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Lol I'm sure it will continue to be asked every year! If theres a year it's not asked then I'd be worried lol

Yeah the last two games (probably others as well) were announced in September so probably then.

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All wins no losses: October 2025 A great bounce back month and it seems the team meeting towards the end of last month worked wonders as we won all our matches this month. We bumped all the way up to 5th in the league and secured our place in the EFL Trophy Second Round one game early as I reached 200 games in management. At the beginning of the month I decided to change the formation as we had been too attacking last month and I think that contributed to our poor form. Sparkes stayed as a wing back but is now less attacking, and Devine changed from an advanced playmaker to a Carrilero, this makes him less attacking but his skills will still shine as he is now the key between defence and attack. I also slightly increased the tempo of our play so that we can start shooting more as we weren't having nearly enough shots before. This month Rodel Richards had a great run of three games in a row where he scored 2 goals per game - all were great finishes too. Tommy Blair was injured for most of the month but came back at the end and got a couple goals. The wins this month have me dreaming of getting a play off space but we will need to strengthen in January if we have any chance of that. I was really impressed with the Burton match as we saw the game out with great maturity. Fir the last 3 minute of the game we kept the ball for the whole time, not even letting the ball go out of play, until the referee blew the final whistle. A nice and calm end to the match. Unfortunately we lost Matt Jay to injury for 3 weeks at the end of the month. 2 of our wins led to managers getting sacked including Mark Hughes. Immediately after our wins against MK Dons and Shrewsbury, Mark Hughes and got sacked respectively. Transfers I want to have another type option from the bench in the striker position as I think it may hurt us later on in the season. For this reason we have triggered the £75k release clause in Andrew Quinn's contract, he plays in Northern Ireland and I've been following him since my time there. He is tall, strong, can header, is skilful and can finish and I hope he agrees a contract with us. He had alwady been lookng for a move to bigger club which is good, I just hope other teams don't try to hijack the deal. Other Sean Cromie our youth keeper has been unhappy with the way I have been treating him as I keep criticising his training. We received £2.3 mill from Chelsea after selling our 20% sell on clause for Ethan Ampadu. We now have £2.9 mill in the bank and £1.5 mill available for transfers which is massive Paul O'Neill is a Cliftonville Icon One of our goalkeeping coaches who I took with me from Cliftonville has completed in Continental Pro License and is now one of the best coaches in the world. He is an elite coach Goalscorers this month Rodel Richards: 6 Tommy Blair: 3 Matt Jay: 2 Archie Collins: 1 Moments of the month Nice skill by Rob Douglas 2022-08-07 23-33-42 (1) (1) (1).mp4 Richards is in the form of his life 2022-08-07 23-33-23 (1) (1) (1).mp4 Ronaldo-esque header from Richards 2022-08-07 23-33-42 (1) (1) (1).mp4 No stinker of the month this month.

If he's good enough for your first team then play him in your first team as soon as you are able to (when he is 16). While training is more important than game time before 18 years old, it doesnt mean than game time isnt important at all. Game time at an appropriate level for the player is still important so there is no point playing him in youth football if he is ready for your first team. Also dont overplay him during fixture congestion and make sure he gets rest, and if your coaches ever say he is jaded then give him a long rest. Make sure he gets as much training time as you can give him as thats where most of his development will come from for now. And make sure you tailor his training schedule to how you want him to develop. Also I would actually dont mentor him unless you already have leaders in your team who have better personalities and determination than him.

League One isn't a walk in the park: September 2025 0 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses in the league this month. We did get a win the EFL Trophy though, which I am desperate to win this season, courtesy of a last minute goal by Rob Douglas Our match against Crewe was another set piece disaster class as all 4 goals we conceded were from set pieces. I was also really disappointed to lose at home to our biggest rivals Plymouth which was a sell out crowd match. Most home mathes this season we get a crows of 5000 compared to 4500 last season in our 8700 capacity stadium (can be upgraded to 18k). Going forward I'll have to make sure I have set piece defending training in our training at least every 2 weeks. Before the Barnsley match I held a team meeting at the recommendation of my assistant Mark Holland, telling the team we can stop our bad form and it seemed to lift the spirits in the camp, following on from that we stopped our three match losing streak and got a draw against Barnsley which hopefully means we are going into better form. Facilities Our facilities are no longer good and I keep asking the board to improve our facilities and other parts of the club, but they reject all my requests due to a lack of finances. It's quite disappointed but I do understand our finances aren't fantastic. Loans Our three players on loan in League Two are doing well and progressing well so I'm happy with that. Goalscorers this month Rodel Richards: 2 Harvey Blair: 1 Rob Douglas: 1 Goal of the month Good team play for Harvey Blairs goal against Crewe 2022-08-06 11-35-01 (1) (1) (1).mp4 Stinker of the month Backup player Hartridge gets skinned as we concede in the 90thy minute against Derby 2022-08-06 11-35-41 (1) (1) (1).mp4

Really impressive goal, hes quickly become a favourite of mine. He terrorisea defences as hes always taking players on.

Thank you the update for the next month wont be quite as good though! But it's a long season so let's see

It said they underperformed under my management

First month in League One: August 2025 We finished the month in 1st place in the expected points table so lets end the season now using the expected points table In reality we finished the month in 4th place with 4 games played in the league (3W, 1L) and we got knocked out of the League Cup against Championship side Watford. We played well in our matches, controlling the games, but we are conceding too many shots and not having enough shots ourselves. We are very enjoyable to watch though and we play how I described we would in my previous update. One thing I didn't account for is that our team is quite small and weak (physically) now and that really showed this month as all the goals we conceded in the league were from set pieces. I will have to look out for this and possibly have us training defending set pieces more often. I was happy with Matt Jay and Tommy Blair this month. Blair got 2 goals and 1 assist and Jay got 3 goals and 1 assist. Other news: We sold 1834 season tickets this season, up from 1677 last season. Small progress but its progress. The board are delighted at how I've been integrating youth academy players into the first team since I joined. Goalscorers this Month 3 - Matt Jay 2 - Tommy Blair 1 - Harvey Blair 1 - Rodel Richards 1- Lewis Walker 1 - Sam Stubbs Goal of the Month Excellent lob from outside the box by Harvey Blair with an assist from Tommy Blair. They are building quite the partnership 2022-07-31 00-25-37 (1) (1) (1).mp4 Stinker of the Month Another set piece goal conceded 2022-07-31 00-32-54 (1) (1).mp4 Other news in the world of football Saka returned to the England team after not being in the squad for 5 years - and not being part of the World Cup winning squad in 2022

Ins and Outs: Summer 2025 It was a busy summer as we prepared ourselves for life in League One. The expectations from the board are to fight bravely against relegation, and the expectations for the team are for us to avoid relegation. We have a good squad with some League One quality players already and wit some additions I believe we can get a mid table finish. The club are delighted with how I've been developed and using our youth system players in the first team and they also added two qualities to our club vision: Play defensively solid football and play counter-attacking football. Our aim for the next 5 years is to remain in the league but let's see how that develops. Incomings We identified GK, CM and both wings as positions to strengthen with starting quality players. And at CB and LB we wanted to bring in depth. The goalkeeper position was a problem as although Tom Hadler had a good season in terms of match ratings and won our signing of the season, when you look at his stats they aren't impressive. As you can see in the image below Hadler didn't save us from more goals than expected, which can be interpreted as him not gaining us any points. We decided to spend £100k on Owen Evans from Gillingham who was one of the best performing goalkeepers in League Two last season based on those same metrics. In centre midfield we needed to upgrade the technical quality of the team to continue our possession and slow tempo style in League One. For this reason we bought in two players and loaned Regan Riley from Norwich again. The two players are Nick Thomas - bought on a free transfer from our arch rivals Plymouth and we had to pay £89k in compensation. He is a very technical and creative player with poor physical qualities. If he is played in the right system where we can mask his weaknesses he can be a very good player for us now and in the future Ger Devine - an absolutely quality player we bought in on loan from Middlesborough. He had an OK season on loan in the National League last season but I think he has the talent to step up to League One. At CB we bought in cover in the form of Santos who comes in on loan from Bolton who are struggling financially and just got relegated to Leaue Two. CB is our best position depth wise as we have four League One standard CBs We bought in Robbie Fraser who is a pacy attacking full back who can challenge Jack Sparkes. We reloaned both Harvey Blair and Rob Douglas from last season for our players in wide positions. Loans We loaned out a host of youngsters but the most important were Adilson Furtado (made 24 appearances last season), Josh Brimacombe-Ward (3 appeances), and Tychique Kouakou (on loan in National League last season), all to League Two clubs. Hopefully they play well and can be part of the squad for us next season. All three players came form our academy. Youth We have kept two young players with us this season that can get some game time. 17 year old Geslin Matondo is one of them, he made a couple of appearances last season and is a great prospect. Goalkeeper Sean Cromie is also staying with us as 3rd choice keeper after we couldn't find a loan for him. He is still a great prospect and is now 19 years old. Tactics Below is the tactic we will be going into the season with. We have a strong identity in terms of style of play. We aim to control possession with our three midfielders with outlets in Sparkes on the left hand side and Donacien who holds back but is always open at good angles for a safer pass. We then have Harvey Bair and Rodel Richards as inside forwards who make penetrating runs and dribble with the ball. We have the technical quality in mdifield to fund the runs from our attackers and Sparkes and also to keep the ball. Tommy Blair drops in to help out and he also finishes chances for us in the box. Outgoings We let go of a few bit-part players such as: Gary Woods - our previous backup goalkeeper joined West Ham as a backup in the Premier League Jack Caprice & Jermaine Hylton on loan Other news in the world of football Bukayo Saka transferred to PSG for £105 million Frankie De Jong transferred to Bayern Munich for £134 millikon Jude Bellingham transferred to Olympique Lyonnais for £103 million. No idea how they did this as they haven't won a trophy in 13 years and are playing in the Europa League Most of the best players in the world play for Bayern

Match storage space is limited to 300MB (a recent reduction compared to previous years) however the size limit should be much larger so that I can watch old matches (ideally there would be no limit). If I want to load games and have the storage on my PC and the speed of processor to load old matches I believe I should have the option for this, and I can accept that the loading times could be longer. Separately from the outside it seems that it shouldn't increase loading times if each match has a match file that could be loaded on demand instead of during the loading of a save game.

When you get your new youth intake the DoF recommends some players to sign and there is the option to tell the DoF to offer the players a contract. However there is no option to tell him to sign players he didn't recommend. We should have this option

Just like we can tell our DoF to enter transfer negotiations with a player, we should be able to tell our DoF/TD to offer a staff member a contract that isn't currently attached to our club

When playing for a semi pro club we should be able to tell our DoF whether to offer a player a Non-Contract or Part Time contract