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Season 5 (2025/26) - Part 1 A New Chapter in Northern Ireland... It’s Season 5 and after our successful stint in Wales, we’re heading to Northern Ireland's 3rd division, the Lough Premier Intermediate League. We took over at Ballymoney United who were favourites for relegation, having just...

Season 4 Summary (2024/25) - Part 3 Manager Progress and Where to Next? On a personal note we won 5x Manager of the Month awards and Manager of the Year for the 2nd year in a row. We also made it into the top ten in the Welsh Hall of Fame. My contract was running out at the end of the...

Season 4 Summary (2024/25) - Part 2 Europa Conference League Group Stage & Beyond… For the Group Stage we were drawn with Sevilla (Spain), Vaduz (Liechtenstein) and FK Sarajevo (who we lost to in the Europa League Qualifying Round). As expected, we were no match for Sevilla, but we pulled off...

Season 4 Summary (2024/25) - Part 1 Season Preparation & New Signings Following our title win last season and qualification for the Champions League Qualifying Rounds, we knew there would be some squad rotation required early in the season and potentially beyond if results went our way. With...

Season 3 Summary (2023/24) On to Season 3 we go and our first year in the Cymru Premier - we had a great base to work from having comfortably won the league last year and hopefully some of the established players have the quality to make the step up. One player I forgot to mention in the...

Season 2 Summary (2022/23) Heading into the 2022/23 season we wanted to ensure we were in a position to win the Cymru South title and gain promotion - there are no playoffs, so winning the title is the only way to get promotion in this league. We had no transfer budget so had to look for...

Season 1 Summary (2021/22) I started unemployed, with Sunday League experience and no coaching badges and then went on holiday until January 2022 to see which jobs would become available. I wanted to start the journey in Wales, so I was looking for a job in the JD Cymru North / South to get...

FM22 British & Irish Steel Challenge I know FM23 has just been released, but I have decided to stick with FM22 for now as I had already started this challenge and after reading other peoples FM stories I have decided to start my own to keep me on track. I’m sure most of you know the premise...