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1 hour ago, scratch99 said:

Another great season mate, looking good!! Glad to see the job offers are rolling in, gives me hope! :)

Cheers mate, bit dissapointed only 1 team went up but I'm topping the table so far so it's all good! Yep, already had about 5 this year aswell. Cheers bud!

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On 20/5/2560 at 15:59, mcandrew003 said:

Cheers bud, this may be the most enjoyable career I've had on FMM so far, so addictive and challenging and so much you can do with it.

It really leaves oceans of space for one's imagination this one. Wondering which team's next..

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On 21/05/2017 at 15:19, BatiGoal said:

It really leaves oceans of space for one's imagination this one. Wondering which team's next..

Very true dude, an incredible array of options when it comes to completing this. All will be revealed :D

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Update 4 

Afternoon all and welcome to Update 4! Sorry for the delay, been a bit busy around the website but managed to get this finished, so here you go!

Transfers - Ins

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My first bit of business was to strengthen the squad for our Championship campaign. Players like Wisdom, Stephens, Reed and Wildschut were brought in for this purpose. However, we also gifted the other Second Chance clubs some funds by buying their fringe players, such as Molainen, Harvey and Webb. 

Outs

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We sell Oseyi-Samuel for a solid price, aswell a striker gifting a few Second Chance sides some of our backups. 

Developments....

So, I was well into November

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when a job oppertunity became available, can't remember exactly where. Long story short, I applied and didn't get it, so was left unemployed for half the season! In the end, we washed up in Wigan....

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We left Blackpool in 3rd place, hopefully they could hang onto a playoff spot! 

Reinvigorating The Squad, Transfers

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Dedided to splash some cash in January, signing Botaka, McGowan and Connolly amongst others. We needed this, but it didn't help too much in the end.

League Campaign

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Absoloute horror show. We joined them in 7th place. Couldn't find a tactic that worked and we payed the price in the end. 

Competitions

At this point, we'd been knocked out of everything, so here is the overview....

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Player Stats

Goals

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An okay year for our frontmen, grabbing 47 between the three of them.

Assists

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Jota steals the show from the CAM spot, contributing to 26 team goals this year!

Average Rating

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CB Iorfa, who we gave to Wigan from Chelsea, is our main man at the back, and was solid all year. 

League Tables

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United sweep a third successive title, meaning we don't grab any extra points unfortunately. 

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Another massively dissapointing season as only Fulham go up, and Blackpool drop to 9th! Also, we lose Charlton and Bolton to League 1. Tragic stuff. 

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Sigh. We lose Sheffield and Oldham to league 2, which is a massive blow. Alongside this however, we welcome Bradford and Swindon to the Championship! Excellent to have quite a few of the clubs in the Second Tier! 

Manager Profile

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Not bad! 

Current Division Of Second Chance Teams

Championship: 13

League 1: 6

League 2: 2

Second Chance Teams:

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Aston Villa, Barnsley, Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers, Bradford City, Cardiff City, Charlton Athletic, Coventry City, Derby County, Fulham, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Newcastle UnitedNorwich City, Nottingham Forest, Oldham Athletic, Portsmouth, QPR, Reading, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Swindon Town, Wigan Athletic, Wimbledon, Wolves

Thanks for reading guys! Bit of a shorter one, not as much to talk about though. Hopefully you all still enjoyed, and please leave a comment. Cheers!

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Yeah, I'm not seeing any images older than about 10 or 11 hours ago, across the whole of the site. Seems like they were moving files which may be the cause: 

 

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1 minute ago, scratch99 said:

Yeah, I'm not seeing any images older than about 10 or 11 hours ago, across the whole of the site. Seems like they were moving files which may be the cause: 

 

Hopefully it's sorted soon, have a few things to write up!

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Just now, mcandrew003 said:

Hopefully it's sorted soon, have a few things to write up!

I've posted a new image in a private chat and it seems fine. It's just all the old images that are gone. I hope they get them back! 

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They're back now and I just caught up. Tough season, especially not being employed! :O Making me nervous about moving... I guess that is what I'm  putting so much emphasis on keeping my reputation high, but still I guess it's always a gamble. 

Anyway, it's not a disaster, keep going, you'll get sorted next season! BTW I'm pretty sure Oldham is destined to end up in L2 as that's where my Oldham is....

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On 29/05/2017 at 10:43, scratch99 said:

They're back now and I just caught up. Tough season, especially not being employed! :O Making me nervous about moving... I guess that is what I'm  putting so much emphasis on keeping my reputation high, but still I guess it's always a gamble. 

Anyway, it's not a disaster, keep going, you'll get sorted next season! BTW I'm pretty sure Oldham is destined to end up in L2 as that's where my Oldham is....

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Good to hear, was worried I didn't have to write it again! Being unemployed was frustrating as I watched Blackpool drop each week. It might have been because I applied quite late, as I'm still being offered jobs by Espanyol and teams like that. 

My Oldham are bottom 10 of League 2 I think, very annoying :laugh: This seasons been better, will update before the weekend. 

 

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On 29/05/2017 at 13:39, Eogtuc0910 said:

You're doing a good job so far......

Thanks mate, hopefully I can get back on track with it. 

On 30/05/2017 at 09:24, Mr.Manager said:

Tough season mate! Hopefully the work you've done at Blackpool and Wigan this season will help them both get promoted next year.

Tough indeed mate, Blackpool are almost relegated so that ship sailed :laugh: Its been a decent year, hope I can top it off and get the update up tommorow. Cheers!

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Currently extremely busy, I'm read your to Update but can't at the moment. Update 5 will be up over the weekend at some point though, sorry for the delay.  Cheers! 

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Update 5

Afternoon all and welcome to update 5 of this save! Sorry for the delay, I have been busy posting content and coming up with ideas and things over the weekend and yesterday, but found some time today to release this to you guys :D

So, here is season 5! 

Transfers - Ins

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Some quality additions this year as we look to boost our promotion hopes, bringing ex EPL players Bilelik, Zaha, and Duncan Watmore. We then boost the quality of the rest of the squad by the addition of Woods as our RB, Saville as our CM and Ingram as our back-up GK, whilst James joins as the sub choice. 

Outs

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A fairly good window for selling, as we make 600K from sales. Forrester and Mulholland go to fellow Second Chances side Coventry, whilst Ntlhe goes to Turkey and Clements joins Peterborough. 

Competitions

FA Cup

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Knocked out to Championship side Oxford, were unlucky on the day but couldn't put away our many opportunities. 

EFL Cup

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A fairly even game sees us knocked out of the EFL Cup in extra time. Despite their red cars, we couldn't capitalise and we fell miserably. 

Checkatrade Trophy

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Despite our overpowering possession, we get smashed by Tranmere. As you can imagine, fuming :O

Another disappointing season in the cups, but how did we do in League 1? 

League Campaign

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WOW! With a new tactic and untested players, I was worried for this season. However, we score 105 goals on our way to the League 1 trophy, and to the Championship for the second time in this career so far. The fact the title race had 3 teams on or above 90 points how's just how tight it was, but we pulled through! 

Player Statistics

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So many from so many! A stellar year for our goalscorers, with Massanka grabbing 29 in the league to fire us to the top, and Zatmore (Zaha & Watmore) getting 38 between them as IF's! 

Assists

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Zatmore strike again, laying on 31 assists for the team, and contributing to 69 goals this season! 

Average Rating

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And it's Watmore who takes the top spot here, with RB Iorfa close behind. A lot of players had great years however. 

Fixture List

Just in case anybody is wondering, here is what our season looked like....

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Jobs Galore! 

A regular fixture in updates for this career has been what offers we get! A few tempted me, and I got a lot from abroad. However, this one was tempting....

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These had a few games left when they came to me, and a few of these were against Second Chance opposition.

Player/Manager Awards

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Watmore deservedly takes the POTY, Massanka just misses out though. 

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And I take the crown for MOTY after the League win. 

League Tables

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In an ideal world, we would have seen 3 sides go up. However, we still see 2 go up in Villa and QPR, and that's good enough :D However, we lose 3 teams to League 1, including Blackpool. Talk about a step backwards. 

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As mentioned before, us and Bolton head to the Championship, whilst we lose 0 teams to League 2.

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Sheffield come straight back up to League 1, whilst Oldham finish in a measly 16th, so some work to do there. 

Current Division Of Second Chance Teams

Championship: 11

League 1: 8

League 2: 1

Second Chance Checklist:

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Aston Villa, Barnsley, Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers, Bradford City, Cardiff City, Charlton Athletic, Coventry City, Derby County, Fulham, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Newcastle UnitedNorwich City, Nottingham Forest, Oldham Athletic, Portsmouth, QPR, Reading, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Swindon Town, Wigan Athletic, Wimbledon, Wolves

I hope you all enjoyed! Sorry for the delay, as some of you know I've been extremely busy. I don't know when the next update will be up, but stay tuned to see! Thanks for reading, and remember to leave a comment and/or feedback. Cheers!

 

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Some really good teams down there in League One. Good job on getting Wigan up to the Championship. The road ahead is long but don't look back and keep up the pace. Good progress.

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Great work on the promotion! Good stats from watmore. I've never really noticed him in game but I like him in real life. Oldham are a bit worrying down there in league 2 eh?

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On 06/06/2017 at 18:40, BatiGoal said:

Some really good teams down there in League One. Good job on getting Wigan up to the Championship. The road ahead is long but don't look back and keep up the pace. Good progress.

Thanks BG! I agree mate, sides like Coventry, Charlton, now Blackpool and Cardiff, kind of looking forward to getting them up actually.

The road is indeed long, but I'm getting there. 

On 06/06/2017 at 21:52, Mr.Manager said:

Great work on the promotion! Good stats from watmore. I've never really noticed him in game but I like him in real life. Oldham are a bit worrying down there in league 2 eh?

Cheers mate, yeah Watmore was surprising actually. Didn't expect him and Zaha to do that well, but it was a pleasant surprise. 

Well, if they get relegated I'm in a bit of trouble, but I hope we will be ok :laugh:

Cheers for the comments lads, sorry for not replying sooner. 

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Update 6

Hello everybody and welcome to Update 6 of my attempt at the PL Second Chances Challenge! Have managed to play quite a lot in the last few days, even getting about 30% of the way through season 7 already, so hope the update soon start flowing. 

Anywho, here is Season 6!

Transfers

Ins

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Made a few very good transfers this year, with the main ones being Tom Daives on a free, aswell as Taylor and Akpan coming in from Leeds and Burnley respectively. Nkoudou was also a brilliant addition, and the rest were mainly back-ups. 

Outs

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We let Botaka go to make space for Nkoudou, whilst players like Woods, Saville and Simmons, who were some of the key players in our promotion campaign last year, weren't considered to be good enough and were shipped off, with teams like Pompey and Charlton getting an advantage. 

Competitions

Being the smart person I am, I forgot to screenshot the actual games, so grabbed them off the fixtures list. 

EFL Cup

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We are knocked out rather quickly to a superior Tofees side, not much to talk about without the stats though. 

FA Cup

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We get to the third round before being dumped out to more EPL opposition in City. Again, not much to talk about. 

So, with yet ANOTHER disappointing cup campaign, could we sort ourselves out and gain a promotion?

Well, before we could do that, we had to go through....THE PLAYOFFS! Yes, despite being second in the league for most of the year, we dropped to sixth and has to go through the play-off system. Let's see how we did....

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The most nerve racking shootout sees only 3 penalties converted, but luckily we have 2 of those and we progress through to the play-off final. 

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YESSSS! Nkoudou's highlight of the year, he clinches promotion in the dying embers of the final. Despite our domination, we couldn't grab a winner in the match before that point, but we tick Wigan off our list! 

Player Statistics

Goals

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Wilf and Massanka draw for the top goalscorer, despite the fact that Massanka was on awful form before a formation change.
 

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Just a snap from mid-season

 

Assists

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Watmore grabs 17 assists for the second year in a row, he has been astonishing for us since his arrival. 

Average Rating

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Zaha had a stellar season, achieving a great AVR. Shame to have to leave such a good bunch of lads. 

Job Oppertunities

Yet again, we received lots of intriguing offers, with a few from very big clubs....

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Malaga offer to take us on, and despite the temptation I remained at Wigan.

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Another Spanish offer, with Espanyol asking for my services. That 18M budget was attractive, but decided against it. 

 

Fixtures List

Just the seasonal fixture list. 

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Player/Manager Awards

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Wilf grabs the runner up, still a great achievement. 

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And I take the MOTY award ahead of the competition. 

League Tables

Right, the interesting bits. Here is what the English leagues looked like in season 6.

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Sigh. As much as this is amazing for me, as a United fan, but from a challenge perspective this isn't good. They have won it about 4/5 times in a row now, meaning still no extra points. 

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2 sides go up in Wigan and Reading, meaning our list becomes considerably shorter. However, Bolton finished rock bottom and are bound once again to League 1. 

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A decent year sees Blackburn and Coventry return to the Championship, meaning we have one less team to worry about in League 1 next year. Sheffield narrowly avoid the drop, meaning nobody is relegated. 

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And the only team to worry about here is Oldham, who finish in a relegation threatened 17th position. 

Current Division Of Second Chance Teams:

Championship: 12

League 1: 6

League 2: 1

(This is probably wrong :D)

Second Chance Checklist:

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Aston Villa, Barnsley, Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers, Bradford City, Cardiff City, Charlton Athletic, Coventry City, Derby County, Fulham, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Newcastle UnitedNorwich City, Nottingham Forest, Oldham Athletic, Portsmouth, QPR, Reading, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Swindon Town, Wigan Athletic, Wimbledon, Wolves

Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed this, please remember to leave a comment as it really drives me to play more and more. Next update could be soon, so keep your eyes peeled. Cheers!

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Steady progress, mate. Great job getting your side promoted. Still a truckload of work to do but you're getting there. KIU!

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Nice! Moving upwards. Two more crossed off the list (which is 2 more than I got in my last season!) and general upward momentum (1 went down, but 2 came up!). Keep going mate!

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51 minutes ago, Mr.Manager said:

Is it just me or are there no images? Sounds like another successful season though, well done dude!

The images load for me, but the ones in the spoiler section are pretty slow to come up. I actually read this post earlier today in a cafe with slower internet and they didn't come up then until I'd refreshed a few times..

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On 18/06/2017 at 15:28, BatiGoal said:

Steady progress, mate. Great job getting your side promoted. Still a truckload of work to do but you're getting there. KIU!

Thanks mate, was a hard season but got there in the end. Slowly but surely, we are getting there. Cheers BG. 

13 hours ago, scratch99 said:

Nice! Moving upwards. Two more crossed off the list (which is 2 more than I got in my last season!) and general upward momentum (1 went down, but 2 came up!). Keep going mate!

Moving upwards indeed, getting closer with every year, even if it is only 1 club or so per season. Agreed, getting better and thankfully it seems the clubs are being awfully nice to me! 

5 hours ago, Mr.Manager said:

Is it just me or are there no images? Sounds like another successful season though, well done dude!

Apologies, didn't notice anything wrong with them earlier. Thanks mate, sorry again. 

5 hours ago, scratch99 said:

The images load for me, but the ones in the spoiler section are pretty slow to come up. I actually read this post earlier today in a cafe with slower internet and they didn't come up then until I'd refreshed a few times..

Scratch in a cafe? I'd imagine you are their biggest customer, buying truckloads of coffee to keep you going during your nail biting careers! 

Cheers for the comments lads. 

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