Up the Us
Up the Us Promoted to the football league in 1950, Colchester United have spent all but two seasons in the bottom two divisions, bouncing between the third and fourth tiers on a regular basis. Howe...
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@JustinCase0110
I get what you are saying, but then this isn't real life; it's just a game.
The real life Colchester United is in a total mess; they have just avoided relegation from the football league by the skin of their teeth for three consecutive seasons. A real life, or even close to real life, simulation in this game would see them continue to do that, which is not really the point of it all, in my view. Perhaps the real life Danny Cowley (he actually is their manager) might get them to mid-table, or even battling for promotion, but that's all he's going to do because that's their real position in the hierarchy.
If we all just kept it utterly 'realistic' (as opposed to bending things a bit, and maybe trying to come up with a story that might justify it, as I did with both these players at the time), then this career of mine is effectively finished, because Colchester United in this career have now got as far as they have ever done in real life - and they only stayed in tier 2 for two seasons at that. Not only that, they have never won a 'professional' trophy and yet here I am, with 2 BSM Trophies and an FA Cup. Of course it is fantasy; that's the whole point of the game's existence.
In the same vein, you have now taken Stockport as far as they should go, to be honest. Anything above the Championship is unrealistic for a club like that. If and when you get them into the Premier League, we will all suspend belief and congratulate you for doing it, because we recognise that it is just a fantasy.
The thing is, we all bend reality in this game; that's what makes it the interesting thing it is...🙂
I hope you're not offended by anything I've said, because that is not my intention.
No offence taken mate. Quite the contrary, I was afraid my feedback the other way could have been 'too honest' and caused a raised eyebrow 😉
I know it's only a game. I just like to keep some parts of a story/journey realistic. And to me smaller steps help to do that, rather than signing too good players too quickly. I signed Mbappé on a free once, to AC Milan. Got pretty boring soon after 😄
I think I like to play Career Mode, because it is a game mode that is tied to reality somehow. You can take a club from a real life situation/mess and do something good with it. But the point goes missing in my view, if the following steps are not within a grasp of realism. That's just about it. I shouldn't expect others to feel the same way about it. But I like to give feedback to others here, and I suppose a bit of honesty comes with that.
Anyway, as I said, it's all good man (Saul Goodman). Let's get back on topic...
Good talk. I think the same. I like to keep it realistic to a point but also enjoy mixing in things to bend reality and make the CM more fun for us. I admit in my Brighton career, I have had too many transfers in the first season. Normally I limit myself to only a few to keep it realistic but I wanted to speed up the rebuild and have fun with it so I went beyond the normal limits.
Anyway, back to the CM. Good transfer business, the squad is looking good for the competition and should be up to the task with Europe as well to at least compete in the group.
Update.
I haven't been able to keep up with this for a while, and it will be sporadic for the next few months on any forum.
However, where this career is now is as follows:
1) Colchester United gained promotion to the Premier League, as runners-up. They repeated their FA Cup win of the previous season with a battling 2-1 win against Manchester City in the final (just like Wigan shocked them, a few years ago). This placed them back in the Europa League for their inagural premier league season.
2) Their "Championship" Europa League campaign was epic, in which they reached the final after the pathway was cleared by the 'big names' such as Barcelona, Manchester United and Manchester City being on the opposite side of the draw and effectively culling their numbers, with Barcelona emerging from the wreckage. In the end, they were thrashed 4-1 by Barcelona in the final, albeit that it was 1-1 until around the 70th minute.
So, the club is now in the premier league and currently (after Christmas) sitting a distant second to Liverpool (13 points behind), with Chelsea, Manchester City and Spurs only a couple of points behind them. They got to the semi of the Carabao Cup and were thrashed 4-1 at home to City, but managed a 1-0 win at the Etihad. They have just progressed from the round of 32 in the Europa League and have met the manager's target of the round of 16 in the FA Cup.
On the player side, the club continues to develp and promote kids from the academy, having not purchased any big names with their "promotion money", or indeed the big fees got for Ruiz and Labrovic in the previous season. The only purchases of any note have been to meet the board's targets (strangely, I had to buy two players from North America) and kids from other teams. We have managed to keep hold of the most promising players, like the strikers Louis and Aguilar, because we are now in the premier league, and are also in Europe. They continue to find the net on a regular basis and have got better and better as the season has progressed. This season, we have loaned out quite a few of the kids and I am looking forward to seeing what I get back, in terms of how they have developed, at the end of this season.
So, it's going well at the moment, but getting a 'top 4' finish is finely in the balance (the target is 'avoid relegation')..
I've just downloaded the 25 Beta, so I'll probably play that for a bit now.
@CO88LER5 wrote:I've just downloaded the 25 Beta, so I'll probably play that for a bit now.
Welcome back mate. Though it seems the FC25 Beta has made it a short return. I can't help getting a bit envious of you guys getting this early sneak peak to the new game. I suppose I'll just have to remain patient for another 6-7 weeks.
Colchester United continuing an immense rise with consecutive FA Cup wins, a 2nd place in the Europa League and for now a 2nd place in the first EPL season. Even with European football as a distraction.
Impressive. Good luck with the beta. I look forward to joining the FC25 community at release.
