Career Geordiekrispy's UK Goal Challenge mk3 - Scotland

[geordiekrispy]

So after a another failed challenge in my 1k from the bottom up, I decided to give @BatiGoal's UK Goal Challenge (now my UK Goal Challenge v2.0) another go as I fancied something a little less strenuous...   Obviously I mistakenly decided to do it after updating to the Feb database patch... So I had no idea what was going to happen in terms of stamina and conditioning. I thought surely I can get 50ish goals in the league as it works out to just under 1.5 goals per game for all leagues and being able to rest my striker for the cup games means I might be able to keep him in good enough condition... But we'll see...

 

 

The general idea is break the goal scoring record of the various UK leagues in numerical order, so Wales first, then Scotland, then N.Ireland, then England.

 

 

My twist on it is that I have to do it using that nationality of player, so no just signing any random wonderkid or known international goal fiend to smash it, they've got to be that nationality!

 

I have a feeling the jump to the Scottish Premier league will be interesting, depending on who gets sacked.  But the big challenge will be getting a job at an English Premier League side after going to N.Ireland...

I'm not limiting myself to entering the top league if I can't get a job in it, so getting a team promoted from the Scottish and/or English Championship is probably an easier option, plus it gives me more opportunity to get a good team built for my goal challenge in the top league.

Edited March 30, 2019 by geordiekrispy

[geordiekrispy]

Stage 1 - Wales

 

Ok, so I as in my previous attempts I'm going with Cardiff Met Uni as they have the best training facilities and I'm going to need all the help I can get.

 

Unfortunately, I can't use this challenge to complete @BatiGoal's Amateur challenge as to give myself the best bet of securing as good a job in Scotland and England I'm starting as world class, which is a shame as quite honestly, I think it's easy to win the league with the Cardiff Met Uni Squad.

 

 

As I stated in my opening post, I'm using a Welshman to try and complete this leg of the challenge, my player in question is the Bolton reject (I mean that in the nicest way)... Jamie Thomas

At 21 he's young enough that he should improve during the season and he's got a decent shooting and physical attributes already, so hopefully he can keep up with the rigours of being a long striker in my formation.

Let's just say that he started off well, winning the Welsh Young player of the year awards in his first season...

 

He definitely knew how to find the net too...

 

The JD Welsh Premier League is one of those strange leagues that splits into 2 towards the end of the season and you only play the teams at your end of the table.

When the split happened (with 10 games left to go) Jamie had to score 11 goals in 10 games to beat the record of 47 goals in the league in a season... Was it a tough ask?  If he got injured he'd be out of the running until next season...

So... How did he do?

 

He absolutely smashed it!

Ended up scoring 15 goals in 10 games and finished the season with a grand total of 53 goals in the league

 

So we can safely say that we won the league and got into the Champions League qualification stages:

 

Fixtures

Spoiler

 

So now begins the next step... Getting a job in the Scottish leagues...

[FuddledFox]

Great pick of player and the perfect start.

Good luck getting a Scottish job.

[Nucleus]

Absolutely hate the welsh league so it’s nice to see you make a mockery of it  

[BigAl]

Great start man 😁

Excited to see your choice of Scottish player. I find Scottish players are overpowered in FMM19, a lot of good young talent. 

Edited March 17, 2019 by BigAl

[mcandrew003]

Great start! 

[geordiekrispy]

Stage 1 - Wales - Adendum

 

Ok I have quite frankly been lazy and not been bothering myself to get on to the computer to post updates, so these are going to be short and sweet(ish).

 

I spent pretty much another entire season at Cardiff Met Uni whilst applying for every SPL job that appeared, plus every LC job too.

I made the mistake very early in the season of turning down the Airdrie job (LC) and regretted it since as it was offered out of the blue, but I thought I could get a better job, they ended up getting to the playoffs so I really should have taken it, ah well that's on my and my own thinking I was worthy of a better job!

 

So, the final season in Wales was another stormer, not quite as profilic for Thomas, but still helped us win the league:

 

This is where I ended up leaving Cardiff, with only a 1 game to play and the league well and truly in the bag:

 

Results:

Spoiler

 

My loyalty took a hammering this season though:

 

Signings:

And now on to pastures new...

Edited March 30, 2019 by geordiekrispy

[geordiekrispy]

Stage 2 - Scotland

 

I finally managed to land a job in bonny Scotland, it is with the mighty Raith Rovers with 2 games to play:

 

I then go on to win those first 2 games:

 

But it doesn't let me get into the playoffs, this year...

[geordiekrispy]

Stage 2 - Scotland  - part 2

 

Ok, so the hard part of getting a job is over, now I've got an off season and full season to get the right players in to help my chosen striker score those goals!

 

Transfers:

Not too many in as the squad is pretty large and needed some trimming, but I did raid Cardiff Met Uni for a MC and GK as quite frankly they were the best players and positions I needed strengthening in.

In:

 

Out:

 

My chosen striker is the great and legendary Kevin Nesbit, who had just signed for Raith the season before but appeared to be the best of the lot I had available and looked promising:

 

This is him after the full season in the Championship, as you can see he's not too shabby and helped score a load of goals.

 

Which in turn helped up win the league:

 

So now I need to try and prepare the team for the premier league and get Kevin scoring against, slightly, higher quality opponents...

Another promotions for the Neil Warnock Challenge too @Foxy, should bring me up to 6 total (Curzon Ashton, 4 with AFC Telford and now Raith).

[geordiekrispy]

Stage 2 - Scotland  - part 3

So, I'm back after a month of not really playing and getting a bit bored... I eventually managed to complete this second leg of the UK Goal challenge...  It took me 4 seasons in the Scottish Premiership, I was going to give up if I didn't manage to do it this season.

 

So I'm just going to do the cliff notes for each season.

 

Season 3 (1st in the Premiership) - 2021/22

 

We won the league, and Kevin did a decent enough job of getting goals, but not quite enough.

 

 

Fixtures:

Spoiler

 

Transfers:

Spoiler

 

Season 4 (2nd in the Premiership) - 2022/23

 

Again, we won the league, but Kevin got a couple of injuries and struggled to find form.

 

 

Fixtures:

Spoiler

 

Transfers:

Spoiler

 

Season 5 (3rd in the Premiership) - 2023/24

Again, we won the league (running away with it to be honest), and Kevin finally managed to score enough goals.  All the way through the season he was averaging 1.5 a game until he hit a patch when he didn't score I thought the challenge was dead in the water, then he managed to score 2 a game for two months in a row to snatch a victory from the jaws of defeat, having to score in the final game to go over the required 52 goals!

 

 

Fixtures:

Spoiler

 

Transfers:

Spoiler

I genuinely think it was getting the better quality of AMC and MC on loan, in Gomes and Vidal that made the difference, plus some of the other purchases have really improved my team, youngsters like de Souza and Mnoga really improved and are now worth £10m+

 

So now I just need to figure out how I can take the drop down to the part time Danske Bank Premiership after being offered the England job the previous summer, and constantly being offered EPL jobs... Other than getting sacked or resigning even then I'm not sure they'll take a "chance" on me as I'm too good for them...

 

Edit:

I've just remembered I need to put scores on for each stage:

Stage 1 - Wales: 53 points

Stage 2 - Scotland: 53 points

 

Total: 106 points

Edited April 30, 2019 by geordiekrispy