London Irish: Football, Not Eggball

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A Create-A-Club Career


-- London Irish --

30/06/15
Bolton Wanderers are dissolved after suffering financial ruin

01/07/15
Irish investors win the franchise right to replace Bolton in the Championship with their newly-found club, London Irish.

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As the name suggests, the club will relocate from Greater Manchester to the capital city as the Irish consortium believe that the attraction of the big city can maximize the new club's potential.

02/07/15
London Irish confirm widespread press speculation that the club, inspired by Ath.Bilbao's model, will be restricting themselves to Irish-only players and academy schooled players.

Over the next few weeks the club snaps up as many interested Irish players as possible..

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-- The Manager --

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-- Squad --

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-- Two of their own --


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After being given special transfer rules to recruit their initial squad, London Irish now find themselves under an embargo until the end of the season.​

 

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August 2015

An unbeaten start to the league campaign has us all buoyed. Perhaps a great season lies ahead?

Stephen Quinn has stood out in a month were an unfortunate draw saw us slip out of the League Cup to Stoke.

**** Schmasher​​

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[dani3w]

Interesting this, not many saves I've seen with the create a club mode. All the best for it. Good start!

 

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September 2015

Despite our first league defeat of the season we emerge as the early pacesetters​

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[stntt]

Nice job(H) ILoveLamp. Can you share your tactic.

 

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Nice job(H) ILoveLamp. Can you share your tactic.

Tweak the strikers to suit. I have used complete forwards, deep lying forwards and defensive forwards

 

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End of 2015

We finish the year top of the tree and with a comfortable margin. I'm confident we can remain here but we must work hard and earn our place in the Premier League.

Stephen Quinn has been immense on the left wing. Surely player of the year in the waiting.

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[stntt]

Thank you sir.Have a nice game.

 

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Beginning of 2016

-- FA Cup --

We've carried our league form into the FA Cup as we progress through to the sixth round where we only have to beat Chelsea at the Bridge..

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-- League --

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A lack of clean sheets is worrying but with not a single centre back above 10 in pace or acceleration it is hardly surprising.

If we can reach the promised land this season I'll to sign the likes of Shane Duffy, Ciaran Clark or Richard Keogh.

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Sixth Round - Chelsea (A)

Even 'No knees' Falcao can out run our defenders!

We bow out of the cup but are not disgraced by any means. We will return focus to the league and ensure our lead out the tops results in promotion come May.​

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-- CHAMPIONS --

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The new kids on the block London Irish have remarkably won promotion to the Premier League in their first season in existence following the demise of Bolton Wanderers.

The team of Irishmen are in the promised land but how can they cope in the big league with only players from Ireland available to them? Can they attract the likes of Seamus Coleman, Shane Long or James McCarthy to the club to help them avoid relegation and consolidate themselves in the top flight for years to come?

Time will tell...

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-- Squad Stats --

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End of Season and Summer Transfer Window

-- Player and Manager of the Year --

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-- Summer Transfer Window --

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We were never going to get the likes of Coleman or Long but we have done some great business, spending £5.5m on the likes of Wilson, McClean and Whelan.

Rather surprisingly Patrick Bamford has declared for Ireland and we've snapped him up at a bargain price.

We had offers for Greg Cunningham (over £7m) and Alan Judge (£5m) but given our limited selection we rejected both straight away.

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Academy 2016

And to bolster the ranks are this year's academy graduates. We have a few potential first teamers but sadly no Irish-qualified players. My nationality and hiring an Irish head of youth development will mean a few Irish graduates in the future.

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SWEET JESUS!!!


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[stntt]

Forza Irish (H)

 

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The size of our task has been made very clear bu the couple of thrashing we got early on but 3 games unbeaten show we can compete against the lesser sides.

Our one and only aim this season is to be at least the 4th worst team in the league

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Oct - Nov

We stablised a bit after a very rocky start to our first season in the top flight.

A few of the signings are finding their feet such as Patrick Bamford.

I'm confident we have enough about us to be better than at least 3 sides this season

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Daddy has got some new toys to play with!

Sadly the Colemans, McCarthys and Longs of this world still don't want to join our outfit yet.

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[dani3w]

Good first season winning promotion with the title, good luck in the PL

 

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It is the place to be Martin!


-- Nov and Dec --

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Some good results and some disappointments but we are definitely competitive at this level and I think we can begin to look upwards in the table rather than down towards the relegation zone

-- Signings --

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We've been leaking goals so Duffy (£8m) and Hoban (£14.75m) are probably the best Irish centre backs in the league.

In an ideal world we can get into Europe very soon and target the biggest Irish names in the game.

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