With the surprising promotion last season, several significant changes occurred before the players returned for pre-season. First, the club is now professional, and every player and staff member needs to be handed new contracts to get the most out of a professional setup. That affects the financial side of things with a much higher wage … More The Dorking Way #4
With the project I’ve set out for being an academy challenge, the first season won’t be the most important one when it comes to involving youth in the first team. Therefore, I decided to play through it without going into too much debt on the blog. However, many things happen during the season, and I … More The Dorking Way #2 Season one
Welcome back to the third post in this blog series. If you missed the introduction posts you can find them here. As described in the opening post, the aim of this save is a Youth Academy Challenge. Unfortunately, with a club at this level, there is a lack of youth and reserve players in the … More The Dorking Way #1
Why Dorking, you ask? My love for this beautiful football club started in FM20 when I did a challenge with a friend during a lockdown. We picked a club each in the National League South, and the race to the Premier League was on. While I didn’t quite make it that time, and my friend … More The Dorking Way – Why Dorking
After falling in love with this beautiful club through FM22 and Bunch Of Amateurs on YouTube, I enjoyed blogging and playing with them last year. If you want to read the blog, you can find it here. I had decided on doing a Youth Academy save for FM23 and set some strict criteria before I … More The Dorking Way – Introduction
Welcome back for the mid season update from the fifth season at Dorking. LEAGUE ONE October We started the month with a draw against Peterborough before we had two weeks off in the league. Then, against Leyton Orient, our new midfield maestro Nile John scored both goals after assists from Richard Olise. We struggled against Bristol Rovers three days later until Harvey Vale scored a … More Dorking Wanderers #17
March Against Huddersfield we had to rotate a bit due to suspensions, and the only aim for the game was to get a away with a good performance. Unfortunately we didn’t. Huddersfield outclassed us in every aspect of the game, and should probalby won by a bigger margin. When AFC Wimbledon came to visit we … More Dorking Wanderers #15
LEAGUE ONE October After a tough September, it was good to start this month with a win against Salford. In the first half, Louis Flower scored the opener for us before Connor McAvoy increased the lead after a corner. Despite our two goals, it was Salford that created the chances. 12 saves from Dominic Rogerson and an 8.7 rating. He may be … More Dorking Wanderers #14
The Transfer Window With three promotions in three seasons, we must have done something right in the market. I will keep the same strategy as before, just increasing the maximum wage limit.Like every season, we had someone leaving, but we made a severe amount of money from the transfers out for the first summer so … More Dorking Wanderers #13
March We started the month with the crucial game against Notts County, our fourth match against them this season. 4,247 people found their way to Dorking Stadium for this game and broke the record for highest attendance and gate receipts. After the bitter end to the last game between us, we wanted to get something from this … More Dorking Wanderers #12
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