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December 2037 A strong end to the month, and we're slowly pulling away from the relegation zone.

November 2037 A rare unbeaten month for us, and we've jumped up to 7th!

October 2037 The struggles continue, with our only win coming in the cup. But I'm not too concerned with the way we're playing, we're certainly scoring enough, just need to keep the goals out.

September 2037 A tough start to the month, but we've turned things around somewhat at the end.

2037 Summer Transfer Window With the promotion, I was expecting we'd be attracting a higher calibre of players as we offered them trials. I was right (I think), as we now have 8 new first XI players. Will they be enough to help us survive? I sure hope so. Released by League One Oxford, the fact that we were able to sign Sawyer-Rogers already proves we're able to attract better players. Hill wasn't a product of the trial farm, but my scouts alerted me to the Guiseley, Brentford and eventual Dulwich Hamlet player and we promptly signed him for too much money, but we can afford him for now. We picked up Louis from Bath City in the National League South. Oikonomou came through Salford's academy but National League North side Redditch United had him last. Another find from the scouting department, Luiz Felipe left Norwich to play in the Cymru North, before making the jump to the top division with us. Our second Oxford United reject. Would you believe it, a third Oxford academy product Our final first team member, Bromley of League Two released him. We've gotten off to a great start, defying expectations, but there already seems to be a gap forming between the top 5 and the rest.

Spoiler alert, we did it... Turns out that first win likely would've been enough, there needed to be a 12 goal turnaround in that last game to lose top spot But we're back into the top tier of Wales, and with a wage budget increase of 6x our current one! Best XI Rae Giverin - Chris O'Hanlon - Oliver Milligan Progress

March 2037 There's two games to go, and we're fresh off a win over the team we replaced at the top of the table. Can we hold on? We have 11th and 13th as our final games, but we've bottled things from similar positions over the last two seasons, so I'm betting on a third bottle job

February 2037 Unceremoniously dumped out of the Welsh Cup, and the loss to Swansea hurts as the top of the table begins to consolidate.

January 2037 We start the new year off excellently, and we go joint top!

December 2036 We lose our final game of 2036, and we're a result away from being in 7th or 2nd.

November 2036 A comeback win over the team in 1st, have we finally shaken off the cobwebs?

October 2036 We win 3 from 3, but against teams we should be beating. But it's helping the atmosphere so we'll see what happens when we start playing teams above us.

It doesn't look like I have the option to offer PT contracts But I do offer a competing contract most of the time, and you're right, they choose to stay.

September 2036 Have we reached a turning point? I'm sceptical, but our form has definitely improved.

2036 Summer Transfer Window I did the tried and tested "offer everyone who has just been released a trial and see who agrees" strategy, offering trials to everyone from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in every available division. After culling everyone who wasn't between the ages of 20 and 22, that left 180 odd players. 31 accepted trials with me, and 5 made the cut to join the first team. Ignore the last 3 players, they came in through the youth intake in my first season and I signed them ages ago because their trials expired. They were released immediately Fenlon (CB) came from the Welsh Premier League, after coming through the Wigan academy; Giverin (LB) came to us after National League Halifax released him; O'Hanlon (RW) came from the Northern Irish 2nd division; Milligan (CAM) came through the Derry City academy but we picked him up after top division Northern Irish side Ballymena United released him; and Russell (LW) came through Carlisle, but Kidderminster were the last club to release him. Despite our influx of star-studded talent (for this level anyway), we've gotten off to an awful start. But we've been incredibly unlucky. There's plenty of time to turn this around, we're playing well enough to do that. I'll just continue to gaslight myself

.... I have no words. If we won those two games, games we probably should've won, we go up. But we go again next season. Gerwyn Clarke - Mark Hill - Dafydd Jones Progress

March 2036 Our unbeaten run comes to a halt against Barry, but they've given us several opportunities to gain advantage on them, we just haven't taken them. We have another opportunity here, but it's away against Swansea Uni.

February 2036 Our unbeaten run continues, as we start to put the pressure on Barry heading into the most important stretch of the season.

January 2036 Transfers (Out) We lose three starters between transfer windows - a DM, a CB and LB. Transfers (In) Even though everyone was going to be a starter when they came in, others pushed them out as we found upgrades or replacements. The immediate starters are Duffy (LB), Furnell (DM), D.Jones (AM), McCashin (LW) and Reece (ST), had Reece not become ineligible because he's played for too many clubs, but that's on me. The new additions have made an immediate impact, including in the narrow loss against the best team in Wales in the League Cup final!

December 2035 I completely glossed over the fact that we're the League Cup final, where we play The New Saints in what should be the first of many clashes during my time here. We're also out of the remaining cups, but went undefeated in the league, rising to 2nd where the gap to Barry isn't changing. We've secured 4 new additions for the January transfer window, with the potential for more. We'll see how things go.

November 2035 We love a penalty win, that's 3 from 3 so far this season But we navigate a tough month to edge slightly closer to that coveted promotion spot.

October 2035 We lose both our league games, but at least we progress in all the cups I guess?

September 2035 A very disappointing performance against Abercarn, but we only would've made up 1 position had we won that.

2035 Summer Transfer Window Trialled a bunch of players, and 5 made the cut and were brought in. Are they any good? Not really, but better than what we have right now. We've had a weird, but mostly positive start. After the first 7 games we're only a point off the top.

A strong finish to the season, and I'm looking forward to seeing who I can add to the team for next season. Best XI Gerwyn Clarke - Thomas Hughes - Cian Roberts Progress