County League - Animo et Fide
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Tough luck at Barnsley; taking the lead and then seeing Andy Cole's son hit a hat-trick.
I had him in one of my careers a long time ago, when he was a youngster. I did wonder where he was, these days...
Good wins against Doncaster and the Orient, too.
It's measuring up to be quite a successful season, being amongst the expected "best of the rest" in a division with such big beasts in it. Possibly might even get into the playoffs, which would be remarkable.
You even have a positive goal difference, which is more than United have managed so far this season...
@CO88LER5 wrote:Tough luck at Barnsley; taking the lead and then seeing Andy Cole's son hit a hat-trick.
I had him in one of my careers a long time ago, when he was a youngster. I did wonder where he was, these days...
Good wins against Doncaster and the Orient, too.
It's measuring up to be quite a successful season, being amongst the expected "best of the rest" in a division with such big beasts in it. Possibly might even get into the playoffs, which would be remarkable.
You even have a positive goal difference, which is more than United have managed so far this season...
Haha, yes I thought there was some kind of poetic justice with that hattrick hero against my team being located so close to Manchester. Also didn't know anything about his whereabouts, before he shut me down there.
Successful season in deed, also still in the BSM Trophy and the FA Cup at this point.
Strong result against Liverpool, conceding only a few shots.
Finally climbed into the playoffs, which is quite the achievement in this league, with the teams in it. Should it end that way, it will be a very successful season indeed.
@CO88LER5 wrote:Strong result against Liverpool, conceding only a few shots.
Finally climbed into the playoffs, which is quite the achievement in this league, with the teams in it. Should it end that way, it will be a very successful season indeed.
Yes, a successful season in deed. And yeah, I was quite happy with the Liverpool game, at times controlling the game and passing it well out from the back. For a while I really thought I could take them, as their initial pressure seemed to not work out for them properly. Well, until it did and they scored the goal. Anyway, I had achieved the board objective by getting there, so I thought it was a good way to end the run, going out against one of the best.
- @JustinCase0110
Good result vs Brentford indeed. It seems the QPR result was a bit controversial.
The surprise is how the Stanley managed to get a draw. I wasn't expecting that, especially at Edgeley Park.
Looking less likely to make the playoffs, now, bearing in mind the 4-point gap with a game in hand, but I'm sure you'll continue to make the attempt.
@CO88LER5 wrote:
Good result vs Brentford indeed. It seems the QPR result was a bit controversial.
The surprise is how the Stanley managed to get a draw. I wasn't expecting that, especially at Edgeley Park.
Looking less likely to make the playoffs, now, bearing in mind the 4-point gap with a game in hand, but I'm sure you'll continue to make the attempt.Yes, it's been quite the dip in form recently. The Stanley result was frustrating, especially on the back of the QPR game where I hit the post four times. It could very well be these two games that will end up costing the playoff spot. I will still continue to try to make it, of course.
- @JustinCase0110
Tough run of results means you're going to be lucky to make the playoffs. With the kind of teams you have in there, it's not so surprising, I guess. You're still very much the 'best of the rest'. It'll be interesting to see which teams come down to League 2 at the end of the season. It will certainly make the division more equal.
Strong defensive performance against Chelsea, though.
@CO88LER5 wrote:
Tough run of results means you're going to be lucky to make the playoffs. With the kind of teams you have in there, it's not so surprising, I guess. You're still very much the 'best of the rest'. It'll be interesting to see which teams come down to League 2 at the end of the season. It will certainly make the division more equal.
Strong defensive performance against Chelsea, though.Yes, my little reorganization of all the teams has made it quite interesting how things will turn out across the four league tiers. Perhaps it will go down as expected, or maybe there'll be a surprise or two. I might post the four league tables, once the season is wrapped up soon.
- @JustinCase0110
Good result against Palace.
I'm intrigued that the player wants to move from Monaco to a league 2 club; in my save, most such players would be 'unwilling to move', so that's an interesting one... I can't even get players at that level (with a top division club) even willing to come on loan, which is weird because other clubs in league 2 have such players. - @JustinCase0110
8th place. So close... Good result against Charlton, which must have been satisfying.
Next season will be easier, with some of the big clubs gone from the division. I understand the division into counties, but out of the four Stockport was (and unfortunately will remain) in the lowest division?
- @Danimal5981
I think that, as the big clubs move back up the divisions (as they will) the smaller clubs will drop back down, which is when Stockport will get more chances. Could even be next season, That's what makes this story interesting for me...
@CO88LER5 wrote:
Good result against Palace.
I'm intrigued that the player wants to move from Monaco to a league 2 club; in my save, most such players would be 'unwilling to move', so that's an interesting one... I can't even get players at that level (with a top division club) even willing to come on loan, which is weird because other clubs in league 2 have such players.I think it may be about him being here already, on a loan deal. I'm not sure though. Anyway, a more frequently common way to sign players these days, starting with a loan deal, then making it permanent later on, if succesful.
I counted six clubs from Greater Manchester. So I put:
Manchester City in the Premier League.
Manchester United in the Championship.
Bolton in League One.
Wigan, Stockport and Salford in League Two.
Ah, now I get it: it's a temporary shake-up of things but nothing permanent. I thought it was according to an American system, with equal conferences and the top teams meeting each other in play-offs.
I've tried something similar by creating the BeNeLeague (Belgium & Netherlands) which is actually a project in the making in real life. Merging them into the current Belgian Pro League in FC24 works best: eight from Belgium (Anderlecht, Antwerp, Club Brugge, Gent, Genk, RUSG, KV Mechelen and Standard Liège) and eight from Netherlands (Ajax, PSV, Feyenoord, AZ, Twente, Utrecht, Sparta and Heerenveen).
However it does leave me with a question mark about the leftover teams. In older games, via the Career Editor, I was able to make a football pyramid, putting one league on top of another and combining the cup tournaments and allocations to European tournaments. But that's no longer possible in the last four or five games. I am still thinking about workarounds.
I've tried a few of these experiments over the years. Belgium and the Netherlands were also subject of one of them, putting them in the German league system, so Ajax, Feyenoord, PSV, Club Brugge etc. were also fighting for the Bundesliga title. It was quite interesting, but I totally agree that the question always comes back with 'what to do with the rest'.
My biggest mixup yet was probably the "capital league", where all teams from capitals around europe were put in the English league system. So we had Real Madrid, Roma, Hertha Berlin, PSG, Copenhagen, Slavia Praha, Sparta Praha, Ajax etc. But European football was totally smashed by this, and that kind of ruined it for me in the end.
But yes, things will probably revert back to normal here, sooner or later. It was just an attempt to do something different with the first season in stead of the board just expecting a promotion and that's it.
