How Long Till I get East Stirling to the SPL with only youth players?

  • 3 (Minimum)

    Votes: 1 5.9%
  • 4 - 8

    Votes: 9 52.9%
  • 8-12

    Votes: 3 17.6%
  • +12

    Votes: 4 23.5%

  • Total voters
    17
  • Poll closed .

kiedude

Member
Joined
Sep 7, 2013
Messages
306
Reaction score
0
Points
0
Welcome!!

To what will be my main story on FM14, and my plan is to do a youth acadamy challenge with
East Stirlingshire!!

View attachment 412658

Club Background:

"East Stirlingshire Football Club is a Scottish association football club based in the town of Falkirk. The club was founded in 1881 and competes in the Scottish League Two as a member of the Scottish Professional Football League" From wikipedia.


My main goal is to win the Champions League with a bunch of regens from Stirling andSince this is going to be a very tough task don't expect this to be done in any time soon. I will update every month unless you want something different. Start of season update to come.
 
I see everyone wants a taste of Scotland!

Good luck!

Will follow!

Yeah for some reason Scotland is huge on this forum. Wanted to do an East Stirling save for a while and not got round to it so it's good to start now with Scottish stories being massive. First update is coming right now.
 
During pre season we did okay during our three games, but the last result is embarrassing... :(


East Stirling 1 - 2 Ross County

Paul Quinn 75

Not a bad result if you think about, a top division team scraping past East Stirling

East Kilbride 1 - 2 East Stirling

David McCaughie 19, 61

Result humbles us tbh. We should be wrecking teams like this.

Man City U21
5 - 1 East Stirling

Paul Quinn 14

Paul actually gave us the lead... And then we got back down to earth, John Guidetti, who played a 9.8 and got a hattrick, is a whole new level from us sadly :(

Nothing else to update except from the fact we are looking for a feeder club (most likely a non league club)

View attachment 457478

Will update again after the start of season.


 
Decent start, Guidetti is a beast though so don't get disheartened about that!

I hope you do **** well :p
 
Just realised East Stirling are top of the table IRL. Got a lot of expectations to live up to ;) Next post will be up soon btw
 
Start of the season was, well, incredible..! Got wrecked in the cups but unstoppable in the league

Challenge Cup:

Raith 2
- 0 East Stirling

Not upset by this, as they are in the championship.

League Cup:

East Stirling 0 - 2 Partick Thistle

Again not upset about this, shame to go out but we had no chance

East Stirling 4 - 1 Albion Rovers

Kevin Turner (15, 47, 58)
Chris Townsley (17)

WOW, great start, let's hope this continues.

Montrose 1 -
5 East Stirling

Chris Townley (20, 66)
Kevin Turner (52)
Ross O'Donoghue (56)
Michael Herd (64)

I'm done.

East Stirling 4 - 1 Elgin City

Jordan McKechnie (13)
Ross O'Donoghue (27)
Graeme MacGregor (73)
Paul Quinn (90)

EASY! EASY!

League Table

View attachment 455675
It's early, but we're unstoppable

Obviously there was no transfers as this is a youth challenge, we can destroy these teams without them though.
 
You may have beat Elgin but in my Elgin story I believe we got past the first round in the Challenge Cup.
 
Might not continue this! As you can see, there has been no updates in a while and it's because I'm not having fun with the save. I'll keep the save on my computer and maybe one day soon I'll decide to play it but don't expect anything too soon. On another note does anyone want to see a story of my long term FMC save? On the year 2024 and having real fun with it. Currently managing Watford.
 
I'M BACK BOYS

And there's only one thing on my mind.

PROMOTION

Let's do this!

September:

Annan 1
-1 East Stirling

Turner (61)


Was hoping for a win, especially after my first games, but it's a point and I'll take what I got

Stirling 1-2 East Stirling

McKechnie (89)
Greenhill (90)

STIRLING YOU MAD? 2 goals within the space of a minute saved us from defeat against the rubbish Stirling team :p

East Stirlingshire 1-1 Queens Park

Turner (77)

You'd think we could beat an amateur side at home... *sigh*

Clyde 0-2 East Stirling

Wright (27)
Quinn (69)

A weird game. Their keeper had an incredible first half but wasted it by letting in two stupid goals. Anyway I don't mind and I'll take the 3 points


Scottish Cup:


Stirling 1
-2 East Stirling

O'Donoghue (14)
Turner (71)

Repeat of the last game against them. Was a boring game but we got the win and that's all that matters.

League Table:

View attachment 448913

Player of the month

Ross O'Donoghue

View attachment 448912

Been a consistent performer and deserves his PoM status
 
Going to have less regular updates, probably every 6 months, so next update will be after December
 
Well, half way through the league we've pretty much already won, which is great. We're winning week in week out, looking like a whole new level from this league, thanks for your wonder tactic Callamity :p


View attachment 448511

View attachment 448510

The Scottish cup was the first competition we got past the first round on :)

View attachment 448509

Player of the season so far:

View attachment 448505

Let me know if you enjoy the 6 month layout, I prefer it but it's up to you guys.

End of season update to come.

 
Here are a couple of things you may not know about East Stirling, they were bottom of the league so many times and were that bad there was talk of replacing them a couple of years ago and they also tried to sign Paul Gascoigne on ?10 a week!
 
SPOILER ALERT: We won the league with 8 games to spare
 
CHAMPIONS!!!

This was unbearably
easy, although form started to slip a little at the end, we still won comfortably. Oh, and we actually only won with six games to spare, I'm not a mathematician. :p

And one more thing. I forgot to SS the youth intake, I've SS'd some of the players from it so you can still see the players I got. I'll be more professional next season, hopefully the team will too :)

On with the update

Final League Table:

View attachment 448423

Fixtures



View attachment 448424

Player of the season:



View attachment 448425

Hard to choose between him and McKenchie, he won because he had 11 goals playing centre back :D

Overall:

A very solid season, especially considering we haven't been able to sign people, I expected a playoff stop, but we played our hearts out week in week out and were deserved
champions. Now onto the most important part of this save, the youth intake.

The Youth Intake!

View attachment 448422View attachment 448420View attachment 448421View attachment 448419

I hate you SI... Best player here could become a decent league one player... D:

Pre season 14-15 update coming soon.

 
How about I add a rule, because this save seems impossible... How about I can sign players 20 years old or younger? Seems much easier with still having the challenge feeling involved. If you all really don't want it like that I'll keep it the way it is but I can't do anything with decent league one players... :(
 
Totally up to yourself buddy. Will still be a real challenge
 
Top