The Youth Of East Stirling...

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 .
First things first I did decide to use the rule I decided on in which I can sign players 20 or under :) Sorry if this wastes the story for anyone but I don't see why it should. So then, the transfers :D

Transfers:

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Solid transfers, I'm sure I could make a solid mark on this league, and sneak a mid table finish, and maybe even a playoff spot ;)

Friendlies weren't exciting, only used them to get my tactics familiarality higher

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1 more thing. WHY THE **** ARE DORTMUND PLAYING VALE OF LEITHEN?

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Mid season update to come.​
 
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Yeah, you saw that right. We went on a twelve game win streak. (Then we started to play sh*t.) Anyway this is the halfway point update and now I feel like we have the chance to win the league or at least get playoffs. Here's the league table.

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Brechin are playing phenomenal to keep up with me, 2 way contest for the title, me thinks.

Cups showed significant improvement, and of course a challenge cup run to match the greatest.

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Wins against Dundee and Raith showed us we could be a mid table championship side if we get promoted.

We made two more transfers during this period, nothing major but here they are anyway.

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A whopping 21k for Devlin makes a new club record.

Some random and funny news articles:

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**** YOU BECK!!!

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All 3 players of the month being East Stirling players caught my eyes.

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Same with youth players, which is brilliant considering the spirit of this challenge.

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So we had a better win streak than Rangers had...

Youth intake to come. (I mean it)​
 
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A pretty poor second half of the season made us sweat all the way until the last game of the season. But was this enough to see us win the league? Well if you read the part that said 'Scottish Championship 4th'. You would know it was enough to at least get us a playoff spot, but did we win it?

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Of course we did! A poor run from Brechin at the end won us it, which I feel is a bit of a hollow way to win, but who's complaining? I was hoping another League One club would come up with me, but that wasn't the case

Player of the Season:

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Kevin Turner was in sensational form all season, and won the league player of the season award, so was the obvious choice for this.

Signing of the Season:

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Andrew Steeves was in the league team of the year and won young player of the year, so it was a clear choice.

Other Leagues

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If your sneaky you'll have worked out my next seasons opponents by now, I'l go over them next update though. Pre season update to come.

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Pre season update:

\Pre season friendlies were for morale, money and tactic familiarity. Nothing else. Here they are.

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Thrashed some nobody teams and got thrashed by the almighty bhoys in green :p

There weren't many signings but the ones I did have have insane potential and are the future of the club.

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The opposition I'm playing against look like this (I'm predicted 10th (last))

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Hibernian - Predicted 1st
Hamilton - Predicted 2nd
Cowdenbeath - Predicted 3rd
Falkirk - Predicted 4th
Raith - Predicted 5th
Queen Of The South - Predicted 6th
Dundee - Predicted 7th
Morton - Predicted 8th
East Fife - Predicted 9th

But how often are the bookies right? Especially when I'm in the league :)

Mid season update to come.

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Half Way Through Season:

A very good season so far, in which we have have surprised a few teams, in a very competitive league, but we haven't had the dream season of the last couple seasons. Fixtures look like this.

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These fixtures have left us in a very strong 4th position in the league

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Cups have been very poor, except from the... you'll see ;)

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We went and ****** won the Challenge Cup thanks to a 5-1 thrashing of Dunfermline in the final. Shame it couldn't have been a bigger cup but regardless that's my first cup win in charge of East Stirling.

We made a couple new transfers, and we have an insane potential kid coming in.

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Fairbairn is incredible with a fantastic potential and will become a star player in the future. Other kid was nothing more than backup. Anyway, for now that's all for now.

Youth Intake To Come


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So, the second half of the season, here's the fixtures

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Well, as you can see from the little bit near the top, it says 'Scottish Championship: 2nd' So we move to playoffs. Could the semi-professional minnows make it into the Premiership?

Scottish Premiership Rel. Pl 2nd Rnd Leg 1 vs Dundee

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A great victory at Dens Park, question is, can we carry it on to the second leg?

Scottish Premiership Rel. Pl 2nd Rnd Leg 2 vs Dundee

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Wow, 2 games away from the Premiership, and we're playing the almighty Kilmarnock.

Scottish Premiership Rel. Pl Final Leg 1 vs Kilmarnock


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Good result at Rugby Park, just need to score more goals than them in Ochilview Park and we've done it.

Scottish Premiership Rel. Pl Final Leg 2 vs Kilmarnock

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WE'VE DONE IT. SEMI-PRO MINNOWS EAST STIRLINGSHIRE ARE IN THE PREMIERSHIP. And with only signing under 20s ;)

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#BetterEastStirlingManagerThanAlexFergusonHimself

In other news we are expanding our stadium. Not really sure how since it's not our stadium but I don't care.

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Oh and here's how the league ended up. Extremely tight.

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Player of the Season

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Amazing, did some wonderful things during the season, somehow didn't have a great average rating though

Pre season Premiership update to come ;)

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Amazing rise of East Stirling, keep up mate, this is exciting times
 
First things first. FINALLY

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And of course. FINALLY.

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Anyway, on with the update. Pre season was boring, couldn't sign anybody I wanted, sadly, but now we're professional I can see a rise in the calibre of player I can sign, anyway, here are the transfers.

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Christian Hernandez looks very good and I hope he can grow to be a first team player. Only 3 friendlies and I still can't beat ****** Carlisle.

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Anyway, I'm sure we can stay up and really start to build the club up in calibre.

Mid-Season update to come​
 
A few years ago when East Stirling were getting 9pts a season a few mates and I decided to follow them from Aberdeenshire.

Went to a cup game against Dundee armed with those Pot Noodle horns and made a racket.

Went to a midweek home game at Firs Park against Queens Park - those toilets will be remembered for a long while

I even ordered 4 shirts and the guy gave us a discount as he said they hadnt had such a big order for ages!!!!

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Half way through the season, are we surviving?

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Barely, but I reckon if we go to a playoff we'll survive, the win in Inverness was amazing, and really helped us survive. 4-0 wins against Partick Thistle and St Mirren proving to be huge. I think we could survive now ;).

We're doing poor in the cups, (again) I can't seem to do anything in them. No matter what I do I still can't seem to win anything in them.

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Sorry for the short update, nothing at all happened, anyway, youth intake to come.​
 
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So as you can see, we went to the end of the regular season as 12th but, how would we do in the split?

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An amazing split means we finished 11th, but how would we fare in the playoff against the almighty Ross County?

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NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Stuff you Ross County. An 89th minute goal sees us fall back into the Championship, I fully expect us to win the Championship, nothing less.

Pre season update to come.​
 
Pre season was OK. A win against Den Haag was incredible and really made the team raring to go for the season ahead.

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Transfers were a common occurrence and for the most part look very good. Some players were signed because of lack of depth though.

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I showed Henriquez's attributes page to prove that he was 20 when I signed him to prove I didn't cheat. Anyway he looks like a real prospect of a keeper and I couldn't believe it when an agent offered him :p.

Mid-Season update to come.

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A successful first half of the season, been VERY tight though. Here are the fixtures.

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And the league

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​The cups have been nothing short of embarrassing, sadly. Beating Hibs and beating Brechin 5-0 were the real highlights

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2 more transfers, a second El Salvadorian international and some random English winger.

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Can we win the league? You'll have to wait and see

Youth intake to come.

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