FMS — Are you Scunthorpe in disguise?

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the new FMS Community story!

Last time I left you, I introduced the club and my intentions for the save and I have to say the response was absolutely astounding! So much so that we have no less than 58 players signing up for the new team and contributing their own ideas which is great to see as that is exactly what the story is about. You, the reader. It took me what felt like an age to edit all the data from the editor and in all honesty I thought I’d bitten off more than I could chew but with a vast amount of help from Johnny and some innovative ideas from Darren, the post has come to fruition! Thanks lads :)

As you can probably tell from the title of the post, the club that FMS have taken over is Scunthorpe United in the English Championship. The reason for this is that I wanted us to be in one of the major leagues, but far enough down that it would involve some nice twists and turns along the way and make for a more exciting story. I felt that taking over a relegation threatened side like them would be the best option, and at least have the chance of gaining a promotion.. Or relegation whichever way you look at it ;)

I have tried to make the attributes quite similar across the board and the current ones, at least, in line with those players that play in the Championship. I have however included more potential to the players in our squad, as I think it would be a lot better in the future when we can compete with teams in the Premier League and in Europe without having to buy foreign players and therefore keeping you, the readers, at the heart of it. Below are the ranges for CA and PA of the current squad. They were all done at random, using a random number generator so I haven’t fixed any of the stats:

Current Ability ranges from a 95 to 130.
Potential Ability ranges from 130 to a massive 190.
There is even a player with 200PA that was picked out at random! (Basically me just waving my finger and pointing to a name on the monitor, that’s as scientific as it gets really ;))

These are the leagues I loaded up at the start of the game:

These were not chosen for players, more staff actually. Obviously, we want the best staff available to us and these are possibly the countries that produce the best high quality coaches.

With that out of the way then, we can talk about the club! Here is the screenshot of the club as you enter it through the first pages of FM:

So, FMS Patriots it is! I quite liked the name, and all though some of the suggestions were pretty decent, the majority agreed that it should stay as it is. I also haven’t changed any of the facilities about so we have a base to build upon if we want to compete with the best in England. The media prediction is a measly 24th (Last place..), lets just hope that we can prove them wrong ;)

As I stated in the starting post, all of the lads ages range from 17 to 18 depending on when your birthday is. Unfortunately as there were that many of you, I had to create a ‘B’ team with the rest going in the U19’s team. Don’t worry if your not in the first team squad yet, there is plenty of time and each one of you has bags of potential! Though, like I said you can choose your own fate in this game and with each monthly post, I will be updating you on the major news regarding transfers, injuries and more.. :)

Here are the squads for the upcoming season then:
FMS — First team

FMS — B team

FMS — U19’s team

First team fixtures:

We have a few of trips to Berwick and Bournemouth and Droylsden before we entertain Chelsea reserves at Patriots Park. Not a tough fixture list, but I will be adding more so we can see us all in action during the month of July!

That is just you introduction to the team and I still have to sort a number of things out with the squad including the staff and getting rid of some players who are on loan at the moment. I will be doing my best to add better staff in to improve your development at the club while organising some fixtures for each of the teams to see who will be getting internally promoted/relegated.

I know you are dying to know what you all look like, so here is the link to the screen shots of each of your players:
Click here to view your player!
They will be updated every 6 months to make sure you get the most up to date profile of your player! :)

So that’s it for this episode, come back next time when we will have the news and results of the month of July for each of our 3 squads. I want to try and make this as interactive as possible so any questions or requests I would be more than happy to sort them out.