afterwards, always him:
"The possibility that it could be raining just in those 90 minutes is really poor.
So I think that it's not a great deal to have quick or technical players, am I wrong?"

In the thread of the pre-match Italy-Israel U20, scar81 writes:

"To avoid the spying of the foreign CT I suggest we could talk or with recurrent grammatical errors ("I waas tinkking fo let Vieri paly...") or in dialect, so we can understand but Babelfish goes crazy! :)"

The thread that comes out from this is a real celebration to craziness!

"GMs cannot publish e-mails but I think I won’t violate anybody’s privacy, in fact even if I will now publish the text of an e-mail sent by a user who was accused of cheating, I won’t tell who’s the sender and it’s so generic that it’s absolutely impossible to discover who he is.
When his team was closed due to probable cheating, here’s his answer (full text):

“Please would you give me my teams back immediately!!!”
signature follows

| --o-- (-: GM-Baluba -"

Grogan_C writes:
“Is there a way to undo an offer already bid?”

Jan Mattys answers:
“The only one way is to send a message to the owned BEGGING him to raise on his own player, since you made a mistake and didn’t really want to bid.
But remember that if he doesn’t answer you, ignores you, or answers “no way” he’s got the right to do that.
=)”

the following post, Jan Mattys again:
“LOL... I’ve seen now… is that YOU who offered for my wing???”

And later:
“In effect I checked just for fun… when I saw it I didn’t believe it. :)
To the buyer: listen, if you want send me an HT-mail and we’ll talk about it. :)”

Dogghe writes:
“I’ve got a player who’s passable in team leadership and just reached solid experience, and I would like to convert him into a coach. I was wondering if further raising his experience would make him a solid (high) coach… or if his ability would be the same unless he reached excellent.
Can you help me?”

Sapio-HIO writes:
“It’s not convenient, his leadership is too high, better to buy one…”

Nuorese after having two teams closed returns with his first nick b3st:
"hi guys I’m nuorese they had closed my teams because I hadn’t waited 7 weeks before registering again...I chose my first nick b3st...I was missing the matches and some of you..
bad luck they gave me a team that’s 5° in the table one week before the end of the season damn"

Brancaleo, after pointing out that he waited 7 weeks after the closing of his first but non his second team, says:
"but moreover, if it’s the third time you register, didn’t you understand that hiring a inadequate/solid coach is dumb yet? :ppp"

B3st-Nuorese:
"what kind of coach did I have to hire??
damn
I always hired one like him and in VIII I always finished first..."

massimo77 joins:
"but how did you finish first in VIII when this is the first season with the VIII???????"

"Hello!!!
I'm bursting with joy like I'm on the loose.
Great youth pull this week, obviously already sold!!!

Doubt 1: I have solid youth squad, just improved. I invest 20000€ per week, when will I have them excellent??
Doubt 2: when will we have female players in Hattrick?? I'd like to have a female goalkeeper so that anybody would score a goal, or, beeing closer to reality, female defenders who would not let anybody score; seriously, wouldn't it be bad if there were some female players??? For the sexual equality, well I just tried!
Doubt 3: Would it be possible that some GM suggested to the Scandivanians the possibility, in some way, to make the team spirit grow (or at least keep a PIC up)?? Adding, for example, in the specialists' group a sort of Elisabetta Canalis or similar, and investing money not only in the youth squad but also in female entertainers, or also not restricting to increasing the arena but also building Jacuzii; after all these are actions taken from the reality of global soccer world, or not?

I'm getting bored"

"Hi I am the manager of Pachuky's and I had an idea that maybe could be taken into consideration. Sometimes I read in conference or in some pages that one of the "bad" things of Hattrick is that as far as you're a good manager if you start now it will take 3-4 years to reach the top (if you are really good!). I thought we could do a sort of competition in order to let a team scale more series.
It's a bit complex, I'm gonna explain myself. The idea should be something like this:

0 - RESTRICTIONS
Obviously a limit should be taken, like IV or V series, that is it's not possible to move up till the top but at best to IV or V.

1 - WHO'S GOING TO PLAY THIS COMPETITION
It could be made using different methods... thinking of it now, some came to my mind, for example:
- The winners of each group (..it would be hard, 'cause maybe too many matches would take place and where are we supposed to put them???)
- The winners that were able to win all matches of their league, or all but "x", giving to "x" a numeric value not impossible.
- The first two but by choice.
- The three previous cases by choice but... with a risk That is to say, if you play this competition of "scaling more series" you lose the right to be promoted as you should beeing the winner. In this way I think that only those managers really sure to have a strong team would play this competition.

2 - STRUCTURE OF THE COMPETITION
Ok, let's imagine we have choosed the methods to decide who's gonna play the competition. The structure is the least, for example... a league with X teams.
Supposing that the highest position you can reach is the IV series.

3 - POSSIBLE SOLUTION
Let's imagine that the method to know who's gonn aplay this competition is the league's winners by choice, ok?
So these winners will play the next season in a special league. For example, if I win in the IX series and I have to go to the VIII, instead of playing in the VII I will play in a league-without-level with other teams that like me want to scale higher. The first will go to IV or V, the second to V or VI and, depending on how we want to punish this ambition, from the third position we could decide to move everybody to the lowest series of Hattrick.

4 - PREVISIONS
Logically this will bring the problem to leave the space to the winners of this special group in the corresponding series, etc...

5 - IN THE END
Well, this is just a suggestion that I think would make the game infinitely funnier. If you are a good manager you could amaze.

Greetings to everybody, the manager of Pachucky's team."

In the Italian conference GM-Baluba creates a thread about a match between "Jedis", it clearly belonged to the non-HT conference, two messages later he moves the thread in non-HT and scolds himself this way:

By: GM-Baluba To: GM-Baluba 3136486.4 as reply to 3136486.1

"Next time write in non-HT!
this time I'll move.
:P"

"I offered 305k for a TSI 30 player, I was sure hattrick would block me because I offered above the cost limit, but instead my offer went through.
I'm not very interested in the player :(
ps: not satisfied I also offered 312k to see if it blocked me but again it didn't happen..."

From the "Ads" section:

I sell 18yo by Kraziel 21/05/2005 at 19:37:

"Alessandro Pizzuto (55799440)

18 years, disastrous form, healthy
A pleasant guy which is balanced and infamous
Has disastrous experience and disastrous leadership abilities.

Nationality: Italia
Total Skill Index (TSI): 0
Wage: 500 €/week
Owner: Gli antibiotici
Warnings: 0
Injuries: Healthy

Stamina:inadequate Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: disastrous Passing:disastrous
Winger: wretched Defending: poor
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: poor

Young player with very good growth chances, TRAINED IN SEVERAL ROLES (so that you can do what you want with him)
Auction starting at 0.0 €"

"..who will do better in the midfield?? surely everyone will say the second one, but I think form matters a lot!!! Anyway I accept suggestions..

1) TSI = 1 450, 18 years, solid form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities. [Powerful]

Stamina: passable Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: passable Passing: passable
Winger: poor Defending: weak
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: wretched

2) TSI = 1 190, 30 years, weak form
Has poor experience and disastrous leadership abilities. [Powerful]

Stamina: excellent Goaltending: wretched
Playmaking: excellent Passing: inadequate
Winger: passable Defending: wretched
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: inadequate

thank you..."

some messages later Bufalini answers:
"take a look at the weather. If it rains isn't the first one better?"

and Sgaddato:
"but they're both powerful"

Bufalini again:
"the forward is powerful the other one has no speciality"

S:
"but what forward?"

B:
"the one with three passables: Manuel Haase"

S:
"are we looking at different threads? are you making fun of me?"

B:
"I'd say no... one is Isidoro Righi the other one is Manuel Haase"

S:
"but are you talking about your players?"

B:
"of course, about whom otherwise?"

later again B:
"oh no I picked the wrong thread :-P there is a similar one whose name is one or the other.
Well, it happens forgive me ^_^"

"Hi,
did it ever happen to you that in the "Last News" such a sentence appeared:

xxx xxxxx has been transferlisted?

Incredible...in fact, he had the skill of the player I was looking for: why did it happen? I bookmarked many players with similar skills so that I could buy one these days.
Did this ever happen to you?
Thanks.
Mac"

Diawara:
"he's one you bookmarked, that was bought then put on sale by a day-trader ;)"

[Translator's note: "La Mucca" is Italian for "The Cow"]

Thread title: Stupid players

orecchioni writes:
"Hi everyone,
is anyone willing to compete with my jewel with a sublime name?
Mimmo La Mucca"

M_ati:
"but why stupid?"

orecchioni:
"he's stupid because they invented a site just to measure the IQ of the hattrick players. Try to verify yours!"

Frammenti:
"www.intellectivequotientoftheplayerswithastupidnameinhattrick.com"

Passalaqua:
"Damn... a bit too many people must have gone there now that you advertised it.. because I can't access to it :("

"If you place some players on trasfer list, I can't see why you should see your own in the transfers page: I find it quite natural that the system, with the query, filters yours out automatically."

"Guys I've got a young winger that got 2 yellow cards in tuesday's friendly and 2 others in today's league game. He's infamous, if I hire a couple of psychologists could he become less aggressive?"

"Listen to this one... just for a statistical (let's call it this way) purpose some weeks ago I tried to put on the market a passable forward of mine with excellent form for 30k... but no one bought him... the following week I asked a minimum bid of zero (solid form) and he has been sold for 24k... the following week the one who bought him placed him for 45k and he sold him..."

M_ati's answer:
"eh..theese are incredible news..... O_°"

Galdrappo_FCC's closing:
"listen to this one... prrrrrrrrr "

[Translator's note: Controhattrick is an Italian e-zine about Hattrick. Some days before this was posted, a message appeared in the Italian users' home page saying that ControHattrick was available at the newsstand; in fact, it was only a joke about the new issue of the e-zine being produced...]

IguanaFlorence writes:
"I'm writing here not to get loads of insult in the Italian conference. :)
Since in the Home Page it is said that Contro Hattrick is available at the newsstand (since I'd use a ream of paper and 3 liters of ink to print it), can I buy it at the newsstand like any other magazine?

If "no", why did they write is available at the newsstand?
If "yes", why didn't anyone tell me anything?
If "I don't know", why don't you run and see?
If "I don't care anything", why are you losing time here? :)
Thank you, eh!"

-mockings follow-

tht__:
"I bought it today, 1.20 euros, it's nice!"

Marchese_Cabraizinho:
"O_O They sold it to me for 2.50 euros!! I won't go anymore at the newsstand in the square!"

IguanaFlorence:
"Thanks. Tomorrow I'll fly and get it! (too good I've got the newsstand next to my house) But in all newsstands or only in bigger cities?"

Marchese_Cabraizinho:
"Here they got it, I'm in Portici, near Naples"

LaBusta:
"But did you fill in the request form for the newsagent? (it is issued in limited copy run)"

Cambiasso_El_Cuchu:
"I live in a small town with 10 thousands people and believe me, it was sold out very fast.. I've already reserved it for next week!!! :))))))))"

Marchese_Cabraizinho:
"Same here, too good we hattrick players signed that damned form!! Just a little more and it was gone, too!"

IguanaFlorence:
"But if I subscribe does it come to my house or do I have to get it at the newsstand anyway?"

[Translator's note: Marrundo is the manager of Arezzo Galasocaray, a famous Italian Serie A team. He's quite popular in the conference, too :) . "Soca" is a word (often used by himself) meaning... well... suck. "M'arrendo", instead, is Italian for "I surrender"]

"I often read sentences such as you look a bit like Marrundo, Marrundo soca. Is it a hattrick idiom? Does it mean something like player who easily gives up?"

From there, lots of laughter until the final closing:
"I thought M'arrendo = Marrundo in some dialect..."

Thread's title: The player talks to me

"Roaming a bit in the pages of my players I noticed a player with written: I speak Italian, German, etc.. I clicked and a sentence said by the player came out, such as I'm very happy about the trust the coach places in me... but why is the the only one talking to me??? And what does it mean, besides that he's happy???"