Nottingham Forest Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Save Overview So much like Tactic Master, I'm taking part in this challenge from the Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments Forum. Now the team I have started my second attempt with is Chester FC. It was out of them, St Albans or FC United as to who I chose this time round. My first attempt didn't go to plan and I was Kingstonian. I was sacked after we were relegated, one game before the end of the season. Trying to play the first few months with only 11 fit players which included 3 keepers isn't exactly ideal. Although it was alot of fun. My second attempt as you now know is with Chester FC. I've holidayed a season as per the rules and having had a look at the current squad I'm quietly confident of being able to make the play-offs. Game Database The game database is a fairly small one compared to my usual saves as I only have England(all) loaded in terms of nations and leagues and I have all players from the regional divisions of the leagues directly below the Blue Square North and South. All in all this gives me about 17k players. Here is my manager profile, club information and club facilities. I'm already a little bit through pre-season. So the information may not be as much yet. But when I took over our finances were at about £100k and our wage bill was at about £8k. I'm also sure that I've asked for a parent club for some extra revenue. However I can't remember. I plan on giving monthly updates for the time being. Although that may change. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 Pre-Season 2012 With me only able to use youth players from my academy or current players at the club. Pre-season was all about building the club's finances in order for us to able to hopefully get some facility improvements. The squad I possessed when I took over was a fairly big one and I had the brainwave of arranging friendlies every day from when I took over 25th of June until the end of July. A month of solid fixtures which would hopefully give us some foundations to work with. The plan was to let the players who I planned on letting leave play most of the tougher fixtures that would generate more money and then let my first team squad members play in the games that were pre-set before I took over. For the second lot of fixtures I decided to go on holiday and let my assistant take charge. I told him to keep the same tactics but to change the side. He did a good job and morale has increased a little bit as well. My finances for the month have increased a fair bit as well. We're up by £144k or and had I not terminated the contracts of my original assistant and coach then we'd probably be up another £26k or so. We've also managed to get ourself an extra £10.25k through income due to our affliation with Stevenage. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 A number of players have left at the end of July/early August. Which means our wage budget is back down to £7,220k a week. This leaves our squad looking like this for the coming season. Probably up until March anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactic Master Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Great start there Keep up the good work and hopefully you can secure promotion. Watch out for Wes Baynes, he likes to get sent off! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 He won't be getting sent off for the next 2 months. However, Powell could possibly be taking that place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 Our finances are starting to decrease. So I thought it'd be best to start asking for anything and everything which may help. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 August 2012 What a month! I expected us to be pushing in and around the play-offs for most of the season but to be top after the first month is great. The team seem to have gelled fairly quickly and in three of the games we've had 20+ shots. We owe alot of the wins to our goalscorer this month. He's also picked up my player of the month award for his displays. League Table My Player of the Month Award Jamie Rainford - 5 goals in 4 league games is an incredible start. He seems to have got goals whereever he has gone so hopefully he can continue. Finances - A loss for this month. Hopefully we can control those losses for the next month and look at ways of increasing our funds again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 I get Manager of the Month. Jamie gets Player of the Month. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactic Master Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Congratulations on winning the award and same for Rainford I don't know about you, but my strikers couldn't score to save their life! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 Erm, Rainford has scored in the first month. But I think he's been hit by something as he didn't score in my last game. Luckily Wilde scored two . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackJCFC Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Good luck with this Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 Thanks, I don't think I'll need it this time . As long as I don't go down to 11 players. I think I'll be ok. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactic Master Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Basically, Francis Green scored around 13 goals in 9 or 10 games for me at start of the last season, then scored 3 more over the course of the season... He ended as my top goalscorer! That shows how bad my strikers were... So thats why I warned you Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 He left me. He was on too much. I really want March to come round and a decent cup run so I can get my facilities improved. I'm currently losing money . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactic Master Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 I was actually losing money come the end of the season and went into the red by £15k, but in the very last month, it shot back up to the green with £100k Although i've noticed your wages are much higher than what I was spending... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 Yeah they are, that's because I'm cool . I really do feel we can get the play-offs at least. I'd love to get a cup run going and get to the third round before drawing United at Old Trafford and being on TV and getting alot for that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactic Master Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Yeah they are, that's because I'm cool . I really do feel we can get the play-offs at least. I'd love to get a cup run going and get to the third round before drawing United at Old Trafford and being on TV and getting alot for that. Haha, getting ahead of yourself Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRL88 Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Good luck NF. Nice start as well . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.W.G Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Good luck with Chester.Excellent start to the season as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 19, 2012 Author Share Posted March 19, 2012 September 2012 The wheels have started to fall off. We just weren't at the races and we struggled in alot of those games. It seems we blow up in the second half in a lot of games if we're leading going in to it. I hope we can deal with the pressure a bit better because if we don't we could find ourselves dropping off the pace even more. League Table - I forgot guys, sorry. We were about 4th though . FA Cup - We played Clitheroe and well, I'm not happy with the result. You can probably see why http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz65/NottinghamForest/ChestervClitheroeInformation_Overview.png[/img]"]here . My Player of the Month Award - No one deserves it as we were shocking most of the month. Finances - Profit!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 19, 2012 Author Share Posted March 19, 2012 October 2012 A big improvement on last month with the only hiccup coming against Colwyn Bay. We seem to be having a lot more players scoring now whicj definitely helps as we're not relying on just one player. Lying 2nd in the table at this early stage of the season is incredible. Especially for a newly promoted side. Whether we can continue that form though is a different matter. I'd love to keep the pressure on and eventually reclaim top spot. FA Cup - We managed to beat Clitheroe in the replay and we drew Wrexham. Our fierce rivals away and we won. There were alot of non-league clubs in the first round hat. I was hopeful of one of them. But instead I got probably the best team in the first round draw. Charlton . My Player of the Month Award - Chris Simm- He chipped in with some great goals this month and took the pressure off of Rainford and my other strikers. Finances - A loss I guess but still healthy finances for a club of our standing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRL88 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Going strong NF. Keep it up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brFM2011 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Unlucky with the Cup draw, you might pull off an upset though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactic Master Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Just a bit of advice, if you don't already know... Send your players on holiday when they need it, as they come back stronger and in the long run you will get better results It seemed to have cured my massive slump in form last season and got us through the last hurdle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby_McDonald Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 That is a ridiculous amount of friendlies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactic Master Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 That is a ridiculous amount of friendlies. I believe he used youngsters in a lot of them, I may be wrong... It's to get some cash flow going Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 19, 2012 Author Share Posted March 19, 2012 I didn't. I used alot of reserve players as I had alot then. In the second screenshot of friendlies I went on holiday and let my assistant pick the team but play to the same tactics. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactic Master Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 I didn't. I used alot of reserve players as I had alot then. In the second screenshot of friendlies I went on holiday and let my assistant pick the team but play to the same tactics. I was close enough I regard my youth players as reserves to be honest as I have a small team, which means the youth play both U18's and Reserves games. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 22, 2012 Author Share Posted March 22, 2012 November 2012 We struggled big time and I don't know how to stop it. We seem to be like most non-league sides though. Consistently inconsistant. I need to improve the form soon. Otherwise our play-offs hope will be dashed sooner than I would like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Drama Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Still in the play off hunt with a long way to go, hopefully you get a few decent players in March. Will keep an eye on your progress Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactic Master Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Keep up faith and that will get you to the play offs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 22, 2012 Author Share Posted March 22, 2012 December 2012 A good month all in all. With out only defeats coming against Darlington and FC United in the cup. We've got back into the playoffs. However look at how close the league table is and look what a bad run of form could do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby_McDonald Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 I didn't. I used alot of reserve players as I had alot then. In the second screenshot of friendlies I went on holiday and let my assistant pick the team but play to the same tactics. Regardless, the quality of opposition would have brought in a lot of extra cash from games no club would ever play. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 It's not about realism this save Nobby. I know what I've done may be frowned up on. But I don't care as this challenge will be a hard enough one anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.W.G Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Nice to see you get into the playoff spots,hope your able to keep up the good work to claim a playoff spot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 From now on, I'll be doing Season updates with the odd thing here and there. Completed the season and it shall be up later, maybe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 Chester FC - Blue Square North - 2012-2013 League Table A season of being consistently inconsistent up until February when we managed to string together a good unbeaten run of 12 games or so to drag ourselves into the Play-offs. We had to do it the hard way as we were chasing FC United for the last 5 games and we had to play 3 teams around us. 2 above us, Guiseley and Hinckley and FC Halifax below us. Play-off Semi Final 1st Leg The stats make us look like we were in it. We weren't and we were lucky to only be 2-1 down. Having two key players sent off wasn't helpful. Especially for the second leg. Play-off Semi Final 2nd Leg A game in which we were much improved. We had a goal disallowed at the start of the second half for "offside". It was blatently onside and that goal not being given certainly turned the game as they went and scored 2 more. One from a defensive mistake and the other from a penalty. We had more clear chances to score and probably should have scored another 4 more. But whether it be pressure or not, we failed to and fall at this hurdle. FA Cup We managed to get from the 2nd Qualifying Round all the way to the 1st Round proper. I was hopeful of an easier side than the one we got as there was many non-league sides still involved. Unfortunately we got one of the best sides in the 1st Round, Charlton Athletic and they well and truly beat us despite us taking the lead through a Matty McGinn free-kick. FA Trophy We fell at the 4th Qualifying Round in this competition to FC United during our bad spell. We just couldn't cope and although a trophy and some funds would have been nice, it's not a problem. Finances We had a lot of money at the start of the season and now we have next to nothing. We could have a few issues this season with finances as a few senior players will be leaving. I'm tempted to let them leave just before the start of the season so that I can use them and my under 18s that probably won't make the grade to earn us some money. Transfers - Just to prove I haven't signed anyone. My Player of the Season Jamie Rainford - Jamie, much like most of our squad was consistently inconsistent. However, when he played he'd usually get a goal or he'd be key to most of our play. My Young Player of the Season There isn't much time for someone to win this. But this guy has done due to the way he's played. Callum Chester - I was unsure whether or not to give Callum the YP9 tag as I didn't think he could make it. I promoted him to my first team though so he was there and I could use him if need be. Another one of my younger strikers failed to make an impact and I thought why not, throw him in and see what he can do. He scored a brace on his debut and I believe he became the youngest scorer for me or the Blue Square North. He also had a goal disallowed in the 2nd leg against Hinckley which had it gone it could have made the game a bit different. Next Season The team is set for next season until about March time. Hoepfully during pre-season we can help those current young players kick on and help them become better players. I'd also like us to have a strong pre-season, both financially and match wise in the hope that I can get another improvement on some of the club's facilities or networking. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRL88 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Solid season NF. Hopefully the finances wont take much more of a battering. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 Some point last season, I overhauled my backroom staff with the hope of bringing in better quality coaches in order for my players to progress. I'd figure now is the best time to go through by backroom staff and what training I try get them to take charge of. Steve Aris - Assistant Manager - Defending Robert Wright - Coach - Tactics & Ball Control Ian Kelly - Coach - Aerobic Alexander Hemsley - Coach - Strength Clark Coates - Coach - Shooting Dominic Booth - Coach - Attacking Rory Riley - Goalkeeping Coach - Shot Stopping & Handling Steve Whitehall - Physio Alex Hay - Scout Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 Just signed a new contract until 2018. Matty McNeill has retired and left the club but he's willing to come back as a coach . He's not too bad either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltablue Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Might be making progress soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackJCFC Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Great season, hopefully you can go one step further next year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 Doubt that'll be happening any time soon. Jamie Rainford has broke his ankle and is out for 4 months. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby_McDonald Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 It's not about realism this save Nobby. I know what I've done may be frowned up on. But I don't care as this challenge will be a hard enough one anyway. I prefer realism myself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 26, 2012 Author Share Posted March 26, 2012 I do usually but that's life and we all play FM to suit our own needs/enjoyment . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactic Master Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Hows the save going Forest? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted March 26, 2012 Author Share Posted March 26, 2012 Erm, I've not played it much over the past few days as I've tried to find a second save to go alongside it. That's failed and now I'm back playing it. Still in pre-season of the second season but if my losses this season are like last, I could be in some serious financial trouble. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri916 Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I prefer realism myself. What did Forest do? EDIT: nevermind, I looked up the thread. I'm fine with a few unrealistic friendlies, but maybe one a day is a tad excessive. But it's your game and there is nothing stopping you in the rules Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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