fm2006

[quinnismyhero]

WTF??

I have had several attempts with Town and the ONLY time I get a budget is when I sell

[Simon Pieman]

Did you edit your own personal stats sonic? I'd see no reason to offer £5k a week for a starting manager

[Piemonte]

I created myself before on the editor. I endend up being a world class central midfielder who due to ridicuus hidden loyalty stats and STFC being a favorite club was being picked for England ahead of Lampard whilst in League 1.

I wasnt even Swindon that game, just did it for a laugh.  I was liverpool and I kept blowing myself out ( :shock: ) even for £90k a week to enjoy a nice quiet swindonian life for £4k a week

[sonic youth]

i swear to you that i didn't edit anything but the two things above, it's insane.

i'm starting a new game as napoli instead

[sonic youth]

I accidentally turned on the sugar daddy setting in the editor, which is why I got loadsa money.

I turned it off and started a new game as Swindon, £250k transfer budget and a threadbare squad - surely this is going to be a doddle, I thought to myself.

So off I went with £250k in used £20's in various briefcases, pockets and other orifices, on a worldwide jaunt to scout some quality players which will lead to me pissing all over League One.

Over the course of the next month, I signed...

Former Swiss international goalkeeper Jorg Stiel on a free transfer.
Portuguese goalkeeper Filipe Leao for £4k.
Young 'keeper Joel Armstrong for £1k.
Norwegian winger Fredrik Lundblad on a free transfer.
Promising left-winger James Edgerley for £75k from Windsor & Eton.
Exciting prospect Ashley Parillon from Preston for £35k.
Slovenian international centre-back Branko Ilic for £70k.
Pacey hitman Nathan Jarman from Barnsley for £28k.
El Salvadorian international left-back Deris Ariel Umanzor for £35k.
Portuguese striker Alexander Mendes on a free transfer.
Targetman Enoch Showunmi on loan from Lotion.

A total of 11 signings, coming to a combined £247,000 left me with reason to be optimistic for the forthcoming season.

Feeling confident after a decent pre-season, I went into my first game away at Chesterfield. A disappointing nil-nil draw was followed by a 2-2 draw at Swansea, consecutive 1-1 draws against Tranmere and Bristol City respectively until I notched up my first win against Notts Co in the league cup, a cracking 1-0 victory with debutant Enoch Showunmi banging in his first goal for the club.

Riding on a wave of excitement after recording my first victory, I strolled into the next game away at Brentford feeling that we'd turned a corner. Sadly, there was a large wall around this corner and we recorded our second no score draw of the season, not a shoddy result at a place like Brentford I convinced myself.

However, worse was to come when we succumbed to a 2-0 home defeat against Rotherham, both goals coming from free-kicks. After giving the lads a bollocking, they proceeded to pick up our first league win of the season away at Huddersfield, the solitary goal coming in the 65th minute from none other than The Peaconator. Hoorah! Surely this momentous victory heralds the beginning of a new era?

The following Saturday we faced a tough away match at Colchester United, a side littered with former Town players - we went up against Tony Thorpe, Jamie Cureton, Mark Yeates and Kevin Watson. After going 1-0 up on the stroke of half-time thanks to Christian Roberts, I felt confident and believed that we'd truly started to show what we're capable of and I told the lads to not get complacent. Ten minutes into the second half and former town player Kevin Watson scored his 50th career league goal with a free-kick from 30 yards, leaving the young Filipe Leao stranded and hopeless. The game finished 1-1, our sixth draw of the season.

Somehow hovering above the relegation places despite an appalling start to the season, a home encounter against the Franchise was next up. A dreadful start left us 2-0 down inside of 24 minutes, with Enoch Showunmi bagging a consolation goal midway through the second half.

Four days later came a chance to have a break from the league, an away trip to Burnley in the League Cup 2nd round. Holding onto a 0-0 scoreline after 90 minutes took the game to extra time where we eventually lost 1-0.

Gus Poyet and Dennis Wise are both out injured for four and two months respectively, Wise managing only one appearance whilst Poyet made five. Roberts is my top goalscorer so far with three goals, Showunmi and Peacock are joint second with a whopping three goals and Nathan Jarman is the only other goalscorer in the squad with one goal to his name.

Overall my managerial record so far is P11, W2, D6, L3. Not too shoddy, but I'm 20th in the table after 9 games with no real signs of getting out of it.

I might just give up and go back to my Liverpool game...

[danny121]

Christian Roberts is suprisingly good on the game, always my top goalscorer bar the loan signing of dexter blackstock

[flammableBen]

dex is in fm?

[danny121]

Daryl Knights from Ipswich is always a good shout, very fast. My cousin Ashley Grimes plays for Man city, sign him out of favourtism n always seems to do okish

[McLovin]

Sanchez Fernandez will get you out of that mess.

I always concede long range free-kicks too. It's dead annoying.

[Piemonte]

SY - I was 18th at Christmas with STFC and made the play offs. Keep going!

[Simon Pieman]

What Piemunch said, that happened to me in the Championship in my 2nd season.

[DV]

you always start off slow as Swindon, you watch you'll suddenly go on a 20 game unbeaten run soon....then hit self destruct in about late March

[sonic youth]

After our visit to Burnley in the League Cup and the subsequent loss, normal service resumed with a home encounter against relegation threatened Port Vale. Making six changes to the team that lost 1-0 AET to Burnley the previous Wednesday, we opened the scoring on 18 minutes through Christian Roberts, who later scored his second and our third goal on 71 minutes after George Pilkington put the ball into his own net on 65 minutes. However, a miserly 3,272 people witnessed our biggest win of the season.

Three days later came another home encounter against top of the league Barnsley, making only the one change – Umanzor in for Nicholas – we were anticipating a tough match. However, we took the game to Barnsley and were 1-0 up through Christian Roberts after 5 minutes and 2-0 up after 36 minutes thanks to loanee Enoch Showunmi, conceding a goal 5 minutes later we went in at half-time with a 2-1 lead. The defence prepared themselves for an expected onslaught from Barnsley, which never came and the game was put beyond doubt when Sean O’Hanlon scored his first goal of the season on 69 minutes.

Having scored 6 goals in 2 consecutive home games, a visit to Southend followed. Fielding an unchanged lineup we notched a 0-0 draw in an uneventful but evenly matched encounter. Whilst on international duty with Slovenia in the week that followed, explosive defender Branko Ilic picked up an injury which forced him out for 3 weeks.

The following week we faced bottom of the league Walsall, Ifil coming in place of the injured Ilic. An early injury for Walsall meant Grant Smith was thrown into the foray, but his fantastic goalscoring ability wasn’t enough to stop us recording a 3-1 victory thanks to a strike from Christian Roberts and a brace from Whalley. Walsall scored a consolation goal late on through Ifil’s mistake.

Next up was a visit to fierce rivals Gillingham, where Gurney replaced the error-prone Ifil. A disastrous start led to Pouton scoring in the first minute with the Gills’ second coming on 39 minutes. Midway through the first half, Shakes was dismissed for his second yellow. Despite being 2-0 down at half-time, the boys went out with fire in their bellies and Peacock scored after 74 minutes followed by the dismissal of Brent Sancho for Gillingham on 79 minutes. A tense finish ensued but sadly our unbeaten run had come to an end.

Another poor start at Bradford the following week meant we were 1-0 down in the first two minutes, with youngster Ashley Parillon making his league debut in place of the suspended Shakes. Showunmi drew us level on 31 minutes, but neither side was able to break the deadlock and the game finished as a 1-1 draw.

The Vans Trophy 1st Round was up next, with a home game against Peterborough. Making 9 changes to the team which faced Bradford, the Town went through after a 1-0 win, the solitary goal being scored by Portugese striker Alexandré Mendes.

An injury to Enoch Showunmi ruled him out for the following league game against Doncaster, with Peacock replacing the injured Showunmi in the same line-up that faced Bradford in the previous league. However, we once again found ourselves 1-0 down after the wonderfully named Jermaine McSporran netted for Doncaster after 37 minutes, Roberts drawing us level on the stroke of half-time. An uninspiring encounter finished 1-1, our second successive score draw in the League.

A home game against newly promoted relegation battlers Scunthorpe started well with Roberts notching up his 9th league goal of the season after only 2 minutes, Peacock scoring the second after 84 minutes. This victory put us into 9th place in the league, our highest position all season.

The FA Cup 1st Round was up next, a visit from League 2 Shrewsbury on the cards. An easy 3-0 victory was wrapped up after three goals from Gurney, Brown and Peacock in the first 24 minutes booking us a place in the second round and a visit from either Yeovil or Rushden in the 2nd round. The most remarkable result of the round was Franchise’ 11-0 victory over minnows Wroxham.

Riding high on the crest of two emphatic victories, an away trip to Yeovil was next up. The return of both Ilic and Showunmi from injury providing another boost, both coming straight back into the side replacing Gurney and Peacock respectively. However, the change of personnel wasn’t effective and we lost 1-0 after a disappointing performance.

So, the Town lie in midtable after 18 games only 6 points off the play-offs. Jarman and Pook are both out on loan to Torquay, where Jarman has scored 3 goals in 3 games and Pook has performed admirably. Jutkiewicz and Mendes have received U19 call-ups for Poland and Portugal respectively whist Leao got an U21 call-up for Portugal.

[STFC_Chris]

Have been trying to sign Nik Besagno for the last two seasons. First time he was with an American team and they accepted the offer and he accepted the trms of the contract. But he was refused a work permit.

End of the season he was released, so I offered terms again, he accepted and again he didnt get a work permit. Now, a few months on, he has decided to retire! He is only 19, for christs sake. :x

[Piemonte]

I've signed Ronaldo