Cork City

[jawzy]

Despite winning the Irish top flight as recently as 2017. 2020 saw the side relegated after an 18 game season saw them finishing 10th.

It seems the league expectations are fairly low considering we are a fairly big side within Ireland. 2nd to 5th are playoff spots.

The initial squad I have to work with

Bossin I know as he was a free signing I would make in fm20 and the midfielders look to be my strongest position on paper.

[Mikey]

This will be interesting, don't see many saves in Ireland. I'll be following.

Shout out to your 3* 40 year old Goalkeeper!

[Robson]

Gotta hit the ground running, looks like anything other than promotion won't be acceptable. Are you comfortably the best side in the division?

[jawzy]

The keeper has played for Cork his entire carear



Season preview has us in second to Shelbourne who historically are good, but have sort of become bit yoyo like.

[jawzy]

Transfers
We had zero money to spend, not a suprise.


Pietryzyk is a young polish striker
Ekanem is a 32 year old Nigerian defender who can cover at DM if needed
Trehy is a young defender
Gray is a 22 year old striker who played few games in League Two, i expect this guy to be our goalscoring threat this season
Aday is a 21 year old Spain defender who played in lower divisions of Spain
Wilbraham might be a recognisable name to some, a veteran target man to provide a different tactical approach 131 goals in over 600 games at varying levels of the English game
Bryne is a young defender
Lambe is a 30 year old international for Bermuda plays on the wings, and has previously been in the MLS and also championship but more recently played in league two

standings after everyone playing each other once


We are right where the preview placed us, annoyingly we lost 5-1 to Shelbourne, the other lose came via Galway

[jawzy]

Summer transfers mid way through the season, joys of a european league that plays over the summer
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Ejeheri is a young keeper, who is better than the youngsters at the side already
Sraha is a young defender
Butler-Oyede is just a pacey winger
Turner is another young keeper
Haugland is a young Norwegian striker
Savage got released by Man United and after a sale of a mid, this youngster fit the bill to replace him

I did look to loan out the youngsters that came in, was suprised at the loan fees that were being offered, as can be seen in the outs


O Connor had under a year left and didnt want to renew, so the random bid from Shrewsbury was reluctantly accepted.

[jawzy]

Also set McNulty to take pens as I noticed he had a high rating for penalty taking, but he has not been playing much, decided to give him a few games, only for him to get 2 penalities converted in one game

Also we got 18 k for coming second.

[Robson]

Looks like Cork might be popping.

[Mikey]

Good luck in the Play-Offs. I noticed you signed a couple Arsenal players, how did they perform for you?

[jawzy]

Popping alright, Cork are back in the Irish top flight, those playoff games were very tight and nervy.





im very impressed with how Jake O'Brien and Aday did in defence, also Gray certainly bagged us goals this season. Wilby, did a marvelous job at his age

[jawzy]

Board are expecting to avoid relegation
We have an 900k balance and 15k to spend with about 20k p week left in the wage budget.

We have made one in

He is a 30 year old right back who can also play central
And one out


Our squad has not changed very much over the off season, the kids that came in the summer are still out on loan (cant recall them, whoops)
Mcnalty and Wilby have announced they will retire at the end of the season

* Rory Quinlan was our best youth prospect and gets to be our third choice this season!

The season preview

[jawzy]

After my first 3 games we were bottom with 0 points, and only 1 goal, also we suffered long injuries to Jamie Gray and Wilby. with only a week left until the window closed, we looked over to the English academies for some potential


Foran comes in to add abit more quality to our defence
Vitek comes in to challenge Bossin for number 1 spot
Gilchrist is a pacy central defender
Thompson comes in to be a backup to Savage.
Goodbridge is a winger/striker - hoping he can cover the injured Grey and get some important goals
Armstrong is a very good for Ireland left back
Greene scored 13 goals for Shamrock last season but is 32, hopefully he can also provide goals.

[jawzy]

biggest result of game so far.

[jawzy]

Over the Summer part our in comings were

Jeremi is a young left back who will go out on loan
Charles 18 years old defender who will be on the bench atleast
Musialowski 18 year old polish who is a winger/striker
Kpakpe 18 year old defender will go straight into first team.
Goodridge came back in on loan as Villa recalled him, annoyingly he did get recalled again - he will be joining on a free in January
Armstrong is a strong left back who comes back in on loan
Vitek is a good keeper who has also came back on loan
Jones is another defender but will go into our u19 squad.


We have sold
Trehy for 4k to Dag&Red
Coleman for 3k to Waterford
Butler Oyedeji for 20k to Southend (this lad in end didnt play for us)

[jawzy]

finishing second in the league in our first season back in the top flight is quite special, but Shamrock flew away with the league




Most notable players missing here is Vitek and Goodridge who both recalled in the summer.
Goodridge scored 17 in 23 apps.
Vitek conceeded 14 in 14 apps.

I was hoping that Greene could get some goals but I was very suprised when he started scoring consistantly!
Gray also after his long injury and Griffin showing promise and Goodridge coming in January, it might be time to move Gray along.

We also got to semi final of irish FA Cup where we lost to Dundalk

Also we did win our first silverware


we should win this most seasons, as Cibh are in second division and it seems every other side that plays in this are non league irish sides

[jawzy]

One question I have, unlikely to find answer in my save is do Shamrock Rovers get relegated. or are they immune due to Shamrock Rovers 2 being in the first division?

[Mikey]

Dec 5, 2020 12:56:43 GMT jawzy said:

One question I have, unlikely to find answer in my save is do Shamrock Rovers get relegated. or are they immune due to Shamrock Rovers 2 being in the first division?

If Shamrock Rovers are relegated than their 2nd team would be as well, even if they would win the First Division.

I had a fun save on an older FM as Real Madrid Castilla and won the league a few times but could never get promoted due to Real Madrid being in La Liga.

[jawzy]

Dec 5, 2020 14:14:32 GMT Mikey said:

Dec 5, 2020 12:56:43 GMT jawzy said:

One question I have, unlikely to find answer in my save is do Shamrock Rovers get relegated. or are they immune due to Shamrock Rovers 2 being in the first division?

If Shamrock Rovers are relegated than their 2nd team would be as well, even if they would win the First Division.

I had a fun save on an older FM as Real Madrid Castilla and won the league a few times but could never get promoted due to Real Madrid being in La Liga.

There is no pro/rel out of the first division

[Mikey]

Oh, that is interesting then. I would assume that the game would replace Shamrock Rovers 2nd team with another Irish team if that was the case. Definitely something worth checking out, taking charge of Shamrock Rovers play a terrible tactic that guarantees relegation and finding out.

[dalenichol]

Dec 5, 2020 17:52:15 GMT jawzy said:

Dec 5, 2020 14:14:32 GMT Mikey said:

If Shamrock Rovers are relegated than their 2nd team would be as well, even if they would win the First Division.

I had a fun save on an older FM as Real Madrid Castilla and won the league a few times but could never get promoted due to Real Madrid being in La Liga.

There is no pro/rel out of the first division

There isn't any formal relegation, but there are tiers below it. The most likely scenario would be that they'd be replaced by another regional team, at least in real life. Not sure how it'd work in FM

[jawzy]

Our Transfers in
Goodridge back on loan, villa couldnt of been that annoyed?
Leo Gretarsson on a free a 27 year old icelandic leftback
Thomas McGill on a free a 23 year old candian goalkeeper
Sobowale on a free a 21 year old Irish defender
Robinson on a free a 21 year old right back
David Nugent on a free 37 year old striker, to be an impact sub/cover
Iliev on a free, former arsenal reserves keeper from Macedonia

Out
Jonas has left already on a 36k move to Dundalk
McGlade went to Drogheda for 1k
Uniss Kargbo went to Bohemians on a free
Lambe went to Crawley for 40k - his pace was begining to satruggle on the wings
Gray for 3k to Harrogate, his injury had killed off any form he was in, and goodridge was banging them in.


This has left my squad looking like this for our third season

[jawzy]

Current standings after our first loss vs Dundalk, a 2-1 loss

[mrcool]

Might test what happens if Shamrock Rovers do get relegated.

This is a great story, Keep up the good work

[mrcool]

I did a test (I gave Shamrock a 50 point deduction for match fixing) and they went down when i simmed the 1st season. Sadly the 2nd team doesn't actually go down so both teams will play in the 2nd tier

[jawzy]

Managed to do 3 seasons at Cork. Not sure if I will continue

Champions!

3 finals, twice champions. shame about the Dundalk result

narrow lose in europe, was expecting to struggle vs Maccabi

very happy with everyone, if I continue I probably need to look at getting a backup striker as Nugent is retiring