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#513178 The Tale of a Beggar
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Best of luck in Scotland! Hope you go (For)far! (sorry)
#513068 [FM17] Climbing Jacob's Ladder (Part Deux)
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Congrats getting that title!
#512946 Another shot at redemption.
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Bossing it thus far, some big wins in there. KIU!
#512945 The Long Haul (Everton FC)
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Flying start! Let's hope it can continue.
#512864 Challenge 1 - Last At Christmas (well new years eve)
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Well for what it's worth next month's challenge won't involve any transfers

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#512800 European Travelling Journey
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Congrats on the double (and promotion) in 2021! Kosovo is a rather interesting location to play, will have to try it some day.
#512799 Challenge 1 - Last At Christmas (well new years eve)
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I think we both fell into the same honey trap of a massive budget...bringing in too many new players!

You can add me to that list too.

I haven't got around to playing the save since I last posted, but will get it completed by the deadline.
#512798 The 'Worldwide' Win It All Journeyman
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Can only repeat what has been said above. Metalist and Dnipro, two fairly well known Ukrainian clubs who have fallen quite a bit in the last few years. Sure you'll get Metalist back where they belong.
#512797 Another shot at redemption.
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Good luck in Chile! Hopefully things go well.
#512627 The 'Worldwide' Win It All Journeyman
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At least you avoided relegation, now hopefully you can avoid the sack!
#512494 York City - In it for the long haul
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York City seem to be a popular club to play with on this year's game. Good luck!
#512435 Lets go on a European journey, man!
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That league form has indeed been a bit https://yt3.ggpht.com/a/AGF-l7922NcU1CWzQF5EAFp3QLmFRWmBt1m6Aef3og=s48-c-k-c0xffffffff-no-rj-mo
Title hopes look over as you mention, so hopefully you can get top four at least.
also hope you get beat by United
#512433 The 'Worldwide' Win It All Journeyman
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Class work getting that title with Larne... interesting next step in Slovenia!
Good luck with *checks nickname idea vault* The 'Riga ... The Green Ilirs ... erm ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#512431 Now I would walk 500 miles...
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Hi all.

This story is far from at its end, I've just been incredibly busy these last few months with lots of things such as moving home etc.

More updates will follow in due course.

Mark

No rush, look forward to reading the next update!
#512428 Newcastle - The Road Back To Success
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Fantastic season so far! Hopefully it can continue.
As tongey mentioned, league form not the best but it is still all to play for.
#512424 [FM20] Earth Trip
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I did not want to be in your skin, what a difficult mission ahead .. I wish good luck mate!

It's going to be difficult indeed, gonna need to pick up points quick and hope (at least) one team above us drops some - I'd snapped your hand off for a play-off place at this point.
#512224 Broke to Bank (Journeyman)
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Great to avoid the drop, that terrific form in April helped massively. What an impact from Alan Smith!
#512223 The 'Worldwide' Win It All Journeyman
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Top of the league, love that! Keep it up!
#512159 The Fallen Giants -- A new century of history
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#512108 Another shot at redemption.
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Great work getting promotion! Obviously a shame you couldn't go further in the play-offs, penalties always a frustrating way to lose, but that's a good first climb upwards in your challenge.
#512007 [FM20] Earth Trip
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Ouch, not the best showing early on, you need to pick up some points soon mate.

We very much do! Survival is all I - and the board - want from this season.
#511983 [FM20] Earth Trip
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Nice promotion with Limerick, think they're very close to being liquidated in real life.

Thanks! Indeed they are, big shame!
#511920 [FM20] Earth Trip
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Not great.

It has been a tricky first number of months in 2023 in the top-flight for me at Limerick, the club's first season in it since 2018. A whole lot of red circles in there, as we've avoided defeat in just five competitive fixtures; from eighteen in total. We secured just two victories, over positional rivals UCD and St Patrick's Athletic while we could only manage a draw with Bohemian - the team above. Our runs in the Munster Senior Cup and EA Sports Cup were short-lived, as we were eliminated by league leaders Cork City in the former and First Division bottom club Wexford in the latter.

We, to no surprise, sit bottom of the Premier Division table after sixteen matches. We're 6pts behind Bohemian, who currently hold the play-off spot, and UCD; St Patrick's Athletic and Sligo Rovers aren't too far ahead. We're fortunate the gap is only 6pts to be honest, but a massive turnaround is still very much needed.

We were predicted to finish bottom by the bookmakers, with the board wanting us to "fight bravely against relegation".

Our 3-2 loss to UCD on 21 April 2023 was a real kick in the teeth, given we actually led 1-0 before gifting our rivals the three points thanks to two diabolic goals conceded (the other was a penalty, too) - which can be see below :

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Those were the transfers I made.

Anthony Breslin (LB), Maurice Nugent (CDM), Jason Lyons (FW), Ross Clarke (LW), Scott Pollock (CM, loan) and Conor Clifford (CM) arrived, they've all had first-team minutes with only Nugent and Clarke doing anything of any real note. Pollock has been injured for the majority, while Clifford only joined in April.

No massive outgoings, just squad players released or youth players departing.


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Squad dynamics and board ratings are looking fine.

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Thank you for reading!
Next? 4 November 2023! (hopefully)
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Current Manager Profile:
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Career Recap:
Job 001, 2019–2021: https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/uSGwqXFQC41pIro4sOdKdzk7FC1g4UGftEgtWdTW.png Lisburn Distillery (NIR/III) | W:29 D:14 L:20 | Honours: 0 | Awards: 0 | Promotions: 0 | Relegations: 0 | resigned
Job 002, 2021: https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/ptDSCpQJrnPhjH1c31qxqPBYivrqrTiqb23iVrkl.png Basingstoke Town (ENG/VI) | W:6 D:7 L:19 | Honours: 0 | Awards: 0 | Promotions: 0 | Relegations: 0 | sacked
Job 003, 2022–: https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/2Vf411qFU9I69uYUQeX2YtrR0CxqcxAmNMeuh1u4.png Limerick (IRL/I+II) | W:21 D:12 L:22 | Honours: 0 | Awards: 1 | Promotions: 1 | Relegations: 0 |
Awards/Trophies:

With Limerick:
Club: 2022 End of Season Play-offs (pic)
Personal: 2022 Manager of the Year (pic)


#511890 [FM20] Earth Trip
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Interesting that you have swapped Distillery for a club that's recently folded in real life. Good luck man.

Notice how I have blatantly ignored the stint at Basingstoke?

I didn't manage Basingstoke?
I noticed something like that about Limerick in real life, didn't realise they were proper done though - sad to see. A Shamrock Rovers 'B' team replacing them for 2020 I see? Mad.
#511889 The Non-League Villains
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#511729 Another shot at redemption.
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Nice form, keeping up with Guarani despite the losses to them. As for the state championship, maybe it's because Guaratingueta are in the second tier of it and only the top tier is playable; so you have to wait until the game promotes them? 100% guess on my part.
#511728 [FM20] Earth Trip
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The aim now to stay in the league then push on from there

Agreed. Not sure what to expect from us, but I'm looking forward to finding out!
#511727 The 'Worldwide' Win It All Journeyman
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...and it's over to the judges, can tongey really count Larne Olympic's cup win?
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well, if Chuck Norris says so...

Jokes aside, that's (despite the slips) an excellent season! So very close to the title, hopefully you can push on to that in 30/31!
#511705 Challenge 1 - Last At Christmas (well new years eve)
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That will take some beating, what formation you using? I'm using this and seemed to work straight away https://sortitoutsi.net/downloads/view/51440/vps-definitely-maybe-3-2-3-2

Just a basic 4-2-3-1 at the minute, very much plan to tweak it when I'm next playing - gonna need a miracle!


Glad I'm not the only one, then!
#511704 Lets go on a European journey, man!
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That much green is always pleasing, even if it is only friendlies