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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...
Chapter 89: Under starters orders
This was it, the start of the new 2021-22 National League campaign for Bromley and Basil Brush. After the disappointment of the Play-Off Final in May, it was time to reset and go again. Could the Ravens take that next s...
Chapter 88: Decision making exercises
With the season just 48 hours away, Basil sat down with Jerry in the boardroom at Hayes Lane to discuss what were going to be club's priorities for the new campaign. Compared to last season, the Club was in fou...
Chapter 87: Preparations complete, now time for the real thing
Basil reflected in the home dressing room after the home friendly draw with Lincoln that his reshaped Bromley side still had a lot to improve on. Last season had ended in a disappointing con...
Chapter 86: Pre-season means nothing, nothing
The final three pre-season games gave Basil proverbial food for thought. Thoughts of where he saw his team ahead of the big kick off on 7 August against Stevenage. And by the end of July, Basil knew that the...
Chapter 85: Cards on the table
The big pre-season friendly was just 24 hours away when Premier League Crystal Palace would make the short journey to Hayes Lane. Nobody knew what sort of side that Palace Head Coach Rafael Benitez would name. Would it be...
Domestic Managerial Jobs:
Werribee City: 1 July 2019 - 19 December 2020
Bromley: 19 December 2020 - present
International Managerial Jobs:
Cook Islands: 27 September 2020 - present
Awards Won:
2019-2020: National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 (...
Chapter 84: Not exactly what the doctor ordered
After completing the loan signing of Eoin Teggart, Basil's attentions switched to prepping the team ready for the first home friendly of the new season. Once more the team management on the day would...
Thank you, and for continuing to follow this story. It's very much appreciated.
Chapter 83: That's all folks!
Having brought in four newcomers to Bromley since the transfer dealings came into earnest, Basil was keen to add more and more so he had more competition for places in his squad. "If I can have two players for eac...
Tough at the top but I'm sure you will turn it around. Keep the faith!
Chapter 82: Building blocks
Since arriving back from Cancun, Basil had been hard at work. He was sometimes doing 14-16 hour days, 7 days a week, in his pursuit for preparing for the new season ahead. Since he had nobody to cosy up to at home, he saw not...
Chapter 81: Back to work
That holiday in Cancun was just what Basil needed, a break away from it all. Switch off the rat race and football business for a while, and soak up those rays. Except for a couple of days, it poured with rain constantly. There w...
Welcome back mate!
Happy birthday Susie!
Chapter 80: Picking up the pieces
When Hartlepool United's Brad Young sprung to his left to deny Luke Coulson, it was the end of the road for the 2020-21 season for Bromley. Basil had taken them from relegation candidates to within touching distanc...
Chapter 79: Achy Breaky Hart-lepool!
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Chapter 78: The Final Countdown
It was the biggest week of Basil and Bromley's lives. Basil, during his playing career, had never played at the National Stadium. There had been times when he had been named in national squads but injury had robbed h...