TigerChris Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 You got Chelsea as a feeder club! lol Woops, meant parent club! Sorry! And i would Dafuge, tried playing him in behind both strikers, had no luck. Tried giving him a lot of creative freedom, did even worse. Best i had him was coming off the bench in the AMC role, but still only looking at a 6.5. Edit: His average rating overall is 6.29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 I've noticed that a lot with AMCs, they always seem to get low ratings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulHartman71 Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 profile hoping to do fairly well in these challenges, although i'll more than likely do awful Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Freddy Sears is a good loan signing isn't he? I hope so, I've just signed him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerChris Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Freddy Sears is a good loan signing isn't he? Wish i'd have been able to get him, he headed to Bristol Rovers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerChris Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 I can't see myself keeping them up, still on -10 after 18 games, i'd taken 12 points from the first 8 and gone on a terrible run! 24 points from safety as well.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Pre Season Luton 0-6 Werder Bremen Blyth 0-2 Luton Luton 1-2 Charlton Luton 2-5 Porto Luton 0-6 Tottenham Luton 0-3 Bolton Luton 1-4 Sunderland Luton 5-2 Luton Reserves As expected, we got hammered by the big teams and just about beat Blyth. We led Charlton for a while but eventually lost to a 90th minute goal. Despite the hammerings, it has done wonders for the finances, helping us make a profit of around £500k for July. Transfers I tried to be aggressive in the transfer market but found it really hard to sell anyone or sign anyone who could improve the squad. I'm sure there will still be some new faces as we move into the start of the season. Squad Stats Freddy Sears was the star of the pre season with a stunning 7 goals from 6 games. He could be crucial to our season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerChris Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Just gone out of the FA Cup in the Second Round with a 2-1 loss away at Huddersfield. Things certainly are not going right at the moment! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLH84 Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Instead of signing Sears I went for Harsanyi from Bolton. He gets injured in his first game is out for the season. There goes my one free long term loan slot. Season over before it begins? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerChris Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Thought i'd have to quit this challenge after my computer decided to randomly restart it's self and i didn't think i'd saved for awhile. Just loaded it up and it auto-saved a few days before the FA Cup match against Huddersfield, so gonna go on holiday to the day after that match and then carry on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLH84 Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 I've just brought in a transfer listed Stuart Fleetwood, who has scored two on his league debut and could well be a bit of a bargain...however, he's put my over my wage budget. If only I could get rid of a certain player in my reserves who is stealing 3k a week Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 I've just brought in a transfer listed Stuart Fleetwood, who has scored two on his league debut and could well be a bit of a bargain...however, he's put my over my wage budget.If only I could get rid of a certain player in my reserves who is stealing 3k a week Snap, he's been great for me as well. That reserve player for me has taken a pay cut, he might even get a game. Don't you just love games like this? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcmeister Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Just beat Reading 5-4 on pens after a 1-1 draw. Lets hope a huge club comes up for the money! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLH84 Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Snap, he's been great for me as well.That reserve player for me has taken a pay cut, he might even get a game. Don't you just love games like this? I do indeed After I offered him mutual termination he doesn't seem too keen on taking a paycut... I don't want to speak too soon or jinx it but, this is currently playing out a little more easily than I thought it would. Edit: I only went and jinxed it.....ouch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerChris Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 I do indeed After I offered him mutual termination he doesn't seem too keen on taking a paycut... I don't want to speak too soon or jinx it but, this is currently playing out a little more easily than I thought it would. Wish mine would, just lost 3-1 away at Dagenham after taken the lead! Got Fleetwood coming in January where i also hope to drag in a couple on loan too. Mr McVeigh will also be on his way in January. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 August Rotherham 0-2 Luton Luton 2-1 Colchester (Carling Cup 1st round) Luton 2-0 Darlington Aldershot 1-2 Luton Luton 0-3 Blackburn (Carling Cup 2nd round) Luton 1-0 Bury Couldn't ask for much more in the league, although there were a couple of very close wins. The Carling Cup gave us a decent draw as we knocked out League 1 Colchester but Blackburn were just too good for us. League Table Completely irrelevant at this stage but it is nice to see that we would be top if it wasn't for the points deduction. Transfers A couple more players were brought in to cover the wing positions and a lot of youth players were released. We are doing pretty well on the wages front now, with enough wage cuts to take us £8.75k p/w under budget. Squad The two strikers are carrying the team at the moment, hopefully the wingers will start to contribute a bit more but it is still an area I think we need to strengthen. Kinkladze is out for a couple of months which gives me a chance to try someone else out in the dreaded AMC role. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerChris Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 The boy to keep me up? First game in January, Fleetwood on his debut bags two goals to help me defeat 5th placed Bradford! Now on -2 points, maybe a chance of staying up! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLH84 Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 The boy to keep me up?First game in January, Fleetwood on his debut bags two goals to help me defeat 5th placed Bradford! Now on -2 points, maybe a chance of staying up! Fleetwood is a legend already in my eyes. I'll post my update tomorrow Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 September Luton 0-0 (5-3 pens) Hereford (Johnstone's Paint Trophy 1st round) Grimsby 4-0 Luton Luton 2-0 Wycombe Luton 5-2 Accrington Luton 0-1 Dag & Red It was good to get through against League 1 Hereford but out league form took a dip this month. League leaders Grimsby dished out a thumping and we somehow managed to lose at home to the Daggers. League Table Still early days but it looks like we are catching the teams above us. Squad Fleetwood is the star of the show so far. The wage cutting is going well, we are now £11.75k p/w under budget, however the financial situation is taking a turn for the worse with us losing around £90k a month. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerChris Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Gonna get to the end of January then do a full update for you all Well i'd hoped by the time i was writing this i'd be in the positive points and on the way up, but it appears not! League Table As you can see, it's gonna be a battle right to the end! The season started reasonably well, i'd taken 12 points from 8 matches and was thinking positivley. I'd beaten Wolves at their ground on penalties, and then fought to a near 1-0 loss to Man City. Yet things took a serious downturn and morale got low. Since then i've been battling on trying to string results together and it just hasn't happened! I shall give you all another update towards the end of the season! Transfers Squad Stats Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 October Morecambe 1-0 Luton Dag & Red 0-1 Luton (Johnstone's Paint Trophy 2nd round) Chesterfield 1-0 Luton Luton 3-2 Brentford Bradford 1-2 Luton Luton 1-2 Port Vale Shrewsbury 0-1 Luton A frustrating month with three losses by just a single goal. League Table Those losses have hurt my chances but Wycombe are struggling so there's still a chance of catching them Squad Sears has been disappointing, although he clearly has the talent to do better than that. We have missed Kinkladze who will be back next month. Christophe Aubanel Due to sign in January, he could be the answer to my lack of creativity in midfield. My scouts think he is a good Premier League player. He could cost me the wage budget bonus though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashOverride Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Well from now Until the 5th of January theres just me in the office and I was trying to find a "constructive" Challenge to keep me entertained and it appears to be here. So for on the second time in my fm career im going to manage a team other than Liverpool!. Here goes the next 2 weeks...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oktoberfest Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 I will give this a try. I started as a Sunday league footballer. Can we go after anyone we want or must they be local talent? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerChris Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 About 12 games to go and it's all but impossible for me to stay up now, things seemed promising but no longer! Good luck to the rest of you! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitewalk Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 I give up.. lmao.. no winger no AMC, i'm lost... LOL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trypio Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Gonna give this a try. Profile Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coady Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 I did this on my first game on fm09, just sold parkin and bought in loads of loan players. Finished 16th and got to the fa cup 4th round. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 November Luton 2-1 Rochdale Luton 2-3 Brighton (Johnstone's Paint Trophy quarter final) Luton 1-0 Millwall (FA Cup 1st round) Notts Co 0-0 Luton Luton 1-1 Chester Gillingham 1-1 Luton Luton 0-0 Scunthorpe (FA Cup 2nd round) A mixed month with a great win over Millwall but three draws where we really should have won. The JPT campaign came to an end at the hands of League 1 Brighton but the FA Cup dream is still alive (just) with a replay against Scunthorpe coming up. League Table Nice to hit zero but we lost quite a few points this month with the draws. Transfers After a couple of injuries I decided to bulk out the squad with a few short term loan signings which should see me through to January where Christophe Aubanel and Andrea Orlandi will be signing. Squad The loan signings have sorted out my midfield but there's still not a lot of goals from the strikers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLH84 Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Mini-Update - November 9th League Table After 15 games we've managed to win 12 of them, draw 2, and lose 1 (the 6-0 defeat documented earlier). This gives us a total of +8 points and puts us one point from safety in a great run of form. I have decided to attack this challenge, as the 32 goals scored demonstrate. Points mean prizes after all... FA Cup - Through to the second round after beating Southend 2-1 Transfers Best Players Stuart Fleetwood 14 Games/9 Goals Sam Parkin Vladimir Weiss Claude Gnakpa Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 December Luton 2-2 Luton Scunthorpe 2-4 Luton (FA Cup 2nd round replay) Macclesfield 2-2 Luton Luton 1-2 Barnet Bournemouth 0-0 Luton Luton 2-1 Exeter Another highly frustrating month in the league as we threw away a load of points by either drawing or losing matches we were dominating. Stuart Fleetwood grabbed a hattrick as we beat Scunthorpe to reach the third round of the FA Cup where we will meet Man City at home. Although a win would be great, a draw might be the best result in order to make the most of the gate receipts. League Table Still bottom and despite our good start it now looks close as to whether we can stay up. All will depend on whether we keep throwing points away. Squad As you can see I have suffered a bit of an injury crisis, having to play the last few games without a recognised striker. Now I know how David Moyes feels. Next month should be interesting with the FA Cup third round, the two new signings arriving and the opening of the transfer window where I'm going to have to try and get a striker on loan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerTime Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Sell Sam Parkin! He's on high wages and can be sold for 500k! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLH84 Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Sell Sam Parkin! He's on high wages and can be sold for 500k! He's also quite good As it Jake Howells who I hadn't noticed in my squad until a few games ago. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 I spotted Jake Howells at the start hiding in the youth team, he's played most of the season for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerChris Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 He only got two games for me when both Davis and Emanuel where injured, but he played reasonably well.. Parkin was my top scorer, and Fleetwood ended up getting 4 goals in 9 for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLH84 Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 I spotted Jake Howells at the start hiding in the youth team, he's played most of the season for me. Ok Dafuge, it's not a challenge y'know... ...oh it is? Darn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLH84 Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 I'd be interested to know how Gnapka is performing for you both - he's playing like Clichy for me, albeit on the right hand side. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 He's been solid for me at right back and possibly one of the best players originally at the club in my team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerChris Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 He played fantastically for me up until mid-November when he seemed to lose all concept of passing. He started attempting cross field balls...when there was no one there so they always ended up with the opposition Striker. He then picked up an injury for 6 weeks and came back as good as he initially was. Also popped up with a couple of goals, that frankly could only be described as "rockets" from the edge of the area. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLH84 Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 So, if I win my replay against Swindon in the FA Cup we play Man City at Kenilworth Road. If only it had been an away draw... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerChris Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 I was cursing myself for going out early in the cups after seeing the draws i would have got.. League Cup...if i'd have beaten Man City in the close match, i'd have gotten Arsenal. Fa Cup..if i'd have beaten Huddersfield, i'd have gotten Colchester at home...a winnable match, followed by Liverpool away! But oh well!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tfkdougal Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 I'm going to try this after I download the new patch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashOverride Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 My pre season didnt go according to plan at all :-(. I took a pasting from all the premier leauge teams but picked up no injurys which was helpful. Was planning to start my season today, walk into work sit down and my director decides while theres only 4 of us in the department he's going to come and sit with us! Now he's a resonable guy and its pretty quiet but Im not takin the risk of sittin here playin fotty manager. On the plus Im off 2moro. Got tottenham as my feeder team but Id already got a quaility loan signing (name escapes me but he's a capped welsh international!) and now Im not allowed any more:-( How are other people dealing with this? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 January Luton 1-3 Man City (FA Cup 3rd round) Luton 2-0 Rotherham Darlington 3-3 Luton Luton 0-3 Aldershot Luton 3-1 Grimsby Man City totally dominated us and we were lucky to get away with that scoreline. Robinho tore us apart, grabbing a hattrick. The league form is picking up although the Aldershot result was a bit weird. Still bottom, although in touching distance of the clubs above now. My squad is going to be decimated soon as the three month loans expire, I'll have to see if there's any more I can bring in. The wage control was going well until Dean Morgan returned from his loan on the last day of the transfer window on his massive wages. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 February Luton 1-0 Morecambe Accrington 1-2 Luton Bury 1-2 Luton Dag & Red 1-1 Luton Wycombe 0-0 Luton Luton 5-3 Bradford Luton 1-1 Chesterfield A fantastic unbeaten month. There's still a few draws where we should be winning but it was good to come through that run of away games without a loss. League Table The job's not quite done but things are looking good. I don't think a top half finish will be possible though. Squad The loan signings have gone and have not been replaced, mainly due to the form of new signing Christophe Aubanel. Stuart Fleetwood has been on good form and looks set to hit 20 league goals. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
countyfan52 Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 This looks interesting and will keep me going over Xmas. Will start this later tonight I think. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLH84 Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Update - Jan 4th 2009 We've just lost our 3rd Round FA Cup game 2-0 to Man City. Expected, but there's always that little hope that you can salvage a draw. The league remains very positive though, we are the top scorers and sit 10 points from the playoffs which i'm chuffed about. Finances are becoming a little worrying - I think I need to either cut certain players wages and/or sell some players. I'm confident of safety and perhaps even a top half finish. I don't know if it is actually possible to sort out the finances in a season though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 What are your finances like? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
king_johnny Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 OK guys I decided to give this a go. I had to drag myself away from my Tranmere save but here I am Heres my manager profile - http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/dave_riley86/manager.jpg I started the game late last night and so far my progress so far has been quite good with 5 wins 2 draws and 2 defeats from the opening 9 league games. Here is the league table - http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w79/dave_riley86/lgetableoct08.jpg I'm stuggling a bit with the finances mainly due to my inabilty to offload players and lower the wage budget, but I'm sure that come January I'll be able to do something about this. BTW this is a cracking challenge and I'm hoping to see more of these. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Eagleman Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 This looks fun for the Xmas break. Here is my Manager Profile - http://i369.photobucket.com/albums/oo139/The_Eagleman/ManagerProfile.jpg Playing Large Database with the following Leagues - English (All), French, German, Holland, Italy, Spain (Default) & Scotland (Two Top Leagues). Keep you posted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLH84 Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 What are your finances like? £275k in the black - but steadily decreasing. To help with this Sol Davis has been released and two new players have joined for less than half his wages. Ludovic Baal - AM L/F C Alexis - D L/C Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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