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Deleted Account #151676
#126445 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
#125576 Sam’s Journeyman Career
Good luck mate!
#125443 The Night Thread Mk. IX
#125323 The Midlands Man
Yes, my first managerial appointment on my way to making the Midlands a powerhouse of world football, comes courtesy of Lincolnshire outfit Boston United. The Pilgrims, who were a football league club just six years ago, have started badly in the Skrill North this season and are looking nervously at dropping into the seventh tier of the English game unless something changes.
United have a half decent squad which I reckon I should be able to guide into a safe mid-table finish in this first season, there are several non-Midlands players in there though who will need to be sold or released before next season.
I Googled Jerry Nnamani, he is from London.
I wasted no time in bringing in a new assistant manager who I can trust for advice;
Hailing from Buxton in Derbyshire, Paul has spent his entire career abroad, managing Latvian sides Ventspils and Skonto as well as Russian Premiership club Rubin Kazan before his most recent role running the Kwara football academy in Nigeria.
Here's a quick look at the club itself;
Finances are reasonable with our bank balance just under the £100k mark, to ensure long term prosperity I must ensure we stay in the black as it is all to easy to slip into debt at this level.
#125322 The Midlands Man
A proud son of the Midlands I have decided to dedicate my efforts to helping the region rediscover it's winning ways, the only piece of major silverware to grace the mantel of a side from the Midlands within the last decade is the 2011 League cup, won by Birmingham City against Arsenal. However no midlanders have won the FA cup since Coventry's triumph over Tottenham in 1987, you have to go back to 1981 for the last top flight win in the region when Aston Villa lifted the old first division before going on to win the European Cup the following year, Villa's win over Bayern Munich as well as Nottingham Forest's back to back titles in 1979 and 1980 mean that Europe's elite competition has visited the Midlands three times.
My challenge is to begin with a Sunday league reputation and take on only Midlands clubs, attempting to achieve as much as possible whilst only being allowed to sign or renew the contracts of players hailing from the following counties;
Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire,Oxfordshire, Rutland, Staffordshire,Warwickshire, West Midlands Metropolitan District, Worcestershire
So that means that I'm allowed absolutely no smelly northerners or poncy southerners in my team, Any players that I start with, not born within the region, are allowed to play in matches but will NOT be given contract renewals (meaning that I will let them expire or sell them before the expiration date arrives).
There are no vacant jobs within the permitted counties at the moment so I will holiday through until one becomes available.
#124954 Game crashing
No unfortunatly, I lost a three year career due to it. :/
#124907 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
#124890 Testimonials
#124889 stadium
They are for FM13 but still work on 14
#124883 Game crashing
#124760 The Lower League Thread
A contingent of Anderlecht supporters turned up at Leicesters game with Millwall to cheer on their former player Marcin Wasilewski. Great to see such things.
#124747 The Lower League Thread
Glad I chose this game as Walsall lost 2-0 at home to Port Vale, the train is taking sodding forever though.
#124534 The Lower League Thread
#124533 The Lower League Thread
#124384 The Night Thread Mk. IX
Python eats drunken man
So this is what happens to all the pissheads outside off licences at night.
#123756 Champions League 2013/14
#123729 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
Pretty much what it sounds like, a girl I liked let me stick my hands under her bikini top whist we were in a jacuzzi/hot tub at this water park. I re-paid the favour by speanding the money my parents had given me for the trip on buying her a subway...romance.
#123718 Champions League 2013/14
#123677 BetThread
Arsenal - Marseille
Steaua Bucharest - Schalke
Dortmund - Napoli (draw)
Porto - Austria Vienna
Celtic - AC Milan (draw)
Ajax - Barcelona
Got £1 on sevenfolds and £3 on sixfolds with a maximum return of £781.43
#123665 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
I like Stoke, I got to feel my first pair of boobies during a school trip to water world there.
#123638 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
#123455 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
Still, great game and comeback by Villa.
#123448 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
#123050 Rick's Young Bucks
September 2013
Our very reasonable start to the season continued through September, although we only managed the one win in league action we still got something out of games with Stalybridge, Gloucester and Barrow and only fell prey to the one reverse as we allowed a lead against Histon slide, a bit disappointing as had we won we would be second in the table!
throwing away leads seems to be an unfortunate theme of this month as it also happened at Gloucester and against Barrow, this is something I am obviously keen to address.
In the FA cup we squeezed into the third qualifying round by navigating through an enthralling encounter with FC United, on this occasion it was our turn to mount a comeback as we battled back from a 3-0 deficit at half time to bring the tie back to The Silverlands, it looked as if this was also going to finish level after ninety minutes, however a 86th minute header from center back Karl Broadhurst banished the lingering prospect of extra-time to set up a third round tie away to Northern League side Spennymoore Town.
I'm quite enjoying life with the Bucks at the moment, I particularly enjoy that the squad is not perfect, no result is guaranteed one way or another, there is still a lot that needs tweaking tactically, players who need re-training or simply selling. the long term project is what's exciting me, of course I would like some success in this first season but simply staying up will suffice as far as I'm concerned this year as I recruit the youngsters who will become the flagstones of our future successes.
#122838 Shedender's Journeyman Career
#122800 Rick's Young Bucks
August 2013
I'm off to a great start as Buxton manager as I guided the league new boys to three wins out of four to give the Bucks a better start to life in the Skrill North than anyone could have predicted.
The 3-2 over Stockport was particuarly shocking to neaural eyes as we were 2-0 down before mounting a terrific comeback to snatch a win with a late penalty at Edgeley Park;
Those nine points have us sitting eighth in the table, what I wouldn't give to ensure we are still perched there in May!
As I said in the previous post, I lost most of my squad at the start of July as they chose to allow their contracts to expire, forcing me to recruit heavily over the summer;
Thirteen of those players are new Bucks which made pre-season invaluable as I looked to help my squad gel;
Not too bad resultswise, but of course I was more intrested in getting the team playing the way I want them to, so far I've utilised a pretty standard 4-4-2 with the following instructions;
Not pretty, but at this level it's pointless trying to play possesion based football as the terrible pitch conditions hinder that sort of play, not to mention my players lack the technique to pull it off effectivly. still, ther will be a time to improve our style but for this season at least my focus is on keeping the defence solid.
#122676 German Football Thread
#122506 Dan's Dafuge Challenge - A Weymouth FC Tale!
#122460 Rick's Young Bucks
Looks as if I'm going to have to build a brand new squad, which I don't mind doing, just seems a little unrealistic to me.
#122344 Rick's Young Bucks
After the untimely demise of my African game I needed a new challenge, after careful deliberation I have decided to put my efforts into completing the Dafuge challenge which is to take a previously unplayable club from the bottom division of English football, to eventual Champions League glory. more information on the challenge can be found here.
I holidayed through 2013/14 in order to facilitate the promotion of the batch of clubs, from whom I would have to select the club who I would one day be collecting my European cup winners medal with, here are the clubs who came up from the regional premier divisions;
As I live on the Derbyshire border, I naturally went with my fellow county-men. I've visited Buxton in the Peak district a few times and have always liked that rather beautiful part of England.
Here's my managerial profile;
And here is the club's overview screen;
So here we go, the journey from Conference North to the Bernabau is sure to be an arduous one, can it be done? this sleepy Derbyshire market town is about to find out!