podunkboy Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 The Pride of Bonnyrigg, Scottish legend Scott Baker, has been summoned to take the reins at League 2 squad Forest Green, to shepherd and sharpen the skills of an exceptional intake of potential wonderkids. Although as green as their squad's namesake, there is limitless potential in this group of 15 and 16 year-olds. Forest Green Rovers Football Club is a professional football club based in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England. Affiliated to the Gloucestershire County FA, they are currently members of League Two, the fourth tier of English football, and play at the New Lawn. The club is the first vegan football club. We start in pre-season, July 2018, as Mr. Baker takes his first look at the young men who will potentially one day rule all of Europe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted November 11, 2018 Author Share Posted November 11, 2018 Season Preview Manager Scott Baker Nicholas Marnell - GK Marcus Marcus - Striker David Ginsberg - DM Franck Crouch - ML/AML Steven Bradbury - Striker DIck Biggins - CD Piotr Balicki - AMC Cesare Aurelia - DL/ML Xavier Alden - DR/DL Alexander Wallace - CD Alberto Silva - CM/ML Niko Seppanen - MC/AMC Oliver Rees - MR Forest Green - A Background Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XaW Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 Here we go! Alden are looking like a monster RB for League Two. Needs some mentoring, to get that determination up, as well as working on that dribbling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nastymiller Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 I'm going to be chasing the shadow of my striking buddy Bradbury!!! Look at his value already! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaesarXI Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 Cesare is like a wet napkin, haha. If you blow on me I will literally fly away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Corperial Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 David is looking good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispypaul Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 High natural fitness, vision and work rate on top of determination - looking forward to seeing how he and everyone develops Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenzar Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 Let's hope 'Saint' Nick Marnell is as solid as he looks on paper! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vossmaj Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 Oh, so Franck Crouch is small and weak though very talented. The kind of player that usually gets sent away by a club for not being strong enough to make it - just to rise like a phoenix later on. That's exactly the storyline I await for my boy... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XaW Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 Oh, and I just noticed that Xavier is 195 cm tall. That's some height for a 16 year old right back... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby_McDonald Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 Good luck bringing home the bacon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadCatPT Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Alberto is tiny, but a good player. Want to see if he scores from distance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted November 17, 2018 Author Share Posted November 17, 2018 Hopefully will be uploading an update this weekend, nearing the middle of the season (42 league matches + cups, so it's a slog), and shall we say...things are going well, only problems being injuries and constant player fatigue. Lots of squad rotation and starting players out of position. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted November 21, 2018 Author Share Posted November 21, 2018 So, first season is over, and things went pretty much as expected. Our first regular season game - with Silva netting a hat trick. In fact, Silva's already the U-21 captain for Portugal. And Balicki picks up the first "major" injury. international call-ups A close call in the second round of the Carabao Cup against Luton. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted November 21, 2018 Author Share Posted November 21, 2018 international results for the lads Carabao Cup 3rd round - down goes West Ham on PK's How about the early-season run of form? I don't think the Premier League is taking us seriously in the Carabao Cup. And then this pesky FA Cup starts up... More FA results... (More to come, I have a bucket of pics...) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XaW Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 U21 international already. I'll take it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaesarXI Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 Considering my stats: I'm pretty surprised that I got a full 90 minutes for the Italy U20's. What are the chances that ~65% of the team gets picked up by Premier League U23 teams next season? Hopefully we can stick around long enough for Europa League qualifiers! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenzar Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 I'm expecting quite a few people to get picked up in January... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vossmaj Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 Oh, so Franck Crouch is small and weak though very talented. The kind of player that usually gets sent away by a club for not being strong enough to make it - just to rise like a phoenix later on. That's exactly the storyline I await for the boy... looks good. Best performer of a glorious bunch of players Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispypaul Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 England U-21 player already Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
estewu Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 9 hours ago, podunkboy said: And Balicki picks up the first "major" injury. Well, that was quick... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted November 21, 2018 Author Share Posted November 21, 2018 9 hours ago, vossmaj said: Oh, so Franck Crouch is small and weak though very talented. The kind of player that usually gets sent away by a club for not being strong enough to make it - just to rise like a phoenix later on. That's exactly the storyline I await for the boy... looks good. Best performer of a glorious bunch of players I think you're going to be fairly happy with his performance when I get the season stats posted. 10 hours ago, CaesarXI said: Considering my stats: I'm pretty surprised that I got a full 90 minutes for the Italy U20's. What are the chances that ~65% of the team gets picked up by Premier League U23 teams next season? Hopefully we can stick around long enough for Europa League qualifiers! There's certainly some sniffing about (oops, said too much too soon), but it's going to cost them to pry them from my steely grasp. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigg Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 Bradbury looks like with his starting stats like he could even get an Australian first team call up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted November 24, 2018 Author Share Posted November 24, 2018 Coventry falls to Forest in Carabao Quarterfinal Kick-off kind of an impressive lead at the start of 2019 FA Cup first round results Forest Green defensive players at mid-season Forest Green offensive players at mid-season Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted November 24, 2018 Author Share Posted November 24, 2018 The lads of Forest Green fear no Palace of Crystal in the FA Cup. Carabao Cup semi-final...Southhampton who? Bradbury gets an ouchy at an inopportune time in an inopportune place. Checkatrade Trophy quarter-final, Balicki bangs a brace. How you gonna keep the boys down at the Forest once they've played in Wembley? Baker already proclaimed a "bona fide legend" with three months left in the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted November 24, 2018 Author Share Posted November 24, 2018 Classy Rees is STELLAR in cup final! anyone think it strange when a League Two team gets continental play? 5th round FA cup against Brighton we fear no one in a replay who wants to play another game in Wembley? promotion by March 9th? Yes, please. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XaW Posted November 24, 2018 Share Posted November 24, 2018 9 hours ago, podunkboy said: who wants to play another game in Wembley? promotion by March 9th? Yes, please. Those links aren't working. It looks like we are flying away! Loving that 7.34 rating and 7 assists from Alden at fullback. Hopefully he is bombing up and down the sides crossing at will as I hoped he would. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 Who wants to play another final in Wembley? (hopefully link fixed) promoted by March 9th? Yes, please! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 a fairly nice wage and transfer budget for a League 1 team. we did a double, things are looking up every day. well, we can't win EVERYTHING, right? Tri-plete, or whatever you call it. we're going to need a bigger silverware cabinet. re-writing the record books, we don't know the meaning of "lose" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 End of Season team awards League table, league stats squad stats more stats Competitions player ht, wt, and values Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 League 2 player of the year... league 2 coach of the year would then be... league 2 select team, we're well represented something's really wrong at the top. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 Thoughts after season one: obviously, the total player wipe does a number on the quality of players generated by the game. As a result, players at League 2 level are not that different than Premier League level. This will resolve itself probably by 1) better youth academy players coming through at the top levels and 2) Premier League teams are going to have plenty of money to buy up youth talent at lower levels. So...be forewarned...City is coming. Also, in a particularly boneheaded move, when entering the "dozen", I apparently didn't give them "trained at club" status, so in selecting squads for league and continental play, they're counting against home-grown requirements, and it won't resolve until 2020, I think. But it is what it is, and makes it rather challenging. Other problem is most of the players are constantly in need of rest, and even when I send them on a 1-week vacation (all I can spare), it doesn't resolve anything. So I've had to add some back-ups to plug the fitness holes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
estewu Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 Balicki wins Goal of the season award - impressive! Can we see the tactic we are using? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispypaul Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 Wow Oliver Rees is a star already! Any international call ups yet? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 5 hours ago, estewu said: Balicki wins Goal of the season award - impressive! Can we see the tactic we are using? Yeah, I'll try to screen-shot one tonight, but it's essentially a stock 4-2-3-1 Vertical TikaTaka, except when it's a 4-2-4 T/T. With this group, I could throw us out in a 1-2-7 and compete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 5 hours ago, Crispypaul said: Wow Oliver Rees is a star already! Any international call ups yet? 1. You have no idea...yet. *sniff* 2. Mostly U-21s, I'll try to post those, too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenzar Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Can you not use the in-game editor to add homegrown status? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 3 hours ago, Lenzar said: Can you not use the in-game editor to add homegrown status? Yes, I probably could...but I bought the in-game editor a few years back and...I would catch myself cheating. I'd peek at CA/PAs, transfer underperforming and unhappy players to other teams in my division, Remove injuries...I couldn't help myself. I know FM is a one-person game, and I was hurting no one else, but I couldn't legitimately celebrate achievements, because they were no longer my own. It's like the youtube guy who was adjusting player's stats and abilities behind the scenes for "narrative purposes" and one of his views noticed huge jumps in player ratings from one episode to the next. But...I might get the Ingame editor to make that one adjustment, because it's really hard to fill out a roster when you need 7 HG players in the matchday squad and 13 of your 25 registered players aren't home-grown. But I promise that's all I will do for this experiment, I won't try to pull players back from the Premier League because of a bone-headed mistake I might have made or because the chairman decided Man City's offer was too good to turn down and...er, said too much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 three senior team call-ups from Baker's Dozen to England's 11. League 2 end of review League One preseason game - team's hitting on all cylinders. and the first loss to Baker's Dozen - Silva goes to A.V. and then the chairman decides Man City's offer is TOO GOOD to turn down...goodbye, team captain Rees. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 First Euro Cup game against a team I've never heard of. Thank you, next, Trnava Zenit, now them I've heard of... but we leave them in the dust, too. Keeping the cups going back home - Down goes Fulham. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 I've got the week off from work, so between home projects and compulsive FM play, I'll try to upload some more screenshots. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
estewu Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 You really never heard of Spartak Trnava? I'm suprised that a FM player never came across a team that is a top team in it's country. After playing for so many years, I at least recognize the names of teams I play against Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadCatPT Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Already in the Premier League, let's see what his career will be. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispypaul Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Hmmm.....Man City have a tendency not to play their youngsters in FM. Hopefully Rees will get some game time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigg Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Looks like Bradbury has ditched Australia to play for England - disapointed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 Er, damn, has it really been that long since my last update. I'd make excuses, but it was just life, house projects, a fairly bad bout of a cold, and an inability to walk away from the save to take the time to upload updates. (Plus, linking to each Steam pic is a pain, and yes I know, I took the pain on myself.) But let's see where we were and where we're going. We were in Sept...2019 (to tell you what an awful person I am, current game-time I'm in May 2023, so this may take awhile.) In League 1, beating Arsenal's U23s is a big deal but Beating Bolton in the Carabao Cup is kind of significant. But then you lose your best GK for a month and a half... First legitimate job interview offer with Swansea, but I don't even listen to their offer. Colchester goes down to Green in the 2nd round FA cup Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 Forest qualifies for the Euro Cup knockout round Balicki goes professional for the Green. FA Cup, third round, down goes Walsall. 1st leg Carabao Cup semifinal against Leeds Wallace is lost in a "too good to turn down" offer...and more of those to come, I'd say. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 Checkatrade third round vs. Swindon But of course, Wallace ultimately ends up at Man City. Book a place in the Carabao Cup final for Forest! and in other cups, Forest passes a 4th round test vs. Millwall Fulham grabs a Ginsberg for their collection Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
podunkboy Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 Then there was that time with a (West) Ham and Seppanen sandwich. The chairman's got to love this massive transfer cash infusion to a League 1 club. and Crouch goes down Southhampton way, seems like we're losing all the boys. which means the remainders are mad that the chairman's raking it all in (it's NOT MY FAULT!). that transfer period where we're big spenders AND big losers. but the financials look GREAT! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vossmaj Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Aaahh, great to see this back again. It might help to be a bit less granular with the story and e.g. skip mentioning single matches... not complaining just trying to increae probability that this lasts. And it get's really exciting now to see where and how they all and up when going into the big bad world of top flight Football. It was smooth sailing for now... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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