SoulLimit
12 years ago
11 years ago
7
After many years of playing FM, i have decided to undertake a challenge, and this one I came across first and sounded interesting.

What is the challenge? It is called 'The British Steel 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!

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

The trophies I must win to complete the challenge are:

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
SoulLimit
12 years ago
11 years ago
7
http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u570/SoulLimit/British Steel Screenshots/2012-11-07_00002.jpg

I will be myself in this game, and have decided that I am going to start unemployed.

As per the rules I have set my reputation to be Sunday League Footballer.
BOWC
12 years ago
2 years ago
197
I'd like to get some credit for inspiring your thread name!...

Just kidding! Good luck with this!!
SoulLimit
12 years ago
11 years ago
7
Having started unemployed, I started looking found for and applying to jobs that I felt I could get.
After getting turned down by almost all of the jobs I applied to, I got an approach from 2 clubs:
Brechin, a Scottish Second Division side:
http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u570/SoulLimit/British Steel Screenshots/2012-11-08_00005.jpg

Athlone Town, an Irish First Division side:
http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u570/SoulLimit/British Steel Screenshots/2012-11-08_00005.jpg

In the end I decided that I would go for Athlone Town, as they are in the lowest league in Ireland, while Brechin were 2nd Div, meaning i'd have to go back to Division 3 at a later point.
SoulLimit
12 years ago
11 years ago
7
Having decided to take the Athlone town job, I will now have to analyse the squad, and how the squad has currently performed in the 1st 17 games of the season. (Having started the game half way through the irish season).

http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u570/SoulLimit/British Steel Screenshots/2012-11-08_00007.jpg
http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u570/SoulLimit/British Steel Screenshots/2012-11-08_00008.jpg

Based on my assistant manager reports, I am lacking in the following areas:
AMR
ML
AMC
LB
I am also lacking good backups in the following areas:
MR
GK

I will need to address these at some point, but I also have to keep in mind that I am a semi-professional club with very little money to spend.

At the point when I took over, the club is sitting in 4th place, 11 points behind the League Leaders. If I want to mount a serious title challenge this season, we will need to pick up plenty of points, especially against the clubs around us, in the final 11 games of the season.
http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u570/SoulLimit/British Steel Screenshots/2012-11-08_00009.jpg

I have been lucky (or unlucky) enough to be given a rivals match as my first match in charge, against Longford, who are currently sitting 2nd in the league.
http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u570/SoulLimit/British Steel Screenshots/2012-11-08_00010.jpg

I view this as a very good opportunity to see how my squad can perform in arguably one of the biggest games the club has this season. It gives me the chance to see how the players can perform in a high pressure game, as we could have later in the season against our promotion rivals.
Dan
13 years ago
5 months ago
16,964
Good luck with this buddy

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