Win the FA Cup with Doncaster – Part 2

Hello and welcome back to one of the more ambitious challenges we’ve undertaken on this blog, which I might add will be 10 years old in January. Crikey. As the title gives away, the aim of the game is to win the FA Cup with Doncaster. Yes, Doncaster are in the Third Division and absolutely hopeless but a challenge is a challenge. I fully expect this to be the final part of the series, as the original challenge said win the FA Cup and then the Cup Winners Cup in season 2. Good one. In the immediate future, we have to topple Division 2 Walsall. You can catch up with part 1 here.

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Win the FA Cup with Doncaster – Part 1

Well hello there. I’ve been looking at some short term saves to bring you and thanks to VB on the comments section, I’ve got one that captured my attention.

Doncaster are abysmal, make no mistake. They would finish the 1997/98 season bottom of Division 3 with just 30 goals scored in 46 games and 113 shipped. As you would expect, the fine people of CM9798 research towers have captured their misery pretty well. There’s a lot of 0 entries in the database but as you can see, the game has given me 7 wide midfielders to work with…and I tend not to use wingers.

Obviously, I will replace most of these goons with the usual free transfers. I’m going to have to Eddie Guerrero this one and list these players for loan so nobody takes them. We haven’t got long, so I best get into the market. Bring me the Micker.

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