dafuge Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 The Aim To take a small club who were previously unplayable in an unedited game from the Vanarama National League North/South to Premier League and Champions League glory. The Rules Start the game unemployed and choose the advanced setup. Like last year, you have the option of loading whatever leagues you like at the start and throughout the game. All of the boxes should be left unticked apart from 'do not add key staff' and 'prevent use of in-game editor'. It should look like this. Just like previous years, the players for the newly playable clubs need to be added which can be done using the 'advanced' option on the database size. The players from the four feeder league have to be added, which looks like this (the other two are right at the bottom). You can also add anything else you like to increase the size of the database. The extra levels of detail that you can change while in the game are up to you, as they shouldn't make a difference. Add yourself as an unemployed manager, the details are not important at all. I like to call mine 'Holiday Man'. Go on holiday until 25th June. This is the day that the new clubs appear, so saving on 24th June gives you a chance to reload in the hope of getting a particular club. Retire your 'Holiday Man' manager allowing him to finish his career unbeaten. When adding a new manager, choose one of the new clubs promoted to the Vanarama North or South to manage. A quick way to check the new teams is to find the 'England Overview' screen, then the 'season summary'. Just above the FA Cup summary you should find a list of the six newly promoted teams. Add a new manager, the personal details are completely up to you but I would expect people to use their own true nationalities and languages spoken. Coaching badges must be set to 'None', with past playing experience set as 'Sunday League Footballer'. The coaching attributes are completely up to you. They should appear in this list which shows the reputation of the possible clubs. The reputation should act as a difficulty level. The lower the reputation, the harder your game should be. Reputations are updated for FM19 release: Isthmian League Premier Division AFC Hornchurch 2050 Bishop's Stortford 2100 Bognor Regis 2100 Brightlingsea 1700 Burgess Hill 1750 Carshalton 2000 Corinthian-Casuals 1700 Dorking Wanderers 2100 Enfield Town 1950 Folkstone 1950 Haringey Borough 1650 Harlow 1800 Kingstonian 2450 Leatherhead 1850 Lewes 1900 Margate 2100 Merstham 1750 Potters Bar Town 1550 Tonbridge 1950 Whitehawk 2200 Wingate & Finchley 1750 Worthing 1900 Southern Football League Premier Division Central AFC Rushden 1600 Alvechurch 1600 Banbury 1750 Barwell 1850 Bedworth 1750 Biggleswade Town 1900 Coalville 1800 Halesowen 2350 Hitchin 2000 Kettering 2750 King's Lynn 2250 Leiston 1800 Lowestoft 2100 Needham Market 1850 Redditch 1900 Royston 1850 Rushall 1900 St. Ives 1750 St. Neots 1900 Stourbridge 2000 Stratford 1750 Tamworth 2250 Southern Football League Premier Division South Basingstoke 2150 Beaconsfield 1600 Chesham 2250 Dorchester 1950 Farnborough 2100 Frome 1950 Gosport 2200 Harrow 1850 Hartney Wintney 1500 Hendon 2220 Kings Langley 1850 Merthyr T 2250 Met Police 1950 Poole 2100 Salisbury 2250 Staines 1950 Swindon Supermarine 1650 Taunton 1700 Tiverton 1850 Walton Casuals 1550 Weymouth 1950 Wimbourne 1500 Northern Premier League Premier Division Bamber Bridge 1800 Basford 1900 Buxton 1950 Farsley 2100 Gainsborough Trinity 2200 Grantham 2000 Hednesford 2100 Hyde Utd 1950 Lancaster 1850 Marine 1900 Matlock 1950 Mickleover 1900 Nantwich 1950 North Ferriby 2000 Scarborough 2050 Stafford 1950 Stalybridge 2150 South Shields 2000 Warrington 2100 Whitby 1900 Witton 1900 Workington 2000 It is now up to you to manage this club all the way to the Premier League title and UEFA Champions League crown. The challenge is complete once you have won both competitions, this does not need to happen in the same season. You may not move clubs unless you are sacked. If you get sacked, you can either take over a newly promoted club that satisfies the original criteria (check the club's league history), or just start again. Any form of international management is not allowed, until you have completed the challenge. Assigning parent clubs and loaning players is completely up to the player, although it should be noted that on occasions a parent club can lend players which will make the first season or two slightly less of a challenge. It is completely up to you how you play this one. Personally, I like to assign a parent club for financial benefits but never take any players on loan from them. To sign a player, you must be able to scout them, this doesn't mean you have to, just he must be accessible to your scouts. If you have a foreign player on a free transfer who is willing to come on trial, you do not need to be able to scout them, as long as you have them at the club on trial so you can get a coach report on him. If an agent offers you a player, you can sign him without scouting him. No external utilities such as scouting programs should be used and the database should be unedited (with the exception of cosmetic changes which cannot be discussed here). Should SI release a data update, this would be allowed but any other data updates are not. Use of save game editors is strictly banned, whatever the reason. Ticking that box at the start should see to this. Rules for this Thread Player naming is allowed. General discussion on tactics is allowed, although people should not refer to downloaded tactics. They are not banned, but I would expect the majority of people to avoid them. When you join the challenge, post a screenshot of your manager's profile on the 25th June like this. Progress of your club should be documented using this thread, we want to hear the story of your club all the way through. Please keep us updated, even if you are doing really badly. At the end of every season, could everyone post some kind of season review, including at least a screenshot of a league table and the clubs transfer page. If you give this a title in bold it makes it a bit easier to pick out. How to Post a Screenshot While in FM, press Alt and F9 A picture will be saved to a screenshots folder, in the FM19 folder in your documents Upload the image to an image hosting website such as Imgur Post the direct Url to the image here. Leaderboard https://warhawk137.wixsite.com/dafugechallenge (thanks to @Warhawk) Enjoy 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DazRTaylor Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 I will entering this, though not until the full game is out. Not decided on who to manage yet either. Maybe Salisbury? Or Royston. I will give it some thought. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_D_K Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 (edited) <reserved for my annual hosting of saved games for the FM19 version of the challenge!> Okay, here is an initial batch for those that don't want to worry about the holiday season. I'll continue to add to this list of saves up thru release+ 1 week or so...there are 88 teams available for the challenge, and I hope to find at least 60 of them. This first batch is from the BETA version of FM 19, was loaded with 24 leagues in 8 nations (all of UK&I +, I believe, Iceland), and has about 32K players in the database. (Numbers in parentheses at end of line is my attempt to keep track of number of distinct teams I've found to that point). Teams are listed in bold if it is the first time they appear on this list (thanks for the suggestion @oohlala111 Save 3a1 Halesowen, Gosport, Kingstonian, Whitehawk, Stalybridge, Gainsborough (6) Save 3a2 Kettering, Halesowen, Whitehawk, Kingstonian, Workington, South Shields (9) Save 3a3 Kettering, Tamworth, Kingstonian, Margate, Scarborough, Stalybridge (12) Save 3a4 Kettering, Halesowen, Chesham, Kingstonian, Gainsborough, King's Lynn (14) Save 3a5 Kettering, Gosport, Kingstonian, Whitehawk, Hednesford, Stalybridge (15) Save 3B1 Halesowen, Kingstonian, Margate, Hednesford, Salisbury, King's Lynn (16) Save 3B2 Merthyr T, Kingstonian, Farnborough, King's Lynn, Whitehawk, Farsley (19) This next Batch is from the BETA version of FM19, featuring 63 leagues in 19 nations and a database of approximately 100K players! Save 1a1 Gosport, Tamworth, Kingstonian, Bishop's Stortford, Gainsborough, Warrington (21) Save 1a2 Salisbury, Tamworth, Kingstonian, Bishop's Stortford, South Shields, Nantwich (22) Save 1a3 Kettering, Dorking Wanderers, Bishop's Stortford, Hednesford, Poole, King's Lynn (24) Save 1a4 Gosport, Salisbury, Dorking Wanderers, Carshalton, Stalybridge, Gainsborough (25) Tis next batch is from the BETA version of FM19, featuring 53 leagues in 15 nations and approximately 75K players. Save 2a1 Kettering, Halesowen, Kingstonian, Chesham, South Shields, Stafford (26) Save 2a2 Kettering, Halesowen, Bognor Regis, Hendon, Hednesford, Lancaster (29) Save 2a3 Gosport, Poole, Hitchin, Stalybridge, Scarborough, Warrnington (30) First batch of saves from the RELEASE database is 18 leagues/six nations with about 25K players Save 4a1 Salisbury, Carshalton, Tonbridge, Hednesford, King's Lynn, Gainsborough Trinity (31) Save 4a2 Kettering, Gosport, Chesham, Folkestone, Gainsborough Trinity, South Shields (32) Save 4a3 Kettering, Salisbury, Hendon, Chesham, Hednesford, Hyde (33) Save 4b1 Kettering, Basingstoke, Kingstonian, Whitehawk, King's Lynn, Farsley (34) Save 4b2 Halesowen, Salisbury, AFC Hornchurch, Dorking Wanderers, Stalybridge, Warrington (35) Next batch of saves from the RELEASE database is 42 leagues/16 Nations with about 75K players Save 5a1 Tamworth, Kettering, Kingstonian, Farnborough, Hednesford, North Ferriby (36) Save 5a2 Halesowen, Salisbury, Farnborough, Kingstonian, Warrington, Grantham (37) Save 5a3 Halesowen, Kingstonian, Lowestoft, Farnborough, Stalybridge, Workington (38) Batch of saves from the RELEASE database -- all leagues in all European nations -- about 125k players Save 6a1 Kettering, Halesowen, Whitehawk, Kingstonian, Stalybridge, Basford (39) Save 6a2 Salisbury, Basingstoke, Kingstonian, Bishop's Stortford, Matlock, Workington (40) Save 6a3 Salisbury, Hendon, Chesham, Stourbridge, Bishop's Stortford, Workington (41) Edited November 11, 2018 by G_D_K 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_D_K Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Meantime, I've gotten a great start with my SOUTH SHIELDS Mariners team! Early season, but 12 points from 6 matches puts us 5th on the table atm. Might or might not be my permanent save, have to see if any game breaking bugs are found during beta (or how well/poorly I end up doing!). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
libbyshuss Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 looks like you have one of the walking dead as your manager avatar... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_D_K Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 2 minutes ago, libbyshuss said: looks like you have one of the walking dead as your manager avatar... Considering my normal sleep patterns (esp. during the build up to FM release), I usually feel like one too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XaW Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 I'm entering this, but as a youth challenge at the same time, so I'll update both here and in the other thread. I've started with Kettering. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_D_K Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 (edited) I just came from behind to beat Kettering 2-1!!! By the way --- Steam community Group page dedicated to this challenge can be found https://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791432542089 Come join us and let us know how you're getting on....(everyone welcome, this challenge, another challenge, FM or gaming in general!) Edited October 19, 2018 by G_D_K Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thebaker Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 (edited) I started as Worthing after a lot of reloads, still only saw half the teams on the list. In terms of the squad my 27yo ass man who was already at the club is the favourite to win the league best player award. I have several 3 and 4 star players as well who are good or leading for the league, so its just getting the tactics right. Edited October 19, 2018 by Thebaker Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post michaeltmurrayuk Posted October 19, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted October 19, 2018 If anyone is new to the challenge (or just wants a refresher) this is a quick guide to get you started off, based on how I play (Though I likely won't be starting until the full release). Mainly based on FM18 and I'll update it once I've had a chance to really look at FM19 if anything major has changed. (Also this isn't a definite way to play just my way). - The more leagues you select the more active your game-world will be, but the slower the game will run. With Brexit looming I tend to turn on the top divisions for the rest of the UK and the top leagues in Europe to give some competition in Europe later on. - Database size, rather than increasing this I'd add leagues (needs to be playable to add players) or use the advanced options to add players from top clubs as it should give a better balance than just increasing the database size. - Before sending your manager on holiday turn the detail level down to min. to speed up the processing. Also turn auto-saves off or set to monthly. - I also wouldn't add any custom logos at the start, because all the existing sides should be licensed it means the unlicensed teams should be challenge teams which makes locating them a bit easier. - When picking a team Reputation, Professional status and Region are the main things that affect the difficulty of the challenge in the first season, if you cannot offer F/T contracts then players won't travel far to join you so a club based in the North-West won't be able to sign players released from London clubs for example. Facilities are a medium term issue as it will be a few years until you can afford to improve them and better initial youth facilities give you a higher chance of getting good regens. Stadium is also a factor as the Football League and Prem have stadium requirements so if your stadium isn't upto standard it'll cost you to expand or even worse you get stuck in a small new stadium. - Once I have picked a club the first thing I do is sign the assistant with the best judging ability attribute possible (potential is nice but not as important, I also find tactical knowledge helpful for the OI if you use them, other attributes depend on what you want your assistant to do) also try and sign a quality scout if possible again you want the best judging ability you can get, with potential a nice one if you can get it. - For coaches it depends on how many you can have, if you have the numbers I tend to go for a GK and fitness one - though if you can try and sign them as general coaches so they can still train anyone, then I use me and the assistant for general coaching. You can also 'cheat' a little bit by signing coaches with good judging ability and use them as extra scouts, as at this level training isn't going to do much and the more accurate scout reports you can get quicker the better. If you want your Manager to coach then at the start put what points you can into Determination, LoD and Man Management. - Ask for a Parent club (or senior affiliate as they now seem to be called) for free loans - depending on how the game is feeling you might get some free first teamers or at worst have to settle for some free bench players which can at least save you some money. (the ability to get parent teams and the quality of loanees seems to change each version, hopefully this will be a nice one) - Pick your basic preferred formation (4-4-2, 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 etc...) roles and duties don't matter at the moment, though have a general idea of what you want, for example I tend to play 4-4-2 and in the centre of midfield I'll have a defensive minded player and an attacking minded one, and upfront I'll have a goalscoring (hopefully) and a support striker - though actual roles depend on my players and what works. With the new Tactical Systems it should hopefully be easier to get a basic formation set up. - Go through your existing players and work out their best position, also check your U21 and U18 squads in case anyone decent is hiding in there. Use the Report and Squad Depth screens, I also add some extra columns to the squad view - Ability and Potential columns, you can also add best position and role columns if you wish. This year we have some new columns in the tactics screen - a role rating column that seems to give your assistants star rating of the role, and a green bar chart that seems to be based on the average of the key attributes for the selected role - at this level I'd probably use the green chart rather than the stars. For the Role Rating this is a rough guide to tell you the players strongest role - it's based on a weighted average of the key attributes for the selected role, and then weighted against the position rating - however you don't really need to play a player in their best role especially if it doesn't suit your tactics and I just use them as a guide to see what type of player they are (also if a player can play several positions it tends to give the roles in the secondary positions a poor rating). - Pick your Best XI and Second XI from your existing players, this now allows you to see where you are weakest, also check for any AI made future signings, I think the squad depth screen has a filter to include future transfers, you may have got lucky and had the AI grab you a good player. - Check the Contract Offers view on the squad screen to see if the AI has offered any of your players a new contract, and cancel any offers you don't want, also check the expiry dates of the contracts as some players may only have a week left on their contract. - Before making any offers for players you need to check a couple of things to see what standard of player you are looking for, a quck glance can be had by looking at the Team Report -> Comparison screen, this will give you the highest and lowest averages for various attributes in your league per position, in the Conference North 10/11 is normally good for a key attribute. Next from the player report screen check to see what level the stars correspond to - players will have a star rating which will change depending on expectations, quality of players and league, however players also have a description that doesn't change which will read decent/good/leading and then a division, you need to keep on an eye on what level the stars are at, as for example at the start a decent conf north player may be five stars as your team is rubbish but a month later may only be two stars as you have found better players. - Now it's time to find players, what I do is filter by interested players within scouting range, and add conditions unattached and eu-national (you aren't likely to attract players from other clubs at this stage nor will players get work permits at this level) and then add a position filter and search for the position you most need a player in. - Next step depends on how many players you found and what staff you have, you have two options; - Trial players in - reveals attributes over time like scouting does, once on trial can compare with other players, downside players may not accept trial and it also seems players on trial attract more attention from AI players. If trialing do it for 1 month/end of pre-season. Advantage of trial is it's free but if you have too many on trial at once it'll affect your dynamics and training workload, so discard the rubbish ones as fast as you can. - Scout players - limit to how many you can scout, new system takes time, however no need for player to agree terms, can also get coaches to scout if they are any good. Unless it has changed in FM19 you shouldn't need to bother with the scouting packages as the start as unattached players use the old knowledge system to show up, though the packages are charged monthly so you can turn it on during a month shortlist who you need and then remove it. - Once you have scouted/trialled players for one position move onto the next, if you have the staff you can assign one member of staff to scout players of one position whilst another scouts a different position. - If you scout a player and still aren't sure trial him in, you can use scouting to weed out the useless players and then trial in the possible ones to have a closer look. - If there is no interest in a player then trial him in and take your time, unless he looks really good. - Priority is first team players squad depth isn't important yet and can be filled with free loans or non-contract players. N/C if not used don't cost you any money but part of their max cost will be deducted from your budget to stop you signing a infinite amount of them. - Once the season is under way carry on searching (transfer window doesn't close until march in non-league) as better players will be interested as the season goes on. (free players get more desperate the longer they are without a club). Tactics wise keep it simple and if not sure where to start check out the tactics forum - there are some stickied threads to help you understand the roles and how they are linked, otherwise it's just watch the matches and slowly tweak things depending on what is happening. The first season I tend to write off - you have to build a team, understand the new features and work out a tactic, if you are lucky things will start coming together at the end of the season and you may sneak a playoff spot or if not be in position to push for promotion next season. In your second season you should have a better idea of what you need and what works, I also tend to have a core team by now and just look to add some players with that extra bit of quality. Once you have gained promotion you repeat all of the above, until you gain promotion again and repeat the above again etc... Getting quality players in the early years is part luck part how much time you have - to find the gems you may have to scout/trial thousands of players which takes time (both real and in game), you also cannot always rely on poaching players from other peoples games as at this level most of the released players we are after have random attributes and have had a season or more to develop/fail. Another way to narrow down players on your scouting screen is to add the last club column to the view and first check out the players released from bigger sides (unfortunately there is no column to show what division the side was in). You can also check the transfer history for clubs (or even England) for released players and scout them and hope that you can persuade a quality released player to sign for you. Another cheeky thing you can do at the start is look at the reserve teams of the prem sides and scout the ones who's contracts are expiring (or get a team report) because we start a week before the contracts expire and in the past AI teams haven't looked at these players until they have been officially released, so you might get lucky and be able to snap one up before the AI gets interested. Also not sure if it still works but getting team reports should give you basic details on a teams squad and should be quicker/cheaper than scouting everyone in the squad so this is handy to use for loan players or at the end of the season when the set for release flag has been set but the players haven't been released so you know who you can avoid scouting. 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oohlala111 Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Debating whether to wait for a non-league database so I can have real players for my team or to just forget it and start reloading now... Already doing a Man Utd beta save but will probably end that after 3 or 4 seasons anyway. Definitely going with Buxton as the team I support, but just undecided what to do as I could easily combine my annual Bucks save with this challenge Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenzar Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Got my save processing through Season 1 now! @dafuge you joining us? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higgo Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Went with Hyde United, played 5 league games, 4 wins and 1 loss against 1st place Wrexham. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted October 19, 2018 Author Share Posted October 19, 2018 1 hour ago, Lenzar said: Got my save processing through Season 1 now! @dafuge you joining us? I'm really not sure this year, I've not played FM for a few months so I'm not too sure what sort of game I'll be playing should I return to the game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartrcm Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 After a couple of years of absence in this challenge, I'm going to give this a try again. Meet the new manager of South Shields. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhawk Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 I was all set to start with Nantwich until I realized the white text on neon green background was lighting my retinas on fire. So, Mickleover! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superowl90 Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 12 hours ago, dafuge said: Bedworth 1450 (8000) I assume this is a typo lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thebaker Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 2 minutes ago, Superowl90 said: I assume this is a typo lol Yes it should have been 1800 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impale Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Couldn't handle reloading anymore. Spent hours and hours trying to get Redditch, as they're my second team, but in the end settled for Halesowen Town. Pros Blue - my favourite colour Local to West Brom: my team Never managed them before Cons Not Redditch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenzar Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 After a few goes, nothing more interesting came up so I'm taking the slightly easier option and going for Kettering: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thebaker Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 its taken 12 games to record my first victory, it could be a long season as i can't get the tactics right in defending. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhawk Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Scored 45 seconds into my first league game, so I imagine it's all downhill from here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suede2 Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 It is frustrating when you are constantly reloading as there is one team you really want and it has a low rep........ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oohlala111 Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 @G_D_K great work with the pre-made saves as usual, but could you bold any newly-found teams for each new save? Makes it easier for me and others who are looking for a certain team if it's in bold As soon as my United beta save is over, it's off to this challenge Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prank Emperor Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Going to be taking part in this when the game releases, not keen on starting on beta. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superowl90 Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 I'm going to start a Scarborough challenge since thats near my hometown, had a little play around with tactics and such with success so I'll let you know how i go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis89 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Debated for a while what challenge to start and thought this would be best. Database. Manager setup Meet the new manager of Dorking Wanderers Manager Profile. Finances. Facilities. A few things stood out for me in making my choice, last seasons low rating 1250, although its predicted a lot higher this season. secondly, we are predicted to finish bottom in the Season Preview, and lastly the club was only formed in 1999 and has won no honours in its 19 year existence. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oohlala111 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Good luck @Superowl90 @Lewis89 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superowl90 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Okay so here is my official starting point post. Took the Scarborough job and here is my manager profile. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwarrilow89 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 4 hours ago, Superowl90 said: Okay so here is my official starting point post. Took the Scarborough job and here is my manager profile. Can I ask where you got the image for your manager profile? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Blinkhorn Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Not sure if I can take part this year as I'm still sulking about Thurrock folding... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yipster1986 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Here's my starting point. Took the job at King's Lynn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Blinkhorn Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 2 hours ago, Sean Blinkhorn said: Not sure if I can take part this year as I'm still sulking about Thurrock folding... That said- just in case, here's my profile... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice Ice Gravy Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 8 hours ago, Superowl90 said: Okay so here is my official starting point post. Took the Scarborough job and here is my manager profile. Love that even as a new non-league manager Chris Wilder has already taken issue with you. WAWAW Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superowl90 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 2 hours ago, Ice Ice Gravy said: Love that even as a new non-league manager Chris Wilder has already taken issue with you. WAWAW That's because the game is so realistic it's captured every cunty side of his personality haha. WAWAW Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superowl90 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 6 hours ago, jwarrilow89 said: Can I ask where you got the image for your manager profile? Took a picture and it made a 3D render in game mate Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice Ice Gravy Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 So here we go. I'm the new manager at Kingstonian. Difficult decision as I wanted a London team, but on my first load Farsley popped up as well. I had a great save on FM09 with them where I won the Champions League (no Premier League though) and it was the most attached I'd been to any team I've had on FM. But it's time for something new. Plus, I noticed the Ks had signed Muhammadu Faal from Dulwich during the holiday man season. I've seen him a few times for Dulwich and he's a great player. Hoping this is some kind of omen... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higgo Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 (edited) Hyde United - 2019/2020 League Finished 7th in league moving above Kidderminster on the final match of the season on goal difference. Got smashed 4-2 by Nuneaton in the first round of the play offs. Cups Didn't really try in the cups to be honest, just rotated players for cup matches. Transfers DoF signed lots of players for me and the rest i found through the scouts, all Free transfers, Daniel Williams was the best signing my DoF made, switched from a 4-2-3-1 to a 4-1-4-1 to play him at Anchor Man. Players - Tactics Jake Dunwoody & Thomas Cole - Both played CM for nearly every game, decent free transfers made by the DoF. Daniel Williams - Changed my team to fit him in at Anchor Man, he had a 2 month injury where we barely won a game without him and then came back near the end of the season and we won 5 out of 6 matches i think. Divin Baningime - Was a decent striker but very inconsistent . Next Season Need to sign better defenders since they were all very inconsistent and definitely get a back up striker to compete with Divin Baningme. And figure out how the training system works because ive ignored that so far. Edited October 21, 2018 by Higgo 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhawk Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Man, we just love comebacks apparently. In 16 competitive matches so far we're 9-5-2. Of the 9 wins, we trailed in 4, including one where we were down 2-0 at the half, and one where we scored in the 93rd minute to win. 1 of the 5 draws was scoreless, of the other 4 we trailed in 3, including another where we were down 2-0 at the half. We've scored 10 and allowed 12 goals in the first half, and scored 22 and allowed 10 in the second half. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thebaker Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Having played this game for many years my teams are always in the top 3 teams for a season in terms of yellow and red cards, fouls etc. This season my team had no red cards and only half the yellow cards of the worst team, 13th in the league. obviously not got my tactics quite right yet. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
janneff Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 This is my first official attempt to complete this challenge. Last year I managed to complete this with Billericay but I didn't record my progress. This time I intend to do both. I'm the new boss of Kettering. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis89 Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 (edited) Dorking Wanderers FC 2019-20 COMPETITIONS - What a season, in the League we was predicted to finish bottom and turned the table on its head ending the season as Champions. In the cups, a real FA Cup fairy tale, where we managed to get all the way to the third round. Here we faced Newcastle away.... 8-0.... ouch. Still we earned £750k from that tie alone and around £900k from the cup run. A massive boost to the club. The FA Trophy didn't go so well as we lost to Eastleigh in the 1st round. TRANSFERS - After trialling literally ever player released in the summer by an English club, we put together a brilliant squad at no cost at all. Plus the 1 loan signing who proved a gem. PLAYERS - Midfielders Sam Wilding and Kieran Lavery were excellent this season. Whilst strikers Adam Coombes, Alfie Stanley and loan signing Jermaine Turner led us to the title with 70 goals between them. YOUTH INTAKE - Nothing to mention here. literally doesn't look like anyone who could cut it next season. CLUB - With the money from the cup run, I managed to squeeze a slight Youth Improvement out of the board. Who so far have refused a senior affiliate and me a coaching badge course. Next Seasons Aim: I always aim for the higher end of the table, especially in the lower leagues so will be aiming for a top 10 finish next season at least. Judging on our results in the cup against higher opposition we should be able to hold our own, and with a few additions maybe even make a run at the play offs. Season League Pos Fa Cup Achievement ----------------------------------------------------- 18/19 VNLS 1st Rnd 3 Promoted Edited October 24, 2018 by Lewis89 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XaW Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 (edited) XaW - Kettering Town - 2019/20 Table | Squad | Transfers | Finances When I took over the club there were some glaring issues with the squad. Most notably the lack of centre backs. There were only 2, and a left back who were "uncomfortable" playing there. I started the season with a Wing play based tactic, that seemed to work great in pre-season, but really struggled when the competitive matches started. So I went back to the drawing board and ended up with a 4-1-4-1 who alternate between going on the front foot and standing off, and that worked amazing for a good part of the season. At one point we were solidly inside the playoff spots, but after avoiding relegation were not an issue the team faltered a bit. We also had one of our few injury issues at that time, so we dropped a bit back, but still finished in a pretty good 9th place. In the FA Cup we got as far as the 1st round before we got knocked out by Bromley. A pretty decent run. In the FA Trophy we made it all the way to the 4th round before Halifax Town got the better of us. Oh, and we are expanding our stadium with 500 standing spots to comply with regulations and it should be done in the summer. Since I'm playing a youth only game here are the two best players I got through the youth intake. Gary O'Neill 20a were involved in 10 matches after he came through the ranks and got his first goal for us, and also contributed with 4 assists. A very good start for the young midfielder. David Liburd 20b went straight into the main squad and will probably stay there for a while. He is already ranked as the best central defender in the squad and even scored from a corner! Season | League | Position | FA Cup | Europe | Notes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2019/20 | National League North | 9th | 1st round | N/A | Just of playoffs Edited October 23, 2018 by XaW 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkiIIs Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 giving this a crack, welcome the new manager of Stalybridge Celtic (first time using imgur hope this works) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prank Emperor Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 (edited) 56 minutes ago, XaW said: XaW - Kettering Town - 2019/20 Table | Squad | Transfers | Finances When I took over the club there were some glaring issues with the squad. Most notably the lack of centre backs. There were only 2, and a left back who were "uncomfortable" playing there. I started the season with a Wing play based tactic, that seemed to work great in pre-season, but really struggled when the competitive matches started. So I went back to the drawing board and ended up with a 4-1-4-1 who alternate between going on the front foot and standing off, and that worked amazing for a good part of the season. At one point we were solidly inside the playoff spots, but after avoiding relegation were not an issue the team faltered a bit. We also had one of our few injury issues at that time, so we dropped a bit back, but still finished in a pretty good 9th place. In the FA Cup we got as far as the 1st round before we got knocked out by Bromley. A pretty decent run. In the FA Trophy we made it all the way to the 4th round before Halifax Town got the better of us. Oh, and we are expanding our stadium with 500 standing spots to comply with regulations and it should be done in the summer. Since I'm playing a youth only game here are the two best players I got through the youth intake. Gary O'Neill 20a were involved in 10 matches after he came through the ranks and got his first goal for us, and also contributed with 4 assists. A very good start for the young midfielder. David Liburd 20b went straight into the main squad and will probably stay there for a while. He is already ranked as the best central defender in the squad and even scored from a corner! Season | League | Position | FA Cup | Europe | Notes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2019/20 | National League North | 9th | 1st round | N/A | Just of playoffs Did Kettering for the Dafuge challenge few editions ago, since Billericay is out of contention this year I might try for Kettering as I had a fun game with them. Thought I would wait for the full release game before starting this but can't wait, simulation already under way! Edited October 23, 2018 by Prank Emperor Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prank Emperor Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Finally getting into this with Kettering this year. Game setup Manager Profile Hopefully, will be able to finish the challenge this year as well! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmattb28 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 On 19/10/2018 at 20:43, G_D_K said: <reserved for my annual hosting of saved games for the FM19 version of the challenge!> Okay, here is an initial batch for those that don't want to worry about the holiday season. I'll continue to add to this list of saves up thru release+ 1 week or so...there are 88 teams available for the challenge, and I hope to find at least 60 of them. This first batch is from the BETA version of FM 19, was loaded with 24 leagues in 8 nations (all of UK&I +, I believe, Iceland), and has about 32K players in the database. (Numbers in parentheses at end of line is my attempt to keep track of number of distinct teams I've found to that point). Teams are listed in bold if it is the first time they appear on this list (thanks for the suggestion @oohlala111 Save 3a1 Halesowen, Gosport, Kingstonian, Whitehawk, Stalybridge, Gainsborough (6) Save 3a2 Kettering, Halesowen, Whitehawk, Kingstonian, Workington, South Shields (9) Save 3a3 Kettering, Tamworth, Kingstonian, Margate, Scarborough, Stalybridge (12) Save 3a4 Kettering, Halesowen, Chesham, Kingstonian, Gainsborough, King's Lynn (14) Save 3a5 Kettering, Gosport, Kingstonian, Whitehawk, Hednesford, Stalybridge (15) Save 3B1 Halesowen, Kingstonian, Margate, Hednesford, Salisbury, King's Lynn (16) Save 3B2 Merthyr T, Kingstonian, Farnborough, King's Lynn, Whitehawk, Farsley (19) This next Batch is from the BETA version of FM19, featuring 63 leagues in 19 nations and a database of approximately 100K players! Save 1a1 Gosport, Tamworth, Kingstonian, Bishop's Stortford, Gainsborough, Warrington (21) Save 1a2 Salisbury, Tamworth, Kingstonian, Bishop's Stortford, South Shields, Nantwich (22) Save 1a3 Kettering, Dorking Wanderers, Bishop's Stortford, Hednesford, Poole, King's Lynn (24) Save 1a4 Gosport, Salisbury, Dorking Wanderers, Carshalton, Stalybridge, Gainsborough (25) You absolute legend mate Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmattb28 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 On 19/10/2018 at 20:56, G_D_K said: Meantime, I've gotten a great start with my SOUTH SHIELDS Mariners team! Early season, but 12 points from 6 matches puts us 5th on the table atm. Might or might not be my permanent save, have to see if any game breaking bugs are found during beta (or how well/poorly I end up doing!). I'm going to be starting this challenge to go alongside my other career and starting as Shields. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oohlala111 Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Think I'm gonna begin my holidaying and reloading to see if I can get Buxton, and then I'll make a decision - continue my Man Utd beta save and then this challenge or do both at the same time? Any save I start now might not even be my full save if there's any bugs or huge issues in the beta but I'd like to at least have that option... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thebaker Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 @Higgo, @XaW - well done on solid first seasons. @Lewis89 - congrats on promotion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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