Kubson Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Achilles '29 is a football club from Groesbeek, Netherlands. Its women's first squad plays in the Eredivisie since 2016. The men's first squad plays in 2017–18 in the Tweede Divisie. The club is known for its successes in the Dutch domestic cup, having knocked FC Volendam, Heracles Almelo, RKC Waalwijk, Telstar and MVV Maastricht out of the KNVB Cup. Achilles '29 became Hoofdklasse champions for the first time in 1983 in the Hoofdklasse Sunday B. In 2006, Achilles became champions in the Hoofdklasse Sunday C, with a two-point lead over rival De Treffers. Two seasons later a comparable Hoofdklasse victory was achieved when Achilles '29 played De Treffers in the last match of the season. Had De Treffers managed to win the match, they would have become champions. As long as Achilles '29 managed to gain at least one point (either a draw or a win) the championship would go to De Heikant. In a historic derby, Achilles '29 won 3–2 and became champions of the Hoofdklasse for the third time. In 2010–11, in the first season of the Topklasse, relegated Eerste Divisie team FC Oss won the Sunday title, after it had beaten Achilles '29 in the last match of the season with 0–2. Achilles '29 finished on second place, just missing out to a decision duel by losing on the last day. In the following season, Achilles '29 became champion of the Topklasse Sunday with a nine-point lead over Haaglandia. As the Sunday overall champions they faced Saturday champions SV Spakenburg for the national title. In the first leg they won 3–0 and in the second leg 0–2, becoming the national champions in amateur football for the first time with a 5–0 aggregate win. Achilles '29 hereby received an option of promotion to the Eerste Divisie, but didn't chose to use it. In the 2012–13 Topklasse season Achilles '29 was the title favorite, as the reigning champion. After 11 matches it became top of the table and remained there for the rest of the season. It lost the national title to VV Katwijk, but unlike Katwijk, Achilles chose to use its right of promotion following dispensation to some aspects in the licence for professional football. As a result, it played in the Eerste Divisie for the 2013–14 season, having drawn their first game in professional football against FC Emmen. The club was relegated from Eerste Divisie at the end of 2016-17 season and suffered another relegation this time to the fourth division of Dutch football in 2018. We turned back the clock in FM however and in 2019/20 the club is back in Eerste Divisie after winning promotion the previous season (2018/19). The club is widely expected to go down again, so they need someone to keep them up, who have the club chosen? A 21 year old from Tuvalu who has never managed a club before, this could be a long season ahead for Achilles, especially with the club's plan for the future. Suprisingly the club has decided against signing players from other clubs and decided to rely on their academy like a lot of the succesful dutch team have done in the past. It'll be interesting to see how the club gets on this season. Can they beat the drop against all odds? Only the future will tell. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kubson Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 Now that is going to be helpful I love my chairman already! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kubson Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 AUGUST-SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2019 As expected we are struggling a lot in this division, we were dominated in most of these games and looked shocking up-front and at the back. Fortunately we grinded out some positive results and thanks to teams below being god awful we are 7 points clear of the drop with 1 game in hand after 12 games played. I think we should be staying up as Den Bosch are abysmal. Our cup-ran ended pretty quickly, a good win over a lower league team in the first round, sadly Heracles stood in our way. And as the game was played away from home we had pretty much no chance of winning this tie, I'm happy we kept this at only 4-1! And as for how individual players are performing. Most of these boys are finding it hard in this division, as according to my coaches are only third divison quality, so it's quite remarkable we are in 17th! The Afghanistan born monster beast that is Popalzy has 3 goals and just as many assits and is crucial to our attacking line. But for me the best player in recent games has been Guy Smith, he's wonderful as a ball-playing centre back, has 3 goals already and his defending and passing is class, if only our other centre backs played well like him... Our top scorer is Guyon Phillips with 5 goals and just as many assists in 14 games, not too shabby for a third-divison quality striker Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToMexico!! Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Sometimes it isn't just about quality. In my save i've pretty much had the same squad adding a bit of quality when I could and letting a few go when they become unhappy with playing time. Now i'm in the VNS the gulf in quality is huge but I feel i'm doing well because I haven't made wholesale changes to the squad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kubson Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 8 minutes ago, ToMexico!! said: Sometimes it isn't just about quality. In my save i've pretty much had the same squad adding a bit of quality when I could and letting a few go when they become unhappy with playing time. Now i'm in the VNS the gulf in quality is huge but I feel i'm doing well because I haven't made wholesale changes to the squad. Well you have Panagi so that also helps, I could do with someone like that to partner up Guyon Phillips It might just be case of the players not being familiar with the tactic, hopefully it improves with time for me! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToMexico!! Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 1 minute ago, Kubson said: Well you have Panagi so that also helps, I could do with someone like that to partner up Guyon Phillips haha true I do, he's bossing it again this season too but not as many goals. Will keep him around for the remainder of his career if I can as he is a club Legend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kubson Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 So brexit just happened so I thought I'd post it. I don't think it's too hard, but remember to correct me if I'm wrong because I can never understand properly on how it works! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kubson Posted April 29, 2018 Author Share Posted April 29, 2018 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER-JANUARY 2019-20 Our form has seen an improvement, altough we are still very inconsistent. We had a fantastic November, as well as a good start to December which saw us come 2nd in the 2nd period table, we were a point away from securing a play-off spot! However, we had an awful time after the thrashing of FC Den Bosch, 2 draws, 3 defeats and only 2 goals scored speaks for itself. Thankfully we still have a huge gap above the bottom club: Go Ahead, who have just been overtaken by Den Bosch. If they want to finish bottom, then Go Ahead i'm not stopping them (sorry I had to make that joke) No players have been good enough to get an average rating of 7,0 but the ones who are close have been fantastic. Guyon Phillip has now 11 goals and 7 assits in 26 games, where would we be without him, it's scary to think! Versteegen found his shooting boots at last and now forms a decent partenrship with Phillips, if their form continues there's no way we are going down. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kubson Posted April 29, 2018 Author Share Posted April 29, 2018 YOUTH INTAKE 2020 That's not a terrible to be honest, all of the tagged players fit my formation so that's quite nice and we have 4 players with 5* PA, one with 4,5* and one with 4*, but don't let those stars fool you, they aren't gonna be world-beaters, 4* CA is still a 3rd division quality player in our side, I'd have hoped for players with higher CA so that they can help out them the team straight away, but you have to take waht you get. It's nice to get a ball-winning midfielder as we didn't have any players who were good in this role at the club, so this kid might get minutes straight away. He isn't terrible at 1,5* CA, he has some ok defensive attributes, and is decently quick, however he has bad workrate and has a **** personality. The one who will hopefully be a good partner to Phillips. Issam is quick, agile, can finish and doesn't have that bad of a first touch. However just like Plat he has a bad personality and Issam's mentals are just awful, hopefully he'll score goals regardless. Memic is quite decent for 1,5* CA, doesn't have any weaknesses defensivly aside from his heading, is quite tall, has ok mentals, and has decent determination for a change plus he isn't unambitious. But he'll need to work on his heading and he could with a bit more pace if I'm honest. Quartey has a lot of work to do, aside from his decisions he hasn't got a single green stat. And that might not be easy either, low determination and **** personality will hinder his progress as well. I can't see him becoming the next Casillas, but hopefully his potential shows through and we'll have a capable keeper in the future. And here comes another bald egg Looks aside he isn't a bad cm, but like all other players needs a lot of work. I like the fact he's either footed, I don't see it too often on regens for some reason. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToMexico!! Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 Great intake with some decent players there ready for a first team role already, especially Benali. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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