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Using only English Leagues, Playable from Conference north/south upwards. Took Lancaster City out of the League (Sorry any Lancaster fans) and brought my home team into the league. The only changes I made to the team was to delete all there players and bring in two made up players, Mark Wilson, being my son if you catch my drift and Charlie Gratton. No changes were made to the ground or budget. So hope you enjoy the story
2nd July: The Matclokc Mercury and the Derbyshire Times are the only papers present at the press conference held at Causeway Lane, the home of Matlock Town Football Club or as they known The Gladiators. The chairman proudly presents to the press and few fans that turned up the new manager Mark Wilson a 28 year old local man with no managerial experience. The first question came in, what are you going to do with no senior players no money and no experience? I replied " I'm going to build a team round youth and hopefully some good free signings..
What about the rumours that your son being the only player not to go being apart of your deal to join?
Thats just rubbish, he's in the squad because he is a damn good player and he'll prove it over the next season... Now i'm soory I've got no more time. I've got to prepare my team for the difficult season ahead
3rd July: The first proper meeting with the board. They asked what I needed to ensure we don't get relegated from the League in the first season. I suggested a link up with a higher league club, so the board got straight on with that and I wanted a list of all the free players who would be willing to join us and join us quickly. I went to see the coach and asked him for the full list of players we actually have. he'd get back to me tomorrow
4th July: The coach brings me the list of youngsters I have at my disposal. Things don't really look good and I know I've got alot of work to do before the start of the season.
GK - Charlie Gratton - 20
GK - Michael Hamilton - 16
GK - Cory Lamacroft - 16
SW/DC/WBR/DM/AMRLC/FC - Mark Wilson - 16
DR - Lee Holloway - 16
DL - Harland Self - 15
DC - Ryan Bignot - 16
DC - Paul Hunt - 16
MC - Justin Devonshire - 15
MC - Stewart Vella - 15 - Australian
FC - Brain Carter - 16 - Welsh
FC - Dominic Lynch - 16
*All English unless stated otherwise*
This is all I've got to play with, luckily the board brought me the list I required of players that are free agents. I knew what I wanted and that was some more youth mixed with experience. The bookies had us down as certainties to go down and I wanted to prove them wrong. My first friendly was only 5 days away so I knew I had to act fast.
9th July: My first friendly as manager asnd with limited players I knew there wasn't going to be much room for injuries etc...
We played Conference South team Hayes, our start couldn't of been any better as Mark Wilson scored after only 32 seconds to ram home the critisism about him being in the team, we continued to press forward but the Hayes defence were up to the task. Unluckily we suffered an injury as Villa had to come off with what looks like an ankle injury. This didn't distract us much from the game as just on the break we scored again to make it 2-0. The second half was all us but our lack of forward power meant we didn't score again. I was happy with a 2-0 win though and so were the 79 fans who turned up to see the match
10th July: Bad news on the injury front as Villa has sprained his ankle and lucks like he will be out for up two months, but at least we got off to winning start, Next on the friendly agenda is Ossett Albion away.
12th July: The second friendly was against Ossett Albion and we made a brilliant start scoring in the first two minutes and on the 5th minute we doubled our lead, the game was a real see saw affair with play going from end to end. Ossett scored two goals in the matter of three minutes to equalise but we managed to get a two goal cushion back with ease. On the 40th minute we scored again to make it 5-2 before the break. The second half was a different affair with Ossett completely out playing us, they managed to score four times to win the game. I wasn't best pleased at the dramatic downfall in the second half. to make matters even worse my son got sent off for two bookable offences leaving the press with more ammo to throw at me
16th July: I signed my first player on a free, Kevin Dennis a 29 year old AMRLC/FC. His previous clubs include Brentford and Welling, so he had experrience in the league and non league.
17th July: My next friendly was against Forest Green at Causeway Lane. Things didn't start well as Lynch got sent off after only 8 minutes for a silly late tackle. It didn't ruin our game as the players pulled together to dominate Forest Green. We managed to score on the 14th minute through Carter and after that we controlled the game well. The second half was all us and we ran our fully deserved winners, not bad to say we played 82 minutes with only ten men
20th July: Next on the fixture list was a friendly against League Two team Chester. Chester came straight at us and showed the fans what a league team can do, there pressure eventually paid off when they scored in the 15th minute. The way Chester were attacking I feared a rout but luckily my players showed some balls and stood firm under the pressure.Towards the end of the game we had a shot cleared off the line but overall I was very happy with how my young team played against a very strong Chester side.
On the transfer front I signed another player, Thomas Smith a 17yr old AMC who had just been released by Bournemouth
23rd July Hednesford were my next opponents and they managed to provide me wiith a difficult game as they scored after only 12 minutes, but my players showed alot of resolve and scored not long after. The game started to get messy as both sets of players tried there hardest to get the winner but both defence's protected there respective goals. Unfortunately a good draw came at a cost as new signing Thomas Smith suffered some fractured ribs and will be out for up to two months.
On the transfer front we made alot of new free signings, with some more youth and some experienced players coming to the club.
James Hindmarch - 29 - MC - previous clubs Cannes
Sean Ardley - 18 - D/AMR - Crawley
Andy Roscoe - 33 - D/WBL/DM/AMLC - Signed as GoalKeeping coach aswell - Liverpool, Bolton, Rotherham, Mansfield, Exeter and Leigh
Marc Salvati - 23 - D/AMR - York and Whitby
Marcus Benton - 20 - ST - Northampton
Gary Tomkins - 19 - MC
Craig Mitchel - 20 - AMC - Port Vale and Runcorn
Neil Ellis - 37 - D/WB/ML - Northwich
27th July: My last friendly is against Fleetwood at Causeway Lane, With virtually a new team and little time for them to gel Fleetwood dominted us and ran out deserved 2-0 winners in front of a paultry 86 fans lets hope more turn up for the League games
From the Unibond to God Knows Where 
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