British Steel Challenge

I started one of these in FM12, but came a bit late to the party.

The challenge: to win every trophy in England, Scotland, Wales, Eire 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, Eire and N Ireland. If a squad comes with any players not of those nationalities, they cannot be used.

The Trophy List

England
Premiership, Championship, League 1, League 2, Blue Square Premier,Blue Square N/S, FA Cup, Capital One Cup, Community Sheild, Johnstones Paint Trophy, FA Trophy

Scotland
Premier, 1st division, 2nd Division, 3rd Division, Scottish Cup, League Cup, Challenge Cup

Wales
Premier, Welsh Cup, Premier League Cup

Eire
Premier, 1st Division, Senior Challenge Cup, League Cup, Munster Senior Cup

N Ireland
Premier, 1st Division, 2nd Division, Irish Cup, League Cup, Co.Antrim Sheild, Steel & Sons Cup, Intermediate Cup, Mid Ulster Cup

Setanta Cup

Total 2/36 trophies

After applying for every job available, I had 3 offers:

Brechin City, but I prefer to start in the bottom tier of each country and work up..Brechin are Div 3
Athlone, a wages budget of about 50p and a murray mint put me off
which left me with Havant & Waterlooville (not an easy one to chant from the terraces) in the BS South. (I'd have preferred to start in N Ireland, but no jobs available)

One decent left sided midfielder who was Italian, so he had to go, and dived into the transfer market.

more to come...

Good luck with this buddy! always a favorite challenge of mine to take part in! If Rick doesn't run the BSC thread then I will for sure

Brechin City is in Division 2

Go ahead mate With the best of my intentions I usually lose interest in it after a month or two and updates to the leader board become few and far between.

Good luck with Havant by the way Maiden71.

Yeah that was a typo, and the reason I didnt want to start with them

Thanks I like this challenge.

I've spoken to Rob and he is going to set up a 'pinned' and 'challenge' section to the forum and once they are up I will go about creating the challenge once again

Excellent

It is here: The British Steel Challenge 2013 So as you win your trophies pm me and I will add you to the list

(Somehow lost my initital screenshots)

Board expectations..safe mid-table position.

Had a bad start to the season, losing 2-4 to Chelmsford, then went on an 8 match unbeaten run in the league taking the September Manager of the Month award along the way.



Form went a bit patchy after the FA Cup exit



Currently sitting 5th in the table, so not too shabby.

Looks like your in good shape to tick the first item off the list buddy!

The run of patchy form continues, bizzarley with 6 wins, 6 draws, and 6 losses in this 3 month period including the FA Trophy matches.



Getting an unexpected replay against Forest Green in the FA Trophy had an unfortunate side-effect in that I had a glut of injuries around that time (4 in those 2 games alone); at one point I had 7 first team players out in January.

Annoyingly we seem to have picked up the habit of conceding early in almost every game, in fact we went 2-0 down in 4 of the last 5 matches, eventually losing 2 of them 3-2, getting a draw against Dorchester and somehow coming back to win against Boreham Wood. We have plenty of goals for us, but our defensive record is appaulling and is something I will be looking at closely over the coming weeks.

Sitting a couple of points outside of the playoffs, so exceeding expectations, but I will be disappointed with anything less than a playoff place.

Looking tight for the playoff spots with so many teams still in it! But I think if you manage the fatigue within the squad well playoff should be a breeze.

Well after an indifferent previous quarter, we wnt on a 10 match unbeaten streak to secure a playoff spot. The best result being the 5-0 demolition of Salisbury who were one of our playoff spot rivals.



So we finished 4th in the league and beat Billericay in the playoff semi

So we had the playoff final against Hayes & Yeading who had topped the table almost all season. A tight game but we were victorious!!



The ironic thing was that the goalscorer Cox only played in this game because my first and second choice players for his position were injured and suspended; normally he wouldnt have even been on the bench

So that 1 down, 35 to go.



The decision I have to make now is whether to stay at Havant or move elsewhere. I have serious doubts about whether they can compete in the BSP, and would probably be a wasted season. Besides which, I want to get into N Ireland as there's a boatload of trophies there. I'll keep one eye on the Job Centre.

Well done on the promotion!!

CONGRATULATIONS BUDDY! step one complete! be interesting where you decide to go next or if you stick it out here

Well it's been an up and down season so far. Hotly tipped for relegation, we are exceeding exxpectations albeit with very patchy form.



We had a good run in Sept after I changed tacticss, but then got hammered for a few matches..as I said, patchy form, but exceeding expectations. We are making money hand over fist, but nothing to spend it on as quality players are not interested in signing. If this was a long term career, I would stick with Havant but as the point of this challenge is trophies, I'm looking to jump ship as soon as ssomething sensible comes up

Not a bad start to life in the higher league buddy! making good progress thats for sure!

Well after the second third of the season, and a string of abysmal results I confirmed what I was already thinking...I am not going to win more trophies with Havant.



I've been wanting to get into N Ireland for some time now, as there are a lot of trophies to be won there, and when two jobs came up there, I apllied for both. Thinking that they wont be able to afford the compensation, I waved bye bye to Havant, knowing that if I didnt get either of the NI jobs, I'd be queuing up at the dole office.



A couple of weeks went by, then I got the call I was hoping. Time to pack up and find a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim.

Nice move! Good luck with Glebe! Will be interesting!

Haven't had the time to update yet, but I've moved on to N. Ireland too.

Well I took over Glebe who were lying in 11th place, with expecvtations of finishing top half.

Lost our first game, but have not been defeated in the league since. A few too many draws, but a decent showing so far, and a cup final coming up.



We're up to 7th in the league. I think promotion will be a bridge too far this season, but am hopeful for next year.

cracking start in NI buddy!

Was a close game, with two of my best players cup-tied, but we managed to scrape the win.

well done buddy! added to the list

Well done with the cup win! KIU!

Thanks I seem to have a problem now tho..my staff all left (contracts expired) and I cant seem to get any new staff to sign up :/