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An old face in a familiar place

The Newport County Dynasty
Started on 6 November 2010 by joannes3000
Latest Reply on 21 October 2011 by joannes3000
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Did you take the England job?
# 6294 : Did you take the England job?

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I can handle losing, but this result irritates me. I don't know what's more irritating, though.

Maybe it's the 2-0 halftime lead that we pissed away.
Maybe it's the late goal that we allowed to Lukaku; one that we replied to, thankfully.
Maybe it's the piss poor showing we had when we went to penalties.
Fortunately it's only the Community Shield and not the FA Cup or the Champion's League.
Good luck managing England!
# 6294 : Fortunately it's only the Community Shield and not the FA Cup or the Champion's League.
Good luck managing England!

Agreed, but the way we lost didn't sit well with me. Most of the time we do so well to close out games, and it irritates me to no end that we threw away a 2 goal lead. If we're up 2-0 at the half we almost always cruise to victory. It looked like the team mailed it in for the second half and I couldn't snap them out of it.
Silverware count - 1



A lackluster showing for the Community Shield is softened by an emphatic victory over EURO Cup champions Dortmundt.
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England



My first game as the manager of England proved one very important thing - that my 442 tactic works with teams other than my own. Barry Spring played the role of poacher and he put in a Cacaesque performance by netting a hat trick. Assists also came from the wide midfielders and from my trequart. Granted, a 3-0 victory should have been expected against the likes of Lithuania, but for the first game under my control I think the team looked pretty comfortable.
Silverware count - 2



This was another sloppy trophy win. We outclassed Cruz Azul all over the field but we couldn't get the job done without going into extra time.
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lol, is it really eden hazard in the world team??? that man never seeses to amaze!
It could be just me and don't take this the wrong way as i'm not criticizing in any way shape or form, but i'm starting to feel that this story may have lost it's way abit.

When the story started it was highly interesting a lot more in depth detail on games and annual season updates. Now it seems to have been reduced just down to the 'silverware count' and 'end of season awards'. Again it's your story but as a keen reader might I request for abit more detail throughout the seasons?
# Tom_BcFC : It could be just me and don't take this the wrong way as i'm not criticizing in any way shape or form, but i'm starting to feel that this story may have lost it's way abit.

When the story started it was highly interesting a lot more in depth detail on games and annual season updates. Now it seems to have been reduced just down to the 'silverware count' and 'end of season awards'. Again it's your story but as a keen reader might I request for abit more detail throughout the seasons?

No offense taken and to be honest I feel the same sort of detachment as the story is starting to show. The team has gotten to the point now that we rarely have competitive games until the later stages of cup competitions and against a small handful of league games. Once I start playing games with England I think that will perk things up a bit, at least for the home stretch until FM12. :)
# joannes3000 : Newport County was the first English team that I picked to coach when I started playing FM09. That's made them my sentimental favorite every time a new FM game comes out. :) With FM11 I wanted to finally dedicate enough time to get them to the Premier League, and now that I have and had the success that comes with it, I just keep plugging away as the seasons go on.

Things are definitely getting boring because I don't have to do much during games to ensure a victory, and my current motivation is to get Newport's stadium expanded to at least 90k to rival Wembley. That, and I want to get all of my facilities to the top levels (corporate facilities are already there) and see if I can create a football factory that supplies a bunch of players to the English national team.

Are you still alive? Managed to complete more seasons? I am in 2020 with the team that I support in Romania, but I have been looking for a new challenge, and I wanted a club with history, an old one, and I found that Newport Co is the oldest professional football club in the world, so wow very good choice there :D, now I see another reason for you to continue, nice work, I might start with them as well \o/. Is France winning everything in your game as well? For me it's France as national team and like 70% of the best players in the world are brazilian :< damn we want some spanish talents!

I managed to build a squad that can dominate Europe from now on I think, but now I want to get my youth academy up, as I have a 40k seats stadium on the way, which is ok for Romania :>
# tomy : Are you still alive? Managed to complete more seasons? I am in 2020 with the team that I support in Romania, but I have been looking for a new challenge, and I wanted a club with history, an old one, and I found that Newport Co is the oldest professional football club in the world, so wow very good choice there :D, now I see another reason for you to continue, nice work, I might start with them as well \o/. Is France winning everything in your game as well? For me it's France as national team and like 70% of the best players in the world are brazilian :< damn we want some spanish talents!

I managed to build a squad that can dominate Europe from now on I think, but now I want to get my youth academy up, as I have a 40k seats stadium on the way, which is ok for Romania :>

Don't think Newport County are the oldest team my friend, the oldest club title belongs to Sheffield FC and the oldest professional club is Notts County :)
haha yeah my bad, I confused Notts with newport in my haste :))) my bad, but still they are old! :D

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