The Wandering Scotsman- A journey from the bottom to the top

[smithc18]

Hello Everyone,
This is my first story in a long, long time. Any constructive feedback will be greatly appreciated.
This will be a journeyman starting in Scottish tier 7 (downloaded tier 5,6 and 7 from Mozzaplays database on steam, twitter etc). The leagues loaded to start are all leagues in UK, ROI included plus Italy, France, Germany, Spain and Holland.
Aim: Is to simply work my way up the leagues and potentially to the Champions league. Any offers will be detailed in here with feedback appreciated in order to decide what to do. I will be starting with no coaching badges and Sunday league experience so sit back relax its going to be a long bumpy ride.

The starting club will be:

Easthouses Lily a team in the 7th tier off Scottish Football. We play in the East of Scotland First Division Conference B. There are 15 teams in our division, we are expected to come 10th. There are various cups we are in also which ill get into detail about if/when we get a cup run.

Next update: Will be end of preseason with results and a squad overview.

 

[smithc18]

Part 2:
Here is a little run down for those not familiar with the Scottish lower leagues. This level is my bread and butter as they say so if anyone is unsure, ask away ill be sure to answer any questions. The top 4 leagues are the same as the English ones (Prem to League 2)
Tier 5- Regionalised between Highland and Lowland
Tier 6- Regionalised East, South and West
Tier 7- Regionalised East and West (both have an A and B conference so 2 leagues at the same level)

Outside the Premiership all the other leagues didn’t start until October, so a long pre-season was ahead:

A solid Preseason sets us up nicely. This season we are in 5 competitions (League and 4 cups)

Our first Competitive game was in the King Cup 1st Round against Kirkcaldy& Dysart (A team our level but in the A conference) :

A solid comfortable win however until the 78th minute they were still in it. Next up in the King cup is a home tie against Kinnoull (same league as us)

Next game was our 1st in the league away to Glenrothes who are predicted to be up the top of the league come the end of the season. A boring 0-0 is a decent result for us however our strikers need to get their scoring boots on as we had a few decent chances to grab the win.

Next up in another cup is Annbank United:

We got off to a terrible start here, struggling to keep possession, not having any shots and gifting the opposition a goal especially to Christian Nade a former French U21 (felt like Arsenal with the red kit) So after throwing a bottle at half time we came out got in their faces and began to control the game and got the win we deserved. A home tie against Neilston awaits us (another tier 7 team)

Next up was a league game against Preston Athletic who are predicted to finish 6th and had lost their opening league games. Again in the league our players didn’t turn up and another 0-0 was on the cards.

To end October, we were home against Peebles in the league. If we want to be up the top challenging for the league we need to improve and actually start to score goals. Peebles are expected and are currently down the bottom so only a win is acceptable. Luckily for us our players actually turned up in the league and a solid win was achieved

League table:

Currently we are midtable but with the game in hand, Im confident we can be up there challenging. The next update will be November/ December where ill try a different layout to see which works best. Remember any feedback is greatly appreciated.