Now this looks like my blog now… Anyway…

Not many might still remember, tomo (who recently quit) was a U20 coach when I joined hattrick. It was the era of Gen 4, also it was the time when hattrick made changes in the format of world cup. As a result, the brilliant planning of the Malaysian Community was caught off-guard. Tomo was forced to face 20 year old opponents with 19 year old. It was the ‘locally trained’ policy era. In a desparate attempt to qualify, tomo enrolled few non locally trained players, a move that causes a crisis it htmy. There were threads that become sooo active critising etc… well I can’t remember the details. There were thread that was claimed to be deleted by the so-called moderaters.

But what makes it very interesting is what happens next, few people apologise, and the community forgive. I tought to my self, hey how different this is if this if the FAM and the press, things will be drag along long long way… but not here. Htmy continued learning from their mistakes and continue planning for the future…

I still remember, after such hard work, I manage to save RM1,000,000 for my team, I asked in htmy, “What can I do with RM1,000,000?”, the answer that I get was….. “A bungalow.”

Htmy was then organized by the NTC (National Training Council) which comprise of the NT Coach, U20 Coach and the respective TB’s (Training Base) Head. Guided by many tips from htmy, one of which I really remember was that to always pull a keeper and trained keeper for newbie team has actually improve my team a lot. I manage to sell a 17 year old (third week?) keeper for RM1.5 million (later re-sold to goldfries), trained and sell one of two keepers, before losing patience and revert back to training playmaking. How can one afford training two players a week only?? : )

TBs during those days were really organized, potential players were posted in htmy and interested TB Trainers would post their budget for the players and indicate their willingness to train. One fine day, during the Chinese New Year holiday, when I just came back from holiday, I switched on my computer and suddenly realize that one potential players listed was almost due. Suddenly I got the urged to bid, luck has it, that maybe many others were still in their holiday, Mohd Rizallrudin became my first potential U20 players (Gen 06) under my wing, errr make that in the middle. My first adventure with TB-Midfielders begin…..

Next : “We hold your balls!!”

I was just overly excited to discover a free football management game that is based not of real life football and where you can compete with human players. Yeah competing with AI is boring and scoring based on real life football is not really my things. Why should I get scored based on something that is totally beyond control?

As many has already know, Kota Damansara is the place I am staying now, hence my team is called “Kota Damansara”.

Being a new team with lots of undiscovered things, thanks for HT for having a newbie conference. With the help of search engine I am more amazed to discovered many more related sites to hattrick, like the ABC of Tactics, which leads me to start my ‘playmaking’ training.

Curious to discover more after some weeks of playing I decided to try the HT-SMS, might be for tracking players of matches. I failed to set it up properly and I started my first post in Hattrick Malaysia National conference asking for help, which leads to 2 things, one, the then GM-Strong responded via HT-Mail assisting me seriously by asking something like “What’s your mobile number?”, then “Still can or cannot”…

Number two was a short HT-Mail by goldfries or roadie? Saying “Join us in www.htmy.org” or there was nyoh etc etc something…. Thus my discovery of Hattrick Malaysian Community.

Next : What makes Malaysia exciting!

Interesting isn’t it? The game that we hold so dear is now in Board Game format?

*Images and Text in this article were taken from Hattrick

Man, it’s like playing Monopoly or something.

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Good things have to come to an end, and that goes to PeeJayReds too, you just wait! I left my era of ‘official’ education to ‘officially’ entering the workforce. My timing was perfect, I got a job just 1 week before the infamous Annuar Ibrahim ‘poison pill’ budget, that later followed by (chronologically, I don’t mean by effect) the Asian Financial Crisis. I was there without any computer to play games with and with no football periodicals to read with.

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