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2016 Season Recap In the end, I've attained what I set out to attain. It wasn't pretty, but Dag & Red will certainly be back in the Football League for 2016-2017, which was never certain when Our Young Manager began his appointment. Bristol Rovers and Mansfield have been relegated. If...

April-May 2016 April 2 Martin Samuelsen opened up the scoring early, A stellar midfielding performance from Boucaud earns him a man of the match award here. Labadie's suspension has just ended, but I find it redundant to even make room for him in the first team. His suspensions have left...

March 2016 March 1 Our Young Manager’s honeymoon is officially over after an extremely disappointing match at Notts. Labadie, just removed from a five match ban because of his 3rd red card of the season, wastes no time in picking up his 4th red card of the season. After the match...

February 2016: February 2 Zavon Hines put in a man of the match performance at home against playoff contenders, Carlisle. Another stellar defensive performance, particularly from Goalkeeper Mark Cousins. This is Our Young Manager's first signature win at Dag & Red, with a dominant...

January 2016: Employment January 6 Our Young Manager decides to implement the same formation that was primarily used by the previous manager, with a few minor tweaks. Ferdinand and Labadie will anchor the midfield, while Jodi Jones will play shadow striker underneath McClure. McClure must...

Yes, when I saw the stats for the club so far, I nearly lost it. I'm honestly wondering if there is some sort of plague at Mansfield after the poll results went final. Also, with their position in the table right now, I don't see any other jobs as unenviable as Mansfield. Indeed, Micah Hyde...

January 6, 2016: Dag & Red Roster Overview Goalkeepers Our Young Manager is left with not much choice here. Liam O'Brien is making far too much for a second team GK at this level, but will be hard to offload. If we can convince a team to buy him for free, it would save the team about...

January 6, 2016: Dag & Red Staff Overview Well, this is embarrassing. The chairman has asked Our Young Manager to cut wages, and there are TWO staff members that the club pays more than me. Even worse, it looks like the best coach we have on the staff is the Part-Time Goalkeeping...

January 6, 2016: Dag & Red Financial Overview This is a scary first picture. I've arrived to a £0 transfer budget, with the demands of decreasing the wage budget by over 100,000. Even harder to rationalize is having only 15% of transfer revenue made available. From nearly a positive...

January 6, 2016: Dag & Red Hire Carver As Manager One of the main takeaways from this is, the agreed promise to reduce the size of the backroom staff. I'll have to address this as soon as possible. This picture also illustrates how small of a club Dag & Red truly is, relatively speaking...

The poll results are final, and resounding. Mansfield must be a horrible, horrible place. :O I genuinely have no idea what direction I want to take this club in. I'm currently assembling a massive shortlist of youth prospects, and I guess I will go from there. Thanks again for following along.

Long ago, in my childhood, before I was even introduced to the English pyramid, my father told me about Alan Hinton. Hinton's story was thought-provoking and lovable, and he wore his time at Derby like a badge, or war medal. In the spirit of saving time, I'll only give you the introduction to...

June-December, 2015: Unemployed December 13 We are nearly halfway through the season, and our jobless manager still hasn’t put in an application that granted a job interview. In fact, it’s not until middle December the first jobs become available in League 2. Story of my Life...

Meet the Manager I have absolutely gone mental with the attributes ;);) I don't see it being favorable to evenly disperse your attributes when you have so few to give. Hopefully the manager's football IQ will eventually be the edge I need to turn some of my youthful prospects into wonder...

I'm brand new to this website, & honestly had no idea it even existed until this very moment, but I'm no stranger to Football Manager. I've been looking for a way to record a long-term FM save, and this forum seems ****** brilliant. So as an introduction to me & this thread: I'm Adam. I'm a...