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Originally posted by sydfc4ever:

i seem to be a late bloomer, but i'm going to give this a go.

i've taken over as the Coleraine Crusaders in the NI2 so this should be fun.

just a quick question, as i've actually played a game in NI before (testing a tactic with Chimney Corner, went to the top in 4 seasons) is it cheating a bit to sign two of their players straight up?

i am able to scout them of course so it is within those rules, but just thought i'd ask.

That's fine. icon14.gif Aslong as that 'Get Scout Report' button is present, then you can sign them.

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Originally posted by Quacky:

If you don't have the patience to look through a bunch of rather carp players then I don't think you're going to have the patience to play multiple seasons withs an equally shoddy looking bunch to make your way slowly up to something better.

Pretty much exactly what I was going to say. Robert if you don't have the patience then this thread aint for ya! icon_razz.gif

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Quick Schoten update (again icon_rolleyes.gif)

One of the 7 loanees has turned out to be a great signing. His name is Ossama Modah and he's a 17 year old striker. Perfect for my formation, ie. quick with a good first touch. He should get a lot of goals for me! 3 in 2 so far icon_smile.gif

Quite like starting again knowing what the future holds!

Mon KFC Schoten!!

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Originally posted by Robert_296:

On the 29th of April there is still the relegation playoffs icon_confused.gif

Yep. You need to make sure that one of the previously unplayable teams wins a playoff, otherwise there is no one to manage for another year. So check which teams are currently in Division 2 and then reload if necessary to get a non-league team to take over at.

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Rasharkin - Northern Irish Premier Division - 21/22 (Season 15)

Media Prediction: 1st

My Prediction: 1st

Final Position: 1st

Cups

Champions League: Lost in the 2nd Qualifying Round to FC Kobenhaven.

Euro Cup: Not entered.

Northern Irish League Cup: What? I didn't win?

Irish Cup: Winners.

Antrim Cup: Winners.

All-Ireland Cup Winners, 2 seasons in a row \o/

What a bad season. I wasn't unbeaten icon_frown.gificon_razz.gif

Dean Evans: - 952 goals in 672 games for Rasharkin and 47 goals in 70 games for Wales. Only 1 more goal until his 1000th career goal icon_biggrin.gif Just 48 more until his 1000th club goal icon_smile.gif

The Career So Far..

League

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">

Year Division Position Pld Won Drn Lst For Ag G.D Pts

08/09 Northern Irish Second Division 2nd 22 11 5 6 40 26 +14 38

09/10 Northern Irish First Division 4th 22 9 7 6 37 21 +14 34

10/11 Northern Irish First Division 1st 22 13 4 5 39 18 +21 43

11/12 Northern Irish Premier Division 5th 30 14 6 10 49 30 +19 48

12/13 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 24 3 3 79 33 +46 75

13/14 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 24 2 4 79 32 +47 74

14/15 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 20 3 7 65 33 +32 63

15/16 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 24 4 3 84 28 +56 73

16/17 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 28 2 0 108 18 +90 86

17/18 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 26 3 1 101 21 +80 81

18/19 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 24 5 1 94 27 +67 77

19/20 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 29 1 0 101 13 +88 88

20/21 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 28 2 0 116 18 +98 86

21/22 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 29 1 0 131 18 +113 88

22/23 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 27 2 1 125 11 +114 83</pre>

Europe

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">

Year Tournament Round Season Coefficients Rank

12/13 Euro Cup 1st Qualifying Round 0.054 461st

13/14 Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round

Euro Cup 1st Round 0.439 437th (+ 24)

14/15 Champions League 1st Qualifying Round 0.439 450th (- 13)

15/16 Champions League 1st Qualifying Round 0.495 457th (- 7)

16/17 Champions League 1st Qualifying Round 0.550 459th (- 2)

17/18 Champions League 2nd Qualifying Round 0.934 437th (+ 22)

18/19 Champions League 1st Qualifying Round 0.548 456th (- 19)

19/20 Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round

Euro Cup 1st Round 0.550 446th (+ 10)

20/21 Champions League 1st Qualifying Round 0.055 453rd (- 7)

21/22 Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round

Euro Cup 1st Round 0.715 419th (+ 34)

22/23 Champions League 2nd Qualifying Round 0.384 420th (- 1)</pre>

Competition Honours

Northern Irish Premier Division

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">Winner - 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023</pre>

Northern Irish First Division

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">Winner - 2011</pre>

Northern Irish Second Division

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">Runner Up - 2009</pre>

All-Ireland Cup

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">Winner - 2022,2023

Runner Up -

Northern Irish League Cup

Winner - 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

Runner Up - 2011</pre>

Northern Irish Cup

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">Winner - 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023</pre>

Northern Irish Antrim Cup

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">Winner - 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023</pre>

Northern Irish Intermediate Cup

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">Winner - 2011</pre>

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Originally posted by philly85:

can i do this with a team from wales?

Yes. You need to holiday for a season first and then take over one of the newly promoted clubs. icon14.gif

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After 10 season of not ualifying for the Group Stages in the Champions League, I have finally done it! £3,000,000 is also coming towards me for qualifying.

Just beat Shakhtar 5 - 3 on aggregate (I guess it won't be too hard to guess who scored all 5 goals) icon_biggrin.gif

Just need to wait to see who I get now. Will report back in a minute.

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Well if you can beat Shakhtar you have a good shot against CSKA Moscow, especially at home. The others I suggest you field the most attacking formation you can think off, 3 strikers kind of thing, really high tempo attacking football. Go out with a bang, lose 7-4 not 3-0 icon_biggrin.gif

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good luck daemonic in switzerland.

great post ridleys

Oh crap i forgot about the scouting rules im a bleeding idiot would it be ok if i sold those players in the next transfer window as i dont really want 2 start again

I dont want to start again as my games interesting as im top of the first division 8 game in

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Killyleagh 2013-2014 Premier League Season Review

Aims - To stay well clear of relegation and to gain more points than we did the previous year.

Transfers

Coming in there was only 2 new players added to the squad. The first was former Liverpool youth payer Jay Spearing, signed on a free from Glenavon. Joining him was a young right back, Stephen Lord, brought in on a year long loan from Coleraine.

On their way out were Alan McAree, free to Cliftonville (40 games, 0 goals). Neil Boyle left on a free to Coleraine (1 game, 0 goals) and Eddie Murray left for Linfield for 50k (28 games, 13 goals).

All this happened before the start of the season with no transfer activity taking place in January.

League Cup

We had a much more successful League Cup campaign this time around, although still failing to make it out of the group stages, home and away 1-0 victories over Glentoran were the highlights, however a 3-0 defeat to Newry left us level on 10 points with them but with a worse goal difference.

Premier League

The league season started very well, our form was good and we gave a lot of teams very competitive games, after the first 15 games we found ourselves in 5th Place. The second half of the season didn't quite go to plan though, losing a lot of games and struggling to keep up our early season form. Finally an 8th place finish was achieved, top half a the table so prett pleased for only our second season. Final Table

Positional Graph

This season saw Richie Doyle become the leagues Top Scorer and the first player so far to score over 20 Premier League goals in a season.

Player Stats

Fans Player of the year again

Season best eleven

All-time best eleven

Season Summary

Premier League - 8th

Irish Cup - 5th Round - Drew 2-2 with Glenavon losing on penalties

Antrim Cup - 1st Round - Lost 2-1 to Linfield

League Cup - Group Stage - Finished 3rd in Group 2

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With Lisburn Rangers being the only team to get pomoted in the first season I had to take them. Here is my profile.

With a massive squad with a grand total of 11 players, including 2 goalkeepers means I will need to sign a lot of players on free's as I have £1.16K to spend on wages.

My aim for the season is to get a solid mid table position in the second division and possibly go on a good cup run.

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2 teams to choose from, Lisburn Rangers and Tandragee, but which one to choose from?

Think I will choose Lisburn Rangers, I like their away kit and the fact that I enjoyed reading through Jimbokav's progress from FM07 in the LLM forum.

C'mon you Rangers!

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Originally posted by Robert_296:

I got knocked out of one of the cups to them 2-0 icon_frown.gif

icon_biggrin.gif

Did they have a full or a grey team?

I think there is an problem in N.Ireland where the grey teams are better than teams with full squads which is why you see a lot of non-league teams make it far in domestic cups, I think on my Kilmore Rec save I played a non-league team in the final of the Irish Cup. icon_eek.gif

Luckily I won.

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Robert try getting players on loan from the big teams in the Premier Division as even their reserve teams are often as good as the best First Division teams. That is how I managed to get promotion in my first season.

Then at the end of the season I managed to sign a few of them players to strengthen my team and it only took me 2 more seasons to get to the premier division, where it only took me another 2 seasons to win the league! I've come first every season since then. icon_biggrin.gif

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Razer82 – Clough Rangers – 2009 / 2010 – Northern Irish First Division

League – 3rd

Northern Irish Cup – 6th Round – Lost 4-2 to Wakehurst

Intermediate League Cup – Finished 3rd of 6 in Group 1

Antrim Trophy – Semi Final – Lost 4-3 aet to Dromara

Intermediate Cup – Semi final – Lost 3-2 to Ards

Antrim Cup – Quarter Final – Lost 4-2 to Glentoran

Manager Profile

Team Stats

Transfer Summary

Top Scorer

We were able to carry last season’s form into this season and were challenging for the title for most of the season, but a slip up with 3 games to go, we were 3-0 up at home with 10 minutes to go and the game ended 3-3, effectively put us out of the running. A 1-0 home win over league leaders Bangor put us back into things along with 2nd place Ards. With us all having relatively easy games to end the season, I had to hope that someone would slip up. It didn’t happen and we were consigned to another season in the First Division.

We again set a number of records in the league, Goals – 61, Biggest Win – 7-0 vs Dergview, Highest Scoring Game – 5-4 loss to Carrick, Most Goals in a Match – Chris Blackwell – 4, Most Assists – Chris Blackwell – 4, Highest Average Rating – Chris Blackwell – 7.95 in 20 games and Most Man of Match – Chris Blackwell – 9.

We again made an impact in all the cups, but still failed to make it out of the group stage for the League Cup. As we will be having another season in the first division, I’m aiming to try and qualify from the group next year and make an attempt at taking home the trophy.

The strike partnership of Downing (39 Goals) and Blackwell (46 Goals) picked up where they left off last season and by the end of the year were even better then the previous season. I must also mention Robbie Wright with 22 assists and 6 goals in 38 games and also Anthony Welch with 17 assists and 7 goals in 41 games, these two were the force driving us fowards.

I was very impressed with our second season, but disappointed not to have been able to gain promotion, I’ll be aiming for that for next season and also be looking to add a couple of cups to our trophy cabinet.

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Robert_296 It is 22 games a season in the first and second divisions.

Loaning players will help improve your team but I find the players that make the greatest impact are from the Caribbean islands. These guys appear in your player search at the end of September. Take them all on trial and offer contracts to those who make the grade.

If you look at the screenshots in my last season update - all the players mentioned are from the British Virgin Islands but they are just so much better than anyone else that you might be able to sign.

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Originally posted by iacovone:

Cheers Ridleys - great achievement. I'm suprised by how fast he's declined, at least physically. Has he had many injuries?

He's had a total of 53 weeks worth of injury throughout his career. He is becoming a lot more injury prone these days as well.

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Lisburn Rangers - 2008/09 - Northern Irish Division Two

League - 7th

Antrim Cup - 2nd round

Intermediate Cup - 1st round

Intermediate League Cup - Group Stage

Irish Cup - 1st round

The season started off badly getting knocked out of the Intermediate League Cup in the group stage and only winning 3 times in the first half of the season. Although the second half of the season was slightly better and at one point I was in 4th and close to a promotion place, but no win in the last 5 games made me miss out and come in a dissapointing 7th place.

My best players have been my two strikers, David Wright (who has been attracting attention from big clubs) and John Loughlin who between them scored 31 goals in all competitions. Stephen Magennis and Matthew Evans need a mention as well with both getting an average rating of over 7 they created a 9 goals between them and both chipped in with over 5 goals.

Lets hope I can do a bit better next season and gain promotion as well as a bonus of a good cup run.

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Quacky - turning pro after 2 seasons icon_eek.gif. how the hell did you manage that? i was just out of the red by that stage! did they start quite rich? unlucky with the playoff loss and good luck next season in your continuing mission to make me look as bad a manager as I really am! icon_wink.gif

have stumbled across Mendisio a couple of times in friendlies and cup matches. never seen them promoted and can't recall whether they have a proper stadium in my game or not.

not had a chance to play my Swiss game for the last couple of weeks, will try to attack it tomorrow.

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Rasharkin - Northern Irish Premier Division - 23/24 (Season 16)

Media Prediction: 1st

My Prediction: 1st

Final Position: 1st

Cups

Champions League: Reached the Group Stages \o/. This deserves a longer report:

My Group:

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">

Pos Team Pld Won Drn Lst For Ag G.D Pts

1. Sevilla 6 2 4 0 9 5 +4 10

2. Liverpool 6 2 3 1 13 11 +2 9

3. CSKA Moskow 6 1 5 0 5 3 +2 8

4. Rasharkin 6 0 2 4 6 14 -8 2</pre>

Didn't do too badly, at least we didn't lose all of our games icon_smile.gif

Hopefully we can build on this though.

Euro Cup: Not entered.

Northern Irish League Cup: Winners.

Irish Cup: Winners.

Antrim Cup: Winners.

All-Ireland Cup Winners.

This season was the start of what could be a great future for the club! We reached the group stages of the Champions League for the first time in the clubs history! Dean Evans also reached his 1000th goal! icon_smile.gif

With us reaching the Group Stages of the Champions League, we became the most improved team in Europe and moved up 178 places to 242nd in the rankings! We were also ranked 63rd for the season. icon_smile.gif

We still haven't gone a whole season winning every game though icon13.gif

Dean Evans: -

The Career So Far..

League

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">

Year Division Position Pld Won Drn Lst For Ag G.D Pts

08/09 Northern Irish Second Division 2nd 22 11 5 6 40 26 +14 38

09/10 Northern Irish First Division 4th 22 9 7 6 37 21 +14 34

10/11 Northern Irish First Division 1st 22 13 4 5 39 18 +21 43

11/12 Northern Irish Premier Division 5th 30 14 6 10 49 30 +19 48

12/13 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 24 3 3 79 33 +46 75

13/14 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 24 2 4 79 32 +47 74

14/15 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 20 3 7 65 33 +32 63

15/16 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 24 4 3 84 28 +56 73

16/17 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 28 2 0 108 18 +90 86

17/18 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 26 3 1 101 21 +80 81

18/19 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 24 5 1 94 27 +67 77

19/20 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 29 1 0 101 13 +88 88

20/21 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 28 2 0 116 18 +98 86

21/22 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 29 1 0 131 18 +113 88

22/23 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 27 2 1 125 11 +114 83

23/24 Northern Irish Premier Division 1st 30 29 1 0 140 13 +127 88</pre>

Europe

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">

Year Tournament Round Total Coefficients Rank

12/13 Euro Cup 1st Qualifying Round 0.054 461st

13/14 Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round

Euro Cup 1st Round 0.439 437th (+ 24)

14/15 Champions League 1st Qualifying Round 0.439 450th (- 13)

15/16 Champions League 1st Qualifying Round 0.495 457th (- 7)

16/17 Champions League 1st Qualifying Round 0.550 459th (- 2)

17/18 Champions League 2nd Qualifying Round 0.934 437th (+ 22)

18/19 Champions League 1st Qualifying Round 0.548 456th (- 19)

19/20 Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round

Euro Cup 1st Round 0.550 446th (+ 10)

20/21 Champions League 1st Qualifying Round 0.055 453rd (- 7)

21/22 Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round

Euro Cup 1st Round 0.715 419th (+ 34)

22/23 Champions League 2nd Qualifying Round 0.384 420th (- 1)

23/24 Champions League Group Stages 7.802 242nd (+ 178)</pre>

If the coefficient is in italics, then they are seasonal coefficients not the total coefficients, my mistake

Competition Honours

Northern Irish Premier Division

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">Winner - 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024</pre>

Northern Irish First Division

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">Winner - 2011</pre>

Northern Irish Second Division

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">Runner Up - 2009</pre>

All-Ireland Cup

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">Winner - 2022, 2023, 2024

Runner Up - 2019, 2021</pre>

Northern Irish League Cup

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">Winner - 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

Runner Up - 2011</pre>

Northern Irish Cup

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">Winner - 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022</pre>

Northern Irish Antrim Cup

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">Winner - 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024</pre>

Northern Irish Intermediate Cup

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">Winner - 2011</pre>

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