theBlackPrince

Didn't think I would have a wonderkid.... Well this was a shock, but that makes me even more angry of the low-ball £5,000,000 offers from the vultures. I have him signed until 2033 with a 3 year extension so unless the chairman is an idiot, he will be staying for the long term! Jamie-Luke Forsdick 28f, let's see how your career progresses now you are in the top 10 Wonderkid's list 2031!

I'll be honest, the transfer window was a PAIN IN THE ARSE!! Several of my top players were a constant target of bids and not even close to anything I would consider, think less than £5,000,000 plus add-ons. This did un-settle the players and many were unhappy but with them all tied to long term deals and money in the bank still, we do not need to sell. This really impacted our performances in February as we lost 5 from 6 and we drop down to 11th, the chances of any play-off football are slim to non now. But that is ok, we wanted to avoid a battle at the bottom and help improve out players, both we will achieve. The hard part now is keeping the gang together after this season. As we can see, there are very few Lincolnshire born or Lincolnshire Academy players to pick from with the only two who would make an instant impact are way out of our range! We need either Grimsby or Scunthorpe to make some moves up the leagues and keep trying to buy Lincoln City players to see if they will improve their youth recruitment!

Not so far my friend on the moving up Thank you, the graphics I am still enjoying putting together and using to tell the story! Not even close to anything manager wise, not major trophies or anything and that many years away! Maybe in another 8 years we may have a decent trophy!

We have some international superstar coaches.....

I had to change the previous post, it wasn't the 3rd year in the Championship, it is the 4th! One of the best comeback games I have ever had came against Huddersfield, 0-2 down in the 80th minute to 3-2 winners by the end of the game, what a come-back!! We find ourselves performing above all expectations, October was perfect! We have worked hard to get the best coaches in and spend a good chunk of money not only on the upkeep of the youth academy but keeping the coaching standard up!

Thank you for checking in. It was going to be too easy if I didn't swerve the story and try something different with the youth focus! Last 2 seasons have been some of the toughest I have had in years which is refreshing!

Season 8 - 4th Season in the Championship A 4th season in the Championship and we hope for a season not fighting at the bottom. I don't think we can challenge for the top spots, but I think we can finish comfortably in the middle of the pack and look to continue to develop our younger players over the next few seasons. We still have the smallest ground in the Championship so making money will always be a worry and the big boys are coming in to unsettle our top players, so it will be playing unhappy players most weeks. Most are on long term deals so I am not too worried at this point!

End of Season 7 Break

Season 7 - End of Season Summary We survived, which was the only aim of the season! We never managed to leave the bottom half of the table, 1 week in 16th place and the rest of the time around 20th. But when the final game was done, we were not Lincoln, QPR or Stoke who are heading down to League One. Strangely our away form was better than the home form, but we did play half the season in Lincoln at the LNER stadium so not quite at home. It was probably the away form that actually kept us in the League compared to those around us. I am starting to feel like we have the players improving where this may be the last season of struggle in the Championship, but we will see if that is true or not. We would have been lost without the goals and assists from Nicholas Adamu LC24, who has proved a great signing from Lincoln City. The move to pay Matija Sarkic a high wage for a club of our size has paid off the keeper is in his prime and is helping develop the keepers of the future. We may now start to see players stepping up from the Under 21's and Under 18's as some of our players are at their potential and hopefully we are good enough next year to avoid that relegation battle.

Under 18 Premier Development League Success - Back to Back Winners The first team struggled may not last for many more seasons as the under 18 team has won the Under 18 Professional Development League for the second year running, defeating Millwall Under 18's in the final. 15 from 20 victories saw Boston United U18 take the North title before defeating Watford in the Semi-Final. What a performance from the youngsters who have performed above all expectations to win this again. With the youth teams starting to take shape, we will add a focus for them once we start the new season!

2030 Youth Intake

January to March 2030 Looking back, I feel like we made it hard for teams to come to The Jakemans Community Stadium since we moved back in at the end of January as it now sits at 11,481 capacity, and I'm pleased to say we managed to fill that in the last 4 home games. The games against Lincoln City and Soke at the end of March were key battles, losing to Lincoln was not an option when we sat in 21st place. That huge win pushed us above Swansea and West Brom. We had a chance at the end of March to beat Stoke to really put some space between us and the bottom 3 but they would gain the win to keep the pressure on, but we had a 5 point gap. 7 games to go, 5 points from safety but we face the teams in our last games. Sheffield United (Home) - 12th Bristol City (Home) - 14th Preston (Away) - 10th Watford (Away) - 18th West Brom (Home) - 20th Nottingham Forest (Away) - 1st Reading (Home) - 5th Lets just say we need to be safe and not needing a result on the last 2 games of the season as both look to be games we will not be able to get anything from. I can see us getting a maximum of 4-5 points here, lets hope that is enough!!

Fantastic season to get the League won with games in hand. Now to see what the team is made of in the Prem next season!

October to December 2029 Update This has been a real slog, ever win is a fight an the struggle to score goals is real. I genuinely feel that we could go down this season, especially seems our best two defenders are out of contract at the end of the season and wont sign a new deal. Just 2 points ahead of the bottom 3 and even with Sheffield United gaining a 12 point deduction for going into administration, we are going to need to go on a good run at some point. At least it looks like we finally have some Youth Academy players who are defenders in this intake as we are short across all 3 teams.

Tough end of the season losing to Lincoln of all teams And then to Win 10-0 in what should have won the title only for City to win 6-0, you could not make that up, WOW!!

August and September 2029 Update

Fantastic season so far and love the presentation, very clean and fresh!!

Season 7 - Championship 3rd Season We managed to survive last season with our youth only + Lincolnshire born/youth system we implemented at the start of season 6. After 5 season of winning at will, the challenge became real with struggling with form and getting results. I have a feeling, with the lack of players we can buy, that this season will probably be a struggle once more! We managed one loan signing of Yannick Nganza 26c, who had made a £12,500,000 move to Leeds and Ayden Hopewell B24d moved back the other way in a £5,750,000 deal from Leeds to us. We were due 50% of his next sell on, so we got half of that money back for a total spend of around £2,875,000. He does not seem to have developed as much as Leeds wanted when they parted with £10,250,000 only a few years ago. We are predicted to finish bottom once more so once again, we are going to have to work hard to get results and avoid the drop. Hopefully we start to see some real development of the players with the gametime this year which will help us over the next few years to be able to challenge for Premier League Football maybe for our 10th season. We will also spend our second season in Lincoln at the LNER stadium as the board granted 2 more upgrades to The Jakemans Community Stadium, due to be completed by end of January 2030 and raise our capacity to 11,481. I think the stadium can go to 15,000ish before we need a new stadium so this might be needed in the next few seasons. Planned Youth and Training facilities upgrades are also happening to keep us moving forward!

End of Season Break

End of Season 6 Review - Championship - 16th Position We survived!! I thought for a while we would really struggle to stay up, but Sheffield Wednesday got a 12 point deduction for going into administration and Cardiff and Millwall just struggled all season long. The team started to come together and we were able to play the youth players pretty consistently in the final 5 matches, with the last 2 securing 2 victories! We have plenty to work on for next year and hopefully we can look to move into the top half. There are not too many players for us to go after so most of the squad will be the same with a few players we may need to bring up from the youth teams.