New season ahoy! The Retirement Academy have gone through 9 indifferent seasons but are now the holders of the European Super Cup and the Cup Winners Cup. Twice actually. We finished 3rd once but have mostly been loitering around 5th and 6th. This year…could be our year.
Good morning! Who’s ready for send of the season shenanigans? We’ve sort of recovered to 9th, but there’s a lot of work to do to get into Europe next season. Ajax and Inter await in the two cup quarter finals so the deck is stacked.
Welcome back! Here at the Retirement Academy season 9 is proving every bit as tricky as the previous 8. Whilst I long for the day we get out of the traps quickly, this once again is not it and we sit 12th and going nowhere fast.
Well hello there! We only won the bloody Cup Winners Cup! That’s the good news. We are however 30 points off Feyenoord, who have already managed what we wanted to achieve by overhauling Ajax and they even went down to the 2nd tier first just to rub our noses in it.
Still, it’s a new season and the Micker didn’t retire. You’re still thinking about the bad news aren’t you?
Good day! It’s time to wrap up another season of the Retirement Academy where our mix of young and old are up to 9th after a ropey start. We’re also still in the Cup Winners Cup but we’re not exactly serial winners, so I won’t be expecting European football from that route. Can we just string together a few results to disturb the top 5?
Good morning! Last week the Retirement Academy returned and the new season got off to a ropey at best start. We had the perfect record against comparative garbage in the Pints Cup but our league form was a fairly mixed bag. We’ve got a job on our hands if we’re to reach the heights of last season.
Well good day to you all! Welcome back to the Retirement Academy. I hope you’ve had a wonderful summer, I’m back with a refreshed mind but unfortunately still this same set of idiots. Cup winning idiots, might I remind you, but idiots nevertheless. The aim of tracking Ajax down continues right now. Here’s the squad:
Ahh the end of Season 7, the most finely poised of the seasons. Granted we are nowhere near achieving our aim of overhauling Ajax at the top of this infernal league but we are above PSV, so that’s a start. I’m not even sure the gap to Ajax is getting smaller year on year but nevertheless, we are still in the hunt for a European place next season either by league position or, if you will suspend reality for a minute, winning either the Pints Cup or the UEFA Cup. I won’t hold my breath.
Hello! Welcome back to the Retirement Academy, where a team of 5 oldies and 5 youngies (and a keeper) are trying to take over the Dutch League. Toppling Ajax was the original target but frankly getting anywhere near them would ne a start. We sit 10 points adrift as we pick things up in season 7…
Welcome! We finally did it. Not the overall objective of overthrowing Ajax but the minor target of qualifying for the UEFA Cup. It’s a start. It’s a land where we can develop players and begin the difficult task of closing down a 24 point gap to Ajax. Sounds easy doesn’t it?
