Career Road to Glory - South Shields

Toberal · May 13, 2024

I started playing FM in 2012 with my old PSP, and a few days ago I decided to play it again but in mobile. I have always wanted to become a legend of a club so I started a Road to Glory being the manager of the South Shields in the Vanarama National League North.

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Why these team? It was the best team out of the newly promoted to the league. There is not a history behind the decision, but I will try my best to win Premier League and Champions League with South Shields, also known as “The Mariners”. South Shields F.C. was refunded in 1974 and has never played in the professional leagues of England. So the club only has some minor trophies.

Season 1: 2023/2024

Pre-Season Transfers: We needed to improve a few positions so we decided to sign 7 players being Callum Hulme the best out of them. Also we loaned 3 young players.

Tactics and Squad: Our idea was to play an offensive game, based on pressing throughout the pitch and attacking similar to Real Madrid, having the ball to make fast attacks, with long distance shoots, a lot of crosses and trying to dribble some opponents to gain advantage.

Pre-Season Matches: We played 4 matches, and the tactics looked fine, we lost against 2 difficult teams and we win against a L1 team and a VNS team, so I decided to start the season without changing anything.

Season: The start was awesome we won our first 3 games, but then everything went wrong and by the 11 league day, we were eliminated of the FA CUP and 4/3/5 with only 1 win in our last 9 matches.

That was the turning point and I decided to make some serious changes. I simplified my tactics and move a few players and roles to adjust the tactic better to the players I had. Also in January, we received an offer of 20m to buy our GK so I accepted it and searched for a new starting GK.

After that the team started to play much more better and we achieved a streak of 14 games without losing with 11 wins and 3 draws. The rest of the season was more normal, due to some injuries, but we still managed to finish in 2º place and reach the playoffs.

Playoffs: We played the semifinal against Alfreton. It was a hard game but we finally scored a goal in the 90´from a penalty shoot. The final was an easier match against because we were winning 2-0 at halftime.

So finally we promoted to Vanarama National League.

Team Details:

- Paul Blackett scored 25 goals in 33 appearances.

- Paul Blackett was the Player of the Month in February

- Callum Hulme and Max Haygarth played really well and 19 and 18 goals, between goals and assists, respectively.

- We get a Manager of the Month award in February

leedsunited87 · May 14, 2024

Looks good this! I will keep an eye on how you progress, was South shields a few games back, did alright. Some okish players, budget ovs isn't the best, look at freebies and loans for 2/3 years, and you will be reet

Edited May 14, 2024 by leedsunited87

Toberal · May 24, 2024

Season 2: 2024/2025

Pre-Season Transfers: We sign only 4 players for our first team. Pollock a nice BWM that can also play as a defender. Kandola that became our best CD. Balagizi because we need a good W to improve our attack. Radcliffe to help from the bench because he can play in 3 different positions. Also we loan all our young promises.

Pre-Season Matches: We played 4 matches, and the team worked well, so we started the season thinking about not suffereing and dreaming of moving up to professional leagues.

Season: The start was hard with 0 wins in our first 4 matches, but then the team started working out and we began to climb positions easily, fighting for play-off spots. Also we were eliminated of all cups in the first rounds.

January started with our team moving between 7th and 9th position, so I decided not to bring new players, but 2 really good offers for 2 of our main players, made me to go to the transfer market to look for a new W.

I thought that the team would continue to perform well, but we took a small dip in level also caused by several important injuries. Even so we reached our main objective, which was not to suffer.

We were using the same tactics as last season, and only with a few different players.

Our main scorer Paul Blackett was injuried all the season and played 7 matches at the start with 2 goals and 2 assists. We finished in 13th place.

So we stay in Vanarama National League.

Team Details:

- Josh Hinds was our main scorer with 20 goals in 49 matches.

- Callum Hulme improve from last year and make 21 goal participations (goals/assists).

Toberal · May 26, 2024

Season 3: 2025/2026

Pre-Season Transfers: We signed 6 players for our first team. Sivi and Olyott two young and good wingers. Eastwood a promising CD. Kian Ferry a young star that finally didn´t worked out. Josh Martin to help in all attack positions. Betjemann to be our main AM. Also we loan all our young promises.

Pre-Season Matches: We played 4 matches, and the team worked well, although the results weren´t the best, so our objective for the season is to reach the playoffs.

Season: The start was was awesome with 9 wins, 2 draws and only 1 lost, also we passed one round of the FA Cup. But after that the team morale drops and bad results started.

From october to january we only won 1 league match out of 16. However, we started going through the first FA Trophy rounds.

After improving our morale in january, the team started to reach really good results again and we reached the FA Trophy Final.

We finished the season in 9th place so we didn´t reach the playoffs, but we have the FA Trophy final to bring our first title home this season. Also, we have been using the same tactics that we used last season.

The FA Trophy final was awesome, it was a really hard match but our bench and academy player Jaheim Cooke scored the winning goal in the extra time, to win our first title.

So we stay in Vanarama National League.

FA Trophy winners!!

Team Details:

- Elkanah Tollitt was our main scorer with 21 goals in 45 matches.

- We get a Manager of the Month award in September.

- Josh Hinds scored 16 goals in 38 games from the bench.

Edited May 26, 2024 by Toberal

Toberal · May 29, 2024

Season 4: 2026/2027

Pre-Season Transfers: We sign only 3 players for our first team. Batty a nice defensive leftback, Fapetu as a promising BWM and Hamiga a very young winger. Also, we tried to loan all our young players and we sold 2 members that dont have level to play in our team.

Pre-Season Matches: We played 4 matches, and these was our best pre-season, we played really well against all teams, except Sheff Utd that is a Premier/Championship team.

Season: The start was really good with 16 wins, 6 draws and only 5 lost before january, also we passed 3 rounds of the FA Cup, and one round of the FA Trophy that we won last year.

With the team working well I had no intention of buying new players, but we received a really nice offer for Quarm, so we decided to sell him and search for a new rightback, which was Montgomery as a loan player.

After this transfers, the morale of the team drop off and the team started to struggle more than in the first half of the season, although we manage to get to the play-offs and the final of the FA trophy again.

At the end, we lost the FA Trophy final, but we won the playoffs after 2 hard matches. so.....

So finally we promoted to Sky Bet League Two, entering for first time in South Shield´s history in the english professional football.

Team Details:

- Elkanah Tollitt was Vanarama National League main scorer with 35 goals in 35 matches.

- We get a Manager of the Month award in November.

- Kristi Montgomery was Northwest Vanarama National League player of the season.

- Jeremy Sivi gave 18 assists in 48 matches.

leedsunited87 · May 30, 2024

Slowly getting better there buddy, well done on 1st trophy 🏆 👏 👍 👌

Toberal · May 30, 2024

Season 5: 2027/2028

Pre-Season Transfers: We sign 6 players for our first team. Seriki and Cody Williams as super-subs for our fullbacks. Brooks is a solid goalkeeper. Burns and Rogers to improve our defense, and Skelton to organise our midfield. Also, we have done some awesome sales, like Batty and Fapetu. We lost some main players, Kandola and Hulme, and we loan all the players that we are not going to need this season.

Pre-Season Matches: We played 4 matches. The friendly games were awful as we only won 1, but we were planning our team during July, so it was acceptable.

Season: The start was hard but after our first month, the team started to improve and we were fighting for winning the league. But...

As it used to happen, we started losing and tying all matches. I don´t really know why, but this occurs every season, we start awesome and then the team starts falling down.

Even so, we lived all season in confortable positions, ending in 10th place.

Team Details:

- Elkanah Tollitt was injuried the first half of the season.

- We got a Manager of the Year award.

- Josh Hinds was our main scorer with 24 goals.

Toberal · June 2, 2024

Season 6: 2028/2029

Pre-Season Transfers: We sign 4 players for our first team. Macey to be our main goalkeeper. Mundle as a market opportunity to improve our wingers. Eades and Richardson to improve our midfield. Also, we have lost some main players, like Haygarth and Sivi and we loan all the players that we are not going to need this season.

Pre-Season Matches: We played 4 matches. The friendly games were awful as we draw 2 and we lost 2, but at least we played a really good match versus QPR.

Season: The start was strange, it appears in the first games that we will be fighting for playoffs, but then everything twisted and we start to lose and draw all our matches.

At the end of december I decided to change the tactics a little bit to improve our result, and it worked out, we were in 12th place, and we made 16 games in a row without losing. Also I signed Josh Martin as a free agent in january.