Mid-way through the second season with Fleetwood and after winning promotion last year, I'm sitting third in the BSP with half of the season gone - not bad given that the expectation was third from bottom at best.

The finances are worrying me though. After a board takeover at the end of last season brought the finances back to secure, I was still losing money hand over fist. A cash injection of £90k hasn't done much to help either, despite me working will within the budgets that I've been given.

With that in mind, worrying about the situation, I've taken the initiative. Some of my players were being paid far too much for part time contracts so as near as dammit the entire reserve squad was shipped out - that raised about £60k in player sales, and I've drafted in a handful of unattached youngsters on £50 a week to compliment the reserves / U18s. The other players were brought on to full time contracts for the same money - if I'm paying them the sort of money I was then I may as well have my coaches working with them full time rather than for two nights a week after work. Hopefully that will show in improved match fitness and player development. Total wage bill has gone from around £10,450 a week to just over £8,400 a week against a budget of £11,200 - still too much for my liking mind.

Ooooooh! Just been offered the job at Portsmouth.

They're 18th in the Prem, 5pts away from safety with 8 games remaining, five or so against teams around them.

Asked to delay my decision to the end of the season - see if they've not gone bust by then

Once the new 10.3 patch is up and running, I'll start a game as Wigan and make it the focus of my attention.

I'm doing alright as Arsenal but winning the league on 10.2 seems pretty much impossible without cheating.

The league table in my second season finished

1 - Chelsea 103 pts
2 - Man City 101 pts
3 - Arsenal (Me) 90 pts

Third season with 5 games to go

1 - Man City 93 pts
2 - Chelsea 93 pts
3 - Arsenal (Me) 88 pts
4 - Spurs 82 pts
5 - Man U 81 pts

At the moment 80 points equates to 8th and no European place

With the run ins they have City and Chelsea are likely to finish with on 6 points dropped each. So 3 draws and it'd be season over. I could finish on 103 points and finish 3rd The thing that annoys me most is how poor their sides are. Chelsea have Bendtner up front on his own in a 4-5-1 and City have the likes of SWP, Ireland and Benjani in the team.

In real life 90 is normally enough for the title, teams beating that marker tend to win the league by about 12 points. 68 points was enough for Liverpool to finish 3rd a couple of years ago and Everton reached the Champions League from 4th with 61 points in 2005.

Things have been getting better at the DW recently. Thumping wins over Hull (3-0), West Brom (5-1) and QPR (5-0) have helped me climb from the bottom 3 having just 4 points to 9th with 19 points and 1 defeat in 6 (3-2 to Arsenal)

Things have been getting better at the DW recently. Thumping wins over Hull (3-0), West Brom (5-1) and QPR (5-0) have helped me climb from the bottom 3 having just 4 points to 9th with 19 points and 1 defeat in 6 (3-2 to Arsenal)

Thinking of starting a new game. Fancy a premiership team. Don't want to play a boring game as the top 4 or Man City, far too easy. A team in mid-lower table is my thinking. Anybody managed a team like this? If so who would you suggest?

Sunderland? Got a bit of cash to spend, reasonable squad, but needs improving.

Wigan. With the new patch, they'll have some quality players like N'Zogbia, Rodallega, Moses, etc and have a reasonable budget. Also the board's expectations aren't that ambitious so they don't ask that much of you.

Any idea when the new patch will be released? I assume it's to coincide with the transfer window so this week?

I'd imagine so.