retired_sandra

I was partly proud when three of my Billericay players who have been at the club for a while and come up with me a couple of leagues first got selected for England.

Only partly because I selected them.

I'll be a lot prouder if my promising full back gets capped for Northern Ireland though. He's in his third year now (18) and has been performing quite well in his full campaign in the senior squad, and in the Premier League too.

retired_katelin

18 and playing in the Premier League ? He must be a fantastic talent

retired_kyliejane

In Cherrn's defense, we all know it is possible to gain consecutive promotions to the Premiership and have probably done it ourselves in earlier versions of FM.

The nut is, we don't like it! We like the struggle; we like to see others struggle. It is the struggle that "sucks our souls away", to quote John Donne. It is the struggle that makes LLaMa a unique community. Struggle is the unique characteristic of LLaMa and, understandably, success without struggle is not easily welcomed.

Can't blame Cherrn for being a very good or very lucky manager.

Fun read, and KUTGW! :thup:

retired_duncan

What's this we business, white boy?

retired_mujerenforma

roflmao.

retired_sterling

You couldn't have put it better, i want the relegation battle where every goal means that little bit more. Where the striker you sign out of desperation with the thought of 'he might prove to be ok' scores his first goal in 17 games away on a tuesday night to gain a vital point
If i am going to have success it's after staving off relegation for two seasons then slowly finishing higher for the next 2 seasons then languisinh in mid table for another two then finally getting a play-off palce but losing the final but returning the next year to finally win promotion after 7 years of toil.

The thing that gets me about this story is that: a)it's all too good to be true and the most crucial one:
b) He claims to have been a lurker on here for a while now yet somehow didn't manage to establish that Weymouth is the easiest LL side to manage.

retired_katelin

As I said, I play the game in spurts. When I play the game, I lurk in the forum, when I don't play the game, I don't come to the forum And this Weymouth game was created early this year, and as of now, I am 7 seasons in, so yes, in spurts!

retired_joysnow

Can you play in the Prem with a 6000 seater stadium?

retired_duncan

In the game, or IRL?

retired_katelin

2010/2011 Premier League.

The Weymouth board expected a brave battle against relegation, as did the fans. I had a expected a large transfer kitty this season due to Tv-revenue and such. Sadly that wouldn't be the case since most money was spent expanding the stadium with 12000 seats and upgrading our training facilities to Youth Academy! Wooo! Still, I had a transfer kitty of £1.5m. During the preseason Blackburn Rovers finally released a goalkeeper I had been tracking for 2-3 years, on a free. He was snapped up. This kid had an England future with a little luck. As for the £1.5m, well I sent my scouts out to find a decent striker to partner Scottie up front, hopefully with a sweet left foot. Lo and behold, former Everton player and Scottish international was found in the Blackburn Reserves and was snapped up for a structured deal worth £1.5m in all. 17 players was snapped up, mostly schoolboys for my U18 team, all in all it cost us £2.6m. 18 players went the other way for £1.6m in all.

The team was somewhat solid, but I figured we would struggle against some of the bigger teams, if not all of them. Still, the players I added the previous season was, with a little faith, premier league quality. This was the season that the weakness in my previously so successful tactic was exposed. Against the smaller teams in the Premier League I won as expected, but I got absolutely hammered against the top teams. Playing against the likes of Liverpool, Arsenal, Man Utd, Chelsea, Tottenham, and Everton was a bloody nightmare. About halfway through I changed my system for the first time, adding a sorely needed defender to defense at the cost of the AMC, which did help shore up a very leaky defense. Still, by all accounts it was a good season, if not a season of total mediocrity. There was some success though as I landed the FA-Cup for the first time despite facing horror teams such as previous winner, champion, and Champion's League winner Chelsea on the way to the final. Luckily their first choice was injured a few games before our tie, and they resorted to playing their second choice goalkeeper in his spot, who, I kid you not, was 16 years old and couldn't get in a conference team. I won 2-1 after extra time in the replay. The semi-final landed us Manchester United, whom since hiring a new manager half-way through the season was on a 25 game unbeaten run where they only had conceded 1 goal :eek: I can't really explain what happened. But we had 6 chances the entire game against their 32 chances. In the end we won 6-3. In the final Liverpool, who had already been crowned champions, waited. After an even first half, and me getting totally out-played in the second half, I still had the satisfaction of scoring all 3 goals in our 2-1 victory over them.

Final Position: 10th in the Premier League.
League Cup: Knocked out in the Semi Final by Chelsea.
FA Cup: Winners, beating Liverpool 2-1 in the final.

Top goalscorer: Scottie McYoungblood with 50 goals, including 39 goals in 37 league games :eek:
Fans Player of the Year: Scottie McYoungblood.

Together with Liverpool we had the best strikeforce of the season, scoring 78 goals, sadly we also shared the worst defense in the league with the 3 teams who got relegated Still trying to shore up our defense, luckily we recieved £5m added transfer kitty in January which was spent on a Danish defender from Liverpool who would fit perfectly into the new defense. He wouldn't arrive until pre-season though.

Interesting tid-bits; Scottie earned his first cap this season. I played Chelsea a total of 5 times this season, 2 in the league, twice in the FA Cup and once in the League Cup. Also Mr Posh retired from playing at Real Madrid and walked right into management at, you guessed it......



Newcastle United