After so many, I believe I have found the one. Say hello to Hitchin Town F.C
Season 1 2024/25
Vanarama National League North - After looking at the profile of players, I realised for once we could actually play decent football for this level, a patient-passing play, call me Pep De-Zerbi. I was wrong, we could not score goals to save our lives. However, keeping 70% of the ball also meant we barely considered. Our right winger Arnold Matshazi scored bangers here and there and we scraped enough wins together to survive another year.
The FA Cup - Drew a team in our league in the 4th qualifying round and they made easy work for us. Too bad because Hitchin don't really have the fans to make money through tickets. It'll be a while before we make enough for any facility improvement. So hopefully we do better next year.
The FA Trophy - Double jeopardy as Spennymoor boped us 4-1 in our very first outing.
Squad - Our wingers were amazing but couldn't stay fit. One game Arnold scored four and assisted two, I have extended his contract by two more years. Our Aging CDM playmaker and Creative forward which the tactic were built around are now retiring. Although as luck we have it I think we got their exact replacements in our intake. One of our Centre backs I thought will be instantly replaced once we got an intake just kept improving and is now actually a decent player for this level. I'm happy with the team going into next season.
Youth Intake- Quite pleased as the best players were exactly the positions we needed.
Ben wallace is going to be our deep lying forward
And Jake Callow our CDM playmaker
Summary - Hopefully we make a cup run and make the playoffs so we can start seeing some money for facility improvement. But the current intake should develop nicely. P.S normally I wouldn't hire coaches, just me and the Ass Man to save costs, it has worked for me in the past with young players still developing through game time, however this year coaching and training are way more important than they they've ever been to player development. Once I hired a coach and got the training stars up, a lot of my younger players started seeing remarkable improvement.