migwar's big Sovakian Adventure
FC Puchov - 2nd Division - 2008/09
Lots to update, but we'll start with the season round up. At the mid-season break we'd just reached the top spot and it was all in our hands. Did we have the bottle? Could we hold our nerve?
18 game unbeaten run clear winners and heading up league top scorer
It wasn't as straightforward as it looks. We actually lost 3 members of the first 11 in the mid-season friendlies, and had 3-4 players out at any one time. At one point I had to bring a 16 yr old up from my U19's to help out for a few weeks, and he held his own. I think a huge thanks should really go to the goalkeeper I bought at the start of the season. He really made the difference. Unfortunately, his screencap failed to save correctly, so instead I give you:
Jozef Jelsic - Fans Player of the Year Jan Chovanec - Captain Fantastic
These two really stood head and shoulders over the rest. Reliable and hard working. And both are gonna be major players in avoiding relegation.
The only real downside of promotion was felt in the club's wallet. We'd been losing about £20-30k per month with our average attendance hitting about 750. Even with an injection from the chairman of £180k at Christmas, we still finished over £100k in the red. No prize money didn't help... Even worse was the performance bonus. That was another £250k and the chairman was livid. i decided to just ignore him and hope the first division would bring a huge cash boost.
This helped... WOW!
i never expected that. I've now played the first month of the next season. I signed up one of the loanees I had last season permanently and I've renewed the loan on the other. I've also taken on a new loanee at right back, and signed a couple of young strikers.
So far, so good. I'm certainly holding my own with the big boys, and the first home game brought an attendance of about 3500. We actually made a small profit in the first month...
It could all be ok, in the long run.
Be back with a mid-season update when I get there.
If you got this afr, well done, and thanks for reading
), it was the way I was building it in my head into the last game, but alas it wasn't to be. I think i will start a fresh version, I considered a newly eligble team, but i think i would like to do the challenge with a one club career.
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