dafuge's FM12 challenge

[benrollo]

OK I've given up re-loading for now and plumped for Oxford City.

Managed to pick up a half-decent Assistant Manager in the shape of Martin Grainger and followed that up with the legendary Paul Furlong coming on board as a Player/Coach. Unfortunately, he seems to be slightly past his best, to the point where he has actually developed some kind of Split Personality Disorder.

The only way is up I guess!

[XaW]

Chesham United | Season 2013/14 | New years update

Table | Squad | Finances | Transfers

The season started as the last one, slow! The first match we won was the 5th one, but then we had a good run towards the winter. Now, at the half way mark we are just below the play off places, only two points behind. Quite frankly, I think we are underachieving when I compare the squad to most of the other teams. We are getting some good results, but are struggling to get the long streaks with good play. Often, we go from beating one of the promotion candidates away to losing at home against teams destined for relegation. I think I need to look at my tactics and make a better defensive tactic as my main one is quite an offensive 4-4-2 with attacking wingers. Might going to try to make a 4-5-1 for the tough away games and to keep the defense solid towards the end of games. I'm still quite the rooking regarding tactics as I usually find one that kinda works and stick to it.

Regarding cups we had a great run in the FA Cup. We took Salisbury to pens in the 2nd round, but lost on pens. If we had won we would have med Championship outfit Ipswich away, and that would have generated some huge cash and that's something we need desperately. Our finances is deep in red, but our little cup run helped out quite a bit as we have lost far less than last year. If we can make the push for play offs we should have a slight increase in attendances and reputation.

The players that have stood out so far are youth player Eddie Cook, winger Ryan Harrison and the rock in our defence, Gareth Hutchison.

[Impale]

Hahaha, oh my word.

I just called a Team Meeting to congratulate the team on their good start to the season. It was met with mixed success; some happy, and others not so. I asked the room for opinions. Someone told me he felt that he felt it was pointless to call a meeting just to say that. I asked for another opinion. My reserve left-back told me that the former player was talking rubbish. I passionately told him that that was just the reaction I wanted.

Morale plummeted. Everyone was superb/very good. Now it's red as far as the eye can see.

Don't do it, folks. Don't do it.

[Mr Beefy]

Worksop 2012/13


League

Positions

FA Cup - 4th QRd
FA Trophy - 3rd QRd replay

Started the league indifferently but soon got a good run going to get upto 5th after halfway. A very poor run after xmas left me in midtable where i pretty much sat for the rest of the season. Only 9 clean sheets in total and 3 after xmas showed where the main problems lay.
No real progress in the cups.

Squad

Transfers

My best player was Tank, when he was missing the other defenders performances stunk the place out, when he was there they played much better.
Beckett did well at the start of the season as did Martins in parts but my best striker was Lyons who took 10 games to get off the mark but found the target consistantly until the last ten games when he was dire in most matches.

Season        League       Position       FA Cup              Other Cups              Europe              Achievements
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2012/13        BSN           12th         4th QRd         FA Trophy - 3rd QRd          N/A                     None

Good to see Lyons do well for someone else. I had high hopes when I signed him at the start of my game for him to be my number one striker but he never really delivered sadly.

[glennuk]

James Scowcroft just got injured for 4 months, the week before the season starts

[Dan BHTFC]

I think Hendon is short for inconsistant team!

[glennuk]

Does anyone else seem to get ALOT of injuries...averaging 1.5 a match

[dr p wigwam]

wouldn't say i'm getting a lot, but they seem to be quite long. 6-8 weeks mostly. never seems to be a week or anything...

[Dan BHTFC]

looks like another season in the BSB South beckons!

[dr p wigwam]

9 matches played and i'm hanging around midtable, so i check out the results so far:

Home: P4 W3 D1 L0

Away: P5 W0 D2 L3

I think I see where we need to improve

Edit: We have the 3rd best conceded record, and the 3rd worst scored record

Hmm, maybe we need to press more when away from home?

[brettles1108]

First post in this challenge. I have played football manager/champ manager since 92/93 but never done anything like this. After a couple of hours reloading hoping for Met Police or Cray, I finally settled for Margate. I am away from my PC but will post a screenie of my manager profile with my end of season report

I am 8 games into the season and so far have lost just the once and I am currently on a 4 game winning streak and up into 8th place. I have made a handful of signings which mainly came from the trial day my board agreed to. Hopefully my good form will continue and I shall have a good end of season report to post!!

[Dons]

Hitchin Season 2013-14

Table Graph Squad Profile Transfers Finance

Season 2 in BSS was mostly about keeping track of injuries. At one point, 5 of 8 defenders were injured, and from those 3 were more than 2 months. Finances are again this season a struggle, and even though the board were so kind to throw an extra 160k into the deep black hole, we are still down a lot. Sugar daddy wanted!

Finished the season in 4th place. Semi finals in the playoff were against Lewes. With a 2-0 first leg at home, we were confident next season would be BSP. The return match however, saw a Lewes team with a bought referee! Lewes won 5-2 (2 goals in overtime and we had a penalty denied)

Before the season, we had planned to win the FA Cup, however, in round 1 Stevenage decided we shouldn't. FAT was also an exit in round 1.

Sacked alot of players to try and get better on the finance part, but that is the only progress that was shown this season - it goes steady down!

The obvious aim for next season is advancement!

Consolidation of the season: We were the team least scored on! AND got runner up on manager of the year in BSS

Season	League	FA Cup		Other Cups	Europe  	Final Pos.	Achievements
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2012/13 BSN	4th qual	FAT 3rd qual	N/A		12th		None
2013/14	BSS	1st rnd		FAT 1st rnd	N/A		 4th		Lost in playoffs

[MikaelS]

First post in this challenge. I have played football manager/champ manager since 92/93 but never done anything like this. After a couple of hours reloading hoping for Met Police or Cray, I finally settled for Margate. I am away from my PC but will post a screenie of my manager profile with my end of season report

I am 8 games into the season and so far have lost just the once and I am currently on a 4 game winning streak and up into 8th place. I have made a handful of signings which mainly came from the trial day my board agreed to. Hopefully my good form will continue and I shall have a good end of season report to post!!

Welcome and good luck

[Dan BHTFC]

Just scraped a Play-Off place, woop woop!

[GreyedOutMan]

Guys

The list is getting very long now. So apart from the fact that I have almost certainly started making mistakes which I havent got time to look for - so please tell me if you spot any - its starting to become a drag finding you in my notebook file. If everyone could include in their post what position they are on the table, that would make my life much easier. The table is purely ordered by the order in which you joined the challenge, and so it wont change, so if you just put a little note at the top next to your username - entrant number X - that would be great.

Thanks

[MikaelS]

Would it be easier having it in Excel?

[GreyedOutMan]

nope because then its impossible to align it correctly on the messageboard.....unless there's a clever trick?

[Leroy1500]

My season with Hastings has started unbelievably well. After 9 league games, I have a record of 7-2-0 and also won the FA Cup qualy 2nd round. Striker called James Bird who is 16 is banging in the goals. I've scored 27 league goals in 9 games. Perfect start, waiting for the rot now though!

[GreyedOutMan]

have added numbers to the table now to make things easier for all

[Dan BHTFC]

HENDON F.C - Season 2013/14
League Table | Squad | Transfers In / Out

Inconsistent was the word to describe my season! We scraped into the Play-Offs but lost in the Semi-Finals against Eastbourne Borough 4-2 on aggregate. We have moved on from last season but finding a confident striker is tough at this level! We had some decent wins but the Cup competitions continue to elude us. We are also moving into our new ground, Hendon Stadium, in June so hopefully I can get some decent friendlies at the new ground.

Season      Division                    Position        Cups
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2012/13     Blue Square South           6th             F.A Cup 3rd Qual Rnd, F.A Trophy 2nd Rnd
2013/14     Blue Square South           5th             F.A Cup 2nd Qual Rnd, F.A Trophy 1st Rnd

Next season I'm hoping to make the Play-Off Final and a good Cup run would be good for a change.

[jskovc]

Im in to it. Im playing with Bedford, just started.
http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/x...startsson1.jpg

[Crispypaul]

Just got the manager of the month award for my first 4 games with Bradford PA (1 draw, 3 wins).

[ism-scfc]

Going to give this a go with Northwich Vics

Fairly big side at this level, so hoping for quick advancement. Having a rubbish manager in charge (me!) probably won't help them though! Will be creating a thread in Career updates for this if that's okay?

[Dan BHTFC]

New stadium delayed by 3 months, great!

[GreyedOutMan]

Going to give this a go with Northwich Vics

Fairly big side at this level, so hoping for quick advancement. Having a rubbish manager in charge (me!) probably won't help them though! Will be creating a thread in Career updates for this if that's okay?

Please post in here, too - otherwise I cant update the table...

[HypnoticNLP]

http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/h..._Profile-1.pnghttp://s253.photobucket.com/albums/h...ws_Inbox-2.png

Well first month and manager of the month and joint top! So apart from the first draw when havant got an injury time eaqualiser, i am happy with the results.

Fitness levels are quite poor, and ive had a few injurys, big derby match next against sutton utd. but so far so good.

Come on Carshalton!!

http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/h...iew_Stages.png

[Quavis]

Lanthal: Well done! A nice solid 9th. I'm glad to see Powell did fairly well for you as I'll likely have to sign him (I know he played for Chippenham last year so he meets geographic restictions!). Irohna looks very nice as well. 15 free kicks and 13 passing. With 16 determination he should live up to potential. Great find!

Gypsum: Congrats on promotion!

deadfncat: nice update! Congrats on reaching the FAT final.

jnrsnes: congrats on promotion!

Dons: So close.... those play-offs are evil

Dan BHTFC: You made progress in all competitions


Welcome and good luck to everyone that is just getting started! Thanks also to those of you that posted updates I didn't mention. I really enjoy the updates and keeping track of everyones games! No news on my game so far... I think I invoked the curse when I congratulated Mikael on getting Chippenham. I now can't get them myself... on to day 2 of reloads!

[ism-scfc]

Please post in here, too - otherwise I cant update the table...

Ok will do, cheers.

[Leeds_Oasis]

Hi, I know this has definitely been asked before, but where can I get kits/badges for these teams?
Thanks.

[Impale]

One of my favourite features is the ability to save a player's history after their retirement. So many players over the years have been commited to the depths of my failing memory - it's nice to now have the ability to have a nostalgic look at a former hero 20 seasons on.

[Dan BHTFC]

First friendly played, won 8-0, I'm happy!

[Dan BHTFC]

Is this just my game, England are ranked #32 in the World, don't think I've ever seen them that low in any FM game!

[Impale]

Is this just my game, England are ranked #32 in the World, don't think I've ever seen them that low in any FM game!

I've never seen that. Sounds pretty realistic to me though.

[Dan BHTFC]

now #33, Stuart Pearce is the manager

[DarrenP]

Played half a dozen friendlies including a couple of home money spinners against MK Dons and Stevenage (lost them both).

Managed to sign a couple of decent midfielders.

Desperately in need of at least two new strikers. Have a few on trial which look good on paper, but they just haven't done it so far on the pitch. Decisions, decisions!

[timers]

Somehow got 1100 rep Weymouth, and just started up my new game with them.

Media prediction:22nd.

HERE WE GO!

Profile

[Impale]

Best of luck, timers.

[Babaginoosh]

In the middle of a 5 game losing streak where i was completely annihilated by Chelmsford in a cup match 0-7, my team has been abysmal and Ass Man says time for team meeting

The outcome


Hope i break the losing streak

[DizzyIzzyB13]

So, I've had a bit of a busy weekend so I've just played my first friendly... a 4-1 victory at Caerleon.

I'm also really pleased with my Goalkeeping Coach. GK training of 18, DDM of 38? Not bad for this level.

[Impale]

I have the same coach - however, his Determination is 11 and his Discipline 8.

[Welsh Wizard]

I have the same coach - however, his Determination is 11 and his Discipline 8.

Different on mine too got 6 for disicipline so I've got this guy

[Quavis]

Chippenham Town have finally been promoted to the BSS!

Manager Profile

I've decided to go ahead and go all out this attempt dispite it seeming to be harder this year than in years past. I will again be implementing geographical restrictions on my signings.

Added rules I will be playing with (In addition to all DFC rules):
No Loans
No Parent Club
No Big money friendlies (unless they approach me)
Geographical restrictions! Any players signed must currently play for, have previously played for, or have a birthplace of less than x miles from the club (Chippenham Town)
- BSS/BSN - 25 miles
- BSP - 50 miles
- L2 - 75 miles
- L1 - 100 miles
- Championship - All of England
- Premiership - No limits (I will be attempting to use only players from the UK though)

EXCEPTION!: ANYONE on the "faceinthegame" list can be signed (provided they meet the DFC "can be scouted requirement") - These people contribute to making the game what it is, and if I can make any of them superstars ingame, I will!

Season 1: BSS
With the above geographic restrictions, only players with relations to the following clubs are eligible:
Chippenham (obviously)
Bath - ~12 miles - BSP
Bristol Rovers - ~25 miles - L1
Bristol City - ~25 miles - Championship
Forest Green - ~25 miles - BSP
Swindon Town ~20 miles - League 1
Swindon Submarine - ~ 20 miles - Southern Premier League (below BSS)
ANY "faceinthegame" player that meets the DFC scouting/trial requirement.

This should be fun....

[NZAaza]

Lewes FC - Season 1 (2012/13)

After starting the challenge last year, getting to December and failing miserably, I gave up but I've decided to give it another shot this year. Liked the look of the Lewes logo and their kit plus the participants table showed no-one has chosen them so I thought I may as well go with them. And they've got a cool stadium name: 'The Dripping Pan'.

Here's my manager profile screenshot.

[Impale]

For those who want a good striker in the first season. This is the chap doing the business for me. Haven't named him for the sake of those who don't want obvious tips.

Yes, he's getting on a bit and has little pace - but he's deadly around the area. Like a Kevin Phillips. I play him as a Deep Lying Forward - Attack. Mainly because it doesn't involve dribbling.

[Quavis]

Yikes, so in FM 2012 we can't offer full-time contracts until the club goes Professional? No wonder everyone is struggling so much in the first seasons. This is going to be very interesting. I've never used part time contracts in any version of FM. I will also be hammering the board nonstop to make us pro as soon as that option is ungreyed out...

[global1]

Accidental saved over my last save so having to start again

With..... AFC Hornchurch Deary me what a gash squad and only spending £15 a week on wages lol

[G_D_K]

Reckon I'll finally give this a go....after a dozen or so reloads found an even 1K rep club in Hastings United. Not sure how quick my updates will come...I tend to play out my games in full (at a slightly accelerated speed) to maintain the flavor, but will do my best to keep a somewhat steady pace. First step will be to examine my team, maybe get some staff in.

Here is my profile


No scouts, no AM, one first team coach....and two physios. Yep...definitely need some staff!

[DarrenP]

Reckon I'll finally give this a go....after a dozen or so reloads found an even 1K rep club in Hastings United. Not sure how quick my updates will come...I tend to play out my games in full (at a slightly accelerated speed) to maintain the flavor, but will do my best to keep a somewhat steady pace. First step will be to examine my team, maybe get some staff in.

Here is my profile


No scouts, no AM, one first team coach....and two physios. Yep...definitely need some staff!

I'm in the same boat, all be it I play my games on extended highlights. With Hastings as well, having the same staff count as yourself at the start of the game. I was considering reducing my Physio count to one, but then noticed that one of them was a lady on a non contract basis. Thought the lads might appreciate it if I kept her around!

There are quiet a few of us now with Hastings, so will be interesting to see how we all do.

Good luck

[MikaelS]

Lanthal: Well done! A nice solid 9th. I'm glad to see Powell did fairly well for you as I'll likely have to sign him (I know he played for Chippenham last year so he meets geographic restictions!). Irohna looks very nice as well. 15 free kicks and 13 passing. With 16 determination he should live up to potential. Great find!

Gypsum: Congrats on promotion!

deadfncat: nice update! Congrats on reaching the FAT final.

jnrsnes: congrats on promotion!

Dons: So close.... those play-offs are evil

Dan BHTFC: You made progress in all competitions


Welcome and good luck to everyone that is just getting started! Thanks also to those of you that posted updates I didn't mention. I really enjoy the updates and keeping track of everyones games! No news on my game so far... I think I invoked the curse when I congratulated Mikael on getting Chippenham. I now can't get them myself... on to day 2 of reloads!

You are now on the no-Chippeham streak I went on last year. I think it took me almost a week before Chippenham appeared.

[deadfncat]

Yikes, so in FM 2012 we can't offer full-time contracts until the club goes Professional? No wonder everyone is struggling so much in the first seasons. This is going to be very interesting. I've never used part time contracts in any version of FM. I will also be hammering the board nonstop to make us pro as soon as that option is ungreyed out...

Yeh mate, it makes it quite a challenge. Your restrictions are going to make it very tough :P good luck

[Cerneo]

Worksop Season Review (12/13)

Table
Graph

Season Review: A rough start to FM2012 for me, we had a nasty slump at the end of the season and each game got more and more painful to watch. Depth was a big issue and something I need to correct for next season, no real bright sparks from any of the players also, boring season all around.


Cups:

FA Cup
FA Trophy

Team Info:

Finances

Transfers

Squad

Players:

Karius - GK - Solid early find from my first hired scout, looks like he will be strong for atleast the early years.

Young- M - Decent signing, but nothing special.

Next Season: More depth, maybe switch things up tactically.

[deadfncat]

Im never the favourite. ever.
Braintree went into admin and lost all their players and are rubbish on the bottom of the table.
Im flying, at home and apparently not a chance to win


2-2 draw. Maybe the bookies know their stuff?

[Welsh Wizard]

#23 - Tooting & Mitcham - Blue Square South - 2012/13

League Table/Graph/League Stats/Finances

A great season in the league finishing as champions. Just the 4 losses but some very hard fought draws. Feel the constant improvement of players helped us push on. Jamil Adam is miles ahead on Goals and Ben Williamson had the most assists. A 20k profit all down to the cup run keeps us in the black. Loads of players in and out.

Squad Stats/Transfers 1/Transfers 2

Key Player Profiles

Jamil Adam - Low league Chicharito. Goals, Goals and more Goals. Movement in out of this world as he just loses his marker and find that yard of space to get in the right place at the right time. But thats not all, I love how he is not selfish, plenty of times he has been 1on1 with the gk and the shot is on and anyone would be tempted but he just passes to a teammate to get a guaranteed goal. Won Player of the Year

Ben Williamson - Jamil would not be affective without Ben. Draws defenders as he drops deep and link-ups for fun.

La'Vere Corbin-Ong - "The Mop". With his speed he is the perfect cover player and he just cleans up the mess. With him being a Canadian International he does get call up for duty at weird times and has missed some key games.



A great run in the FA Trophy which end up with us being champions. Fairly easy up untill we faced my home town and current holders Wrexham where basicaly is was a smash and grab in the 1st leg. 18 shot to 4 and wrexham had 59% possesion. 2nd Leg was more even and we just edged it but deserved to win. Hard fought final and red card made things even harder but we came through

Fixtures/Final



Great run in the FA Cup. A few early blips but managed to win replays vs two BSS teams then a easy win vs Concord Rangers and two wins vs BSP sides set up a tie vs Brighton away where we basically got smashed.

Fixtures/Final

Career Overview


|  Season           Team        | League  |  League Finish |               Achievements                            |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|  2012/13    Tooting & Mitcham |  BSS    |       1st      |  BSS Champions/FA Trophy Winners/3rd Round of FA Cup  |

My Next Season Aims

Keep building on the squad/get rid of dead wood
Push for play-offs
Decent cup run to keep the money coming in


Tactics

Playing a quick counter attack 442/424 which is perfect for our home wide pitch but will need to come up with an away formation especially vs higher div teams

If anyone wants to see any screenshots of anything (players etc) just ask

[Welsh Wizard]

Likely have a post/screenshot just for my transfers in may As just seen some decent players interested.

[Thebaker]

Babaginoosh - how did the team meeting go, i've found them to be very variable

Welsh Wizard -Well done on the promotion - did you sign all those players on NC terms or PT contracts? Adam is a good find.

[Welsh Wizard]

Babaginoosh - how did the team meeting go, i've found them to be very variable

Welsh Wizard -Well done on the promotion - did you sign all those players on NC terms or PT contracts? Adam is a good find.

Thanks.

All on PT and 3/4 on youth

[Thebaker]

Thanks.

All on PT and 3/4 on youth

Couldn't find any decent players to sign on youth contracts last year but i am signing a few backup players on youth ones this year

[deadfncat]

Likely have a post/screenshot just for my transfers in may As just seen some decent players interested.

congrats mate, doing well

[Shrewsbury_howie]

Reading all this makes me a little sad. My game is still being sent over from ozgameshop and i kinda need to finish my hsc (end of year 12 exams) so i cant play yet. I did this challenge in fm10 and i didnt really look at the rep that my team (Guisely?) had. Does a reputation difference of ~200 really make that big of a difference?

[Blackmama]

Blackmama - Chester BSN/S - 2012 (early days)

5 games into my new life as Chester manager and things are looking promising. We have been able to secure 4 wins and a single draw putting us in 2nd position.

Hope this form can carry on a bit further.

[Thebaker]

Getting a bit fed up with seeing Colwyn Bay signing up good players seemingly from all across europe and beyond- i can't even see how they would know about some of these players.

[Cerneo]

Having a really rough pre season, not finding anyone I want to pick up....

[Thebaker]

Having a really rough pre season, not finding anyone I want to pick up....

2nd season syndrome - i've found the same. Even worse since i couldn't get some backup/squad players to sign new contracts for what they were worth and had to let them go

[G_D_K]

Well, Hastings United is ready to roll for the 12/13 campaign. First couple of weeks were spent bringing in staff --- a pair of scouts, an AM, and a coach. A trial day, and a couple players the scouts brought knowledge of were brought in to be the core of the team formation. The preseason matches were a bit of a mixed bag of results, as the team is still needing to gel. Offensively, we are looking pretty good...but we definitely need to work on defense.

Here are the results for the preseason.

And here are my preseason transfers

Not a lot in yet...I'm letting my scouts develop some leads---right now, defence will be my priority.

First matches coming up....

[DizzyIzzyB13]

I have the same coach - however, his Determination is 11 and his Discipline 8.

Different on mine too got 6 for disicipline so I've got this guy

I think I must have just got lucky with him then.

[Cerneo]

2nd season syndrome - i've found the same. Even worse since i couldn't get some backup/squad players to sign new contracts for what they were worth and had to let them go

Yep I had to raid the reserves and U18...Had my wage budget cut in half. They for sure upped the difficulty for the lower leagues.

[XaW]

Im never the favourite. ever.

I'm experiencing the same thing with my Chesham squad. Well almost, if I get a couple of wins I'm at roughly the same as the teams in relegation if I'm playing at home.

[XaW]

Welsh Wizard - Wow, gj! Impressive stuff!

[reddevil4ever]

i know its only 11 games into season 2 but can i keep this up, currently 2nd BSS

[Welsh Wizard]

Welsh Wizard - Wow, gj! Impressive stuff!

Thanks

May/June transfers been add to last season list so I'll post who I've signed below.


Ash Taylor
Ben Alnwick
Nicky Hunt
Matthew Lund
Robbie Brady
Daniel Devine
Chris Riggot

Time to see if I can get rid of the dead wood

[reddevil4ever]

no wonder my team keep conceding silly goals just had a look at the team comparison page.

not good reading bottom in 4 catogories and 3rd bottom in another 2 no wonder we keep letting in stupid goals

so cant believe we are playing well and sit in 6th at the moment

[deadfncat]

nice new feature


it is new right? :P

[shaggy61]

Thanks

May/June transfers been add to last season list so I'll post who I've signed below.


Ash Taylor
Ben Alnwick
Nicky Hunt
Matthew Lund
Robbie Brady
Daniel Devine
Chris Riggot

Time to see if I can get rid of the dead wood

Gratz welsh those are some amazing signings, you'd almost be happy taking them in L1 given their age and chance to develop, Hunt and Alnwick are proper premiership players

[dr p wigwam]

no wonder my team keep conceding silly goals just had a look at the team comparison page.

not good reading bottom in 4 catogories and 3rd bottom in another 2 no wonder we keep letting in stupid goals

so cant believe we are playing well and sit in 6th at the moment

is that new? i must check it out...

edit: omg.. i have the slowest defence with the worst positioning

nice new feature


it is new right? :P

i assume so.

on another topic, i just won my first game away from home and had my DL break his arm, out for 2 months

[XaW]

Thanks

May/June transfers been add to last season list so I'll post who I've signed below.


Ash Taylor
Ben Alnwick
Nicky Hunt
Matthew Lund
Robbie Brady
Daniel Devine
Chris Riggot

Time to see if I can get rid of the dead wood

Damn, how do you attract such players to you? I can't get half the players they are to even discuss a contract. I know you started with a team of more reputation than me(T&M=1150, Chesham 900), but those guys would knock my guys to the ground. This is my best defender......

[Thebaker]

Thanks

May/June transfers been add to last season list so I'll post who I've signed below.


Ash Taylor
Ben Alnwick
Nicky Hunt
Matthew Lund
Robbie Brady
Daniel Devine
Chris Riggot

Time to see if I can get rid of the dead wood

I can't believe you managed to sign Brady - he retired in mar of the first season in my game - was rated prem potential as well.

[ism-scfc]

Gotten rid of most of the deadwood and brought in:

Stephen Wainwright
Mike Symons
Matt Somner
Matt Cafer
Karl Cunningham
Earl Davis
Danny Boshell

Some good players for BSN brought in then. Davis has been made my new captain having joined from Southport, Symons scored 14 in the same league for Worcester last season, and Cafer will compete for the number 1 shirt with Ben Hinchcliffe. There's not a lot between them, so should be an interesting battle.

All in all a good squad for a promotion challenge (hopefully!) this season. I will post a little bit here, but the main place to follow it will be in the careers forum - Here

[Drew the Cookie Eater]

Drew. Lowestoft Town. Blue Square North. 2013/2014

Came top, Stalybridge were on my ass the whole time, but we managed to hold them off and secure promotion.

Squad was vastly improved with a lot of deadwood leaving, unfortunately we were still over our wage budget and so, added to the fact were were knocked out of the cups early on, we went into debt

We also have a new stadium on the way, which I dont understand as we dont even sell our current one out

Aims for next season:

Survive.
Improve squad.
Make some money.

[DeadPanda]

Slow going in the pre-season trying to get new signings in. Scouts digging through them and I've signed a bunch of useless idiots already. I feel it might just be a long season. Only chucking a few players out, will identify the deadwood come January time because at the moment, I cant quite tell who's awful and who is playable.

[columbouk]

Hastings Utd - Season 12/13

A mixed season, where the bulk of my money was spent releasing overpaid, yet useless, players from the existing squad. One of my first signings was this guy who in theory should have been decent (especially as I spent 25% of my wage budget on him), but proved to be merely adequate and was subsequently released once safety had been achieved.

A handful of losses early on left me worried, but a strong mid-season period left me safe with a number of games to go, and the tail-off at the season end could be attributed to releasing a number of expensive flops.

A reasonable finish of 11th / graph should be bettered next season after my scouts found a number of Irish youngsters who have 'leading star' status (hence releasing older players towards the end of this season), but sadly they were found too late to sign for this season.

My transfers were a bit frantic and wild early on, trying to bolster the squad, but next season I'll be looking to keep a tight-knit group of around 20 players.

My player of the season was this fella, but I can't help but feel I offered too much in wages to re-sign him for next year.

Here was my pre-seasonprofile by the way.

So all in all, a bitty season with some highs and a lot of lows.

Summary: BSS, league pos 11th
(columbouk pos#1 on leaderboard)

[ism-scfc]

Grrrr! Got off to a great start then my computer shut itself down for no apparent reason, and I lost it all! Grrr!

[jskovc]

So, time for the first update. To begin with, i will start to apologise my bad english, but i am from Denmark, som what can i do ?

Im playing with Bedford, and started the first season, with one single goal... To avoid relegation. It started very well, with a 4-2 victory against Vauxhall, and followed it up with a 3-3 draw against giant favorites from Hyde. But after that, everything became a nightmare. 5 matches, 5 losses, then a single draw against Nuneaton. And now i've played nine matches, and my form for the matches is silly 1-2-6. I've also played FA Cup 2. Qual Round, and it was here i thougt we could raise our form against the non-league team Spalding. But here we was embarrased again, and got a loss on 1-4 away. So after 9 matches, we only just can avoid relegation with one point. Not so easy as i thougt.
http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/x...schallenge.png

-Jskovc

[MikaelS]

So, time for the first update. To begin with, i will start to apologise my bad english, but i am from Denmark, som what can i do ?

Im playing with Bedford, and started the first season, with one single goal... To avoid relegation. It started very well, with a 4-2 victory against Vauxhall, and followed it up with a 3-3 draw against giant favorites from Hyde. But after that, everything became a nightmare. 5 matches, 5 losses, then a single draw against Nuneaton. And now i've played nine matches, and my form for the matches is silly 1-2-6. I've also played FA Cup 2. Qual Round, and it was here i thougt we could raise our form against the non-league team Spalding. But here we was embarrased again, and got a loss on 1-4 away. So after 9 matches, we only just can avoid relegation with one point. Not so easy as i thougt.
http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/x...schallenge.png

-Jskovc

No need to apologize. Not everyone is an expert in english.

If you even looses to a non-league team, then perhaps your tactic is wrong. Try tweak it a bit.

Held og lykke

[Dan BHTFC]

End of August in my 3rd season and I'm just outside the Play-Offs, I think I've done this before!

[jsar]

18th November and im im 4th in the League and just one my FA Cup 1st round game, all going swimmingly so far!

[jsar]

L1 Colchester in Round 2 prooving to be to much of a challange tho 3-0 down 30 mins in

[CasFan]

Just got the manager of the month award for my first 4 games with Bradford PA (1 draw, 3 wins).

Somebody else who has decided to play as Bradford PA. Good luck with your challenge.

[dr p wigwam]

in my game Brady plays for Leicester, taking home £5k a week!

[Dan BHTFC]

I hate my team!!!

[Dan BHTFC]

Start of November and I'm in 15th place, so frustrating not being able to get some consecutive wins!

[Drew the Cookie Eater]

We're the Kevin Keegans Newcastle of the Blue Square Premier, 39 games played, 75 goals scored, and 57 conceded!

[dr p wigwam]

Chelsea, having sacked Villas-Boas and van Gaal thus far, have just hired Owen Coyle...?

wierd world...

[deadfncat]

Chesham - Blue Square South - 2014/15



League Table

Fixtures

Finances - Want some really terrible financial advice? Here let me help you

What a funny old season. Our first game against a really bad Wealdstone team with a 1-1 draw and we played terribly. From there, with minimal signings and a few losses in the offseason, we had no hope as we were broke. The squad decided to prove me wrong however and were amazing. A 14 game unbeaten streak through the middle of the season was a highlight as was the myriad of close draws in the close fixture time with the FA Trophy stealing our time and postponed games stealing my mind. Bloody English weather.
With an embarrassing loss to Braintree in our second last game, we needed to win against eventual league winners Hayes & Yeading or have Bromley lose their final game. We fought really well against a superior opponent and eventually lost, but so did Bromley, so we were headed to our first promotion playoff with me at the helm.

Semi-Final

We drew Eastleigh who were winning for a lot of the season until H&Y stole the lead on the last day with a win over us, so Eastleigh hated our guts with good reason.
In the First leg, we took an early lead but were gutted when the Spitfires went 2-1 up with time running out. A quick double with time running out scored us the win and a good lead heading into the second leg.
In what proved to be quite a boring game, we took an early lead through troubled striker Elliot lead and parked the bus to take the game and book ourselves a spot in the final.

Final

Quite a dull game against Salisbury, with them dominating in the first half over the park but not being able to turn it into points. Our boys had the wind taken out of their sails in the 46th minute when Derek Gill scored a screamer to take the lead, but Chesham player of the season Alberto Seidi took it back with a fantastic individual effort two minutes later. It was back and forth for the rest of the half, but we were lucky to survive.
Towards the end of the first half of ET, diaster struck when Thomas Boakye shot the ball into our goal to send Salisbury into the lead and in everyone's mind it was enough to secure promotion. Boakye wasn't having any of that and when given the oppurtunity of the lifetime five minutes into the second half from a corner, he flew high and headed it home. 2-2. After a dull ending where both sides played it cool, we were going to penalties.
It was quiet until Irish Salisbury defender Ryan Brett skyed his penalty and Al-Basith nailed his, giving us a lead. When Boakye missed one, we were back on level footing and after 5 each were even. Jack Lyons stepped up, the striker and captain not known for his penalties and rocketed it home. Marc Sayer stepped up for the Whites and nailed the ball, but a terrific save from Taudul was taking the Generals to the next level. BSP BABY!




A disapointing finish to what was a good run. Games against Kidderminster and Fleetwood were really tough and showed some character to get though, but the fixture congestion really got to us towards the end where we played a game every 3-4 days for over a month.



I sat my key guys for most of these games and the results though. We played terribly against Darlington though, which I wasn't happy with.

Squad - quite suprising how well the team has gelled. We still lack depth which was shown when Taudul was injured halfway through the season for 2 months. Luckily we have a fantastic young kid who stepped up and did really well in the big leagues, despite only being 15.


Key Player Profiles

Mateusz Taudul - Fantastic Polish keeper who I had a lot of faith in once I dropped Speiss. Has shown us his class this season and capped it off by saving the penalty in the final which took us forward. Still only 20 as well, so he has a lot of football left in him.

Alberto Seidi - Seidi was super disappointing when I first signed him, but has shown promise as his finishing has improved and was up there with Hecker for player of the year. He broke all kinds of scoring records at the club and is a major part of our success.

Player of the Season

Paul Hecker - Getting better and better, but seems to run out of juice at the end of the season. Has needed a 2-4 week break for the last two seasons right when I needed him most. Still, he is fantastic and easily one of out best.


Up and Comers

Marcus Stephens - He hasn't really got any better in the last season which is disappointing and probably due to our terrible facilities and lack of a youth coach.


Transfers - Heenan was crap but Elliot has been a surprise packet. After complaining mid season about not getting enough game time, I gave him some minutes and he played his heart out. Will feature prominently next year. The players who left were deadweight except for Andrews who announced his retirement then left the club once his contract was up to search for another one.


Career Overview

Season       Team                       Country                  League                 League Finish             Achievements
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2012/13    Chesham United               England           Blue Square South            19th                  
2013/14    Chesham United               England           Blue Square South            11th                             FA Trophy Runner Up
2014/15    Chesham United               England           Blue Square South             5th                             Promotion via Playoffs / FA Trophy Semis

TAKEOVER!
Woohoo! Salvation! (Maybe)

Next Season

Build a Premier Div squad
Stay up


Tactics

Still running the 442. not even going to try my other tactics until at least league football. Will need full time players I think for it to work.

Major Competition Winners

Premier League - Man Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool, Man City, Chelsea, Stoke (BORING)
Championship - Newcastle
League 1 - Bournemouth
League 2 - Oxford
BSP - Dag & Red
BSN/BSS - Gateshead/H&Y
F.A Cup - Fulham
F.A. Trophy - Dag & Red
UEFA Champions League - Man Utd
Europa League - OM
A-League - Gold Coast United/Gold Coast United (Brisbane 2nd/2nd)

[Dan BHTFC]

Congrats deadfncat, hopefully my 3rd season will get me promotion!

[Welsh Wizard]

Damn, how do you attract such players to you? I can't get half the players they are to even discuss a contract. I know you started with a team of more reputation than me(T&M=1150, Chesham 900), but those guys would knock my guys to the ground. This is my best defender......

Likely got a good rep increase with winning the FA trophy and BSS. Would the FA Cup run increase it As well? Having looked I've got the lowest Rep in BSP and some BSN/BSS have higher. So don't know where that put us

I can't believe you managed to sign Brady - he retired in mar of the first season in my game - was rated prem potential as well.

Think he was leading L1 on mine but can't see scout reports and coaches can't tell yet. Had interest from Aberdeen up until I signed which may of stopped him from retiring and likely would of i I didn't.

[Welsh Wizard]

deadfncat - well done on wining the play-offs and nail-biting penalties too.

[Dan BHTFC]

uh=oh, apparently I'm close to administration!

[Scab]

Sitting mid-table and scraping odd-goal results at best, then suddenly, this.

[Dan BHTFC]

Now in Administration, 10 points deducted, we now sit in 20th place

[Thebaker]

Now in Administration, 10 points deducted, we now sit in 20th place

At what point in your finances did administration happen?