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November 2020
What an amazing month in response to our previous one! We won all our cup games and Young scored late to salvage a draw against Gainsborough. But the biggest story here is that we've made the 3rd Round of the FA Cup! Granted, we had a very lucky draw in Southport, a team we've never lost to, but we can only beat who is put in front of us. Our 3rd Round opponents are Shrewsbury, currently 18th in the Championship. It will be at home, so I think we might be raking in some good money. Amazingly, we actually seem to be profiting this season, despite me doing my best to cripple our finances by exceeding the wage budget. But this profit is doing some good for us, as I managed to get some youth upgrades:
Our academy coaching is now at average and our recruitment is still poor at fairly basic. But we are taking steps in the right direction as a club, both on and off the field.
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October 2020
Not a great month in the league. We end the month outside the playoff spots for the first time in a year. At least we won our 2 FA Cup qualifiers and are now in the 1st round against same tier Billericay.
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September 2020
An extremely busy month, and one that didn't start real well, although the goals conceded in the first 2 games were penalties and an own goal. The win against Brackley was exceptional in the fact that Jordan Barrett scored 4 goals breaking the single game record and becoming our (then) top scorer in the process. We got our revenge in the FA Cup against the team that knocked us out last season, really showing what we should have done. We face non league Tamworth next, so hopefully we can win that one and progress. Pretty poor end to the month too, with a lack of points against teams in the relegation zone. We are still in a good position though.
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August 2020
An excellent start to proceedings here in the 2020/21 season. These new guys are slotting in nicely.
Transfers
Jake Young (Huddersfield): Originally going to be brought in as a loan, then Sheffield Utd transfer listed him for free so I jumped on it. He will now lead our (all of a sudden) deep strikeforce.
Marcel Wusiewicz (Burnley): Formally of Burnley FC, this Pole born in England will become our new starting keeper. He's already made his presence felt, scoring twice from the spot in August.
Jordan Barnett (Penistone): Our backup WB after he was released from Barnsley. Given that WB seems to be the position that gets tired the easiest he is a must.
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Preseason 2020
Not a great preseason in all honesty. We did play against some tough opposition, but we really should've beaten Rhyl.
Transfers
We lost our front 3 to free transfers and loan returns, and our main keeper was returned back to his club. I'm in negotiations with a keeper right now, so hopefully we can get him to join.
Josh Austerfield (Leeds) : Immediately slots into the void left by Soleman, who is now at League 2 Oldham.
Dylan Cogill (Dewsbury): Seeing as we play with 3 at the back, he comes in as a cover option.
Zak Armstrong (Oldham): This is the guy I'm most excited about. Released almost immediately from Accrington, I snapped him up and hopefully will develop into a fine WB.
Akeel Francis (Leeds): Our first replacement striker. He's quick and has other decent attributes but will most likely feature from the bench this season.
Rob Harker (Keighley): Rob's going to be our main man up front, I'm expecting big things from him this season.
Kyle Hawley (Oldham): Hopefully should complement Harker up front.
Season Prediction
Predicted 11th
I enjoy defying expectations.
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10 minutes ago, Nobby_McDonald said:
Great first season at Guiseley. Playoffs are a pain in the arse. I share your losing experience.
2 minutes ago, DefinitelyTaylor said:Hard luck mate. A good season nonetheless! Hopefully something to build on for next season.
Thanks guys! I just wish they were over two legs to account for the choking, but we will just have to try our best to avoid even getting in that position. The two teams above us got promoted, so I'm pretty confident we can push for the title.
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7 hours ago, BillHoudini24 said:
I really like this idea. Unlucky in the playoffs, they're always tough to go through. Let's hope the 4 star kid from the Intake delivers soon.
Glad to have you along! At least this season has built a base for growth, we know how good we can be, but clearly we can't do it in one off games, having lost all our knockout games this season. So we will just have to win the whole thing I guess!
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2019/20 End of Season Review
We blew it
Will Thornton (Leeds) - Scott Garner - Terry Kennedy (Barnsley)
Reiss McNally - George Cantrill - Jamie Spencer (Halifax) - Brad Nicholson
The players with their birthplace in brackets are the players that fit into my transfer policy. I won't look to actively sell those outside the 30 mile range, rather they will be phased out as players within the 30 mile radius will be brought in.
Yorkshire Club Rankings
Progress
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April 2020
We finished the regular season with an unbeaten month, though we left it really late against Darlington.
We haven't beaten Chester or Gloucester City this season, so either team will be liking their chances against us.
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2020 Youth Intake
I didn't take a photo of the youth intake report because I incorrectly assumed it would still be available on the intake day. Lesson learned!
At least with this intake we don't have to worry about any players being outside the 30 mile radius! Overall an average intake I think. Our top 2 prospects are FBs who we can wedge into a WB position. However there's too many wingers for my liking, they will have to be re-trained or unfortunately will be moved on.
Paddy Martin 1A (Guiseley) - Ethan Baker 1B (Guiseley) - Adam Ager 1C (Guiseley)
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March 2020
A very good month given how difficult our run was. The negative is that York have won the league, but we have secured a playoff spot.
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February 2020
Back to our old ways as we were smashed in our last game of the month, also ending our unbeaten streak at 14. We had a great win over league leaders York but this loss against Telford has set us back a bit. With 8 games to go we are 10 points behind the league leaders. Given our form, they may be caught, but realistically a playoff spot is the best we can hope for. Tough run of games coming too, with 3 of our 4 games in March being against teams in playoff positions (Gateshead away, Chester at home and Kidderminster away).
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11 minutes ago, Jimbokav1971 said:
If you want to have a quick look at how many shots he has had, just look on player profile - reports - form, and you can have a quick glance at how many shots he has taken in each match all on 1 page.
Okay so it looks like he's had 4 goals in 11 shots in the last 20 games. I guess that's not too bad a strike rate.
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1 minute ago, Jimbokav1971 said:
Another goal-scoring GK.
I'm not sure how many attaempts he's had, but I'm fairly certain that every time I've seen him take one he's scored (so twice).
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January 2020
A spectacular month! We've extended our unbeaten run to 10 games and we are really looking strong. Credit to Marcus Dewhurst, our keeper as well. I've taken a leaf out of @Jimbokav1971's book and made my keeper take free kicks and penalties, and he has duly delivered. Both his goals this month were from free kicks, and he also has 3 goals from penalties bringing his total so far to 5 this year. We're in a really good position but it appears that York will stay ahead for a while.
First award of the campaign as well
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December 2019
An unbeaten end to the year, and we are looking very strong heading into the second half of the year, with a 6 point gap on Curzon Ashton.
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November 2019
A mixed month that knocked us out of the FA Trophy and lose to one of the lowest teams in the league. But, 2 away wins and a good home win puts us into 5th. And, we finally ended our streak of getting flogged in the last game of the month!
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October 2019
The same tactic but with a defensive mentality netted us our second away victory of the season, and we went the rest of the month unbeaten until the last game, where we were flogged as is tradition. This season in competitive play we have gone 0-3 in the last game of the month, scoring 1 goal and conceding 11. Real weird. Table wise we are in a good position, and winning our game in hand could see us into 4th!
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September 2019
October consisted of a bore draw against our rivals from Bradford, then a big win against newly promoted Kettering, followed by a truly horrible run. An early exit in the FA Cup to a non-league side was embarrassing, then botching a home win against an inferior Boston side was just as bad, before a flogging by top team York may really force me to rethink the tactics away from home. At least we're still in a decent league position though.
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August 2019
A very good start to the season saw us capitalise on 2 keeping errors by the Farsley stopper (dwelt on the ball too long for the first goal, and then threw the ball straight to my striker). We outwore Spennymoor to grab the late winner there, before Gloucester City hot on the counter one too many times. We dominated Southport and Curzon Ashton, before Alfreton brought us back down to earth with a bang. We are still in a really strong position to start the league though.
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For reference, here are the in-game towns that lie within a 30 mile radius of Guiseley:
A few big towns here, which gives us plenty of layers to choose from as we move up the ranks.
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Preseason 2019
An excellent preseason, quite possibly the best preseason I've had in a long time in any edition. We were comprehensive in most of our matches, the goal scoring potency bodes well for the season ahead. We actually did really well against Huddersfield, and even better against Bradford, coming from behind to draw. We ended on a bit of a negative though against non-league Westfields.
Transfers
Didn't really get much signing done, my scouts have a big job trying to scout all 250+ players in my filter. But we did find this guy, he's unlikely to be starting for us immediately but he's a good depth piece in our 3 CB back line. He's fairly quick for this level too, another key attribute in our tactic.
Preseason Prediction
8th sets expectations quite high, but given the way our preseason has gone it could be possible.
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7 hours ago, DefinitelyTaylor said:
Good luck with Guiseley, I'll be following. They were destroyed by Paul Cox and continued to suffer with the consequences of his mismanagement last season, so this season is a great opportunity to turn the ship around!
Thanks mate, I don't know too much about the history but I do know they were nearly relegated, so I'm lucky I can even play as them first up!
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This looks like our best team for the tactic I want to implement. Our front three will hopefully be instrumental, and our keeper should keep things solid at the back. Might have to invest in some DMs and CBs though. It'd also a nice young squad, so plenty of potential.
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I enjoy defying expectations.
(FM20) - The Lions of Guiseley - The Attempt to Become the Best Club in Yorkshire!
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This does not bode well for us. All of the positions we utilise are deemed to be of poor quality. It looks like we will have to do some re-training.