[The FM22 Youth Academy Challenge]

After only 12 points in 34 league games we finally get the message. 

Better late than never!

I might  try this again with (hopefully)  an easier team to start.

[The FM22 Youth Academy Challenge]

Mid-Season Update - Tamworth - Season 2022/23

 

I thought I'd post a mid-season update since I'm somehow still going with this disaster save.

Starting Manager Profile ( forgot to post) 

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Results (1st Half of the Season)

So

I said we were dire after the first few games, and that definitely held true. I tried experimenting a little to turn things around, but it seemed we were very limited in what formations we could. We had just 2 defenders on the books when we started (technically 3, but the 3rd was out of contract when we joined and refused to re-sign), and very few options on who could be retrained to fill the other spots. We had to use a few MCs, which in turn limited our options in midfield.

We went on an insane run of defeats through the first half of the season. Honestly, this has to go down as the worst start to a career i've ever had in 25 or so years of FM/CM. I was very much going through the motions at a certain point just playing until I got sacked when I started to get the dread media speculations a few games in a row, but the board weren't pulling the trigger yet.

I decide to finally listen to my assistant on a new formation for the FA Trophy second round. I switched from my 4-4-2 to a Wide 4-2-3-1, and wouldn't you know it, it paid off! It turns out playing more possessional football and less direct football helped increase our chances, reduce our opponents chances, and seemed to do our crap defensive line some favours. And so we picked up our first win of the season, and went on to 4 straight wins. Could this be the turnaround?

Ehh... maybe not, because as you can see I'm back to losing ways, while still being so far behind in the league table. It hasn't helped that we've had a fair few suspensions/injuries to our defensive options the last few games, but that's football.

Mid-Season League Table

That brief glimmer of hope has probably only bought me some time with the board. It still seems very unlikely we can turn this season around, but we'll keep going.

Youth Intake Preview:

We did get our first Youth Intake Preview, and I'd be pretty happy with this. This intake should help fill out most of the areas in the squad we lack depth (Defence and CM i'm looking at you) and hopefully there will be some quality there to improve the starting XI. Unfortunately we've got to survive relegation first.

We keep going.

 

[The FM22 Youth Academy Challenge]

I figured I'd have a go at this challenge. I've been doing the dafuge challenge for years, how hard could this challenge be, right??

So went with Tamworth.

Unfortunately, after half a dozen games (Edit: 4 actually, but who's counting) we haven't managed a single point. We are DIRE.

I'm blaming it on starting the season with only 2 defenders (both pretty bad) and poor CMs, feels like I don't have much to work with and I think this save's dead on arrival. I'll keep going and post an update at the end of the season or when sacked/relegated but I don't hold much hope for this one.