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  1. I am running the DaFuge challenge, i've got a small team from regional division all the way up to the championship with promotion every season. I finished 6th in the Championship but lost in the playoff semi... I have done pretty much everything the club have asked (except play direct football) i have great standing with the club and the players and the staff as you would expect. They won't put me through a higher licence because they say i will leave but they have consistently put all of my coaching staff through courses so now lots of my staff are more qualified than i am. I have tried literally every avenue of discussion available at every meeting and nothing works. If i threaten to leave, they say fine, go... which makes no sense at all... they won't put me through my badges in case i go to a bigger club, but if i threaten to leave they are fine with it. It's not like they can't afford it. In an attempt to convince them of my desire to be there long term I have publicly snubbed a bigger club and willingly entered negotiations for another long term contract to try to prove my commitment... in my contract renewal discussion they maxed out my offer at £750 p/w which is nearly half what i have just agreed for my assistant manager to be paid. I am in the bottom half of earners amongst the entire coaching and back room staff... it is hugely unrealistic but there seems to be no way out of it. How can i convince my staff and prospective signings of my seriousness if the club won't even match my wage to the assistant managers?
  2. Folkestone Invicta 2027-28 Championship - 6th FA & Carabao Cup - 3rd round exits to prem teams It's been a fairly good season, we flirted with a more attacking formation in the middle part and got turned over a lot so reverted to my trusty 433 DM Wide. Some useful signings but really struggled to attract the quality needed to get us out of the division. Despite a great start, we struggled in the middle of the season, too many competitions as well as injuries to key players and a change of formation. We did end up scraping into the play-offs but despite taking a 2-1 lead into the second leg of our semi, we ended up losing 3-2 to Brentford. I am finding this a particularly frustrating club to manage at the moment though, despite punching well above our weight and achieving an amazing league position i don't feel the board is backing me at all, I'm still on my Continental B license and this time my threats to leave just prompted them to offer to let me go. The lack of negotiation available in board interaction is a real hinderance. I've also just, in an attempt to convince them that I really want to stay, asked for a contract extension, they wouldn't offer me more that £750 p/w. To put that into context my Assistant is on £1100 and I am currently one of the lowest paid members of coaching staff at the club. Maybe it's just the luck of the draw but considering the club as a whole is 'Delighted' with my performance, it seems so odd for them to behave this way, i can't remember ever having this sort of struggle once i've got a team out of league 1. Plan for next year, recruit better, see if i can get a pay rise, push for promotion.
  3. Folkestone Invicta Overview: Couple of decent seasons, not spectacular but we've battled our way to the Championship, this is where it's going to get tough and i'm still full of League 2 players. Just need to stay in the league to get the build going and steady the ship and get the facilities up to scratch otherwise i'm not going to be able to attract anyone half decent. I know the overview says 'clean slate' but we're pretty attacking and exciting to watch so I'm pretty happy with our tactics. The board is ok, but been quite miserly, they refused my coaching badges for ages until i ended up threatening to leave at which point they finally sent me for my Continental B. I hate not really being able to negotiate 'vision' with the club though, we've gone from VNS to Champ in consecutive seasons playing the way we do but I still keep getting moaned at for not being direct or not making enough of set-pieces... Oh well... fingers crossed for next season... it's going to be much tougher! This is very welcome though
  4. Folkestone Invicta 2023-24 Great season, some super signings, top goal scorer and a very, very surprisingly dominant league form, for some reason we just couldn't replicate it during the cups which was a real shame. as the cash would have really helped. Anyway, onwards and upwards to the National League.
  5. Once more having a crack at this challenge. Was really hoping to get a 'casuals' team in the reloads but no luck and so I plumped for a team local to where I live, the mighty Folkestone Invicta. Will be running my usual all out pressing, massive attack focused tactics again so I'm expecting some fun scorelines along the way but hopefully pushing for the play-offs in the first season. As always my objective is to do whatever i can to make it into League 2 ASAP before spending some time working on the infrastructure for a couple of years as we go pro. Meet Harvey Bassett - aka DJ Harvey the house/disco/garage DJ - I've always liked to name the managers after famous DJ's, something about the idea of an international DJ retiring and deciding to go into football management makes me smile. In the past it's been drum and bass DJs so I thought a bit of Disco house might make a nice change
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