Let's see how long I can keep this up for 
Welcome to my career game in FM09 9.3. I start off unemployed with automatic reputation and then see how far I can get. I use my real name (so hello, my name is Simon) and real age (31, 32 this April - old codger now
), my real nationality (Welsh and then English) and my real first love in football - Liverpool.
Active leagues are English, Scottish, German, Welsh, Dutch, Spanish and Italian, all to the lowest level division and a large database. My computer is powered by a hamster on a wheel so processing can be time consuming - gives me an excuse to read anyways.
My rules are that I can't sign anyone who I don't come across in game (so no player or staff tipping please - and I will be mentioning all those I do by name so if it offends you, stop reading now ) and I only move clubs if it's a genuine career progression.
So database up and running, unemployed chosen, holiday mode - apply for anything and everything.
And I get this:
For some reason, Bognor Regis brings back memories of Russ Abbott singing it to the tune of Queen's Barcelona. It's an unsettling thought. Still, a job's a job and it's come quickly. 2k a week for player wages is shocking. No transfer budget. And a 60k debt which is being paid off at 4k a month until the end of December 2009. Oh, and 76 season ticket holders. In a 6000 capacity stadium with barely enough seats for them. There's basic training facilities, very basic youth facilities and the coaches double up as tea ladies, or is it that the tea ladies doubling up as coaches?
This should be interesting...
---------- Post added at 07:16 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:52 AM ----------
Well the media weren't lying about how good this team is. 22nd prediction?! With luck and some decent signings maybe!
There's 12k in the bank. That's not a lot. Sponsorship is only 5k a season. 2k limit on wages per week. Already £40 over. I think I may be stretching the board's patience financially by the end of the summer because the squad is thin enough as it is. There's only 26 players in the entire club (reserve team - what reserve team obviously). 4 of them are not actually on a contract, but they are worth keeping so I'll throw them one. There are five first teamers who are so bad I'll throw them on the transfer list (not that anyone will want to buy them but I've got to try to get the wages down to give me some room) and of the youth team, there's one player who looks anything like going to be half-decent. He's going to get promoted up to the first team p.d.q.
My sole scout can't scout. And I mean, I don't know who hired him in the first place but they obviously weren't looking for someone who could recommend anything worthwhile. So job offer goes in for one more scout. Can't afford to sack the one I've got now so he'll stay until his contract expires.
I have two assistant managers. Which is nice. One is decent but doesn't want to know about a new contract (so he should be off at the end of the season unless my board double or triple what they're willing to pay). The other is useless. There are two other coaches who are on specialist contracts. Can't afford that, so I'll give them better ones. No point sacking coaches - I'm allowed 2 full ones or the equivalent. At this level, I'm not going to get anyone better in just yet so I might as well keep things as they are.
One physio who couldn't diagnose a broken leg. But he'll have to do for now.
Training is the Tug's one and Boozemaster's addition to it. Really, I'd get better results if I could be bothered figuring out individual training regimes. Maybe an idea for tomorrow.
Tactics are my Benitez 4-4-2 variants. I don't have a left back worthy of the name, I really don't have a right winger, but there's no way in **** I'm going to risk playing anything other than 4-4-2 with these lemons. The tactics work well enough, although they won't work miracles, which is kind of what I need. Still, they'll make me hard to beat even if I won't be able to risk crossing the half-way line with the ball...
Welcome to my career game in FM09 9.3. I start off unemployed with automatic reputation and then see how far I can get. I use my real name (so hello, my name is Simon) and real age (31, 32 this April - old codger now
), my real nationality (Welsh and then English) and my real first love in football - Liverpool.Active leagues are English, Scottish, German, Welsh, Dutch, Spanish and Italian, all to the lowest level division and a large database. My computer is powered by a hamster on a wheel so processing can be time consuming - gives me an excuse to read anyways.
My rules are that I can't sign anyone who I don't come across in game (so no player or staff tipping please - and I will be mentioning all those I do by name so if it offends you, stop reading now
) and I only move clubs if it's a genuine career progression.So database up and running, unemployed chosen, holiday mode - apply for anything and everything.
And I get this:
For some reason, Bognor Regis brings back memories of Russ Abbott singing it to the tune of Queen's Barcelona. It's an unsettling thought. Still, a job's a job and it's come quickly. 2k a week for player wages is shocking. No transfer budget. And a 60k debt which is being paid off at 4k a month until the end of December 2009. Oh, and 76 season ticket holders. In a 6000 capacity stadium with barely enough seats for them. There's basic training facilities, very basic youth facilities and the coaches double up as tea ladies, or is it that the tea ladies doubling up as coaches?
This should be interesting...
---------- Post added at 07:16 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:52 AM ----------
Well the media weren't lying about how good this team is. 22nd prediction?! With luck and some decent signings maybe!
There's 12k in the bank. That's not a lot. Sponsorship is only 5k a season. 2k limit on wages per week. Already £40 over. I think I may be stretching the board's patience financially by the end of the summer because the squad is thin enough as it is. There's only 26 players in the entire club (reserve team - what reserve team obviously). 4 of them are not actually on a contract, but they are worth keeping so I'll throw them one. There are five first teamers who are so bad I'll throw them on the transfer list (not that anyone will want to buy them but I've got to try to get the wages down to give me some room) and of the youth team, there's one player who looks anything like going to be half-decent. He's going to get promoted up to the first team p.d.q.
My sole scout can't scout. And I mean, I don't know who hired him in the first place but they obviously weren't looking for someone who could recommend anything worthwhile. So job offer goes in for one more scout. Can't afford to sack the one I've got now so he'll stay until his contract expires.
I have two assistant managers. Which is nice. One is decent but doesn't want to know about a new contract (so he should be off at the end of the season unless my board double or triple what they're willing to pay). The other is useless. There are two other coaches who are on specialist contracts. Can't afford that, so I'll give them better ones. No point sacking coaches - I'm allowed 2 full ones or the equivalent. At this level, I'm not going to get anyone better in just yet so I might as well keep things as they are.
One physio who couldn't diagnose a broken leg. But he'll have to do for now.
Training is the Tug's one and Boozemaster's addition to it. Really, I'd get better results if I could be bothered figuring out individual training regimes. Maybe an idea for tomorrow.
Tactics are my Benitez 4-4-2 variants. I don't have a left back worthy of the name, I really don't have a right winger, but there's no way in **** I'm going to risk playing anything other than 4-4-2 with these lemons. The tactics work well enough, although they won't work miracles, which is kind of what I need. Still, they'll make me hard to beat even if I won't be able to risk crossing the half-way line with the ball...
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