emrah1987

Me too. I often have to switch to a more patient playing style to get something out of a game.

I'm only using 1.3K out of a 2.1K budget and still losing about 70K per season. Middle of third season and I am 125K in the red.

He retired at end of season two in my game. Tried unsucessfully to get Gerry Taggart to fill his shoes. Had to settle for a first division reject.

Linfield seems like the only team willing to pay more than 10k for a player. They have a 40k and a 24k purchase in my game.

Season 3

With captain Eamonn Kavanagh hanging up his playing boots to concentrate on coaching and club top scorer Hill leaving, I devled into the transfer market to pick up a young sweeper and a 28 year old forward. Loaned N. Ireland under 21 goalkeeper Trevor Carson for the second season running.

Attempts to reloan the excellent Aidan Watson was turned down as he moved to another premier division club for 1k.

I was totally estactic when I found Kieran McKenna in the "players willing to join a crappy club" screen and offered him a contract the way he wanted it. I can't believe he was willing to take a 70% pay cut! It was not to be as he eventually signed for a premier league club.

A decent start to the season with a couple of draws in the Intermediate League Cup but eventually failed to qualify. Scalped first division promotion contenders Glenavon 4-0 in the Irish Cup 4th Rnd. Sitting atop the Second Division with a 9-3-0 record after half a season. Defence has been a meanie, conceding only 4 goals in those 12 games.

Having two of my staffs hang up their playing boots to concentrate on coaching seem to increase the training quality as players are improving by leaps and bounds. I also started to customise training schedules for individual players to improve attributes key to their position. Local boy Stephen Campbell, promoted to the youth squad at the end of the first season, is getting plenty of play time on the pitch and is set to have a bright future at the club. He is a winger but is trained to play as a forward to fit in the club's tactics.

retired_pawa

Linfield seems like the only team willing to pay more than 10k for a player. They have a 40k and a 24k purchase in my game.
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Actually Linfield were involved in a bidding war with Glenavon which was what pushed the transfer price so high. Glenavon offered up to £120k for the player.

Linfield have also just turned proffessional in my game after playing in a European Cup Qualifier (which they lost). A few of the top premier league clubs seem to have a bit of money and i think the jump in standard from the first division is quite high.

Also, how does the regen situation work in this league? The majority of Northern Ireland players are pretty poor, so i assumed the regens would be of a similar standard, but i've already discovered at least 2 regens who are far superior to any other players i've seen. One won player of the year in his first season at 16 years old and has a host of english premiership clubs after him. Unfortunately none of them are interested in signing for me as yet. The standard of the regens in general also seems better than the current standard.

retired_sanela86

First season went smoothly, although I didn't get through my Intermediate group.

My team.

The league table.

I'll update that list when the new season starts. £56k in debt so I'm getting worried.

retired_nitalia

Just started as Enniskillen.this one looks pretty hard ive gotta say.im in the red already and im just in august.managed to sign 13 players at least,surely 1 or 2 of them have to be decent enough

retired_sanela86

I think I got lucky with Crewe Utd. Their team was pretty decent and I only made three signings (Joe Goals, Eddie Crosser and Johnny Foreigner, natch) but the rest of the players did pretty amazing too.

Must be my lucky Rwanda tactic that inspired them. :p

retired_pawa

Wisconsin, i'm assuming you've given your players nicknames?

retired_sanela86

Yeah, easier to remember the ones I bought then. Joe Goals scores the goals, Eddie Crosser gets the assists and Johnny Foreigner was the only non-Northern Irish player interested in playing for me. He's Irish.

The fans accepted his foreign ways though, he just won fans player of the year.

retired_stesska

So has everyone got a few youth players through in the summer? I got 4, might as well use them - as the standard of the current players is so bad youth players are nearly as good.

emrah1987

I negotiated a 20k part exchange deal for my striker in mid season, but it fell thru after the part exchange guy snubbed me.

Promotion finally , with three games to go. My vote of confidence on my team's chances next season was not well received.

My two best performers were midfielders Kerr and Patterson. Hope they are good enough for Division One.

emrah1987

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