Wednesdayboy

My name is Josh aka Wednesdayboy and I'm an experienced Football Manager and Championship Manager (before it went crap) player and have great experience managing in England. On this game I wanted a challenge so I took up Redditch and here is the facts.

Transfer Budget: £0

Wage Budget: 4.7k (used 4.2k so only £550 left)

Media Expectation: 22nd

Board Expectation: To avoid relegation

Fans Expectation: To avoid relegation

Cup Expectation:

FA Cup: 4th Qual Round

FA Trophy: 1st Round

Setanta Trophy: 2nd Round

Feeder/Parent Clubs: None (trust me that makes it even harder)

I will post my results for preseason later today and post transfers in and out to show you I'm not cheating. Will also show my Finances and other stuff. Hope you enjoy the ride as much as I do.

WozzaWolves

Tough challenge Josh. I tried this and came 2nd in my frist season and lost in the play-offs and in my second season i won the league by 24 points. Then my game got corrupted lol.

leanardo22

its not as easy as older versions of football manager/champ man where u could fly up the leagues which was quite easy by bringing in the right players, even goin from league one to prem is difficult on fm 2008 because its more in depth with the training and infastructure at the clubs. It takes season after season to slowly build a club with the realistic financial restrictions on 2008.

I tried with sutton utd who r a big conference south team and couldnt get past league one (i was gonna get relegated so i stopped playin) as i couldnt get decent enough players to come and had no investment or support from the board.

p.s if u could get to the championship with redditch that would be impressive

good luck on your game

Wednesdayboy

I'm also manager of England and U-21 England. Will post the odd progress on that aswell.

WozzaWolves

Make sure you get a feeder club. Aston Villa is the best choice, you can get players like Zoltan Stieber, Adam McGurk, Marc Albright and Ciaran Clark. With them you will win the league no problems.

Wednesdayboy

Thats the problem, board say there is no point to have a parent club like Villa or anyone. It piss's me off, I do have a star in the making tho, My right-mid playmaker, set piece taker, superstar... Sean Coburn. posting results soon.

Wednesdayboy

Transfers:


The Best has got to be Sean Coburn, what a player he can do everything, if he stays fit we will be fine.

Transfer (Financal)


Not bad for the future of the club, lets hope one does well and sells for a couple of million lol.

Trials:


Just to show you how many people I tryed in Pre-season, some I bought others I didn't, can't go through them all, was very angry with game, was going to sign Azariah O'Garro p/ex for a guy in my exchange that they want when the worst happened. In a Friendly he injured his calf and was put out for 2-4 months. The best was Josh Wright, my scout says he will be a good L1 striker in future and he has 14 JoP.

Now for Fixtures:

Redditch Vs Whitby = L 1-2
Hamp & Rich Vs Redditch = L 2-3
Redditch Vs Stockport = L 0-1
Grantham Vs Redditch = D 3-3
Redditch Vs Eastbourne = W 2-0

As you can see it was a poor Pre-Season, the loss to Whitby and H&R and the draw to Grantham but the win against Eastbourne and the loss to Stockport show great promise for the season. I think that if Sean Coburn and a few others keep fit and luck plays my way then I might and thats a big Might, be able to reach the play-offs but I don't think that'll happen.

I have also made a huge improvement in the Financial side of Redditch, I may have sold most of my players for free but because they were on £150-£300 and I only had £550 in the beggining to spend on wages this put me in a great position to sign players.

Total Wage Budget: £4766 per week
Current Wage Budget: £2769 per week

Thats nearly 2k I'm saving a week basically.

Will post the results of my first month later today or tommorow.

Akenatwn

That's the case for me too.I play as Kettering and for three years now the board doesn't allow me to get a parent club. Perhaps they don't want you to succeed and then be forced to give you a lot of money...

Anyway GL.You'll surely need it.I've played against Redditch and they're crappy.

Toumba...Don't you just love it?


Villans Fan For Ever

Wednesdayboy

Edit..

New signing from Nuneaton, 18 year old GK Joe Sagar on a free. he's my reserve GK cos my first one is old. looks good for the future, good L1 potential

John10

good looking signings there mate. shame your pre season could'nt have been better good luck for the season

apthered

seems pretty good so far
a really good challenge though good luck
try alex fernandez and frazier campbel on loan, they go to the conference soemtimes

Hartynips

I think youre making good progress with the challenge so far mate.

Interesting reading, keep it up!

Wednesdayboy

BSN - Redditch Vs Harrogate = 3-1 (Dave McEwen, Amjad Iqbal, Sean Corburn)

BSN - Leigh Vs Redditch = 0-0

BSN - Redditch Vs Stalybridge = 2-1 (Josh Wright, Dave McEwen)

BSN - Southport Vs Redditch - 1-3 (Dave McEwen)

BSN - Redditch Vs Tamworth = 1-1 (Dave McEwen)

League Table:



11th in the table and only 1 loss in first month of season and that was against Southport who have the best striker in the league, Cédric Baseya. I'm very happy with this month, the team has done well and as you can see Dave McEwen is my star Striker. Some may remember him from the late 90's where he played for Tottenham and his short time at QPR, but he has been out of work since then and to say he hasn't played competitive football for 6 years he has played unbeliveable. Josh Wright looks good aswell for the future and Sean Coburn is on fire as playmaker and scored a great freekick against Harrogate.

The big shock signing during this month came from my Scout, Joe Anyinsah. I have got him on loan til end of season but guess what, he's out for a month. Watch this post to see if he does well. I've had him on previous games and he looks good.

The Setanta Shield North 2nd round was drawn this month and we got Workington at home, I could do with win because we need money.

Watch this post for next months results.

mcooper23

good luck mate i done 1 with workington finish jst outside the play offs in first season and then won the play off second season got to league 2 after 5 seasons then it went all pair shaped. trying to get them back in the league but its hard mate. but anyway hope u have a good season mate.

coopes

Wednesdayboy

BSN - AFC Telford Vs Redditch = 1-2

BSN - Alfreton Vs Redditch = 5-0

BSN - Redditch Vs Burscough = 2-2

BSN - Redditch Vs Hucknall = 1-1

BSN - Gainsborough Vs Redditch = 0-0

BSN - Redditch Vs Workington = 4-1

FAC - Cambridge City Vs Redditch = 3-2

League Table:



What a Month its been, 7 games and only one loss. At the beginning of the month I thought that the 5-0 win would be the first, game of the month, but the FA cup match against Cambridge City was a wonder match, the odds were against us but we went in front, they then went 2-1 in front and in the last 5 min it looked like we were out of the cup but then Law made it 2-2, he was offside but hey.. they all count, so I was thinking, replay at our place, were in with a shot and a little extra money when the ball falls to the feet of Josh Wright who hammers it into the top corner 4 minuites into Injury time.



Next round we have non-league Hendon so thats an easy pass into next round, if the draw goes our way then we might reach 1st round. As for the league, if we finish 10 places lower than were we are now I'll be happy so it looks good for the rest of the season. We also made 4k this month so i'm really happy, by end of season i'm 40k in the clear plus whatever money I get for finish, looks good for future of club. Not bad for firt time with such a poor club.

plz comment

Akenatwn

surely looking there m8.i've played against redditch and they're really crappy,so you've done a very good job so far.

keep up th good form and you'r sure for a good season

btw sorry to disappoint you but you dont get anything for your final position.this is the non-league m8...

Toumba...Don't you just love it?


Villans Fan For Ever