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Homer appointed manager of Egyptian side Ismaily Sporting Club

After intense speculation popular Hamilton Wanderers manager Homer has joined Ismaily. He is said to be relishing the new challenge and looking forward to leading the club onto future glory.

In case you wondered how my manager is looking! We have the second coaching badge now! Its the end of the 2021 season and I am 100% resigning after the end of season awards, 3 season in New Zealand, its time for a new challenge

1 November 2020

Zulfikar Singh joins Jiangsu Suning for £925,000

Attacking Midfielder Zulfikar Singh has left Hamilton Wanderers for £925,000 after Chinese side Juangsu Suning matched his release clause. We understand he has also handed in a transfer request which Homer had accepted. The deal will come as a disappointment to Wanderers fans, however, this money will come as a boost to manager Homer and the board at Hamilton, with the money paying of the clubs debts and providing them some money to use for the summer transfer window. Singh who played 55 games and scored 2 goals for the Wanderers joins Juangsu on a two year deal.

Wanderers sign 13 players!

Homer has clearly thought his side needed an overhaul, bringing in no less than 13 players, including Left Midfielder Rhys Devlin from St. Mirren for £10,000. Other players include Goalkeeper Matt Herbert from AFC Wimbledon (£4,500), Striker Jahleal Browne from Boston United (£10,750) and Target Man Charles Lokolingoy on a free transfer. These signing are somewhat of a coup for Homers side, with the announcements slashing the odds of Hamilton winning their third straight league title, putting them as second favourite.

Michael Anderson signs two year deal

There is delight in the Wanderers camp today as want away midfielder committed his future to the club. This will be somewhat of a surprise for fans of the side, and most likely manager Homer, with Anderson who looked set on moving away deciding his future belongs with the New Zealand side. Anderson will remain at the club for another two years earning £700 per week,

Just thought id show you me! Coaching course is agreed and im studying, and we are moving into the 6 and 7s in stats!

BREAKING: Homer renews contract with Hamilton until 2022

Despite reports saying Homer will be leaving Hamilton at the end of the season, the board have persuaded him to stay after offering to pay for his second coaching badge, as such he is contracted to remain at the Wanderers until 2022. However with reported interest from Jomo Cosmos and Sundowns in South Africa, is it just a matter of time before Homer moves on?

In other news FM Sports News understands that new sponsorship deals mean Hamilton Wanderers AFC are now out of debt, and have a reported £500,000 in the bank. This news will come as a great relief to Homer, who can now focus on replacing players who are leaving, as well as strengthening in the attacking areas of the pitch.

BREAKING: Homer tell Hamilton board he will not be renewing his contract (29th May 2020)

FM Sports News Understands that Homer has told the Hamilton board he will not be renewing his contract with the club following a successful season where he won the New Zealand treble (ASB Premiership, OFC Champions League and New Zealand Charity Cup). Homer has had a successful two years with Hamilton winning them their first trophy's in the clubs 20 year history as well as being named manager of the year in both his years in New Zealand. Homer who has won 2 ASB Premierships, 1 New Zealand Charity Cup and 1 OFC Champions League will leave on the 30th June 2020, bringing his two year spell to an end. Early reports suggest he will move to China to manage 2018 AFC Champions League winners Hebei China Fortune, who currently sit 13th in the Ping An CFA Super League. Hebei have been without a manager since the 10th May when they sacked manager Gus Poyet after only 157 days in charge for his poor league position. However FM Sports News understand the Hebei board would rather bring in Philippe Troussier, the current Jiangsu Suning manager, who won the Chinese FA Cup in 2019 with Jiangsu. Homer is understood to be on a month to month contract until either Hamilton release him or another club signs the 22 year old manager.

WE HAVE WON THE OFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

As stated in the bio, we have since left northern ireland as it caused came crash dumps trying to schedule around my fixtures in New Zealand. So we will go back into international soon enough, probably when im out of custom database leagues.

So I found out what the issue was, I do have the latest version, downloaded it the day I posted, however to make the OCL work you need to add all the Oceanic countries from the pack to editor data, then turn them all on as an either Playable or View Only league, this is the fix I found anyway and all works fine now!

Ben McIntrye joins Shanghai Shenxin

FM sports news sources understand that Hamilton Wanderers leading goalscorer has been subject to a £800,000 transfer bid from Shanghai Shenxin. Want-away defensive forward MyIntyre is believed to have handed in a transfer request, however this was rejected by manager Homer, however this bid is too good to be true for the debt ridden Wanders and the bid was in fact accepted. McIntyre joins Shenxin on a 2 year deal on a reported £425 per week. This will come as a blow to Wanderers fans as the team starts its OFC Champions League campaign.



Nick Clegg returns to Hamilton Wanderers

Despite the earlier news that Ben McIntyre has left the Wanderers, the fans do have something to celebrate today, with the club confirming the return of last seasons on loan legend, Nick Clegg. Clegg who famously lead Homers Wanderers side to the ASB Premiership title last season on loan from Central United has today rejoined the club for a reported £235,000. Its no secret that the Wanderers have been struggling for goals and Homer must surely hope the addition of Clegg will help bolster his attacking ranks. Last season Clegg scored 23 goals and got 3 assists in 20 appearances for the club, earning himself 5 man of the match awards, the ASB Premiership golden boot, ASB Premiership player of the year and ASB Premiership young player of the year.



Further headache for Homer as Anderson looks to force move

There was breaking news from the Porritt Stadium today, with Michael Anderson handing in a transfer request. We understand this was rejected and he will remain at the club for the foreseeable future. This will be a relief for fans of the Wanderers, who are eager to see how there team performs in their first outing under Homer in the OFC Champions League.

New season news! We couldnt get Nick Clegg, the compensation was too much! Other than that not too much to report!

Two things to show you!

Here is my manager profile now, after the second trophy, trying to do another coaching badge but we are in debt as a club, so they wont let me right now!



This is my star player, Nick Clegg, he was on loan from Central United, and is a free agent, however we cant afford the compensation so we might be losing him..

I just wanted to share with you all this guy here.. he is amazing.. his name is great too if you know anything about politics in the UK..

My Manager profile at the start, just to show the lack of badges and the Sunday league experience.

Brief Biography

I chose to leave Adidas after getting the offer from Navua, given they are Semi-Pro, and would help pay for my first coaching badge, which they did do, and I now have. Navua then sacked me for league position, and during this time I applied for a few jobs in China, New Zealand, Korea and India Under 23s. I then got the Hamilton job where I am now, and thought nothing of the India Under 23s job, however a couple days later I was offered that also, so took it up and we went to the Asian Games. We got knocked out in the groups as India Under 23s, and therefore the Indian under 23s national team has no more competitive fixtures, so the game made me auto leave the role. I then saw that South Korea were doing well, and wanted the chance at a quick trophy, and the job for Under 23s was free, so I applied, got it in days, then led them to the Asian Games Trophy for 2018. Hamilton have since gone on to win the New Zealand league under myself along with the Charity Cup, then I got the unexpected message that Northern Ireland were asking me to manage them, first team too, so I left my wonderful role with the South Korean U23s and joined up with them. We left the role of Northern Ireland manager after one friendly. (So this is the reason, the game would crash dump trying to schedule both club and international football in for me, when in New Zealand and the OFC champions league, so I have resigned to see if it'll work, for those wondering, it has worked, the save is saved!). The Treble was achieved in the last season with Hamilton, winning the Charity Cup, ASB Premiership and the first continental contest, the OFC Champions League, I then told the board my contract would not be renewed and I will leave in June 2020

Personal Awards -

New Zealand Football Championship Manager of the Month, December 2018, Hamilton Wanderers AFC

New Zealand Football Championship Manager of the Month, January 2019, Hamilton Wanderers AFC

New Zealand Football Championship Manager of the Month, March 2019, Hamilton Wanderers AFC

New Zealand Football Championship Manager of the Year, 2018-19 Season, Hamilton Wanderers AFC

New Zealand Football Championship Manager of the Year, 2019-20 Season, Hamilton Wanderers AFC

New Zealand Football Championship Manager of the Month, November 2020, Hamilton Wanderers AFC

New Zealand Football Championship Manager of the Month, January 2021, Hamilton Wanderers AFC

New Zealand Football Championship Manager of the Year, 2020-21 Season, Hamilton Wanderers AFC

Current Trophies -

OFC Champions League 2020, 9th May 2020, Hamilton Wanderers AFC

OFC Champions League 2021, 8th May 2021, Hamilton Wanderers AFC

Job History -

Adidas Soccer Club (Samoa), 10th August 2017 - 21st Jan 2018

This is the toughest challenge I have attempted in Football Manager, and I just want to put the rules out there, or the ones I am at least using. I have decided not to use the rule that I cannot resign and move on to another job unless sacked or winning the competition for that continent, I just have more fun when I can move around and explore the nations! I have started with no coaching badges, and my previous experience is set to Sunday league manager, meaning my coaching stats aren't great, but that is part of the fun. I also would rather not go to Europe to start, and would prefer to win a few other competitions before going to Europe, given that is where I normally manage, its fun to explore other nations! This is also a Club/International Hexagon Challenge, as such I want to win all major continental contests for Club and Country, as well as the big one, the World Cup, and the not so big one, the Club World Cup.

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@claassen So I have been playing with the Oceanic Leagues and encountered an issue with the OFC, when using the file included which is meant to fix the qualification issues. The competition never seems to schedule, I was playing in Fiji and the message if you go to the OFC Champions League Page is "OFC Champions League will be scheduled on Jan 2018, and is due to start playing February 2018". I just thought it was how I started in June not January and it would schedule when I hit that date. So I got there and it changed to this "OFC Champions League will be scheduled on Jan 2019, and is due to start playing February 2019" all it did was change the dates to a year later and not schedule.. Personally I am wondering if this could be because New Zealand havent played a full season yet, and as such it dosent know who to select for the competition? Also while selecting it in the database options at the start of a game, it calls it a "North America" as if to say its actually changes to North America. I then loaded the game with Claassens OFC file unselected, and the game schedules it fine it would seem, however as another user noted, it doesn't qualify teams correctly without Claassens file, however it seems to not schedule anything without.

I'm going to holiday for a year of New Zealand football, see if that causes it to kick in!

EDIT -

So I simmed for a while and waited for at least one full year of New Zealand football however it still just says the same thing, see below -



EDIT 2 -

Not sure if this will help, but the leagues I had loaded into the database were Vanuatu, Fiji and New Zealand.. Wondering if I add all the Oceanic leagues if it might work.

EDIT 3 -

With all leagues from the pack loaded it scheduled, not from the start of the save, but when I got there it did. Im wondering if itll do it with these leagues in view only also, as it might save me some player count space haha

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Okay it worked with them in view only also, so what im going to play until January and see if it schedules it, if not I think for my Hexagon Challenge I shall just say winning the New Zealand League will count as my Oceanic Trophy.. Currently in Samoa for those interested.

No Story sorry - No time to do one! Just a season by season update!

Well... This is a sad moment of my FM18 Career.. I have been sacked by St. albans.... I knew it was comming, we were bottom and just didnt have the team. I lost the dressing room, I lost the fans and then the board... We didnt win for 7 games, and just were dreadful.. Im sad but glad.. I was getting angry and frustrated playing this save and perhaps that contributed towards my getting sacked, im not sure. Where do I go from here? Well, I wanted this to be my long term save this year however it is now clear that this wont happen, and I kinda dont feel like restarting with St. albans. I am considering a couple of teams that look interesting.. There is obviously Billericay Town, who have an insane team, and a good ammount of money, im tempted by Eastleigh too but im not sure honestly.


I think I will go with Billericay honestly as its slightly easier in a game i am very much struggling to get to grips with, and I think the handicap will only last until League 2. So I will start it tonight/Tomorrow, and will post an introduction to it along with the first season as and when it is completed. I am dissapointed how this save went so maybe a slightly easier one will be better.

Season Begins

I have to be honest.. this is the toughest thing I have done on FM so far.. We are outclassed every game, every point is counting and it is frustrating as all hell.. This season really is just do anything to stay up and move on from them.. doing better looks unlikely. 7 games in and we sit on just 5 points leaving us 22nd in the league.. If I am being honest again, I am getting incredibly annoyed with some of these games, we have the chances and possession, I think looking at it our defence is the issue, and we could really do with a new set of full backs and a new Centre back.

The season began well, with the board expecting us to get into the playoffs, I expected it too looking at our squad and comparing it, but boy, I was not prepared for the fight we had to put up to do so, preseason went badly, we played mainly Scottish teams and had a 6-0 demolition from Watford, our senior affiliate. However the first league game came about and we won, and we didn't stop, consistency is the key to promotion, and we were consistently decent, our first loss coming to Gloucester on the 2nd September 2017. We then continued consistently through the league, staying at least in the playoff places all the way to the end of the season.



Unfortunately, we didn't have the squad depth for the cups and it showed, a 1-0 away loss to Bognor Regis, a game where we should and could have done better. Our expectations were to reach the round we did, but I am disappointed we couldn't do more to win the game. Though we had a good couple of games including the 5-0 thumping of Stratford, which I enjoyed, a real team effort, against lesser opposition true, but everyone contributed 100% and to keep a clean sheet wasn't a very common occurrence at this time for us at St. Albans.



Slightly better for us was the FA Trophy, where we got all the way to the 4th Round against Aldershot, even then they required extra time in both the first game, and then the replay to eventually beat us 4-2 at Clarence Park. I am slightly sad we didn't go any further than this, I am still mightily impressed with the quality of our team throughout this competition, and hope we can do better next year! Board expectations were for us to reach the 1st round, so personally I am satisfied with the team.



Well well well.. This is a first for me! A "golden generation", granted by the time we progress a little further they probably won't be first team quality, but this made me happy nonetheless that the poor quality of our youth facilities produced something this decent, so much so the head of youth development got an improved contract for an extra year! The entire intake is below, and I will analyse my two favourites from it also.



My head of youth development personally thinks that Joe Stewart is the best of the lot. A striker who can play Deep Lying Forward, Defensive Forward and Target Man in a reasonably good way. Personally I am not too sure what they see in him, I think he could be trained to be a decent player, and he has good physicals for the league we are in, but with only 9 finishing and 10 determination, there is a very long way to go for this young lad.



Secondly, this is one player they rate highly, but not as highly as some of the other, but I think personally this one is a gem of a midfielder, waiting to be polished, a rough diamond, if you like. His name is Gary Johnson, and wow oh wow, I like him. A natural a centre midfield, as well as a competent defensive midfielder and left midfielder. His preferred roles are Mezzala, Ball Winning Midfielder and Central Midfielder and personally I think I will train him into a BWM, he reminds me a lot of our first team player Solomon Sambou, a solid BWM and I think this guy can surpass him in every, single, way. With 16 determination, a fairly determined personality and 13 natural fitness, I think he had the basic tools to grow and grow and become a first team player for us in the future. To describe him right now would be, a jack of all trades a master of none, and his is someone who just need a little bit of polish in the key areas to become an absolute star I think for St. albans.



We have talked about the cups, and we have talked youth intake, now lets go back to the league, where we did well, 4 teams were in it right until the very end where we won the league with one game to go.. However this is how it looked with 4 games to go... very very close..



We had to play Hampton and Richmond, we won the game, we win the league, and we managed to do it 3-1, we were 3-0 up in the first half before conceding in the 73rd minute, with me worrying this could be the comeback for them, but it wasn't to be, and we were victorious, the National League South champions!



So that all being said, how do I think the season has gone? Personally, I think we did amazing, we aimed for playoffs and did one better earning promotion and a 5th trophy for St. Albans, and the first of my reign. I also got a new contract some when in the season and am now signed until 2019, hopefully I can persuade the board to give me another extension in the summer. Next season I am a little concerned, we are only semi-professional and the board are not willing to become a professional side, so we have limited funds and contracts to give, but we will do our best to battle to avoid relegation, in game date is 12 May 2018 right now, so if we make some good signings, I'm sure the objectives will be more a mid-table finish and not fight bravely against relegation. Finally, before I leave this already very long post here, I just want to post some screenshots that I have little to say, but think it would be nice for you to see, including our trophies so far, some general club information and my contract. Until the next post..

St. Albans are a team that appealed to me, and I am not overly sure why if i'm honest. Nevertheless, I decided to take on the challenge to take them to the Premier League, that is the aim for now, not win it, just get there. However, I am more than likely going to get addicted to the save and become attached to it if we get that far, so we will see! We begin in the National League South, St. Albans a club that have only ventured higher than this league once, and for one season only, in the 2006/07 season (As far as I can tell). Before we take over they have 4 trophies in the cabinet, 3 Bostik League Premier Division and 1 English Isthmian League First Division. Lets see if we can add to that collection then, personally I would like it if we could add a trophy from each league on the way up, however if we go up via a playoff, I certainly wont complain! An FA Trophy would also be nice to achieve before we become a league side, however I wont avoid promotion just to achieve this



Our home stadium is Clarence Park, a 5,007 capacity stadium with 900 seated. This should be plenty good enough for now and probably up until league 1, our attendance isn't particularly huge, and we only fill about 22% of our capacity. So no need to expand. We have poor training facilities with basic youth facilities and no data facility. The club has a fairly decent owner (In game at least, no idea about the real world), who provides some solid financial backing, as well as being eager to help you settle in, allowing you most of the things you ask for such as more staff members. We are affiliated with Watford, a useful link where we can hopefully utilise some of their younger talent in loan deals.

You have maybe been able to see I have attempted lower league saves before and they have just sort of stopped, now at the beginning of FM18 and with a new PC, all the problems should be behind me and we can crack on with this one! Without further ado, lets begin with the first end of season review, which will be pretty much the only posts, other than maybe youth intakes, until League 1/Championship.

The story begins..

UPDATE SAVE ON HOLD, DATEBASE HAS REACHED 120K PEOPLE AND MY PC WANTS TO EXPLODE, NOT SURE WHY SO MANY ARE GENERATING, HOWEVER WILL PROBABLY COME BACK TO IT ONCE MY PC IS UPGRADED. TAKING 3 HOURS TO DO A MONTH OF GAME TIME. I WILL NOW BE TAKING ST ALBANS ON, GIVEN THEY ARE IN THE DEFAULT GAME< IT SHOULD PROCESS OK