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#64177 Succession Game
itchycoo
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Some good news:

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#64172 Succession Game
itchycoo
17 years ago
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First deals done. Ben Sampayo and Johnny Gorman in on permanent deals.
#64157 Succession Game
itchycoo
17 years ago
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Great job, Spanky! Now let's see what we can do with this wage budget of ours.
#63394 Succession Game
itchycoo
17 years ago
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Looking good, Cymro!
#62743 Succession Game
itchycoo
17 years ago
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Lookning good, except for the last result. Signings are looking fine as well, though Grof seems to Hungarian, rather than French.
#62170 Succession Game
itchycoo
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Not as good as I hoped.

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The first game vs Walsall was quite spectacular: They made 3-2 in the 91 minute, but we scored direct after kick off to equalize in the 92:nd!
Losing 0-1 to Macclesfield despite shooting 25 shots was horrible.

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I will send the file to Fola now.
#62165 Succession Game
itchycoo
17 years ago
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Fist month done. I tried a tactic I have used with some success at Dortmund, and it seems to work pretty well here as well. Yan Klukowski in particular impressed in his role as Mario Götze.

We're facing League One side Walsall in the 2:nd round of the FA cup.

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Promotion, anyone?

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#61651 Succession Game
itchycoo
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Ok, the file is uploading to me now. I Will finish on monday.
#61551 Succession Game
itchycoo
17 years ago
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Spanky sent it to me, but I couldn't download the file, I gave him access to my ftp but I didn't here back after that. I can send the link to someone else to try.
#60761 Succession Game
itchycoo
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If you want a fourth player, I'll be more than happy to join.
#47082 Europe, from A to Z (or W, actually)
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By DanW19 | Permalink | On 24 January 2013 - 12:42 PM
Brilliant mate! Well done on the league success, so has yours changed now to just winning every 'league' title? Still a great idea and doing well!

Thanks! I think I'll go for the top league title only. To be the Champion of every country, that's my new goal.
#290560 Europe, from A to Z (or W, actually)
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Khimik Svetlogorsk


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10 days that would determine how the league would end. October 7th to 17th when we faced Gomel, BATE and Dinamo Minsk. After we got 7 points from those games we didn’t look back and finished in style by securing the title away against Belshina with one game in hand.

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Then I actually lost the Superkuba against Gomel, but I couldn’t care less, I will move on to Belgium, and my main goal is to win the top division, everything else I will consider a bonus.

And thanks again Dan and Benniewijs!
#290559 Europe, from A to Z (or W, actually)
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Khimik Svetlogorsk


By winning the cup we qualified for Europa League where we faced Qarabag from Azerbaijan, a good opportunity to play the reserves. They did enough to win both matches and we draw Rubin from Russia in the 3:rd round. Again I played the reserves and they did a great job only losing 0-1 and 0-2.

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Only one loss in the league means we are still in the title race.

Let’s see where this leads…

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And thanks for the comments, guys!
#46283 Keeping up with Shedender and Dan - If it's not to late!
itchycoo
17 years ago
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First trophy! Well done.
#290558 Europe, from A to Z (or W, actually)
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I was a decent season, Benniewijs and I’m sure I can build on that.
Dan, unfortunately we don’t have any money and the 15:th higest ranked team in Belarus doesn’t appeal to most quality players, strangely enough, so I will dig in the “released players pond” again.
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Khimik Svetlogorsk


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The first third started and ended with a loss, but in the middle of those we played very well, including a league win over BATE, a draw with struggling Dinamo and a Trophy! We bored the death out of both the audience and BATE, and won the the cup on penalties!

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#45932 Keeping up with Shedender and Dan - If it's not to late!
itchycoo
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Unlucky in the final. Decent season though, good luck next year!
#290557 Europe, from A to Z (or W, actually)
itchycoo
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It was indeed, Dan. Quite horrible to watch, actually.
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Khimik Svetlogorsk


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Despite a strong finish, we couldn’t reach the European spots. But we can concentrate on the league and the cup alone next season. We are on to the 4:th round of the cup, and I hope for a good run at this year as well.

Let’s not dwell upon this, bring on 2020!
#290556 Europe, from A to Z (or W, actually)
itchycoo
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Thanks Dan, BATE and Dinamo are running away here, but a European spot isn’t out of reach (3:rd or 4:th).
Good to be back, Zan. Thanks for reading!
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Khimik Svetlogorsk


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We turned out to be the most boring team in the world by scoring 2 and conceding 2 in 8 matches (between May 25 and July 21)!

With two thirds of the season played, BATE and Dinamo are in an own league, but we will fight with newly promoted Gorodeya, Shakter and Minsk to get the 3:rd and 4:th place, that means European football.

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The lack of goals can be explained with Syrokvashko struggling with the tougher defences in this league – only 3 goals this season, so this message came as no surprise.
The number 10 shirt will not be used by anyone else as long as I’m in charge of Khimiki.
#290555 Europe, from A to Z (or W, actually)
itchycoo
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Thanks Dan! Maybe I need a break from FMC time to time...
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Khimik Svetlogorsk


Going into our first season in the highest league we needed to strengthen the team. And with no money we need to find free players. And I can tell you, finding free players that want to join Khimik Svetlogorsk who are good enough to play in the top division in Belarus ain’t easy. So I went through all the teams in the league to see whom they released. So now I’ve got a team mainly consisting of BATE, Soligorsk and Dynamo Minsk rejects. Lovely.

But they did their job brilliantly the first third of the season.

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Then I realized that now that we are in the highest league we are allowed to sign foreigners! I immediately signed three exotic guys, two from Russia and one from Ukraine!
#44299 Getting Around Europe Quicker Than Shedender
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Not entirely convincing, but good enough to keep the top spot in the league, and reaching the semi final of the cup. Well done
#44298 Travelling across Europe - proving I'm better than Dan!
itchycoo
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A good move and a good start. Good luck with Anderlecht!
#290554 Europe, from A to Z (or W, actually)
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Khimik Svetlogorsk


While managing in Chile, I got some ideas for how to play Khimiki, so I just had to try them out. And this is how we fared:

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My first Belarusian trophy in the cabinet (though it’s not a trophy, really). That leaves me thinking about not aiming for ALL the trophies in Europe but only the top league one. To be able to say, “I’m the champion of Austria, Belarus, Belgium…” etc, and not care about the lower leagues and cups. We’ll see.

To my delight Syrokvashko continued his impressive form from last season by scoring 29 goals in 30 matches including the two winning goals in the play offs.

And here he is:

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#43309 Getting Around Europe Quicker Than Shedender
itchycoo
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Bulgaria doesn't give you much of challenge, it seems. Well done!
#43308 Travelling across Europe - proving I'm better than Dan!
itchycoo
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Great start. Falcao seems to be a super signing!
#42124 Travelling across Europe - proving I'm better than Dan!
itchycoo
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Good season. Do you think you can improve the squad enough to fight for a play off spot, maybe by winning one of the periods, then I think you should stay.
#41906 Europe, from A to Z (or W, actually)
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By Benniewijs | Permalink | On 09 January 2013 - 13:40 PM
FMC mode is indeed a step back to the older FM games. You get speed and lose control over your team. I takes a different approach to manage a team in FMC. I also play FMH (handheld) and that's also completely different. There is scouting and training so much different and still it can be fun to play with.

I hope you will continue the run (or start a new one in normal mode) because I enjoy reading these stories with there successes and luckely also failures. Because you won't enjoy successes if you never fail once in a while.


I agree, it takes a different approach to the game, and I have enjoyed it from time to time. But in the end of this season, that was very tight, I missed the team talks and the closer feeling you get to your team in the "real" mode. I don't really mind not winning every year. And I certanly enjoy reading about other peoples "failure" (even if I do enjoy reading about Dan's success as well ) However, our season was productive - reaching the cup final is huge for a second division club. The squad needs a re-haul, though. Most of my top players are 32-33 years old - and here I would love to send out some scouts...

Well well, we'll see. Now I'm managing in Chile - a parallell game with Bloodshed, let's see how that turns out.
And thanks Dan for the constant comments, I'll keep following your and Shedende's march through Europe!
#290553 Europe, from A to Z (or W, actually)
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Khimik Svetlogorsk


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Despite a pretty decent second half of the season we couldn’t cope with Vitebsk’s 9 straight victories and Torpedo’s unbeaten run of 12 matches.

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And after a loss in our historic first Cup final, I feel I need a break from this. I don’t really enjoy the FMC mode either. I might return here later on, we’ll see.

Thanks to everyone who has read and commented in this thread.
#290552 Europe, from A to Z (or W, actually)
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Welcome back to the site and the game, pisto, and thanks for following!
Thanks lico, glad you like it. Hope you keep reading and posting.
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Khimik Svetlogorsk

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After a perfect start with a good preseason and three straight victories and no goal conceded and a Syrokvashko on fire, things were looking really good for Khimiki. Then our fortune change in the Slutsk match. It started as usual with Syrokvashko scoring two to give us a 2-0 lead after the first half, but the second half was horrible, and we let the Slutsks score two easy goals to tie the game.

Then it continued that way, we just couldn’t pick up wins anywhere. Only one defeat, but no wins in 6 matches. The only thing that stayed the same was Syrokvashko. The 32 year old striker scored 6 goals in 25 games last season, and has never scored more than 11 goals in a season, now he’s netted 16 times in 15 matches!

Our goalkeeper didn’t really impress me, so after the two 3-3 games, as the transfer window opened, I decided it was time for action. The Smorgon keeper Vladimir Zhurov had only conceded 3 goals in 9 matches and I used my whole transfer budget (9K) to bring him to Svetlogorsk. The best thing with this deal was that we faced Smorgon the day after his arrival, leaving them without their number 1. He kept a clean sheet against his old team and didn’t concede until his fourth match, when Torpedo’s Yakubovskiy scored after 12 minutes.

We finally lost, as we couldn’t stand up to league leaders Vitebsk with Bokhan sent off early in the second half.

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With half the season played, we’re 3:rd in the league, and promotion does not seem unrealistic. The league is very tight and a couple of wins will see us sail up, but a some more bad results and we’re mid-table.
#39398 Travelling across Europe - proving I'm better than Dan!
itchycoo
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Well done getting out of Belarus. Good luck in Belgium!
#39397 Getting Around Europe Quicker Than Shedender
itchycoo
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Just read through the last pages, and unsurprisingly you’re doing great in Belgium as well. KIU!