The rise of Kidderminster Harriers FC (who?)

This thread will be about my Kidderminster Harriers FC Career on FMH2008 ( no updates ).

As i am already into my 6th season I will give a quick update on how things have been going:

Season League Board Target Final Position

Season 1 - Blue Square Premier - Respectable League Position - 9th ( I think cant really remember )

Season 2 - Blue Square Premier - Respectable League Position - 1st

Season 3 - League 2 - Fight Bravely against relegation - 1st

Season 4 - League 1 - Fight Bravely against relegation - 1st

Season 5 - Championship - Fight Bravely against relegation - 5th

( Beat Southampton 1-0 in playoff final which you will see is in LSD's best/worst results thread! )

Season 6 - Premiership - Stay clear of relegation - Currently 8th*

* I am currently 8th after playing 24 games.

So 4 successive promotions have bought the mighty force of kidderminster to the premier league.

The Squad at the end of season 5:

GKS : Ross Turnbull, Dean Coleman, Geoff Charles

Defenders : Harry Kay, Rory Morrison, Joshua Parker, Gavin Poole, Mark Creighton, George James

Midfielders : Ben Blackburn, Joshua Hopkinson, Junior Turner, Bryan Hughes, Grant Dixon, Alex Richards, Daniel Castro, Alan Dunne, Lloyd Coleman, Lance Gray, Sonny Evans, Andy Ritchie

Strikers : Lee Barnard, Russel Boulding, John Cunliffe, Terry Mason, Danny Lescott ( 122 goals in 3 seasons! )

So far in season 6:

Transfers in:

Name From Amount

David Sanchez Sevilla Free

Hosain Kaebi Birmingham Free

Jamie Carragher Middlesborough Free

Sergio Gonzalez Valencia Loan

Ishmael Miller Man City Loan

Rob Smits FC Twente £90k

Ishmael Heath Farsley £14k

Transfers Out:

Name To Amount

Daryl Turner Covenry £1.1M

Danny Lescott* Ipswich £1.4M

Mark Creighton - Free

* Danny Lescott was brought in season 2 for 16k, he scored 135 in 198 games, but wasn't good enough for the prem so was sold for almost 100 times as much as was paid for him.

I will update at the end of season six and then every half season from then on.

Please feel free to ask any questions and give me tips on how to improve my threads/posts or any problems!

Thanks for reading.

Firstly, thanks for advertising my thread

Secondly, do you think that the Harriers are strong enough to compete in the top 10 of the Prem?

Well I certainly hope so.

I've got a very yound squad with a few experienced players in the starting team and in my opinion, I have some players who could walk into most of the regular top 10 teams.

The teams current league position after 25 games is 8th so this shows that we can contend with some of the strong teams in the league.

Do you think that your squad is flexible enough to switch formation in a split second should the score reflect the match that may require a different approach?

Well my squad is quite big so can cover most injuries and with the formation changes, i do have players who can play in many different positions. For example if I wanted to change from three defenders to four and only had CB's on the bench, I could move either Jamie or Rory into the full back positions.

This is the same for my midfield as I have some very useful versatile players who can be called upon in different positions, and play effectively there.

Injury crisis at Aggborough!

6 first team players were injured in a very short space of time:

Joshua Parker

Jamie Carragher

Daniel Castro

Sonny Evans

Grant Dixon

Ishmael Heath

As 4 of these players are my midfield line, I'm going to have to stretch my 'flexibility' to the max!

Injury crisis at Aggborough!

6 first team players were injured in a very short space of time:

Joshua Parker

Jamie Carragher

Daniel Castro

Sonny Evans

Grant Dixon

Ishmael Heath

As 4 of these players are my midfield line, I'm going to have to stretch my 'flexibility' to the max!

with so many injuries lately, what do you feel your chances are for getting into europe?

Rumours are circulating that you may be about to quit Aggborough due to the limited resources you have avaible. Clubs such as Aston Villa, Man City and Newcastle are all reportedly on standby and prepared to replace their current managers should it happen. Is this true?

with so many injuries lately, what do you feel your chances are for getting into europe?

I feel as if my chances of Europe have faltered slightly towards the end of the season due to the unfortunate injuries. However I feel my team has done well under the circumstances and i am proud of there efforts in the league.

Will we get into Europe? At this moment in time I would say that was unlikely.

Rumours are circulating that you may be about to quit Aggborough due to the limited resources you have avaible. Clubs such as Aston Villa, Man City and Newcastle are all reportedly on standby and prepared to replace their current managers should it happen. Is this true?

Those rumours are 100% untrue. I'm honoured to be linked with such clubs but I have full faith that the Chairman will give me the required resources to achieve our goals as soon as the money becomes available. I know we are not a rich club, but I can tell you that recently our finances have greatly improved and I have been assured that if our finances stay at the current level, I will be given more money to use.

End of Season 6 (2012/13) Update:

Season --- League ------Board Target -----------Final Position

Season 6 - Premiership - Stay clear of relegation - 9th

Position--Team---------GD----Pts

8th------West Ham-----2-----56

9th------Kidderminster--4-----55

10th-----Newcastle----(-)1---47

A rough patch in the middle of the season saw the team drop from a comfortable 8th to 9th and late winners against Chelsea and Newcastle was enough to fend off Charlton and Newcastle in 10th and 11th.

All in all a very pleasing first premier league season which far surpassed the board expectations.

League Cup:

2nd Round

Kidderminster 3 - 0 Swansea

Sonny Evans (3)

3rd Round

Portsmouth 0 - 2 Kidderminster

Ishmael Heath

Andy Ritchie

4th Round

Kidderminster 1 - 3 Newcastle

Sonny Evans

Michael Owen (2)

Landon Donovan

Not a dissapointing or pleasing cup run.

Star Player: Sonny Evans

F.A. Cup:

3rd Round

Westbrom 1 - 2 Kidderminster

Pele

Grant Dixon

Lee Barnard

4th Round

Kidderminster 2 - 2 Man City

Hosain Kaebi (pen)

Grant Dixon

Daniel Sturridge

Rolando Bianchi

4th Round Replay

Man City 0 - 2 Kidderminster

Russell Boalding

Lee Barnard

5th Round

Kidderminster 3 - 0 Coventry

Miles Buxton

Alex Richards

Russel Boulding

Qtr Final

Sheffield Wednesday 1 - 1 Kidderminster

Graham Buxton

Miles Buxton

Qtr Final Replay

Kidderminster 3 - 1 Sheffield Wednesday

Sergio Gonzalez

David Sanchez

Lee Barnard

Wade Small

Semi Final

Millwall 0 - 1 Kidderminster

Ben Blackburn ( Extra Time - pen )

Final

Kidderminster 1 - 0 Aston Villa

Russell Boulding

A very pleasing cup run saw me win my first cup title in 6 seasons.

I was very pleased with the cup draws which only saw me face one of the top 8 teams in the premiership this year in Aston Villa.

Board Assessment

Your Chairman has indicated that he is delighted that the team won a trophy this season.

(Any Questions are welcome and please tell me how well you think I am laying out my updates and how i could improve)

End of August transfer update coming soon

after your fa cup success you will be in the euro cup next year so surely you can expect the chairman to flash the cash a bit more?

after your fa cup success you will be in the euro cup next year so surely you can expect the chairman to flash the cash a bit more?

I feel as if I have shown the chairman what I can achieve without much money so I hope I will be given a good transfer budget for next season to show what I can do with money and establish Kidderminster Harriers as one of the biggest teams in England.

Financial Update:

State: Has increased to Rich

Transfer Budget: A much improved 10.5mil

Wage budget: A greatly increased £750,000 per week

Current Wage Total: £75,000 per week

Transfers Update:

Transfers In:

Player-----------------Nationality-----Position-----From---------Age----Amount

Daniel Gonzalez--------Argentinian-----D/LC-------River---------23------Free

Guomundur Jonsson----Icelandic-------AM/SC-----KR-----------26-------£45k

Gael Thomas-----------Belgian---------DC--------Club Brugge--22-------£60k

Antonio Ruiz-----------Spanish--------D/RC-------R. Madrid----20-------Free

Pablo Fernandez-------Spanish--------AM/LC------At. Madrid---18-------Free

James Milner-----------English---------AM/RL-----Man Utd------27-------£1.1M

Joe Bennett*-----------English----------GK--------Man Utd-----19-------£8M

*Goalkeeper Joe Bennett becomes Kidderminster Harriers record signing in an 8 million deal from Man Utd.

Joe has stated that he is looking forward to helping Kidderminster become one of the biggest forces in England.

His Manager had this to say:

' I am overjoyed at signing Joe from Man Utd. At only 19 he is already one of the greatest goalkeepers in the world. Don't be surprised if you see him in the England goal soon.

Transfers Out:

Player----------------To---------------Amount

John Cuncliffe-----N/A------------Free

Dean Coleman-----N/A------------Free

Alan Dunne--------N/A------------Free

Harry Kay----------Carlisle--------£325k

Terry Mason--------Coventry------£950K

Ben Blackburn-------Burnley-------£875K

Community Shield:

Liverpool 1 - 3 Kidderminster

Bojinov

Sonny Evans

James Milner (Debut)

Guomundur Jonsson (Debut)

My second cup came as a great surprise as the game was totally dominated by us when I thought it would be a very tight game against the league champions.

August Update:

League:

Everton 2 - 0 Kiddermminster

James Vaughan

Yakubu

Kidderminster 1 - 0 Birmingham

Guomundur Jonsson

Aston Villa 3 - 2 Kidderminster

Jo

Luke Moore

Mohammed Sissoko

Rory Morrison (RED)

Ishmael Heath

James Milner

Kidderminster 1 - 1 Chelsea

James Milner

Claudio Pizzaro

Kidderminster will play Burnley in the League Cup Third Round

Kidderminster will play IFK Goteborg in the EURO Cup First Round

Board Confidence

The Kidderminster Harriers directors are delighted with your general performance as manager. The club's financial status is extremely healthy.

From now on I will just do updates every half season with cup information and minor updates in between.

Not much interest

I think people like myself, enjoy reading these kind of things. I don't comment much because you seem to cover everything in the updates!

Oh Fair enough lol

I'll still keep going hopefully Jan update tonight

Sorry I haven't been posting but my psp is a bit messed up at the moment. I think it is the disk reader but I know someone who I hope can fix it so should be back posting here soon!

nice going wi the Harriers