The Rise Of Northern Ireland League - Crusaders

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The Crusaders FC has a new manager!
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Club details
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Club Background
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Now, when you're familliar with the team a bit, let's take a look on the squad that we are gonna work with.
GOALKEEPERS
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DEFENDERS
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MIDDFIELDERS
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STRIKERS
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This is our squad, just want to mention a few players:
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Paul Heatley is the best player in this squad
DCR-
Josh Robinson is the hottest prospect of this squad and one of it's best playersNow let's take a look of the tactic that i am going to use
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So now you all now a lot about the club and the direction we're going. Only thing left is to say that we are playing in the 1st qualifying round of Champions League against Levadia FC.
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European Dream

THE DREAM

Our european dream started against Levadia FC in Tallinn, Estonia.
Levadia FC - Crusaders FC
1 - 5
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It was a convincing start of the european dream, so the rematch at our stadium wasn't so important.
Crusaders FC - Levadia FC
1 - 1

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Not the greatest game of all time, but this draw was enough for qualifying into the 2nd round.And it was about to get real.
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Helsinki JK
is our next opponent. It's not the greatest side of the European football but for our level it's like playing against Barca.
Crusaders FC - Helsinki JK
1 - 1
Well, it was better than expected for us. A draw and still a chance of going through.
Helsinki JK - Crusaders FC
1 - 0
The european dream ends here. Good game for HJK, they were the better team but we were close tho.
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Now we're focusing on the domestic competitions.


 
1/3 season is over

Domestic Competitions


We have played 11 games in the Danske Bank Premier League

Crusaders - Portadown 1-2
50' Diarmuid O'Carroll 1-0
62' Mitchell Gault 1-1
84' Sean Mackle pen. 1-2


Glentoran - Crusaders 1-2
30' Curtis Allen 1-0
45+1' Gavin Whyte 1-1
90+2' Paul Heatley 1-2

Crusaders
- Ballinamallard United 1-1
38' Gavin Whyte 1-0
89' Liam Martin 1-1

Glenavon - Crusaders 3-2
44' Josh Robinson o.g. 1-0
49' Paul Heatley 1-1
50' Paul Heatley 1-2

87' Kevin Braniff 2-2
90+2' Andy McGrory 3-2

Crusaders-Dungannon 2-1
41' Cameron Grieve pen. 0-1
65' Josh Robinson 1-1
72' Craig McClean 2-1

Crusaders
-Linfield3-1
29' Declan Caddel 1-0
64' Ross Clarke 1-1
79' Jordan Owens 2-1
81' Paul Heatley 3-1

Cliftonville - Crusaders 0-2
39' Gavin Whyte 0-1
55' Diarmuid O'Carroll 0-2

Coleraine - Crusaders 0-2
27' Jordan Owens 0-1
84' Paul Heatley 0-2

Crusaders
-Carrick3-0
10' Paul Heatley 1-0
52' Chris Morrow 2-0
65' Aaron Smyth o.g. 3-0

Ballymena United - Crusaders 0-3
22' Paul Heatley 0-1
63' Paul Heatley 0-2
78' Paul Heatley 0-3

Ballinamallard United- Crusaders 0-0

11 games. 7 wins. 2 draws. 2 losses.
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And this result is pretty good tho. The table shows it.

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2nd place is pretty good but i believe there is a room for improvement.

Now on to the cups

Northern Irish County Antrim Shield

1st Round:
Crusaders - Donegal Celtic 2-0
21' Billy Joe Burns 1-0
53' Jordan Owens 2-0


Quarter-Finals
Crusaders - Ballyclare 2-0
41' Craig McClean 1-0
49' Jordan Owens 2-0


Semi-Finals
Crusaders - Linfield
Yet to play
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Northern Irish League Cup

2nd Round
Sport & Leisure - Crusaders1-2
18' Michael Carvill 0-1
75' Ciaran Gargan 1-1
88' Gavin Whyte 1-2


3rd Round
Crusaders - Ballinamallard United2-3e
2' Emmet Friars pen 0-1
54' Liam Martin 0-2
61' Jordan Owens 1-2
90+2' Josh Robinson 2-2

113' Liam Martin 2-3
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Top goal scorers:
Paul Heatley 12
Jordan Owens 5
Gavin Whyte 5
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Top assistants:
Billy Joe Burns 6
Barry Molloy 3
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Most Player of the game awards:
Paul Heatley 4
Billy Joe Burns 4
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The end of season

Season 15/16 review

First, let's take a look on the Danske Bank Premiership
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There were 28 more games i played since last time so i can't show you all of them.
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It was a close finish but at the end we were crowned as a champions.

Irish cup

Second most important competition in the NI is the cup. And we did pretty well
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We lost in the final against our rivals Cliftonville.

Northern Ireland Couty Antrim Shield

We were great in this tournament also.
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We won it and got the double.
We were knocked out of the League cup, you now that.

SEASON AWARDS

Player of the year
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Manager of the year
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Young player of the year
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Top goalscorer of the year
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CRUSADERS AWARDS

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At the end of this succesful season i only need to say that we are gonna be playing in the 2nd round of the champions league qualifiers
 
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