[FM17] Porthleven - The Rise of the Cornish - An English Youth Only Challenge

[Makoto Nakamura]

January 2022

A great month with 3 home wins but an annoying heavy loss to 19th placed Elburton Villa,, we do however have a game in hand which could potentially see us move up to 6th! Also this month I celebrated my 200th game in charge, that's gone quickly!

[Makoto Nakamura]

February 2022

Well that was a major car crash. Just the 2 points and we're just 3 points from 7th but also just 7 points above the drop with 8 games left to play.

[Makoto Nakamura]

Youth Candidates

Another load of 1/2* but at least we have a couple of Professional personalities coming through!

[Makoto Nakamura]

March 2022

We've now equalled our winless record. 9 games without a win and we're just 5 points ahead of the drop with 4 games remaining...

[Makoto Nakamura]

Oh dear.

[Makoto Nakamura]

End of Season 2021/22

That was a bloody terrible finish to the season, no win since that victory over Exmouth on the 29th of January! It looks like I may need to invest in Junior Coaching since I'm probably not going to get too far the way I'm going, all that I need now is the finances to do it.

Transfers: 0 in, 0 out.

Key Players:

Tom Saunders (YP3b) - Nick Lane (YP1l) - Chris Smith - Billy Stockbridge

Biggest Wins:

Top Scorers:

[Makoto Nakamura]

2022/23 Pre-Season

Ah, the winless run continues through to the friendlies. Lovely.

All I have to do is attempt to avoid relegation, we're also not predicted bottom this season!

[ManUtd1]

Whoa...quite the finish to 2022.  Must have been a nerve-wracking April.  Good luck in the new season -- hopefully that extra year of experience will make a difference in the aggregate, in terms of players having developed!

[Nobby_McDonald]

That was close. Bet you were ******** bricks.

[Makoto Nakamura]

24 minutes ago, ManUtd1 said:

Whoa...quite the finish to 2022.  Must have been a nerve-wracking April.  Good luck in the new season -- hopefully that extra year of experience will make a difference in the aggregate, in terms of players having developed!

It was horrible haha, hopefully we can finish a bit stronger this season! And maybe nut I doubt it, with facilities this bad any improvements will be minimal.

2 minutes ago, Nobby_McDonald said:

That was close. Bet you were ******** bricks.

I was. Would have been nice to use some faecal bricks to plug the gaps in defence.

[Makoto Nakamura]

August 2022

We ended up equalling the record for longest winless run at 15 games, our first victory in close to 7 months came away to 3rd place Mousehole and now we look very average in 12th place and I'm loving it

 

[av3ry]

Didcot in the SWP? Looks like a lot of Somerset teams there too.

You must have been delighted to have stayed up at the expense of your local arch-rivals.

[Makoto Nakamura]

9 hours ago, av3ry said:

Didcot in the SWP? Looks like a lot of Somerset teams there too.

You must have been delighted to have stayed up at the expense of your local arch-rivals.

It's just a tad odd that the regions aren't perfect but I'll have to make do haha and yes it was great to survive at the expense of Helston They are making a strong case to be here again next season though conceding just 3 goals in their first 7 games.

[Makoto Nakamura]

September 2022

What is this madness, an unbeaten month?!? We're up in 6th just 2 points off of 1st place Godolphin Atlantic which is amazing and we've finally done it! We have finally gotten past the 1st Round of the Walter C Parson Cup by beating Teignmouth 8-7 on penalties!!

[Makoto Nakamura]

October 2022

A decent month with disappointing defeats against both Launceston and Milton but we've advanced in the cup! We do however face Godolphin Atlantic in the next round so we're more than likely out.

[Makoto Nakamura]

November 2022

Well it could be worse, we're off the pace of Mousehole but we're still going strong even if the middle of the pack is looking to be incredibly close again.

[Makoto Nakamura]

December 2022

Ouch. We went down to 10 men in extra time against Godolphin Atlantic and lost, we went 2-0 down in 5 minutes and went down to 10 men after 9 minutes to be battered 6-1 by Hook Norton and we stayed with 11 men on the pitch to knock Mousehole out of the top spot.

[Makoto Nakamura]

January 2023

We need just 2 more points to equal last seasons total with 12 games yet to play and we're in our own mini-mini league with Shrivenham as we're 4 points ahead of Tavistock and 6 points behind Didcot but 7th to 18th are separated by just 7 points..

[Makoto Nakamura]

 

Okay Tottenham. Okay.

[ManUtd1]

Levy is out of control, eh?

Maybe Zinedine would have better luck going back to Spain?  Valencia just hired Klinsmann, of all people... 

[Makoto Nakamura]

2 minutes ago, ManUtd1 said:

Levy is out of control, eh?

Maybe Zinedine would have better luck going back to Spain?  Valencia just hired Klinsmann, of all people... 

Well, Levy is out, Levy was replaced by a guy called Kelvin Thomas in June 2022.

Zidane was Tottenhams 4th manager, Pochettino was sacked on New Years Day 2018 and replaced by Louis Van Gaal who spent 4 years and 1 day there before being sacked and replaced by one Klinsmann..who spent 343 days as manager before being sacked and..well...Zidane.

Zidane was sacked by Madrid in 2019, he then spent just under 9 months in charge of Napoli but was again sacked, he spent 8 months at Olympiakos before being approached by Marseille where he spent just shy of 2 years and now 14 days at Tottenham.

[ManUtd1]

These details are monumentally entertaining to me

[Makoto Nakamura]

14 hours ago, ManUtd1 said:

These details are monumentally entertaining to me

Tottenham have now hired 68 year old Henk ten Cate as his replacement.

[Makoto Nakamura]

February 2023

Just the one win but it was against top of the table Godolphin Atlantic so I'm happy and we're still looking good to finish top 7.

[Makoto Nakamura]

2022/23 Youth Candidates

I'm struggling to tell if the youth has improved at all in the last 7 years

[ManUtd1]

1 hour ago, Makoto Nakamura said:

Tottenham have now hired 68 year old Henk ten Cate as his replacement.

I give him at least a month.

[Makoto Nakamura]

March 2023

4 games left and we're in 5th which, if we finish in 5th, equals Porthleven's best ever league performance! 

[Makoto Nakamura]

34 minutes ago, ManUtd1 said:

I give him at least a month.

Well he is still with Tottenham 6 weeks on, even if he did lose 5-0 away to Southampton.

[Makoto Nakamura]

End of Season 2022/23

Just the 4 points from the final 4 games but it ended up being good enough to secure 5th and equalling our best ever league finish! What's also good is that, from what I've seen at least, all clubs that finish 10th or above get entered into next seasons FA Vase, we're actually being entered into a national competition! (watch us go out in the first round)

Key Players:

Billy Stockbridge - Nathan Collier (YP3l) - Nathan Jackson (ResD) - Andrew Anderson (YP4j)

Biggest Wins:

Top Scorers:

[Makoto Nakamura]

2023/24 Pre-Season

Just the 2 wins but we played probably our biggest pre-season match ever with 325 seeing us lose 2-1 to a good Newport County side who are still in League Two, not too shabby.

No expectations, lovely.

[Makoto Nakamura]

August 2023

A good start to the season sees us pick up all 3 points from recently relegated Buckland and follow that up with 2 score draws and we sit nicely in 7th, next month is the FA Vase! I won't find out who we've drawn until tomorrow though.

[Timetxu]

Great game and great way of presenting! I like your pace and your month-by-month approach. You get decent results though I'm very impressed by your determination looking at the 'progress' your youth development is making. Keep it up though!

[clarkehwbu]

I see Vauxhall Motors had a huge win in the National League North, can you show their progress, they always seem way overpowered in this database.

Probably due to rep

[Makoto Nakamura]

5 hours ago, Timetxu said:

Great game and great way of presenting! I like your pace and your month-by-month approach. You get decent results though I'm very impressed by your determination looking at the 'progress' your youth development is making. Keep it up though!

Thanks for the comment Timetxu! I like to keep things short and sweet so people can just skim through at their own leisure and the lack of progress doesn't really surprise me, I feel like it will be 30 years before I hit the heights of the Vanarama leagues!

4 hours ago, clarkehwbu said:

I see Vauxhall Motors had a huge win in the National League North, can you show their progress, they always seem way overpowered in this database.

Probably due to rep

Sure thing!

Key Player - Captain - Vice Captain

[Makoto Nakamura]

September 2023

We made our FA Vase debut against Western League side Cribbs (The Western League is the division above the division we're in) and were duly knocked out 3-0. They had just beaten 7th tier side Tonbirdge in the FA Cup so it's not too disgraceful. We're also through again in the Walter C Parsons Cup and we're looking good in 3rd in the league

[Makoto Nakamura]

October 2023

And it all started so well..with back-to-back victories over the teams that were 1st and 2nd before 3 losses including a gutting loss in the cup where Bradford Town scored a 118th minute winner.

[Makoto Nakamura]

@ManUtd1

 

 

[wicksyFM]

Good to see you doing well mate. promotion could be happening this season

[Makoto Nakamura]

Well then!

[Makoto Nakamura]

2 minutes ago, wicksyFM said:

Good to see you doing well mate. promotion could be happening this season

Thanks mate, fingers crossed we finish near the top.

[ManUtd1]

David...quite the distance from the glamour of United, PSG and Madrid!

[Makoto Nakamura]

November 2023

Amazing month with free-flowing goals and we're in 1st! Hallelujah!

[Makoto Nakamura]

December 2023

And we're no longer 1st. 2 very good wins but we're now 3 points off the pace and Didcot have a game in hand to take the lead.

[Nobby_McDonald]

You must love life on the peninsula.

[Makoto Nakamura]

January 2023

A mixed month and I think we should have done better, going 1-0 up against 16th place Sandhurst and we end up losing isn't great, and we're now 7 points off the pace of Frome.

[Makoto Nakamura]

9 hours ago, Nobby_McDonald said:

You must love life on the peninsula.

Life is pleasant on the coast.

[clarkehwbu]

17 hours ago, Makoto Nakamura said:

Thanks for the comment Timetxu! I like to keep things short and sweet so people can just skim through at their own leisure and the lack of progress doesn't really surprise me, I feel like it will be 30 years before I hit the heights of the Vanarama leagues!

Sure thing!

Key Player - Captain - Vice Captain

Interesting, would be good to see if they make the football league.

Is that Dan Casey of Sunderland?

[RSJ]

@Makoto Nakamura Whats your opinion/feeling toward playing youths that have the silver star rating? Ive one 16 year old with a great potential rating that keeps improving but his CA is 3.5 silver stars?

[Makoto Nakamura]

6 hours ago, clarkehwbu said:

Interesting, would be good to see if they make the football league.

Is that Dan Casey of Sunderland?

Indeed it is, he joined Vauxhall back in the 2017/18 season and has been there ever since.

6 hours ago, RSJ said:

@Makoto Nakamura Whats your opinion/feeling toward playing youths that have the silver star rating? Ive one 16 year old with a great potential rating that keeps improving but his CA is 3.5 silver stars?

Honestly, at this level I don't think the starts matter too much since everyone is at around the same level and the assistants JPA JPP aren't going to be too great anyway so I just let him pick the side and go with it.

[Makoto Nakamura]

February 2024

3 away games but a good month overall and we're still in 4th as Frome, Exwick Villa and even Didcot are starting to pull away with 9 games left of the season.