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DrSpike is offline DrSpike
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Hmmm.. I seriously need to start a game with a Conference side... though I need to lead Newcastle to Prem Championship.

Though, amusingly, I pulled a Liverpool a season or so ago, though with much worse table position. I was supposed to qualify for Europe, but the team sucked (I forget why, it was a while ago), though I finished 3rd last season and was the CL. In the Prem, we finished like 10th, but ended up winning the freaking CL, final game over Real Madrid, where we got dominated, but won the game 1-0.

Of course we're doing much better now (though I haven't played for a while) .

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the pre-season at crewe saw a lot of players leaving, including 3 of our 5 top earners, and a couple of players signing more reasonable contracts. with several new arrivals though, including two former bradford players, our wage bill was still over £35,000 a week.

the season started well with some very solid performances in the first month, lots of 1-0 and the occasional 2-0 win, we only conceded two goals in the first 8 games. however things have gone a bit downhill recently, we started letting in goals, and losing games, we went from the team who were second best for 89 minutes and nicked a goal to win, to being the team on top the whole game who concede a shitty goal and lose.

the problem though is not so much with our defence but with our strikers, our four first team strikers have managed just 12 goals between them all season (it's not november), which simply isn't good enough, we're actually creating plenty of chances in almost every game as well, which makes it all the more annoying. in an attempt to solve this problem i bought a striker for £200,000 who scored 8 in 12 for rushden and diamonds, including an absolute screamer against us the week before he moved, so far he has 0 in five for us i'm going to bring someone in on loan to try and sort this out, if that doesn't work, then after christmas the 16/17 year old kids are going to play up front, because frankly they can't be any worse than what we've got at the moment.

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I'm getting some success with loan deals, but having trouble getting a half-decent reserve (for a decent team, mind) striker to agree to a loan.
Looks like I'll have two yanks at the back, with Zak Whitbread from Liverpool, and Franklin Simek from Arsenal. Season-long loans.

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I've just got rid of Gavin Strachan: http://www.uglyfootballers.com/genp...p?DocumentID=73

Thank God.

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What's the easiest place to start? I reckon it would be somewhere in the middle, perhaps a mid-stream team in Championship League or one division down. The pressure seems to be the lowest there.

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Somewhere with potential i would think, like a big ground so you can afford highish wages for your league, but a lowish league, so you can steadily work your way up.

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Barnsley get huge crowds for home games, but I don't know what the transfer kitty is like. Have a look at them.

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bradford and sheffield wednesday are both massive clubs, sleeping giants in the true sense of the word. you won't have much money but if you want to build a team that can go on to dominate english football, you could do a lot worse.

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Thanks.

As luck might have it, I picked Sheffield Wednesday for my CM 2005 game. Good choice of club, bad choice of game.

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well if you got the latest patches(if there are any?), then it might be ok after all, atleast worth putting some time into it. you'll have to tell us how it goes And sorry for seeming to drag your shame through the sand - it wasn't personal.

More disgust at the situation that caused the CM name to be taken from the creators of such a great game(and i'm sure the name change has cost FM in sales) - sometimes it obvious how much suits+money dominate our passion, to its detriment

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You can tell that those pretty much dominate the industry now. Just witness the churning out of more and more soul-less sequels.

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W00t! I just beat 1st Division (Championship to those who only know English football from this game) Rotherham 1-0 in the first round of the league cup!
(Dr) Quinc(e)y Owusu Abeyie (on loan from Arsenal) scored the winner! I love the nickname facility.

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Rotherham finished rock-bottom of the Championship last season didnt they? (yes because i live there fortunately!)

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So what? They're still better than us!

3rd in the table. Lost the first game, and have won all the rest!

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Damn! Just got edged out 1-0 by Bannockburn Robers in the next round of the League Cup.
Friedel tipped one over with a minute left.
We'd have made a fortune from a televised game at Ewood Park.

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We'd have made a fortune from a televised game at Ewood Park.


ah! money problems
Still you sound like your doing pretty well

Lowly Newport Co(and their cheating chairman) have got 9 games into the conference season and are poised in second place with a game in hand.

Still i think i've been very lucky so far and the bigger teams have yet to be played, so it could all change......especially as i have three young key players that get picked for international duty when i often need them the most. I'm looking at a higher mid table finish this season, and promotion into Div2 the next.

Still i'm having problems already this season trying to strengthen my squad which will be key to my chances.

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I'm not having money troubles at all - I just wouldn't say no to a load more.
Just got £50k for qualifying for the FA Cup fourth round (fingers crossed for Man U away), and look favourites to win the LDV Vans trophy.

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Get lost.

I'm through to the FA Cup quarter finals now, and have a Championship (2nd division for any of you who have followed football for years ) team to play, whoever wins the replay.

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I forgot to save when I turned it off, assumed I had, and clicked no when it told me. Never mind, lost 2-0 to Tottenham in the FA quarters.
Mind you, I'm through to the LDV Vans Trophy final, and have already qualified for the play-offs at the end of March (I'm in first by 11 points with 2 games in hand, so the play-offs don't concern me too much at this stage, but it's all good. ).

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Woot! We've won promotion. On the 6th April, no less.

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nice one, KUTGW

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Yeah, but we're going to be massacred in the first division (Championship). I bet I can't get half the loan signings I could in Division 1.

Went for jobs with Lyon and Middlesbrough. They weren't interested.

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OK, here is the table I made a fuss about in the A/C forum. Still can't get the attach files to load though.

1. Hartlepool United W 29 D 16 L 1 F 72 A 24 Points 103
2. Sheff Wednesday W 27 D 11 L 8 F 76 A 43 Points 92
3. Swindon W24 D 13 L 9 F 75 A 32 Points 85
4. Tranmere Rovers W 21 D 17 L 8 F 64 A 40 Points 80
5. Hull City W 21 D 14 L 10 F 70 A 51 Points 78
6. Brentford W 19 D 13 L 14 F 78 A 57 Points 70

If anyone can be bothered to html this into a proper table then to them.

I won, easily!

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RankTeamWDL FAPoints
1Hartlepool United291617224103
2Sheff Wednesday27118764392
3Swindon24139753285
4Tranmere Rovers21178644080
5Hull City211410705178
6Brentford191314785770


I was bored

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Nice work!

Now, if you ever get really bored, you can work these into a proper line-up.

Provett
Quinn
Whitbread
Simek
Ross
Humphries
Lennon
Larsson
Rosenior
Abeyie
Boyd
(left-sided players always first, then centre, then right-sided)

Subs
Some Greek goalie with a really long name.
Clark
Istead
Cooke
Burchill

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Now i can read it properly - nice one

Is that Aaron Lennon from Spurs? Or the "other one"?

 
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