Bedfont - Lower League Regionnaire
Where I try to take Bedfont to the top with only Greater London born players!
Welcome to the Bedfont - Lower League Regionnaire, where as stated above I will building Bedfont up from the Combined Counties League Division One all the way to the dizzy height of the Premier League using only players and staff (myself excluded) born in the Greater London region.
A massive undertaking to say the least, trying to reach and take on the likes of Arsenal, Tottenham, Chelsea, Fulham, Crystal Palace, Brentford and West Ham. There are more teams in the Premier League from the Greater London region than any other region in England and the quality does not stop there with many teams in the lower tiers of English football based in the region too. I also have many tiers to get through too due to starting in the County First Divisions.
Needless to say, the aim is to build up Bedford to become one of the best teams in the Greater London region and challenge in the Premier League but one must ask, "How will this be done?"
The Plan
Well, here at The Orchard we have a plan. The plan is to go about this undertaking in a similar manner to Athletic Bilbao in Spain, where the Basque giants have extensive links to other Basque Country teams in the lower tiers of Spanish Football to feed into their setup which is already very good to begin with. Here at the Orchard we will be going up the tiers while looking for potential affiliate clubs based in the Greater London region that I can boost through financial aid and loans while also being able to loan promising players to them, this should allow us to build up ourselves and our fellow non-league Greater London teams for us to then profit from later on in the Football League. We will also be making extensive use of our (rubbish non-league) youth setup to sign on Greater London born players.
The Squad and Our Progress So Far
The whole squad, all of whom I signed when I came into the club, are from the Greater London region and mainly London. I had a very limited number of players to choose from but I think I gathered a good bunch of lads. Many of the lads are still in the developmental stages of their career and that suits us just fine as they will grow with the club as we ascend up the league pyramid. Stand out players in the first five league games and preseason have been, Lanre Balogun, Cameron Pooni, Tyrese Osbourne, Billy Osborn, Tariq Turay-Aruna, Tom Coulton and Hugo Atkinson.
As you can see we have been dominant in all of our games, but that is just the score line as we usually operate with less than 50% possession and play a direct counter-attacking mid-block system with moderate pressing, if our counter press fails.
That is all for this first update folks, thanks for tuning in to my first ever post on the SI forum. Future updates will come when I am able and willing to do them on no set schedule, also help with identifying places to add to my filter will help massively with player searching, my current filter is very bare. The one you cannot see at the top in the screenshot below is the very obvious London, help here would be appreciated as I do not use the editor and thus cannot find places easily.