About time I made one of these.......

[Sir Calumn]

You know the deal, I'm gonna post my signings, squads, season highlights etc and you're gonna tell me how good or bad my decisions and results are....

Having played for seven seasons as Chelsea manager and only achieved a modest three titles and two champions leagues (though in real life I'd be happy with that!) I was getting a little bored and thought I'd start something new...

So...

Spent all my money on this guy but I think he may be worth it...



Also brought in Amdy Faye on a free for a bit of experience.

All in all there are a few decent players in my squad, Eardley in particular is very good on FM, also managed to get Grandin so sign a new contract even when Wolves made an offer meeting his release clause, so that was nice, no release clause in his new contract.

So yeah - my aim is to get Blackpool back to the Premier League and stay there. I have made a personal commitment of five years to Blackpool, unless they sack me first of course!

 

[Sir Calumn]

This is how I ranked up for my first game, and it was a good result, especially as Barnsley were favourites for some reason.



Taylor-Fletcher's goal was an absolute beauty, so good I offered him a new contract right after the game.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Your images could be just a little bigger. If you're resizing please use 1024x768.

 

[Filipower]

Cool tactic, as I've said in yoyo's thread I can never seem to come up with a decent, asymmetrical one.

 

[Sir Calumn]

I wasnt re sizing actually that's just the way they came out on image shack, I'll try to make them bigger in future, but you can read those ones ok, right?

 

[Filipower]

There's an "image resize" option when you upload the pic on imageshack. Unless that's your screen's resolution, though.

 

[Sir Calumn]

Cool tactic, as I've said in yoyo's thread I can never seem to come up with a decent, asymmetrical one.

Well we'll see how this works out, I didnt have much success when I tried tactics like this with Chelsea but I reckon it may suit Blackpool, I've also got them practicing a much more solid tactic loosely based on the old WWW2 formation and a 4-4-2 in case this tactic proves too 'leaky'.

 

[Sir Calumn]

Oh yes...... second game of the season, won 3-1 away at Nottingham Forest despite being massive underdogs. Another vintage goal from Taylor-Fletcher.

Also I've decided that I'm gonna get Charlie Adam back at some point, in my other FM game he was a flop at Liverpool so hopefully the same thing will happen and I can pick him up when\if I get promoted.

 

[Sir Calumn]

Alright so just reached the end of my first competitive month in charge and a decent start, one defeat at home to Crystal Palace but it was a fluke, we dominated the game, and otherwise all wins including away wins at rivals Forest, as mentioned already, and Leicester.

And I've drawn Chelsea in the League Cup!!!

Labyad has made an excellent start I think he will prove to be my Taraabt.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

There's an "image resize" option when you upload the pic on imageshack. Unless that's your screen's resolution, though.

Yeah, I think the first time you go it might automatically be set at 840xwhatever

 

[Sir Calumn]

Typical bloody Blackpool...

 

[Sir Calumn]

Right....... hit the January transfer window. Performing well above expectations (media prediction 13th) but as you can see it's still very close at the top and making the play-offs is by no means assured:



Anyway, the board, impressed with our promotion chances, handed me a slab more money and I spent it all on these players:



Also got Leigh Griffiths arriving on the 10th when he finishes his loan spell. Let me know if you want to see screen shots of any of those individual players, I'm guessing you're familiar with them all?

 

[Sir Calumn]

Also signed Abdoul Sissoko and Rhys Williams......... spent more in 6 months than Blackpool have in sixty years.

 

[Sir Calumn]

http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/7967/Sir Didier*hamiltonnewsinbox.jpg

 

[Mandieta6]

Haha!

For a moment I thought he had a brother or something.

 

[Sir Calumn]

I declared my interest in him and he actually said he was flattered! What a nice guy!

Anyway, my new signings took some time to bed in, think I signed too many actually, and I had a bad run of form, but have turned things around in the last couple of games and am now currently fourth.

Also got knocked out of the FA cup by Man Utd in the sixth round, but only by one goal.

 

[yoyo913]

He's not one of my greatest performers though. But you know my sneaky scouting methods so he must be good. Unfortunately I don't have an AMC position so I play him at MC and sometimes AMR. I had him specialized in stamina training too.


edit: You're going to hate it when he goes to African Cup of Nations.

WTF why does mine have so much better natural fitness? It must be randomized for him because I don't think that's an attribute that increases too much (or none at all). Yours has higher aggression if that makes you feel any better .

 

[Mandieta6]

Aggression and Natural Fitness are personality stats, and are not affected by training. Aggression will go down if you punish a player for violent behaviour, for example.

 

[Sir Calumn]

Yeah he wasnt as good as I had hoped, unless he dramatically improves I am going to replace him before too long.

Anyway..... thanks to a couple of bad results at the end I didnt make the automatic promotion spots which meant I had the nerves of the playoffs:



I didnt know that in the playoffs there is no away goals rule, so I thought I won the semi final against Burnley on away goals and was shocked when it went to extra time, but luckily I managed to win on penalties:



And I got lucky with the playoff final, it was against Peterborough who I beat comfortably both times in the league and I won again without difficulty, 3-1, so Blackpool are back in the big time baby!



I won manager of the year, and as you can see on the left Player of the Year and Young Player of the year were both won by my players... (admittedly ones who were already at the club, no my signings)...



Demonstrating my usual tight financial control...



This seemed like a good deal from relegated QPR:



Board didnt give much money, so apart from him I could only sign James Hurst who had been at Blackpool on loan on a permanent basis, I guess its ok as I still wasnt able to attract most of the players I wanted, lets just hope I can stay up with what I've got...

And check these odds!

 

[Sir Calumn]

Alright I got those screenshots in completely the wrong order except for the first two, but you get the idea... cant be bothered to rearrange them...