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Thanks for the thumbs up. Stenhousemuir isn't that far north rabbitman. It's quite close to Glasgow actually. There's an arm of water stretching in near Loch Ness too though
11-09-2005, 03:24 PM
Scottish clubs with funny names... now presenting... Stenhousemuir Football Club (Update) Post #12
Originally posted by Pangaea:
Had hoped for more people to show up though. Not gone up much from 3rd Div to 1st Div. Averaged 800-ish last season. But at least I don't know them all by name
KUTGW! And up the Warriors!
Won't see many turn up as both Falkirk and East Stirling are only a few hundred yards away and Falkirk only has a population of 150,000.
11-12-2005, 01:01 AM
Scottish clubs with funny names... now presenting... Stenhousemuir Football Club (Update) Post #13
Everybody expected us to battle against relegation, we were given a 100:1 shot of making promotion. We needed lots of players, and fortunetely the scouts came up with a few decent ones. Bought 8 players for 22K, but only 3 made the team on a regular basis. Loaded off 8 for 13K. Most prominent buys was a good MC for 1K, and what turned out to our life-saving striker for free.
We struggled with our backs against the wall all season, dangling from 8th to 10th. It was an incredibly close race between all teams, practically everybody beating everybody. At the end of the season we managed to string together a nice run of games. Last 8 games read 5-2-1. That came as a godsend as all teams in the bottom started winning towards the end. Due to very small margins we actually finished 5th, 7 points from the drop. Livingston got promoted with only 57 points. Our star-striker scored 36 from 37 starts :eek: Without him we would be down by xmas.
Nothing to report from the cups as I sent out the rookies, as I wanted to concentrate on the league.
Scottish 1st Div: 5th P36 W13 D9 L14 67-58 48pts Scottish Cup: 3rd Rnd. Celtic (SPL) (H) 1-4 League Cup: 2nd Rnd. Ross County (SD1) (H) 0-1 Challenge Suck-Arse Cup: 3rd Rnd. Ross County (SD1) (A) 0-4
Still about nobody willing to join, unless I find something to sign in the next month I expect the same fight next year, although the close-season run was a confidence-boost. The other teams are bringing in talent from all over the world for my yearly budget. Have to try staying in the division for a few year. Hopefully our reputation will increase, and some talent will be willing to join.
11-12-2005, 02:45 AM
Scottish clubs with funny names... now presenting... Stenhousemuir Football Club (Update) Post #14
Yeah, it's quite frustrating, and it doesn't look like I'm gonna get anything good as of now. Relegation battler from every corner again. Was good fun last year though, but also incredibly frustrating at times.
11-12-2005, 09:15 AM
Scottish clubs with funny names... now presenting... Stenhousemuir Football Club (Update) Post #16
I found the 1st division really hard, in fact I got relegated in my first season. As you said the gulf between the first and the second division is really big, mainly because the teams are professional, and have a lot more money.
11-12-2005, 09:17 AM
Scottish clubs with funny names... now presenting... Stenhousemuir Football Club (Update) Post #17
Yeah, it's a pretty big gap, and we were lucky to survive despite the good position. Have a transfer budget of 275K and nobody willing to join. Then other teams in the division are buying players for that kinda money worryingly often. Takes a lot of time to bring in cash too. The only thing that really helps a lot is getting a lucky away draw in the cups. But as long as we can survive and slowly increase are reputation, I believe there is hope
11-12-2005, 07:00 PM
Scottish clubs with funny names... now presenting... Stenhousemuir Football Club (Update) Post #19
Well, this morning frank found me stenhouse as well, so ive just started my career game, i find it strange that the media have tipped me for relegation but im favourites for most matches. anyway, i'll post an update on a separate thread after 3 seasons....
11-13-2005, 03:30 AM
Scottish clubs with funny names... now presenting... Stenhousemuir Football Club (Update) Post #20