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Tough one that but I have no doubt you’ll get one that’ll work out in the end. 

Good way of improving on the game this though I’d say as you’re constantly having to use different players.

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13 hours ago, Foxy said:

One terror still awaits me in this save and it’s something I hope I can avoid.

The dreaded loss in the first match!

Please don't avoid it as I'm super excited for that moment :D

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46 minutes ago, 1759 said:

Tough one that but I have no doubt you’ll get one that’ll work out in the end. 

Good way of improving on the game this though I’d say as you’re constantly having to use different players.

Hopefully one works out in the end🤞 

22 minutes ago, Ashez said:

Please don't avoid it as I'm super excited for that moment :D

 

Many things in life are inevitable and unavoidable and I’m sure me losing in game 1 will be one of those things.

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Club 5

I left my very brief spell at Cowdenbeath in late February and this focused my mind on the type of job I would be going for next. As we move into March we are getting into the business end of the season and although beggars can’t be choosers I was looking for a job at a team that could challenge for a cup, league title or playoffs.

There was in fact only 3 jobs available and the jobs at Altrinham and Weston Super Mare would both be fighting against relegation affairs but the third job was intriguing and that was the one I went for and got.

We we’re heading to the county of Royal Berkshire and the town of Slough.

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I took over at a club within touching distance of the playoffs due to all the way down to 7th making the playoffs in the NLS. We do need to make up 6 points and looking at the squad the players are a bit shite but then all the teams are shite at this level.

I can only assume that the manager left of his own choice as the club is in good form as well.

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Sometimes you need some luck and we got it in the 2nd game with an 88th minute equaliser went in. These 2 goals were Andre’s first in senior football as well as I give the youth a chance.

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The longest we had spent at any club in this save so far is 8 games at Shelbourne but we matched that here and in style only dropping 2 points along the way and all but securing a playoff spot. 

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The next game we beat St Albans and our playoff spot was confirmed with 3 games to spare. I now needed to make sure the lads didn’t take there foot of the gas in those games and we end up losing one as someone else would get the pleasure of managing Slough in the playoffs if that happens.

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The final 3 games went without much incident although I was sweating towards the end of the Truro game as at 2-2 anything could happen. We would play Wealdstone in the first round of the playoffs.

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We needed to win 3 games to get promoted and keep my job and we made a perfect start as we hammered Wealdstone 5-0 and cruised into the semi finals.

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The semi final would be a trip to big spending Billericay in Essex and despite us making most of the running they scored 3 minutes from the end and after an uneventful extra time it went to penalties.

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Former Oxford winger Sam Deering ballooning one over (at least in my minds eye) and we go to the final where the jet setters of Concord Rangers we’re waiting for us.

This was a tense affair as we couldn’t make our domence count for most of the game. We did get a goal in the 53rd minute but into the last 10 and Concord won a penalty!

Up steps Jack Parkinson to get Concord back into the game.......AND THE KEEPER SAVES!!!

The Rebels are going up to the Conference!

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This spell at Slough could not have gone better as we only drew 2 league games and then topped it off with promotion in the playoffs having climbed from 10th to 4th in the space of 14 league games.

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I signed one player who made a big difference with 10 goals in 11 games and proved £4K well spent.

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This technically means I could end the save here as my goal was to win something but I’m enjoying this too much and we still haven’t been to Northern Ireland, we haven’t won a cup competition and maybe even win a league.

This is why I’m going to carry on the save into season 2 and see where else the game takes us.

Season 1

Shelbourne - Ireland: W:6 D:1 L:1 Goals Scored: 29 Conceded:6

Woking - England: W:4 D:2 L:1 Gls For: 13 Conceded: 7

Wrexham - England: W:3 D:3 L:1 Gls For: 19 Conceded: 13

Cowdenbeath - Scotland: W:2 D:0 L:1 Gls For: 4 Conceded: 1

Slough Town -England: W:14 D:3 L:0 Gls For: 48  Conceded: 15 Promoted playoff

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Thanks for reading and all comments are appreciated.

 

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Wow nicely done mate! Delighted you are continuing as when I was reading that I was starting to think please don't win 😂

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12 hours ago, Gunners Rishi said:

U must have loved the playoffs 

Sure did 🙂

11 hours ago, Rob said:

Well done!

 

6 hours ago, Ran7777 said:

Great job👏👏

Cheers lads.

3 hours ago, Kanegan said:

Well done mate and glad that you are not ending this. Can't get enough of your troubles. 😄

Don’t worry I’m sure the troubles are just around the corner especially as I have no plans to improve Sloughs squad beyond resigning out of contract players before next season.

11 hours ago, 1759 said:

Excellent run there and I’m glad you are continuing on.

 

12 hours ago, Ashez said:

Wow nicely done mate! Delighted you are continuing as when I was reading that I was starting to think please don't win 😂

It’s too soon to knock this on the head as I’m enjoying it and there is plenty more that can be potentially achieved.

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Club 5 (Cont) and Club 6

After promotion via the playoffs last season we carry on at Slough Town and move up to the National League. 

I decided that I wasn’t going to improve the squad as what’s the point? I could spend the time and build them a good squad but ultimately we are going to lose a game at some point in the season either in the league and definitely in the cup. It seemed a huge waste of time to do and then leave it all behind for the AI to benefit or destroy. Instead I renewed all the players contracts that were running down and then sped through pre season.

As it turned out we made a decent start to the season and won our first 2 games against Boreham Wood and Dover but it all came to an end at home to Ebbsfleet.

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So the run ends here after 20 games and a promotion I am leaving Slough. At least I am going with them in a much better place as I took them from 10th in the NLS to 7th in the NL in the space of those 20 games.

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On we go then and I took my time to find a job mainly because it was either league clubs that wouldn’t look at me twice or teams in the NLS or NLN and I feel I have completed that level of football having got Slough up.

In the end I took a job back in the NL.

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I take over at a side that is in ok form, but isn’t in a great position in the league and couldn’t beat a lower league team in the FA Cup in their last game.

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We did manage to beat Chesham so I avoided a first game defeat against a non playable team in the game. We then got a couple more wins but it all came to an end when we meet and lost to promotion chasing Fylde.

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We did climb 2 places in the league though so at least they are a little better off after my brief spell in charge.

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We are into November now already but I won’t be rushing into the next job that becomes available. I am going to avoid the English teams for a while at least and look to get some more Irish or Scottish experience under my belt.

Teams Managed So Far

Season 1

Shelbourne - Ireland: W:6 D:1 L:1 Goals Scored: 29 Conceded:6

Woking - England: W:4 D:2 L:1 Gls For: 13 Conceded: 7

Wrexham - England: W:3 D:3 L:1 Gls For: 19 Conceded: 13

Cowdenbeath - Scotland: W:2 D:0 L:1 Gls For: 4 Conceded: 1

 Slough Town -England: W:14 D:3 L:0 Gls For: 48  Conceded: 15 Promoted playoff

Season 2

Slough Town - England: W:2 D:0 L:1 Gls For:3 Against:2

Dover - England: W:3 D:0 L:1 Gls For:10 Against:6

Thanks for reading and all comments are appreciated.

 

 

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Sorry dude. Ive missed alot of this with everything going on.

S1 went better than i thought as you managed less teams than i thought you would(not a bad thing) as you didnt spend anything really so well done.

Winning promotion though was exceptional and a shame it didnt last.

Hope you get a decent Scottish side next as that would be interesting as its a poor league really and you could be there for awhile. 

 

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2 hours ago, Woody said:

Winning promotion though was exceptional and a shame it didnt last.

Hope you get a decent Scottish side next as that would be interesting as its a poor league really and you could be there for awhile. 

What he said

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9 hours ago, Woody said:

Sorry dude. Ive missed alot of this with everything going on.

S1 went better than i thought as you managed less teams than i thought you would(not a bad thing) as you didnt spend anything really so well done.

Winning promotion though was exceptional and a shame it didnt last.

Hope you get a decent Scottish side next as that would be interesting as its a poor league really and you could be there for awhile. 

 

 

1 hour ago, 1759 said:

Good luck with your next club. Hopefully you can get a good job at a decent club at some point  and maybe win a cup or two.

Cheers lads. Not sure there are any decent clubs that actually want me but maybe I will get lucky.

30 minutes ago, Ashez said:

Still waiting on a first match sacking. 

One day I am going to make you a very happy man.

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Club 7

 I have been avoiding it but it was going to happen at some point 😢

I didn’t last long at Dover and my aim was Scotland or Northern Ireland for my next job. As it happens I got a job at 2nd tier Northern Irish club Ballinamallard Utd and no I had never heard of them either.

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They were in mid table but this league splits in two after the next 5 games so if I could go on a run we could get in the top half and have a shot at the playoffs. Form was very dodgy with only 2 wins in the last 7 games.

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Our first fixture was against Larne and a quick look at the table shows they are 2nd 9 points ahead of us but a win could narrow that.

Except we didn’t win, in fact we lost and that was it. One consolation is that my team mate in the VWC @Ashez will be happy and hopefully that will transfer into our team performances.

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We obviously didn’t leave them in a better position than we inherited.

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And that was the end of our short Northern Irish adventure or at least till next time.

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Teams Managed So Far

Season 1

Shelbourne - Ireland: W:6 D:1 L:1 Goals Scored: 29 Conceded:6

Woking - England: W:4 D:2 L:1 Gls For: 13 Conceded: 7

Wrexham - England: W:3 D:3 L:1 Gls For: 19 Conceded: 13

Cowdenbeath - Scotland: W:2 D:0 L:1 Gls For: 4 Conceded: 1

 Slough Town -England: W:14 D:3 L:0 Gls For: 48  Conceded: 15 Promoted playoff

Season 2

Slough Town - England: W:2 D:0 L:1 Gls For:3 Against:2

 Dover - England: W:3 D:0 L:1 Gls For:10 Against:6

Ballinamallard - Northern Ireland: W:0 D:0 L:1 GKs For:1 Against:2

Thanks for reading and all comments are appreciated.

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Thats what were here for....we build you up and then drag you back down again  to keep you grounded. Dont want ya getting too big for ya boots now do we?! 😉

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Club 8

 I was eager to get straight back to it after my Northern Irish nightmare and the perfect opportunity came my way in Scottish League 2.

Berwick is actually in England but they play there football in Scotland.

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Berwick aren’t too badly placed in the league just outside the playoffs albeit 9 points adrift. In the end I need to not lose games so I can overcome that deficit if I can keep winning.

 

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Form isn’t exactly promising but they didn’t have the Gladiator in charge.

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This is the kind of form I like to see as we win our first 9 games in charge. This leaves us with 10 games until the end of the season and we are now into the playoff zone. If we could maintain this form we may even catch Peterhead at the top of the table!

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Another 3 wins made it 12 in a row but then we started to draw matches with 4 in the next 5 games. The Cowdenbeath game we had to come from 3 down and then against Annan we came from 2 down so it has been very nervy the last couple of matches.

This does still keep us going at Berwick and with 2 games of the league season left we could potentially win the league and go up automatically.

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This is the situation at the top. We sit a point behind Peterhead who we play next so a win for us and we go top and have a good chance to win the league but lose and Peterhead win the league and I have to resign.

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It was a tight affair but our goal scoring form deserted us as we fell to a 1-0 defeat which cost us automatic promotion and my job 😞

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We gave it a damn good go but ultimately fell short so close to what would have been a glorious promotion.

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That looks like it is the end of season 2.

Teams Managed So Far

Season 1

Shelbourne - Ireland: W:6 D:1 L:1 Goals Scored: 29 Conceded:6

Woking - England: W:4 D:2 L:1 Gls For: 13 Conceded: 7

Wrexham - England: W:3 D:3 L:1 Gls For: 19 Conceded: 13

Cowdenbeath - Scotland: W:2 D:0 L:1 Gls For: 4 Conceded: 1

 Slough Town -England: W:14 D:3 L:0 Gls For: 48  Conceded: 15 Promoted playoff

Season 2

Slough Town - England: W:2 D:0 L:1 Gls For:3 Against:2

 Dover - England: W:3 D:0 L:1 Gls For:10 Against:6

Ballinamallard - Northern Ireland: W:0 D:0 L:1 Gls For:1 Against:2

Berwick - Scotland: W:13 D:4 L:1 Gls For:38 Against:18

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Thanks for reading and all comments are appreciated.

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