Virtual win and virtual loss

Last night, we lost. It doesn't really matter how, but Verona came back from 0-2 to
eventually win the match 3-2. I understand how everyone must feel, because I was
overwhelmed with anger and dissapointment immediately after the game too. But, after all,
what are we doing here? This is only a game, we don't win real money and I am sure most of
us aren't interested primarily in the lindens, but just want to have fun. We are not a team
of idiots. Let the others be the idiots. The ones that shout 'spacebar!' or 'flying!' when
a bug occurs while running in heavy lag conditions. Or the referee who then says 'well,
jumping isn't flying' and then all the opponents start jumping around.

What shall we do? Well, the game showed us that our determination and organisation can only
be defeated by chance or cheating. So I guess we must train to be able to cope with these
situations too. Also, we only received three goals, which is not much considering the
number of goals scored in the matches in the first round. We need to work in our offense
department to miss as few shots as possible.

But above all, everyone should forget the last match and concentrate on the next. We can win this match and a win is enough for us to qualify. There will be long discussions on
this theme, but the rules say quite clearly that the next criterion after the number of
points are the direct matches. In case Verona wins against Milan and we beat Napoli then
all three teams will have 6 points. In this case we should look at the direct matches:

Napoli-Verona 5-2
SNN-Verona 2-3
SNN-Napoli ?

Everybody will have 3 points in this new group so goal differential will be the next
criterion. Verona has 5-7 (-2). If we beat Napoli by a goal, we will have (0) and Napoli
will have (+2). Napoli will qualify first place and SNN second place. If we beat them 2, 3,
4 or 5 goals then we will have (+1), (+2), (+3) or (+4) and Napoli will have (+1), (0),
(-1) or (-2). Again the same teams qualify but we will qualify in first place then Napoli.
If we beat Napoli at 6 or more goals, then we will qualify together with Verona.
In all cases a win is enough to qualify. We should concentrate on training and should only
look at the next game.

I must congratulate all the team for their effort, the game was very long and everybody got
tired until the end and maybe that helped them come back too. I can't really put the blame
on anyone because I sincerely think we did good and obeyed the tactics which were again
good. It wouldn't be fair either to blame anyone but myself and I have to ask you for an
appology because I wasn't online this week and we couldn't train and also because I missed
some easy shots as an attacker. This week we will have a training session or maybe two. The
first one is likely to be on Tuesday or Wednesday, I will send a group message to all with
the day.

For the next match, there will be some changes in the team, the first change I decided as a
second coach is to give the fascia capitano to Tarcisio Ibanez which will be our captain in
the game on Sunday. This is only a temporary measure, seeing as how much one has to argue
in the field I decided to give him the opportunity to answer in Italian and maybe make
ourselves heard (because I had the distinctive impression that I was ignored because of
speaking in English, they didn't understand or chose not to say anything to me).

Last but not least, please read Cyndee's post as it is a good guide for everyone in the team and
we should take notice and play according to these good advices. Forza SNN !