The British Steel Challenge 2013

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For a third year running the beast that is the British Steel returns to the challenge section for all of you that want to challenge yourself within the British Isles.

So what is the challenge: You have to win every trophy from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland in any order you want. However you must only use British and Irish players!

With no on conquering this challenge over the last two years its proved to not be as easy as some people assume and we welcome every challenger to try and be the first!

The challenge is made a little easier by counting promotion from finishing second in the league, or via the playoffs as the title but this is your choice. Any success in Europe or with the national teams are just an added note on your history but won't count towards this challenge.

Below is a screenshot and I will add everyone who takes part to the challenge leaderboard and add your story so people can follow it easily. Once you've won a trophy be it league or cup, I will need to see a screenshot for it to count.

Rules:

Only use British and Irish players
Must start with Sunday League Reputation
You may start at a club or start unemployed, your choice
You MUST send me a screenshot of each trophy won for it to count

Below is the list of playable trophy's within the game when you load all the home nations.(Downloaded competitions and expansions are not allowed)

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

All the best to all the challengers....

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British Steel 2012 Leaderboard

Gendo (35/36) - No Thread
BOWC (12/36) - Conquering Britain (British Steel 2013)
alec6247 (10/36) - British Steel Challenge
stokerino (10/36) - No Thread
crashorburn (9/36) - The conquest of Britain.algar_toon (5/36) - No Thread
jamesnorcott (4/36) - No Thread
Loscules (4/36) - FM12 - Loscules BSC
TrevKemp (3/36) - Man Of Steel
Alastairhufc (3/36) - No Thread
Maiden71 (2/36) - British Steel Challenge
WindBlob (2/36) - No Thread
Vince Gonner (2/36) - No Thread
EricTheGreat (2/36) - No Thread
MCMXC (1/36) - No Thread
Keverend (1/36) - Clever title working in the word steelKieranA91 (0/36) - A Heart of Steel
SoulLimit (0/36) - Conquering Steel (British Steel 2013)
Jackyd157 (0/36) - Doing what Napoleon couldn't (Conquering Britain)
To dare is to Do (0/36) - No Thread
Arca-33 (0/36) - Five Nations One Man
johnbhoy83 (0/36) - The British Steel Challenge
Thunder 1301 (0/36) - British Steel Challenge
jameslufc (0/36) - No Thread
emmett_srilanka (0/36) - No Thread

Dan

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Date Created: 29 Oct 2012 08:25:26
Date Updated: Unknown
Last Comment: 10 Sep 2013 05:30:11

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Dan

13 years ago

5 months ago

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30 Oct 2012 09:24:56

BOWC goes to the top spot as he becomes the first person to win a trophy in this years British Steel challenge! Only thirty five more to go for him now! Keep it going buddy

MCMXC

16 years ago

1 week ago

30 Oct 2012 11:16:16

Can we still compete in it, if with dont do a story thread, as i am just hopeless at writing them!

Dan

13 years ago

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30 Oct 2012 11:17:51

By MCMXC | Permalink | On 30 October 2012 - 11:16 AM

Can we still compete in it, if with dont do a story thread, as i am just hopeless at writing them!

You don't need to write a thread for the challenge buddy, however I will still need to see screenshots of your manager at the start of the game (his rep) and then when you win a trophy I would like to see the message screen saying you won it and either the league table or match overview for a cup final win

let me know if you wish to join the challenge

MCMXC

16 years ago

1 week ago

30 Oct 2012 11:33:29

By DanW19 | Permalink | On 30 October 2012 - 11:17 AM

You don't need to write a thread for the challenge buddy, however I will still need to see screenshots of your manager at the start of the game (his rep) and then when you win a trophy I would like to see the message screen saying you won it and either the league table or match overview for a cup final win let me know if you wish to join the challenge

Cool, yeah i do i gave it a shot in 11 and was defeated so thought id give it a go. Oh, i'm already in my 2nd season

But i did notice that you can see you past exp on your profile page in this version, so hope that would be alright.

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/J1cmuq9gaXOf5zl5GW5Y2j3qgq3AHxBtMmPemCH1.png

Dan

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30 Oct 2012 12:02:20

By MCMXC | Permalink | On 30 October 2012 - 11:33 AM

Cool, yeah i do i gave it a shot in 11 and was defeated so thought id give it a go. Oh, i'm already in my 2nd season But i did notice that you can see you past exp on your profile page in this version, so hope that would be alright.

That is absolutely fine buddy! your name is added to the list, how did your first season go?

MCMXC

16 years ago

1 week ago

30 Oct 2012 12:17:04

I decided to start in the January so i had the whole of the 2012 season to play as, with the vacant job at Athlone Town, and only manged to finish 5th in the First Division and really didnt make any impact in the cups. This second season is nearly coming to the conclusion and has gone alot better in the newly expanded league, with the top 5 teams having been a tight breakaway group all season, hoping to nick the playoff spot.

Dan

13 years ago

5 months ago

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30 Oct 2012 12:20:29

By MCMXC | Permalink | On 30 October 2012 - 12:17 PM

I decided to start in the January so i had the whole of the 2012 season to play as, with the vacant job at Athlone Town, and only manged to finish 5th in the First Division and really didnt make any impact in the cups. This second season is nearly coming to the conclusion and has gone alot better in the newly expanded league, with the top 5 teams having been a tight breakaway group all season, hoping to nick the playoff spot.

Sounds like the league is very tight! I believe BOWC's league was tight as he was Athlone town to! So maybe this year you could tick the first trophy off! keep it going

BOWC

12 years ago

2 years ago

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30 Oct 2012 14:49:34

Just wondering how the British and Irish players rule works.

Is it strict in that you are not allowed to play/buy any non-British/Irish players at all and you have to release them once you see any in your team? Or is it that the trophies for that season in which you have non-British/Irish players are not counted towards the challenge. I was wondering because it would be pretty hard to take over a top team which has 50% foreigners then without being allowed a period of transition

Edit: One more thing: Munster Senior Cup in Ireland is a regional cup I think, and is only played by 3 playable teams currently, makes it pretty hard to win it as only Limerick, Cork City and Waterford Utd are in it! - Just letting anyone know in case they were wondering.

Dan

13 years ago

5 months ago

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30 Oct 2012 17:02:55

yes you must sale or release any foreign nationality players

that makes the challenge harder espcially once you rise through the premier league and possibly into scotland.

Shedender

17 years ago

1 month ago

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30 Oct 2012 17:48:10

By DanW19 | Permalink | On 30 October 2012 - 17:02 PM

yes you must sale or release any foreign nationality players that makes the challenge harder espcially once you rise through the premier league and possibly into scotland.

Or if you can’t sell the players/cost too much to release then they have to rot in the reserves until they depart.

Deleted Account #151676

30 Oct 2012 18:13:53

I might give this another shot when I eventually get the new game. I like the look of Oxford City in the Conference North.

Dan

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30 Oct 2012 19:10:42

By Shedender | Permalink | On 30 October 2012 - 17:48 PM

Or if you can’t sell the players/cost too much to release then they have to rot in the reserves until they depart.

Such a nice way to put it

but yes that is also fine, when are you going to board the ship Shedender?

Dan

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30 Oct 2012 19:13:10

By Rick87 | Permalink | On 30 October 2012 - 18:13 PM

I might give this another shot when I eventually get the new game. I like the look of Oxford City in the Conference North.

Looking forward to you taking on the challenge rick, with you not running it this year it may give you a bit more motivation to battle. You do love your lower league games so hopefully we can see a thread from you soon.

I myself will be participating in this challenge, with a thread to prove screenshot etc once I puchase the new game

Shedender

17 years ago

1 month ago

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31 Oct 2012 09:50:30

By DanW19 | Permalink | On 30 October 2012 - 19:10 PM

Such a nice way to put it but yes that is also fine, when are you going to board the ship Shedender?

I'm not sure mate, I could've done well on FM12 but I get too addicted to one club.

Deleted Account #151676

31 Oct 2012 10:05:41

I think this might be more interesting if we made a Welsh edit to make more than one division playable, I always found the Welsh leg of the challenge a bit boring with only twelve clubs to choose from.

MCMXC

16 years ago

1 week ago

31 Oct 2012 12:34:38

During that 2nd season we hit a bit of bad form just in the run in so finish again a consistent 5th. The third season i thought was to be the year to kick on with the silverware. All was going well and we were sitting top in may when our star striker McGoldrick sustained a injury that was to put him out of action for 11 months, that coinciding with the English transfer window opening to poach some of our other players caused us to go on a bad run, and it was to be yet again a 5 team battle for the playoff. Having narrowly lost out in a semi final replay to the reigning champions Derry in the Challenge Cup, we found faith and belief and our form started to be consistent again leaving it a straight fight between us and Limerick, knowing a win for us and them failing to win would set up a home playoff showdown against our bitter rivals Longford who had gained promotion the season before. An own goal by the champions gave us a 1-0 victory whilst Limerick suffered a 10 man defeat to Wexford, setting up that big local showdown on goal difference. During the playoff match our player of the season got sent off just before half time and not too long after the break we were behind, until the 77th minute when we clawed back an equalizer, 5 minutes later we had a debatable offside goal disallowed leaving the game to have another 30 minutes to play.With the first half of ET staying goalless it made a very tense end to end battle to the 2nd half of ET only for us take the lead after 107 minutes before we were given another sending off, leaving us the last 5 minutes of extra time to hang on to the lead with a 2 man deficit, before the crowd errupted the the final whistle was blown, with promotion achieved!

So
2012 Div 1 5th/8 11-4-13 45-51 37pts
2013 Div 1 5th/12 15-8-10 63-38 53pts
2014 Div 1 2nd/12 16-7-10 60-45 55pts

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/S6LXM5zSRchWs3L1x7mMwn4Vm35zHEdkWqtHVIdq.png

Gendo

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31 Oct 2012 13:41:14

*sigh* The stain of last game's foreign player debacle haunts me. When I get the new game, definitely count me in (sans story this time).

Dan

13 years ago

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31 Oct 2012 15:05:15

By Rick87 | Permalink | On 31 October 2012 - 10:05 AM

I think this might be more interesting if we made a Welsh edit to make more than one division playable, I always found the Welsh leg of the challenge a bit boring with only twelve clubs to choose from.

Its always nice to have one easy place Rick an with Wales there it is. Just a cruise really.

By MCMXC | Permalink | On 31 October 2012 - 12:34 PM

Thats good enough for me! Well done on your first trophy MCMXC! Will be added to the list!

By Gendo | Permalink | On 31 October 2012 - 13:41 PM

*sigh* The stain of last game's foreign player debacle haunts me. When I get the new game, definitely count me in (sans story this time).

I look forward to your attempt to tame the game this year Gendo!

BOWC

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31 Oct 2012 15:23:14

One more thing to ask!

Is it only players with their main nationality as British/Irish that are allowed, or are players with secondary nationality as British/Irish also allowed? (case in point: Carl Jenkinson)

Dan

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31 Oct 2012 16:41:05

By BOWC | Permalink | On 31 October 2012 - 15:23 PM

One more thing to ask!

Is it only players with their main nationality as British/Irish that are allowed, or are players with secondary nationality as British/Irish also allowed? (case in point: Carl Jenkinson)

Thats an interesting point. I believe if they have a secondary nationality as English and haven't played for a different national team then they can stay in the team

Well done BOWC for restoring your '1' trophy lead by adding trophy number two this afternoon

Dan

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01 Nov 2012 07:59:54

BOWC is really proving to be a man on a mission this year! He has ticked off his third of five trophies out in Ireland after just two seasons

Deleted Account #151676

01 Nov 2012 08:33:28

Flash in the pan, Just wait till I get going and blow away the competition like a hurricane through a New Jersey house.

BOWC

12 years ago

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01 Nov 2012 14:00:40

The more the merrier Rick

Dan

13 years ago

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01 Nov 2012 18:52:49

I am tempted to start in Wales

just the easiest place to start and seeming its one league and being able to pick a team, if I started with say TNS it could be a 1 or 2 season part of the challenge

However I am drawn to Scotland too...ideas guys?

Shedender

17 years ago

1 month ago

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01 Nov 2012 19:02:16

You should start in Scotland and manage East Stirling. As they're muck, you'll be stranded in Scotland for sometime.

Dan

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01 Nov 2012 19:15:10

By Shedender | Permalink | On 01 November 2012 - 19:02 PM

You should start in Scotland and manage East Stirling. As they're muck, you'll be stranded in Scotland for sometime.

I just loaded the demo up to look in Scotland and completely forgot Rangers are in division three! it would be a nice place to start

however unemployed is usually funner from the start

Shedender

17 years ago

1 month ago

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01 Nov 2012 20:36:08

By DanW19 | Permalink | On 01 November 2012 - 19:15 PM

I just loaded the demo up to look in Scotland and completely forgot Rangers are in division three! it would be a nice place to start however unemployed is usually funner from the start

How could you forget Rangers were in Division three?

Dan

13 years ago

5 months ago

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02 Nov 2012 07:14:46

BOWC claims his fourth trophy with the first in Northern Ireland being the Setanta Cup/challenge cup

Maiden71

12 years ago

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02 Nov 2012 08:25:52

By DanW19 | Permalink | On 01 November 2012 - 19:15 PM

I just loaded the demo up to look in Scotland and completely forgot Rangers are in division three! it would be a nice place to start however unemployed is usually funner from the start

Real men start unemployed :p

Dan

13 years ago

5 months ago

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02 Nov 2012 08:48:22

Maiden has led his Havant and Waterloville side to a playoff promotion to chalk off his first trophy.

Now all three of the candidates who have started this challenge have their first one out the way!

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