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Tyresö FF - August 2022 I was fuming after the loss to Åtvidaberg FF, a side that hadn't won in their previous six games. And the loss to Nyköpings BIS did nothing to improve my mood as well slipped to 2nd in the table I took control for the match against Syrianska FC, and it looked like it would be a frustrating day. But constant use of the Push Forward and Demand More shouts finally saw us make the breakthrough in the dying minutes. The trip to IFK Aspudden-Tellus didn't follow the usual pattern, as we made very few chances. We only had one shot on target, but we took it. When Nyköpings BIS beat us they overhauled us at the top, but they couldn't maintain it and we've pulled back ahead. Our final four games are against IF Sylvia (4th), Hanvikens SK (11th), Newroz FC (14th), and Enskede IK (3rd). Slip up again and there are several teams ready to pounce.

Tyresö FF - July 2022 We've been stupidly inconsistent this month because nearly every game, and this has been going on for a while, at least one player underperforms and just doesn't deserve to be on the pitch. So then I have to fine them and drop them from the next game, so there's no consistency in starting line-up. It's not even the same player each time, it's rotating around the pitch and can be anyone at any time. We're conceding goals every game, never enough for it to be a disaster, but enough to ensure we're losing and drawing more than we're winning. And yet, it has to be considered a good month. Twice we've rescued results with stoppage-time goals. And while we've been inconsistent, our rivals have too. We stay in 1st place, keeping a five point lead. Also, in each of the last six games at least one academy graduate has started. Perhaps this is also a part of the reason why we haven't been as impressive, but it should benefit in the long run.

Tyresö FF - June 2022 The Syrianska FC game could have gone either way, losing was a bit harsh but they took their chances and we didn't. Through the rest of the month we were better going forward, scoring three goals in each game, but a bit of defensive mistakes allowed Newroz FC to take a point from us. I've just noticed that they're bottom of the table with barely any points, so that's actually really annoying. 20b Magnus Ternstedt became the first academy graduate to make his debut. I need to start involving these lads more, not just for the long-term nature of this, but also to keep my vice captain Lucas Brikell happy. He complained about a lack of squad depth, and I told him the young players would step up. Hopefully just our general performance will be enough to placate him. A five point lead, and we're the top scorers at the halfway point.

Tyresö FF - May 2022 Niclas Thomasson has finally found his shooting boots! After just seven goals in the last two seasons combined, he's already on six this year. We remain top of the table, with a five point lead over IFK Aspudden-Tellus.

Tyresö FF - April 2022 We didn't lose anyone from our senior squad over the winter break, so we go into the new season with the same group of players. Pestering the chairman for upgrades worked, as we were able to get improvements applied to our junior coaching (average) and youth recruitment (fairly basic). The board want a top-half finish this year, the media have lost interest and don't think we'll do any better than midtable. --------------------------------------------- We've made a very good start to the season, with four wins and just one blip. A strong defensive effort has been key to this. Jesper Falk is one of my centre-backs. He's actually the shortest of them, just under 6ft2, but he's been a menace in the opposition area with three headed goals from corners. We sit top of the table at this stage, with four teams just a couple of points behind us.

Tyresö FF - 2021 Youth Intake A golden generation! - or in Swedish - en gyllene generation! Obviously that probably means nothing, but the determination levels are generally higher than last year, so perhaps that means this bunch have a better chance of making it. Shame that most of the poor determination levels are among the top rated players though. It's interesting to note that last year we didn't have any players with second nationalities, everyone was Swedish only. But this time, with no changes to our youth set-up, we now have six players with four different second nationalities.

Tyresö FF - 2021 Season Review We've finished a position higher than last year, but because we were so close to a chance of promotion before missing out it feels much worse. Ending the year with a positive bank balance hopefully means the board will be more likely to sanction some upgrades over the winter. --------------------------------------------- I'm begrudgingly picking out some of the better performers, though with how the year ended I just want to call them all a bunch of miserable cowards and bottlers. Jesper Sundelin improved on last year, keeping 12 clean sheets this season. The midfield pairing of Milan Hussein and Lucas Brikell both hit an average rating over 7.00, and racked up a decent amount of goals, assists, and MotM awards between them. Philip Karlsson was the only player to reach double figures for goal contributions, with 11 assists making up the majority of this tally. The strikers were largely terrible, Musa Dibba top scoring with just eight. --------------------------------------------- The Reserves finished 3rd in their second tier group. The Under 19s finished top of their second tier group, but missed out on successive promotions after finishing bottom of the promotion group. ---------------------------------------------

Tyresö FF - September 2021 Pathetic. The win on the final day didn't matter, we'd already messed it up by then. Not happy at all. The form column tells it's own story. With Arameisk-Syrianska FF and IF Sylvia both slumping the door was wide open for us to take advantage, instead we threw it away.

Tyresö FF - August 2021 A mixed month, with the usual frustrations but also enough plus points to just about call it a positive one. We won more than we lost, but had the usual wasteful up top. We top the division on possession passing, shots taken, and goals from set pieces, but we're just not clinical enough from open play. If we can sort that out we'd be deadly. Not losing to IF Sylvia was vital, but beating them would have done us the world of good. Four teams still in the mix, for one automatic and one play-off place. Could go either way. We play FC Gute next and Aramesik-Syrianska on the final day, so it's not an easy run-in.

Tyresö FF - July 2021 I clearly got too excited in June, as we've returned to our wasteful worst this month, and the excitement dried up along with the goals. Three bore draws won't inspire anyone, and the 58 shots we had in these games without scoring was woeful. A missed penalty by Milan Hussein against Assyriska FF added salt to the wound. We've now fallen into 3rd place, three points behind IF Sylvia and two behind Arameisk-Syriankska IF.

Tyresö FF - June 2021 Lovely stuff, we're flying at the moment. Keeping four clean sheets in a row always comes in nicely, and plenty of goals at the other end of the pitch mean we keep sending our fans happy. There aren't too many of them mind (average 160-180 attendance for home games), but they're chuffed nonetheless. Victor Grillhammar (ST) has moved into the starting line-up and has repaid the faith with three goals, but even that's been surpassed by Philip Karlsson (AMC) grabbing five assists in the last three games. We've moved up into 2nd place at the halfway point of the season. We're in good form, but IF Sylvia ahead of us are in even better form. They were the side relegated from tier 3 last year, so it's no surprise they're doing well. We're scoring a lot more than them though, as well as (narrowly) having the better defence.

Tyresö FF - May 2021 The 4-5-1 is working really well. We're scoring plenty of goals, and it's five wins from the last six games. There was a bit of a defensive disaster against Enskede IK, but otherwise there's nothing to be annoyed about this month. In particular Milan Hussein is thriving in this new set-up. He had one league goal prior to this month, before hitting the net six times in five games. We still have the weakest shots on target percentage at 36%, but our conversation rate is now up to 12%, which is the average for the division. We've recovered to 3rd in the table, two points off the top.

Tyresö FF - April 2021 I was really fed up after these first three matches. 48 shots, just nine on target, and only one goal. 18% shot accuracy, and 2% shot conversion. Both starting strikers on long goal droughts. Useless. Out of desperation I switched to 4-5-1 for the trip to Assyriska FF, and after a slow first-half, we suddenly came alive after the interval and started scoring to pick up our first win of the campaign. After four games we sit in 8th place.

Tyresö FF - 2021 Pre-Season The Swedish winter break is really long, and also really boring when you're not signing anybody. Almost five months with nothing to do before starting friendlies in February. Our overperformance last year now has the bookies fancying us a bit more, giving odds of 4-1 for promotion, and the media is predicting us to finish 6th. We did get some money coming into the club through new sponsorship deals and membership fees, but not enough to convince the board to start making any upgrades. A few reserves and back-ups left when their contracts expired, but we retained all regular starters. A couple of younger players have been bumped up to fill out the senior squad, including Victor Grillhammar who scored 26 times for the Under 19 squad last year.

Tyresö FF - 2020 Youth Intake A golden generation! Our AssMan has a JPP stat of 6 though, so let's take his judgement with a big pinch of salt. And that's before you take into account our poor facilities, and the bad personalities and determination stats listed here So let's just assume they're going to be rubbish. But considering we're a semi-pro fourth tier side, that still might be enough to make an impression. You can't turn your nose up at two players with 5.0 star potential, plus another at 4.5 and two more at 4.0. And when one of them has 2.0 star current ability, perhaps they'll be good enough to step in sooner rather than later (albeit in a position we don't use, and don't have any senior players to judge him against). All players are from Sweden, and 14 of them are hometown boys.

Tyresö FF - 2020 Season Review I'm pleased with our overall performance this season. We considerably overachieved compared to expectations, and instead of hoping to avoid relegation, we instead came were in the mix for promotion. There were of course moments of major frustration, especially at silly points we missed out on, but it's definitely a good first year and something to build on. A bit annoying that we didn't take part in any cups. A look at Wiki solved that - apparently the top two league enter, and then the rest of the entrants are selected by the regional district FAs. Looks like we don't make the cut, but hopefully it varies and we will be included in future. We've lost £140k since the start of the season, so something that makes money would come in helpful. --------------------------------------------- That being said, few players covered themselves with glory. There's a distinct lack of green in the average rating column, as Lucas Brikell was the only member of the squad to record an average over 7.00. He was also voted the fan's player of the year. Jesper Sundelin generally impressed in goal, with 10 clean sheets he was the best stopper in the division. The lack of goals was a disappointment, as nobody scored more than six. Right-back Hampus Andersson did well to register seven assists. --------------------------------------------- The Reserves finished 5th in their second tier group. The Under 19s finished 1st in their third tier group, and have been promoted ---------------------------------------------

Tyresö FF - September 2020 We played some great football at times this month. We blew Assyriska FF away in an easy victory, and the goal by Lucas Brikell against Enskede IK was a joy to behold. You have to enjoy an unbeaten month, and eight points was a good return. But there were also the usual moments of ineptitude. We were coasting to an easy win against IK Sleipner but somehow threw away a two goal lead, and a red card for Fredrik Jacobsson ruined our day against Assyriska IF i Norrköping. The AssMan advised that the sending-off was harsh, but I gave him a two week fine nonetheless. The win on the final day was an important one as it kept us above Enskede IK. The dropped points in the prior two games actually cost us promotion, but nevermind. I didn't see that as being on the cards at the start of the year so shouldn't rue it too much now. Surprised to see that we had the second best defence in the division, didn't feel that way at times, but we did score the joint fewest goals of the top five.

Tyresö FF - August 2020 We've just about laboured to eight points this month, but it's pretty undeserved. We've been really poor. We've just completely lost the ability to play competent attacking football, all of our starting forwards are out of form and don't ever look like scoring. We've had to rely on moments of quality from defensive players, or back-ups, to step up and rescue results. Even when we finally did look halfway decent against Västerhaninge IF, we then wasted the opportunity to win when Joel Embring blasted a penalty wide. The fining stick saw more action this month, I think Niclas Thomasson has lost pay on four occasions over the last two months. Despite these woes we have somehow made up a place, but with four games left automatic promotion is out of the question, and I wouldn't put any money on us grabbing the play-off spot.

Tyresö FF - July 2020 A bright start to July was followed up with a pathetic defensive display against IFK Haninge, and a pair of pathetic attacking efforts against IFK Aspudden-Tellus and Trosa-Vagnhärad SK. The fining stick came out in full force, eight players lost at least a day's pay. We've now dropped down to 6th place.

I've often thought about starting a game with two managers, but then never committed to it, so it's interesting to see your approach. Good to see Glencairn getting promoted too and close the gap between the two sides. If I could make one request, it would be that the updates are more clearly defined for each club. Maybe split the posts, or use different colours. KUTGW

Tyresö FF - June 2020 Another good month, though it is starting to become apparent that we struggle away from home. We're winless in four games on our travels, and it would have been even worse were it not for Jesper Sunderlin saving a penalty against Enskede IK. At home though we're producing the goods, scoring seven goals in two wins against the similarly named Assyriska FF and Assyriska IF i Norrköping. At one point this month we were top, at another we'd fallen to 4th. But at the close of the month and the halfway point of the season we sit in 2nd place, though it's all very close and there are a lot of teams still in the mix. The winners are automatically promoted, the runners-up go into a play-off.

Tyresö FF - May 2020 I knew our unbeaten opening to the season wouldn't last forever, but the way it ended was pretty disappointing. We were on a bit of high after the big win over Huddinge IF, and a trip to bottom of the table Hanvikens SK shouldn't have troubled us, but we were completely off the pace and deserved to lose. That wasn't even the worst loss of the month though. Despite equalising against Västerhaninge IF in the 93rd minute, we then conceded again immediately from kick-off. Infuriating. But it's easy to dwell on the negatives. So forget that, and look at three green dots below. Nine points from a possible 15. That's good going, and we are now 2nd after nine games, behind only Assyriska IF i Norrköping.

Tyresö FF - April 2020 I'm very happy with this first month, but there is still the suspicion that it's just the new manager bounce in play. We came flying out of the blocks to start the season with two wins, Musa Dibba with all the goals in these games to make a great first impression. The next two matches didn't quite go as smoothly, both times fighting back from being behind to take a draw, but we're still undefeated. After four games (out of 26) we sit in 3rd place.

Tyresö FF - Tactic The same 4-4-2 I always use. I'm a tactical dunce, when I make one tactic that works I don't dare try anything else, bar the occasional foray to 4-5-1.

Tyresö FF - 2020 Pre-Season Squad It's difficult to read too much into this, but at least there does agree to be some degree of quality in most areas of the pitch. There aren't many defenders in the senior squad, but the reserves and U19 squads are full so there are players available when we need them. The top two players by PA are 4.5 star midfielder Milan Hussein, and winger Joel Embring. Between them they have a total of one technical attribute in double-figures, so standards aren't the highest. The favourite players of the fans will include Lukas Brikell, who holds the appearance record with 134 games (scoring 12 times), and all-time top scorer Niclas Thomasson, who has 38 goals (in 77 games). Both players came through the academy here.