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Hello all, I'm long time reader of this forum but a first time poster...thought I would try my hand at doing a story for a change.
I've decided to take on Truro City because I'm widely told that it is the hardest starting job in the European leagues, red rag to a bull then.
I knew what to expect from the initial phase, having read enough of these in the past. No money, very few players and an embargo to boot. The team itself is made up of, by the looks of it, some handy enough players with plenty of options up front and in central midfield. Everywhere else it is paper thin and in defence, non-existent. Within a week it has been taken over, embargo lifted and I can sign players again, wehay!
Except I can't can I? This confused me at first as I'd been sucked in by the positivity from the clubs new (old) owner Kevin Heaney, no, the club was still in administration. With nothing more for it I signed up all my greyed out players and started the preparation for the new season - I have to admit I'm far from confident.
Tactics
Seeing as any talk of transfers is going to be pointless I thought I would introduce my tactics first up. I like to play a high pressing game, attacking from start to finish 4-4-2 formation. This has worked for me across different nations and standards so is as close to a one size fits all policy as you can get.
I have two back-up formations, a high pressing 4-1-4-1 formation against sides playing with a man in the hole, and my trial formation: a wide, counter-attacking 4-3-2-1 formation using inside forwards. The latter is quite a technical one so is likely to be suicide given the quality of players I'm starting with.
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The basic premise of the formation is to disrupt the opponent and attack at speed down the flanks. It will be interesting to see how it stands up without any players that have been signed to specifically fit into it. My main concern is my defence will not have the required pace to play such a high line, as a result I may need to rethink.
I will try to post the file for the formation once I've tweaked it to suit Truro.
The season starts with vengeance now, I will try and post at the end of each session depending on time. So the updates could be monthly, weekly or 6 monthly when the missus goes out shopping at the weekend!
I've decided to take on Truro City because I'm widely told that it is the hardest starting job in the European leagues, red rag to a bull then.
I knew what to expect from the initial phase, having read enough of these in the past. No money, very few players and an embargo to boot. The team itself is made up of, by the looks of it, some handy enough players with plenty of options up front and in central midfield. Everywhere else it is paper thin and in defence, non-existent. Within a week it has been taken over, embargo lifted and I can sign players again, wehay!
Except I can't can I? This confused me at first as I'd been sucked in by the positivity from the clubs new (old) owner Kevin Heaney, no, the club was still in administration. With nothing more for it I signed up all my greyed out players and started the preparation for the new season - I have to admit I'm far from confident.
Tactics
Seeing as any talk of transfers is going to be pointless I thought I would introduce my tactics first up. I like to play a high pressing game, attacking from start to finish 4-4-2 formation. This has worked for me across different nations and standards so is as close to a one size fits all policy as you can get.
I have two back-up formations, a high pressing 4-1-4-1 formation against sides playing with a man in the hole, and my trial formation: a wide, counter-attacking 4-3-2-1 formation using inside forwards. The latter is quite a technical one so is likely to be suicide given the quality of players I'm starting with.
View attachment 418795
The basic premise of the formation is to disrupt the opponent and attack at speed down the flanks. It will be interesting to see how it stands up without any players that have been signed to specifically fit into it. My main concern is my defence will not have the required pace to play such a high line, as a result I may need to rethink.
I will try to post the file for the formation once I've tweaked it to suit Truro.
The season starts with vengeance now, I will try and post at the end of each session depending on time. So the updates could be monthly, weekly or 6 monthly when the missus goes out shopping at the weekend!