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Buxton FC 2022-23
Transfers IN | Transfers OUT | Finances | Fixtures 1 | Fixtures 2 | Cups | Table | Playoffs
Interesting season review...
- Another great season for us! We only lost two games throughout August and September and that set up a very successful base for our league campaign. A few losses followed during a shaky October and our closing 2022 run wasn't brilliant but we were arguably even better in the second half of the season going into 2023, drawing game after game but very few losses. A disappointing March and April put our playoff hopes very much in doubt but a double header vs Barnet and Southport confirmed the inevitable relegation to the 6th tier for both sides and a backs-to-the-wall victory over York City at The Silverlands, coupled with Aldershot suffering a surprise defeat at the hands of Halifax Town, saw us into 7th place and an unlikely playoff spot after our first season in the Vanarama National.
- A difficult draw away to Notts County in the first round of the playoffs, but we stunned them with a 1-2 victory. We were guaranteed another away draw in the semi-finals and our opponents were Northampton Town; we took them to extra time but ultimately they were the better team and deserved to win. Another year in the Vanarama National but we superseded my expectations so overall I'm happy.
- We did pretty much as expected in the FA Cup as we beat Blyth 0-1 to reach the 1st Round. I really wanted to go far this year but we were sent to the Pirelli Stadium and so a 3-2 defeat sent us packing - not embarrassing but certainly disappointing to go out fairly early. However, we definitely made up for that disappointment in the FA Trophy. We edged out lower league opponents Biggleswade Town before consecutive 1-1 away draws and 0-0 home penalty victories over Harrogate and York saw us only two rounds away from the final. We took on Dulwich Hamlet, top of the Vanarama South at the time, and defeated them 1-0. Unfortunately for us, a 90th min penalty away at Billericay was the deciding factor in our two-legged semi final tie as we could only manage a 1-1 draw at home and got knocked out at the final hurdle.
- Made yet another loss and we're over £700k in the red. Really need promotion to League 2 ASAP as there are no signs of a takeover just yet. Gonna try and arrange some friendlies vs Prem clubs to get money in the summer, however.
- Youth intake ain't even worth talking about, my best is a 2/3* PA. Awful.
Aims for next season are to build on this season's league finish and hopefully go further in the FA Cup, draw permitting.
Season League Position FA Cup FA Trophy Europe Notes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2020-21 National League North 10th 4QR Round 2 N/A None 2021-22 National League North 6th 4QR Round 3 N/A Promoted to Vanarama National 2023-23 National League 7th Round 1 Semis N/A Playoff Semis0 -
Great work! I will probably start a journeyman with this when there's a few more leagues
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Me too, thank you for helping
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You may well have been able to enter one game without issue but it appears to be happening randomly so you might just have got lucky.
Will try without custom skins anyway, but I find it weird that I didn't have this issue until 20.1.4 was released.
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Buxton FC 2021-22
Transfers IN | Transfers OUT | Finances | Fixtures 1 | Fixtures 2 | Cups | Table | Playoffs
If I was happy with my first season, I'm absolutely delighted with my second!
- My second summer transfer window began with the first monetary offer for one of my players, young talented LB Alex Brown. I wasn't sure if I really wanted to sell but we needed money anyway and I knew I could re-invest it into the squad. Many transfers later, our season finally got underway with a shaky, on-and-off start stretching to the end of September. We then played very well throughout the rest of 2021, with the exception of a disappointing December. Our best result during that period was undoubtedly the 6-1 destruction of a Curzon Ashton side eventually relegated to the BetVictor Northern Premier League after an extremely disappointing season. A New Year's Day loss appeared to continue the Auld Lang Syne curse that we fell under in season 1 but we then went unbeaten right until the end of the season with 2 defeats in our final 3 games. This was enough to secure 6th place in the league, giving us a shot at the playoffs.
- The playoffs were always going to be extremely difficult. At least 2 of the maximum 3 games that we could play would be away from home - the only exception being a potential home match vs 7th placed Alfreton if they too reached the final. However, we had to get there first; our first matchup was a trip to Aggborough to face Kidderminster. Both our league games there so far have had to be postponed due to a waterlogged pitch but this one very much went ahead as we edged a very tight contest to come out 1-2 winners. Our semi-final opponents were Boreham Wood, another tricky side that we would play away from home. This one was much closer as we played the full 120 minutes before we triumphed after a dreaded shootout.
The final saw us come up against South Shields, a side that we were yet to beat in 4 attempts. I didn't give us any chance at all at Mariners Park against a side that had accumulated 97 points during the regular season and only missed out on the title by 3 points to Boston United. As I expected, they came out and dominated from the offset and should've taken the lead a couple of times in the early moments of the game. However, we went into the break with a 0-1 lead and two late goals from Chippendale and De Girolamo sealed an unbelievable promotion winning victory for my side.
- Once again, we reached the FA Cup 4QR before a difficult tie - this time at home against AFC Fylde - saw us come unstuck. We did in fact take them to a replay but they stormed to victory 4-1 in that game. The FA Trophy was much more promising, however. My first game against bitter rivals Matlock was a 2-4 success and then we stunned everyone to defeat Macclesfield 0-2 away from home and put three past Boreham Wood at the Silverlands to set up a home tie with Vanarama South side Dartford. We played very well but they were simply more potent than us and took a 0-2 win to progress to the next round. Overall not bad in the cups given our opponents; hoping our automatic bye to the 4QR next season will give us a boost to reach the FA Cup Proper.
- Finances are even more of a mess now as we sit £600,000 in the red. This time I'm hoping we can get more money from the Vanarama National and perhaps get a money-spinning tie in the FA Cup if we can finally avoid the difficult draws and get a bit further. Good news is the board have increased our wage budget so we do sit below it for now, giving us some room for movement and indeed transfers/loans.
- Youth intake was dreadful, only found 3 players worth signing. The best of these is probably Mitchell Ashton 22A, but I don't see a future for any of them unless I can be pleasantly surprised. I still have high hopes for my best player from 2021's intake but we will just have to wait and see with that one.
Don't really know what to expect from my first season in the Vanarama National. Going to aim low and simply try to survive while gaining some much needed prize money through cups. Hopefully we'll do a bit better than that but it could really go either way!
Season League Position FA Cup FA Trophy Europe Notes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2020-21 National League North 10th 4QR Round 2 N/A None 2021-22 National League North 6th 4QR Round 3 N/A Promoted to Vanarama National0 -
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Issue - game crashing when I press the continue button. This isn't the first time that it's happened either but I can't remember the details for sure. AFAIK the problem was exactly the same though. I'm playing as Buxton in the Vanarama North with the TCS skin, but I've seen other people with the same issues regardless of skin so I don't think it's that
Steps to reproduce - just pressing the continue button.
attached the crash dump file and uploaded "dafuge bucks" to the owncloud
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Buxton FC 2020-21 (S1)
| Transfers IN | Transfers OUT | Finances | Fixtures 1 | Fixtures 2 | Cups | Table |
Overall, pretty happy with my first season in charge.
- We started with a prediction of 15th, much to my amazement, and we did start very well in our opening games. We began to slip away across September and October, although we still stayed in touch with the playoffs. We maintained pretty good form throughout the rest of 2020, but the wheels truly came off come New Year's Day. We only won 2 of our first 11 games during 2021 and slipped as far down as 16th in the table. We never looked in danger of relegation though - the bottom 8 or so teams were a mile away from us and we never really got too far away from the top half of the table. Despite a late rally in March and April, with the main highlight being a 5-0 thrashing of Paul Scholes' Altrincham, we finished a comfortable 7 points short of the playoffs. 68 points is still good for my first season though as I tend to struggle at this level.
- FA Cup was pretty standard, tough draw in Boreham Wood so not too disappointed with that. Again, shame we had to draw Yeovil in the 2nd Round of the Trophy but I felt we could've snatched something on another day.
- Finances are an absolute mess and we're well above our wage budget. Hoping to get beyond the qualifying stages of the FA Cup next year to give us a much needed boost.
- We got a few decent youth prospects from an overall poor youth intake. The best one looks to be Adam Parsons 21A, but there's a couple others that could turn out to be good too.
Next season I'm hoping to avoid dreadful runs like the one we endured in early 2021 and maybe try and push for a playoff spot. We'll see how it goes 😂
Season League Position FA Cup FA Trophy Europe Notes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2021-22 National League North 10th 4QR Round 2 N/A None0 -
I haven't so far, no - that could be it, whoops 😂
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Alrighty, my save corrupted and I'd turned off 3 file saving for something else so I'm back to taking over on June 24. Have restarted and got back to the first game of the season, here we go again 😂
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I think at one point I had custom skins open, but I couldn't be 100% sure which way round for each crash dump... I've attached the files anyway 🙂
FM 2020 v20.1.2.1316421 (2019.11.19 17.44.05).dmp FM 2020 v20.1.3.1317497 (2019.11.19 20.43.18).dmp
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Me being me, I forgot to post my manager profile on June 24th! Anyway, got the Bucks at the 2nd time of asking so here we go - the more eagle eyed amongst you will have spotted in the corner how I got on in my first few games 😂
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Summary: On two separate occasions, I've clicked the preferences button while in my save and encountered a crash dump.
Description of issue: I've been testing out skins to see if they have been fixed to prevent the grey screen during a match and to see if they have an instant result button. Therefore, I have to go into the preferences screen to change the skin. However, I've clicked on the preferences button and encountered a crash dump twice now. (I did enter the menu successfully once or twice without a crash dump.)
Steps to reproduce: While in my Buxton save, I simply went into the drop-down menu at the top right of the menu and clicked preferences (I believe that in one case, it only crashed when I clicked the menu to change the skin but I may be wrong - what I do know is that it's clicking to go on the preferences menu that causes the crash dump.)
Files uploaded to OwnCloud: dafuge bucks.fm
I'm not entirely sure where to put the crash dump files or even if you need them - if you do, let me know how and I'll get them to you 👍
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Doing a short term save with Man Utd to give me a basic introduction to this year's game but once that's done I'm going to attempt this with Buxton 👀
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Buxton FC Season Review (2019-20)
COMPETITIONS
League Table | Fixtures 1 | Fixtures 2 | Cups
Vanarama National League North
BOARD EXPECTATION: Avoid relegation
MY EXPECTATION: Mid-table would be nice...
ACTUAL FINISH: 9th place
Wow! 4-4-2 to the rescue as we developed a hoofball strategy very early on. It proved extremely effective as we zoomed up the table and, despite a long period of mid-table obscurity and spells of bad form, our hopes of a playoff spot were only ended 2 games before the end of the season. 9th place is very respectable - I reckon if we could turn some of our draws into wins, we might be in that top 7 next season!!
FA Cup
BOARD EXPECTATION: 3rd Qual. Round
MY EXPECTATION: 4th Qual. Round, although 1st Round would be brilliant
ACTUAL FINISH: 3rd Qual. Round
Well then... A poor mistake from our GK in the 2nd Qual. Round against Royston allowed them to take the lead, but we fought back to win 2-1 and secure our spot in the next round. Hitchin awaited at the Silverlands but to my shock, they absolutely dominated from start to finish as a team below us in the league pyramid. We were doing alright at 1-1 until a red card threw everything into jeopardy and they scored two quick late goals to finish us off. Disappointing.
FA Trophy
BOARD EXPECTATION: First Round
MY EXPECTATION: First Round
Finally, somewhere we exceeded in cup competitions! Spennymoor were brushed aside 2-0 as we reached the First Round vs Southport. I thought it was gone after a 0-0 home draw but we stunned them in an exciting 12-13 penalty shootout after a dramatic 2-2 draw! We then faced off against recently-relegated Cambridge United and an away match vs Macclesfield would've awaited had we not lost the home replay 1-3 (after extra time) following what was actually a very impressive 1-1 draw at The Abbey Stadium. Overall though, very happy.
SQUAD AND TRANSFERS
Alpha Kaba's move to Aldershot was out of my control, and I brought in 4 players to try and achieve my goal of a mid-table finish. They all had a pretty good season and I'm happy with the business done; finances haven't been great but I'm hoping for a reasonable transfer budget ahead of the summer transfer window!
Diego De Girolamo was absolutely key for me this season. All season long I played a standard 4-4-2 formation with Diego being the target of long ball after long ball over the defenders. It proved extremely effective with the Italian finishing on 23 league goals, joint 6th most in the league. And to think I nearly lost him with him being unhappy at the start of the season, only to ruin our finances and agree a new contract!!
PLANS FOR NEXT SEASON
Push on for a playoff spot in the league, keep our best players, keep our fingers crossed for a good youth intake and get as far as possible in the cups!!
Season | League | Position | FA Cup | FA Trophy | Notes | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2019-20 | Vanarama North | 9th | 3QR | 2nd Round | N/A | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------0 -
Very decent intake here - could really make things interesting should they live up to their potential! Currently just outside the playoffs in 8th place with Buxton, 11 games left...
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Half-way through the league season and it's looking pretty good! Far away from relegation and a very tight league sees only 8 points separating us in 13th place from a playoff semi-final place in 3rd!
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Yes its for FM19
I'll upload it to mega and DM you the link! You'll have to retire my holiday man manager and add your own but that's easy enough!
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34 minutes ago, jcp1417 said:
what is that?
Challenge where you sim a year and take over a newly-promoted club to the Vanarama North/South. In the save I have, Lewes will begin in the Vanarama South!
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On 26/10/2018 at 05:26, jcp1417 said:
Can't wait to play as Lewes!
Don't know whether you'd be interested or not but I was reloading for Dafuge's Challenge and got Lewes on 24 June 2019 - if you're interested then I can give you the save file
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Very frustrated right now in pre-season... Can't find a tactic to suit us - dominating possession and creating chances, but we'll have 12 shots and only 1 or 2 on target... Barely anyone will join the club...
Depressing times ._.
EDIT: Changed up to a fairly basic 4-4-2 ahead of the season opener and we came back to defeat Darlington 1-2, maybe this could be the tactic...
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33 minutes ago, RedToaster5 said:
Apologies if this is a stupid question - but why do some of the player have like 21k in their names?
It's to represent the year that newgens were produced in game, and the letters just separate the different players from each intake. So two players that were produced in 2029 would be called 29A and 29B.
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Alright, here we go again with the Bucks!
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[FM20] 20.4.1 Leagues Mega Pack (227 Nations & 5 other compet.) by @Timo@
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Hi, Guinée Equatoriale file won't load because it has to be tested and verified in the editor first