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We won the play-off final and are therefore promoted to the Conference. We managed to eventually get by Eastleigh after a very eventful last 8 minutes of the game. The might Hawks stuck away all 5 of our penalties with Daniel Emerton missing the penalty for Eastleigh. Onwards to the conference!



League Player of the Year goes to our boy Jamie Smith. The player we brought in on a free at the start of the season enjoyed a ridiculously good campaign racking up 15 league goals and 20 assists along the way. Played son.

Oh for God's sake. Left ourselves with it all to do in the second leg..



But we're Whitehawk Football Club, no one stands in our way. Danny Mills took his total to 31 league goals this season, monster.



We play Eastleigh in the final, bring it.

IDIOTS.



We ran the league the whole season. We were beating everyone and all of a sudden we were without a win in 4 games, but still... the situation was not totally bleak. We needed a draw against Dover in the penultimate game of the season to take it to the last day. We got beat 3-1 - and deservedly so, we were absolutely shit. So we have to settle for a play-off spot. Grrr.



We deserved more. We scored 96 goals for crying out loud. We deserved more.

Easy.



Drat. First side we play in the Trophy that aren't a league above us and we get beat.. complacency setting in there. Oh well, no more fixture congestion - can fully concentrate on getting this side their third consecutive league title.

Good luck chief.

#DoItForLawrence

Phew thought you'd finished with this. Glad it's back. Usual story seeing all those green dots.

I'd jump at the Ajax job. Perfect football manager team, good move Johno!

Bossin' shit.



Halfway stage and we're top of the pile. Flying in the league - top goalscorer, top average rating and top assister (is that a word?). Due to our pretty successful FA Trophy run we find ourselves with a few games in hand on surrounding teams. However, if you look down the league the games played column is all to fuck anyway. Oh well.



Conference side Woking out of the way. Easy.



Another victory against a Conference side. Just as easy. We play Dartford (another conference side) in the third round for any of you avid followers of the coveted FA Trophy.

We qualify for the first round of the FA Trophy after giving Ebbsfleet a good old pasting. Hit the post on 4 occasions too so this could well have been an even nicer scoreline but it wasn't to be. As for the FA Cup we went out in qualifying against Eastleigh. Meh.

Strengthened some positions in which we had bugger all by bringing in 4 players. Trani stands at 6ft 7 so he's a big lad. Shelled out and spent £5k on Noble who's a versatile chap being a natural in 2 positions. Pinched a right-back from the Met Police, seeing as he was on a rolling contract we didn't pay a penny. The fellow who left the club was absolutely shit (yes, even by this club's standards) yet was earning a cool £500 a week - cya.

Small world!


Thanks Jamie.



The Whitehawk ultras.

Genuinely can't wait to get into this save. My Peterborough save will run alongside this but depending on how this goes one will take priority eventually. Think I'm going to try a totally different approach with regards to updates to ensure there's no danger of text upon text. There was just something about this club that made me want to take them to the Premier League.. I don't know what it is, I just felt that I needed to. They've been going since 1945 so they're a reputable club, but I want to turn them pro.



As you can see the club has enjoyed quite a fruitful 2 years.. being crowned champions twice in as many attempts. They blitzed through the Regional First Division and then went on to take the Regional Premier Division by storm too - thus landing themselves in the Skrill South, with the expectation of finishing 4th. That's where I come in - I won't settle for 4th, I'm going up this season whether they like it or not, bitches.



Look at our captain, what a hero. He's 39 years of age and his name will ring a bell to quite a few of you. He is on board with Whitehawk having played a very respectable 9 seasons in the Championship with Millwall and Palace racking up well over 250 appearances at that level.. but never reaching the Premier League. I feel like I owe it to him to get him there whether he has retired and joined the coaching set up or is still our captain at the tender old age of 44, let's do it... FOR MATT LAWRENCE! (couldn't help myself but mention his pace and acceleration)

Plan to run a separate career alongside this due to coming across a team which really caught my eye! Will post tonight

2015/16: 26th December - 8th May

Very few positives in this set of results. Apart from the 3-1 win over City in which our talisman George Thorne bossed the game, everything else was a bit of a disaster really. You'll see that in the final games of the season (which we were pasted in) there's a new scorer - Giovanni Simeone, son of Diego Simeone, for whom we paid £5m to River Plate in order to secure his services. Oh well, the first season in the Premier League was never going to be easy, the main thing was to survive.. so did we?



Of course we survived. We are Peterborough United. We finished down in 13th place which is a very respectable finish for our debut season, if you ask me. Chelsea won the league with Spurs not far behind. Spurs could've secure a memorable double as they managed to win the Champions League this season too, madness.



Some good news. Bit disappointed at how plain the name of the stadium is but I will get over it! Shows the board have faith in me and are as keen as I am to move this club onto the next level! As always, Viva la Posh!

Goals definitely the issue pal, otherwise excellent!

Hell of a start mate.

Thanks for the comments there t-mase, Johno, Jamie and Dan!

Good work on the FA Trophy Dan, congrats!

Future looks bright here Jamie!

Plenty of class America regens in my save too, good signing pal!

2015: 15th August - 19th December

We kicked off our Premier League era in style thumping Reading 4-1 with debutants Mohammed Salah and George Thorne both getting themselves on the scoresheet. A very good first game was marred by a horrible 3-0 defeat to a pretty mediocre Blackburn side in truth. The highlights of this period definitely being the 1-0 over Man City thanks to Harry Maguire late on and a very successful Capital One Cup campaign.



We're 7th! I have no idea how as we have certainly not shown form worthy of a place that high in the league. Oh well, I am not complaining one bit. Man United lead the way thus far but in truth the league is tight from top to bottom. Thrilled with our position at this point. I hate to be pessimistic but the form we have shown in the games I can very much see us sliding down the table fairly promptly.



Viva la Posh!

Cheers George mate!


Thanks t-mase!

Very nice assistant manager. Great read Johno!

Pre-season summary

Our first pre-season of the our Premier League era and it was decent. My first undefeated pre-season at Posh but we didn't really play anyone too challenging. Disappointed to draw with Brentford although a 3-1 victory over Serie A Sassuolo was pleasing enough. You may notice some new names among the goalscorers in these games. Of course I had a flutter in the transfer window.



As you can see I was given a huge transfer budget to play with as the club finances were impeccable following our play-off success, and.... I spent it all. I bolstered the squad in vital areas and brought in players which are good enough already but still have plenty of growth to come their way. Particularly happy with the signing of George Thorne for such a low fee, especially given his performances in pre-season. Elsewhere we brought in wonderkid Zakaria Bakkali for £12.5m which is quite a hefty fee but for a player is a position we desperately needed and such a huge talent, too. We managed to steal Mohamed Salah from Chelsea for far less than what they paid for him, he gives us something very different on the right flank. Our final deal saw German stopper Loris Karius join from Mainz for a cool £3.8m.

Thanks for the comments lads!

Good start Jamie!

2015: Play-off summary

He did it again! Jack Payne struck his second last ditch goal in this tie and oh how much it means to this club. His 86th minute strike meant we the tie finished 2-2 and was off to extra time. An unfortunate error from Birmingham's Garner looks as if it would put us through until the 116th minute when Nouble leveled the game once more! Extra time couldn't separate the teams and so it was to be decided on penalties. It was Posh who ended up victorious with a 7-6 win in the shootout.



PLAY-OFF FINAL:

Thanks mate. Cheers for following!


Thanks Sean pal.

Really enjoying following this mate.