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I just love how you start somewhere obscure @tongey - this is just like days of yore. Stories like this are much more enjoyable than watching video stream stories in my opinion. It feels like retro Susie stories this way….. Have recently starte...
More updates coming soon, bit busy with work related commitments.
Welcome back Tongey lad.
2023-2024 Season: Under the Lights After the drama in Tobemore, we played a rare Friday night game under the lights of the Dub as we entertained Rathfriland Rangers. Rathfriland were our first competitive opponents of the season after we had finished...
2023-2024 Season: Moving serenely onwards…. After that great win at Tobemore United, where we showed our great powers of recovery to turn defeat at one stage into a last gasp victory, our next game is Friday night against Rathfriland Rangers. Su...
2023-2024 Season: Back to the bread and butter We had begun October with the draw of the Irish Cup, but were still awaiting to find out where we would travel in the Steel and Sons Cup quarter-final. Tuesday night, and our opponents were confirmed. In...
2023-2024 Season: The beginning of October So we are in the quarter finals of the Steel and Sons Cup, a tournament that we won in 1993 and have been runners-up three times in our history. The draw for this latest stage was on conclusion of Satur...
Before I post the next updates, I thought I would tell you about future stories which will be included in this collection. All stories will begin in 2023. England - The Monkey Challenge: Get Hartlepool United into the second tier for the first time i...
2023-2024 Season: September ends with another Cup match So the second month comes to an end with yet another Cup game for us. Out of the five matches we have played in September, four of them have been away from home and three of them have come in th...
2023-2024 Season: Time to to reflect on things so far. We had a two and half week gap between games as the month of September draws to its conclusion. Being a part time outfit, with most of our players being amateurs means that they don't train as mu...
2023-2024 Season: More Steel and Sons Cup action After being held to a 1-1 draw at home by Ballymacash Rangers thanks to them scoring an injury time equaliser, we move back into Cup mode in midweek. We have played three games and lie in seventh...
Gameplay on hold whilst I recover from a couple of procedures in hospital
2023-2024 Season: League Match 3 After playing midweek, it was back to the bread and butter of the league on Saturday as we entertained Ballymacash Rangers at The Dub. Rangers hail from a very loyalist area just outside of the city of Lisburn, and th...
2023-2024 Season: Post-Warrenpoint activity with Steel and Sons Cup Round Two action Winning at Warrenpoint Town has to be the pinnacle of my short career at PSNI so far. But football likes to throw up surprise results from time to time, and that has...
Season 2023-2024: League Game 2 Second Saturday of the season, and a trip to the border town of Warrenpoint. “The Point” are everyone's tip to win the title this season, and we couldn't have asked for such a testing trip for our first away trip. We a...
2023-2024 Season: August draws to an end, and September starts After losing so narrowly to the Crues and exiting the League Cup, it was down to business again and prepare for our second league game of the season on Saturday afternoon: our first one o...
I seem to have deleted the image of the team sheet for this game so will revert to what I used beforehand for this report… 2023-2024 Season: League Cup R2 Second Round, 29 Aygust 2023Seaview, Belfast. Attendance: 1156 (106 away) CRUSA...
2023-2024 Season, League Match 1 Saturday, the opening league game of the season at The Dub. We welcomed Dollingstown, a team that were on paper: expected to beat us on the day and comfortably too. The wind was blowing a wee bit of a hoolie so...
August 2023 After the dramatic win in Rathfriland, we started planning for the league opener which was just a week away. However, we would have to move forwards without the services of Jake McEneaney who was our left back in that League Cup game. Jak...
August continues… So we have now played our first competitive game of the 2023-24 season, and come away with a win after going behind so early on. Well happy with the goals we scored, unstoppable finishes from Craig (Briers) and Louis (Blackstock) ri...
The Season begins…. First Round, 12 Aygust 2023Iveagh Park, Rathfriland. Attendance: 79 RATHFRILAND RANGERS 1 - 2 P.S.N.I FCJ Scannell 9' &nbs...
August 2023, the end of pre-season.
After thumping Downpatrick in our penultimate pre-season match away from home, attention now switches to the final pre-season game and under the lights at The Dub as we host divisional rival Crewe United. Having played...
August 2023 (the beginning of)
July is gone, we now enter August which is the month where the real thing begins: that is the season itself. But before it does, we have two final friendlies to play: one away and one under the lights at The Dub.
Once the...
July 2023 (the end of...)
We head towards the end of July, and our first month in charge here at The Dub. By the time the month is out, we will have played five out of the seven friendlies we have got scheduled. Six new faces have come in, and at the mom...
July 2023 (continued...)
[justify]Well, the heart rate has gone back to normal now after the thrilling game against Tobemore United. If that's what we are going to go through in the actual season then we are in for quite the ride. At least the direc...
July 2023 (continued...)
With our third pre-season outing on the horizon against Divisional rival Tobemore United, a side tipped by some to have a season of struggle much like ourselves, we made yet another new signing. Please welcome to The Dub, the fol...
More updates coming soon.
Once the season actually does begin seriously, then expect my usual style of graphics to come to the fore. Only doing basic ones for the pre-season schedule whilst I get used to getting back into the groove again.
Start of July 2023:
Couple more new faces to the squad, taking the newcomers total to five. Please welcome to the Dub, the following guys:
20 year old right back Jon Birnie, Jon started his career at Dungannon Swifts and most recently at Queens Universi...
24 hours after taking the reins, we had said bounce game behind closed doors.
I opted to play a 4-3-3 formation but with the emphasis of playing what seems to be far from pure football, playing a lone striker but supplemented by wingers on either side...
Thanks mate, it's good to be back and doing something a bit out of my general story writing comfort zone.
I can guarantee that I probably won't be successful all the time but I'll give it my best anyway/
We have six friendlies scheduled ahead of the season start.
These are as follows:
Obviously due to the high turnover of players, the side will be rotated around to see which players do well and as a result I will be reliant very much on my coaches as...
Welcome to "Short Stories" a collection of one club saves that I have decided to do as a story. Because it's a collection of different club saves, it's not a career that I will be updating like my previous ones. Each story will have...
A collection of one club saves, not exactly a career game.
So do I need to remove this folder I've created then?
Sure, here we are:
Am running game as version 24.3 as opposed to the default installation.
Sure mons, will forward via PM to you as opposed cluttering the forum/
After a long time away from Susie, I'm back.
I've downloaded the fix and followed instructions for Epic Games, but strangely United is still showing on a new game as Manchester UFC which I can't understand why. Didn't have FM23, so no...
This story is on a hiatus as I'm on a retro trip with Championship Manager 2001/02.
It will return at some point though.
This story is on a hiatus as I'm on a retro trip with Championship Manager 2001/02.
It will return at some point though.
2027-28: Who is in the squad?
First Team Analysis
GOALKEEPERS:
1. ALISSON Ramses Becker
21. Andreas AEY **
30. Ertem STEVENS
31. Sean McCARTHY
DEFENDERS:
2. Jeroen HEERKENS
3. Daniel BALLARD
4. Ezequiel Chaves Schneider / BOBÔ **
20. J...
2027-28: Pre-Season, Part Three: Continuing Preparations
After arriving back from China and being mobbed for photographs just because it is Liverpool in town, the team arrived back on Merseyside to continue their preparations for the 2027-28 season. Th...
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Chapter 95: Clocking up the miles on the road
After losing in midweek to Harrogate Town, Bromley took a break from league action on the Saturday. And it was one heck of a long bus trip for sure, so much so that the team travelled up on the Friday. Their...
More to come soon folks, just been mega busy.
Can Bromley make the move into League Two or will Basil seek a new challenge at the end of the season? Watch this space.
Chapter 95: Inconsistency isn't the answer, it's the problem!
October arrived and with it, the latest announcement of the National League awards. Basil knew in his own heart he personally would win absolutely nada, but if a player could win so...
Chapter 94: Wake me up when September ends, oh it has....
Just one game remained in September 2021 for Basil and Bromley, and that was with rivals Sutton United at Gander Green Lane. Sutton were still probably smarting from the fact that the Ravens had...
Chapter 93: Losing happens, but it's how to bounce back that matters
As Basil waved the Lads back to Bromley after that Chesterfield loss, he pondered. He was going to have a few days just up the A61 in Sheffield, seeing people he hadn't seen...
Chapter 92: You gotta lose sometime, right?
September arrived and with it, another batch of fixtures for Basil and Bromley. The least important trophy of the four would start off proceedings before five more Vanarama National League fixtures: taking the...
Chapter 91: Steps in the right direction
[justify]Three games remained in the opening month for Basil and his Bromley side. It had been a tough month but the philosophy was to try and remain unbeaten from it. If the team could do that then Basil would b...
Chapter 90: 22 and counting...
Winning at Mill Farm in midweek exorcised the ghost of losing there last season, and Basil was a very happy manager when he boarded the bus home that night. It was also a bit of a statement as well. AFC Fylde were again on...