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Episode 13: Two Packed Players and Three Signings!
We've finally made some signings! After letting around £75m of players leave the club I decide to spend some cash for the first time to strengthen the squad in key area. I've also chang...
Episode 64: Real Madrid Away!
The very tough matches continue today after playing Liverpool, Man Utd and Juventus yesterday, we now take on Spurs, Chelsea and Real Madrid today.
Predictably, a tough run of matches like this leads to some slightly pat...
Episode 63: Rocky Start!
It's a bit of a shaky start this time out as we lose two of our first three games in the league. Luckily they were against bigger teams so it's not the end of the world, but we really need to start picking up the poin...
Episode 62: Summer Transfers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo95zKN3JsE
After a disappointing season we're ready to go again at the League title following a reasonably pre-season. We're still struggling to bring in the best players due to a...
Episode 61: End of Season Review
Only two matches today as we look to wrap up a severely disappointing season at the club. While third in the league is still a decent finish it looks a long way away from that title that we’re so desperate for.
N...
Episode 60: Title Decider With Manchester United!
The title is decided in todays episode and full credit goes to Manchester United for the way they secured it. Beating us at Old Trafford and never once giving us a sniff at the title; they’ve been...
Episode 59: Losing Everything!
Everything has gone wrong! Our excellent league form had put us in with a great chance of winning the title, but some poor form at a really inopportune time has completely blown it for us!
We’re now out of the FA C...
Episode 58: Getting Hammered 5-1
Our League form takes a big hit today as we play games against Liverpool and Arsenal. After a great recent run that position at the top of the table is starting to look a little bit shaky.
Our home form is holding up...
Episode 57: Six League Wins in a Row!
Despite winning six league games in a row, the chasing pack are managing to keep pace with us. The question now seems to be if we have the legs to sustain such a good title challenge.
A big defeat in the final mat...
Episode 12: The Europa League Final!
It's the Europa League Final! After a long season and journey through the qualification rounds, group stage and KO stage, we've made the final! It's a huge game against Manchester United and we'r...
Episode 56: They're Catching Us..
Our excellent league form has continued, but a couple of unlucky draws have allowed other teams to close the gap at the top. A very dramatic match at Sunderland saw the cards hit double digits, with a very dramati...
Episode 55: We Are Top of the League!
This has been the most consistent start to a season that we've had for a very long time and we're beating some big teams along the way! We've managed to climb to the league summit, although it has co...
Episode 54: Grabbing The Away Wins!
We pick up our first away win in the Premier League today as we continue our excellent march to the top of the table. It might not be quite as good as when we won 14 in a row a couple of seasons ago, but it's de...
Episode 53: Perfect Home Record!
It's the start of a new season and we're kicking off with big games against Arsenal, Man City and Liverpool in this episode. We're been on a good run since the end of last season but we are struggling to...
Episode 11: Europa League Semi-Finals!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qchYXLprk6c
The league is well out of our grasp now so attention has completely turned to our European adventure. The Semi-Final against St. Etienne is a golden opportunity to make a...
Episode 52: The Summer Transfer Window
Now that the season has come to an end it's that time of year where we try to squeeze as much money from the board as possible to strengthen the team.
It was still difficult to try and pull in a great player...
Episode 51: Season 5 Finale!
After seeing the title just escape our grasp yesterday we now have to focus on securing our place in the top four for next season. Having been in the title race for so long it would be a real blow to miss out on the Champio...
Episode 50: Can We Win The Title?!
The title is decided and it's happened with a feeling that most Newcastle fans will be familiar with... We gave it a good go but two costly defeats have let us down and Tottenham are deserved winners.
This is th...
Episode 49: Champions League Knock-Out Stages!
Today we make our debut in the Champions League Knock-Out Stages and it's against Atletico Madrid. They're out for revenge after we scraped past them in the Europa League last season so we need t...
Episode 10: European Quarter-Finals!
Our league form fell off the pace a little in the last episode and that certainly continues today. Some very disappointing performances really hit morale and throw our league season into jeopardy.
Our attention ins...
Episode 48: January Transfer Deadline Day Deals!
We're into the new year now and somehow the title race still has us in it! A massive episode today as we take on Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United.
In the middle of those games there's so...
Episode 47: Our Biggest Defeat Yet!
We put ourselves in a position to really go after the title in our last episode, but this time out we're doing everything we can to avoid it! We start off well enough with a comprehensive win over Liverpool, but...
Episode 46: Perfect Premier League Form!
Having qualified as group winners in our last episode, we were able to full focus on the league today and managed to pick up four victories on the bounce! Added to our great form from last episode we're now...
Episode 45: Back to Perfect Form!
After struggling for form in our last episode we've really stepped it up in this one. Five wins across six games has put us back in contention in the league and secured our qualification as group leaders in the Ch...
Episode 44: A Very Different Start.
Last season we started off with a phenomenal winning streak that helped us secure a place in the Champions League. This season we're starting off with four defeats in six games.
That said, we're doing a bi...
Episode 43: Making the Champions League!
Our fifth season with Newcastle gets off to a solid start with five wins in our first six games across all competitions. We have a very tough draw handed to us in order to make the group stage of the Champions L...
Episode 9: Our Best Pack Yet!
Today we pack probably our best player of the series so far as we continue to try and push into those Champions League places. We're still not in a position to open a 100k pack, but the 50k packs are doing pretty well...
Episode 42: Brexit!
It's the start of our Fifth season with Newcastle and there's some big changes in pre-season. It's not so much the players as the club itself. Mike Ashley has gone! Finally! Newcastle fans rejoice!
Unfortunately ther...
Episode 41: Three Cup Finals in Six Days!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zoS1rhWm8D8
This season finale has absolutely everything! A final day scramble for fourth place and two cup finals - all in a six day window! The dream of the treble continues, bu...
Episode 40: The Greatest Match of FM17 Ever!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WupNpMWsc6I
It may look like a clickbait title, but it definitely isn't! This episode has, without doubt, the most exciting game of Football Manager I've ever played. My...
Episode 39: Three Semi-Finals in Two Weeks!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qxw5Likp-88
Our League ambitions may have fallen apart but the European dream continues! We somehow have managed to throw ourselves into contention for a treble! Newcastle fans have...
Episode 8: Closing the January Transfer Window!
Our run in the cups continues in this episode and we also see out the January Transfer Window. Not too many players moving around, but we do shift on a bit of dead weight.
Our league form has suffered a...
Episode 38: Reaching the Europa League Quarter-Finals!
The Cup competitions are really starting to hammer our league form now as the rest periods between games get shorter and shorter. We suffer two league defeats to add to some disappointing recent re...
Episode 37: Can We Win Our First Trophy?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM5nv0Y02Dg
Our excellent run of form has definitely continued in this episode, but there's just so many Cup games! We suffer yet another defeat to a poor league team and tho...
Episode 36: Going Back To Wembley!
We continue our strong run of form in this episode, with just the one rather disappointing defeat along the way. Five very strong victories are in the run, including a couple of important league wins.
We also qualify...
Episode 35: Back to our Best!
After a really frustrating time last episode we are back to form today with four wins in six games. We suffer a poor result against Arsenal, but our performances against the big teams have been pretty excellent up to now....
Episode 7: Hunting the Champions League!
Another great episode today as we pick up three new players from our pack! We also get some great results against Spurs and Liverpool, although Arsenal do knock us down to earth a little.
Overall this season is...
Episode 34: Macerating Man City!
We kick this episode off in spectacular fashion with an eight goal thriller with Manchester City. The stunning performance in that match is followed up with some very inconsistent form as we begin to lose ground in the...
Episode 33: Chelsea, Spurs and Man Utd!
We suffered our first defeat of the season in our last match and things are not getting any easier now. We have big games against Chelsea, Spurs and Man Utd as we look to consolidate our position near the top of...
This is a tutorial video on how to imitate my FM 2017 tactic with Newcastle United. Quite a few people watching asked for me to make something like this, so I hope it's useful!
If you have suggestions on how to improve it, or want to let me know how...
Episode 32: Can We Break the Record?
After winning our first 13 games of the season, we're closing in on the club record of 17 games unbeaten. If we can win the first four matches, we really will become one of the greatest Newcastle squads ever!...
Episode 31: How Are We This Good?!
I feel like someone needs to pinch me! It's another stunning episode as we continue to win every match that we play! It's not been all easy, with some hard fought victories against big teams, but we are play...
Episode 6: West Ham 8 v 1 Manchester United!
This episode was pretty spectacular as we continued our great winning streak into this episode! To cap it all off, we totally and utterly destroy a full strength Manchester United team 8 v 1 in the League!...
Episode 30 - The Perfect Start!
I don't think I've ever started a Football Manager season as well as this! The team have been absolutely phenomenal by winning every single match in this episode!
We also beat Arsenal and Leicester on the way,...
Episode 29: The Summer Transfer Window!
A bit of a short episode today as we run through pre-season and make some understated but significant trasnfers. Getting Meret on a free transfer is some exceptional business and Witsel will certainly help the te...
Episode 28: The FA Cup Final!
It's the end of our roller-coaster third season and we've made it all the way to the FA Cup Final! In addition to that, we secure 7th in the League and secure ourselves European football next season.
Given how w...
Episode 27: We're Going to Wembley!
Another strong episode from the team as we continue the kind of form that would usually get you into the Champions League. That really poor start to the season continues to haunt us, but we're pushing on re...
Episode 5 - We Packed John Stones!
Our second 50k pack of the series has delivered us probably our best packed player yet with John Stones coming out! He's an excellent added foundation to the team with Rashford another one for the future of this...
Episode 26 - Newcastle 4 v 0 Spurs!
Our great run of form has continued, although there's a couple of losses either side of a four match winning streak. The highlight of the episode is easily beating Spurs 4-0 in one of the best performances we�...
Episode 4: Terminating Contracts!
We open our first 50k pack today but it doesn't seem to have helped us all that much as we struggle through some not so tough games! Having an unbeaten run in the League helps and I can have no complaints at beati...