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#291586 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
Absolutely brilliant way to end the season! Can't wait to start building for next season now, hopefully keeping Elliot Bannon here but I know it will be hard. If he does leave, I want to get a very good fee for him so that I can improve the team.
So I've finished 10th, which looked out of reach at most points in the season. A great position to finish in I think and I can't wait to take The Blue Brazil to bigger and better things.
#291585 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
A quite brilliant win. Elliot Bannon has adapted really well to the right midfield role, and scored a hat-trick playing there! Ferguson once again crossed the border and watched us against St Johnstone to watch Bannon, and I hope his performance doesn't interest them even more.
All we have to do is equal St Johnstone's result and we survive. We face Kilmarnock so if we win, we finish 10th which is quite remarkable looking back at how the season went.
Last game is against Kilmarnock and I really hope we can win it to guarantee survival.
#291584 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
Disappointing to just get a draw and for St Johnstone to win.
Need to win the next game desperately, mainly because it's against St Johnstone!
#291583 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
A disappointing performance against Hearts, but St Johnstone also lost so we don't lose any space in the table. Disappointed to lose Lewis Milne to suspension for the next game but hopefully somebody can step in and cover for him.
Here's how the table looks:
A few more wins would be vital.
Next up: Dundee United
#291582 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
Delighted with the comeback to win, and with St Johnstone losing 4-0 to Hearts, I moved off the bottom of the table for the first time since September!
The table:
Hoping to stay out now.
Up next: Hearts.
#291581 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
Wasn't expecting to win this game and was happy with our performance to hold Celtic to just 1-0.
The league split into two groups of six (top half and bottom half) and the bottom half was Hearts, Dundee Utd, Hamilton, Kilmarnock, St Johnstone and Cowdenbeath.
#291580 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
Only three matches this month due to international breaks, and three rather poor matches. I was hoping we could pick up a point or two from these matches, but it didn't happen. We were unlucky not to get a draw with St Mirren after having a goal disallowed, but it wasn't to be. Against Hearts we were awful and were never in the game, and we were unlucky not to draw against Inverness again.
Still only two points away with six games to go. The final game before the league splits is against Celtic so I'm not expecting to pick up anything from that game.
I'm hoping we can pick up a few wins from when the league splits and try and stay in the SPL.
#81068 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
I'm unbeaten against St Johnstone this season, beating them twice and losing once so hoping I can beat them again!
#291579 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
A pretty good month I think, wins against St Johnstone and Hamilton have left us just 2 points from safety. I firmly believe that we have a good chance of survival, despite how bad things looked earlier in the season. We've not lost to St Johnstone yet, and we're set to play them again when the league splits and I think we can overtake them and survive!
Here's how the table looks:
Looks like a three horse race for relegation. Also an interesting fight for 1st place with St Mirren looking to be the first team outside of the old firm to win the league since 1985!
#291578 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
A vital win against Kilmarnock that was needed to keep any hope of survival alive. Elliot Bannon was taken off after 12 minutes of that game and replaced by Greg Stewart who went on to score the 2 that won us the game so that may have been a blessing in disguise. Also good to be in the quarter final of the Scottish Cup against St Mirren/Hearts.
Still a hell of a lot of work to do to have any chance of surviving.
#291577 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
A good win against St Johnstone and a good win to go through in the cup. Will be hoping in future to be scoring more goals and picking up more points. Elliot Bannon, despite the promise he's shown, hasn't done much to show why he's been attracting interest from teams like Liverpool, Man United, Tottenham, Arsenal and Chelsea.
Not looking good for us in the table, but Jamie Langfield has joined us from Aberdeen on a free transfer so I'm hoping I've finally solved the goalkeeper problem!
#81015 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
I'm getting a few more results than I did with other formations and I've decided to stick with it, maybe need to push forward slightly though to get more goals.
#291576 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
And again, thanks but no thanks!
#291575 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
Picking up 4 points in the SPL makes this quite a good month.
I was disappointed to draw with Raith in the cup - we were 2-1 up with 5 minutes left before they equalised from a penalty given away by youngster John Paul McMullan (not good enough for this level but I have no cover!)
Here's how the table looks:
The Motherwell job was free and I was very tempted to apply, but I decided against it and stuck with Cowdenbeath for the time being.
They've also now let me offer more than £90 p/w for players, so I've signed Allan Coezy, a left back from Guadeloupe on a free transer who joings us immediately and I've also signed Jamie Langfield, a veteran goalkeeper from Aberdeen who will join us in January who is desperately needed.
#291574 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
Brilliant result!
#291573 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
Another bad month but I think it's got to be expected this season unfortunately, for some reason I'm only allowed to offer £90 p/w for players which means I can't sign anybody which is really frustrating me.
Very disappointing. Hoping to pick up a few more points from the next few matches to at least try and escape relegation.
#80986 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
I tried but they wouldn't let me offer anybody more than £90 p/w (and still won't), so nobody accepted any offers which was very annoying.
I'm trying out different tactics at the minute, will give that one a go next! Thanks for the suggestion.
#291572 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
Charlton offered me the manager's job but I've said no. Always nice to get recognition for the job I'm doing though!
#80592 FC Shakhtar Donetsk
jambowambo
Best of luck!
#291571 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
Absolutely gutted with this month. The Kilmarnock game was out of our reach, but the St Johnstone game we were 2-1 up and conceded in the 75th minute in a game where we should of won, but the worst result was the Motherwell one. 2-0 in the 86th minute but then Bob McHugh scored one back. I switched to defensive from counter here to try and keep the lead, but it didn't work. Stefan Scougall scored in the 92nd and 93rd minutes and somehow we lost a game that we should have won, and I expressed my anger to the players and the press that we'd lost it.
Picking up points from these games could be crucial towards the end of the season so we have to start holding our leads.
The table:
We're already falling away and need to start getting more points from matches.
Managers from the Barclay's Premier League are still coming over to watch Elliot Bannon, including the enemy himself, Alex Ferguson.
#291570 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
Was very happy to get that win against Hibs, Lewis Milne was superb in that game.
Disappointed to be out of the League Cup already to Airdrie, hoping for better success in the Scottish Cup.
Would be happy if the season ended now and we escaped relegation!
#291569 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
First off, let's see who's left the club:
A huge list but it was definitely needed. Some of the decisions made by the board were very hard to take - Marc McKenzie and Kenny Adamson both could have done a good job for me and I was very disappointed when they loaned out youngster Peter Dyer because he would have got plenty of first team football if he had stayed.
We did well to get £7k for Joe Mbu, but these transfers hardly got us anywhere near out of our debt!
I still don't have back the control of accepting/rejecting offers, so I'm hoping nobody offers for Elliot Bannon despite the long list of clubs after him:
Shows how good this kid is and how good he will be - don't forget he's only sixteen!
I set the asking price at £1m because I wanted to try and stop clubs offering and, if they did offer, to try and make them offer big. It seemed to have worked because the deadline went with no offers for him and I have him until at least January.
A much shorter list for players who came to the club:
That's really it. We managed to set up a link with Coventry and they sent us Ivor Lawton for the season, and I managed to re-sign Duguid on loan from Aberdeen for a second season.
So my full squad looks like this:
A really weak squad I think. Hoping I can find a few free agents and a good loan signing to strengthen it. Also hoping players I already had to step us such as Lewis Milne, Lionel Djebi-Zadi, JohnArmstrong, Scott Linton and hopefully Elliot Bannon.
Pre-season friendlies were mainly to raise money:
Some good performances against Aberdeen, Dundee United and Tottenham reserves made it quite a successful one.
#80525 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
Cheers man, gonna be so difficult keeping them up though!
#291568 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
And with one day left of the transfer window, I got this news:
Let's go and make lots of signings!!
#291567 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
#291566 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
#291565 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
Manager of the year: Jamie Butterfield
Player of the year: Scott Linton - 35 apps, 4 goals, 29 assists
Team of the year: Lionel Djebi Zadi, Scott Linton, Greg Stewart
Top goalscorer: Greg Stewart (16 goals)
#291564 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
Big problem I've just been alerted of, the main reason being that ground work had to be done in order for the stadium to be suitable for the SPL - a £6.8m under-soil heating system. Need to raise money desperately, hoping it's not through player sales though because I want to keep this group of players, especially Bannon, Milne, Linton, Armstrong and Djebi-Zadi.
#291563 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
#291562 The SAF Challenge
jambowambo
Partick Thistle came into the final day knowing they needed a Cowdenbeath loss and at least a 4 goal swing in order for them to get promoted. Cowdenbeath knew they just needed a draw to guarantee a return to the SPL for the first time since 1971.
In the 2nd minute, Partick Thistle's promotion hopes took a huge blow as Mensah put Livingston 1-0 up.
In the 15th minute, Cowdenbeath's hopes also took a knock as Swankie hit the back of the net to put relegated Forfar ahead 1-0.
In the 23rd minute, Lewis Milne went down in the box after a challenge by McIntosh and a penalty was awarded, which Linton finished with ease to bring the game level at 1-1.
A quick two goals by Partick Thistle meant that they took the lead against Livingston, however this wasn't enough if Cowdenbeath didn't lose. Wallace scored in the 25th minute and Elliot scored in the 26th minute.
In the 29th minute, Marc McKenzie thought he'd put Cowdenbeath ahead, only to see the offside flag raised.
In the 36th minute, a McNeil own goal put Partick Thistle 3-1 up. If they keep stretching their lead and Forfar score again against Cowdenbeath, they could be promoted.
In the 37th minute, disaster struck as Gibson put Forfar 2-1 ahead. However, Mensah had added his second goal for Livingston to bring their match with Partick Thistle back to 3-2.
In the 39th minute, things went from bad to worse as Wood put Forfar 3-1 ahead.
In stoppage time in the second half, Mensah completed a first half hat-trick and equalised for Livingston against Partick Thistle.
HT scores:
Cowdenbeath 1 - 3 Forfar
Partick Thistle 3 - 3 Livingston
As things stand, COWDENBEATH are promoted.
The second half of both games were quiet, however in the 88th minute Lewis Milne scored for Cowdenbeath which surely meant they were going to be an SPL side next season.
In the 90th minute, John Armstrong headed home a Scott Linton throw in to bring the game back to 3-3.
FT scores:
Cowdenbeath 3 - 3 Forfar
Partick Thistle 3 - 3 Livingston
COWDENBEATH are promoted.
We'd done it! Remarkable!