dafuge's FM08 small club to big club challenge

[dafuge]

Brian aged 15

Brian aged 27

Quite interesting to see how he has developed over his career, shame he's never had a haircut.

[matty_8]

Originally posted by dafuge:

Brian aged 15

Brian aged 27

Quite interesting to see how he has developed over his career, shame he's never had a haircut.

He really has developed! Would have been interesting to see his PA when he was 15.

[dafuge]

Originally posted by matty_8:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by dafuge:

Brian aged 15

Brian aged 27

Quite interesting to see how he has developed over his career, shame he's never had a haircut.

He really has developed! Would have been interesting to see his PA when he was 15. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I'm guessing it will be pretty high since my scouts and coaches have always raved about him. I'll never find out though, that would ruin the game for me.

[jameslowe]

Am finally getting round to starting again. Carshalton Athletic have hired James Lowe as manager yay!

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[matty_8]

Originally posted by dafuge:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by matty_8:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by dafuge:

Brian aged 15

Brian aged 27

Quite interesting to see how he has developed over his career, shame he's never had a haircut.

He really has developed! Would have been interesting to see his PA when he was 15. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I'm guessing it will be pretty high since my scouts and coaches have always raved about him. I'll never find out though, that would ruin the game for me. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yeh, I agree, its cheating in a way looking at the PA etc. I have a kid who my scouts love, and so do all the other clubs who keep bidding, but he has yet to perform on the park

[dafuge]

Brian just picked up the FIFA world footballer, the FIFA world player and the UEFA footballer of the year awards

[Crispypaul]

Hitchin Town

Blue Square Premier 2009/10

So I finally managed to finish my second season with Hitchin. And what a season!

Despite being held back a little due to the club remaining Semi-Pro, we were promoted through the play-offs.

Also, we beat York in the FA Trophy final.

No I have to do a massive overhaul of my squad, in particular in defence.

Star players:

Ben Hutchinson: Top quality striker, scored nearly 50 goals in the season.

Max Noble: right winger on loan from Fulham, hopefully I'll get him back for the season again.

[Aario]

Originally posted by dafuge:

Brian aged 15

Brian aged 27

Quite interesting to see how he has developed over his career, shame he's never had a haircut.

Woah - I didn't realise (as I have never managed to play a game for long enough ) that physical stats could improve so much.

Have just signed a couple of youngsters in my current game (just finished 4th season probably the longest I have managed in any save - tend to get board easily!) who hilst not great at the moment have great potential according to my scouts so fingers crossed I might get something similar......

Season report to be done soon......

[exacerbating]

Hitchin Town 3rd season 10/11

A near total reversal from last season, just missing out on playoffs rather than avoiding relegation. Finished 7th.

Best player this season was a 16yo I signed Glen Ford.

The board agreed to upgrade the youth facilities, which is good news. They also gave me a transfer budget of 250k - which is pretty useless cos there's no-one decent enough to spend money on willing to join.

[Aario]

Aario - Halesowen Town - Season 4 (2011-2012) - League 2 - End of Season Report

First Season in the Football League was an overall sucess as we managed to stabilise quite nicely. At the start of the season the club turned pro and rather to my surprise I was allowed to scout the whole region (Scotand, Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland as well as England). Had no money to spend at first but after selling a few players I was allowed to reinvest some of it so bought my first players for cash (as well as the normall load of frees!)

Set expectations to the minimum of attempt to avoid relegation but this still gave a much larger wage budget than I had had before . Stadium was 3/4 full for most of the season which meant that for the first time in the challenge I was making money each month. This was useful as again for the first time in the challenge I was very poor (with some bad luck) in the cups and went out in the first round I played in in each of them so no prize money and no extra gate recipts. Lucky for me the board had set the expectations to just reach the round we entered in or to simply enjoy the experience so they were not unhappy . In fact we actually lost money for the last month as I had given new comtracts to a load of players and had to offer more cash to get them to sign . Am worried about next season as I have a load of players on yearly wage rises

Anyway finished in a safe mid table position and as graph shows was never in danger of the drop or getting in the playoffs.

Here is all the players who played for the first team (minus those sold!) at the end of the season - Squad

Transfer dealings

Still think I have too many players as my reserves and u18s seemed to be quite strong in their leagues (esp the goals scored for both!)

I had a couple of loan players in the first team, one from my parent club who I had last season for 3 months - he now has me as his favourite club and is about to be out of contract with Port Vale so I have offered him a contract. The second was Bignall from Reading who are in the Championship (and have been for a few seasons in my game) so fit the unoffical 2 divisons rule. He was a bit of a star even though it is only his physical stats that are really impresive. He is also out of contract with Reading very soon and I have offered for him but he doesn't seem interested at the moment

Other start players were the same as last time Irving and Jeffers who for the second season running made the players divisonal team of the year.

Finally, here is my current profile - have gained some Scottish knowledge (must be all the whisky I drink late at night when playing )

[exacerbating]

Does anyone know when youth facilities are upgraded? The message said "shortly" but the game is in September.

[welshynufc]

first season update

i took up the challenge and made alot of loan signings, see below! cherno samba!

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/7546/playerslm3.png

and after signin a new keeper half way trhough i managed a respectable finish of 10th

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/1594/tablell4.png

next season i hope to keep a hold og hugh jack my young striking sensation and maybe make a move for some of the players i had loan, then push for playoffs, wish me luck

[MikaelS]

Originally posted by exacerbating:

Does anyone know when youth facilities are upgraded? The message said "shortly" but the game is in September.

I asked my Chippenham board when I got promoted to BSP but the facilities were upgraded at the end of the season.

[Seasoned Alcoholic]

Originally posted by MikaelS:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by exacerbating:

Does anyone know when youth facilities are upgraded? The message said "shortly" but the game is in September.

I asked my Chippenham board when I got promoted to BSP but the facilities were upgraded at the end of the season. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

In FM07, I always got into the habit of asking the board to improve the stadium and / or training facilities just before the end of each season. Then when the new season came around in mid-to-late June, the board would usually state theie intent with regards to the requests for stadium expansion and / or training facility upgrades, basically estimating how long each project would take to complete. EG, "...shouldn't take long to complete..." (IE a month or two, possible 3 at the most); "...will take approximately 3 / 4 / 5 / etc months to complete..." (does exactly what it says on the tin); and so on.

[exacerbating]

My board said a "short time to complete", which lasted from July to November 23rd. Facilities went from minimal to basic and seemed to take off absolutely no money! Not any that I can see on the finances screen anyway.

[xx2olegendxx]

Originally posted by exacerbating:

My board said a "short time to complete", which lasted from July to November 23rd. Facilities went from minimal to basic and seemed to take off absolutely no money! Not any that I can see on the finances screen anyway.

Mine are listed as "Fairly basic training facilities" but are being upgraded at the moment for a cost of £379,364

[ejthegreat]

I know there was some debate about this last year and I didn't see anything in the rules on the first page and I was wondering;

What's the policy on signing players recommended to you by current players? Do they still need to be brought in on trial? (Assuming outside normal scouting regions)

[exacerbating]

Originally posted by xx2olegendxx:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by exacerbating:

My board said a "short time to complete", which lasted from July to November 23rd. Facilities went from minimal to basic and seemed to take off absolutely no money! Not any that I can see on the finances screen anyway.

Mine are listed as "Fairly basic training facilities" but are being upgraded at the moment for a cost of £379,364 </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I just took a look and mine is "fairly basic" as well, rather than basic. It took absolutely no money off me though, I checked quite regularly for any type of unusual payments from the moment they were announced to when they were completed... nothing.

[xx2olegendxx]

Tiverton Town - 13/14 League 1 - Season review

Not the best of seasons by all accounts. My aim was to survive and see which of my League 2 winning team could compete at this higher level.

Despite not planning on bringing in any new faces I hade rae reports on a few players going free by my scouts so couldn't resist signing them in the end. I think that was my main mistake because from day one I just couldnt decide exactly what was my best 11. Even now at the end of the season I still would find it hard to name and the constant chopping and changing probably contributed to our poor form.

Still survival was achieved just about. Despite an excellent start to the season which gave me great hope we slowly slid lower and lower down the table and had the season been any longer than it was we would have been gone for sure.

Table

Graph

Finances were a worry going into the season with the stadium loan payments starting and us yet to see the benefit from the extra match day income I was expecting it to eat up my balance. With half decent cup runs and increased prices for league 1 we got by with a loss of only 300K, leaving us with around 700k in the bank.

I am going to give this team 1 more year before deciding if I need to break it up and rebuild. I do still have faith in it despite the poor season we are still young (average age 21) so I expect it to improve. Still in desperate need of a decent striker to lead the line and that if anything will be my only addition to the team. Allthough currently the best striker who is willing to sign for us is currently playing in a reserve team for a BSP side

New season and a new stadium should solve any financial troubles hopefully it will be an improvement on the last one.

[xx2olegendxx]

Board reaction to my request for a new contract.

Probably shouldn't have hit them with all those requests at once

[exacerbating]

Hitchin Town season 4 11/12

The most annoying season yet, 14 points clear at the top at one stage, then the mid season cup games hit and the team did annoyingly well, league form took a battering and finished 5th, with no cups.

Despite an amazing performance from Fred Sears in the playoffs, Shrewsbury knocked Hitchin out in the semis.

League table - http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/1401/bluesquarepremierstagestq8.png

Best player - Fred Sears

[xx2olegendxx]

First game in the new stadium

[ejthegreat]

Originally posted by xx2olegendxx:

First game in the new stadium

Nice start, making sure no monkey get on backs anywhere there

You've got a stadium and I'm still waiting for youth facility upgrades (still minimal).

One question since you're in League One too, what are the values of your players like?

For me, my top players are £60-£100k even though they'd be "leading star at championship" or "good premier division" player, and getting lowish bids for them (£200k) and it's starting to annoy me.

[xx2olegendxx]

Originally posted by ejthegreat:

One question since you're in League One too, what are the values of your players like?

For me, my top players are £60-£100k even though they'd be "leading star at championship" or "good premier division" player, and getting lowish bids for them (£200k) and it's starting to annoy me.

I had been thinking the same thing glad its not just me.

1st Team

Reserves

Most of my players are comparable with others in the division worth upwards of 1M yet they look worthless. I get bids of 70K from Premiership clubs for my best CB and he has similar stats to leading Championship players in that position.

Steve King my highest valued player I signed in the BSP after a trial when he scored 2 hat tricks in 2 games. Since then he has played 26 games in the first team scoring 4 goals Playing a system that uses a lone striker too its hard to have faith in giving him the games he needs. The board finally found me a feeder club to loan too but even my U18's refuse to go and play for them.

One strange thing I have noticed. If I move players from my first team to the reserves the value slowly goes up yet as soon as I move them back it starts to drop again.

I know how your feeling its not like I want to sell these players but I want to see their true worth and stop having my time wasted being given bid of 20K for players like this. I put it down to the fact most have come through my youth team signed in the early days.

[xx2olegendxx]

Forgot to add. Those values did go up quite a bit this season (2nd in league 1). Maybe next year you will get a better valuation on them but i still doubt it will be the true worth of the players.

[ejthegreat]

Originally posted by xx2olegendxx:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by ejthegreat:

One question since you're in League One too, what are the values of your players like?

For me, my top players are £60-£100k even though they'd be "leading star at championship" or "good premier division" player, and getting lowish bids for them (£200k) and it's starting to annoy me.

I had been thinking the same thing glad its not just me.

1st Team

Reserves

Most of my players are comparable with others in the division worth upwards of 1M yet they look worthless. I get bids of 70K from Premiership clubs for my best CB and he has similar stats to leading Championship players in that position.

Steve King my highest valued player I signed in the BSP after a trial when he scored 2 hat tricks in 2 games. Since then he has played 26 games in the first team scoring 4 goals Playing a system that uses a lone striker too its hard to have faith in giving him the games he needs. The board finally found me a feeder club to loan too but even my U18's refuse to go and play for them.

One strange thing I have noticed. If I move players from my first team to the reserves the value slowly goes up yet as soon as I move them back it starts to drop again.

I know how your feeling its not like I want to sell these players but I want to see their true worth and stop having my time wasted being given bid of 20K for players like this. I put it down to the fact most have come through my youth team signed in the early days. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yeah, I'm sure the club's reputation has something to do with it but it seems a little low.

Highest Valued

This just turned 18yo left back is my highest valued player at £250k and the 21 y.o. centre back wanted by 3 premier league and 5 championship clubs is £60k (cost me £50k and 15% sell on fee).

Going surprisingly well in League One so far (11 games) without Sunu but changed to a direct style of play which I hate doing but is very effective.

Still losing money though, without a good FA Cup run, i'll be well into debt by the end of the season.

[xx2olegendxx]

Originally posted by ejthegreat:

Going surprisingly well in League One so far (11 games) without Sunu but changed to a direct style of play which I hate doing but is very effective.

Still losing money though, without a good FA Cup run, i'll be well into debt by the end of the season.

Glad to see your first year going better than mine anyway (though I did start well).

I found out last year just how valuable a good striker is. In League 2 the system I was using was creating about 30+ chances most games so the fact my lone striker wasnt great didnt matter so much, creating that many chances you were always going to score. Is really costing me now though, while I am still dominating games I just dont take enough to beat teams.

[xx2olegendxx]

Originally posted by ejthegreat:

Still losing money though, without a good FA Cup run, i'll be well into debt by the end of the season.

My problems are solved

[ejthegreat]

Originally posted by xx2olegendxx:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by ejthegreat:

Still losing money though, without a good FA Cup run, i'll be well into debt by the end of the season.

My problems are solved </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Was that your first league game at new stadium? if you get £140k/match, you should be more than fine

[xx2olegendxx]

Originally posted by ejthegreat:

Was that your first league game at new stadium? if you get £140k/match, you should be more than fine

Yeah was first league game, made 190K for the Careless cup game allthough I think it says that but its before its shared. Sold 1600 Season tickets bringing in 600K.

It is going to be good short term but you will probably be in a better position if you get a new stadium in championship or prem. Will be paying this till 2028 and I doubt they will build another while they have payments on this.

That said with the money I will make this year I am going to push my luck and ask them to expand it at the end of the season

[dafuge]

Originally posted by ejthegreat:

I know there was some debate about this last year and I didn't see anything in the rules on the first page and I was wondering;

What's the policy on signing players recommended to you by current players? Do they still need to be brought in on trial? (Assuming outside normal scouting regions)

If a current player recommends them you are free to sign them, personally I have only signed them after a trial but you don't have to do that.

[Scoham]

Tonbridge Angels - Season 2 - Blue Square South - 2011/12

Challenge over, relegated with two games to go. Couldn't beat Merthyr Tydfil, who had a squad of players on very poor morale, and were bottom of the league.

If we didn't have that awful start to the season we would have been fine.

Don't know what I'll do now, start again with Tonbridge, try a different game or see which teams get promoted in the summer.

Have resigned and will holiday through to see which teams come up first.

[peter_b]

Chippenham Town - Season 2, 09/10 - Half-season report

A mediocre season so far sees us lying in 9th place in the league. Unfortunately I haven't been able to emulate our superb form of last season and at the moment it looks like a playoff place is the best we can hope for.

Table

Our main problem has been scoring goals, with last year's top scorer Mark Preston no where near as prolific as last season.

However this allowed me to try out a couple of strikers I had in reserve, and one of them, Juan Ugarte, has bagged 8 goas in 8 games recently.

Juan Ugarte

Trial

If he can keep it up we may yet do something this season. We're still in the cups so that's a bonus but this season's challenge has been getting my tactics to work.

[Scoham]

As I mentioned before, Nobby_McDonald posted a thread after he went on holiday for 50 years or so, and teams like Hastings United were promoted.

Has anyone seen Hastings and similar teams promoted like Nobby has, and what season did it happen in?

I'm thinking I could maybe holiday for a few years in my current game, then take control of Hastings or someone similar maybe 8 seasons or so into the game.

In his game Folkestone (with a rep of 700) were promoted in 2010, so it could be possible. Or maybe I'm just dreaming? I don't really want to start managing in 2020, by then the youngsters at the start of the game will be old, 2015 or so might not be too bad.

[Peljam]

Witton Albion - Championship - 16/17 - Rodrigo De La Vega

Our first season in the Championship went well. Far better than expected. Rather than struggling for survival we got a great start and for the first 12 games or so were firmly in the top half. Consistancy then dropped off a bit but the points kept ticking over, keeping the team in the top 10. With the last 10 games to go we were only a few points off a play off place. Which heralded a complete lost in form. We lost over half the games, scraped a couple of draws and won the last two games, finishing here.

I'd have stuck the graph in too but I forgot to screen cap it before going ahead to the next season.

A key point of the season was the sale of Helio I mentioned before. To replace him I got Bakos. He did well and hopefully with experience he'll do the team proud.

The sale of Helio means we now have the money for one of two things like this. It should give us an attendence of just over 14k. Not too bad but hardly stunning at this level. We've been almost selling out every home game and I think we'll be able to fill the 14k too. It's progress though.

Also, as you can see on the screenshot the training and youth facilities are going to be improved. Bit by bit the club is progressing.

Anson was fan's player of the year again. That's the fourth time running, fifth time in total. Who can blame them though with a record like this? His value has shot up from around half a million after promtion to £3.2 million.

Next seasons aims....

Mid table. I don't want to push it too far. I just want to get settled in the league for a push in the season after. I need to bring in a top class keeper idealy. I have one or two young keepers who might be up to it in a couple of years but no one who's ready yet.

My main keeper last season, until he got injured, Lenny Connor, played 28, conceded 48 and only kept 5 clean sheets. His back up, Wayne Burton, managed 18 appearences, conceded 34 and had 3 clean sheets. Horrific really. If I could have cut out maybe 20 goals, 10 apiece, then we might have managed to squeeze into the play offs.

Anyway, onwards and upwards.

kanovi! Hope you're back soon. Always great to read about your game.

[442to445]

Hello all, being fairly new to the forums, I finally stumbled across this after having read about it many times, so I thought it was about time I gave it a shot:

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh42/FergusAlex/Dafuge/dafugeintro.jpg

Let the games begin!

[Seasoned Alcoholic]

Originally posted by 442to445:

Hello all, being fairly new to the forums, I finally stumbled across this after having read about it many times, so I thought it was about time I gave it a shot:

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh42/FergusAlex/Dafuge/dafugeintro.jpg

Let the games begin!

Welcome, and gl

[xx2olegendxx]

Originally posted by ejthegreat:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by xx2olegendxx:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by ejthegreat:

One question since you're in League One too, what are the values of your players like?

For me, my top players are £60-£100k even though they'd be "leading star at championship" or "good premier division" player, and getting lowish bids for them (£200k) and it's starting to annoy me.

I had been thinking the same thing glad its not just me.

1st Team

Reserves

Most of my players are comparable with others in the division worth upwards of 1M yet they look worthless. I get bids of 70K from Premiership clubs for my best CB and he has similar stats to leading Championship players in that position.

Steve King my highest valued player I signed in the BSP after a trial when he scored 2 hat tricks in 2 games. Since then he has played 26 games in the first team scoring 4 goals Playing a system that uses a lone striker too its hard to have faith in giving him the games he needs. The board finally found me a feeder club to loan too but even my U18's refuse to go and play for them.

One strange thing I have noticed. If I move players from my first team to the reserves the value slowly goes up yet as soon as I move them back it starts to drop again.

I know how your feeling its not like I want to sell these players but I want to see their true worth and stop having my time wasted being given bid of 20K for players like this. I put it down to the fact most have come through my youth team signed in the early days. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yeah, I'm sure the club's reputation has something to do with it but it seems a little low.

Highest Valued

This just turned 18yo left back is my highest valued player at £250k and the 21 y.o. centre back wanted by 3 premier league and 5 championship clubs is £60k (cost me £50k and 15% sell on fee).

Going surprisingly well in League One so far (11 games) without Sunu but changed to a direct style of play which I hate doing but is very effective.

Still losing money though, without a good FA Cup run, i'll be well into debt by the end of the season. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Almost to prove my point, when i showed you King's value he had just been promoted from the reserves. Through injury to my main striker and having lost faith in the 2 senior backup players I had, King and another likely lad from my youth system were thrown upfront together. This time he has taken his chance as I write this he has 19 goals in 15 starts, 9 in his last 2 games . Just handed in a transfer request the ungreatfull little git and his value is down to 210k less than half what it was at the start of the season.

Steve King

Season is going well currently sitting in 3rd after 18 or so league games, so possibly if I can get promoted this year I can persuade him to stay. Might be being hopeful there though.

On a brighter note though I may have found his replacement. Found without a club at the start of the season was this kid.

[Seasoned Alcoholic]

Originally posted by peter_b:

Chippenham Town - Season 2, 09/10 - Half-season report

A mediocre season so far sees us lying in 9th place in the league. Unfortunately I haven't been able to emulate our superb form of last season and at the moment it looks like a playoff place is the best we can hope for.

Table

Our main problem has been scoring goals, with last year's top scorer Mark Preston no where near as prolific as last season.

However this allowed me to try out a couple of strikers I had in reserve, and one of them, Juan Ugarte, has bagged 8 goas in 8 games recently.

Juan Ugarte

Trial

If he can keep it up we may yet do something this season. We're still in the cups so that's a bonus but this season's challenge has been getting my tactics to work.

Looks like you've got hold of a bit of quality there in Ugarte. He appears to have all the key attributes you look for in a striker, well worth the wages

[ejthegreat]

Originally posted by xx2olegendxx:

On a brighter note though I may have found his replacement. Found without a club at the start of the season was this kid.

I wish my scouts could find talent like this. Seems to be very little coming out of Ireland and Northern Ireland in my game this year

[ejthegreat]

Got Southend (Championship) away for FA Cup 3rd round. Which probably means a loss and only a smallish amount of money.

I really need the money too.

[joshpmilton]

Due to the fact we haven't had the internet for the last week or so, I've been unable to update either of the websites with my progress with Maidstone United.

However, now that I have the net back, expect a full scale report on how I've been doing. Just off to do the website, and will write a report on here later!

[xx2olegendxx]

Originally posted by ejthegreat:

I wish my scouts could find talent like this. Seems to be very little coming out of Ireland and Northern Ireland in my game this year

It is mainly all I have invested in the past 3 seasons or so. Bringing in around 10 U18's each season on top of the ones naturally promoted to my U18's.

Winning the U18's league 3 out of the last 4 years and the reserve league 3 out of 4 also, I have a wealth of kids all with international experiance. Trouble is though I think it is holding me back in some ways. I try too hard to get them in the first team for the odd game but with 2 players for each position already in my 1st team squad they just don't get the games they need. I have a feeder club that even 16 year olds dont want to play for and a board unwilling to look for another.

Some examples:

Mark Gatson

This kid I picked up at 15, has loads of big clubs after him but has only made 17 1st team appearances. Currently playing in the reserves.

Craig Jones

Was promoted to my U18's, really like the look of him but hasnt improved as much as I expected. 6 1st team appearances.

Ryan Neill

Yet to play a senior game. Found as a free agent.

Plus plenty more of similar standard I struggle to give games.

Some players I am forcing myself to play currently:

Dave Edwards

Probably the most used of any players brought through the system but still under played. Key position though and I dont like throwing him in for big games.

Neil Lake

Loads of clubs after him yet those 7 appearances this year are his only for the club in 5 seasons.

Ross King

Great player but only in the side due to injurys to 1st choice for his position.

Ted Moncur

Far too many promising keepers at the club. Playing due to poor form of 1st choice.

Ian Clarke

In and out the team for a few seasons, class player but 4th in line for the left wing spot where he seems to perform best.

Jamie Palmer

30 appearances in 6 years.

Currently have 80 players at the club 46 of which are wanted by other clubs and I am just too damn greedy to want to let any go.

[ejthegreat]

I'll take a few of them off your hands if you like

Just wondering, did you find most of them personally, through player search function or through your scouts?

[xx2olegendxx]

Originally posted by ejthegreat:

I'll take a few of them off your hands if you like

Just wondering, did you find most of them personally, through player search function or through your scouts?

I find scouts pretty useless really when it comes to young talent so I do my own searching then send them to look at the players.

Every summer on june 20th I run a search for unattached players 18 or under. Then if you click the INF to sort them in that order. Then you can see the ones who have clubs intrested so obviously they are the better of the bunch.

I add any that are wanted to a shortlist then get my assistant and both my scouts to get report cards on them. Some may have bids on them already so I will look at what I can see of these players stats and occasionally take a gamble. At the end of the day your only going to pay 3K a year for wages so it pays off signing plenty.

Of the ones who are not wanted I work my way through picking any that look intresting and offering them trials. There is always the odd one decent player.

One other good trick as well which has provided my best results, Is a flaw in the game in a way. Go down the list viewing the players and go to approach to sign for each player (if it shows youth contract change it to full time). There will be comments from your ASS man like "this player wouldnt be worth while" "would be a good signing" if there are any there that say "quality signing" or you should "sign at all costs" get them offers in quick.

That last way has got me the better players, it can be a pain going through every single player on the list though like that.

[xx2olegendxx]

I just cant resist, going to give him his debut in the FA cup today

[jsar]

Chippenham Town season Update 29/30

well just a short update due to the fact that as usual only just managed to stay in the premiership.

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however the one HUGE high was winning the FA cup, for some reason my team dont seem to want to play football in the league but when it comes to the cup they love it.

It was the Usual suspects that managed to keep me up

Martins

Costa

Ismail

as well as a great first season from

Ribeiro

getting 20 goals and 10 assisits in 32 games

not a great start to the 30/31 season however

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[MikaelS]

Originally posted by xx2olegendxx:

I just cant resist, going to give him his debut in the FA cup today

I wouldn't put much into those stats. Playing in u18 league is quite different from playing in senior league. But give him a go and post the stats afterwards

[xx2olegendxx]

Originally posted by MikaelS:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by xx2olegendxx:

I just cant resist, going to give him his debut in the FA cup today

I wouldn't put much into those stats. Playing in u18 league is quite different from playing in senior league. But give him a go and post the stats afterwards </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yeah, I wish I had a half decent feeder club to send him off to. He scored in a 1-0 win on his senior debut, back off to the U18's now though hopefully I will get the chance to give him a few more later in the season. Would try him in the reserves but I Have a wealth of average strikers rotting in there the Ass man will play ahead of him.

[jsar]

how do you have the green backround in your game btw?