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Media Prediction: 7/12
Board Expectation: Mid Table
Pre Season was just about working on our fitness and knowing the players slightly more and see whom would start the first game of the season. Even in the games we lost we competed but wasn’t able...
I took over the job of newly promoted side Bangor, first protocol was to check out the squad and decide what sort of tactic i would like to play.
I have decided to try and have a style a play that i will use throughout Sigmund’s career. At times t...
Cheers everyone that has commented so far, hopefully i can catch up to where i am over the next day or two. I wanted to get to half a season completed to make sure i was going to keep it going before starting the posts.
Over the last few editions, i’ve had a lot of ideas for a save game. Some sound good but straight away you just can’t have the enthusiasm to keep the save game alive. Weeks go by and many of saves don’t come to fruit. Every year the list...
We open the campaign against Oxford City at home.
Next up is Margate, Favourites to win the league they lost the first game so at the bottom before game day.
We never seem to play until we was 3-0 down, at least we got a late consolation goal.
Pre season went well, the loss against Cardiff the scoreline didn't represent how close the game was until a load of changes on 80th minute and 2 goals in the last ten made it look comfortable. Was happy how well the team played still struggling to p...
3 weeks since i sent out the job advert and the best candidate for the job of assistant manager was Steve Haslam
One scout left so this is his replacement Brian Foot
Not bad expectations wouldn't of wanted less than that, before i realised we had moved to the south i was thinking of a mid table to playoff position this year and hopefully next to push on for a playoff spot or an automatic spot. But now nothing les...
Board Expectations.
Media predictions are in and they are surprising to say the least, i wouldn't have put us at 25-1 favourites and fifth favourites at that for the league title after what the team did last year just staying in the league.
Decided to keep on at Northampton and see how this season goes, I'm letting go of any player that didn't have a start under me last season, since they weren't in my plans last year and won't be thinking of starting them this year eithe...
New contract came up at end of the season, i was in two minds. Shall i stay and see how next year goes and go for a full rebuild of the squad or do i see what else is around. Not sure if I'm feeling Northampton. A lot of contracts was up, I'm...
Final League Table
My record in the 29 league games that i had was 9-8-12
Before my tenure - 2-1-10
Certainly a turn around in form, would of like a few more wins and draws than losses but we were fighting for relegation in the end. Team was predicted...
I only signed a contract to the end of the season.
Brief look at the team they were only 3 points away from safety
We was lacking in certain positions. Only a couple of formations i was able to play, Took a few tries at certain ones to finally settle on...
Northampton Town job came up and they were second from bottom of Vanarma North, a possible move to England i accepted the interview and then delayed the decision for a week, still undecided on whether or not i wanted out of Carrick.
After the loss to Wel...
A mix bag of results to start the season, it was a little frustrating and i was thinking of possible moving away from Carrick. I knew the squad was capable of doing well but the earlier up and down form was making me have a couple of different mind sets...
Player of the last two seasons Ian Parkhill left on a free transfer and Curtis Dempster who moaned at lack of first team football was shown the door due to only average 6, 6.1, 6.2, 6.4 when he had the chance of ten games. Our back line in Keegan, Nelso...
Towards the end of the season i did receive job offers from Rhyl, Limerick and Ballymena who also got relegated with us. But i never wanted to move because i really was optimistic in staying in the top flight. But i've kept my job and know anything b...
Final Legue Table
RELEGATED. 8 points from safety, we deserve to go down in the season as our form was dreadful. The team was capable of so much more and proved it in matches during the season but once the slide started to happen i couldn't find t...
Second Leg no words could describe it....
First leg could have gone better but we stayed in the tie and should of maybe found the equaliser after a terrible first half.
When the league spilt it looked like this.
4 points was the gap we had to make up in 5 games. 2 losses 2 draws and a win wasn't enough to crawl that back. So off to the relegation playoff it was to save our top flight status.
Pre season went as well as it could some good performances and not many players disappointing so it was looking hopeful going into the season.
2 losses to start the season off wasn't all that great but it was expected (especially since it was Linfie...
There was good and bad in pre season, i couldn't get the contracts signed for a couple of our key players so i changed the option to let the chairman doing the contract negotiating in doing so we kept Carlin, Nelson, Duggan our 3 main young starlets...
One thing that is quite annoying is i have been searching for these pair of strikers for the past couple of seasons and with gaining promotion thinking they just might come now, they both go and retire. I hate seeing players that have the potential just s...
Star player of the season was Ian Parkhill he was only meant to be a backup striker but after injuries to both starters in the pre season he had to start and i never looked back.
Success came with a strong backline a few strikers about to score and a...
Good to see someone else doing the British steel challenge and also starting in Northern Ireland, good luck will see my eye on your progress.
This had to be the most tense match of the season, it was an even match to be fair and it was our star man of the season Ian Parkhill to get the only goal of the game and that brought us the league title and our third trophy of the season UNBELIEVABLE!...
We face Loughgall and if we don't win we need to hope Annagh Utd slip up for us to win the league. Yes we have already qualified for the playoffs but being this much in the lead to lose the league would be soul destroying.
Back to the closing stages of the league.
A couple of wins was needed earlier on to wrap up the title so we didn't have to drag it out to the last game of the season, but unfortunately that wasn't the case and i think the team was already of t...
League Cup
We got drawn against Cliftonville in the 2nd Round of the cup, not the easiest of ties and after we was taken apart from Linfield earlier in the season i wasn't looking too hopeful.
I switched to a more defensive formation for this gam...
Intermediate Cup
We got knocked out by Dollingstown, i played a weakened team due to the runs of matches in the league and the final coming up. On hindsight i should have chanced it and played a few more regular first team players.
We started off superbly with a goal from Noble on 26th minute but we got pegged back 3 minutes later. But a quick fire in the second half made the last 30 minutes a little less nerve wrecking and we was on course to the first trophy of this challenge.
Steel & Sons Cup
A good run in this competition the draw was kind to us until the quarter finals i didn't feel we had any trouble but you never know in these matches.
Quarter Final and semi final was the trickiest of ties i thought, with both r...
Irish Cup
I was slightly disappointed about this competition i really thought we could have gotten slightly further in, and when realising the draw for next round it was easily could of been a semi final.
Co. Antrim Shield 1st Round.
We couldn't have gotten a worse draw for the first round. Linfield.
in the next few posts i am going to break it down into cup competitions etc.
First up the league.
We started off the league campaign very strongly and it only went from strength to strength, there was a small slip with back to back losses in october...
Not a bad pre season we did incur a couple of long term injuries to the two main strikers in Sean McCarron and Dale Noble.
@sankalan not sure hadn't really notice until now, but it does go well with his 15 in aggression attribute.
So 5 players in, we have Nelson and Duggan our CB and Kane our CM O'connor took a little longer to get and i had signed a pre agreement but they wanted 10k and we didn't have that because he was 16. I cancelled that and went in with a 500 poun...
Back to Carrick, so i sat down and looked at the team they had enough quality in most areas to get out of this division. We needed two starting centre backs a central midfielder and a striker those where the key areas i looked to address during the off se...
So this has just happened a surprise in Norway winning the Euro Championship this summer.
Didn't take me long to get back into management with a job coming up at Carrick in Championship 1. They got relegated the year before and failing to get into the playoffs this season caused there manager to be sacked, i applied and got the interview...
So after two disappointing seasons i have decided to call it a day at Portstewart. I feel that i taken the team has far as i can. I didn't really want to leave without the Championship 2 title to be honest but i know it looks like its going to be a f...
A win in the 5th round started the new year of with a bang were we will face Crusaders in the next round, sadly that is a round too far for us this season where we just ran out of steam after going one nil up we wasn't able to hang on enough and lost...
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Two early exits from the League Cup and Intermediate Cup saw us focus more on the league. It was certain that in the early parts of the season we are incapable of drawing a game. We've kept close to the top 3 only a few points back looking toward...
So it was back to the drawing board, all tactics wiped and squad was re-evaluated. Not many attributes has changed for my players but the all the star ratings have changed. I put quite a few players on the unwanted list and looked for transfer targets t...