It all depends on quite a few factors and I'm not following any strict guidelines on how to develop my youngsters. So far I've upgraded youth coaching and recruitment whenever possible which really helps getting a nice youngster every now and then. As for how to get them in the first team: when I realize that a youth player couldn't do the job much worse than anyone else, he's in. When I have an aging player in a position I have a promising youngster in, I'll rotate for a season, then change roles. I only send the less promising lads out on loan, I really like to control the game time of the really talented ones. Basically nothing special.
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Season 20/21 done.
We had a really good start, an average run in the middle of the season, a short but horrible drop then and another great run at the end of the season. This left us 8th with one game to go, one point behind Villa and Boro. I had hopes but didn't expect to go into the playoffs as both teams just refused to drop points in the past few weeks. Well, we won our game against Birmingham, Boro drew at Brighton and Villa drew against Derby, so we somehow slipped into the playoffs as late as possible. Considering we hadn't lost for 8 games and only conceded 3 during that run I was optimistic that we could do it.
The semifinal had us facing Sheff Wed with Gabriel Humbert, still a Colwyn Bay icon. We won the first leg 1-0 thanks to a penalty but should have won higher. But we got into serious injury problems. Apart from Sanchez Watt and Gethin Jones, Skeldon was out. This meant 'no midfield' for us. I intended to park the bus and get the 0-0 but our goalkeeper didn't agree and thus conceded from 50+ meters. Well, he then saved a penalty later in the game to rescue us, but still. Extra time saw us missing two sitters and I had a bad feeling going into penalties. Luckily GK Owain fon Williams had already shown that he is good at saving penalties. FINAL!
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Derby County was our opponent. A few weeks back we drew 1-1 with them at Colwyn Bay Stadium, but we were the superior team. At Wembley we had even more injury problems. 5 first teamers were out, including Kyle Skeldon and our wingers. The side we fielded in this game was pretty much your average League One side. As to be expected, Derby was the better team, but we just sat back and relied on our strengths - a rock solid defense and set pieces. Gisli scores a header from a corner 9 minutes in, Piric doubles our lead thanks to a penalty in minute 33. Derby tried, Derby dominated, but Derby didn't score. PREMIER LEAGUE, HERE WE COME!
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To be honest we were **** of lucky, the team was never anywhere near good enough and we needed the lottery within the lottery (think Sheff Wed). But it also showed what can be reached when just focusing on your strengths tactically while always keeping up the team spirit.
Cupwise we did okay. COC saw us defeating Grimsby and Leicester before being utterly luckfucked by Southampton. Luck is also a keyword talking about the FA Cup. Swansea (beaten), Wolves (beaten) and ManUtd were our only opponents this year. Man Utd finished runners up after getting past City and Arsenal, losing to Chelsea. This could have been the most amazing cup run in the history of... ever.
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As you can see, this was achieved boasting a 70% Welsh squad (if second nationalities count which I really hope, as none of the guys had a game for another country yet). I will not change the percentage below 70% in order to speed up my process as that would really ruin the fun. Due to the retirement of Hao and us parting ways with Callum Farrell (100% English despite being a Colwyn Bay prospect - traitor!) we do have a few foreign slots freed up. Those will be needed, as I can't see many Welshmen providing significant improvements.
Well, the players have basically been the same ones as last season. We replaced Matty Done with Sanchez Watt, who did even better and is younger as well. Another problem could be solved with the signing of Owain fon Williams, he is a decent enough goalkeeper and probably has 2 more years. The number 10 spot was occupied by Marino Piric whom we bought for 800k from Hajduk. Once he settled in he had a great season including 9 MoM performances.
Our young Welshmen did well with the exception of Aaron Barrett, who managed to score a whopping 6 goals in his 30+ matches. His backup Stuart Bloor stepped in so it didn't pose too much of a problem. Huw Hughes did well as always. Our next first teamer might be Stefan Poole who is retrained to be our next RB. He will make it. Also, say hello to Ray Bellamy.
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Could become quite a striker given the right training. As you can see on the screenshot, we are already quite a few weeks into the new season and will have to fight to stay up. Another thing you can see is the following:
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That makes it 20 points for promotion with a 70% Welsh squad + 30 points for becoming Welsh manager. Together with all the previous points (5 for promotion from BSN, 5 for BSP, 5 for FAT, 5 for L2, 7,5 (?) for L1) that would make 77,5 points. I don't really get why there is tuckson and tuckson 2.0 tbh, especially as the points don't really seem to fit then.
If you want some screenshots for certain players or anything, just tell me, I am too lazy to do some kind of player analysis right now.
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