Rikulec Posted January 1, 2020 Author Share Posted January 1, 2020 23 minutes ago, Bitner said: Great month! Cheers, Bitner Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 2, 2020 Author Share Posted January 2, 2020 Jakub Słota's Management Career - November 2021 - Unia Janikowo II Liga Not the worst of months, but our safety cushion has been reduced to four points. We enter the winter break now, only fourteen games left to play afterwards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 2, 2020 Author Share Posted January 2, 2020 Oh, now I'm excited! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 2, 2020 Author Share Posted January 2, 2020 Jakub Słota's Management Career - January 2022 - Unia Janikowo Friendlies A good set of results. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 2, 2020 Author Share Posted January 2, 2020 Jakub Słota's Management Career - February 2022 - Unia Janikowo Friendlies Not bad, but we should have beaten Notecianka. II Liga A hard-fought victory on the road kicks things off as we're looking better and better in the table. A tough month lies ahead of us, but if we can steer through it and grab some points we should be fine this season. We didn't make any transfers in or out in the winter window. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 2, 2020 Author Share Posted January 2, 2020 Jakub Słota's Management Career - March 2022 - Unia Janikowo II Liga A brilliant start followed by a worse finish. Still, 7 points from 4 games in our situation mean we don't really have to worry about relegation anymore, we should rather be looking up from now on. In other news, I've already secured two transfers: one player you'll all love and one player some of you may remember from waaay back. I can't wait for their arrival! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttley84 Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Congrats on the progress so far. Funny to see Ruch Chorzow so low, guess they arent pass their hard times irl yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 (edited) 33 minutes ago, Muttley84 said: Congrats on the progress so far. Funny to see Ruch Chorzow so low, guess they arent pass their hard times irl yet. Thanks, and Ruch are in the III Liga now, which is even lower than you see here. They're still having huge financial problems, some time ago I remember they even announced trials days for any players willing to join. What's also interesting is that no one likes Ruch in Janikowo (or generally around here, excluding Toruń and any Elana fan clubs) because of their relationships with Elana and Widzew, and you can see it when you visit our stadium because of a big writing on one of the walls saying "Ruch zdychaj szmato", which roughly translates to Spoiler "die, you whore". So yeah, we're not exactly friends. Edited January 3, 2020 by Rikulec let's keep this family friendly Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitner Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Great campaign. And i love those rivalries you'll never hear about hahah. Cheers, Bitner Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SixPointer Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Just catching up after the holidays. Congratulations on the promotion and it looks like survival is on the cards this year also! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 8 hours ago, Bitner said: Great campaign. And i love those rivalries you'll never hear about hahah. Cheers, Bitner Plenty of animosities in Polish football, you just have to ask the right questions. 1 hour ago, SixPointer said: Just catching up after the holidays. Congratulations on the promotion and it looks like survival is on the cards this year also! Thanks! I'm not even worried about surviving anymore, although I don't think we're quite ready for another promotion either. We'll just do our best and see where that leaves us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigpole Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 I did a few polish lower league saves, and main thing was relatively small difference between I and II liga (in terms of abilities) but when you advance to Ekstraklasa - you'll have a shock when you play Legia, Lechia The financial gap between ekstraklasa and I liga is really big so don't be surprised Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 18 minutes ago, Bigpole said: I did a few polish lower league saves, and main thing was relatively small difference between I and II liga (in terms of abilities) but when you advance to Ekstraklasa - you'll have a shock when you play Legia, Lechia The financial gap between ekstraklasa and I liga is really big so don't be surprised Haha, thanks for the heads up. The financial gap is definitely something I'm aware of, right now we're bleeding money and I suppose it's going to stay that way until we reach the big time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 Jakub Słota's Management Career - April 2022 - Unia Janikowo II Liga A very up-and-down month means that automatic promotion is most likely out of the question, but we're in a great position to make the play-offs. That's the aim now. Youth Intake Not as good as I expected, but not terrible either. Marek Boczek Aleksander Holtyn 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 And the first game of May will mark my first milestone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitner Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Hope you have a strong may and get the promotion, even tho if you get up, you might struggle big time. Cheers, Bitner Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toffle Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 (edited) What a great season so far! I'm glad I was wrong concerning Pawel, a few more goals and play-offs will be very close. Fingers are crossed! Edited January 3, 2020 by Toffle Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 1 hour ago, Bitner said: Hope you have a strong may and get the promotion, even tho if you get up, you might struggle big time. Cheers, Bitner 1 hour ago, Toffle said: What a great season so far! I'm glad I was wrong concerning Pawel, a few more goals and play-offs will be very close. Fingers are crossed! Thanks a lot guys. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 Jakub Słota's Management Career - May 2022 - Unia Janikowo II Liga Arrrgh! After squeezing out a lucky victory at Bytovia we dominated three of the weakest sides in the league, smashing two of them. We failed to beat Stal Rzeszów at home despite the statistics and that turned out to be very, very costly. Playoffs it is then. We play Bytovia at home in the one-legged semi-final. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 This just confirms we've done really well. And this is new I think. Nice! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 (edited) Halfway there! Never in doubt after the early goal really, a great performance confirms our good form and sends us into the final. It's us, Resovia, and 90 (120?) minutes of football in Janikowo. All or nothing. Edited January 3, 2020 by Rikulec Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 NEVER WRITE US OFF **** me, what a game. 0:2 down at half time, three changes and then four goals from substitutes, including a hat-trick from Szymanski in his last ever game for us. Janikowo won't sleep tonight! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitner Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 GET IN!!!!!!!!!!!! congratulations. You're the best around, ffs. Cheers, Bitner Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 1 hour ago, Bitner said: GET IN!!!!!!!!!!!! congratulations. You're the best around, ffs. Cheers, Bitner Haha, thanks a lot! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 Jakub Słota's Management Career - June 2022 - Unia Janikowo II Liga You already know the story. The lads' heroics defied all pre-season (hell, even mid-season) expectations and took us all the way through. We're going up... again! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 Jakub Słota's Management Career - Season Review - 2021/22 - Unia JanikowoII Liga Results (Aug-Nov) - Results (Feb-Jun) Competition Performance: 3rd (promotion via play-offs) Now who would have thought we'd actually go and get promoted again?! The first part of the season definitely wasn't a sign of things to come, we even went eight games without a win at one point. We really clicked in the winter break despite not making any transfers though and went on to achieve some amazing results. We also kept 11 clean sheets in 16 games including the play-offs which is just ****ing amazing. What a team, what a save this is shaping up to be. Squad We have some standout players such as Fabiszewski, Banaszak, Cuch or Chmielewski, but even more importantly we've seen our own youth products like Swierblewski and Grobelny improve largely. I'm not planning a revolution next season, there are three incomings already lined up and I'd only like one more. Bielawski, Zawal, Ruminski, Zielinski, Szymanski and Grochowski are leaving on free transfers in the summer. Transfers - Finances None of the players arriving really set the world on fire, but every single one of them was an improvement on what we had before. From that perspective it was a damn good window. Turns out that FM actually has the thing Polish central league have that's called the Pro Junior System. We're basically paid for playing youngsters - we received £142K at the end of the season, which remarkably put us ever so slightly in the black. Happy times on all fronts! Player of the Season 1st - Gracjan Fabiszewski - our goalkeeper really stepped up this season, producing some amazing performances and ending the season with 15 clean sheets. He definitely saved us a few points! 2nd - Marcin Banaszak - the heart of our defence. He had the most interceptions in the whole league (198) despite missing two games to suspensions. By far our most reliable player. 3rd - Tomasz Chmielnicki - turns out my scout was right! The kid is developing quickly and there are big clubs sniffing around him. His statistics may not look spectacular, but the hat-trick at Elana is definitely something to remember. Next Season Back-to-back promotions are an amazing achievement, but now we could really do with a season or two of consolidation. Let's just stay where we're going. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 This is a proud moment for the club that has only reached this level of football for the second time in its history - the first time we played in the I Liga (or II Liga, as it was actually called back then... yeah, that's a bit complicated) was the 2006/07 season when we finished 16th and went down after losing the relegation play-off on away goals. What I actually should have mentioned is that MLKS Unia Janikowo was dissolved in 2012 because of financial problems. The new club, KS Unia Janikowo, was formed a year later and had to climb the pyramid from its lowest level, which is Klasa B - the 8th tier of Polish football and a very popular source of memes and banter. KS Unia famously won every game in their only season in Klasa B and repeated that the season after in Klasa A - they didn't drop a single point until they reached the 6th tier, which they also won straight after getting promoted. Three seasons in the 5th tier followed before the promotion in 2019. Can we do better than MLKS Unia and stay up in the I Liga? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 Jakub Słota's Management Career - Season Preview - 2022/23 - Unia Janikowo Board Expectations:I Liga: Fight bravely against relegationPuchar Polski: Be competitiveMy Expectations:I Liga: Stay up.Puchar Polski: It all depends on who we get really. Some money would be nice. Budgets:Transfer: £0Wage: £10,479 (currently spending £5,055)Balance: £94,350 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 They weren't much help anyway to be honest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 4, 2020 Author Share Posted January 4, 2020 Hopefully we'll benefit from that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 4, 2020 Author Share Posted January 4, 2020 Jakub Słota's Management Career - Pre-Season - 2022/23 - Unia Janikowo Friendlies Always nice to go without conceding. Transfers Really happy with how it went through. Kacper Gach - a definite improvement on the right wing. Przemyslaw Porebski - an upvote to everyone who remembers him from The Frozen Throne! Really excited to have him. Przemysław Kędziora - I think he doesn't need an introduction. Chrobry never gave him a chance to play, how silly of them. I'm not complaining though! Mateusz Dara - a well-rounded player to replace Zawal at DM. Michal Kot - a short-term loan to cover for Fabiszewski, who's out for two months with an injury. Adam Waszkiewicz - an experienced, quality right back. Piotr Swierczewski and Piotr Waszczuk were promoted from the U-18s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitner Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 Always useful to have a parent club... Cheers, Bitner Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 4, 2020 Author Share Posted January 4, 2020 21 minutes ago, Bitner said: Always useful to have a parent club... Cheers, Bitner As long as their players actually want to come to us on loans, which wasn't the case with Piast. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny-Trotter Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 Gratulacje! I am interested to see how your further adventures will go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 4, 2020 Author Share Posted January 4, 2020 (edited) 50 minutes ago, Johnny-Trotter said: Gratulacje! I am interested to see how your further adventures will go. Dzięki! I'm really enjoying the save at the moment, there's definitely something magical about managing a club you actually work at. I just hope I won't start confusing our real players with the ones I have on FM. Edited January 4, 2020 by Rikulec Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 4, 2020 Author Share Posted January 4, 2020 Jakub Słota's Management Career - July 2022 - Unia Janikowo I Liga Wow, so many things to be excited about! This loanee goalkeeper has turned out to be pretty damn good, Kędziora is firing right away, Swierczewski netted a double coming off the bench in his debut as Stomil completely fell apart after the break, and remarkably we're the only team not to have conceded a goal in the first two games. Long may it continue! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rikulec Posted January 4, 2020 Author Share Posted January 4, 2020 Not a favourable draw, but we'll give it our best. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 4, 2020 Author Share Posted January 4, 2020 By far our biggest sale so far, quite a significant one for the club of our stature. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 4, 2020 Author Share Posted January 4, 2020 Jakub Słota's Management Career - August 2022 - Unia Janikowo I Liga We're no longer unbeaten, but it was still a great month that saw us pick up nine points from five games and three more clean sheets. We also have the best attack in the league, and Kędziora's on fire! Transfers Przemyslaw Chyrchala - former Jagiellonia player joins on a free to replace Gruszka on the bench. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rikulec Posted January 6, 2020 Author Share Posted January 6, 2020 The club is growing and so is my wage. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 6, 2020 Author Share Posted January 6, 2020 Jakub Słota's Management Career - September 2022 - Unia Janikowo I Liga Another good month allows us to remain in the promotion places. We have some tough fixtures coming up though, so I fully expect to drop down a little bit. Puchar Polski Boo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitner Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 Things are quite nice atm. Cheers, Bitner Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 6, 2020 Author Share Posted January 6, 2020 18 minutes ago, Bitner said: Things are quite nice atm. Cheers, Bitner They are! Cheers mate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 6, 2020 Author Share Posted January 6, 2020 Jakub Słota's Management Career - October 2022 - Unia Janikowo I Liga As expected, a slightly worse month with just the one win. We still remain in the play-off places. Transfers Karol Sobczyk - what were Zagłębie Lubin thinking releasing him on a free? I don't know, but I'll happily take him! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 7, 2020 Author Share Posted January 7, 2020 Jakub Słota's Management Career - November 2022 - Unia Janikowo I Liga A hugely frustrating month, especially the Puszcza game where the FM gods made it very clear that we weren't going to win despite dominating. Still, we're in a great position in the table as we enter the winter break. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 7, 2020 Author Share Posted January 7, 2020 I'm trying my best not to get my hopes up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 7, 2020 Author Share Posted January 7, 2020 Jakub Słota's Management Career - December 2022 - Unia Janikowo Transfers Mateusz Bondarenko - a good centre back joins on a free after being released by Legia. Very likely to feature alongside Banaszak. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted January 7, 2020 Author Share Posted January 7, 2020 He's even better than he was in Iceland. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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