Pre-season 15/16
Now that I've made it to the first league game I'll show you guys what happened in the pre-season.
Transfers
When I last left I said I was looking to strengthen up at RB, I managed to find a good young RB in Mark Williams who I signed for free from amateur side Queens Park. With Aaron Muirhead getting injured in pre-season I'll be looking to him to start strong as first choice RB.
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The side also lacked wide players so I brought back Alex Cooper who Falkirk released irl last year for being awful but who is still inexplicably high rated in this year's FM. As a free agent after being released by St Mirren he coat nothing but strengthened the squad considerably.
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The final signing was brought in due to a high number of injuries during the friendlies. Craig Sibbald picked up an injury that would see him miss the first couple of games and with no one else who could play behind the striker Celtic youngster Aidan Nesbitt was brought in on loan.
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Tactics
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These are the tactics I played during pre-season but I'll definitely be tweaking and changing them over the course of the season.
Friendlies
Our friendlies were pretty average we beat the teams we were meant to and didn't get beaten too badly by the English teams.
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Early cup rounds
Due to the challenge cup and league cup being seeded we were drawn against lower league sides in both. Peterhead in the challenge cup and Montrose in the league cup. I was pretty confident of proceeding in both.
Up first was Peterhead in the challenge cup and without a fit CAM I had to tweak the formation but I was still confident we were good enough to win.
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Just like real life last year Falkirk were eliminated from the challenge cup at the Falkirk stadium by Peterhead though this time in the first round and not the semi. This result made me rethink my previous confidence and going into the montrose game I was nervous it would happen again.
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Lucky this time we had Aiden Nesbitt who turned in an amazing performance on his debut and secured our place in the second round.
That's all for this update but in the next one I'll bring you the result of the first few league games including the season opener at home to QOS.