kennyder
11 years ago
6 years ago
42
After finding this site as a new FM player and reading some of the awesome careers and challenges. I decided to take part in a challenge .

The challenge:

Win every trophy in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and N Ireland.

The rules:

  • No imported league expansions
  • Start Unemployed with Sunday League experiance
  • Promotion as champions, runners up or through the playoffs counts as a completed trophy
  • Can only use players from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and N Ireland. If a squad comes with any players not of those nationalities, they cannot be used.

  • The trophy list:

    England:
    Fa Trophy, Blue Square North/South,Blue Square Premiership, Johnson's Paint trophy, nPower League Two, nPower League One, nPower Championship, League Cup, Community Shield, FA Cup, Premiership

    Scotland:
    Challenge Cup, Division 3, Division 2, Division 1, League Cup, FA Cup, Premier League

    Ireland:
    Munster Senior cup, Division 1, League cup, Senior Challenge Cup, Premiership

    Northern Ireland:
    Mid-Ulster Cup, Steel & Son's cup, Interim cup, County Antrim Shield, Division two, First division, League Cup, FA cup, Setanta Cup, Premiership

    Wales:
    League Cup, FAW cup, Premiership

    The Manager:

    http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/5894/managerk.jpg

    I will be starting unemployed.
    kennyder
    11 years ago
    6 years ago
    42
    Right at start there were 2 teams I could apply for Athlone Town and Shamrock rovers. I applied for both but it was Athlone who gave me a contract offer first.

    http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/407/firstjob.png

    I found Athlone occupying 2nd place after 12 games played. Gave me a headstart ( and mayby a little cheat??) to reach my objective of winning the First division.

    http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/1949/tableatstart.jpg


    June Games:

    The first 2 games of the month were still without me. I got my first game away against SD Galway.

    http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7024/junee.jpg

    My first game ended with a 2-2 draw. Not bad i think not having got the time to watch all players perform in friendlies.

    Second game was against Limerick, currently standing on the first spot in the league. We kept the game closed down and managed even to score on a counter 5 mins before full time. 4/6 excellent start.
    kennyder
    11 years ago
    6 years ago
    42
    After the good start in June 2012 it kept going good for me. Of all remainder league games I manged to only lose once.

    http://imageshack.us/a/img534/417/julys.jpg
    http://imageshack.us/a/img441/7499/augustr.jpg
    http://imageshack.us/a/img824/446/septemberm.jpg
    http://imageshack.us/a/img839/2600/octobery.jpg
    http://imageshack.us/a/img145/1166/novdec.jpg


    And if you don't lose, you make a good shot at the title. I took me till last matchday to secure the title but I did it.

    http://imageshack.us/a/img837/465/winnignchampionship.jpg
    http://imageshack.us/a/img38/2135/tableend.jpg

    Even managed to grab Manager of the month twice during that time.

    http://imageshack.us/a/img705/4263/momjuly.jpg
    http://imageshack.us/a/img248/5396/momseptember.jpg

    For the Senior Challenge cup I kicked out some Premier league teams on the way to the final where I had to face First div team Longford.

    The result:

    http://imageshack.us/a/img10/7631/cupnews.jpg
    http://imageshack.us/a/img39/1285/cupgp.jpg

    Now I hope to maintain my squad for next season to see if we can stay at highest level and give a shot at that titel within 2 years.
    PeterGriffin
    12 years ago
    11 years ago
    203
    good luck mate, fantastic first season!
    Dan
    12 years ago
    4 months ago
    16,964
    Well done with your first season buddy, will update the table first thing in the morning for you! Keep it up
    kennyder
    11 years ago
    6 years ago
    42
    Expectations for second season where to avoid relegation. Board gave me a 24k transfer budget and 6.8k wage budget.

    http://imageshack.us/a/img507/1627/expectations.jpg

    First job was to try and maintain the sqaud who won the First Division title last year. I managed well, only lost 2 of my best players. Only 2 incoming tranfers needed because some players did well in the reserves last year and got promoted to 1st team:

    Feeney, Gaynor and Morris.

    Pulled Bermingham away from Longford, last years topscorer in the First division and Berrigan on free after scouting him last year.

    http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/5971/transfersb.jpg

    The draw for the All-Ireland Cup gave us a nice fixture against Premier division champions Shamrock Rovers.

    http://imageshack.us/a/img443/7982/aicqfdraw.jpg

    Had some friendlies against 1D teams and came out good not losing them. The only loss came in the home game against Ceske, a first division team from Czech.

    http://imageshack.us/a/img833/160/friendliesm.jpg

    All seems to be fine to start the season in a new league with this pre-season.
    Dan
    12 years ago
    4 months ago
    16,964
    Pretty decent pre season buddy, hopefully a good season is in store for you on a tight budget though!
    kennyder
    11 years ago
    6 years ago
    42
    With a good pre-season we couldn't wait till the competition started. After 12 games so far in a higher division I can be happy with my team standings. A 3rd place, but season isn't over yet.. only 9 points of a relegation spot and 7 from the leader.

    http://imageshack.us/a/img201/5929/13compfix.jpg

    http://imageshack.us/a/img826/3577/13comptable.jpg
    Dan
    12 years ago
    4 months ago
    16,964
    Thats a very good start to the league mate, Sligo have made a phenomenal start so top be seven points adrift is pretty good! keep it up
    BOWC
    12 years ago
    2 years ago
    197
    Doing alot better than I did in my first season in the Premier Division with Athlone! Keep it up and maybe a late title push!
    kennyder
    11 years ago
    6 years ago
    42
    Didn't had much time to put updates here. But my second season ended a few days ago.

    After a good start in the new league we had a serious bad streak in our games. With a few 1st team players injured i needed too call some of my youngsters in, We prepared to face a tough relegation battle, but my youngsters wouldn't let them led to slaughter without a decent fight.

    One by one my youngsters proved me wrong. With a superb streak we managed to end on a 5th place in the league.

    http://imageshack.us/a/img59/8301/fix23.jpg
    http://imageshack.us/a/img607/1417/fix33.jpg

    http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/3739/tableup.jpg

    They even helped me to get my second Senior Challenge Cup win and my first Irish league cup!!

    http://imageshack.us/a/img853/8946/iscfinalnews.jpg
    http://imageshack.us/a/img705/1172/iscfinalfix.jpg

    http://imageshack.us/a/img21/893/ilcnews.jpg
    http://imageshack.us/a/img836/5042/ilcgame.jpg

    After all of this my youngsters earned a contract for next year's 1st team adn eventually the board followed by giving me an extension of my contract at the club.

    http://imageshack.us/a/img836/5042/ilcgame.jpg

    Only the premier division title to win In Ireland! Hope to achieve that one next season.
    Dan
    12 years ago
    4 months ago
    16,964
    Another great season buddy! Just one more to win here now? Top work
    kennyder
    11 years ago
    6 years ago
    42
    By DanW19 | Permalink | On 20 December 2012 - 22:33 PM
    Another great season buddy! Just one more to win here now? Top work


    Feeling a bit lucky here. Average age of my first team was 21! If they keep performing like this the team wil conquer lot of titles even when i'm leaving this club to proceed my challenge

    Just one more to go with this team, Munster Senior cup is a bit harder to get caus of few playable teams in it
    BOWC
    12 years ago
    2 years ago
    197
    By crashorburn | Permalink | On 21 December 2012 - 06:17 AM
    Feeling a bit lucky here. Average age of my first team was 21! If they keep performing like this the team wil conquer lot of titles even when i'm leaving this club to proceed my challenge

    Just one more to go with this team, Munster Senior cup is a bit harder to get caus of few playable teams in it


    It is pretty pissing that there are only 3 playable teams and all those teams don't sack their manager all that often.. The manager at Cork has been there for 7-8 years in mine despite bad results and Limerick's manager isn't too far behind that

    But good work! How much did you change from the original team!
    kennyder
    11 years ago
    6 years ago
    42
    By BOWC | Permalink | On 20 December 2012 - 23:41 PM
    It is pretty pissing that there are only 3 playable teams and all those teams don't sack their manager all that often.. The manager at Cork has been there for 7-8 years in mine despite bad results and Limerick's manager isn't too far behind that

    But good work! How much did you change from the original team!


    This is the team I have at beginning of season 3:

    http://imageshack.us/a/img40/6749/players1s.jpg
    http://imageshack.us/a/img545/4281/players2h.jpg

    I still have 12-13 players in 1st from the original team at the moment i took over.
    PeterGriffin
    12 years ago
    11 years ago
    203
    gerat couple of seasons here buddy!
    BOWC
    12 years ago
    2 years ago
    197
    I pretty much had around the same team as you at the time! Helps to beef up the wings and a better striker could be out there to beat Shamrock, who is a pain in the dick
    kennyder
    11 years ago
    6 years ago
    42
    I knew it would be a close encounter this third season for grabbing the premier division title.
    and so it was on last matchday we had equal piont with Shamrock(70) but they had a better goaldifference than me, so i needed to win my game and hope for atmost a drawn in the game between Shamrock and Shelbourne.

    last matchday results:

    http://imageshack.us/a/img534/9815/lastmatchday.jpg

    YES, we did it. Managed to win the title.

    http://imageshack.us/a/img210/7070/championstable.jpg

    http://imageshack.us/a/img846/2085/newsbh.jpg

    Another title to tick off in Ireland. For now I've done them all but the hard to get Munster cup. Will be coming back later to finish that one off.

    After 3 years it's hard to leave a team i've been building over those years but I need to head back to the job market to continue my way for the challenge.


    Stayed tuned
    Dan
    12 years ago
    4 months ago
    16,964
    Well done mate! Doing very well wth Athlone!
    BOWC
    12 years ago
    2 years ago
    197
    Close fight to the finish! Where to next?
    kennyder
    11 years ago
    6 years ago
    42
    After all the succes with Athlone i'm heading towards England to grab some of the titles there.

    Applied at Dag&red; in the blue square premier finding them at a 9th spot in the league.

    http://imageshack.us/a/img10/3549/joboffer.jpg

    A promotion playoff is still possible after 28 matchdays

    not changing much for now at the 1st team. may grab a goalkeeper at january transfer period due to long term injury of mine and not having a decent backup.


    My first game was a away match against Sutton utd where we won by 1 goal difference.

    Had a good first season here at dag&Red; ending in a 3rd spot giving a playoff ticket.

    http://imageshack.us/a/img809/8382/tablem.jpg

    Started the playoff with a away game at Gateshead. A 1-1 draw kept my chances for a playoff final real.

    The second leg we hadn't much trouble and won with 3-1.

    A final against York would decide which team will be paying a division higher next season. I knew it woudl be a tough game because in competition I didn't won points against them.


    After 90 mins I was a step closer to promotion. I felt this could be a good moment to push forward for the next 30min.

    Clearly my side was a bit fresher in extra time and managed to score 2 more goals.

    Promotion is a fact!

    http://imageshack.us/a/img823/283/playoffum.jpg

    http://imageshack.us/a/img526/1622/promotioni.jpg


    Gave my keyplayers a contract extension for next season and already looking to bring in a extra striker and central defender.

    budgets for next season seems very nice.. but i think its a little bug.

    http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/1069/buggmo.jpg
    Dan
    12 years ago
    4 months ago
    16,964
    Definitely think you have a bug in the game with budgets like that! Well done on the title though!
    PeterGriffin
    12 years ago
    11 years ago
    203
    well done mate
    kennyder
    11 years ago
    6 years ago
    42
    Due to the bug I had concerning budgets I decided not to look at transfermarket this season and try to keep away from relegation with the same team who won promotion last year.

    Had some big defeats at the beginning of the season that forced me to play a more defensive tactic. Goals against started to drop but with lots of draws I was still playing at the very bottom of the league.

    Made a loan offer for Will Hoskins to improve my attack a bit. It wasn't very attractive football we were playing but atleast we started to win matches.

    At the end of the season we even saw playoff spots coming in sight.. but I was already happy i managed to avoid relegation this season.

    http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/3410/standingsu.jpg

    The big suprise came from Ireland where Athlone relegated from premier division.. what happened there?

    Thought I left them with a good basis to do well for some years

    Well off to a next club. I decided to resign from dag & red so some lower league clubs could afford me and with that bug it was a bit like cheating with that team
    kennyder
    11 years ago
    6 years ago
    42
    Not that long after I resign from dag & red I received a joboffer from Southport.

    http://imageshack.us/a/img203/8408/newclub.jpg

    The club had a distracious season and ended up relegation to blue square bet north/south.


    With no transfer budget and a team in financial problems this is a real challenge to build a strong enough team and get them promoted as quickly as possible

    As you see 1st team isn't that big, even going to lose powell(can't afford new contract) and Lynch ( doesn't want new contract). Hope for some free bargains on the transfer window

    http://imageshack.us/a/img844/252/startteam.jpg

    Stephenson has been moved to reserves due not finding a new club for him.

    A very hard season brought us just above relegations.

    http://imageshack.us/a/img824/9721/standingsv.jpg
    kennyder
    11 years ago
    6 years ago
    42
    For the new season i dropped some youngsters in my 1st team and found myself some decent free players to raise quality in our ranks.

    A big bet it is but at the end once again my youngsters proved to be superb in the lowest league.

    Clinched promotion this year thru playoffs

    http://imageshack.us/a/img703/6200/promotionw.jpg

    http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/8073/standingsi.jpg
    Dan
    12 years ago
    4 months ago
    16,964
    A good switch of clubs mate, well done on promotion too!
    kennyder
    11 years ago
    6 years ago
    42
    Maintained all of the squad who clinched promotio last season. Loaned Lake Jak from Wolves and Lunn Danny from West ham
    McCrathy we got on a free and only paid 6k for Danny Holland.

    Pre season started with 3 defeats and 2 wins.

    http://imageshack.us/a/img838/6256/voorbereiding.jpg

    The remainder of the season was with ups and downs. There was the big 1-5 defeat against Exeter but on the other side
    we reached the FA Trophy final.

    http://imageshack.us/a/img210/6339/fix1y.jpg

    In that final we are drawn against Accrington. The competion home game against them ended with a 1-0 victory for me so

    I have good hopes to grab another title this year


    AND we are still in the running for promotion aswell at this time 5 more games to go till the end and occupying a 7th place
    only 2 points behind a playoff spot.

    http://imageshack.us/a/img833/9454/tble1.jpg
    Dan
    12 years ago
    4 months ago
    16,964
    Good season to date mate! could make that jump!
    kennyder
    11 years ago
    6 years ago
    42
    The Last 6 games of season 18-19 started with the FA Trophy Final against Accrington.

    With a 4-1 win on neutral ground we could lift our first trophy of the season!

    http://imageshack.us/a/img541/7183/fatwin.jpg

    http://imageshack.us/a/img22/8256/fatwin2.jpg

    Now it was all focus on the remaining games to grab promotion aswell.

    wins in a row gave me enough points to compete in promotion playoffs were I was to meet Stockport in the semi-final

    Southport - stockport 2-1
    Stockport - Southport 0-2

    Yet another final were i can find Accrington as my oppenent. After winning already 3 times this season against them I got an good eye on it to make that number wins raise to 4 times.

    http://imageshack.us/a/img607/7045/promoqd.jpg

    http://imageshack.us/a/img580/5682/promotable.jpg

    Southport secured promotion for the second year and can be watched in the Npower league 2 next season.

    Already sold a few players from 1st and 2nd who didn't fit in my plans anymore. With the transferfunds received from them I might make a bid on the 2 loanies i got this season;

    Staye tuned.

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