French team names

I've modernised the Belgian & Romanian team names. The English ones don't require changing so that leaves me with 7 countries left. The first I am changing is The French teams.

My proposal is here...... if you have any comments then please reply within the next few days. I'll probably change them next weekend. The current team name is on the left and the new team name on the right.

AJ Auxerre	AJ Auxerre
Ajaccio AC	AC Ajaccio
Amiens SC	Amiens SC
AS Angoulême Charente	US Boulogne Côte d'Opale
AS Beauvais-Oise	AS Beauvais Oise
AS Cannes	AS Cannes
AS Monaco	AS Monaco
AS Nancy-Lorraine	AS Nancy Lorraine
AS Saint-Etienne	AS Saint-Etienne
AS Saint-Priest	Évian Thonon Gaillard FC
AS Troyes Aube Champagne	ES Troyes Aube Champagne
ASO Arménienne Valence	Stade Plabennécois
Berrichonne de Châteauroux	La Berrichonne de Châteauroux
Calais Racing UFC	Calais Racing UFC
Chamois Niortais	Chamois Niortais
Clermont Foot Auvergne	Clermont Foot Auvergne 63
CS Sedan-Ardennes	CS Sedan Ardennes
Dijon Football Côte d'Or	Dijon Football Côte d'Or
En Avant Guingamp	En Avant de Guingamp
ES Wasquehal	Gap Hautes Alpes Football Club
Etoile Sportive Fréjussienne	US Luzenac
FC Gueugnon	FC Gueugnon
FC Istres	FC Istres Ouest Provence
FC Lorient	FC Lorient
FC Martigues	FC Martigues
FC Metz	FC Metz
FC Mulhouse	SR Colmar
FC Nantes Atlantique	FC Nantes
FC Sochaux-Montbéliard	FC Sochaux-Montbéliard
Gazélec FCO Ajaccio	SO Cassis-Carnoux
Girondins de Bordeaux	FC Girondins de Bordeaux
Grenoble Foot 38	Grenoble Foot 38
Le Havre Athletic Club	Le Havre Athletic Club
Le Mans Union Club 72	Le Mans Union Club 72
Lille Olympique SC	LOSC Lille Métropole
Lusitanos de Saint-Maur	FC Rouen
Montpellier Hérault SC	Montpellier Hérault SC
Nîmes Olympique	Nîmes Olympique
OGC Nice	OGC Nice
Olympique Alès Cévennes	Vannes Olympique Club
Olympique Lyonnais	Olympique Lyonnais
Olympique Marseille	Olympique de Marseille
Olympique Noisy-le-Sec Banlieue	US Orléans Loiret
Pacy-Vallée d'Eure Football	Pacy-Vallée d'Eure Football
Paris FC	Paris FC
Paris-St.Germain	Paris Saint-Germain
Pau FC	Rodez AF
Racing Club de France 92	EFC Fréjus Saint-Raphaël
Racing Club Lens	Racing Club Lens
Racing Club Strasbourg	Racing Club Strasbourg
Red Star 93	Aviron Bayonnais
SAEMS Louhans-Cuiseaux 71	CS Louhans-Cuiseaux 71
SCO Angers	Angers SCO
Sporting Club Bastia	Sporting Club Bastia
Stade Brestois 29	Stade Brestois 29
Stade de Reims Champagne	Stade de Reims
Stade Lavallois	Stade Lavallois Mayenne FC
Stade Malherbe de Caen	Stade Malherbe Caen
Stade Rennais	Stade Rennais FC
Thouars Foot 79	Tours FC
Toulouse FC	Toulouse FC
US Créteil	US Créteil-Lusitanos
US Raon-l'Etape	AC Arles Avignon
Valenciennes FC	Valenciennes FC

Skill changes

Over the weekend I made a start towards implementing much needed notification of skill changes.

I am going to show these on player pages - probably the training page and the actual player page with green and red values. The player page is also going to get a 10 week history.

I have implemented the first stage of this to run with Friday's matches - that is for the database to record the actual changes separately, rather than just changing the main value. If this works then I am hoping to work on the displays over the weekend so by Sunday I am hopeful you can see your training results without having to work it out yourself.

If anybody has any input towards this then now is the time to state......

I've been very busy at work recently which is why I haven't done it sooner but I'm now hoping I can get back to continuing the work I was doing on improvements as there's still lots I want to be done.

Belgian team names (again)

I know I have altered the Belgian team names quite recently but when I recently updated the Romanian teams, I gave them short names as well as their full names.

When I did the Belgian team names, I never did.

When I have done all the teams I aim to change certain pages of the site to list the shorter name but I need to have been through all the countries first and this means re-doing the Belgian list.

this may mean further tweaks to team names in Belgium occur over the next few weeks (when I get chance to do it). I'm hoping it won't be as severe but I shall be populating an as yet hidden field with a short name at the same time.

Then I have to pick the next country to work on. I'll try let you know by this blog my thoughts before I go ahead and change future countries.

Transfer of retiring players

At the end of last season I spotted 1 team that seemed to be collecting retired players. Now as this is far from realistic I am planning on disabling the transfer of retired players, at least until I bring player contracts into the game.

My plan is to not allow bids once they have announced retirement but I am undecided on whether I automatically cancel bids that have already been submitted. I probably should I suppose. That way managers can't accept the deals that they were thinking about.

Further to this, do you think there should be a time when player transfer/loan bids should be automatically cancelled?

Manager mail

I've just seen that some managers are storing a lot of in game mail and I am going to have to do some automated cleaning up.

My solution for this is to delete mail that was sent from the system (i.e. not another manager) over 4 weeks old.

Any opinions, please feel free to comment.