'Y Sialens Chweongl'

So after many months of pondering, playing with the Forest Green Rovers Save and watching many a thread go up, I have eventually come to the conclusion that I should have a go at the Hexagon Challenge on FM13. It is one of the most gruelling and one of the most rewarding saves I have ever seen since I first bought CM3 back in the day. It's a challenge that sort of got the better of me last year and is something I am looking to having another go at, having come so close to finishing the Pentagon Challenge last season (http://fm2012.net/topic/58761/y-sialens-pumochr).

This will be my fourth story on this wonderful site. My current one is a save with some of the best FM players on the forum, if you get the chance check out the Forest Green Rovers save (shameless plug again). I've been lucky to see some of the great writers write on this forum over the years and I hope that with my story I can achieve similar success.

So finally the time has come, yes one is late to the party, but I do hope to give you a save with 6 continental cups, with the standard blood, sweat and tears. For good measure throw in some frustration, disappointment and the tiny sprinkle of success I do hope to complete this challenge.

So without further a do ... I bring you ... 'Y Sialens Chweongl'



Career Statistics:

So The Hexagon Challenge:

Most will be familiar with the usual rules, but I will quickly go over them. You start unemployed with a Sunday league reputation, and you try to win all 6 Continental Champions Leagues (European Champions League, South American Champions League, Asian Champions League, African Champions League, Oceanic Champions League and North American Champions League) in one save.

So the selected leagues to begin the journey:



I learnt quite a bit from starting off last year, gaining momentum in this challenge is key! Yet again wanted to start in Australia or even Asia but had remembered I have an extra Champions League Continent Trophy to win, and wanted to start off somewhere were I could quite easily get a trophy within a couple of seasons. Having never managed in Australia (In FM12 or FM13) China, New Zealand or Japan I hope to begin the journey here.

No Wales loaded? The thread title is false advertising!

Good luck though mate.

Good luck mate!

Rick87 - Haha, as ever pal false advertising is the norm. Maybe when I get back round to Europe I may well end in Wales.
itchycoo - Cheers pal. In the Kluk we trust.
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So where to start? South Korea like last time and with one club that is close to my heart ... Gangneung City? Or do I chance my luck with applying for the mighty Blue Wings? I know I know, it's far to early to have a crack at the big teams just at this moment in time. But surely sending my CV won't do my no harm.



So where I will land?

Got to love the media, who seemingly love me already.



The offers come in ... Head to new territory or go back and re-live the old dream?

Waitakere, you can have the OFC Champions league won within two years and move on.

So there we have it folks. Waitakere United in New Zealand is the club I am starting off with. A club that has had previous success in the New Zealand League as well as the Oceanic Champions League.

More information about the club in the next update.

Good luck dude, you should have Oceania checked off in no time at all with them.

Rick87 - Hopefully, but had a slight shock about Waitakere United when I took charge. Deffo a club that I can win the OCL very quickly with.

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Waitakere United Overview

So the adventure begins for this unknown Welsh football manager from Aberystwyth. As Rick eluded to in his post, I felt the best way to move on with this save was to start in New Zealand and with a club that could almost immediately give me a chance of winning the OCL. A big club in terms of Oceanic football straight away is a big. So exciting times, starting off on the other side of the world in what some say, is the brother of Wales or is that Wales is it's brother?



So I found out the club was Amateur in status. Slightly worrying if I want to keep the best players at the club. Ok, ok I am slightly going over the top with that, I wasn't expecting club status like this, was hoping they were Semi-Pro like all the other clubs in the league. We are predicted to end up 2nd in the league, very achievable if you ask me. The big rival for the club is Auckland City (not listed weirdly enough) and it really should be between us two on who will win the league and probably the OCL.



A small ground and we have ok facilities. Depending on how long I am here I will hopefully try and improve the infrastructure to ensure the club is looked after for in the future.



Financially the club is ok, again the aim is to ensure that I don't spend what I don't have. Sometimes this is more difficult than possible. But we will see. I am not going to financially ruin the club, I aim to ensure that the club will be better off to again ensure its safe keeping in the future.



Have some outstanding players in Fijian international Roy Krishna and New Zealand international David Mulligan. The squad needs improving at the back, but we shall see what I can get hold of.



So there are trophies in the cabinet and in 2007 and 2008 Waitakere won the OCL. It's not that long ago and certainly the main team to watch out for is Auckland.

New Zealand Championship and OCL come at me!

Installed as league favourites. Pressure is now on.

Bad news this, star striker out for 3 months. Will miss the start of the season.

Pre-Season went well. Tested out a few formations and tested out different players. Didn't go to plan against Napier but we were able to put things right against Lower Hutt. Season is just around the corner and first up ... rivals Auckland City.

So the transfer window shut on the eve of the first league game. Did quite a bit of business. Got rid of quite a bit but brought in quite a bit. Really happy with what we picked up. Still concerned that the goalkeeper position is still weak but it's something I hope to address in the next window. Ross McKenzie and Che Bunce are the players I am really happy to pick up. Good players for us.

First month of games completed. Got to say a good month. It started away to league challengers Auckland City. We were outclassed and outplayed, however we were able to steal a goal thanks to that man Ross McKenzie. Opening game in the OCL see us comfortably beat Ba of Fiji, they only scored in stoppage time. Considering the squad was out on it's feet there is a lot of character there. Ended the month dispatching Canterbury. Next month once again see's us with a busy period with 6 games.

So November was an interesting month. Conclusion to the OCL and the beginning of the League Cup. Dispatched Kossa in the OCL but failed to take our chances against a weak Hawke's Bay side. In the last game until March time in the OCL we saw off an interesting Tafea side but really the game will be remembered for Burgess outstanding hat-trick. 4 days later we played Team Wellington and managed to throw the game away with 20 mins left, conceding a penalty in the last minuet of the game to allow Wellington to level the game, in a game which they deserved nothing from. We ended the month off strongly beating a strong Waikato side and also a tricky Hawke's Bay.

We have a 4 game period in December before a month gap in the fixture list.

December saw us finish off the year undefeated and winning every game in the month. Biggest game came against Auckland, a very much crunch game. It was a big game for the club for two reasons, a win would put a gap between us and Auckland and also it was the return of Rory Krishna from injury. It was becoming a dull affair with Mulligan's goal separating both sides. The introduction of Krishna saw him scoring a goal and then proceeded to create havoc in the Auckland box. Auckland could not cope and eventually capitulated and the flood gates opened.

You've made a flying start to this. Good work

itchycoo - Cheers pal, made a better start than what I expected to do.
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One piece of news before the next update. In the last few hours of the transfer window I had to fight off competition from YoungHearts and Waikato to keep hold of wide man Allan Pearce. They had been chasing him earlier but he was staying with us. I offered him another deal which he accapted and then as I clicked continue I find that Waikato offered him a deal and he signed. To say I am annoyed with him is an understatement.

Cool ... I think not.

Undefeated month which saw us dominate the competition. Tired legs were shown against Waikato with former front man Pearce determined to spoil the show. Luckily for us he had a decent game but not good enough to secure a win for Waikato.

Brilliant start with Waitakere mate, what does the table look like?

The table ...

Big win and my first piece of silverware on this journey. Hopefully one of many.

Well I blushed a bit at the bolded part hahaha

Good start you've made buddy. I had a New Zealand adventure once on one of the older FM's, something I have been meaning to do again. You may have just inspired me.

mr.Spanky- Hahaha well you have to put up with my audacious transfers and injury laden stints with FGR.
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So Feb was another good month. It was quite funny and I wish I had screenshot it, but the Ba manager ahead of our game in the OCL said he didn't fancy playing us because he feared that we would give them another hiding hahaha. Krishna found his scoring shoes, I made the call not to select him for the Cup Final against Auckland. I think it inspired him.

So that left the table to look like this and out opponents would be in the semi finals of the league.

Oh dear, I didn't see that.

So the semi's saw us beat YoungHeart. However the first leg saw us comeback to win with only 10 men. We were 1-0 down and some late pressure ensured we came away from the game with victory. Then in the second leg we just soaked up the pressure and countered to score.

We play Auckland in the Final but before that we have another OCL group game.

First leg we dominated, should have scored more and could have easily conceded some.

So what happened in the second leg of the League Final?

So our arch rivals stand between us and glory. I really would love to win this and get a continent knocked off early.