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Hello friends, welcome to my last post on the 2011/12 season. The fight to the play-off place is very tight at the moment with my Thurrock team sitting on 7th place few points off the last play-off spot. 5 games left and we need to gain as many points as we can. Can we reach the play-off place?

Lets take a look on the results..

It was not a great month for us, we managed 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. We had some difficult games in this month mainly against our closest rivals Accrington and Mansfield. My team could not overcome them and can only gain draws against them. It was an easy win against Forest Green and AFC Wimbledon though. The last play-off spot will be going down to the last wire. After 4 games played, this is how we stand…

5) Accrington 78 points

6) Mansfield 78 points

7) Thurrock 77 points

We need to do well in the last game and hope that my rivals slip up in the last game. Our last game was against Stevenage, a difficult opponent that were relegated from league 2. We were determined to get [...]Read More

Hello friends, welcome to another month of my Thurrock story updates. Luton will be running away with the BSP title for sure this season. So it s up to the rest of the teams to challenge for the 4 play-off places. The table is very tight at the moments with 7 or 8 teams with a real chance of landing the chance to promote to league 2. We are lying in 6th place but with 1 or few games more than our rivals.

There will be a lot games to play for this month, 7 in total. Here is the results..

I am pleased with what we achieved for this month considering the strong opposition that we faced. We were unbeaten for the whole month and have 3 wins and 4 draws. But at this stage of the time, the draws is definitely going to affect our chances of claiming the play-off place this season. We were without our most influential player Kevin Macdonald for this whole month. I forgot to mention that he was injured in the last game of February and will be out for few weeks. With him around, i believe we can [...]Read More

Hello friends, we are lying near the play-off place now but with a few games played more than our rivals. If they win all their games in hand, my team will be dropping few places down the table. I need to ensure that we consolidate our position by trying to win all the games in this month. We have a pretty relax schedule in February only 4 games to be played.

Here is the results..

It was pretty even, 2 wins and 2 losses. We had a bad start losing the first 2 games and then recover to win the next 2 games. In this crucial month, i must admit that the 6 points lost definitely going to have a say whether we can achieve the play-off spot when the season ends. I was very disappointed as i thought Hereford and Barnet are teams that we  are on par with.

First game of the month was against Hereford who is few places below us. We performed better than them in the first half and deservedly took the lead through Paul Hakim in the 32 minute. They came back strongly in the second half and scored [...]Read More

Hello friends, it was a brand new year and while most of the people are celebrating, my Thurrock team had to prepare a visit to The Abbey stadium of Cambridge Utd on the 2nd day of January. Half the season gone and we are lying in 9th place 10 points off the last play-off spot. We had already exceed the expectations of the board and fans but personally i wanted more. I need to rally my players for the rest of the season to grab a play-off place and a chance to promote to league 2.

I had mentioned in my last post i need to released some players in order to sign new players. But there was no takers and i don’t want to deepen the financial problems by releasing them on a free. However Lewis Walker was loaned to Corby town. I wanted to keep 2 loan signings out of 4 that i had signed but Andrew Isaac decided not to extend the loan with us. In the end, Kiernan Hughes-Mason is the only one who extends his loan with us for another 6 months. I loaned another player from Millwall. His name is Jonathan Hutcheon a 17 [...]Read More

Hello friends, i am satisfied with the performance of my players for the last 3 months. My players had been performing quite well and we are now lying in mid-table. Last month saw us facing some difficult games against the top teams in the Blue Square Premier, i am glad that we only suffered 1 defeat and that was against the leader Luton. The last month of 2011 before we welcome 2012, we will playing 5 league games and some strong opposition too.

Here is the results..

It was an inconsistent month for us, we have 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. The 2 losses was against teams that are lower place than us, we seem to face trouble playing with weaker teams, i don’t know whether it was my tactics that is giving me the problem. I think i should be more aggressive playing with weaker teams even away from home.

First game of the month was against Mansfield a team currently chasing for a play-off spot. I always employ counter strategy against teams that were potentially stronger than us and it seems to work well for us. My players were magnificent [...]Read More

Hello friends, in November there will be some difficult games waiting for us, we will be facing 3 of the top teams in the table. They are currently challenging for the title and the only automatic promotion place to the coca league 2.  If my team can survive the month without losing too many points, i will be more confident on the play-off spot as i believe relegation is definitely not in our radar now. Since the bad start in August, we have been improving and the good results in the last 2 months has raised the confidence and morale of the squad. We have steady the ship and slowly climbing up the table.

Let us take a look on the November results.

We are playing 5 league game instead of 6 as one of the home game was cancelled due to a waterlogged pitch. I don’t know how many times this had happen this season but we definitely got to live with that at the moment. The other game was the FA cup 1st round game against Carlisle. Besides the defeat against Carlisle, we had 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. Not too bad [...]Read More

Hello friends, since the return of my injured players, we are improving bit by bit as month goes along. We managed to climb up the table after winning 3 games out of 5 last month. How about this month? Are we able to carry the fine form over from last month to challenge in the top half of the table? Well, here is the October results…

We are unbeaten for the month for 4 league game and 1 FA cup fourth round qualifying match. (There should be five games, however last match against Crawley was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch in our ship lane stadium) We got a terrible pitch very muddy and wet, i am relieved that this doesn’t affect too much on our results.

First game of the month was against 10th place Kidderminster, they are playing very well at the moments. They had chalked up 3 wins in a row before they meet us. Their morale is definitely very high and my defense were kept busy throughout the whole game. We are lucky that their strikers are having a off day, they created a lot of chances but [...]Read More

Dear friends, first of all I would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year for 2010. It is the beginning of the year and i wish everybody good health. Before that i would like to apologize for the delay of the post as i was outstation for work for the last few days and i could not play my football manager game. 2009 just flied pass me like a comet when i was on the road. Anyway i am back now and here is the new updates.

My team was struggling from the beginning of our new season, we only accounted for 1 win in August. This is due to the injuries suffered by few of my key players and the opposition we faced is totally different from the Blue Square South side. The injuries really affect the balance in my team. As my players gradually return from the treatment room, i hope to see some improvement in September. There will be five games to play and let us take a look at the results.

We got 3 wins and 2 losses in this month and i am quite satisfied to grab 9 [...]Read More

Before the season officially starts, i need to try out the new tactics for the friendly games coming up. There will be six friendlies games for my new players to blend into the squad. As you can see, we got five wins and a loss.

Although the loss is against Blue Square Premier rivals Stevenage, but i am still quite positive as i sent some of the reserves in for this game. I am quite please with how clinical in the front department as a total of 21 goals were scored even though some of the teams are from non-league side. But David King had a injury that will rule him out for 2-3 months.

We had a few days rest, finally the first game of the season is awaiting us. We had a great start but after that it was bad luck for us. I had a few injuries to several of my first team players and we could not master any victories after the first game. Here is the results..

First game of the season was against Tamworth [...]Read More