ImHungry Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 TNS (The New Saints) Basically the best team in Wales, but this isn’t about the short term this is a long term project to challenge the super powers of Europe. This wont be a blow by blow account of my game or a story based post, mearly an extended review of the season! Screenshots wont be uploaded unless requested (in which case someone will have to tell me how to upload them ;-) ) Start of game Info League Rep: 35 Club Rep: 2100 (12 league teams with me being the highest rep and bala being the lowest at 1200) European Quals: 1 champions league premlims and 3 Europa league prelims. Season 1 – 2010/11 Board expects win everything! Players in: 10 (3loans) £10K Players out: 12 Noteable Players: Giffton Noel-Williams Nicky Featherstone Chris Anderson P 32 W 21 D 5 L 6 GF 62 GA 34 PTS 68 10 points clear of second place never looked like losing it at any point. 'Nuff said! League cup: Very poor lost in 1st round but whereas I wasn't bothered the board whined about it all season long! Welsh FA Cup: Won it 2-0 beating Prestatyn. 15:3 in goals scored/conceded. Champions League Qual 2: Only good point to this is the £300,000 you get for participating!! Hapoel Tel-Aviv – They came, they saw , they conquered! 8-0 on Agg. Season Review: League Winners - TNS League Cup Winners – Bangor City FA Cup Winners - TNS Top Scorer – Rhys Griffiths 16 (Llanelli) Manager of the Year – Gavin Chesterfield (Haverfordwest) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vammy Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Good luck with your aims and well done on your success in the first season Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenwhitearmy Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Good luck mate, I'm currently playing as Afan Lido from wales in my career game, I haven't lost against TNS yet Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImHungry Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 Season 2 – 2011/12 Board expects win everything except Europe of course Players in: 13 (1 loan) £12k but this was a loan fee only Players out: 5 £0 Noteable Players: Nathan Rooney Lubomir Michalik Aaron Martin P 32 W 21 D 6 L 5 GF 62 GA 28 PTS 69 Almost identical to last season but conceded fewer I was 15 points ahead of 2nd place. League cup: Beat Haverfordwest 3-2 aet all domestics cups now won Welsh FA Cup: Lost in the semi-finals to Barry Town 2-1. Poor result especially as Barry ended up getting Relegated. Champions League Qual 2: Came up against the power house of Polish football that is Polonia Warszawa. They beat us 4-1 at our place but we earnt a credible 2-2 away draw but alas to little too late. On a side note Park hall has a capacity of 3000 but due to FIFA/UEFA rules can only hold a max of 1000 as we only have 1000 seats which is annoying as we only average 250 in the league so the board wont add more seating. Season Review: League Winners - TNS League Cup Winners – TNS FA Cup Winners - Haverfordwest Top Scorer – Lewis Codling-19 (aberystwyth) Manager of the Year – ME! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImHungry Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 , I haven't lost against TNS yet Yeah TNS computer controled can be poor. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImHungry Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 Season 3 – 2012/13 Board expects win everything except Europe of course Players in: 8 (2 loan) £36k but this was for the loan fees only Players out: 6 £0 Noteable Players: Gary Gardner James Hurst Kerry Morgan P 32 W 22 D 5 L 5 GF 70 GA 28 PTS 71 Again an improvement on last season with more goals scored. League cup: Played five games 1 conceded. Won the final 1-0 against Welsh FA Cup: With a record of 17:2 including a 7-0 3rd round victory against non-league opposition. Won 3-0 against Bangor in the Final. My 1st treble. Champions League : Wow just wow Qual 2: Metalurgs (Latvia) coasted through 7-0 on aggregate with a 4-0 away win. Qual 3: TPS (Finland) won 2-0 at home so, to, the away leg they raced to a 3-0 lead after about 50 mins then in the 71st min scored an away goal and held on (from experince I knew this game was worth at least £2million Play offs: Win this and its Champions League Group stage lose and its Europa League Group Stage so either way it was a win-win situation.... And then I saw I was playing Club Brugges (Belgium) so Europa League here we come..... lost 5-0 on aggregate, brave effort but always going to be really tough. Europa League Group J consisted of Deportivo La Coruna, Fenerbache & NEC Breda. !st game at home to Deportivo went 2-1 up before losing 3-2 these 2 goals were the only 2 I scored in 6 games and conceding 17!!! Season Review: League Winners - TNS League Cup Winners – TNS FA Cup Winners - TNS Top Scorer – Rhys Griffiths 19 (Llanelli) Manager of the Year – Craig Harrison (Airbus) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImHungry Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 Season 4 – 2013/14 Board expects win everything except Europe of course Players in: 7 - £140k Most of this on a 17YO cb Players out: 2 - £10K 1st fee received Noteable Players: Tom Taylor (the 17 YO cb) Freddy Eastwood Nathan Craig P 32 W 29 D 3 L 0 GF 83 GA 17 PTS 90 Almost a perfect season. 35PTS clear of 2nd place. Didn’t drop a single point after a draw on 8/12/13 On the opposite side Goytre got relegated having won only 6pts (1win)!!! League cup: lost in the Quarter Final against Aberystwyth 1-0 Welsh FA Cup: Lost in the Final against Neath 4-2 Champions League : Oooops I did it again!!! I did have to play 1 more round than last year. Qual 1:Tre Penne (San Marino) 6-0 on agg saw us comfortably through Qual 2: Maccabi Haifa (Israel) arguabley a V. big team 1st leg won 3-0 at home and held on to a 0-2 defeat away from home. Qual 3: Domzale (Slovinia) Comfortably won both legs 2-0 H & 4-0 A to book our (at least) £2million Match Play offs: Tough. Handed a Very difficult (When arent they at this stage!) tie agianst FC Cluj (Romania) and were dispatched 7-2 with ease. Europa League Group stage consisted of Braga, Club Brugge (again!) and (the chav-tastic plastics hmmmm yeah real life bias here) Chelski. Safe to say Bottom of group 0pts (and a 4-0 whooping away at the bridge, though this was my worst defeat) scored 1:13 conceded! Season Review: League Winners - TNS League Cup Winners – Carmarthen FA Cup Winners - Neath Top Scorer – Freddy Eastwood 25 (TNS) Manager of the Year – Craig Harrison (Airbus) Season 5 – 2014/15 Board expects win League and FA cup. League cup based on other results and learn from europe. Players in: 4 - £0 Players out: 9 - £0 Noteable Players: Harry Keane Conrad Logan P 32 W 24 D 2 L 6 GF 79 GA 29 PTS 74 Won it but were crap. League cup: Beat Port Talbot 2-1 in the final (Comp record of 13:4) Welsh FA Cup: Beat Port Talbot 3-0 in the final (Comp record of 17:2) Champions League : Hmmmmm I was spoilt in the last 2 seasons.... Qual 1: Qormi (Malta) 10-2 on agg This is getting easy!!! Qual 2: Vojvodina (Serbia) Won 1st leg 2-0 away from home Eastwood did miss a penalty but hey that wont matter with the 2nd leg being at home... Comfy yay 2ng leg can you guess yes you bloody can a 3-1 home defeat sees me knocked out on away goals not happy! Season Review: League Winners - TNS League Cup Winners – TNS FA Cup Winners - TNS Top Scorer – Freddy Eastwood 23 (TNS) Manager of the Year – Mark Jones (Port Talbot) On a side note I notice at the end of this season the following messages in my inbox: the Welsh PL moves up 121 places to 260th TNS move up 87 places to 280th The WPL moving up is entirely me as I don’t think another Welsh team has won a game let alone a tie!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImHungry Posted February 11, 2011 Author Share Posted February 11, 2011 Season 6– 2014/15 Board expects win League and FA cup. League cup based on other results and learn from europe Players in: 13 - £42K for loans. The loans are to boost my number of under 19's in the squad for league rules. Players out: 3 - £0K although I loaned a few out during the season Noteable Players: Leigh Griffiths (The best player I have ever had!!!) Adam Clayton P 32 W 26 D 4 L 2 GF 105 GA 37 PTS 82 Scored over a ton in the league and 42 were scored by Griffiths he was AMAZING! Bridgend became the worst ever team with no wins & only 3 draws conceding 99 goals. League cup: Beat Carmarthen 2-1 in the final Welsh FA Cup: Lost in the 3rd round 1-0 to non league Nefyn not great. Champions League : The greatest season I have ever had!!! Qual 2: Flamurtari (Albania) comfortable 7-1 aggreagte win Qual 3: FC Vasuli (Romania) won 6-1 on aggregate scoring 3 goals in both legs. So one game away from the Holy Grail of the group stages Play offs: Omonoia (Cyprus) I thought if I was going to get through then this would be my best chance of doing so. 1st leg beat them 4-1 hoping that the away goal wouldnt come to bite my back....of course it did as in the 2nd leg they stormed into a 3-0 lead before I scored but alas they scored again meaning the scores were level at 90mins so extra time they scored imidiately and I was heading out until I got the away goal and held on for an away goals victory and £6.5million prize money.... Champions League Group stage: I was awarded with a group which consisted of; H A Olympiakos 0-5 1-2 AC Milan 0-3 0-6 Real Madrid 0-5 0-3 Soo ass whoopings all round 1:24, and to insult to injury I only won 2/6 domestic games after Champions League action, including my 1-0 cup defeat after being spanked 5-0 by Real! Season Review: League Winners - TNS League Cup Winners – TNS FA Cup Winners - Neath Top Scorer – Leigh Griffiths 42 (TNS) Manager of the Year – Tomi Morgan (Carmarthen) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anti Spiral Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Nice work getting to the group stage though! That seems a long way away on my career! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImHungry Posted February 16, 2011 Author Share Posted February 16, 2011 Yeah it wil take you a bit longer as your a better man and started with a weaker team than me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImHungry Posted February 16, 2011 Author Share Posted February 16, 2011 Season 7 – 2016/17 Board expects win League and FA cup. League cup based on other results and learn from europe Players in: 9 - 65K for loans. Players out: 6 - £0K Noteable Players:Joe Mattock Giles Barnes Boaz Myhil Leon Newell – Didm't look overly good but played very well with Griffiths P 32 W 26 D 5 L 1 GF 105 GA 29 PTS 83 23 points ahead of 2nd place Cwmbran Celtic were relegated with 5 points conceding 105 goals League cup: Beat Neath 5-0 in the final record of 14:3 Welsh FA Cup: won 2-1 against Carmarthern in the final, record 13:4 Champions League : Qual 2: Santa Coloma (Andora) 3-0 Away & 4-0 at home gave an easy route through to; Qual 3: Red Star (Serbia) lost 1st leg 3-1 away from home but I was hopeful due to my away goal but alas it wasn't to be and altough I won 4-2 at home I was denied buy those damn away goals. So I thought that was that until I realised I was put into the hat for the 4th Qualifying round of the Europa League WooHoo …. Until I saw who I got.... Europa League 4th Qualifying round: Schalke (Germany) Oh well 1st leg away damage limitation or so I thought battling like Trojans we beat them 2-1 so to the 2nd leg at home held them at 0-0 for 3/4s of the game and they looked like scoring but we nicked a goal to win the tie 3-1 on agg. Soooooooo........ Group L H A AZ 0-1 0-3 Bordeauz 0-2 0-1 Newcastle 1-2 0-3 Better results but still no win or any points in a group stage so disappointing really. Season Review: League Winners - TNS League Cup Winners – TNS FA Cup Winners - TNS Top Scorer – Leigh Griffiths 40 (TNS) Manager of the Year – Craig Harrison (Airbus) Season 8 – 2017/18 At the start of the season the WPL was up to 119th (1 ½ stars) in the rankings And TNS were up to 134th The Europa League seedings were better for meaning the other Welsh clubs could now get knocked out without winning at a slightly later stage!! Board expects win Blah Blah Blah Players in: 15 - £500K on a young scottish winger. Most of the other signings were squad players Players out: 10 - £5K Noteable Players: Jim Brash (Young Winger) Kieran Richardson P 32 W 29 D 2 L 1 GF 105 GA 23 PTS 89 A ridiculous 36 points ahead of 2nd place. League cup: Beat Aberystwyth 2-1 in the final record of 11:4 Welsh FA Cup: won 4-0 against Carmarthern in the final, record 22:0 Played non-league Caerau Ely in the semi's and narrowly beat them 8-0!! Champions League : Qual 2: WIT-Georgia (Georgia) 1-1 Away & with a squeaky bum eventually eased as we dispatched them 4-1 at home Qual 3: Levadia (Estonia) 5-2 aggregate win gave us a tie which guaranteed group stage football, but in which competition..... Play offs: As we drew RB Salzburg it was the Europa League which we were destined for as they beat us 2-5 away in the 1st leg and although we won the home game 2-1 this wasn't enough and bang we were out. Group E: So game number one at home in front of 1000 fans we took on the might that is Barcelona 1-0 we went getting excited until bang 2-1 down at half time and fearing the worst. Until bang 2nd half we found our selves 4-2 up and in injury time they pulled one back but it wasn’t enough and we triumphed in what was our 1st victory and points in a group stage although in the return leg at the Nou Camp were got massacred 8-1 oops. Aslo in the group were Braga (H 3-1 A 1-0) & Kaiserslauten (A 0-0 H 4-2) so with a grand total of 13 points I progressed to the 1st KO round where we were drawn against FC Lorient (France) now I usually take 1 game at a time and dont get to optimistic but I did think that this wasn't the worst draw we could get so typically they battered us 2-7 on agg but hey-ho great achievement and something to build upon. Season Review: League Winners - TNS League Cup Winners – TNS FA Cup Winners - TNS Top Scorer – Leigh Griffiths 30 (TNS) slowly getting worse!! Manager of the Year – Neil Gibson (Prestatyn) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby_McDonald Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 Great progress in Europe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImHungry Posted March 1, 2011 Author Share Posted March 1, 2011 Season 9 – 2018/19 Board expects, We do not torelrate failure Players in: 9 - £8K Players out: 15 - £150K Sold Leigh Griffith wouldn't stop moaning contract running out wouldn't re-sign so sold him P 32 W 23 D 8 L 1 GF 75 GA 18 PTS 77 Still cant seem to go the whole season with out defeat. Too many draws but hey I still won the league. League cup: Easily beat Prestatyn 4-0 in the final Welsh FA Cup: Lost on Penos to Llanelli after a 2-2 draw Champions League : Qual 2: Marribor 4-1 agg Qual 3: NK Dinamo only won 1st leg at home 3-2 so was rather nervous going into the 2nd leg however I shouldnt have been as I dispatched them 3-0 away to progress Play offs: Young Boys (Switzerland) lost away 0-1 and in the home leg battered them but alas they kept a clean sheet so did we boom and we are gone into the Europa League] Europa League Group G Shamrock Rovers 4-1 0-3 Bordeaux 0-0 0-3 Benfica 1-1 0-3 3rd position wasn't too bad. Also we were seeded 3rd for the 1st time! Season Review: League Winners - TNS League Cup Winners – TNS FA Cup Winners - LLanelli Top Scorer – George Farmer 24 (Bangor) Manager of the Year – Gavin Williams (Afan Lido) Season 10 – 2019/20 Board expects!! Players in: 13 - £825K on a DMC and AM L/R Players out: 12 - £425K starting to think ahead(its about time) and get rid of players sooner who wont renew their contracts. P 32 W 26 D 4 L 2 GF 76 GA 20 PTS 82 League cup: Beat Air bus (now managed by my former CB & Captain Lubomir Michalik) on penalties after a 0-0 draw Welsh FA Cup: Lost to Llanelli (yet again & they are getting closer in the league) in the 1/4's Champions League : Qual 2: Suduva 2-0 & 2-0 saw us easily through Qual 3: Linfield lost 2-4 away in the 1st leg but held on in the 2nd leg to win 2-0 and go through on away goals! Play offs: Domzale this tie was wrapped up at home with a brilliant 6-0 win and after coming from behind we beat them 2-1 in the return leg to send us through to the UCL group stages Bordeaux 0-4 1-3 (6times in total we have played these and without spoiling! We play them next season to!) Man City 0-1 0-3 Sporting 0-4 2-2 Crashed out 4th again but I do feel that we are competing better Season Review: League Winners - TNS League Cup Winners – TNS FA Cup Winners - TNS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSYoungEsq Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 ImHungry, your work with Saints is paralleling my work with Prestatyn pretty well. I'd predict you can see some potential Spring footie in Europe in another couple years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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