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November 2023
Fixtures
A poor month in the league.
We can't stop conceding!!
Finances
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October 2023
Fixtures
A great month, aside from the first 10 mins against Ballymena where we went 3-0 down & couldn't recover
Transfers (Future)
Another youngster with plenty of potential is joining us at the end of the season.
First signing from abroad as he joins us from the Welsh league system after being selected alongside our DM Bishop in the Eng U20 squad.
Finances
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September 2023
Fixtures
We've started to improve & still in both cups!
There's a big early gap separating the top & bottom halves of the table.
Finances
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August 2023
Expectations are low.
We've settled on a squad.
Only ONE loanee in the 1st XI & 3 in the XVIII.
A long way from two season ago where we were lucky to have one non-loanee in the squad.
Fixtures
Things haven't gone to plan.
We've lost all league games from a winning position.
We played the full string team in the cup for a confidence boost & demolished H&W.
Very excited about the progress being made by our CB summer signing Wallace.
But we're competing with teams that can splash £300k on a player :O
Finances
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July 2023
Transfers OUT
Up until now, we've not had any substantial offers for players (nothing more than £2-3k).
Today is a sad day. We've sold one of our main youth prospects.
Considering our finances, we had to accept & may benefit from any future sale.
Transfers In
The shock, BIG signing is GK Ciaran Quinn who improves our squad massively.
His wages are much higher than I anticipated spending, but I want to keep improving & improvements come at a cost.
We'll look to loan out our other new GK signing 2-metre Thompson from last month so he can continue developing.
We managed to land McGuffog (brilliant name!) our main transfer target from our feeder team Banbridge.
As a thank you, I sent a bunch of players on season-long loans to them.
League Prediction
Not bottom!!!
& we have been playing well in our friendlies so far.
Finances
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June 2023
Transfers In
This beast plays for our new feeder team, but currently isn't interested in talks as he has higher ambitions.
We're keeping an eye on him as he would be a perfect prospect at centre mid!
Matt Shevlin has done well for us the past two seasons & has joined permanently.
He was second string to the brilliant Waddell last campaign, but should feature as a starter again.
Our top earner last season was on £170p/w.
We've upped that to £300p/w for a much needed RWB.
& with Daly coming in who can cover either position, our right side is very strong!
2m tall Thompson will be between the sticks this season.
Let's just hope he never has to kick the ball.
Neil Marks joins as cover at cenre-mid after being solid on loan in our rise through the divisions.
Foy & Wallace join as prospects in defence too.
We're still looking to improve the squad & have released a few players in anticipation:
Finances
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May 2023
For the second time in two years we've "returned to the fans"
The new board have increased our transfer revenue percentage from 0% to 30%, but it seems that none of our fans know how maths works.
Once we've sold £2M worth of players, the percentage will DROP to 10%. Harsh.
We've waved goodbye to another set of loanees. Waddell at AMR will be sorely missed.
These guys, plus the rest of the squad helped me to win my first MotY accolade.
Finances
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April 2023
Fixtures
We ended our losing run, with Johnny Craig getting a debut winner!
He built on that and showed a really encouraging all round game, starting each of our final 5 fixtures.
We confirmed survival with the win against Portadown & kept pace to place 8th in our first season back in the big time
Our youth team did unbelievably to win the U18's league.
Finances
Helps us up to a positive bank balance!
& we've got some money to help improve the squad for next season too.
(We're currently at just over £3kp/w committed wage spend)
Affiliates
Banbridge are in the NI 3rd Division, where we started our journey with Distillery.
We'll be sending our top prospects on loan here next season to give them a chance to shine where it really matters.
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March 2023
Fixtures
A hard month to top off another end of season collapse.
We're on a run with only 1 win in 13.
And now only 6 points off relegation, with 5 games to play.
Finances
Youth Intake
I KNOW RIGHT?!
We've gotta take a look at his profile..
Oh, you didn't want to see the guy from East Timor?
But surely he's the player most likely to make it to International level..
Ugh, fine. I'll show you the 5* guy too
We've been blessed, but we're now up against the test of time for how long we can hold on to him for.
But thanks to the content in recent threads by some of the main guy's in this forum, I have begun to realise just how far wrong these reports/ratings can be. We'll be taking everyone from this youth intake on board & assessing their fit within the squad once we're in the off season.
Craig will feature in our final few games attempting to avoid relegation as we shift the focus from loanees to some of the academy players we've had come through in recent years.
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February 2023
Fixtures
A very poor month
We remain in 8th, but the points difference between us & relegation has shrunk.
8 games to go!
Finances
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January 2023
Er, no thanks guys.
Fixtures
A string of disappointing results this month.
Dollingstown in the cup was the worst loss.
A spirited loss in a game we were always chasing against top of the league Glenavon was a classic for the neutrals!
Finances
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Huge challenge!
I would think that the final rule you've got may not help your progress after a while. If eventually you've won a couple of top competitions like the EL or UCL, you're not gonna get offered a job by a team in Wales as you won't be a realistic appointment for them. Plus having the option to apply for jobs allows you to keep the save fresh and interesting for as long as possible & you're gonna need a while to complete this one
Good luck dude
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December 2022
GOLD!
Fixtures
A great set of results in a super condensed month.
Only slight disappointment was the Ballinamallard Utd result as we were 2-0 up & coasting.
We've knocked Dungannon off top spot for a 2nd time already this season!
Finances
In Other News
Some interesting transfers are starting to pop up
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November 2022
The Qatar WC has started!
Fixtures
A really poor month.
Ahead until the 70th min in the Coleraine game & another very late goal (94th min) cost us the win & revenge at Cliftonville.
Finances
Another marginally profitable month. Slowly getting closer to zero..
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October 2022
Fixtures
Some great results, but could've been better as we were 2-0 up against Dungannon who we helped knock off top of the league but couldn't hold out for the win.
We're into the semi-final of the Charity Shield and got £2k for participating in the McLean Cup Quarters, the furthest we've made it in that competition so far.Finances
A bit better this month, but still £21k in the red
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September 2022
Finances
Fixtures
94th minute winner in the 4-3 against Portadown to keep them below us in the league.
A spirited draw against a Larne side that spent £150k on transfers in the summer.
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August 2022
Finances
One month in & the financial situation is already precarious.
It will decrease to 0% when we reach £2 Million!? What!?
Transfers
After our first game & mid-contract offer from ourselves, Ray Thompson gathered a bunch of interest from the top NI clubs and we sadly lost him for free. He got 4 goals in 6 including last season & will be missed
His move to Linfield meant that our top scorer from last season (loaned from Linfield) became unsettled. We offered him a contract, but so did Glenavon and he moved their on deadline day, but there was still enough time for us to organise getting him on loan from his new club to replace Thompson. A transfer merry-go-round!
Fixtures
Late goals have been our crux.
93rd against Glentoran
94th against Ballymena Utd
& 88th against Portadown, although it didn't matter in the end as we held our nerve on pens to get through!0 -
Pre-season '22/23
So we're back in the big time, can we make it stick?
We're still no where near being considered being a top NI team & even have three 3rd Div teams more reputable than ourselves
The last time we won the league was 60 years ago (1963), but I'm happy the rise has been quicker than the decline.
I've put together a squad almost from scratch. This message scared me as I have made a habit of hoarding players switching players in/out when things need improving.
..but we're all good as U20's don't need to be registered.
And we only have 14 players over 20 in the Squad & Reserves.
We're as ready as we can be, but predicted to struggle still.
If we drop back down a league, there's a good chance our finances will take a huge hit, so although we're able to offer waaay more in wages I have chosen to be conservative and limit to £180p/w.
This will be our starting line up for our first Prem fixture, boasting 5 players from our academy. Average age? 19y 66d
The academy grads:
Rodney Brown we're retraining as a BPD. His decisions aren't amazing, but apart from that I think he can do a better job there than on the LWB position.
Our scout & coach reports suggest this guy is our best rated player, but I'm not buying it.
Let's go!
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3 hours ago, pheelf said:
Wow...what an incredible start to your career in N. Ireland.
Congrats
Given your newly acquired professional status I think you should continue with your strategy of loaning players which has been unbelievably successful so far. I think you'll be able to attract some good quality from across the Irish Sea without paying much wages which should make life a lot easier in the top flight. Good luck 🤞 although given your progress so far I doubt you will need it.
Best Regards
Thanks pal!
I think this season I'm going to start mixing things up. I'll still have a majority of loans, but will look to get some high potential youngsters some game time too to be able to start moving to becoming a force in the top division like your Knockbreda side (doubt I'll ever come close to your feat with Glentoran though!) We've got to ensure we don't get relegated this season first, though
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We've offered pro contracts to the following youth prospects from our academy.
We cannot change the semi-pro pre-contracts anyone under-17 has agreed to sign already, so will be making sure to secure new, new deals for any starlets on their 17th birthday's.
Squad
Quite a few gaps to fill
This will help!
It will be interesting to understand how our finances are impacted with the larger committed spend.
Doing okay now for now though..
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End of Season '21/22
Youth Intake
We've got some great prospects this year!
& already they're making an impact
Cups
We got knocked out after taking Glentoran to the wire.
Their winning goals both came in stoppage time as we pushed for a winner ourselves.
League
We capitulated.
But somehow, somehow, we have still been crowned champions!
After losing a 4th in a row to Newry I feared we'd drop into the playoffs, but we smashed Institute to beat the odds.
On the day we were crowned champions, we got some other amazing news too!
I got a new contract for £500p/w (up from £75!) for the next 2 years.
Our initial budgets for next season actually give us a chance to get our own players too!
It's going to be a busy summer.
Unfortunately, we are still under a transfer embargo due to the impending fans takeover.
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It seems news of our over-achievements have reached some of the Irish (not NI) league players.
We've secured a couple (more) loans that should help get us back on track!
& some solidarity at the back from NI Prem team Larne.
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Late Season '21/22
Potentially another few gems coming through
Financially, we're still just above water, floating on the promotion & cup winnings from the end of the first season.
If we were paying any players to play, no doubt we'd be a lot worse off!
The majority of the wage budget is spent on staff.
& a personal milestone
League
After 8 on the spin without conceding, we've not can't keep them out!
If we continue like this I'll be surprised if we make the playoffs.
Cups
We smashed past lower opposition, squeezed past 3rd in the prem Dungannon & have another tough ask against Glentoran.
We made it this far in the Tennent's Cup in the first season, can we go one better?
Tactics & Players
We've brought in last season top scorer (again) on loan as well as Chapman at DL (WBL) to cover for a few recalls.
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Awesome that this can continue so quickly after such a mad bug. Great work all round guys!!!
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(FM20) Building an Empire - Phase Three
in FM Career Updates
Posted
December 2023
GOLD! (again)
Fixtures
A huge month of fixtures, which we only got better in.
Sadly, we got knocked out at SF stage.
Transfers
Veteran CB that will provide cover when needed.
Finances