oneteaminglasgow Posted June 25, 2020 Author Share Posted June 25, 2020 June 2034/35 Some internationals, and we're finally starting to click a little bit. Could have beaten Ukraine as well, but draw was fine. We absolutely thumped both the Faroes and Montenegro. We're going to be nowhere near qualifying, but should be ok. Whipping boys Malta and Bulgaria, both at home, up nexr. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted June 26, 2020 Author Share Posted June 26, 2020 Transfer Window 2035/36 As usual, a load of dross released. Kilbane was a useful player, but not really good enough, and Smith got some games but was emergency backup at best. Lisica got offered about 8 times as much as I could offer, so fair enough him leaving. My board accepted the offer for Kazazic, which is probably fair enough. Never heard of Dion Elliott, or the two boys out on loan. Now for the guys coming in... Starting with Damien Kelly, and it now means that I've got two of the centre halves I had at Cobh. He looks pretty decent, especially his physical stats, Plus there's this Spoiler Declan Boyle comes in to replace Lisica, and he's not particularly an upgrade, but he's certainly no worse. His wage is a bit higher than I would have liked, but there weren't really many options available. Spoiler Armstrong is a centre midfielder, and an upgrade on anything I had last season, which is nice. He's pretty well rounded, plenty of Stamina and work rate so should do a job. Spoiler Ben Mullan joins again on loan from Larne. He's done well last 2 seasons, no reason to think he won't again. Spoiler Scott Lewis is in as another centre midfielder, plus offering cover in attacking midfield and right wing. He's unlikely to be first choice in any of them, but cover is ideal and he looks decent. Spoiler Had Platonovs on trial, and I wasn't going to sign him, but when Kazazic left I kind of panicked. Not as good as the guy he's replacing, but he looks fine,. Spoiler Same story with Pat Hassan, who joins on loan from Larne. I had been left with only Dave Watts up front, and he scored plenty for me last time I had him, so pleased to see him back. Spoiler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted June 26, 2020 Author Share Posted June 26, 2020 August 2035/36 Pretty decent start to the season. Although we lost in the end, I did enjoy Pat Hassan scoring against the club I've got him on loan from. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted June 26, 2020 Author Share Posted June 26, 2020 September 2035/36 Meh - a decent month. Were unlucky against Linfield, and we had 10 men after 7 minutes against Glentoran, but feels like we really should be doing a bit better. We're doing well, and we've still got a few of the shitter teams to play. Northern Ireland Malta was a given - that's one of their better results so far.... Beating Bulgaria was huge though, gets us back in the mix for second place. Turkey running away with it, and a three way race for second. Only problem is there's a decent chance of our group having the worst second placed side and missing out on the playoff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted June 27, 2020 Author Share Posted June 27, 2020 October 2035/36 Brilliant month. Great comeback against Ballymena the highlight, and two league wins against the newly promoted sides. Still in the league cup too - hopefully get through to the final of that. Flying high after playing everyone once. Northern Ireland Meh. Not beating Ukraine was a blow, as we played very well. Turkey are just significantly better than us. 4 points to make up, we're almost guaranteed 6 in our last two. Ukraine play Turkey and Bulgaria, so need to hope they drop points in both. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted June 27, 2020 Author Share Posted June 27, 2020 November 2035/36 Meh. One of they months, nothing really went our way. Still doing well, bearing in mind all I'm targeting is top half. Northern Ireland Did our bit, should have won both by far more but it's something. Results elsewhere didn't go our way, in the end. It didn't matter as we would have missed out on goal difference even if Bulgaria had drawn with Ukraine. However... I don't know how this happened, but f**k it. If I don't qualify, I'll be resigning. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted June 27, 2020 Author Share Posted June 27, 2020 December 2035/36 Another very good month - and we're into our first major cup final as well (although they played a reserve team). We should have won against Ballymena as well, but can't complain too much. Starting to fall behind the top 3 a bit, but with some luck we may be able to pull them back in. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted June 27, 2020 Author Share Posted June 27, 2020 That seems perfectly reasonable, tbh. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted June 28, 2020 Author Share Posted June 28, 2020 January 2035/36 Fucking Linfield. Very good month, but they're too good at the minute. Into the next round of both cups, which is good, and some decent form leading up to the League Cup final. Very much part of the top 4 and far clear of the rest. No chance of winning the league though, top 3 is the aim. This was at the start of the month, up to 61 now. He's still the record scorer for Cobh as well. We also brought in one player this month, right back Jim Ford. A significant upgrade on what we had before. Spoiler 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted June 28, 2020 Author Share Posted June 28, 2020 League Cup Final 2035/36 First cup final with Dungannon and, as usual, it's the League Cup. We're facing Portadown, currently top of the table in the second tier, but we're certainly favourites for this one. Spoiler Made it much more difficult than it should have been with a shocker of a first half, but we managed to get there in the end. Doesn't matter how we did it I suppose, or that I'm the only top flight team that seem to bother with this competition... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted June 28, 2020 Author Share Posted June 28, 2020 February 2035/36 Mixed month. I can't seem to get the win over Larne, and we should have been beating Cliftonville, but good stuff otherwise. Looking likely we'll be finishing 4th. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted June 28, 2020 Author Share Posted June 28, 2020 March 2035/56 Good month. Crusaders ended up with 9 men, so the fact we needed a last minute goal, and then penalties, was frustrating but got there in the end. Face Larne in the semi final. Rest of the games went as I'd expected. Given ourselves a chance of 3rd - but anything more is out of reach for sure. Northern Ireland Just fucking pish. We had a 94th minute goal disallowed, but that was the only thing we did all game. Relegated from the nations league, failed to qualify and then lost a playoff to a pretty poor side. My reign has been brilliant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted June 28, 2020 Author Share Posted June 28, 2020 Mid Ulster Cup Final Pretty straightforward stuff. I usually win this competition, so no big deal to win it again. I'll be glad to be done with Ireland and can leave these regional cups behind. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted June 28, 2020 Author Share Posted June 28, 2020 April 2035/36 Pumped out the cup, but a good showing in the league. We missed two penalties against Crusaders as well - that was a bizarre game. Third place confirmed, and with it European football for next season. Should help us in attracting players to push on and claim the title. Apparently its Dungannon's highest ever league finish, so that's nice. In other news, Dave Watts now has 200 career league goals under my management - he's only managed 4 goals for any other managers.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted June 30, 2020 Author Share Posted June 30, 2020 Transfer Window 2036/37 Some squad fillers leaving, no-one here I'm particularly disappointed to lose. I'm delighted to see Fletcher leave, he was costing far too much and wasn't very good. First up, Joe Carlin - I actually signed him towards the end of last season, but couldn't register him to play. He's here entirely for cover, and is about the same level as the guys who've left but costs a lot less. Spoiler I've been trying to sign Vasiljevic for about a year, and he's finally lowered himself to my level. He looks fairly good defensively, and his set pieces are ridiculous - considering he's a centre back. Long throws in particular should be outstanding. Spoiler Weakest area of my team was left back, so I brought in John Simpson on loan from Dundee United. He looks great - I've also agreed that I can pay 275k at the end to make it permanent, but I'm unlikely to be doing that. He's nothing special, but you really don't have to be in this league. Spoiler Keiran Buchan is here to provide cover up front for Watts and Hassan, and in midfield. Looks decent. Spoiler I also extended the loan deals for Mullan and Hassan until the end of this season, which is good. Means I'll have had Mullan on loan for 4 seasons running.... I think I'm now at the point where my first 11 is about as good as anyone else in the division, but I've struggled to find players to add depth. I'm worried about injuries and the needlessly busy period over December and January, but if all goes to plan, this year may be the one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted July 1, 2020 Author Share Posted July 1, 2020 July & August 2036/37 Busy start with the european run, but a very, very good start to the season. Started brightly by pumping the mob from Gibraltar silly (with Vasiljevic getting 5 assists from centre back...) and then beating both Rapid Vienna and Velje was nonsense. Viktoria Plzen was a step too far unfortunately. League start has been very solid as well, beating last season's champions 3-0 is hopefully a sign of things to come. We were absolutely fucked against Coleraine, so rested a load of my best players and it didn't work, but to have picked up maximum points in the other games is huge. Early days but it's going very well. One major negative was this... Necessitated the signing of another striker, so I did - Steven McDougall joins. He can also cover each wing which is helpful, and looks a relatively decent player, so quite happy to have him in. Spoiler 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 Very promising how poorly Linfield have started. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted July 1, 2020 Author Share Posted July 1, 2020 11 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said: Very promising how poorly Linfield have started. Definitely, although I'd expect them to pick up at some point - both them and Larne are in the Europa League 2 group stages, so I'm hoping their players get knackered by that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted July 1, 2020 Author Share Posted July 1, 2020 September 2036/37 Another good month - brilliant comeback against Cliftonville to start us off, and a huge win against Glentoran and all. Going well so far. As expected, Linfield have picked up somewhat. Shout out to how terrible PSNI are - their best result so far was a 3-1 loss... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted July 1, 2020 Author Share Posted July 1, 2020 (edited) October 2036/37 Still going very well - I'm waiting on the bubble bursting, but no sign of it so far. Shame that I haven't been able to really pull away, but can't be upset with how it's going. This is still a shame though... Edited July 1, 2020 by oneteaminglasgow 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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