Rick's Hexagon - Football Manager Stories - FM14

Deleted Account #151676

20 Mar 2013 17:26:28

Right, after stupidly allowing the autosave feature to overwrite my David Beckham career I need something else to ease the sole crushing boredom of only working part-time, so I've decided to try my hand at by far the most popular challenge on any FM forum, the pentagon. although mine will technically be a hexagon as I have New Zealand and the O-League enabled.

I have loaded up all of the English speaking World that I have editor data for, with the exception of the UK and Ireland as they seemed to be frowned upon in this sort of challenge.

Africa:

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Cameroon

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Ghana

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Nigeria

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South Africa
Asia:

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Australia

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Hong Kong

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India

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Malaysia

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Phillapines

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Singapore
Europe:

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Malta
North America:

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Canada

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Jamaica

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Trinidad & Tobago

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USA
Oceania:

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New Zealand

I have no idea where to start in all that lot so I'm starting unemployed and seeing where the wind takes me. here's my profile;

http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h361/Richard_Beale/1-39_zpsd8e24eca.png

Wish me luck, I'm certainly going to need it!

George14brfc

12 years ago

4 years ago

3,912

20 Mar 2013 18:05:16

Good luck mate !

Deleted Account #151676

20 Mar 2013 18:16:37

throughout the course of day one I applied for almost forty jobs, for the most part because I liked the badges or kits, about half of those clubs have come back to me with offers so far, here's a look at my more interesting options;

St Catherines Roma

Canada
Transfer: £0
Wage: £210pw (used £201)
Pro: It would be pretty easy to win the league in Canada and start building a trophy collection.
Con: No possibility of Champions League success as only the Canadian clubs playing in the MLS qualify.

http://www.tobagodiveexperience.com/tde/images/t&tec.gif

Trinidad & Tobago Electric Company

Trinidad & Tobago
Transfer: £55k
Wage: £2.4k (Used £477)
Pro: Fairly big budget for a Caribbean nation.
Cons: Only four players in the squad, meaning I would have to sign almost an entire team.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/22/Panthère_de_Bangangté.jpg

Panthere du Nde

Cameroon
Transfer: £0
Wage: £2k (Used £1.9k)
Pro: Big team in Cameroon.
Con: No money to spend and very little wage budget.

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSMAPTqm3jkuIwI4htfNoadAbxQfAI_kfF7cKz4CizRDf7dfrry

Dolphin FC

Nigeria
Transfer: £0
Wage: £9.2k (Used £8.8k)
Pro: Already has a good squad which is expected to challenge for honours .
Con: Same as Panthere, there is no money to strengthen..

http://www.escudosonline.com/oceania/nova_zelandia/novazelandia_waitakere75.jpg

Waitakere United

New Zealand
Transfer: £0
Wage: £N/A (League is amateur)
Pro: Two time O-League winners, if they can do it again I will check off that title quickly.
Con: Might be difficult to lure players to NZ with their amateur status.

http://content.sportslogos.net/logos/125/3855/thumbs/xua8onjuofcahhs3e4fd723s2.gif

Northern Virginia Royals

USA
Transfer: £0
Wage: £220 (Used £218)
Pro: Would allow me to get my foot in the door of American football/soccer.
Con: They are in the USL (4th tier) and with no promotion in the USA I can never take them higher.

http://www.sofoot.com/IMG/equipes/1156.png

Floriana FC

Malta
Transfer: £3.2k
Wage: £2.5k (Used £2.3k)
Pro: Qualified for the Europa League, good title prospects and strong team
Con: It would take a divine miracle for a Maltese team to win the Champions League.

What do you guys think, who would you go for?

Cymro

18 years ago

2 days ago

6,379

20 Mar 2013 18:19:07

Waitakere United for me.

loscules22

12 years ago

5 days ago

92

20 Mar 2013 20:43:27

Take the floriana job plzzz. I'm begging you!!

(I'm from Malta)

Dyrim

11 years ago

2 months ago

593

20 Mar 2013 23:33:18

T&tec, decent budget and no dead wood to get rid of. Sound like an ideal start. But all job would be a tough one and thus intresting to follow.

GreekExpress

11 years ago

89

20 Mar 2013 23:48:47

Northern Virginia Royals for me: let's start building that reputation slowly.

Dan

13 years ago

1 year ago

16,964

21 Mar 2013 11:53:19

Good luck Rick! Wish I could find motivation like you do nowadays!

Deleted Account #151676

21 Mar 2013 12:00:52

Thank you everyone for your opinions, but after much deliberation I have now made up my mind...

http://www.weltfussballarchiv.com/images/logos/3827.png

Name: Floriana FC
Nation: Malta
Nickname: The Greens
Founded: 1894
Ground: Independence Ground (Capacity: 3,000)

Yes, I have decided to begin my glorious career on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta with Floriana FC. The Greens are one of the biggest sides on the island, having won the Maltese Premier League a staggering 25 times throughout their history, however their most recent success was almost twenty years ago in 1993. The Greens have lifted the Maltese national cup competition (U-Bet Trophy) recently after defeating bitter rivals Valetta in the 2011 final.
Floriana finished runners up to Valetta in last seasons Premier League which saw them qualify for this seasons Europa league, unfortunately they had already been eliminated by Croatian side Osijek when I took charge.

http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h361/Richard_Beale/4-9_zps7483e2ce.png

European prize money would have been nice but no matter, I have my sights set on the Europa Leagues big brother anyway. only the champions qualify for the Champions League here so my mission is clear. If APOEL Nicosia from Cyprus can reach the last eight of the CL in 2011/12, then so can we....with a bit of strengthening.

http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h361/Richard_Beale/1-39_zps36c41091.png

My squad contains a few familiar names among it's ranks, Tony Warner and Francis Jeffers (remember them?) are both former Premiership players, Carl Tremarco and Gary Roberts also both hail from England, they are on loan from Conference sides Macclesfield and Mansfield respectively. The chairman and several of the back room staff are also English so I shouldn't have any trouble adjusting here.

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Franny will be leaving at the end of the season but he could be invaluble to us whilst we do have him.

The training facilities at the club aren't great and will need improving if we are to begin building a squad capable of transcending the national leagues and becoming a force in Europe. We should produce one or two decent youngsters with our youth set up though.

http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h361/Richard_Beale/3-16_zpsdca292b0.png

The strategy for this season is to try and make the best of what we've got, I don't want to go off and sign a bunch of players I know nothing about just to boost the squad, just to discover their money sucking leaches with no talent. I will be careful with our money for the first few years and look to put some funds into the piggy bank in order to mount an assault on Europe in the future.