Up and Running

And we’re off, amidst all the snow and bad news reports, this blog is finally up and running.

This first post is going to be a continuation of my Current Game managing Leatherhead FC up from level 7 of the English leagues all the way up to the Premiership (hopefully). The first instalment of that game can be found HERE, but I’ll do a quick round-up as well as it’s been a while since I last updated.

I last updated at the half-way stage of the first season, and I was extremely happy with our position. Having told the board I could achieve a safe mid-table position we had surpassed all expectation and found ourselves in 2nd place on the 1st Janurary 2010

We were still drawing far too many games for my liking but I was confident we could rectify that in 2010, which would hopefully be aided by bringing in some new faces in the January transfer window;

Only two signings there, Michael Reed, a Striker who would provide valuable cover upfront due to a recurring injury crisis, and Gavin Dayes, who would provide the same as Reed except at Centre-Back.

Onto our league performance, here’s the final league table of the 2009/2010 season;

An outstanding performance, we were 7th with four games left, so I went all out and managed to secure 3 wins and a draw, which was enough to bump us up into 4th place. We then faced Met Police in the Playoff Semi-Final, a team we’d beaten twice in the league and once in the cup, so I was hopeful we could do the same this time;

We crept through with a 1-0 win, which had been the story of our away form this season, standing between us and promotion were the slightly more threatening Dulwich Hamlet, who had finished just one place above us in the league but a full 8 points infront of us. Needless to say I was nervous going into this one. As it turned out, I shouldn’t have been;

We hammered them. When we went 1-0 down I slumped back into my chair thinking we were doomed to a 5-0, instead we managed to claw one back before half-time and I just told the boys to go for it, which they did. We’d done it, promotion in the first season.

Here’s the Squad and Tactics screenshot for the 2009/2010 season;

A strong squad with goals coming from all areas of the team, this was the team that won me promotion.

So after a very strong and confident start to my Leatherhead tenure, I strode confidently on towards the 2010/2011 season and the new pastures of the English Southern League Premier Divison.

Thanks for reading,

TB.