retired_dolly_shelly

Ahhh yes, I think I was being a tad optimistic.
5 hours later and I'm 16 games in. Only just over 3 games per HOUR.

At about 50 games a season that's fifty hours if I go non stop!!!.

Might have to pick up the pace and even then (assuming I sleep and go tp work!!!) I won't see you before Tuesday!!!!

Oh well

greg22

Speed Managing. Could be a whole new olympic sport.

I'm personally on the other end of the spectrum.
I think I average about 4 or 5hrs of play between each match - tweaking training schedules, reading player stats etc. real anal stuff.
Am I the only one who does this??
By the time I post my 3 season update it'll be 2010 at my current speed

retired_dolly_shelly

Well here it is, the long awaited (yeah right) 3 season update of my first game as a LLaMa!!

Season 06/07 - Newport County (Conference South)

The media predicted the lofty position of 16th for my first season in charge, and looking at the squad, I felt that they were having a giraffe!!!

I deciided to build my team round Experienced Striker and even more Experienced Winger. I was soon to regret this decision, as six games in I was a single point outside the relegarion zone.

Thankfully my scout had uncovered four players that I felt might make the difference and sure enough, results improved. By January (and three more signings later), I was in mid-table and looking upwards. sadly it was too little too late, and I finished in a more than respectable, but excrutiatingly painful 6th. One place, and one point outside the play-offs.

Final Position 6th (68 poits)
FA Cup - 1st Round (0-3 at home to Torquay)
FA Trophy - 1st Round (0-1 away to Forest Green)
Players in - 7 Players out - 4
Average attendance - 968

Season 07/08 - Newport County (Conference South)

The media predicted a safe mid-table position of 11th for my second season, ordinarily I'd have agreed except for the fact that I had ignored all of the reminders to renew the contracts of all but my most important players. :eek:

As a result 21 players left before the season even started. Thankfully these were mostly players from my youth academy, but it left my really short on cover. Oh and by the way, my assistant manager decided he'd had enough and refused to sign a contract.he didn't even look back in the way out.

One new assistant manager later and 9 new signings on, I was ready to build on last season.

Solid at the back all season (fifth best defensive record in the league), and lethal up front (third top scorers) meant that I finished 4th in the league and in a play off position (albeit only by a single point).

Play-off fever hit north Wales and after scraping past (and I DO mean SCRAPING past) Weston-super-Mare 2-1 0n agg. in the Semi, I got a chance of revenge for the previous season's FA Trophy defeat to Forest Green.

I still don't know how I did it, but I managed to score two more goals than they did, despite only having four shots on goal in the entire 90 mins, and achieved promotion to the Conference National with a 2-0 victory!!!

Final Position - 4th (77 points - Promotion)
FA Cup - 4th Qualifying round (3-4 on pens after a replay v Exeter)
FA Trophy - 4th round (1-3 v Aldershot)
Players in - 9 Players Out - 23
Average Attendance - 1102 (going up)

Season 08/09 - Newport County (Conference National)

The media couldn't understand why we were even turning up, predicting 23rd position and a swift return back to where I came from, and I have to say, I couldn't disagree!!!

Only one defeat in my first five games had me thinking that this Conference National business was a peice of nonsense, but five defeats on the bounce soon had me rethinking my approach.

I steadied the ship with a tactical revolution, and some solid (if unspectacular) form had me sitting in a very healthy 12th place come Christmas!!!

Then it ALL WENT WRONG!!! One win in 15 games, and a total of only three wins in my last 22 league games saw me plummeting toward the drop zone!!! Thankfully the bottom four clubs were complete and utter mince, in comparison to my being only complete mince.

I survived by 8 whole points, but finished in 20th, only one place above the drop zone!! Any other previous two seasons we would have been relegated!! :cool:

Final Position - 20th (47 points)
FA Cup - 1st round (1-3 v Brentford)
FA Trophy - 2nd Round (1-2 v Blyth)
Players in - 5 Players Out - 8
Average Attendence - 926 (Going Down)

All in all, 3 seasons in and one division higher. If I keep up that average, then I'll be in the Premiership in 12 years!!

retired_lastdietever

KUTGW :thup:

Just a small point though. Newport is not in North Wales.

retired_mujerenforma

KUTGW!

And still a damn decent rate of progress.

retired_dolly_shelly

Ah, I see your point sir (Philips World Atlas in hand)!!! It really is about as South as South could be!!!! My apologies!! :o

retired_lastdietever

Think people from Newport would be more offended than us from the North

retired_dolly_shelly

Season 4 - 09/10 - Newport County (Conference National)

Well, after my first season in the Conference National, I approached the new season, with trepidation. I fully expected the dismal form which ended last season to continue into the new one!! The media agreed, predicting that we would finish 23rd out of 24!!

I decided the best course of action would be to give the team a whole new look. To that end, I released 13 players, and sold two more for a total of 18k!!

In came 13 new players, all on free transfers, all with league experience, including a young Portuguese AM/FC who I got from the Championship.

On to the season then, and a disasterous start had me rock bottom, with only four points from the first eight games!!!

I decided to give my young Portuguese prodigy a chance to turn things around, this coupled with a slight (and I DO me slight) tactical tweak, saw a massive upturn in our fortunes. One defeat in eleven had us in mid table by November. :thup:

New year came and went and the teams form saw me steadily climbing the league, 21 goals in 25 games from the Portuguese forward, had me thinking that we could get into the play offs.

Then disaster struck. Portuguese forward fractured his ribs and was out for two months.:eek: Bang went my play off hopes, or so I thought.

To my surprise, one of my academy kids stepped up and did an admirable job scoring on average 1 in 3. :cool:

With the season drawing to a close I was four points outside the play offs with a game in hand, but a downturn in form saw us finish 8th, 10 points outside the play off places.

I would have jumped at that finish if I was offered it at the start of the season, but given our poor start and finish, there was an element of "What if?".

We were named overachievers of the season, which did make me feel better about it, and there is a certain optimism about the place going into season five!!

Final Position 8th (67 points)
FA Cup - First Round (1-3 @ Bristol Rovers)
FA Trophy - Semi Final (2-4 on agg v York)
Players in - 14. Players out - 19
Average Attendence - 1167 (going up)

retired_joysnow

KUTGW :thup:

due for a promotion this season then 8)

retired_cin4me9

Nice job with the speed management.

KUTGW.