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#495978 The Hexagon Challenge (not a story)
bigmattb28
Ha no worries mate.
#495908 The Flying Scotsman. A Hall of Fame career
bigmattb28
With there only being 9 teams in the league we play each 3 times, then there’s the cups so play them all again, gets a bit boring playing the same team over and over, but it is what it is and really, Singapore is a pretty enjoyable league to be in.
First up in April were the team I’ve played against the most Geylang International, and this was an end to end game which neither of us deserved to lose. We were holding on at 2-1 right up until the dying embers of injury time and conceded right at the end of the game. Despite the stats telling a different story, we were lucky to be in front and really could’ve lost this game.
Not long into our new season and DPMM have sacked my seemingly bitter rival. Oh well, wonder how they’ll get on now, who they’ll get in and where Steve might end up next.
We went down 1-0 away to defending champs Warriors next in a game we could’ve won on another day. They are the champs I suppose so grinding out results are to be expected from them.
In the media I’m asked about my problems with Young Lions boss Patrick Hesse. I didn’t realise there was a war of words last time but I do love a good spat between managers
As for the game
Could’ve been 8-1 by the end of it. They didn’t turn up but we certainly did. Great result.
An out of left field appointment by DPMM to replace Scotsman Steve Kean with another Scotsman in ex Rangers player Barry Ferguson, as he leaves the bright lights of Clyde in the Scottish third division. I love it when FM does stuff like this, can’t wait to get the better of him
We were brought crashing down to Earth as we lost 2-0 away to Tampines Rovers. We had more shots but none were real clear cut chances, and they took their chances. Disappointing but we move on.
On the same day Barry Ferguson wins his first game in charge of DPMM as they won 3-0 away at Home United. Good for them.
We get right back on track with a resounding 5-0 home win over Balesiter to bring our record in April to 2 wins, 2 losses and a draw which sees us occupy second place in the league.
Defending champs Warriors seem all over the place at the minute as they are currently 14 (!) points off top spot whilst we are 5 points behind Albirex but they have a game in hand. Definitely all to play for and maybe, just maybe we can reduce that 5 point gap at the top
Nice little award for Vargas to kick May off as he’s awarded the player of the month for April. No doubt about it either as he’s really stepped in with Rodriguez being injured.
Speaking of the big man Rodriguez, his first game back was against Home United and I brought him on in the 73rd minute, and gave him some encouragement as he made his way on to the pitch with the game at 0-0 despite us absolutely dominating the game.
We changed it slightly as well as we went route one and pump ball into the box, and the substitution really paid off. Firstly the ball got hoofed up to Rodriguez who was just inside the penalty area and with his first touch he headed the ball down in front of him, and in a way it was defence splitting as Mat Noor ran onto the ball and buried it home. 1 touch, 1 assist. Next bit of good play was another long ball, one of those floating efforts that again found Rodriguez just on the edge of the area, except this time he took a touch, laid the ball in to the path of left midfielder Plaziblat who hit a sweet effort to kill the game off.
We took the good form into the cup as we beat Vientiane 3-1 to progress to the next round, where we’ll play Young Lions.
To end this post is the finale of the SPL season, and what a season it’s been so far. Celtic aren’t the runaway leaders, and I didn’t post it but it was Paul Hartley who was given the job after Brendan Rodgers got the boot. Anyway the table going into the final game looks like this:
Motherwell are safe from relegation, so Vince is happy at that. However at the top it could be 1 of Hearts, Celtic or Rangers who win it. Rangers need to win at home to Dundee and hope Celtic and Hearts both lose, Celtic need to win away at Aberdeen and hope Hearts don’t win at home to Saint Johnstone, and for Hearts they just need to win to guarantee the title, or match Celtics result and hope Rangers don’t win by 3 goals and they lose.
So an exciting end to the SPL season as all eyes will be on the final games. If Celtic don’t win it there will be serious questions asked, but it would be great if they didn’t.
Next update will be how the SPL season finished, some news regarding contracts and the next round of league games and the start of the League Cup, which we’ll be looking to defend.
As always thanks for reading.
Career progress:
2016 | Houngang United -- (Singapore) Finished 7th, League Cup winners
2017 | Houngang United -- (Singapore) In progress
#495902 Park Ranger - Moyola Park
bigmattb28
#495900 The Flying Scotsman. A Hall of Fame career
bigmattb28
Yeah it's neck and neck at the minute, I'm actually happy as Albirex are the highest rep team in Singapore. But there might be a twist in the tale in a future update.....
#495831 Rebuild the Boro
bigmattb28
#495830 Welcome To Hellgrade - A Red Star Belgrade Career
bigmattb28
#495829 Park Ranger - Moyola Park
bigmattb28
#495800 [FM17] Climbing Jacob's Ladder (Part Deux)
bigmattb28
#495799 The Flying Scotsman. A Hall of Fame career
bigmattb28
My first full season at Hougang started just as my stint as manager did, with a victory over Geyland International, this one being a resounding 4-0. Rodriguez grabbing a brace and goals from center half Xu and forward Hussain. A great way to start the new season.
Another win followed this time a 3-1 away win over Young Lions, Rodriguez getting another 2 goals as well as Hassan getting the other.
Our first home game was another 3-1 victory, this one over Tampines Rovers, Rodrigues this time grabbing a hat trick to bring his total to 7 in 3 games.
The final game in February saw us win again, with a 2-1 victory over Balestier, with Rodriguez continuing his great form to get a goal within the first minute, before Stazibat sealed the win on 78minutes.
4 games in and 4 wins for our troubles. We’ve got 2 games in hand over leaders Albirex but with the way we’re playing, we can be confident of progressing.
Just thought I’d see what’s going on in Scotland and to my surprise Celtic are struggling and have sacked Brendan Rogers
Remember this is still only the first season, so they must not be doing well at all. But their first game after sacking Rogers was a home game against Motherwell:
Great result for the Steelmen.
Back to our own progression and we’re drawn as the home team in the Singapore Cup against Vientiane FC of Laos. We should win this one fairly easily I would’ve thought.
We couldn’t make up ground on leader Albirex as we went down 2-1 at home in our first loss of the new season. We can’t have many complaints really, we took it to them and held our own throughout, they were just the better team on the day.
We had Steve Kean and DPMM up next, and he was mouthing off in the media about how he’s a better manager than me and how he’ll shut me up, well I don’t bother responding to the media and let the team do all the talking for me
They didn’t have a sniff of the ball all game and 3-0 flattered them, with new boy Vargas absolutely bossing the game. Keep out of the kitchen if you can’t stand the heat Steve.
Whilst it’s always nice putting a rival manager in place, that bit of good fortune preceded 2 injuries that can fall in the unfortunate timing column. First team left full back and new signing Milojevic out for up to 3 months and star striker and main man Pablo Rodriguez out for up to 7 weeks. I just hope this doesn’t derail us too much
Those injuries aside, we laboured to a 2 all draw with defending champions Warriors, before rounding out the month with a 1 nil away over Home United.
Those results give us a record of 6 wins, a draw and a loss to keep us in second place in the league.
A steady start to the new season, and from what I’ve seen we’re in for a good season. I really think this squad can continue to challenge for the top end of the league. Whilst main man Rodriguez is injured, Vargas has stepped up and is playing well.
Next update will be the next few months of this season, other happenings in the world and anything else of note.
Thanks for reading.
Career progress:
2016 | Houngang United -- (Singapore) Finished 7th, League Cup winners
2017 | Houngang United -- (Singapore) In progress
#495716 (FM19) Worldwide Journeyman
bigmattb28
#495667 Park Ranger - Moyola Park
bigmattb28
#495480 Rebuild the Boro
bigmattb28
Good to get a big win like that tho especially early on.
#495462 The Flying Scotsman. A Hall of Fame career
bigmattb28
Cheers mate, very optimistic for this season.
#495461 Now I would walk 500 miles...
bigmattb28
#495379 The Flying Scotsman. A Hall of Fame career
bigmattb28
As mentioned in the last post I have addressed the back room staff situation. First in is first team coach and Saint Mirren icon Steven Thompson. Following him through the door is my new assistant manager Jim Love. Finally joining those 2 are my new under 18’s coach Marc O’Connor and under 18’s physio Paul Spencer. Hopefully we can build a good working relationship, and as noted I would like to keep my backroom team together at other clubs, where possible. I know the under 18’s staff stats aren’t that good, but I want to keep it as realistic as possible.
With my backroom taking shape we got the season summary through, Warriors clearly over achieving by winning the league so they’ll be the team to beat this season, as well as our own fixtures being announced, and we’re playing the team I faced first as a manager Geyland International, as well as being predicted as finishing 5th in the league, which of course is an improvement on our 7th placed finish from the season that just finished.
Transfers time now as we saw 1 player leave and 2 come in. First the players joining us are Cristian Vargas at center forward and Stefan Milojevic at left full back. As with all the players in this division they’re stats aren’t the best, but for me Vargas must surely be the best striker in the league and I am expecting some goals from him this season
Fumiya Kogure was transfer listed as I couldn’t get him in the team, with him being Japanese and our foreign player quota already being filled, he’s off to Malaysian team Pahang who have just been relegated to the second division. 20 thousand euros is big money in this league and more or less pays for the 2 players we’ve just brought in
The board are expecting a top half finish, and so am I. With Rodrigues and Vargas up top we should be able to outscore most teams in the division, with the exception of champions Warriors and top rep team Albirex Nigata.
Final point on this update is that Lionel Messi (anyone ever heard of him?!) has won the Ballon d’Or after a good year with Barcelona.
Next update will be the first 2 months of the new season and any other business.
Thanks for reading.
Career progress:
2016 | Houngang United -- (Singapore) Finished 7th, League Cup winners
2017 | Houngang United -- (Singapore) In progress
#495363 Welcome To Hellgrade - A Red Star Belgrade Career
bigmattb28
#495362 The Flying Scotsman. A Hall of Fame career
bigmattb28
Yeah was nice to get an early cup win, the first of many hopefully
#495361 The Hexagon Challenge (not a story)
bigmattb28
Ahh right, got ya
#495349 Now I would walk 500 miles...
bigmattb28
#495348 Welsh League Challenge
bigmattb28
I'm the same, never start at the top, always at a half star or 1 star team. If you're doing this challenge, why not blog it in the careers section of the forum?
#495346 The Hexagon Challenge (not a story)
bigmattb28
I have. The last one I had on here I haven't touched or posted about since May. Am sure not posting on here for 4 months is fine to start a new career?
#495341 Welcome To Hellgrade - A Red Star Belgrade Career
bigmattb28
#495336 The Hexagon Challenge (not a story)
bigmattb28
Haha it felt like it at 1 point, but FM19 is done for me now, 3 game breaking glitches has put my 2 main stories on that down. Never liked 18 so sticking to 17. Will only get 20 after the third patch next year.
#495286 Eskins At The Wheel - Man Utd (FM19)
bigmattb28
#495285 The Hexagon Challenge (not a story)
bigmattb28
#495254 The Flying Scotsman. A Hall of Fame career
bigmattb28
So after a good month in August despite being knocked out of the Singapore Cup, I think we’ve used all our luck winning the League Cup this season, it’s all about getting results and not finishing bottom of the S League now. With the Cup win the squad should be on a high and really, finishing bottom shouldn’t happen.
So 6 games left of my first season as a manager, and we got off to a good start when we beat Young Lions 3-2 at home. The interesting thing about this game was we were 2 all heading into the 85th minute before center half Jonathan Xu got sent off, I would have been happy with a draw at that stage but we managed to clinch the win with a late goal.
Steve Kean the twat and DPMM taught us a lesson in finishing as an even game ended 3-1 to them, which helps them and their title challenge out. We then lost another even game, this time to Balesiter who avenged that cup final loss. 1-0 was a fair result really, they had a decent chance and took it, we had enough chances to equalize but we didn’t.
Those results leave us 7th in the league with 21 points and 3 games left to play.
For much of the season Warriors had occupied top spot, but with 3 games left, Steve Kean and DPMM currently hold that position.
We then played a good game at home to Tampine Rovers and secured a 2-1 victory.
This home victory preceded an absolutely incredible game away at Albirex Nigata, where it was end to end stuff. Both teams putting on a good showing and really, 4-2 didn’t tell the whole story. Every time they had the ball they looked like creating something from it, and we never backed down either and kept taking it to Albirex despite going in at the half 2-0 down. 12 minutes after the restart and it was 2 all, and I think that really took the wind out of Albirex. We got 2 goals in the final 10 minutes to complete a remarkable turnaround.
The final game of Vince’s first season as a manager ended in a 1 all draw away at the team he first faced as a manager, Geylang International. As even a game as they come, not a bad result and the team had secured not finishing bottom by this point as well.
So with all that done the first 6 months of the career are in the bag and Vince did what he set out to do in the short term, and that was avoid finishing bottom of the league, which was won by Warriors who by and large had looked the most threatening all season long.
The final game of this season is the third place play off in the Singapore cup, nothing fancy and doesn’t do anything in the grand scheme of things, but we beat Tampine Rovers 2-1 to finish third in the cup
Steve Kean managed to win the Singapore Cup with DPMM this season to have a Scotsman win each of the cups in Singapore. I'm sure winning the cup will soften the blow of losing out on the league title.
End of season stuff now and Fairoz Hasan gets player of the season, not my choice I’d have given it to Pablo Rodriguez. Noor’s goal against Home United is also awarded goal of the season.
https://youtu.be/8Npid33bwv0
1 final note to make, as the dream is to manage Motherwell, I’m always keeping an eye on their results and here’s one no one saw coming
As the team sets off for their end of season break, there’s not that much work to do really. There’s enough quality in the team to improve on this season’s 7th place finish, the League Cup win proves that. Backroom staff will be addressed, any players that won’t sign new contracts will be replaced, and this season we won't be hanging around at the bottom end of the league.
Next update will be pre-season stuff, staff coming and going, new signings and the start of the new campaign. Thanks for reading!
Career progress:
2016 | Houngang United -- (Singapore) Finished 7th, League Cup winners
#495156 (FM19) Worldwide Journeyman
bigmattb28
Congrats on the belated award from Argentina
#495154 Welcome To Hellgrade - A Red Star Belgrade Career
bigmattb28
#495153 Rebuild the Boro
bigmattb28
No worries mate, there's always someone on the forum that can help with anything.
Where oh where did that 9 goal win come from?!? West Brom must have been absolutely abysmal all over the pitch!
Good update, keep it up.
#495151 The Flying Scotsman. A Hall of Fame career
bigmattb28
Just a short update this time as I wanted to get the cup final and the few games of August out of the way.
The first cup final, of hopefully many, ended in a way no one would’ve predicted before I took over. I told the team to go out there and play their natural games, the pressure was all on Balesiter, in a way it was as they were the favorites and our team had been playing poorly all season. We were 2-0 at half time, and really the game was done and dusted at point. We added a third to really top the whole competition off in style.
Believe me when I say there’s no better feeling than winning a cup, maybe a league but for a team that has been poor all season up until I walked through the door, and for the first competition win of my career, this feels special. Not only is this my first trophy, it’s also this clubs too.
All the goals:
https://youtu.be/FZYldmYBd9I
We then had the semi-final of the Singapore cup where we played a 1 all draw with Albirex Nigata, the highest rep team in Singapore.
A very even game all things considered. They scored the opener on 16 minutes before we went straight back at them from the restart and after a long ball into the box Wahid poked the ball home. A decent enough result to take into the second leg
Sandwiched between the 2 legs of the cup semi final, we played top of the league, and champions in waiting Warriors. We were 2-0 at half time before they pulled it to 2-1 with 7 minutes remaining, we held on though and a win against top of the league team can be seen as progress.
Rounding out August was the second leg of the semi final, and this is where our second cup run ends, as Albirex showed their superiority and pulled out a 2-1 win, meaning they won 3-2 on aggregate. Always disappointing to lose a 2 legged tie but there’s no shame in this loss, they’re a top team and our team are only now playing somewhat decent.
All in all August was a good month for me as we had 3 wins, 1 being the cup final, a draw and a loss, to bring my record to a respectable 8-2-2. I’ve seen enough in this team to think finishing bottom isn’t going to happen, and all the games left in the league are winnable enough. Plus we’ve won the League Cup this season, and there’s nothing to say we couldn’t win it again next season.
So Vince has one cup to his name, there’s going to have to be a lot more than that if he is to top the Hall of Fame. Onwards and upwards.