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It's a special kit for the centenary of Thistle winning the Scottish Cup, so aye the 1-11 was to stick with the retro theme.

November 2048 Two good results, two bad ones. We fell behind in the cup game against Sireti, and I was absolutely delighted not to lose it since that'd be mentioned every time I took a new job for the rest of the save. Season is already fizzled out, we should be hanging around where we are for the rest. Oh well, better than being relegated I suppose.

October 2048 Well, we comfortably won the only game I thought we had a chance in, so that's good - the less said about the others the better though. 12 goals conceded in 2 games. Yikes. We're still sitting comfortably midtable though, although closer to the bottom than any of the teams above us. I think fifth is probably my ceiling for this season.

Looked like a foul on Sena to me

Sakes Sena.

No idea what happened, but I’d have quite liked Kenny Arthur to start an actual fight there.

Fucking hell Graham

On their way to the final, they played Ray McKinnon's Falkirk, Coleraine, Queens Park and Edinburgh City. I wouldn't say that shows that they're a particularly good side. And Thistle played them the season they beat Kilmarnock, and I've got no idea how they managed it. They were an absolutely dreadful side, comfortably beaten by a team hurtling full pelt towards relegation from the Championship.

Does the team still exist? I was under the impression that they’d gone bust and the challenge was no more? Very tempted to give it a try at some point if I’m mistaken.

Ayrmad was saying that “Nicola Sturgeon doesn’t want independence because she has a salary” a few weeks ago. The boys an absolute moron.

September 2048 That's more along the lines I was expecting, but still not outrageously bad I guess. We're still in the cup, and we should have beaten Real Succes, so oh well. We're still in fifth, so that's good. The top two are pulling away already, so that's fun.

August 2048 A very good start. We lost comfortably against the two big sides, but 3 wins apart from that and my new signings have done very well. Can't really ask for much more than that. Good start, we'll see how it goes. If I finish 5th, I'll be delighted.

Transfers 2048/49 Nothing better in Moldova came up, but I did try for a couple of jobs elsewhere with no success, so I'll be starting the season with Spartanii and see what happens. I think the fact that my last 2 jobs, prior to this, were in the Faroe Islands and Malta is counting against me, but f**k it. Kalymkov is the only one who had any prospect of playing, and even at that it's have to have been an emergency. Not a single one of the players I released have found a new club, which I think tells it's own story. A number of players incoming, and I think it means that I have a squad which should be capable of not being routinely humiliated by everyone else in the division. We won't be close to winning the league, but I'm hopeful that we can be a nice, boring mid table side this season. And then I'll jump ship with any luck. Up first, centre half Constantin Ciuca who I paid money for from the side I beat in the playoffs last season. He's pretty decent defensively, nothing special, but crucially he can actually pass and vaguely control a football. I think he'll improve my defence quite a lot, and that's all I can ask for. Next up, a goalkeeper I've been trying to sign since I arrived at the club in Anton Voronkov. He's better than the Malaysian boy, and he's young and will continue to improve as well, so I would like to hope he'll be the main goalkeeper here for the foreseeable future. Also means that unlike the absolute shitshow I had upon arrival, I have 2 goalkeepers capable of playing at this level. Like Voronkov, Kovalev joins us from after being released by Sheriff''s second side - who have won the second tier 16 times in a row. He's a good passer and pretty good player overall. Maybe a bit of a nothing player in that I can't place exactly what kind of centre midfielder he's supposed to be, but he should be able to retain possession pretty well at the very least, so that's something. Alongside Ciuca, I also signed Dragos Avram from Victoria Bardar, this time without paying them anything. He's a left midfielder, and I'm not overly convinced by him, but I needed someone out there. He's very quick, so that's good, and I suppose his dribbling and crossing is ok, but he's not a particularly technically gifted player - maybe a bit like a Moldovan Miles Storey? f**k it, he's all I have on left wing. Maxim Cucos was here on loan last season, and I've made it permanent. He's pretty solid, and seems to be good on the ball. Will do a good job. Last up, we've brought in Alexei Martin on loan. He's bascially nothing more than a poacher - good first touch, finishing and movement and absolutely nothing else to his game. I expect him to act as back up for Efros up front, but I didn't really have any options there last season so this is a good signing. The window is still open, but I'm about to start my league campaign so that's my signings at this point. Wouldn't expect a huge amount more to come in, but maybe.

One of my neighbours delivers leaflets for the Lib Dems, and he seems like a really, really strange guy. So, I assume it’s a load of absolute weirdos who still vote for them.

June 2048 We finished off our world cup qualification second round group with an expected loss against Australia, and another expected win over Hong Kong. We did pretty well in these games, and Australia's third was late on when I was pushing trying to grab an equaliser, so 3-1 probably flatters them. Anyway, we were looking to be one of the best four second placed sides to continue with our qualification efforts... And we were the fifth best. Damn. That draw with Kuwait is what has cost us. I said that if I didn't get through, I'd be packing it in with Malaysia, and there we are. I'll be trying to get another international job at some point, but I don't think there's anything else I can achieve with Malaysia. Still, a win at the AFF Championships, a respectable showing at the Asian Cup and not far from getting to the final qualification stage for the World Cup. I'll take that.

There we go - the worst ever team to manage to stay in the division.

Relegation Playoff 2048 - Second Leg

Relegation Playoff 2048 - First Leg

May 2048 Well, we lost 1-0 but FC Singerei failed to get the 11-0 win they needed, and we're heading into the relegation playoff. Final table looks like this. Given we had 4 points from the first 20 games when I showed up, I'm quite pleased with the improvement shown to get 17 points in the 16 games following. One more test to go.

April 2048 That month is going to keep us up. As many wins this month as the rest of the season combined. Just wonderful. The win against Singerei is absolutely massive as well. Azuhar in goals had an absolute stormer, saving a penalty, and we were clinical when we got chances. Pretty similar stories in the other two wins, while Sheriff are simply far better than we are. We also got our youth candidates through this month, and quite a few of them have gone straight into my first team. Very helpful stuff. We're going to finish 9th, unless SIngerei beat Milsami, we lose to Sfintul and there's a 12 goal swing. We'll still be facing a playoff, but it's given us a shot at staying up.

A quick google suggests that the guy was a Brexit party candidate in 2019, so I’d imagine #staunch is an understatement. edit: he’s also an incredibly sinister looking man.

Aye, he stood as a candidate for them in the last general election as well. He was also David Goodwillie’s lawyer in the civil rape case, apparently.

I see that Salmond has had a press conference moaning about not being invited to the TV debates. He’s also said that Alba now have more members than the Lib Dems in Scotland, which is objectively funny whatever you think of Salmond’s band of nutters.

I’m not disputing that we might f**k it up, I’m just saying that it would be one of the worst results in our history if we do. Moldova are currently 177th in the FIFA rankings, a full 70 places below the side we played last night. The only European nations they’re higher than are San Marino, Gibraltar and Liechtenstein. In other words, complete dross.

Moldova are absolutely shite. If we lose to them, it’ll be a significantly worse result than Ireland losing against Luxembourg. Or Germany losing to North Macedonia, for that matter.