marconegri Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 I note from the other thread that there are people telling of there longest winning runs. Are we all alike in the fact that we have never lasted that long without winning games before either restarting the saved game or getting sacked. Or is there someone out there with a not so impressive managerial record. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amaroq Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 It all depends on what you're enjoying in your save-game. My current save I'm in a promotion battle .. but on a previous save, I was playing a just-promoted-to-the-Croatian-Premier-League team that was all but incapable of staying up. Trying to get them out of 12th place and into 11th, where I could qualify for the playoffs, was a tremendously enjoyable challenge. I don't know the exact number, but I went somewhere around 20 to 24 league matches without a win .. (oddly, while making a great Cup run?) .. when I finally got one, I was over the moon, and did in fact work my way up into eleventh at season's end. Didn't win the playoffs, though! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
glamdring Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Can't say that I can remember my longest winless run. More often I tend to just have a run of bad form punctuated by a surprise win somewhere in the middle. I think I did go 9 without a win with Hibernian though towards the start of my first season. Won my first two games of the season and was thinking life was great and then we still only had 2 wins after 11 games Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dankrzyz Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 I went 22 games without winning as Leyton Orient in the Championship. (Saved game, exited FM08, reopened FM08 and that game and went on to go unbeaten [win 6 / draw 2] in my next 8 games. Hmm.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD nawrat Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 On FM07, I was offered a job at Newcastle, and accepted it without hesitation. Within 6 months, I was sitting on an 19 match losing streak, scoring a total of 8 goals, and conceeding 30-odds. Newcastle was a bad job. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
glamdring Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Realism Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerner Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 I went 17 games unbeaten when i holidayed every game as manager of Bristol Rovers on FM07. And i deliberately recreated Derbys 40 odd games without a win just for kicks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter-evo Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 I have lost 12 in a row with Braintree and am still going, for those who play as a higher team:;:;: Rock bottom isn't nice Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AC Link Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 When I first got FM 2008, I was playing as Derby County and went 21 games without a win... Finished 19th, got relegated, got to Christmas and was 10th in the Championship and got sacked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick... Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 In the first year after promotion to the premiership with Brentford, is probably the longest one I can remember. It was August 2047. I'd had an excellent pre season, recording rome big wins against the top Italian clubs. Of course, frendlies mean nothing, but it certainly put me in a good frame of mind for the season ahead. Brentford's fist match in the Premiership for over 30 years was against Stoke, who had narrowly survived the drop the year before. A 2-1 win - not a comprehensive victory - but we looked comfortable. "This is going to be easy" - I thought. Our next game was at home to Crewe, and seemingly bankers against West Ham and Preston coming up, there's nothing like an easy start to set yourself up for the season. We didn't beat Crewe. We didn't get a point off West Ham or Preston. It would be nineteen games until we won again. To put it into perspective, that's a winless streak starting after the first game of the season, and ending the game before Christmas. Miles off the pace - even to be in competition for survival, a complete tactical re-think was required. In the season before promotion, and with my summer transfer window activity I considered my highly talented strikeforce to be my main asset. That, and the fact that it was the only part of my squad containig any real depth, left me loath to drop down to a single striker. But the stats were speaking for themselves. The team as a whole hadn't even managed to get a goal tally in the double figures. Rock bottom at xmas, I bit the bullet, and dropped to a single striker to bolster the midfield. What the hell - if it didn't work, I was hardly losing much threat up front. Results immediately began to pick up. It wasn't wall to wall wins, but I was picking a few up here and there, and was gradually pulling myself back into the fight for survival (although another 7-game winless and almost pointless streak as the season was nearing its climax didn't help - but at least I was playing more illustrious competition - and Cambridge United). With two games to go, incredibly, I was still in with a chance for survival. Plymouth were the other team battling with me for the last spot to stay in next year's premiership. As chance would have it, I would be facing Plymouth at home in the next match. It ran like this: If I beat Plymouth and then followed up with a victory on the monday against Coventry on the Monday, then I'd be going up. Plymouth were playing their last match, but being the proverbial six pointer that it was - only needed to play for a draw to ensure their survival. People often say in football that the bottom team at Christmas always goes down. People often say in football that 40 points will ensure premiership survival. I had turned a horrific first half of the season int one tiny thread of hope for survival. I needed a win, Plymouth only needed the draw. In the end Plymouth won 3-0, I finished on 39 points and went down and it didn't matter that I beat Coventry on the Monday. Still, it felt lie a victory of sorts from going from zero hope, after starting out with an 18 game winless streak, to in with a chance at the end of the season. We may have been relegated, but I kept my job and lived on to fight another day... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suge Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 On FM07, I was offered a job at Newcastle, and accepted it without hesitation.Within 6 months, I was sitting on an 19 match losing streak, scoring a total of 8 goals, and conceeding 30-odds. Newcastle was a bad job. Is that you Gullit? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Aja Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 About 15 matches in a row on my first stint at LLM with Forest Green. I had never experienced anything like it in all my life. Was almost crying my eyes out in anger and frustration! I don't go down there any more, I like my laptop too much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amaroq Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 We may have been relegated, but I kept my job and lived on to fight another day... Excellent tale, nick...! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
copperhorse21 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 When I first got FM 2008, I was playing as Derby County and went 21 games without a win... Finished 19th, got relegated, got to Christmas and was 10th in the Championship and got sacked. My God, this was painful for me to even read. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rancer890 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Well I got the record lol From the Records thread. Most Games Without Winning - rancer890 - Tung Po - 24 - Proof Most Games Without Scoring - rancer890 - Tung Po - 5 - Proof Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
copperhorse21 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Currently, I've been winless in 19 at Blyth in the BSN. This is over the course of two seasons. Season One, I inherited a team near relegation and staved off relegation only by goal differential. I had organized some friendlies against the national england teams in that league called (NPL) or something like that...essentially the league below ours because I wanted to test all my players on the roster before the end of season cuts needed to be made before all the one year contracts ran out. I was winless in those matches too. The following preseason with many new players, I was winless in all those friendlies and continued my winless run to where it currently stands (19). I face Bedford next and am hoping for a minor miracle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rancer890 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 lol copperhorse for your sake (and mine:p), I hope you don't come any closer to my record. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kreman Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Well I got the record lolFrom the Records thread. Most Games Without Winning - rancer890 - Tung Po - 24 - Proof Most Games Without Scoring - rancer890 - Tung Po - 5 - Proof I am not sure whether to say "well done" or not really. But i am a little surprised that the record is only 24. I thought it would be higher. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marconegri Posted October 15, 2008 Author Share Posted October 15, 2008 I am not sure whether to say "well done" or not really.But i am a little surprised that the record is only 24. I thought it would be higher. Any higher and perhaps most people would have been sacked? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinger061 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Or people who lose that many don't think to even bother entering the Records Thread Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amaroq Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 No, a previous version's records thread had a solid 40-game streak... Luckily that wasn't me! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klimowicz Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 On FM07, I was offered a job at Newcastle, and accepted it without hesitation.Within 6 months, I was sitting on an 19 match losing streak, scoring a total of 8 goals, and conceeding 30-odds. Newcastle was a bad job. i did it the other way round. i took the newcastle job after they were relegated to the championship and won 5/6 games. i got bored of it and left them top of the championship. the ai manager lost every single game after i left and they were relegated to league 1 (40 games). that was maybe on fm06... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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