dafuge Posted October 25, 2010 Author Share Posted October 25, 2010 I've always had that issue with the challenge since completing it with Leigh Genesis several versions ago but it seems like few have that problem as many on this thread do this challenge yearly. I did try a journeyman career last year but found that I was always looking to move onto a bigger club after just one season (not really sure why). Am tempted to do your challenge again but really want to manage England which obviously is against the rules - argh decisions. I've played this challenge for the last five versions of FM now, each year I've managed to do something slightly different but I think my T&M game has killed off my enthusiam for it with FM2011 since there isn't really anything left for me to do. You are allowed to manage England, but only after completing the challenge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azeryk- Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 I would have been surprised if 70-odd seasons with one club didn't kill off the challenge. I'm a Spurs fan and about 4-years ago I played through a lot of seasons with them winning everything and even now I just can't seem to find playing Spurs fun which is frustrating as they are the team I know the most about. Yeah I understand that but I'd prefer to manage England from season one but even if I did that and ignored the challenge thread it would make the challenge less of a challenge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyedOutMan Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 Dafuge - are you seriously not gonna be doing this for FM11?! Noooo! Dafuge's challenge rules!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightLad5 Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 I started this with Chippenham on FM10 and loved it. I wont be playing it this year, well not initailly however. I will be doing something similar though as, like my first game on FM10 after it was released, I want to manager Worcester who are my local team. I loved it last time getting them to the prem but then my computer broke and I started this challenge on my new one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted October 26, 2010 Author Share Posted October 26, 2010 Dafuge - are you seriously not gonna be doing this for FM11?! Noooo! Dafuge's challenge rules!! I'll put the challenge up, but I won't be taking part. Not straight away anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thebaker Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 I can well understand people feelings on taking a break from the challenge this year, after completing it this year i'm thinking of doing Gundo's. Besides with the sad demise of Merthyr who i've gone with the last 2 fm's it won't be the same. Still if Totton could have been promoted i would have been interested Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeXe Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 I can well understand people feelings on taking a break from the challenge this year, after completing it this year i'm thinking of doing Gundo's. Besides with the sad demise of Merthyr who i've gone with the last 2 fm's it won't be the same. Still if Totton could have been promoted i would have been interested Yeah, I'll be having a go at Gundo's for the same reason. Doubt I'll get round to this one, unless someone uploads a save with Bashley promoted, I've actually seen them play a couple of times Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alegeeter Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 Billericay Town - Coca Cola League Two - 2012/13 I needed to bring quite a few players in this season to maintain my football league side. I thought promotion was possible as I've always managed to overachieve before. The must was to keep above the red in finances and hopefully improve at least one of the stadium, training facilities or youth facilities at the end of the season. This was a tough task but I knew I was more than capable of doing it. League Table League Positions I somehow managed to sneak in the top 3 !!!. There are a few players that did outstanding and is the reason why we've got promoted. At the start of the season I didn't sign new contracts with that many players so a lot of them left. This was almost like blue square south all over again but with better players targeted. We reached our wage budget with the players we brought in and I think that after this position they deserved this. As you can see by the table we didn't really start to get going until the 7th game. From here we managed to top the table after 11 games and after that we never went out of the top 7. Rotherham were uncatchable. The only reason they are only 5 points ahead are because of a bad run of form towards the end. Mansfield came out of nowhere but deserved the promotion. Last year I had to face barnet to gain promotion to league 2. This year guess who I had ? It was lincoln who were in 3rd place at the time. I thrashed them 4-1. I just hope I'm not going to fall apart one of these days! FA Cup-A uneventful cup for us. Darlington became a bit of a bogey team for us as they beat us all three times in the season. League Cup-All of the goals were in the first half. It was a very boring game for the duration of the match and it was quite nasty to lose on penalties but this competition isn't important Johnstone's Paint Trophy-I thought we might go forward in this competition a couple of rounds if we managed to get a couple of league two teams. We got a tough draw against watford though and we got punished by their top strike force. Transfers-I got rid of quite a few of the BSP winning team. This is mainly because my finances weren't enough to keep this squad plus my signings. So I had to get rid of every single player who I didn't think could make it in league two. Barry Lakin my assistant was probably not good enough either but I didn't think this mattered as much. I'll be looking for a new assistant soon though. Scott Gallagher has got potential for the championship in my opinion as at 23 he's already one of the best league two keepers there is. Kal Naismith was originally bought as a winger but after seeing his stats changed to striker. The rest of the players all had potential except Alan Mahon who was to provide football league experience for the club at the start of season. Finally I brought in some loan signings and all of them showed to me that if bought they'd blossom into quality players. Squad-A small squad but it did it's job. However, this squad will be made smaller soon when the players return to their clubs. I'll have to invest in new players guaranteed or bring the players back on loan again. Decisions...decisions Best Players Profiles: Kal Naismith-What an incredible player. Signed as a free he was only mean't to be my first choice winger. However after a re look at his stats I noticed he could be put up front. I did this and he banged them almost every game. This is by far the most anyone has scored for me and not only has he scored that many but he's got an 8 average rating ! This has never happened to me in FM before and I'm surprised he's not already on the favourite personnel list Wayne McCormick-Brought on loan from Notts County, a solid and determined defender who always put in a good performance. On a side note Notts County are doing quite well in Championship and has a very good youth team ! Plus they are my feeder club Enrico Petrillo-On loan from burnley, this quick winger was my first non-british player. I have to say he does look terrible in some attributes but in the ones that mattered he performed. Often was the case that he would cross for Naismith who headed the ball into the net like a bullet. Leon Best-Last season's star player still performed quite well in this league. He had some good spells in the season where he was scoring for fun. In other parts he couldn't get a goal to save his life. However he was always reliable to at least put in decent amounts of effort Career Overview Season League Position Achievements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square South 1st Champions 2011/12 Blue Square Premier 1st Champions and FA Trophy Winners 2012/13 Coca Cola League 2 3rd Promoted Next Season I'm not going to predict anything. I just want us to avoid relegation and If we somehow become champions then so be it. I doubt this run of promotions is going to last forever but as long as I don't come back to league 2 I've made progress. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alegeeter Posted October 26, 2010 Share Posted October 26, 2010 btw are we allowed to still post in here once fm11 is out. Or should we just stick to career threads ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted October 26, 2010 Author Share Posted October 26, 2010 btw are we allowed to still post in here once fm11 is out. Or should we just stick to career threads ? Posting in here is fine, the two threads usually overlap each other for a while. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azeryk- Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 I'll put the challenge up, but I won't be taking part. Not straight away anyway. So where do you plan on going for your journeyman game? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted October 29, 2010 Author Share Posted October 29, 2010 So where do you plan on going for your journeyman game? I'm still not really sure. I think it will mostly be based in England but I'll definitely be adding a few other countries like Spain, Germany, Italy, Brazil etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terk Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Yeah, the Bradford Park Avenue thing went horribly, bottom of the table and sacked in February. Not even Jabuti could score for me Started again wtih Boston Utd. 4 games in and top of the table having scored 15 goals so far (my centre back has 4 already ). I'll be posting in here for a while, even if I'm the only one around because, as is my usual, I doubt I'll be starting any long term games on a the new version before a couple of patches have been released. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeXe Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Yeah, the Bradford Park Avenue thing went horribly, bottom of the table and sacked in February. Not even Jabuti could score for me Started again wtih Boston Utd. 4 games in and top of the table having scored 15 goals so far (my centre back has 4 already ). I'll be posting in here for a while, even if I'm the only one around because, as is my usual, I doubt I'll be starting any long term games on a the new version before a couple of patches have been released. I'll still be here a while not quite finished with my Merthyr game yet Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terk Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Good to hear, SnakeXe. I've been catching up with your progress from when I was last around. Some might say you're dominating English football. If my counting's right you've own 15 of the last 16 Premier League titles And it's incredible to see Paulinho nearing the 1000 appearance mark, I've never had anyone get near that on any version of FM. I don't think fans of my Boston side can complain about a lack of entertainment so far. Seven games into the league our results so far have been 2-2, 5-2, 4-0, 4-1, 2-2, 2-4, 5-0. That's 24 goals scored, 11 conceded and 3rd in the table. Dennis Wyness and Jabuti are forming a lethal partnership up front. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeXe Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 Good to hear, SnakeXe. I've been catching up with your progress from when I was last around. Some might say you're dominating English football. If my counting's right you've own 15 of the last 16 Premier League titles And it's incredible to see Paulinho nearing the 1000 appearance mark, I've never had anyone get near that on any version of FM.I don't think fans of my Boston side can complain about a lack of entertainment so far. Seven games into the league our results so far have been 2-2, 5-2, 4-0, 4-1, 2-2, 2-4, 5-0. That's 24 goals scored, 11 conceded and 3rd in the table. Dennis Wyness and Jabuti are forming a lethal partnership up front. Haha, I hadn't actually realised that! It's funny how you lose track of these things when you're focusing on something else (in my case, youth development). Paulinho is something else though, at the age of 39 he's still putting in great displays when required. The most pleasing thing for me is I can now put out a team containing 8 youth products against all but the very best teams and be confident they'll win Sounds like you're creating an entertaining side at Boston! Jabuti is something else, he was still scoring in the Championship on my Tiverton save. Perhaps I should continue that one some day! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terk Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 Building up a good youth system is something I'm anxious to do throughout this attempt at the challenge. I always find it very rewarding to see players come through your system and reach the very top. Jabuti and Wyness are on an incredible run so far. Jabuti's stats are 11 games, 13 goals, 4 assists whilst Wyness' are 11 games, 7 goals, 10 assists. The number of times Wyness has dropped deep, taken a pass from the midfield, then turned and played in Jabuti is staggering. If they can keep this going then I can sniff a first season promotion (which would be nice) but I suspect defences may get wise to them before much longer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Flying Dwarf Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 Does anybody have a Hastings save they could fling me? Cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbster Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Anyone got a list of the possible clubs we could be managing yet in FM11? Will probably start with this challenge, since for some unknown reason I love spending my first few hours reloading for lower rep teams and uploading the saves for everyone. If my past few attempts are anything to by, it will be my 3rd or 4th attempt before I gel with a team enough that I can get past 5 seasons in the BSS/N! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeXe Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 SnakeXe's Merthyr Tydfil - Season 32 - 2041/42 Story of the Season: Premier League - 1st, Champions Had a slightly more tough task winning this year, with teams finally getting their acts together to post competitive totals. Depending on how the summer goes, we might be in a real battle next year. Champions League - Winners A crazy last 15 minutes away to Milan aside, where we conceded 3 incredibly sloppy goals - one of which was utterly ridiculous, as their striker ran at my two centre-halfs, who each left it to the other to close him down, so he just literally ran straight between them and scored. A great performance in the home leg overturned the deficit, and the final was won with a strong showing. FA Cup - Winners Much trickier than last year's, with Liverpool running us incredibly close in the final. League Cup - Winners Probably should have won the final without the need for penalties, but it's nice to get a shoot-out win under our belts as we don't have a great record in them. Club World Championship - Winners Even more goals than last year, and none conceded. Community Shield - Winners Not much to say here. European Super Cup - Winners Ditto. Transfers - £61m Profit Two bits of huge business, record scorer Massimiliano Maggio finally leaving the club for £28.5m as he felt he'd done all he could. It was a shame to see him go, but the fee at his age was pretty hard to turn down, especially considering we really need to start developing some of our own strikers. The other was George Parks heading to Italy for £27m, a really top-class fullback, but strangely we didn't miss him too much. Other small tidbits involved academy graduates who hadn't made an impression. Other News: Paulinho has one year left on his contract, and made a healthy 20 starts this year, so hopefully he'll carry on playing next year, and will undoubtedly break the 1000 appearances barrier if he does. He, Valentino Bianchi, Ramon Colunga, Stuart Harris, Jose Maria Hidalgo, Marcelo Echague, Anto Savic, John Hollis, Mike Hunt, and Enrique Lopez Santos are the only non-academy players left at the club. Paulinho will be done in one season, Bianchi will go as soon as a left-footed full-back comes through the academy, Colunga is 32, I'm thinking of selling Savic, and Hollis has submitted a transfer request, so that number could shrink rapidly over the next season or two. Next Season: I don't think we'll do another clean-sweep, the players were knackered at the end of the season and we could (maybe should) have lost both the FA Cup and Champions League finals. On the other hand, the academy players will be a year older and better, and only really Paulinho and Colunga are the wrong side of 30, so who knows? 5 Most Important Players: 5. Daniel Jenkins - AMR/L - In a pretty lean year for the wingers, he was the best of a relatively bad bunch. 4. John Hollis - ST - A fantastic return from the striker, he's only down here because he submitted a transfer request on the eve of an FA Cup Semi-Final - bad timing mate. 3. Marcus Phillips - AMC - Breakthrough season for him, equal top assist maker with Lopez Santos. My third academy player to make this list. 2. Ramon Colunga - DC - Definitely on the wane, still a class above though. 1. Enrique Lopez Santos - ST - Another great season from the world-class striker. History: Season League Position Achievements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2010/11 Blue Square South 1st Blue Square South Champions, Promoted 2011/12 Blue Square Premier 1st Blue Square Premier Champions, Promoted 2012/13 Coca-Cola League Two 4th Play-Off Winners, Promoted 2013/14 Coca-Cola League One 6th Play-Off Semi-Finalists 2014/15 Coca-Cola League One 4th Play-Off Semi-Finalists 2015/16 Coca-Cola League One 17th Johnstone's Paint Trophy Winners 2016/17 Coca-Cola League One 2nd Promoted 2017/18 Coca-Cola Championship 18th None 2018/19 Coca-Cola Championship 21st None 2019/20 Coca-Cola Championship 9th None 2020/21 Coca-Cola Championship 6th Play-Off Winners, Promoted 2021/22 Premier League 13th None 2022/23 Premier League 14th None 2023/24 Premier League 9th None 2024/25 Premier League 4th League Cup Runners Up 2025/26 Premier League 1st PL Champions 2026/27 Premier League 1st PL Champions, CL Winners, LC Winners 2027/28 Premier League 1st PL Champions, CL Winners, LC Winners, CWC Winners 2028/29 Premier League 1st PL Champions, CL Winners, FA Cup Winners, CWC Winners 2029/30 Premier League 1st PL Champions, CL Winners, FA Cup Winners, LC Winners, CWC Winners 2030/31 Premier League 1st PL Champions, CL Winners, FA Cup Winners, CWC Winners 2031/32 Premier League 1st PL Champions, CL Winners, CWC Winners 2032/33 Premier League 1st PL Champions, CL Winners, FA Cup Winners, LC Winners, CWC Winners 2033/34 Premier League 1st PL Champions, CL Winners, FA Cup Winners, LC Winners, CWC Winners 2034/35 Premier League 1st PL Champions, LC Winners 2035/36 Premier League 2nd CL Winners 2036/37 Premier League 1st PL Champions, CL Winners, FA Cup Winners 2037/38 Premier League 1st PL Champions, LC Winners 2038/39 Premier League 1st PL Champions, CL Winners, FA Cup Winners 2039/40 Premier League 1st PL Champions, CL Winners, FA Cup Winners 2040/41 Premier League 1st PL Champions, CL Winners, FA Cup Winners, LC Winners, CWC Winners 2041/42 Premier League 1st PL Champions, CL Winners, FA Cup Winners, LC Winners, CWC Winners Merthyr Tydfil Academy Hall of Fame: A list of those Merthyr Academy graduates who make 100 or more appearances for the club. Name Pos Era Apps Goals AvR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Thomas DM/MC 2029-Present 547 48 7.03 Daniel Jenkins AMR/L 2035-Present 304 21 7.26 Marcus Phillips AMC 2034-Present 290 17 6.98 Paul Smith WB/AML 2013-2018, 2021-2023 219 12 6.87 Andrew Thomas DM/MC 2037-Present 183 17 7.14 Mike Williamson DM/AMLC 2029-2035 175 12 6.76 Tom Patton AMC 2038-Present 166 17 7.06 John Hulse GK 2037-Present 153 0 6.98 Neil Evans AMR/L 2038-Present 151 11 7.09 Gareth Jackson AMRC/FC 2039-Present 104 12 7.08 Previous Season Reports: Season 1 - 2010/11 Season 2 - 2011/12 Season 3 - 2012/13 Season 4 - 2013/14 Season 5 - 2014/15 Season 6 - 2015/16 Season 7 - 2016/17 Season 8 - 2017/18 Season 9 - 2018/19 Season 10 - 2019/20 Season 11 - 2020/21 Season 12 - 2021/22 Season 13 - 2022/23 Season 14 - 2023/24 Season 15 - 2024/25 Season 16 - 2025/26 Season 17 - 2026/27 Season 18 - 2027/28 Season 19 - 2028/29 Season 20 - 2029/30 Season 21 - 2030/31 Season 22 - 2031/32 Season 23 - 2032/33 Season 24 - 2033/34 Season 25 - 2034/35 Season 26 - 2035/36 Season 27 - 2036/37 Season 28 - 2037/38 Season 29 - 2038/39 Season 30 - 2039/40 Season 31 - 2040/41 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terk Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Not a bad season then Will be great to see Paulinho break the 1000 mark next season. I'm currently struggling with a striker crisis. Jabuti suffered strained knee ligaments, Kyle McAusland came in and got some goals, now both he and Wyness have joined Jabuti on the sidelines. I now only have one fit senior striker. The next 2-3 weeks until everyone is fully fit could be seriously troublesome. On the plus side, we're top of the league after 18 games. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welsh Wizard Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Will be starting with this challenge like every year then try Gundo's and go from there. Some great achievements in this thread. I think Dafuge has managed 60+ seasons more than I could before getting bored. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeXe Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Not a bad season then Will be great to see Paulinho break the 1000 mark next season.I'm currently struggling with a striker crisis. Jabuti suffered strained knee ligaments, Kyle McAusland came in and got some goals, now both he and Wyness have joined Jabuti on the sidelines. I now only have one fit senior striker. The next 2-3 weeks until everyone is fully fit could be seriously troublesome. On the plus side, we're top of the league after 18 games. Yeah I can't wait! Just keeping my fingers crossed he doesn't suddenly jack it in over the summer. It's funny, although we did the clean sweep again, it felt like the other sides were much, much closer to us this year. I really can't see us managing it a third time in a row, one of those off-days like the one against AC Milan will happen in a knockout game, or we'll not come back from it in the second leg or something. Ouch, haven't had many injury crises that bad recently! Had no fit left backs earlier in the season, that's probably the worst in a while. Hopefully you can keep it tight at the back and nick a few 1-0s until the big guns are back Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon_a Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 dafuge...sorry to ask, but I see Cheltenham managed to get into the Premiership and even had a couple of top 4 finishes as well. Whgat has their history been like, and how did they progress in Europe Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeXe Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Bad news: Paulinho's retiring at the end of next season (but he'll still probably make 1000) Good news: He's gunna make an awesome Goalkeeping Coach Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted November 2, 2010 Author Share Posted November 2, 2010 dafuge...sorry to ask, but I see Cheltenham managed to get into the Premiership and even had a couple of top 4 finishes as well. Whgat has their history been like, and how did they progress in Europe A tycoon taking over in 2072 is to blame League history They came third in their CL group in 2085 and then go knocked out of the EL in their first match (and again two years later). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted November 2, 2010 Author Share Posted November 2, 2010 Anyone got a list of the possible clubs we could be managing yet in FM11? Will probably start with this challenge, since for some unknown reason I love spending my first few hours reloading for lower rep teams and uploading the saves for everyone. If my past few attempts are anything to by, it will be my 3rd or 4th attempt before I gel with a team enough that I can get past 5 seasons in the BSS/N! Ryman League Premier Division Zamaretto League Premier Division Evo-Stik League Premier Division Here are links to the tables where you can see the possible teams, the reputations list will be put up when it kicks off. Before anyone asks, provided my copy of the game arrives in time and the patch is released, the thread should be up some time on Friday evening. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wavelberry Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 Anyone got a list of the possible clubs we could be managing yet in FM11? Will probably start with this challenge, since for some unknown reason I love spending my first few hours reloading for lower rep teams and uploading the saves for everyone. If my past few attempts are anything to by, it will be my 3rd or 4th attempt before I gel with a team enough that I can get past 5 seasons in the BSS/N! Ryman League Premier DivisionZamaretto League Premier Division Evo-Stik League Premier Division Here are links to the tables where you can see the possible teams, the reputations list will be put up when it kicks off. Before anyone asks, provided my copy of the game arrives in time and the patch is released, the thread should be up some time on Friday evening. Eep. this excites me. I'm looking forward to reading your battle Gilbster. I'm a long time lurker and your 2009 battles were great fun to read (although maybe not to play). Dunno who to try for. Croydon where I used to live or Hornchurch where I'm from. Or even a different one. Just looking at those league tables excites me. I'm going for a lie down. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaffa Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 I'm totally psyched up for FM2011, I do hope this challenge will be up and running on launch day, I'll be starting it ASAP. I promise to actually post updates this year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TacticalGenius Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 I'm totally psyched up for FM2011, I do hope this challenge will be up and running on launch day, I'll be starting it ASAP. I promise to actually post updates this year. Same! FC United of Manchester it is, again, no matter how long it takes to get them up to the BSN! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terk Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Boston United Season 2010/11 Blue Square North Well, frankly, this went a bit well. Set the task of 'learning from the experience' (or, in other words, we expect you to get relegated but don't embarrass the club), I think we can put a big tick in that column. We started the season as something of an entertaining side, scoring for fun and conceding almost as many. That culminated in a game at Vauxhall Motors, which was 3-3 after 14 minutes (and which we went on to win 6-4). I felt a need to try and tighten up defensively a bit after that, and especially when we went through a striker crisis, but we still conceded more than anyone above 17th place. So it's a good job that we rattled home 114 goals in the league campaign. We will definitely have to play better defensively if we want to stay in the Blue Square Premier though. FA Cup I enjoyed some excellent cup runs in my early seasons with Canvey that effectively bank-rolled the club and enabled us to buy our way up the divisions. I'll be looking for more of the same with Boston, but we failed to get to the first round proper this season. Both our second and third qualifying round games (against Cambridge City and Biggleswade Town) required replays before we got dicked 5-0 by BSP side Histon in the 4th qualifying round. FA Trophy I failed to win this with Canvey, so it's on my to do list with Boston. Unfortunately a late comeback by Kiddymonster in the 1st round denied us the chance to go further this season. Transfers Leon Osbourne's move was arranged before I joined the club (and as he proved to be useful, I'm thankful of it) and I 'cheated' a bit with obvious prior knowledge that Jabuti would do the business. My best pick up, however, was former SPL stalwart Dennis Wyness. Goodness knows why he wanted to join a BSN side, but thank Christ that he did. Terkleton's Top 5 5. Michael Welch Picked up on a free transfer, with a jumping stat of 15 he was always going to be a good player at this level. He managed four goals in our first four league games, though after that people got a little bit wise to the fact that we simply had him attacking the far post and stuck our corners in that area every time. Still, nine goals was impressive, but even more so was the fact that he won 375 out of 453 headers and 146 out of 159 tackles over the course of the season. My defence didn't work as I had wanted it except for Michael, I'm confident he can step up. 4. Kyle McAusland Probably the surprise of the season in my eyes, Kyle did a superb job, whether it was filling in for the often injured Jabuti or standing in as Welch's centre back partner. His favourite goal seems to be making a mug of a centre back on the edge of the box before drilling one into the top corner, though with his pace he's pretty useful in chasing down the channels for balls over the top. Thoroughly earned another year on his contract. 3. Lee Canoville The Carlos Alberto of the Blue Square North. Part of the reason we struggled defensively was that Lee was often seen bombing down the right flank, swinging crosses into the box for either Wyness or Jabuti. Nineteen assists from a full back is an immense contribution, and I was willing to take the defensive problems that it caused for the attacking pay off that he brought. 2. Jabuti Look at those stats and then imagine what they'd have been had he got a full season under his belt. 28 goals in 27 games, the Spaniard never fails to deliver. A bit of a bastard for a hat-trick (he got four of them over the course of the season), he has done nothing but build my expectation of what he'll do at BSP level. I think I love him. 1. Dennis Wyness God. Plain and simple, this man is now my God. Assists and goals by the bucket load, he unsurprisingly took the Blue Square North Player of the Year and Top Goalscorer awards. He may be getting on (now 34) but he's been given a contract for next year, and whilst I don't expect the same level of miracle performance, if he can continue to bring the best out of Jabuti then I'll be a very happy man. Also scored the goals against Blyth that sealed our title win. Next Season Staying up is, of course, the be all and end all, but with players like Jabuti and Wyness (plus Aaron Morris and Conrad Logan already signed up for our BSP assault), I'll be a little disappointed if we end up scraping survival. I'd love a season of anonymous mid-table boredom. Of course, another Manager of the Year trophy wouldn't be argued with if it came my way Career Overview Season League Final Pos. Achievements---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2010/11 Blue Square North 1st Automatic Promotion Boston United 100 Club Name (Position) League Games (Overall Games); League Goals (Overall Goals); Average Rating(Dates at club)No entrants to date. Stat Attack We used 25 players over the course of the season and the only outfield player who contributed neither a goal or assist was nineteen year old back up left back Owen Kessack. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeXe Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Great season there, Terk, and a monster goal total! I used Jabuti as a lone striker when I had him at Tiverton, but if I'd had someone the quality of Wyness next to him I'm sure he'd have been even better! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSF Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Will the files be available to download for if someone wanted to start this tomorrow as soon as they get the new game? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted November 4, 2010 Author Share Posted November 4, 2010 Will the files be available to download for if someone wanted to start this tomorrow as soon as they get the new game? I'm out this evening and at work all day tomorrow, so it will be Friday late afternoon at the very earliest (assuming the patch is out by then). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeltmurrayuk Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 I'm out this evening and at work all day tomorrow, so it will be Friday late afternoon at the very earliest (assuming the patch is out by then). The rules might need updating with the new agent features - for example would we need to scout/trial a player offered by an agent, the same with players who have the same agent as one of your players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wavelberry Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 The patch should be out by then as Steam has updated already for 11.1 (before release). I'm very excited about this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikaelS Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 The patch should be out by then as Steam has updated already for 11.1 (before release). I'm very excited about this. how can you see that? I've pre-loaded through steam but the only thing I can see when right-clicking on FM11 is 'pre-load info' and other stuff.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wavelberry Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 I pre-loaded yesterday and it updated today and those who have done the same says the 11.1 database is on the editor which they can access. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikaelS Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 I pre-loaded yesterday and it updated today and those who have done the same says the 11.1 database is on the editor which they can access. aaah nice! I can actually access the editor. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terk Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 how can you see that? I've pre-loaded through steam but the only thing I can see when right-clicking on FM11 is 'pre-load info' and other stuff.. I pre-loaded yesterday and then today steam popped up with another message today saying 'Steam has finished downloading FM11'. I looked at the downloads page and it was a 340mb download, so I assume this was the patch downloading. I haven't looked at the editor to confirm it, but it's the only thing I can imagine it having been. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikaelS Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 I pre-loaded yesterday and then today steam popped up with another message today saying 'Steam has finished downloading FM11'. I looked at the downloads page and it was a 340mb download, so I assume this was the patch downloading. I haven't looked at the editor to confirm it, but it's the only thing I can imagine it having been. I confirmed it in the editor and now the game is available to play Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted November 4, 2010 Author Share Posted November 4, 2010 The rules might need updating with the new agent features - for example would we need to scout/trial a player offered by an agent, the same with players who have the same agent as one of your players. I hadn't even thought about that. Initial thoughts are players offered by agents can be signed without scouting, not sure about players with the same agent though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerneo Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Can't wait to get started with 11. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikaelS Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Just wondering if the FM11 challenge will be will a ddt file like FM10? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted November 4, 2010 Author Share Posted November 4, 2010 Just wondering if the FM11 challenge will be will a ddt file like FM10? I haven't had a chance to test it yet but I've got the file ready Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikaelS Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 I haven't had a chance to test it yet but I've got the file ready Nice My fingers are itching to get started. For the first time I have the game ready from day 1, so I want to get cracking. I have a surprise for you all too for this years challenge Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren1983 Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Gonna try and copy you Daf this year - gonna take Kingstonian right from day one and try and play just the one save all year! (I have no doubt that I shall fail!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roseboy64 Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Game out now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wavelberry Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Daf, any chance we can get the DDT file before the launch of the official thread tomorrow (as I know you're a busy man and won't get a chance to get it cracking till early evening)? No probs if not... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaffa Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Gonna try and copy you Daf this year - gonna take Kingstonian right from day one and try and play just the one save all year! (I have no doubt that I shall fail!) Same here, minus the Kingstonian part, I just pick one of the teams from my first load up - the mystery is half the excitement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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