2017/18 done. Nothing fancy tbh, an awful start and an incredible run in the second half of the season made us finish 8th. Quite happy with that. Talking about cup competitions is pointless. Round one exits in every single competitions against Carlisle, Sheff Utd and Gillingham. This was horrible.
Sad to see Wrexham getting back-to-back promotions to Championship, no Welsh derby next year for us
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Just a brief mention of a few players.
Sanmi Odelusi surprisingly won top scorer of League One after utterly ******* up last season.
Ryan Doble was downrated to a CA of 2 stars but he doesn't really give a ****. Another good year of performances from him. Karim Ziani was a bit disappointing as he was completely outplayed by loanee Evagoras Iakovou, but when called upon Karim did okay. But the one I really wanna talk about is
Huw Hughes, our very own youth product and first teamer this season. I decided to use him as a CB and he thanked me with good performances. I hope he'll be a lot better next season as he just learned the position. Other youth players such as Stuart Bloor and Adam Barrett (coincidence, not my son) are also on their way to break through. Sadly, no BPL material yet, just a potentially pretty good championship core. Thought about going for the 70% Welsh bonus from now on, dunno. Apart from our own youth,
Kyle Skeldon (leading Championship quality already, ffs) and Algerian U21 international Said Abdeslam are our brightest prospects, hopefully staying with us for some time to come. (only bolded ones are down there, don't wanna post too many details yet).
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2018/19 might become our season again if the keep our form from the last season. The major upgrade to the squad is of course the development of our youngsters, but we were also able to sign a few key players. The "star layer" for the upcoming season is probably gonna be former Schlake 04 player Junmin Hao (he didn't play a role there, otherwise couldn't have signed him due to... "personal reasons"
). The retired Chinese international is going to be our new number 10 behind the strikers and I've got high hopes for him. Financially we should be doing well now after completion of our ~7000 all-seater Colwyn Bay stadium, much better than what we had before. There should be some progress this season.
edit: 10+15 is right, but I don't really get why it's seperated. One tuckson would work as well