SNN 5 - Palermo (Nikkedy) 2

Another strong performance by our team. We had a tough competitor with very good individual players but I don't think they have faced an opponent as organized as ours and needed more time to adjust.

Their attackers were continously harassed from their side of the field all the way to our goal. On one of their goals it seemed to me that every member of our team tried, and missed :( , a tackle on him. They tried several long shots but they fell short or were blocked. It must have been frustrating. I've played several of them 1 vs 1 and they know they can get past me, but, with good organized teamplay, if they get past me they are immediatly confronted by another defender and then another.


Two of our goals I think were because of things I have written about earlier;

1. Palermo's starting kick was missed and taken by Zyl for a quick score.

2. On a few instances they left their goalie all by himself with all their defenders behind our attacker.
I was a bit surprised by this since one of their players last week told me he reads our blogs. ( Is anyone reading opponents blogs? )


Something to think about:

Do you think we have played against a good organized team?
If not, will we be able to adjust quickly enough?
I have noticed different strategies tried by different opponents, so far we have been able to counter them.

But, I remember one friendly game we played a couple of months ago. When our opponent attacked, on several occassions they made passes that left our defenders completely helpless, but they failed to follow through with a score.
I am sure they are a much better team now.
That team was the Billionaire club.
They are undefeated in league play.
They won their last game 9-0
They play Napoli on Monday.
And we play the winner.



The Ball:

I have noticed lately that sometimes the ball has been bouncing off players instead of sticking the way we are used to. I saw someone step into the ball from the sidelines to get the ball for a kick and it bounced off him into the field and play started. That happened to me last week.




Lag

Lag was so bad at the first field we went to that we moved the game to another field where the lag seemed even worse. I thought the game would be impossible to play, but once we started it was not as bad and was not too much of a problem.

Spectators should be told to take off all attachments.

Perhaps the next game should be played on a weekday when less people are online. (Does that help reduce lag?)
I've heard that the sims crash when about 75 people are on the island.

Perhaps we can limit the field to players only and record the game for others to see? (Keeping the score a secret for an hour or so.)

Can the games be televised?
If so, spectators could be on a different island watching the game.

Is it possible to seperate the playing field from the stands?

I think SecondLife soccer is going to be a big sport in the future with large audiences. The soccer league bosses should start planning for it.



TIM

Does anyone know what's going on at TIM?
Will the ball dispenser be replaced with the regular ball?
There is a new ball there now but it still needs work.
TIM is my favorate field.