retired_ironmaden

Thanks. Is anyone running into the "super gray teams" problem?

It's a nightmare to arrange friendlies against greyed out teams - they are always on 100% fitness, run you ragged, and the fans are ****ed off because you lose to a supposedly inferior team :p

prof101

Yeah I have come across this! Its a bit of a pain!

retired_help_my_body

Krokum - Swedish 2nd division West Gotaland

My first day in charge I realize it's awfully quiet at Krokum. Just a chairman, two players and me. It takes a while to scramble together a backroom staff, and by the time the window closes I signed two players and loaned a great young defender, double figures in all the stats that matter.

reaction of my fans: how can you sign this guy, we're lucky we can send him back at the end of the season :eek:.

When the transfer window opens again I sign some more players and we play our first, and only, game without grays in the starting eleven.

By this time things are looking bleak with us sitting dead last, 9 points from a relegation playoff spot. Than suddenly things start to click, slowely we climb to the eleventh place.

With 12 points from 15 (last two games 4-0 and 4-0, with hattricks for my two strikers) we might just have a chance at avoiding relegation.

The last game of the season we play at home to already champions Lindome. We sit eleventh with 20 points, Skövde and Skärhamn sit in front of us both with 22 points. We win our game 1-0 with a controversial penalty, the other 2 lose and we survive our first season

final standings

Next season is going to be hard. We need more depth (only 11 players at the moment), and we're leaking money everywhere.

retired_mari

FC Molodechno, Belarusian First League 2009 (1st Season)

Profile
Overview.
Finances.
Board Confidence.

After a particularly pleasing start to the season whereby being unbeaten after four games, all be it mostly draws, I was all set for the team to be there or there abouts come the end of the season, how I was wrong. Although in the end we did finish a respectable 10th, although somehow I feel we could have challenged more.

Belarusian First League. Final Standings.

Our main downfall was the defence, which will need to be sured up for the next season. Although goalscoring did come quite well to the squad which was pleasing and I mean that in the sense I was surprised of how many we did score with the poor attacking options available.
But one player really did shine for the squad, Sergey Rusetskiy, although only being 20, he was by far the best player for the team throughout the season by being the most consistent.

FC Molodechno Stats.

Next season I will definately be looking for an improvement in the cup. Although the board didnt expect much, I was gutted to be sent out in the first round. But as I say theres always next season.

And I'm quite looking forward to next season to be fair, should be interesting to see how we build on last years 'success' and hopefully push for promotion.

retired_ironmaden

freek_teek

Good luck with the Swedish save :thup: The situation you've found the club in reminds me how I started with IF Akropolis in my best FM07 sae (3 players - one ST with a finishing of 1 , no staff). The save went on for 21 years, giving me a great time

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NK Slovan

I forgot last year's lowlight. After going through two rounds in the cup, we were knocked out by our lower league feeders in the last 16 :o

retired_makaylalldredge

freek_teek and Reverand&Makers congrats on good first seasons. :thup:

Meanwhile over at Vidir, I'm receiving an obscene amount of bids for every player in my squad.

150k minimum or they're NOT going!!

retired_OrangeOne

Superb report freek_teek. :thup: You know there is something strangely satisfying about avoiding the drop late on, something you don't get with promotions and the fact that you would of have had start again if you'd of been relegated makes it even more special. :cool:

retired_travisrush

Didn't feel at home in Iceland, so im going to start again in Wales.

retired_OrangeOne

Anything to do with the cold?

Good luck in the Welsh Valleys. :thup:

retired_travisrush

haha, i think it may have been the fact i couldn't pronounce any of my players names or the team name for that matter.

Plus I'm half Welsh so this could be fun.