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#317855 Gendo, We're Coming For You - A Dan & Shedender BSC Succession Save
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Really enjoying reading through this gents. I'm sure you can pull through this rough patch and sort it out at Preston
#267279 Dans Journey Around The World [FM15]
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Shame about the way It had to end. Thanks for giving me something amusing to read on my lunch breaks! Looking forward to whatever you decide to do next year
#266391 Dans Journey Around The World [FM15]
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Ah so you have, my apologies I remember now you did it in style too. Haha it all gets muddled when you have such a good story/career
#266222 Dans Journey Around The World [FM15]
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Wow, just spent my lunch breaks for the last two weeks reading all 52 Pages! Great effort and great commitment! Would love to see what you Steam playing hours is for the game. Tough luck with all the Swedish teams man! Just to add if you do a challenge like this again next year I have much preferred the updates since you started doing it half yearly rather then monthly. Much easier to read in my opinion.

Hope you stick with this as you are well over half way now. Plus if you get demotivated Australasia would be and easy Continent to tick off. Will keep following now I have caught up. Best of luck!
#265456 Neville's In The North
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So back to Sunderland, luckily the meeting I had to have with the board after the Southampton game didn't result in my losing my job. It was however made clear to me that unless I started picking up results soon my P45 would be in the post. So here is the next lot of results from my wonderful career in Sunderland :

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We were unlucky not to get a point in both the West Ham and the Swansea game. In both games we fell to a late goal which robbed us of a point.

Finally by resorting to a 5-4-1 I managed to pick up a win against a struggling Burnley side. I was really impressed with my players during this game and was hoping that it would be the start of a good run for us.

Next we faced Man United at home but the strength of the Red Devils was just too much for us to handle and they were 3-0 up by half time coasting to easy 4-0 win in the end.

Now the big one the first Derby day of the season; Sunderland vs Newcastle,, Neville vs Neville. We had the best of the chances in the first half and before half time we were awarded a penalty for a bad challenge in the box. Vergini stepped up and blazed it wide of the upright. I really can't get a break in this save. At half time Pipadoc out foxed me tactically putting us on the back foot for all of the second half and it showed. We conceded to silly goals in the second half one of which was a penalty just to rub it in and all bragging rights go to Newcastle.

The next game against QPR almost had my laptop going out of the window, again we got an early penalty which I trusted Vergini to take.Again though he blazed it wide and has now been removed from all penalty duties. After this we again had the lions share of possession and shots however they sunk us with a 88th minute goal and handed us our third defeat in a row.

After 3 loses in a row we were low on morale and it showed for our remaining two games of this stint, we played shockingly and deserved our two big defeats. So with 1 win from 8 games the sharks are starting to circle again. I'm just praying that I can the results I need in the Christmas period to stay afloat.
#264461 Neville's In The North
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This post will include my last three games in this stint before I hand over to Pipadoc for him to show you how he has been doing with the magpies.
First though we see if I can break my losing streak and get some much needed points as the board are starting to grumble about the bad string of results.

First up Arsenal at home.

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This game was much closer than the score suggests and we really pushed arsenal for 80 minutes. They went ahead through a fantastic free kick from Oliver Giroud 12 minutes in. We then pushed on and managed to level the game when Defoe managed to latch on to a perfect through ball from Wickham and fire it home. The lead didn't last long with Welbeck latching onto a clearance from their half and out pacing our Centre backs before slotting it past Pantilamon. We went into the break 2-1 down but after giving the players a dressing down at half time, they went out for the second half and played some impressive football leading to Wickhams well worked goal putting us back on level terms. We looked good for the draw or even a much needed win until the last 10 minutes where we just imploded and let Giroud score twice and ruined all our hard work during the game.

Finally we get a somewhat easier fixture against West Brom and the chance of bringing this downward spiral to an end.

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This game proved to be very similar to the Leicester game with us being the much more dominant team but once again all our hard work was undone by a stupid defensive mistake from Coates who has been excellent since I dropped O'Shea for him. He missed an easy clearance and the ball dropped right to the feet of Anichebe. After this it looked like Defoe was brought down when he was clear through on goal but the referee didn't think the same.
This is another disappointing result and all of them are starting to stack up. I need to turn this around soon as the fans and the board are starting to run out of patience.

Now we face a high flying Southampton side and morale among the squad is at rock bottom,

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I just have no words. No words. We got absolutely dismantled. I'm running out of ideas here.
After this game I got an invite to attend a meeting with the board and told that if I didn't turn up they would terminate my contract.

Life really isn't looking good for this Neville brother lets see how it is looking for the other. Over to you Phil
#264448 Neville's In The North
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For this game I just wanted to stop us conceding goals and was playing around with the tactics unfortunately I got the balance a bit wrong and went too defensive resulting in 90% of the game being played in our half. Despite that fact we were only one down at the break and I was hoping that we could snatch a goal and a point. As soon as the second half started though Henderson smashed one into the top right hand corner form outside the box ending my hopes of any points. Vergini then scored from the spot to give me a glimmer of hope but we couldn't get another and Welbeck scored just before the end to cap a miserable couple of games.

Next up Leicester where again I was hoping to get some more points and stem the flow of goals into our net.

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We were firmly in control of this game creating lots of chances inside the opponents box which we simply didn't take advantage of, Defoe in particular missed two chances from around the six yard box. At the other end most of their shots were from outside the box and they only had 3 shots on targets.
This game ended in the cruelest of circumstances with Van Aanholt trying to clear the ball off the line in the 92nd minute and he ended up hammering it into the roof of our own net. They say to win anything in sport you need to be both good and lucky and the moment it appears I am neither.

Next we continue our tough season with a visit to Stamford Bridge.

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Just when I thought I was sorting out my defense we get absolutely destroyed by Costa and Co. It is becoming quickly apparent that I need to replace John O Shea at center back as opposition players just seem to be out jumping and out playing him every time. Unfortunately for now he is my best option. I will let the stats speak for themselves on this one as it was painful enough to watch yet alone repeat.

At this point I am just begging for a couple of easier games but alas next up we host Arsenal.
#264435 Neville's In The North
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This is my first time writing a FM story so any tips on layout ect would be much appreciated.

As Kez_7 mentioned Sunderland's finances aren't the best. I had no transfer budget or wage budget to work with (despite making a request to the board) and a quick glance at the finances showed that I had three bank loans that I was going to be making payments on. With that in mind here are my transfers...

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As everyone can see I had to sell Fletcher to Swansea, arguably our best striker. I initially tried to offload Defoe and his ridiculous contract but no one would take him. So I was left with little choice but to offload Fletcher to Swansea for some funds to try and sure up my defense which is both lacking in depth and youth. Unfortunately I was only able to bring in one defensive player with the time I had left which was Westermann but he can play all the defensive positions to a good standard so I hope he will be a swiss army knife of sorts. I also managed to sign some promising young players on free transfers and sent them straight out on loan. Finally I managed to young Jacob Murphy from Norwich who gives us more choice on the right hand side of the field. Here is my squad to start the season.....

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Here is my fixture list for the first half of the season.

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Very tough games to start off the season as we are playing 4 of the big teams in the first six weeks. But a nice draw in the capital one cup so hopefully we can progress.

Onto our first game where we host Stoke.

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I was very happy to see Wickham on the score sheet so quickly as I am expecting him to fill Fletcher's shoes. We held on and then Alvarez sealed the result with one minute to go in normal time. 3 points and a great way to start the season.

Hoping we can build on this to snatch something against Man City next.

http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t348/David_Hendy/FM%2015/Man%20city%20game%202_zpsspfh5ivy.jpg

Well my fears about my ageing defense proved to be proven in this game they simply couldn't even touch the Man City Players in this game. They were just able to walk through our defense and shot at will as the scoreline and stats showed with both their forwards getting hatricks. I even went full on defensive for the second half but couldn't keep them out. It is encouraging that we can score though just need to work on keeping the goals out.


Next up we hosted Preston in the League Cup

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We started the game having lots of the possession and creating chances from it. Wickham got on the score sheet again in the first half, however some sloppy defending lead to Preston getting an equaliser 3 minutes later. It was level at half time , unfortuantly though we just didn't turn up in the second half and Preston made it count, they pressured us high up the pitch and we couldn't deal with it. They took control and made it count in the 65th minute taking advantage of our failure to clear a comer. We had no response and crash out of our first competition at the first hurdle.........disappointing.

It doesn't get any easier next either as Liverpool come to the Stadium of Light.
#264266 Neville's In The North
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So with Pipadoc taking charge at Newcastle that left me the Black Cats of Sunderland!

Let me introduce Gary Neville the new manager of Sunderland.

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This is going to be a very interesting season with the board expecting me to achieve a mid table finish with no investment in either transfer or wage budget, well at least it will be a challenge. As for the cup competitions I think the Capital one could be a good tournament for us, and who knows in the FA cup it is so unpredictable.
#263550 Succession Game
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Have spent, the last couple of days reading this thread, cracking effort boys. Would love to see the quad in the near future! Thanks for the great couple of days reading!
#263055 Pentagon
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Great Story man. Need the Africa updates now. Would make a thread for my pentagon but i'm already three seasons in.