Club: Fleetwood Town
League: Blue Square North
Version: 10.3
Aim: Premier League; anything else is a bonus...
Overview
Fleetwood Town are a small semi-professional club based in Lancashire. Situated in the sixth tier of English football (their highest ever position since the club's re-establishment in 1997) and with a stadium capacity of 5000, the club are on the up. Their nickname according to the game is The Fishermen. Many things were taken into consideration when choosing my data but was always planning on a BSN/BSS side. Fleetwood's red top with white sleeves appropriately matched there stadium name of Highbury and with a media prediction of 3rd, fairly stable finances and with a high chance of a board takeover my mind was made up.. Let's hope it's all upstream from here; Premier League here we come!
Pre Season
Replacing a fellow scot Micky Mellon, I arrived at Highbury to a fairly poor reception by The Fishermen Faithful knowing straight away that this wasn't goin to be plane sailing; any mishaps I doubt I'd be let off the hook. However, giving an unexpected budget of 26k and £10,900 for wages if I achieve promotion there were signs of early promise. Doing my usual clearence of any deadwood (8 players on total), bringing in any staff necessary and immediately settling for my own tactics (buy players to fit the formation, not vice versa) I felt right at home. Now it was time to dive into the transfer market..
Having a look at the player search and those who were deemed available, it didn't look good. Although remembering a tip from FM2008 I had loaded up players from 'Reunion' (An island off the west coast of Africa) who are cheap and willing to come to lesser known clubs I quickly got more than I had hoped for. These players and a few other out of contracters and i was ready to go.. here is a few screenies to sum up the market..
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All of my signings went down well with the fans, especially the French/Reunionese players and even the selling of a club icon in 'Nathan Pond' (seriously) didn't do me too much harm in terms of early credibility.. It was time to fit them into my formation and get some playing action underway..
Tactics (Hopefully for the season)
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With a team picked without any real uncertainty (can't decide what role to give my lone striker!) I was ready to play my four friendlies that i'd arranged..
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Some good results especially the West-Ham reserves game in which they were 1-3 favourites. Stand out player in the games was my free roaming trequarista 'Elcaman' who contributed two goals and two assists.. Competitive action will follow! I've got a good feeling about this one..
