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Season 17 Yea can't have only one team in the prem still, so I smashed out a new season in the championship with our new possession based style to keep things marginally interesting, though I have no doubt which way it will go still. Also made a proper cup final and got the new stadium plans announced after two years, with another 3 year to build ffs.
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Season 16 A step too far, we were too naive in thinking our attacking direct tactics would be enough to keep us up in our first season. now we have a lot of players on cheap relegation clauses, including a 21 year old 4 and a half star CB we have just sold for 20m whose value at his new club was 80-100m . Relegation sucks
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Season 14 Settled into the championship nicely, thought we might squeak into the playoffs but I don't mind building up for another season. I only sign players found by my scouts as I think using the player search function is boring, might take 10 more seasons to win the premier league even if we get up there Also it's taken over 13 seasons and 11 promotions to finally get a paid contract.
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Season 12 I've always found league one to be about the same level as league two, so it's not a massive surprise we end up with another promotion. Heading into the last day we were joint second on GD a point off the title, luckily a big last day win earned us the title. We also got close on possibly our last appearance in the Bristol street motors trophy. Our finances are pretty steady and I don't see them being an issue now, spent another 700k on training ground improvements and it's still only on below average, must take a fortune to get to decent training facilities. One thing is for sure, the championship is gonna be real tricky, I will be happy with survival next season for sure.
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Season 10 Proud of my boys, bottom of the table after nearly 10 games with a wage budget of a third of any other team and still a few players on non contracts. Went on a great run and briefly got into the automatic promotion spots before losing out on the playoffs on the final day. Not a bad start to life in the football leagues. We also made a bunch of money with the tv rights and solidarity payments coming it at around 3 quarters of a million, promptly investing over 300k in training and youth facilities. We also smashed our average league attendance record getting 1500 fans in every week. Our FFP was increased to a more reasonable 20k a week which is higher than our 15k wage budget. May be another year of stabilisation in the football leagues this coming season but we do have some young talents locked into long contracts which is nice.
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Season 9 For the first season in the save the board were not expecting automatic promotion but a more sensible mid table finish, after a shaky start we did end up going on an insane run including 27 unbeaten to narrowly clinch the title and make it up to the actual football leagues ! We subsequently went professional and had to move to a bigger ground. Our new home is the Mornflake stadium, which just so happens to be Crewe Alexandra's ground, as they are also in league two they decided we may as well share with us, which is a little surprising. Our wage budget is increased nearly double to 15k but here's the kicker, we are now subject to FPP rules which means we can only spend 50% of our turnover, so our actual wage budget isn't 15K at all but a mere 8K. This see's us severely low on players, just 15, heading into our first league two match. To top it off we also had a transfer embargo for 3 months as Andrew Black finally decided to cash in on our success, we are now owned by the fans. Tough season ahead but let me give you a sneak preview, our first home game of the season see's a massive increase in attendance, 2500 fans with 1000 of them being ours. We also played our first Carabao cup match of the season, away to none other than West Ham in just our second match of the season, which netted us a quarter of a million, just need FPP to catch up so we can sign more players.
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Season 7 May be a season behind now but I was able to put things right and take down the league title, off to the big time, the normal playable FM leagues. As per national north rules we have had to leave the Wood Park Stadium for the 7000 capacity Barton Stadium. Salary budget has not been increased by a big amount and will likely struggle to take the title next season.
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Season 6 Well, for the first time this save we did not win the league, just couldn't best Nantwich who had a blinder of a season. To make matters worse the promotion slipped through our fingers on penalties, despite twice having a penalty to win the shoutout. Maybe too much care given to keeping our finances in shape meant we struggled with a squad on low on depth. Nearly complete rebuild incoming with possibly a change to the way we have played in the first 6 seasons.
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Season 4 Sold one of our few contracted players for 90k before the season got underway to secure our poor finances, was appreciated considering our FA cup prelim elimination. Then we kinda just won nearly every game of the season, taking the league title and two cups, in the end thanks to the FA Vase win (our first trip to Wembley) we would have just about broken even on our finances.
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We always knew people would cheese it to 'win' the competition :). I'm just doing it as a fun challenge and I'm only really interested in the fellow challenge enjoyers in this thread. Hope most of us keep up with it, my season 4 update may be coming tomorrow, running a bit faster after being able to drop the bottom couple of leagues lol.