I never put Scottish leagues on, but after 15 or so games im 2nd 2 points off the top and am in FA trophy 2nd round after coming through 4 rounds to get this far and after winning 3 FA cup ties i got knocked out in the 1st round by stockport...........just

My team are improving and i feel with only one going up i wont make it. Although i am a hero at Moor i might move onto a bigger level if i get the chance

Remember Casper, its the one to be most succesful in English football not just Moor Green

Anyone else fancy trying this.........?

I think it's brilliant, it's hard as to get people to sign for you and you have to scrape the barrell for wages. My attendances are steadily going up .

Edit : David Bridgewater is a legend

Too Far!

This video has been posted about 600 times

Anyway i have Jorg Stiel in goal and my attendances started off at 250 now are 1600-1800 due to my league position

Casper- you got MSN?

Yip, I will PM you my addy

I've taken the Moor Green challenge, and i've just kicked it off.

What a bollocksy team!

I don't have any friendlies - do you get offered them, or will I have to arrange a couple?

I arranged 4 friendlies, 2 against my reserve and under 18's team and 2 against some non league teams. Sign Ryan Thomson and Ross Lindsay

Feck it, I'll fire up my old Stafford Rangers game. I'm only in the second season, so we'll see what I can do

I thought I was further on than I am. Sat in second in the Conference National with five games gone. Moor Green are still in the Conference North, and are stuck in 15th place with three points after five games - all of them from draws

I've been at the club 7 days, and i'm already overspending on wages!

Made a good few signings, and turned a lot of players Full Time.

My assistant manager just got beat 2-0 by my Reserves!

Jorg Steil, who has been at the club for 4 days, is now in the Favoured Personnel bit!

Easy pleased, these Moor Green boys.

I'm heading way over my wage budget here, but it'll hopefully be worth it, because i've now got a fully FT squad, and i'm employing extra coaches to help with training!

Not even started the season yet - i'm gonna need a few decent attendances!

There's a member of staff in my game, called "Peter Morse of the Crewe Chronicle"

Google reveals nothing!

I quit I was 2nd and got knocked out in the FA Trophy 3rd round but the team has went sssssooooo down hill its unreal

6 points from my first 4 games.

Beat Vauxhall Motors and Harrogate Town 3-1, but lost 3-2 to Alfreton and 1-0 to Lancaster (who scored quickly, then packed the defence.)

Had to play Lancaster and without Jorg Steil, due to injury, but he's back to fitness now, and my 10 coaches are now all working on different areas of training. I think I'll do well, but might not be good enough to get promotion.

I'm losing money though, the club is 11k in the red!

1 day into my reign we were 120k in the red, due to all the players i released. Sign Marvin McDonald and Matthew Shaw. They are immense . Shaw scored 25 goals for me in 26 games and McDonald got 15 in 20

Just let a 3-1 lead over non-league Guiseley slip.

Need a replay now, which isn't going to help my fitness problems!

This isn't going too well...

Thank feck, won the replay 2-0, scoring twice in 3 minutes right after half time. Another non-league team in the 3rd Qualifying round - better win this one comfortably.

I'll give it a shot soon. Right now I enjoy playing my Montrose game so when I get a bit bored I'll begin the task

Who's been your best player, at Moor Green?

For me, its Phil Trainer, he's class! Just scored a 45 yard lob in the FA Trophy!

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Edited to add: Oh I now need a new AM, L, R, C it doesn't really matter where because I can juggle around what I've got. Suggestions please

Kenny McLean can play AMR (since he's already in your team)

He's also injured

What is the actual challenge? To take them a certaion distance or something?

Just to see who can get them the furthest!

I'm on form, and i'm doing fucking brilliantly!

League:
1. Worksop - P 14, Pts 27
2. Northwich - P 15, Pts 27
3. Moor Green - P 14, Pts 26

Off topic I know but if anybody knows where I can get a semi recent data update for Football Manager 2005 Id be very grateful

Just wrapped up my tenth consecutive league win, but Lancaster are right behind me - they lost their first two games, but have been undefeated in the 18 games since then.

2 points ahead!

Unfortunately, the most recent patch for FM2005 is from the beginning of 2005
http://www.sigames.com/downloads.php?type=...id=242&file=379

Although there may be an unofficial one more recent if you look around

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PS I've gave up on the Moor Green challenge already! I was WAY over my wage budget and i couldn't even get the shittiest of goalkeepers to sign (because Moor Green start off without a goalkeeper!?)

Cheers

I started with a goalkeeper!

Just succumbed to my first defeat in a long time, to fucking Lancaster! I'd won my last 12 games!

OG after 3 minutes, fucking dafty must've pegged the keeper or something. Then they scored in the second half, from the THIRD rebound after a corner, and then scored a third goal with a deflected shot!

I scored in injury time with a rebound.

Still 3 points clear though!

Championees!

Finished first with 88 points, 89 goals and a GD of +59!

Also, sold Phil Trainer to Bradford for £475k!!

Just released Andy Penny, because he was a moany f'ck, and disliked me - good thing was, he says he's confident of finding another club, and doesn't want any compensation! Result!

Good month for my Man City team there. I had players 1st and 2nd in the Player of the Month awards, the Young Player of the Month, and I won Manager of the Month! And to make it even better, Lewis Grabban - a 21-year-old I signed in January from League Two side Wycombe - won the goal of the month award, and has scored 7 goals in 7 appearances, including 25 yard screamers against Liverpool and Wigan, and a goal in Europe against Barcelona at the Nou Camp!

We've since beaten Barca 2-0 to go through 3-2 on aggregate, Glen Johnson scoring his first goal of the season to give us victory. Ace!

My signings so far, for Moor Green:

Jorg Steil - Free Transfer
Jered Stirling - Free Transfer
Ross O'Donoghue - Free Transfer
Ryan Thompson - Free Transfer
Lee Vaughan - Walsall
Sergio - Ribeirao
Stewart Devine - Stirling
Curtis Weston - Millwall
Vladimir Kinder - Schwadorf
Radoslaw Michalski - Apollon L.
Matthew Blinkhorn - Blackpool
Allan Ferguson - Falkirk
Marvin McDonald - Macclesfield
Delfi Geli - Sint-Truiden
Filippo Masolini - Lumezzane
Marjan Dominko - Loko (Sofia)

All for the pricely sum of £0.

My squad is now huge, as you can tell! I'll have to make some cuts!

I didn't realise i'd arranged so many signings!

EDIT: The good people at East Fife just gave me £75k up front, with a further 25k over the next 12 months, plus 20% sell-on clause for Lee Vaughan! He's not even very good!

Ryan Thomson and David Bridgewater.

How the hell did you sign all of them

Signed them all free, and they are all on less than £600 p/w.

I've got a transfer budget of £200k, but I can only offer £600 max, so nobody decent will sign!

Where did all the money come from?

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Another new AM needed
Think I'll offer Robert Pires a contract

I'm having a pretty shite start to my first season in the Conference. All those players were unemployed for a reason! I would've been better with Phil Trainer, rather than the £475k - because I can put in offers for all the decent players I want, but none of them will come to me because 1. Moor Green are totally shite and 2. i can't offer decent wages.

How do you get the montrose badge in it ???

Download them from here, here, or here

Then extract them to
C:\\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2006\data\graphics\logos\club\sco


You download them as a pack (ie all first division, all second division, all third, or you might find one with all scottish badges)

I can't be arsed with all that, as long as I can play the game I'm satisfied.

Decided to continue with my game as St Mirren boss last night after about a month away from it.

I re-started it halfway through my third season in charge, and first venture into the SPL, sitting in 7th place. Missed out on the top 6, and finished the season by going 7 games without a victory, leading to a 9th place finish. Brought in Sebastien Larsson from Arsenal and added some free transfers to the squad, and after 10 matches of the season, I find myself in 4th place in the SPL, 11 points from the top but only 2 away from second.

Current starting eleven is as follows....

Gk - Ally Brown
DC - Grant Munro
DC - Lee Wilkie
DC - Kirk Broadfoot
DMC - Gregory Bourillon
DMC - Sebastien Larsson
MR - Martin Britton (on loan from Newcastle)
ML - Simon Lappin
MC - Charlie Adam (back on loan from Rangers)
FC - Stewart Kean
FC - Chris Templeman

Don't think i've posted about my actual game since i had to start again, so here goes

First season, promotion was decided on the last game of the season, lucky for me i was playing Peterhead (struggling at the bottom) and Partick had to play Gr£tna
Ended like:
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John Stark, who started off as U-19's goalie and pretty shite was called upon halfway thorugh the season and was excellent and has been my first choice keeper since
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7 games into the league (knocked out of league cp thanks to Rangers and out of Challenge Cup due to Hamilton injuring 2 players after i had used all 3 subs ) the table looks like this:
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My team/formation looks like this, usually with Lilley up front instead of McManus(sometimes Younghusband) but he's out injured for a month or 2, and with Alex Walker (who is shit hot for me instead of Millar):
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The usual stats page thingy:
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And before anyone asks about the transfer budget (in the last pic) it goes like this
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Looks like Ryan Thomson is off to Wigan for £1 million

Since posting that last update I've had a pretty horrible run of form, and of course the last thing you need then is the visit of runaway leaders Rangers. If that's not bad enough, after 50 minutes Saints are a goal down, and down to 10 men thanks to Ryan McCay seeing red. My newly adopted 4-1-2-2-1 formation (think a Chelsea 4-3-3 system) became 4-2-2-1, and goals from substitute Stewart Kean and debutant Neil Janczyk secured me a 2-1 victory

That's me now played both Rangers and Celtic once at Love Street this season, adn my 100% record is intact

Just finished a season with Rangers. Steven Smith won Player of the Year, Young Player of the Year, Football Writers Player of the Year and was also MOM in both cup finals. Just knocked back a £10m from Chelsea.

Brilliant now i have left school, and have days upon days to sti and play FM

Its true only diddy players will sign for Moor Green.

Romouald Bouadji just accepted a loan deal!

Also, got myself a decent goalie on loan too, Tonny Neilsen, from Doncaster.

I siged him too, he was understudy to Jorg Stiel though

Jorg Stiel was my goalie for the first season - arguably my best player, but he's retired.

I'm doing terribly now, 19th after 14 games. My defence is bollocks. My keeper is bollocks. I can't kill games off. Nobody will sign for me, even though I can afford to pay hefty transfer fees. Its a disgrace.

crawley town all the way. didnt sign 1 player bar stiel who was more for assistant manager than anything else. sittin 5th in the conference. in the 2nd round of FA Cup.


CRAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWLEY!

Having a total 'mare of season. Only 2 points above the relegation zone at the half-way point. Looking to bring in Markus Pattelinen to get me some goals.

My defence is really terrible - just threw away a 3-1 HT lead to draw 3-3 with Hereford.

In a shock result, I just beat Bradford 2-1 away from home in an FA Cup 2nd Round replay!

I haven't won in the league for 9 games, but Jered Stirling's injury time free-kick saw me through