Gundo's FM08 Small club from a small nation European adventure challenge

retired_sajnesh · 10-28-2007, 03:21 PM

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Originally posted by Gundo:
Is everyone applying the Beta Patch and how are you all finding it?

Yes - makes a huge difference to the match engine, which now looks and plays really well IMO.

Don't know whether it has sorted the confidence issue though. I'm about two thirds through my second season with San Marino, and about to find out!

retired_elena70m · 10-28-2007, 03:51 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gundo:
Is everyone applying the Beta Patch and how are you all finding it?

Seems a lot better, I'm very pleased with it. It also helped when the first game I played post-patch was a 5-1 victory away from home.

retired_chelaxix · 10-28-2007, 04:07 PM

Deciced to start with Iceland and have taken control of hopefully the new giants of this frozen wasteland Reynir

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Looks like im going to need to re-build a lot of the team if Im to have any chance avoiding relegation.

retired_elena70m · 10-28-2007, 04:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Clarence Seedorf:
FK Zeleznicar Nis 2008/2009

Serbian First League
A strange season it was, very inconsistent. I ended up finishing 1 place above the drop zone, which is alright I guess, but considering the fact that there are 6(!) teams gaining direct promotion, and I was 2nd at one point, I was a tad dissapointed. It all went wrong at christmas. I blame Santa. I didn't get to play any cup competitions all season. Cups suçk anyway.

Final league table

League positions

I'm not quite sure why there are 6 teams gaining direct promotion, will have to wait another month or so to find out. My guess is due to league restructuring, as the current Superleague only holds 12 teams. I couldn't find anything useful on the internet though, my Serbian isn't what it used to be.

Squad

My team. 9 of my starting 11 were new signings, and I expect the two players that weren't signed by me will be replaced this summer. All players are from Serbia or other countries that used to form Yugoslavia, with the exception of defender Yideonwor(Nigeria) and striker Barrios(Argentina).

I've bought and sold quite a number of players, most of them before the season started. Players in for a sum of €11k, I sold a shipload of players for a total of €18k.

Noteworthy players

Top scorer: Gabriel Barros
The Argie striker didn't need a lot of time to settle, scoring a hatrick on his debut. He's best described as inconsistent. As his goals dried up, our form plummeted. Managed to score 3 goals after christmas.

Central Defender #1: Boris Savic
Looks pretty good for a 21 year old defender in the Serbian first division. My assistant tells me he has reached his potential though, shame.

None of my other players really deserve a mention, they were doing fine the first half of the season, and collectively crap the second half.

Next Season
In come a 17 year old goalkeeper and a 17 year old striker, both have the potential to become good superleague players according to my scout. I've also already signed a tall target man, I lacked a good header up front. Avoiding relegation shouldn't be a problem. But I expect there won't be 6 teams gaining promotion next season, so I doubt I'll manage to really challenge for promotion.

Nice update :thup:
I played in Serbia with Novi Sad on FM07 so it's interesting to see the changes that have been made to the league structure. On FM07 there was just 1 automatic promotion place, and a quite arduous playoff system. Presumably they are expanding the Superliga to 18 teams or so, I guess it'll come clear when you play the next season.
Did Novi Sad get promoted to the First Division at the same time as you, or were they there from the start of the game?

retired_OrangeOne · 10-28-2007, 04:33 PM

Judging by this johnnyquest409 they won't be eligible for this years challenge unfortunately, as they where promoted at the end of last season.

retired_elena70m · 10-28-2007, 05:17 PM

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Originally posted by Gundo:
Judging by this johnnyquest409 they won't be eligible for this years challenge unfortunately, as they where promoted at the end of last season.

Cheers for that :thup:
That's a shame, it would have been nice to return to Stadion Detelinara at some point.

retired_sarahdforman · 10-28-2007, 07:44 PM

I'm coming back to this challenge...

Holidaying in Switzerland as we speak, in hommage of one of my friends who went back to his native country after a 2 years in Canada...

retired_OrangeOne · 10-28-2007, 07:50 PM

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Originally posted by Konquest:
I'm coming back to this challenge...

Holidaying in Switzerland as we speak, in hommage of one of my friends who went back to his native country after a 2 years in Canada...

Super! Welcome back mate.

retired_vb_bn · 10-28-2007, 07:51 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by johnnyquest409:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Clarence Seedorf:
FK Zeleznicar Nis 2008/2009

Serbian First League
A strange season it was, very inconsistent. I ended up finishing 1 place above the drop zone, which is alright I guess, but considering the fact that there are 6(!) teams gaining direct promotion, and I was 2nd at one point, I was a tad dissapointed. It all went wrong at christmas. I blame Santa. I didn't get to play any cup competitions all season. Cups suçk anyway.

Final league table

League positions

I'm not quite sure why there are 6 teams gaining direct promotion, will have to wait another month or so to find out. My guess is due to league restructuring, as the current Superleague only holds 12 teams. I couldn't find anything useful on the internet though, my Serbian isn't what it used to be.

Squad

My team. 9 of my starting 11 were new signings, and I expect the two players that weren't signed by me will be replaced this summer. All players are from Serbia or other countries that used to form Yugoslavia, with the exception of defender Yideonwor(Nigeria) and striker Barrios(Argentina).

I've bought and sold quite a number of players, most of them before the season started. Players in for a sum of €11k, I sold a shipload of players for a total of €18k.

Noteworthy players

Top scorer: Gabriel Barros
The Argie striker didn't need a lot of time to settle, scoring a hatrick on his debut. He's best described as inconsistent. As his goals dried up, our form plummeted. Managed to score 3 goals after christmas.

Central Defender #1: Boris Savic
Looks pretty good for a 21 year old defender in the Serbian first division. My assistant tells me he has reached his potential though, shame.

None of my other players really deserve a mention, they were doing fine the first half of the season, and collectively crap the second half.

Next Season
In come a 17 year old goalkeeper and a 17 year old striker, both have the potential to become good superleague players according to my scout. I've also already signed a tall target man, I lacked a good header up front. Avoiding relegation shouldn't be a problem. But I expect there won't be 6 teams gaining promotion next season, so I doubt I'll manage to really challenge for promotion.

Nice update :thup:
I played in Serbia with Novi Sad on FM07 so it's interesting to see the changes that have been made to the league structure. On FM07 there was just 1 automatic promotion place, and a quite arduous playoff system. Presumably they are expanding the Superliga to 18 teams or so, I guess it'll come clear when you play the next season.
Did Novi Sad get promoted to the First Division at the same time as you, or were they there from the start of the game? </BLOCKQUOTE>

The Superliga now consists of 16 teams, in the 2009/2010 season. 2 Teams now gain automatic promotion, whilst there are 4 playoff spots, with 1 team getting promoted.

Anyway, this makes Serbia an interesting league to start off in, as you can quickly get promoted to the highest division. I failed miserably, and it'll be a lot tougher now.

retired_jayvette · 10-28-2007, 09:10 PM

Budakalaszi 2008/2009

Hungary Division 2 West

The Season
A slow start to the season saw firmly in a relegation battle come the halfway point of the campaign, a change of tactics though and some new additions saw us lose just 1 of our 15 final games and saw us finish a respectable 12th in the 16 team division.

Final table

The Squad
When i took over at the club we had 6 players registered to the books four of whom were over 38 and the rest youth teamers.

During the pre-season i made changes to the squad.

There were no standout players within the squad but my Player of the Year award went to the clubs top goalscorer Nick Lenicheck the American who scored goals from midfield despite being largely unhappy during the season.

Next season
If we manage to get a couple of strikers who score i believe we challenge for promotion.

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