Category Archives: FM20

After our Europa League Playoff heroics, things are going to be tight this season. We’re competing on so many fronts and the squad isn’t really big enough to cope. Despite this problem, I’m making the decision not to prioritise any particular competition. The league remains important in my board’s eyes, I’m keen to complete domesticContinue reading “Czech Mate :-(“

Last season’s title win meant it would be a berth in the Champions League Qualifying Rounds for us this season! The added challenges of an earlier season start (6th July), additional fixtures in an already packed schedule and the possibility of humiliation by a bigger side are very much offset by the insane income (byContinue reading “The Tale of The Three-Legged Playoff”

Five games of Irish Premiership football remain this season and the fate of the Gibson Cup lies in our own hands. March’s victory over Glenavon put us level on points with them as we turn into the post-split fixtures but the final fixture against them in April will be even more crucial still. With theContinue reading “Title Race Nerves”

As the season ticked over from 2021 into 2022 , we sat atop the pile by 2 points from a strong Glenavon side who are chasing their third consecutive league title. Or a “Three-peat” if you’re one of those insufferable Stateside sports fans… While the Title Race is the overwhelming narrative this season, there isContinue reading “Take Back The City”

Season three started with one defeat in our opening seven games, the same amount of defeats that we would incur over the next four months! A fit squad hitting form, this season is shaping up nicely indeed! The green circles are out in abundance throughout the months of September and October. It shouldn’t be overlookedContinue reading “We Are Climbing!”

We’ve reached an exciting point in this save as I’ve managed to qualify for European competition, courtesy of my Irish Cup win over Portadown. There is added intrigue as we’ll be competing in the brand new third tier of europe – the UEFA European Conference League (branded as EURO Cup II in FM). Why isContinue reading “European Adventures”

As I left it last we only had the five post-split league games to tackle and an Irish Cup Semi-Final (and potentially final) in my second season run-in. We’d face top of the Premiership Glenavon in the Irish Cup but my hopes were higher for securing European football from a 3rd place league finish asContinue reading “If we don’t win the league, the Irish Cup will do”

Spirits high after securing a place in our first cup final, we roll into a busy Winter schedule which sees 12 league games in the months of December and January alone. Antonio Djuric does a lot of the donkey work up top without grabbing many of the headlines but he decided to steal the showContinue reading “You’ve Got To Pick a Pocket Or Two”

Our first season ended with us meeting the board’s expectation of a top half finish, in the end a bit of consistency might actually have secured us European football. This season, the board are simply asking again for another top half finish but they’ll no doubt expect to see some progression on our 5th placeContinue reading “Fortune Favours The Glens”

To quote every old woman from East Belfast ever “it’s never long running in!” Of course, they’re usually talking about the run up to Christmas as opposed to the back end of the Irish League season but the idiom fits. We needed to improve upon a poor run in December despite the solitary win notContinue reading “The Mourne(view) Ultimatum”