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This is my first bash at either posting and LLM i hope my fool hardy and firey inexperience will stand me in good stead. im going to be strict on myself with NO rule breaking except one, ive chosen Forest Green! so this LLM cant be that hard can it...
04/05
i realise that choosing Forest Green to be my lower league team may not qualify me as a hardcore manager, however as this was my first attempt at LLM i thought i should choose a team i knew well enough to get me hooked into the game. After being predicted relegation i was shocked to discover that predictions were looking correct as
we came to christmas. despite some quality loan signings things looked bleak. i decided that it was time to look else where, not for my sake but for the sake of my floundering Forest Green (they survived relegation with ease after my departure).
This search took me to Bristol. The rovers side of the city to be precise. When offered the job it was not the huge wage budget of £0 that persuaded me nor the fact that i was hugely over my wage budget, nor the fact that i discovered i was 138,000 in the red, no, it was the fact that i would be managing 'The Pirates', and the thought of steering the bristol ship forward convinced me. Bristol lay 23rd in L2 and 5 points adrift. With some
swift tactic changing and a new improved training regime i climbed to safety finishing the season on equal points with yeovil and surviving by 3 goals down to a collapse by them losing 5-2 to Rushden on the last day. This spelt the end of my first seasons jaunt into management.
Premiership: Chelsea
Champions League: Inter
UEFA Cup: Dortmund
FA Cup: Man City
League Cup: Liverpool
Finish: 22nd L2
What i learnt this year: Hoping ship is best for both club and manager
05/06
after a serious cull of my squad i managed to drop my wage budget by the £5000 required to keep it in budget, and I managed to shave a further 2000 off in order to bring in some replacements. I lost 11 men, 5 of them first choice and managed to bring in 6 new players all on frees as my transfers kitty was again £0. I had one gem, a premiership reject, he was young and had no experience but he looked solid. A striker who i had opted for solely on the fact the had superior physical stats to any other in my division. However with a cruel twist of fate he got injured early october and was out for 8 months. This brought to the fore an unsung hero, a loan striker who managed to help me achieve a respectable 11th place finish. I dont know what this boy looks like but i like to believe that he has blond hair white robes a halo and some wings. This finsih only masked a larger problem which i had let spiral out of control. My defense leaked goals and my pirate ship was sinking! come end of season my defense was out, whether through sales
or contract expiring i was left without a single senior defender. this i thought was not a problem, boy was i wrong...
Premiership: Chelsea
Champions League: Milan
UEFA Cup: Lyon
FA Cup: Middlesbrough
League Cup: Aston Villa
Finish: 11th L2
What i learnt this year: you dont need defence aslong as you have angels playing for your squad
06/07
looking down the team sheet as the transfer window opens and seeing only 13 players, not one of which plays in a defensive position doesnt speak highly of my managerial skills. tredging through my shortlist and scouted players i managed to scrape together a new defence blending the pace and fitness of youth and the skill and mental strength of age. however none of these came close to my most valuble and impressive signings, 2 new strikers. one of which i found on a free, due for retierment and the second for 9k. Yes! my board gave me an impressive £100,000 kitty, testement to my penny watching style of management, a well run club breeds sucess! this young striker was strong and good in the air and after chaning my tactics to accomodate his strengths i began what was to be a shockingly sucessful season! the highlight was not 3rd place finish and therfore shock promotion, nor was it my hilariously leaky defence which continued to increase the amount of goals let in, it was the most important match in my career! i drew Bristol City in the FA cup, this was my cup final, it was my CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL. after a tense start to the game (the had 11 attmepts on goal in the first half) i had a brainwave
bolster the defence and have one upfront. My 9k striker was the obvious choice for the target man, he is strong and made an excellent target man, after 73 mins he placed a headed goal past their keeper and elation spread throughout Blue Bristol. The lower league pirates had taken the treasure, an away win at the city rivals, this lead to a 6-0 drumming by Man city but that of course did not matter!
Premiership: Arsenal
Champions League: FC Bayern
UEFA Cup: Werder Bremen
FA Cup: Chelsea
League Cup: Liverpool
Finish: 3rd L2
What i learnt this year: 9k can buy you promotion and an all bristol cup win!
I am fairly new to LLM myself so far be it for me to criticize since I might not be totally familiar with all the protocol but...
1) if LLM isn't that hard then why did you have to jump ship halfway thru season one? Going to teams in higher divisions is certainly welcome it seems - once you've established yourself - but I think the idea is to be offered the job...not seek it.
2)Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think City (or any other L2 team) qualifies as a LLM team. The Green were fine...and if you were sacked, so be it...but jumping ship defeats the purpose.
Sorry if I come across as a complete arse (and I very well could be out of line) but there are true LLaMA's who are now managing top level teams (their 5th) who started slow and earned it...and I don't think jumping ship and applying would sit well with them either.
And that's exactly the point - according to SI, a human manager starts out with a certain degree of reputation or else he wouldn't even get a job in the local supermarket team. It's not like you'd just pop up on earth.
If they're interested, they're interested. It's a game after all.
i would like to pass my sincere apologies to all who appear to be and will most certainly be offended by my hopping ship so early into the game. i understand that what i did appears to be wrong and very unethical as a LLM, and the only thing i have to say in my defence is that who could turn down the offer from 'the pirates' the chance of captaining your own ship, a team flirting with serious relegation, limited numbers of games left no way of strengthening the squad, a team where the only way to survive was to use tactical knowhow and strentgh of charcater which i had found and discovered from my earlier struggling with Forest Green. So release the hounds to ravage my body but as they do i will be shouting FREEEEEEEEEDDDDOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM
LLM cant be that hard... 
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