Rags to Riches

[Moonrag]

Ok boys, i have always played CM/FM in the LLM way, start off at a rubbish team and work my way up.

To start with (in previous games) in NSS3 ive started low to build my training up then moved to a glamour club like Real or United.

My current save, im in my 3rd season at Stenhousemuir, we got promoted last season and are doing extremely well in our first season in Div 2. Whenever ive started a game in CM/FM in Scotland my ultimate goal is to knock off Celtic and Rangers.

Is something like this possible in NSS3? In my current division we have done well in some games, yet other games have been ****. Either my middys and defenders do stupid passes or my GK blocks what he should have caught and concedes a goal.
If i move up and get into Europe will my club get heaps of money and replace the DUDS with GEMS?

I havent really seen anything like this happen on this forum before so im wondering if anybodys attempted it before. If so please tell me your story (whether it be successful or notso)

[tezmac]

Well I managed to carry Boston United from League 2 to League 1 (scoring 52 goals and assisting to 29 more) and then left them in January to go to Liverpool. I left Boston United in first place with a massive goal difference.

As this is my first go at the game and also I am only halfway into the second season my story is short.

I will have a look tonight at how Boston are doing when I go on it. They will probably have dropped lots of points unless they use the £30 million which I was sold for to go towards new players.........

[Moonrag]

Well after just missing promotion first season, then gaining promotion in the second, i thought the third may be a struggle. We were knocked out of the cup by Motherwell 3-1 i think which wasnt too bad, i managed to score one goal and went close with others, it was safe to say it was a one man show for Stenhousemuir.
Amazingly we did come from nowhere and win the league on the last day of the season which was awesome, a very tight competition helped us as the top teams kept beating each other. I was also named Young Player of the Year again.

I got a call up to Wales (changed it from Australia for this new game cos i got sick of playing our ****py neighbours) and we won all 8 Euro Champ Qualifiers though i only played in the last 7 and it did take a while for me to get going, eventually forming a lethal partnership with Big Johnny Hartson.

At the end of the League winning season was the Euro Champs.
First game was against Romania who i thought we would beat easily, instead we were belted for most of the game, then started to get on top, only to concede a goal with 20 minutes to go. Our dream looked over. Up steps John Hartson who had a shocking game until he scored with a goal, minutes later and i banged in a header and we were home. In injury time i had relaxed because i thought the whistle would go, ended up getting a little flick and having a crack from 25+ yards and past the keeper!

Next game was against Sweden and it was an epic battle despite no goals, with not long to go i chased down a long ball and somehow managed to get a shot away with looped in and won the game. It was possibly my best ever goal, and certainly one of the most important.

Semis was against the Czechs and we dominated now, after sneaking past Romania we were playing awesome football. I scored another scorcher then set up Johnny and we won 2-0

The Final was against the Dutch and i thought we needed a miracle. We scored first, they missed a few, then a goal with half hour to go basically sealed the Cup and a late strike from outside the box by Johnson was the icing on the cake. I had perhaps my worst game of the tourney, no goals, no assists and only an 8 rating but i had 17 passes and a few tackles, including some clearances in defence.

My first ever success at international level and im only 19 in the game. Plus im now into the First Division in Scotland, one step away from my battle with the old firm. After the pasting we copped from Motherwell and not signing ANYBODY at the end of the season, i cant see how Stenhousemuir are going to get into Europe or beat the big boys. I also included my 'Best Ever Goal' below.

[Pitch Invasion]

I did the same...started at a lowly czech team (Kunovice) some 5-6 seasons ago (now about age 25)...played there for 107 games/3 seasons scoring 72 goals in that time missed out on winning the league all three times to Sparta Prague....

I then left for Racing Santander in spain and stayed there for 11 games/3ish seasons scoring 175 goals winning the league 3 times...(the season after i left Kunovice got relegated to the second division and have stayed there ever since). Racing are still in the top spanish league (they were good enough before i came).

I then moved to portsmouth, only playing 60 games/1 and 1/2 seasons scoring 80 goals...that was always a struggle though i saved them from relegation .....

I then moved to Reading and have played 64 games/ 1 and 1/2 seasons, scoring 106 goals and have just won the league ( portsmouth are still mid tableish in the premiership)....
As for my international career all thats left for me is to win the world cup for the Czech Republic (damn you France and Brazil). i have played 40 games scoring 57 goals with regular selection prospects.

And to blow my own horn even more....i am worth £37,290,000 with an average match rating of 10!.....All of this has been done on expert level apart from the first two season at Kunovice...and i have to say i am damn proud of it.


I think it depends on how good the teams where before you joined as to how good they will perform when you leave...on the other hand it could just be coincidence that you join a rubbish to start with team and after making them much better you leave and they go back to being rubbish.

Also included is the best and strangest goal of my whole career.

[Moonrag]

Well a strange thing just happened. I got a bad achilles injury and was out for 7 weeks, my team was 3rd at the time but only just. I thought that we would lose almost every game when i wasnt playing, but we won almost every match instead! When i came back in to the side we were clear of 4th by about 10 points, 2 games later and the season was over. Up to the Premier League!!
Unfortunately, Wales are struggling with 2 wins and 3 losses in World Cup Qualifying.

[statto]

I'm with Rushden and Montserrat playing on Pro. Instead of being sold I kept with the Diamonds through three consecutive promotions and now we're fighting for a Champions League spot though we're struggling, a couple 6-1 and 5-1 scorelines against us.

Montserrat are kicking butt in their first qualifying round and have a +20 goal differential after 3 games (thanks largely to us playing St Kitts and Nevis).

[Pitch Invasion]

is the rushden team the same as it was in the first season or have they bought some new players in?

[Bubka]

@moonrag. I've noticed the same. The teams I have played for, seems to be the only one NOT buying new players, allthough I also have experienced the opposite at one time. (Fremad Amager in Denmark)

I usually do the same as you - start at a low club and work my way up. I am currently playing a game at some Northern Irish 2.div club (cant remember which.. Tandraar or something) and got promoted the first year. Now in 1. Div and top of the league and soon promoted to the top league. Lost the cup final 2-1 to a Premier Division team. There hasnt been any transferoffers yet and if there were, I would say no. I want to go all the way first, then the offers can be considered

[statto]

We have brought in Harry Kewell at the start of the Premier League season and apart from a new keeper and defender that was it. We got three strikers (Ole Gunnar Solskjaer(!), Fernando Morientes(!) and some random one from Ipswich) but our problem is we keep really ****e, not even D3-quality players, and seem incapable of selling them. Shouldn't these guys want to seek out time on another football team? Magnus Okuonghae still starts for us, so does Andy Burgess (who is now on Oxford in real life), and Drewe Broughton did until a couple games ago (which was the winter transfer break when we brought in all the strikers).

I suppose there would still be some baggage after 3 straight promotions but seemingly we have a huge roster and not everyone on the roster plays at all (John Dempster comes to mind).

[Pitch Invasion]

yea..i have noticed that when a club goes up the team doesnt buy any new players and the original ones seem to suddenly become good enough to play in the new league even when you have been promoted consecutive times....

but then i imagine its probably too complecated to do anything about it....

not that it bothers me..i imagne it can be quite interesteing bringing a conference team all the way to the premiership with the same team throughout

[wonder]

Never tried it ,I always start with a team at the top of the league. Me to....noticed that the club i play for doesn't sell or buy new players.

[Pitch Invasion]

and i was wondering....if you were in a conference side...and got promoted all the way to the premiership...would the com players skills be what they were when you first started or do they get better as the seasons go on?

[statto]

Most of the players don't get that much better. They do improve, but not at an alarmingly fast rate. Only five of the 11 players at the start of the game still play regularly on Rushden, meaning the other 10-15 don't do anything.

[Pitch Invasion]

same with reading (my current team)...unless theres a long term injury the same 10 players play each game
.... there is one exception....
when i played for porstmouth..the goalie was rotatated every single match..i think there were 3 goalies in all so each played 1/3 of the season...
havent seen it happen at any other club i have played for though

[Mad2Ad]

i think that one of the main problems with nss3 is that too many people did helped make it in regards to the league it should of been done with only a few 2,3,4 yes it takes longer but it would have meant that you could compare players. when it was done before lots of people made smaller club's players like as good as henry rooney etc For example
Ian Hume of leicester would be about as good as rooney( not that realistic)

this is what i was saying on my thread about Nss3 being too unrealistic