(FM22) The Quest #6 – Bolton 2026/27 Season Review

Welcome back! Well last season went well didn't it? An absolute demolition of League Two by my Bolton team in my first season in charge, and with that an immediate return to League One. Now we need to push on, expectations are surprisingly high for a newly promoted team, the board want top half, the...

(FM22) The Quest #5 – 2025/26 Season Review – But With Who?

Welcome back! When I left you last I had just managed the unthinkable, I had gotten Dorking Wanderers into the football league, for the first time in their history. In the previous post however I said, near the end, that I felt I had taken them far enough, so if a bigger job came in...

(FM22) The Quest #4 – Dorking 2024/25 Season Review

Welcome back! After last seasons heroic 8th place finish, where we missed out on the playoffs by the skin of our teeth and an FA Trophy final defeat I really do feel we have a huge chance of something special this season. Money is tight however so we need to be careful with what we...

(FM22) The Quest #3 – Dorking 2023/24 Season Review

Welcome back, we're into the National League for the first time ever! Now we have to somehow get a team together that has a chance of staying up, we are predicted to be ending near the bottom but I have faith we can do a lot better than that! Resources are needed though but we...

(FM22) The Quest #2 – Dorking 2022/23 Season Review

Welcome back! Well here we are, my first full season at Dorking is over, last season was really good, in my 15 games in charge we averaged around 2 points a game, this season though the pressure is ramping up, as you will see in a bit we are favourites to win the National League...

(FM22) The Quest #1 – A job!

Welcome back! Well here we are, my the first season is over and I'm sure you will guess, as the title suggests, I have a job! I holidayed until January 1st 2022 and then went on a job hunt, it took just over a month before an enticing offer came up and I took it!...

(FM22) Quitting in January? Hell No

I remember an old "friend" of mine in the FM Community a few years ago telling me that nearly all FM bloggers have quit by January, I took massive exception to that and at the time it drove me to keep ploughing on through my FM20 save to see it through to the end of...

(FM22) Tiers of Joy #20 – NS Mura 2038/39 Season Review

I had planned to not publish this for a few days, my game play is a bit ahead of my blog posts but with what has happened today I felt it only right to publish it now. The final few paragraphs are massively important so please read all the way to the end (or just...

(FM22) Tiers of Joy #19 – A quick departure + another season review

Welcome back! Well I didn't stay in Poland long, a month to be exact, I had said in the previous post that if the right job came up I would take but that I'd stay at Jagiellonia until that happened, well it happened quick! There we a couple of jobs that took my eye over...

(FM22) Tiers of Joy #18 – Jagiellonia 2036/37 Season Review

Welcome back! Well last season was incredible, after the debacle of Slovakia I found myself a new club, Jagiellonia Białystok in Poland and in my first season in charge we won the league! It was an amazing season but now we have hard work ahead, we have to win the Polish FA Cup to move...