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2004-05 Queen's Park
I decided to go Scottish as so many times before, but this time around I decide I don't need the grief of not having a stadium that's big enough for SPL. So as you can probably guess I go for Queen's Park.
At the start of the season I have 53!! players so I look through them and transferlist 33 and wait to see what happens. I send the scout out and hire an ass. Manager through the personal adds (appearently in some german paper). Scout comes back with 2 free transfers I like, so I sign them (one of them appearantly a superstar who wants £140 p/w.)
Goal for the first season is of course promotion though the bookies have me at 3-1 with 5 other teams at evens or better. The board and fans aren't impressed, expecting a safe mid-table position and rebuilding the squad respectively. But perhaps a good cup-run in one of the 3 cups will be possible.
After a bad start we start picking up points here and there until we loose 5-0 to peterhead in mid-november. This brings the morale down and we only get 5 points in the next 7 games leaving us in 9th at christmas. So I decide to bring in reinforcements and buy two defenders and a right wing for a grand total of £2.000. It doesn't help much, the opposition keeps scoring at will, and for home-games the crowd usually only stays for 60 minutes. Also my top striker brakes his skull(6 months out), so I stop scoring goals alltogether. I get 4 votes of confidence during a loosing streak in january/february, until I finally win a game on 12th march. Still I'm surprised they don't fire me, so when Lincoln approaches me I accept.
Record with Queen's Park (256 days) :
League: Pos:#9 P29 6W 5D 18L 31-47 23p
Challenge Cup: Defeat in 2.rd away at Airdire(D1) 3-0
League Cup: Defeat in 1.rd at home to East Fife(D3) 1-1p (we score 0 goals on 4 penalties)
Fa Cup: Defeat in 3.rd away at Ross County(D1) 6-1 (no comments)
Lincoln are 21st in League 2 when I take over 3 points clear of the drop and with 7 matches to go. The promised transfer funds and wage budget is'nt there, but I'm not surprised . I'll try to stay clear of relegation with the players I have, and hopefully sell off a few in the summer break.
In other news : Aston Villa are playing Huddersfield in the FA Cup Final?!? (Villa won it, but somehow Huddersfield got a spot in the UEFA cup.. madness)
We end the season in 20th position playing 2W 4D 1L 11-8
This is my first post here so I apologize in advance for any rules I may have broken.
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2005-06 Lincoln City (League 2)
The season starts with a sacking/selling of players and also I need an extra striker and a few defenders (or one if I can't find any better than the ones on my shortlist now) and a new second keeper since the Canadian one I've got surprisingly didn't get a new work permit So I buy a striker and defender in Cowdenbeath and a keeper from Motherwell. Tired of dragging scotsmen over the border I start looking for a native for my second defender. All told it's £3K for the three, and I release and sell 14 players and earn £3K, so I still have my £9K transfer budget intact should I need any players midseason.
My goal is to improve on last years position as #20, but given the form we ended the campaign in last year I'm optimistic and set my sight on the upper half of the board. The board is saying i should rebuild the squad, and I intend to... still hoping to win a few games along the way though. (bookies odds : 1-50)
I have a horrible start to the season, but after a lot of tweaking I start to win games. I'm still in the relegation zone at Christmas. All told it's a bit depressive to get beaten repeatedly by teams like Aldershot. Around March I realize that I suck at this game, but I decide to keep playing anyway. Well with one game to go we finally get relegated, so now I'm looking forward to playing som non-league football (If I'm not fired before that).
League: Pos:#24 P46 10W 6D 30L 42-82 36p
League Cup: Defeat in 2ndrd at home to Shrewsbury(L2) 0-1
Vans Trophy: Defeat in Nth 2ndrd at home to Hull(L1) 1-2e
FA Cup: Defeat in 2nd rd. at Coventry(L1) 5-1
Tough season! You will be alright in the Conference as long as you accept that you may not bounce straight back up. The gap between Conference and League 2 is not huge. If you still have a job use the conference to hone your tactical skills. The results will come, whatever you do, don't sell out and start a new game with a big club with large transfer funds.
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. I'll try to stay clear of relegation with the players I have, and hopefully sell off a few in the summer break.
So I buy a striker and defender in Cowdenbeath and a keeper from Motherwell. Tired of dragging scotsmen over the border I start looking for a native for my second defender. All told it's £3K for the three, and I release and sell 14 players and earn £3K, so I still have my £9K transfer budget intact should I need any players midseason.
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