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Career Taff Attempts the UK Challenge V 3.0 (COMPLETE)


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That's right my fellow Vibers I am back with my 3rd (thats right 3rd) attempt at the UK challenge 

Here's a link incase you missed it

Now the reason for this being my 3rd attempt is very straight forward 

Attempt 1 - The original rules stated that you only had 1 season in each league, however this proved very problematic as moving from Ireland to Scotland after 1 season was Impossible no Scottish club wanted me (even after winning the league and all four domestic cups in that season).  So @BatiGoal (the God of these challenges) changed the rules to allow a player to remain in each league as long as necessary to build your rep so moving was easier.

Attempt 2 - I managed to break the record in 3 of the four nations, however after leaving Scotland with a very good rep (11th best ranked manager in the world) a season in Wales took that away very fast (as @Ashez has said the rep system is very flawed), and unlike my very clever friend @AndersJ I didn't load England as the primary league, so I was unable to land a lower division job to work my way up, so I was stuck in Wales (even after I got Nigeria to the WC final)

So here we are, not one to give up I have started Version 3.0 (this time with England as the primary league) so I can join @AndersJ on that leaderboard (and hopefully take his top spot :D)

With all that out of the way let us begin this the third (and hopefully last) attempt at this very enjoyable (and very difficult) challenge 

Season 1

Ireland

So we begin the journey in Northern Ireland and for me I wanted to go back to where I started the first 2 times and that is with

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Cliftonville FC

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This is where my journey begins again and there is still only one choice for my striker 

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Daniel Hughes (I challenge anyone to find a striker with better attributes in this league)

So with the same club and same striker I set out on my odyssey through the UK

So Cliftonville have a pretty decent budget at the beginning of the game (when you adjust the budget that is) went from having £10K to spend to almost £200K, so I decided to add to the squad to give it better depth

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Plenty of new faces coming in the two most notable this year were Matty Brown (CD) who came in as the second highest transfer and bossed the defence very well, the second was Emmanuel Oyeleke a free agent who came in and played his heart out in the CM role.  The rest played their part (apart from Kirk (CM) and Siddall (GK) who were backups and nothing more

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Only two players out Murray (PCR) was let go due to the over abundance of strikers available and Bonner was a CD who never got a look in 

So with the squad shaped, we set off (slowly at first) while I got the tactics sussed but then we destroyed it this year

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Winning the league with 4 games to go, way too many draws for my liking but a decent first league title for the club (forgot to screenshot the final table but we wnet on to draw one and win 3 in the final 4 games)

As for the cups the N. Irish league has 4 domestic cups to compete for and well...

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We won the lot 4/4 in the cup competitions beating Glenavon in 3 of the finals (got they must burn effigies of me there) Hughes also had a good run scoring 5 goals in 4 cup finals

The team also compete in the Euro Cup playoffs at the start of the year and we made it through two rounds but got our butts handed to us in the playoff game so nothing really to report 

Now onto the main man and well he killed it, chasing to 27 goal record he only needed less than half a season to get there

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beating the record by 10 goals by the new year, he went on to finish the season....

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with a very solid 61 goals (hats off to @Idol for getting over 70) THE BLOODY SIGHT WON'T LET ME ALTER THE THREAD SO THE REST IS GOING TO BE A MESS (Hughes stats at the end of the year, team stats, fixtures, season awards and a spoiler for something to look forward to next year.  Sorry but I have no time to change it now

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Sorry about the mess at the end but I'll update once season 2 is over

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Mate you just had to hit 61 - you are one mean goalmachine :)! Great job mate! 

Im very excited to follow you all the way! Hope you get funny club like ( not the Glasgow ones ) and then still nail it :)!

btw you now know are single player in the Danske Bank ?????

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Solid start Taff, a second season with a better squad behind him and I'm sure he'll smash the 70 mark! He certainly scored enough goals against me when I was managing in NI.

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Season 2

Ireland

Here we are guys back with my second season and I'll put most of this down quickly as there is nothing really to report

Daniel Hughes

Well Hughes had a decent season, but couldn't match last year after some random bouts of form

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But he still managed to bag a decent amount of goals but he did play in more games which was disappointing 

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The team did well again this season securing our second league title and retaining 3/4 cups (losing in the Semi finals of the Irish Cup)

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As you may have seen from my OP the team managed to get through the UCL group stage where we were faced with this

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Come on that is a ridiculous group

We finished last but gave a decent account of ourselves

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Two losses to R. Madrid (although the first one was close) a loss and a draw against Roma and a win and then a heavy defeat to Chelsea

Still quite proud of the boys, but we are just not built to play these teams (yet)

I haven't included the team stats, fixtures or season awards as I don't think anyone is really bothered 

But I will include this which had me both scratching my head and laughing at the same time

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So a random league match, which we are crushing 3-1 then this happens...

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So an corner leads a CD to pull my man down, the ref points to the spot (I wait for one of my two CFs to step up) but the AI had other ideas (notice my GK creeping up)

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What the bloody hell is my GK doing taking a penalty (I know were 3-1 up but seriously what the bloody he....

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...OH OK Good job fella!!!

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The game ends 5-1 but still have no idea why (when Mcdaid is my second choice penalty taker) the AI decided to pull my GK up to shoot from the spot, but all's well that ends well

So another season and still no joy with any jobs (not that I was expecting it) but will try to do better in Europe, maybe throw the play off game to get into the Euro Cup instead

See you all on the Flip Side

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GK is clearly attempting to undermine your authority. I say sell him!! :P stellar season and one step closer to the next stage.

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16 hours ago, Real_Random said:

Decent season mate, do you switch up your tactics for Europe or just stick with your normal ones. KIU

I tend to keep to whatever's working in the league, the first game against Roma i put all but two players behind the halfway line and it did nothing but invite pressure, I find with bigger teams some times coming out all guns blazing seems to stun them (although these weren't just bigger teams but three of the biggest)

10 hours ago, BatiGoal said:

GK is clearly attempting to undermine your authority. I say sell him!! :P stellar season and one step closer to the next stage.

I was tempted but I couldn't stop laughing long enough to sack him

9 hours ago, AndersJ said:

Jason Mooney for 100 goals challenge :)!!!

Lets not get ahead of ourselves if he scores another one then maybe, but I just watched him creep up the pitch and was shouting at my phone "where the bloody hell do you think your going"

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Season 3

Ireland

OK guys nothing major to report in season 3 so I'll make it quick

I remain in Ireland with no joy getting into Scotland (applied for multiple jobs but nothing came of it)

The team had another good season

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 We won the league once again, and reclaimed 3/4 cups

no joy in Europe this year getting knocked out of the qualifying round by Celtic

Hughes had a decent season but no better in terms of the goal record he set two seasons ago

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Although with out the European Games he had less chance and got tired a lot this year

I did however manage to land an INT job to boost my rep

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I took over at Nigeria and tried to get them to the ACON title

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We qualified with ease

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After coming second in our group behind Ghana we go all the way and win the ACON title (rep still only regional though)

So another season and another one just to get us along the road

See you on the flip side

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20 minutes ago, BatiGoal said:

Doing what you gotta do. That job will come soon enough. Hopefully in a season or two. Can't wait to try it myself.

It's a great (if not slightly infuriating challenge) but once the Scotland job comes up I'm off and flying

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16 hours ago, Cockers2505 said:

Mate your dream job well be upon you soon, before you know it Celtic will be chanting the name @Taff around the Stadium :D

That is the dream, but in my last save I had to do 5 whole seasons in Ireland before I landed the Rangers job, but you never know, I'll keep plugging away

8 hours ago, Ashez said:

Hopefully a move to Scotland is just around the corner :) 

I'd love to think so but I think there's going to be two more seasons in N.I. (just got to motivate myself to get through them)

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Just caught up mate. Great start and I really hope you make it right through this time. Bonus points for persistence! But if you get stuck again, I'm going to be so depressed that I'll need one of these to get over it:

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2 minutes ago, Taff said:

Using my own drink against me thats low

Hey dude, just saying it might be needed here as well! But I'm gonna be watching how you go no matter how stressful it gets. I really want you to make it this time!

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Just now, scratch99 said:

Hey dude, just saying it might be needed here as well! But I'm gonna be watching how you go no matter how stressful it gets. I really want you to make it this time!

Me too mate just really can't motivate myself to go through another two seasons in Ireland at the moment but I'll keep trying

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Just now, Taff said:

Me too mate just really can't motivate myself to go through another two seasons in Ireland at the moment but I'll keep trying

Yeah that's a tough tough challenge there. I'm not touching that one with a barge pole. Major props to you for going back for more.

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This is the hardest of the three by far, the other two are good, maybe start with the Germanic one as I seem to be the only one giving this a go at the moment 

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