Career Rise of the Dragons

[Real_Random]

Fantastic job Taff. Can't wait to see Wrexham in the Premier league. Also are Cardiff and Swansea in the premier league. If they are you have just set a new record for most Welsh teams in the premier league.

[Taff]

5 hours ago, Real_Random said:

Fantastic job Taff. Can't wait to see Wrexham in the Premier league. Also are Cardiff and Swansea in the premier league. If they are you have just set a new record for most Welsh teams in the premier league.

Yeah they are Swansea have managed to remain and Cardiff were promoted last season and stayed up so now there are three Welsh Premiership clubs "Rise of the Dragons"

[Real_Random]

Wow what a stroke of luck. Now it is truly the rise of the dragons.

[Taff]

7 minutes ago, Real_Random said:

Wow what a stroke of luck. Now it is truly the rise of the dragons.

Just need the Wales job now but Coleman is doing very well getting them Qualified for the last 2 Euro's and the last World Cup so no sign of that job anytime soon

[Taff]

Rise of the Dragons

Season 5

So Wrexham in the Premiership, can't believe we've made it to the big leagues but can we stay here

Firstly I finally got the message I've been waiting for from the board

So I thought I'll be cheeky and ask to improve both the Training facilities and the ground capacity but will they grant me both

Yes they did (still only got 19000 capacity but its better)

This season also showed how far I've come as a manger as I had a few job offers this year

Plus another 6 throughout the season (almost killed me to turn down the Athletic job) but I'm staying true to my boys

Now onto the teams first season in the top flight

Transfers

So we had a good budget to work with this year (£5M) but with a little creative book keeping i manged to alter the wage budget to give myself £10M to play with, so the first thing I did was bring in the guy who helped us achieve promotion from the Championship Julien Ngoy from Stoke, then Jaime Farrer who is a good young RB who I've been chasing for the last two seasons, manages to grab da Silva (LB) on a free then Bowen (TM), Navarro (LW) and Da Silva (CD) on loan, although only Navarro saw the season out due to budget restrictions and Injuries

The only player i could sell this year was Jeffery (who spent more time injured than fit), the rest were unwanted players from the previous season

League

Now onto our league campaign and after a up and down first half of the season ranging between 16th and 10th we come together and make a good strong comeback in the second half of the season and manage to finish.....

In a very respectable 4th place, @AndersJ you called it Wrexham are heading to Europe next season we also end the season as the only remaining Welsh team with both Cardiff and Swansea relegated to the Championship

Cups

Again no cup news to report really crashed out to Arsenal in the fourth round of the Capital one Cup

and lost on penalties to Stoke in the FA Cup 5th round replay

Fixtures

Here's our fixture list and as you can see we were up and down for the first half of the season but then started getting the results and went on a good run, beating Man U, Man City, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea

Here's two of my favourite results from the season

Not bad for the little Welsh boys

Player Stats

Here's how the team got on this year

Ngoy proving his worth topping both tables with 31 goals and 11 assists

Season Awards

We also have a few awards with Ngoy claiming the 2nd spot in the POTY and I grab my 4th consecutive MOTY award

So onto a new season and the promise of European football gives us another boost for our little club

Thanks for following and stay tuned

[Muzza2108]

Great stuff mate! No better feeling than taking a team from nowhere right to the top, keep up the good work ?

[Taff]

2 minutes ago, Muzza2108 said:

Great stuff mate! No better feeling than taking a team from nowhere right to the top, keep up the good work ?

Cheers dude, see if we can do any better next season

[AndersJ]

Taff massive respect - thats an awesome result !!!!

still with your 442 :)?

[Real_Random]

Nice job mate. Have you found when being promoted from the championship to the premier league it seems easy to stay up.I have led AFC Wimbledon and Bradford City to the premier league and have led them to Europe both times. Great transfers too. Also I noticed that both Cardiff and Swansea got relegated which means that you are now the only welsh team in the premier league.

[Taff]

2 hours ago, AndersJ said:

Taff massive respect - thats an awesome result !!!!

still with your 442 :)?

Yeah been switching to the 4231 now and again but mostly the 442

2 hours ago, Real_Random said:

Nice job mate. Have you found when being promoted from the championship to the premier league it seems easy to stay up.I have led AFC Wimbledon and Bradford City to the premier league and have led them to Europe both times. Great transfers too. Also I noticed that both Cardiff and Swansea got relegated which means that you are now the only welsh team in the premier league.

It wasn't looking good the first half of the season but when they got on form they rocked it, plus we're now the highest ranked Welsh team so rock on

[Taff]

Rise of the Dragons

Season 6

So a very good first season in the Premiership last year, can we improve and how will our first season in Europe go? (bare with me again as there are a lot of images to go into this post)

Transfers

OK bare with me guys this gets a bit much but it will become clear

So my main aim this year was to improve my GK and my defence so with that in mind I planned to spend all my transfer budget in these areas

We bring in Dragowski  as my new starting GK after parting with £7M but he's a very good young GK and I know comes highly recommended on the site, then I chose to grab a new CD as my starters apart from  were getting a bit long in the tooth so I grabbed Horn for a relatively small fee, then grab Jose Jesus (LB) and Joao Fernandes (R/LB) on free transfers and also Lestienne on a free transfer to help out at the LW position.  Then come the January window I do a 180 on Horn as he's a decent CD but his stamina is shocking and he and can't last a full game so I place both on the transfer market but only get rid of Horn, I then use the money from Horn to bring in both Verschueren and Estrela for just over £1.5M combined (made sure there stamina was at least 15) and also Bird from West Ham (all three are new CD's with the added bonus of Bird and Vershueren being able to play in the midfield.  Da Silva and Vazquez were loanees which didn't last past the January Window.  

With Dragowski coming in this meant my other GK Martin wasn't playing and I got rid in January and also sold Horn (as per above) and White who was an unused RB who had no place thanks to my three new additions to the FB position, the rest were out of contract players again

So Like I said a busy transfer session this year

League

Now after a great season last year we wanted to see if a top 3 finish was possible this year, and after a great season where we were putting the smack down on the big boys (save a 0-3 loss to Chelsea) but seemed to struggle against the lower/mid table teams in some games.

But come the last day of the season here's how the table looked

We are sitting in 1st place with a two point gap over United going into the last game, where we would face Chelsea and United would play Southampton, so we could afford to lose as long as Southampton could hold United to a draw.

So could things go our way

Thanks to a 93rd minute winner from Ngoy we don't need to worry about the other result (but just in case your interested) 

Southampton stuff United anyway, so the end of season table looked like this

Wrexham win with a 5 point gap and having scored more goals than any other team (although we did conceded a fair few) and WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!! what a season and what a feeling

Cups

So after we win the league but could we also add a trophy to the cabinet

Yes we can a 2-0 win over City seals the win and we claim the Capital one cup

As for the FA Cup we lost out in the 5th round to Blackburn

Europe

How about our first season into Europe, well we start in the Champions Cup qualifying round against AS Monaco, so a big ask straight off the bat.

Not bad we hold onto a 1-1 draw in the home leg but have to raise our game in the away leg

Well I call that a raise in performance (7-4 agg score) and we go through to the group stage

Oh crap Dortmund and R. Madrid in the group (What have I done lord to offend thee) but.......

Wrexham top the group after drawing our first game 2-2 with Dortmund we then go on win the remaining games beating Dortmund 3-1, Young Boys 3-1 and 4-1 and even beat Madrid 1-0 and 3-2 so we move on to the Knockout round where our first opponents are Olympique Lyon

We Sneak past Lyon after a 2-1 win in the first leg, so onto the Quarter final where we come face to face with Real Madrid yet again

Both teams win the home legs 1-0 and after a scoreless ET we go to Penalties (where I thought our journey would end) but we somehow overcome Real and go through to the Semi Finals to face Juventus

What a first leg all my big guns getting in on the action

a loss in the second leg but we sneak past 6-5 on agg and we head to the Champions cup Final to face Atletico

And the dream ends with a 1 goal loss, but I couldn't be more proud of how the boys fared in their first European outing.

Fixtures

Here's our season fixture list and look for some of our games against the big boys

some great results here and some annoying losses to the smaller clubs (I mean were small but still)

Here's two of my favourites

Smashed Leicester

and give United a drubbing too

Player Stats

Here's our team stats

A great showing from Ngoy and York combining for 76 goals and 36 assists also pleased with my young striker Anderson who did well when called off the bench this season

Season Awards

And finally some end of season awards where suprise suprise Ngoy and York claim 1st and 2nd in the POTY and Anderson grabs the YPOTY while I help myself to another MOTY 

So a Fantastic season for Wrexham League and Capital One Cup winners and Champions Cup Finalists 

Now onto another season and hopefully some more to add to the Trophy cabinet

Thanks for following and stay tuned (I'm taking a short break to get some work done on my SAF and 1K challenges which have been left unloved for a while)

Edited August 9, 2016 by Taff

[Xxandx]

You're doing really awsome mate? This makes some fantastic read! 

[Taff]

25 minutes ago, Xxandx said:

You're doing really awsome mate? This makes some fantastic read! 

Cheers dude I know there was a lot to take in on that last season

[AndersJ]

Greatness! Congrats mate!!!

[Xxandx]

It's all just positive stuff to me. You really inspire! Now I've started looking around all of Europa's lower leagues for a fun challange. There are teams and players I never even heard of...?

[Muzza2108]

You beauty ??

[Real_Random]

Fantastic Job Taff. You have been making history with Wrexham. It is great seeing a welsh team win the premier league and play in the champions league KIU

[Mikee1984]

Wow @Taff you've really excelled yourself this time, I've only been away a few days and your already prem champs you certainly don't mess about.. Well done mate

[Taff]

7 hours ago, Real_Random said:

Fantastic Job Taff. You have been making history with Wrexham. It is great seeing a welsh team win the premier league and play in the champions league KIU

 

7 hours ago, Mikee1984 said:

Wow @Taff you've really excelled yourself this time, I've only been away a few days and your already prem champs you certainly don't mess about.. Well done mate

Thanks guys the comments are much appreciated and I've really enjoyed this little story and hope I can get more silverwear under my belt before its all done.  Still waiting for the Wales job to come up

[Harish]

Way to go mate!!,just caught up with the story and if you don't can I suggest building an all welsh team,makes the career much more interesting.

[Taff]

Rise of the Dragons

Season 7

Another season and another chance for the mighty Wrexham to claim some more titles and silverware

Transfers

So we looked at strength across the board this season and made some excellent free signings in Filip Kostic and Gareth Bale, then Andrew Bowden (who has been on loan here before and can play anywhere across the middle of left side of the park) and Pepe and Mendy to give the defence some more solid backbone

Going out were Leahy (crap stamina) Hudson and Smith due to age then just older or unwanted players 

League

So after winning the league last year our board wanted to push for more honers and we didn't want to dissapoint

And Wrexham are the EPL champions for the second year running loosing only 4 games and scoring near 100 goals on the way

Cups

We didn't do very well at all in the cups this year

Started off well beating City on Penalties after a 2-2 draw

Then we went out 3-2 to Chelsea in the Q. Final of the Capital One cup

lost on penalties to Arsenal in the Semi Final of the FA cup

and lost 4-3 on agg to Bayern in the Champions Cup semi final

Fixtures

Here's our full season fixture list

As you can see had a few bad bouts loosing 3 on the bounce but we managed to win the league and reach the Semi Finals in both the FA and Champions Cups so not a bad season all in all

Player Stats

Must say I grabbed Bale as a good backup for LW/IF or PCR position but man he delivered this year

40 goals and 10 assists not bad for a 32 year old free agent, my other strikers/IF's all struggled with form this year so might look at bringing in some solid players for those positions (If I get a decent transfer budget)

Player Awards

We manage to clean up at the season awards too.  With Bale claiming the POTY, my young TM Anderson claiming the YPOTY with Pepe in 2nd spot and I grab another MOTY

So on to another season, Wales are in the World cup finals so no sign of that job yet but will keep hoping they bugger up

Thanks for following and stay tuned Taking a little time away from the stories to help create a 433 tactic with the help of a few others so stay tuned

Edited August 16, 2016 by Taff

[Real_Random]

Another great season mate. KIU

[Taff]

Just now, Real_Random said:

Another great season mate. KIU

Cheers dude, little dissapointed with the cups but still a good result winning the league

[Taff]

That last update will be the LAST ONE for this save as I have just realised I saved over my Wrexham career by mistake, thanks for following guys and sorry to let you down

[Taff]

I might be able to retrieve it but will have to wait until tomorrow

[Xxandx]

I'm so sorry about that mate!

This is kinda my foult guys, as Taff was helping to create a tactic. I'm so sorry!

[Taff]

No worries might be able to retrieve an older save but might just leave it and start again another day

[Mikee1984]

Another great season mate, so sorry to hear you have lost your save as this was always a great read.

[Lav50]

Wow read it all at once,makes me want to bring my Portsmouth save to another level