2014 - Good or Bad?

After an initial test year in 2013 with this blog, 2014 suffered with a number of gaps between posts which is further proven by the fact that it has taken until the second week of 2015 to try and catch up and summarise a year that in all honesty is best defined as mixed and as such I will select highlights and lowlights of each month.

January
Positives

• Landing an interview at a top media outlet in Chorley
• A new record winning bet of £104
• Starting my fourth full season as a Warrior with a derby victory

Negatives

• Deterioration of fitness
• Rejection after the job interview
• No other job progress

February
Positives

• As with every February, celebrating my birthday this time being 27  
• Successfully self-repairing Xbox 360 and a first ever Xbox One game completion 
• Super League returning with my fourth year in Row L Seat 112

Negatives

• WCC defeat for Wigan and cup exits for Liverpool and Skem
• A strange reunion with my first ex girlfriend- strange being an understatement
• Still no job progress

March
Positives

• Gaining new friends through blogging/rugby
• Purchasing and constructing the Lego Simpsons House
• Away trips to Castleford, Warrington
• Resumed RL coverage for WL Media
• Watching Ray Cox reach 1 millon gamerscore

Negatives

• Missing out several times for LFC tickets
• Limited fitness/job progress

April
Positives

• Ending my Skem United season as a spectator with a comeback win against Worksop
• First ever FIFA game completion, 5000th achievement and 30th overall completion
• A video project for a research company rewarding in £80
• Being published on Cherry and White site
• Good Friday derby victory over St Helens and CC victory trip to Dewsbury

Negatives

• Limited job/fitness progress
• Liverpool title hopes tumbled 

May

Positives

•  Job Interviews in Euxton and Chorley
• Trips to Leeds, Hull, Magic Weekend (Etihad), Salford, Huddersfield, Orrell
• Liverpool finishing second in PL and winning my iTeam Euro League
• Loyalty gift from Wigan

Negatives

• Missing out on two good jobs
• Man City claiming the PL title

June
Positives

•  Renewed Xbox Live for seventh year
• 100th blog post overall since 2012
• An exciting World Cup
• Awarded shares in Game PLC
• Meeting Warriors players at Fan Day and J.Tomkins rejoining Wigan
• Further trips to Orrell and a first visit to Wakefield

Negatives

• Luis Suarez bite in World Cup meaning a potential exit from LFC
• Having to replaced broken laptop

July
Positives

• C64 games available online brought back pleasant memories
• Trips to London and Bradford
• Record views on a single blog post topping 600
• Tax rebate of £450
• Purchased a LFC shirt with a special tribute

Negatives

• The sad passing of Millie Rose Heaton
• Luis Suarez signs for Barcelona

August 
Positives

• Trips to Anfield, Hull KR, Orrell, Widnes
• Start of new season for Skem and Liverpool
• More Job interviews
• Beat 2013 gaming records in under eight months
• Completed the set of visiting all 12 UK based SL stadiums
• Attending the laucnh of Steve Prescott's autobiography
• Reaching 100,000 gamerscore
• Doing the Ice Bucket challenge

Negatives

• More job rejections
• A sour end to my participation in A & L 

September
Positives

• Attended first League cup game at Anfield
• Wigan end regular season in second after mixed away form
• Wigan Academy reach play-offs
• Close to a shortlisting for a job

Negatives

• Lack of motivation begins
• More job rejections

October 
Positives

• Wigan U19s reaching and winning Academy Grand Final
• Wigan Warriors reaching SL Grand Final
• Trips to Old Trafford and Warrington for Grand Finals
• Reached 150,000 TA

Negatives

• Wigan losing SL Grand Final to St Helens

November
Positives

• Renewed Warriors season ticket ensuring a fifth season as a spectator
• Began writing for SARL
• Attended Wigan Academy V Aussie Schoolboys tour match, LFC at home to Hull and Swansea.
• Booked 2015 trips to St Helens, World Club Series and Magic Weekend.
• Reached 100 RL attendances overall

Negatives

• Poor month for Skem at home with just one victory
• More job application rejections

December
Positives 

• Attended LFC v Basel (first UCL game since 2007), LFC v Swansea which was the last PL game of 2014
• Set huge new gaming records of 1652 Achvs, 51932 TA and 32047 G
• Completed 43/68 goals for the year including reaching 2.5 million N+ fuel, 20,000 blog views, playing and earning an achievement on over 200 games.
• Won over £450 betting across the year.

Negatives

• Ended the year unemployed and single
• Washington end NFL season 4-12
• Failed to reach healthy weight
• Failed 25/68 goals overall