Career Mcandrew003 Attempts The Uk Challenge

[mcandrew003]

Welcome all

If you don't know what this challenge is then check out @BatiGoal's thread

 

Anyway...

Our chosen team for the first part of this challenge is...

Yes, Cliftonville is the team we choose to start with, the same as another participant of this challenge @Taff, make sure to check that thread to.

Anyway, the player we choose to break the 27 goal deadlock is...........

Yes, potentially the best striker in the league, Danny Hughes will start our story. An absolutely fantastic Striker who won't let us down!!

Tactics

I thought it would be better to include this part first so it is understood what i used to do what I did.

Despite this, I was stupid and forgot to take screenshots of the tactic, so I will include it here in writing.

The formation I went with for this segment of the challenge was a 4-3-2-1, with each role being key.

Roles:

GK

FB

CD

CD

FB

BBM

AP

BWM

W

W

AF

I spent a while tinkering with this tactic, but found it does depend on Player performance more than it clicking after a while. What I mean is that if 2 or 3 of my players didn't perform in a game, we might have lost or Hughes wouldn't have scored, which we experienced later on in the match. 

The AP was an important position for our team. We signed Liam Agnew from The English Lower leagues and he worked wonders, and his role was key for us. Practically, he pressed higher than the other two midfielders and often won the ball back high up the pitch, which meant he played Hughes through on goal and he scored often from these positions. Agnew also was a extreme driving force in our creative play, securing a good number of assists. He would often send many key passes around the pitch, something shown in this match below

As you can see, Agnew sent NINE key passes, NINE! That may be the most I've had before, and it led to 2 Hughes goals on this match. Anywho, Our wingers were equally important, securing over 12 assists between them this season. In our Instructions, we played a Balanced mentality with a Direct passing style, which meant Hughes was sent straight through on Goal.

 

Trophies

Below is a list of our Succeses for the season, as you can see we won 5 of the domestic trophies for the season, something I think was a good achievement for us.

So overall a very successful season, but we haven't even seen the best part yet...

Super Danny Hughes.

An absolute superstar. Some call him the Nothern Irish Messi (in my imagination anyway) Hughesy, as I referred to him for most of the season, was in tremendous form all season round, and a large number of early braces and hat-tricks put us past the record with reasonable ease.

Danny Doubles!

So quite a few braces from the prolific Hughes, and this tactic really did give him a lot of chances to score, meaning that Danny Hughes grand total is........

48 GOALS (and 6 assists!) That may be the best total for a single player I've had in a while.The new tactic worked a charm and the players I brought in with the money given meant it was a perfect season! This means we comfortabely exceed the first stage of the challenge and can move onto the next stage over in Scotland!

Stats and Figures:

Goals:

Comfotable League campaign for Hughes, scoring 32 league goals!

Assists

As you can see 18 combined assists from our 2 Midfield players, meaning chances were galore!

Awards:

League

Hughes and Me picking up awards from the league campaign, leaving a fresh memory of Nothern Ireland in my head as we hit the road for Scotland !!

Trophys

A fair few!!

 

In conclusion...

We surpass the first step of the challenge, but another 3 await us! Can we conquer the UK?!

Thanks for reading and stay tuned!

 

[Taff]

Congrats dude 48 goals is a great total well done

Bring on Scotland

(which is proving much harder than I thought I must have applied for 6 jobs and got a total of 0 so far)

KIU

[mcandrew003]

Cheers mate, not doing to bad yourself!

Yeah Scotland is a tricky one, I'm now in late 2019 and still haven't been offered anything despite winning 5 trophies and a manager of the year! It's kind of annoying but you can only hope!

@Taff

Edited March 2, 2017 by mcandrew003

[Taff]

The really annoying thing is how many top EPL jobs have come up

City, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal Although I think if I can't land a job in Scotland no chance of taking over at City

[Oi Oi]

Wow Your doing amazing so far, thinking about attempting the Spanish one my self.

[mcandrew003]

@Oi Oi Cheers mate, all it is now is getting to Scotland!

I saw that one as well yesterday and I must say it looks hard, you've got my support if u try it!

also looking forward to your Manager thread!

[Oi Oi]

For scotland try get into celtic or rangers (2 big powers by season 2)

Thanks I hope my manager thread works and good luck with it!

[Taff]

1 minute ago, Oi Oi said:

For scotland try get into celtic or rangers (2 big powers by season 2)

Thanks I hope my manager thread works and good luck with it!

At this point I'd settle for any job

[mcandrew003]

Thanks for the support! @Oi Oi

[Oi Oi]

@Taff Ahaha definitely, doubt the jobs will be open either 

[mcandrew003]

I know what u mean, about 50 EPL jobs, 100 Welsh premier league ones and like 5 Scottish ones ! 

Are they not sacking their managers just cause they know I want the job 

@Taff

[Oi Oi]

The hardest part of these challanges is getting into a good team 

[Taff]

The issue is going to be not using regens at this point I'll waste the next 29 seasons waiting for a bloody job

[BatiGoal]

10 minutes ago, mcandrew003 said:

Cheers mate, not doing to bad yourself!

Yeah Scotland is a tricky one, I'm now in late 2019 and still haven't been offered anything despite winning 5 trophies and a manager of the year! It's kind of annoying but you can only hope!

@Taff

 

9 minutes ago, Taff said:

The really annoying thing is how many top EPL jobs have come up

City, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal Although I think if I can't land a job in Scotland no chance of taking over at City

That sucks. I don't remember it being that hard when I created this challenge 2 years ago. Apparently going from N.Ireland to Scotland isn't what it used to be. If it proves impossible for everyone I may need to re-write the rules. Hmm.

[Oi Oi]

@BatiGoal I think the job finding is the challenge, still a great challenge!

[mcandrew003]

I'll give it 2 more seasons and let u know how the job hunt is going, cause it is pretty hard! @BatiGoal

[Taff]

3 minutes ago, BatiGoal said:

 

That sucks. I don't remember it being that hard when I created this challenge 2 years ago. Apparently going from N.Ireland to Scotland isn't what it used to be. If it proves impossible for everyone I may need to re-write the rules. Hmm.

I'll let you know if I land a job, currently in Feb 2020 and nothing applied for 6-7 and got nowhere

[mcandrew003]

What is your Reputation like @Taff

i win 5 domestic trophies and manager of the year yet a local reputation !

[mcandrew003]

Hi guys, 

A new thread wil appear soon labeld 

mcandrew003 attempts UK challenge 2.0

this is because of issues with the challenge which have been fixed

thanks for the support

[mcandrew003]

Update 2

The UK Challenge

Welcome all to part 2 of the UK challenge, it will actually remain on this thread as it's easier.

After failing to land a job in Scotland, I returned to Nothern Ireland hoping to build my profile to a high enough standard. This season was more about experimenting for me instead of goal scoring, as I already had 48 goals locked in.

Team

 

Ards Fc

This team start the game in the Northern Irish top division, but I take over them as a newly promoted team with about 6 players!

The Striker

I chose a really rubbish lad this season as I had no other options, and the overall quality of the team was generally awful, so I really struggled to get goals with him!

Signed for about 5k, his stats rapidly decreased at the start of the season and he scored 2 goals in 15 games at one point. However, it got marginally better for us later on in the season.

Pretty much the same formation as last season, I did test a few more but this seemed to work the best for us. I went over it in a bit more detail in the last update, but I will still show you how it worked this year

My squad wasn't as good as the Cliftonville squad I built, so I had to make do with it, but Hawkins in the AP role did a similar job to Agnew did in the last update, but with slightly less affect. 

As you can see here, Jones was the primary creator and sent 7 key passes, which was impressive. McMenamin had 3 shots, but couldn't score. If that was Hughes, it's a hat-trick!

Another example we're passes were coming from all over the midfield and yet in 6 shots he couldn't bury 1!

McMenamin  Moments

Only 3 screenshots as he was fairly bad at finishing as you have probably gathered!

Competitions

We only managed to win 1 trophy this season, but as a newly promoted side I think that's ok! 

Delighted with this over my old club, Back up Striker getting 2 as McMenamin was suspended'

 

Would have liked to get further but penalties got us in the end!

Gutted with this one as we needed another trophy, but couldn't get there in the end.

 

League Campaign

The expectation was to battle bravely against relegation, but we stood strong and halfway through the season we were battling it out with Cliftonville for the title! However, our form dropped off and we eventually finished in 4th.

Top Scorers

McMenamin getting 16 in the league, which is more than I expected halfway through the season! If we look down the list, Hughes sits in 9th with just 10 goals!

Assists

7 assists from our winger Hughes and several more from other players throughout the season!

McMenamin total

18! Absoloutley terrible to be fair, and I am definately going for a new striker next season!

Manager Profile

Reputation is up to Regional! Hopefully this gets better next season and I can move on to Scotland!

Trophy Cabinet

A respectible return of trophies, and 2 manager of the year awards so far!

Stage 2

Sadly after simulating forward until August I still cannot land a job in Scotland, so I must succeed in Nothern Ireland this season or the challenge could be under threat of not being completed!

Complete Fixtures List

Thanks for reading and stay tuned for a part three!

Also, I do recommend this challenge to anybody looking for a goal scoring challenge, very fun and not easy!

Thanks and see you next time!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 4, 2017 by mcandrew003

[BatiGoal]

Pls make sure you don't simulate during regular seasons or those goals/records won't count for obvious reasons. Also, you don't get manager pts if you do so it's not great for your reputation.

Looks like N.Ireland is going to be your home for a while

[Oi Oi]

Ards are about to get relagated in my league, Good luck with them.

Edited March 4, 2017 by Oi Oi

[mcandrew003]

@BatiGoal

It wasn't in the season, i decided to just see after the season had ended, is that still alright?

Cheers for the support!

added 0 minutes later

Thanks pal @Oi Oi

[BatiGoal]

53 minutes ago, mcandrew003 said:

@BatiGoal

It wasn't in the season, i decided to just see after the season had ended, is that still alright?

Cheers for the support!

No probs, mate. Hope Scotland is around the corner.

[mcandrew003]

Cheers mate, just struggling with finding a tactic 

@BatiGoal

[mcandrew003]

Update 3

 

Hello all and welcome to update 3 of the UK Challenge, or my attempt at it anyway. So, this season I remained at Ards looking to build on my poor squad to try and find a prolific goal scorer and build my reputation up for a trip to Scotland! Lets begin then shall we...

The Striker

David McDaid

As you can see, a lot better than last seasons Striker, I had this lad at Cliftonville at the start of my attempt at this challenge. Cost us around 35k and now he returns for a second round. Some fantastic stats and hopefully he leads us to glory, but could he break the record?

The Tactic

After some experimenting with a few tactics I have found a new one that works absolute wonders! 

I found it was better to crowd the Striker than leave him isolated up front, so this formation gave him a lot of chances. In Midfield, with the DLP just sitting with the BWM, it gave my BBM the license to attack, which added another body to attacks and eventually caused goals. I switched to this tactic after around 7 games and at that point McDaid had 2 goals, but did he improve?

Tactical Domination

This is a great example of my tactic. As you can see, my BBM sending 8 key passes through and getting 4 Assists, as well as McDaid getting 3 goals and having 7 shots. McDaid was very clinical, we just needed the right system to suit him.

Competitions

Really dissapointing in competitions terms this year, none won, and we lost to some really poor opposition, and this has made it tough to get to Scotland. 

Really annoying this year, but it's not all bad...

McDaid Magic!

I think there were more, but screenshots wouldn't load!

League Campaign.

Another relegation battle was on the cards for us this season, and with the lack of players I managed to bring in, o thought we would struggle this year too. However, it was quite the opposite...

WE WON THE LEAGUE!!!

Fantastic achievement for a club relegation threatened to win the division, that rings a bell somewhere.... oh well, a great start propelled us up the table and we fought it out until the end !

Top Scorers

Just a hint, McDaid got 32 in the league which I thought was brilliant, and quite comfortably won the Northern Irish golden boot ( if that's even a thing!) 

Top Assists

As you can see, so many assists for a lot of players on the screen, a tremendous season for these players and it lead McDaid to a good overall total. My Two Central midfielders and my two wingers on the list shows how many assists we're going around.

McDaid

He was the Second best striker I have managed on this challenge so far...

And he achieves the second best total! I am personally pretty happy with 38 and it shows with a few tweaks this tactic could be brilliant, and maybe I could use it elsewhere, you never know!

Manager Profile

Dissapointingly, my rep is still on Regional so it will be hard to get to Scotland!

Trophy Cabinet

Not a bad amount, and now Three manager of the year awards! 

Full fixtures list

Well. That concludes this update, and for the future, I'm unsure as Scotland still don't want me and the year is 2021, so really don't know how much further I can go before regents really start dominating. If I decide to carry on, it will be posted here, if I don't, I will almost certainly tempt this later on this year, maybe even in a few weeks, I'm not sure yet. Anyway, thanks for reading and any feedback is appreciated

[BatiGoal]

That's a great season and another step closer to getting a job in stage 2. Keep going and you'll get to Scotland, mate.

[mcandrew003]

Cheers pal. I think I will continue with it, but will just have to use 30 year olds when I get to Wales/England!

@BatiGoal

Edited March 5, 2017 by mcandrew003

[Taff]

Great going dude, hopefully a job in Scotland has to be on the cards somewhere now KIU

[mcandrew003]

Thanks a lot mate, hopefully it comes along!

@Taff