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Who do you 'look out for'?
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Ireland St Pats
England Man Utd
Spain Sevilla
Germany VFL Bochum
Anti looking out for ie teams i check to see and hope they lost.
Ireland everyone else
EnglandLeeds QPR Liverpool
Spain Barca Madrid Betis
Germany Frankfurt
Denmark Odense
Scotland Celtic Dunfermline Hearts
Moldova Zimbru
Bratislava Slovan Bratislava
France Bordeuax
Belgium KAA Gent
Im a very bitter person
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Spain : Real Madrid... probably because I always loved to watch Ronaldo,Figo,Zidane and really admired when they destroyed United in the Champs League with that Ronaldo hat trick. Also like to see them win the league due to that freaky pattern emerging so United win also
Ireland: Finn Harps.. local team0 -
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Archimedes wrote: »Does anybody else here develop strong likings for a club they do very well with in Football Manager?
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Archimedes wrote: »Does anybody else here develop strong likings for a club they do very well with in Football Manager?
Haha, actually, I do keep an eye out for Carlisle, they gave me a chance after forrest gave me the boot in my 3rd season in charge, we were bottom of the Premiership after two successive promotions, I wasn't allowed to strenghten the squad as much as was needed, the fans were supportive of my plight and understood that even though Agogo and Tyson were great pros they were not premierhsip players and that only Commons was good enough for a premierhsip squad.
I gave the board an ultimatum, more funds or I go.
They terminated my contract with immediate effect, I called thier bluff and it back fired, I couldn;t get a sniff of even a championship club but when I heard Carlisle were in search of a new manager I dropped my C.V. around personally, more in hope than anything, I'd been unemployed for 5 months at this stage.
Then I got the call, Carlsile were 13th in league two and the Fans and Chairman expected the play offs atleast.
We got to 3rd, won the semi's 4-2 on aggreget and then took the Final with a sublime team effort banging in 4 goals and keeping a clean sheet.
We had a major squad overhaul that summer, I signed Leon Best, got Dong and Ishmal Miller on loan which really boosted out attack, then I drafted in an Ageing but still capable Mario Yepes, chelsea cast off Nuno Moaris and a loan signing of O'Hallaran from Villa ment our defence was now as good as any in the league!
My last long term loan was a master stroke, we persuaded a young lad from Arsenal called Denilson to come up north and give some creative flair to out team, and was a gutsy anchorman but had the ability to pass it about like a true number 4!
Free signings of Criag Rocastle, Milan's Serginho and the 130k capture of the much sought after Andy Robinson who's relationship with the swansea manager kenny jacket had broken down completely and we were good to go.
We started strongly, and untill october we were in 4th place, a dip in form untill christmas ment we were in 11th place when the transfer window reopened, the board, encouraged by the season so far and the deligheted that instead of propping up the table as the media had predicted we were in a position to (maybe!) make the play offs offered to make more funds available, and offer I was only too ready to accept!
We got the young Irish man Joe O’Cearuill for 30k, a great squad signing and backup for Yepes, added the pace of danny pugh to out right hand flank and we were good to go.
We finished the league in 2nd place, gaining automatic promotion by 1 point on the last day with a 3-1 win, the fans went crazy, the media speculated that I was proving that what I achived at forest was not a one off and given the right resources we could do it again, or would that be fairy tale stuff?
That summer we had a major over haul, I wanted to build a squad not only capable of winning promotion to the top tier of english football but I wanted to stay there, I'd learned from past mistakes at forrest, no more quick fixes, no more investing big wages in 33 or 34 year old players, we released yepes but kept Serginho as a scout, he was a great figure to have a round the club!
Out went Rocastle, Robinson, Holmes, Yepes and some more on the old guard. Dong, Miller, Denlison and O'Halleran returned to their clubs, bu there would alwasy be a place in the hearts of the fans for this brave young men who gave their all in our promotion push.
June rolled past and we found it hard to attract the players we wanted, a 32 year old Lee Trundle opted to stay with Shefield Wednesday rather than take the risk with the new boys, Mathew Kilgannon was not prepared to leave leeds for anybody but a premiership team and Paul McShane was happy to stay at westbrom.
It was looking like a mision.
Then the break through.
Fraizer Richardson(250k) from leeds was our first money signing on July 1st, that very same day the club unveiled 4 free signings, Former Barce Player Gerrard(not stevie, the spanish one) former Milan player Marco Donaldel, Former Inter man Alvaro Reccoba and Man City youngster Joe Harrt, there was hope yet!
The very next day we got Miller on loan for another year, the fans were delighted and, in honesty, so was the manager!
Then it happened, Manchester offered us Dong for 500k, this was a lot of money to the newply promoted club and would represent 20% of the total transfer budget, the the manager convinced the board to release the money and offer the player suitable wages, half an hour later dong on his was to the famous old ground to sign a 3 year contract.
This was exactly what the team needed, dare they dream that a 3rd automatic promotion was possible?
Noel hunt and Mark Kerr arrived from scotland for a total of 700k the nest week.
By the start of the league we had added celtics Darren O'Dea(200k), former Man UTD player Quinton Fortune(free), Calum Davenport(500k), James Collins (loan Westham), Ian Harte (250k), Gary Breen (free) Jimmy Smith (100k Chelsea) was a great investment and the loan signings of Seb Larson from Arsenal and Liam Rossiner from Fulham rounded off a great transfer window for the club.
We won the championship that year with 2 games to go, scoring over 100 goals and conceding less than anyone else in the league.
We brought in a few temporary loan singings during the course of the season to cover injuries to key players and it was the managers ability to do this that really made the difference that year.
So here we were, in the premiership we had expanded the stadium by 12000 seats during the previous season, invested heavily in our training ground and youth system, both of which were on par with the best in the world, Kelly had managed to turn Carlisle into the club it has always had the potential to be, a real stronghold of football in the North, but he, the board and the fans all knew that this was now the biggest test yet.
The board released 16million pounds for the manager to sign whoever he deemed fit and even stated that for the right player they would release even more.
The allowed waged of upto 30k a week for players whom kelly would be key to survival.
Kelly wasted no time again respahing his team.
Ofcourse the loan signings were going.
Out went the ageing Ian Harte, Fortune and Breen, but the manager felt that he could get another year out of Gerrard and Reccoba and felt their experience could only be an asset to the squad.
Kelly started his assault on the transfer market.
Freddy Guiren arrived from holland for 1million
Billy Jones came from newcastle for 750k + 250k over 12 months.
An experienced Clinton Morrison was signed on a free from Everton
Paul Ifill added pace to the wings.
Chris Brunt's passing ability and setpiece delivery would be key to kellys plans.
Paolo Cannavarro for 3.5million was a great bit of business by kelly.
Josefe Hersi was next for 2million the livewire forward really exciting the fans.
Oliver Kapo was signed for free Seire A side Parma.
By the close of the window kelly had signed 14 players including 8 free transfers by it was without doubt the signing of Stephen Reid for 4million that helped the team most.
Carlisle steered clearn of relegation easily, finishing the season in 12th place and reaching the League Cup semi losing on penalties to blackburn rovers.
Kelly is looking forward to next season, the board have promised funds of 30-40 million and have told Kelly he can keep any money raised from sales.
Kelly says that with a core of Haart, Reid, Brunt, Cannavrro, Dong, Ifill and Hersi and signings in others areas he has the base to launch a challange for a european place through league qualification.
This might seem very ambitious for a manager of his age with whatis generally considered a small provincial club, but anyon who has met this young manager and listened to him talk of his dream for the club he was molded over the past 4 seasons has said that he has the ability to inspire his own belief in others.
Many are tipping Kelly to leave Carlisle soon but he says that he has a self appointed mission at Carlisle, the club whom four years ago he had no real connection to but he now says he loves considers his spiritual home.
He says this mission is champions league football and he claims that within the next 5-7 years they will not only be playing regular Champions League football but will have the ability to win the competition.
A bridge too far, maybe, but one can dream!
(c) Sean Kelly's over active brain and addiction to FM (this game is from FM2006 or whatever, old old game I started playing again last week, haha).0 -
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(c) Sean Kelly's over active brain and addiction to FM (this game is from FM2006 or whatever, old old game I started playing again last week, haha).
http://www.fmformation.net/writers-section/31344-st-pat-s-back-again.html
you need to post some articles there
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Gavin shels wrote: »Yup that's the reason I support Aldershot, I talk to one of their Ultras reguarly on MSN and I've grown to look at there scores every week. Plan on making a few trips over sometime in the near future. After my Leaving Cert in 2009 unfortunately will be the easiest I think.
Also there's a link, there club crest is a rising phoenix and our Ultra group Briogáid Deargs' logo is a rising phoenix
you might want to leave the Celtic shirt, tri colour and sinn fein tee-shirt at home though
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Fratton Fred wrote: »you might want to leave the Celtic shirt, tri colour and sinn fein tee-shirt at home though
I bring them everywhere though.:D
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[QUOTE=Bubs101;55944824ScotlandRangers, only due to my intense dislike of celtic fans such as Oh no you didnt[/QUOTE]
You and the rest of the anti-Celtic brigade should head of and sit amongst all your NBF's (New Best Friends) in the middle of the Rangers fans next Thursday for the season finale and see how you get on, bet yere all gutted that ye missed last Wednesday's match in Manchester.:rolleyes:
ONYD you should contact Ibrox and try and arrange some commission for all the new fans that you are recruiting for them 0 -
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