Sir Alex's Fergusons Academy Month 3 Update (15/9/08 - 15/10/08)
Sir Alex has produced a report for his 3rd month with his apprentices.
Queen of Sth:
Ikram has managed to keep his Queen of the South side rooted to the top of the table. He has a 3 point gap between him and Williams's strong St Johnstone outfit. Ikram is still let to lose a league match in his reign and in his 3 league matches in the past month he has won 2 and drawn one of them. His two wins came against Patick Thistle and Dunfermline. Although it was
a good month in the league Ikram exited both of his other cup commitments. He lost out to Udinese in the Euro Cup after he managed a 1-1 draw at home but a 2-1 loss away from home. In the league cup he lost out to Hearts 3-1 away from home. Ikram also finished off the month of September coming 3rd in the Scottish First Division Manger of the Month Award. At the moment Ikram's team are on a two match winning streak and will be hoping to keep this up over the coming month. He also has the second best Goal Difference at +11.
Current Position: 1st
Last Month: 1st
Media Prediction: 4th
Last Month: 1st
Media Prediction: 4th
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St. Johnstone;
At the end of September Rhys Williams was awarded the Scottish First Division Manager of the Month. In his 5 matches of the month Williams lost just one of them in a televised game against Livingston. He lost out 1-0 in the Challenge Cup Semi Final Graham Weir scoring the winner for Livinston in the 60th minute. Although he lost to Livingston, he managed to pull off a very good win in the League Cup 3rd Round against Motherwell 3-0 at home. He managed a string of 3 3-0 wins in a row in the middle of this month. These wins came against Motherwell, Airdrie United and Partick Thistle. Overall it was a very good month for Rhys Williams who moved up from 4th to 2nd in the league, and his team is also the best in front of goal at the moment scoring 21 goals. He has the best Goal Difference in the league of +13. His next game comes against Livingstone a team who he lost to in his last game.
Current Position: 2nd
Last Month: 4th
Media Prediction: 2nd
Last Month: 4th
Media Prediction: 2nd
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Partick Thistle;
Ben Mannings Partick Thistle slipped down two places this month into 4th while Ross County ended the month in 3rd. Mannings month only consisted of 4 games but out of these 4 games only one of them ended in a win, a 3-1 win against Ross County. He lost in the 3rd round of the League Cup 2-0 to Inverness CT and he will be happy it wasnt more as he faced the premiership opposition. He also lost to both top and second of the table aswel. He lost 3-2 to Queen of the Sth and then 3-0 to St. Johnstone. With Manning now out of both cups he will be fully concentrating on a good league position.
Current Position: 4th
Last Month: 2nd
Media Prediction: 5th
Last Month: 2nd
Media Prediction: 5th
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