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== Fully Loaded Satellites ==
FLS was founded in 1883 as a football team for the escaped apple pickers of Clonmel, County [[Tipperary]]. Apple picking, fermenting, drinking, and occasionally playing football formed the ethos of this venerable club. The management of FLS eventually sold out though for a couple of slabs of Linden Village, [[boroie]] the new manager and chairman. He immediately registered the team with the HFA to play in the local league. The team was initially registered under the name '''Jossestown Rovers'''. The date was 13/06/2004.


== History ==

Jossestown Rovers' first ever game in recognised competition began that day, and was to take the place of '''Trend Meisters''' who ran into financial difficulties. Unfortunately, this game was a qualification match to stay in series IV.31. So, beginning with a whimper rather than a bang, Jossestowns first match resulted in relegation to division 5, V.245. This may have been a blessing in disguise though as it allowed [[boroie]] to ship out the deadwood and bring in some actual professional players. Promotion to IV.27 immediately followed, in what was to be Jossestowns home for quite a while. That was season 11 in [[Ireland]].

Having never finished lower than 4th in their 8 seasons in IV.27, it was season 14, jossestown began seriously challenging for the title, eventually overhauling their old enemies '''Lord of the Lucan''' and '''Irish Wonders'''. Several close run finishes for the title finally led to Jossestown earning a qualifier to promote to III. They lost this one narrowly to [[Sparta Corcaigh]].

In season 18, Jossestown had another close run promotion campaign. This time, recently demoted '''Iron Utd.''' were the main challengers. In a fraught finale to the season, Jossestown knew that a win over Iron Utd would see them seal the title if they won by more than a single goal. Despite dominating the match, Jossestown could only manage a 2-1 win and missed out on the title by a single goal!

That prompted a change of image to the club to attract new and younger fans to the brand. The name was changed to '''Fully Loaded Satellites''' and the team logo was also changed. The change immediately inspired FLS to win the IV.27 title for a second time. Unfortunately they fell short in the qualifier against [[Armies of Amadan FC]]. This season was notable for a youth pull of FLS becoming the clubs first ever Under-20 international player for [[Ireland]]. He was called up by u20 manager [[Highgiant]] and did not disappoint. He scored the winner on his debut to give [[Ireland]] a vital win in the qualifying campaign for [[U-20 World Cup IX]]. This win was the turning point for [[Highgiant]] and [[Ireland]] went on to qualify for the world cup. 

Season 20 was finally the season that FLS escaped IV.27. The series FLS landed in was III.6 - home to several other [[PSBI]] denizens - namely [[El-Pietro]], [[Ribena_Berry]] and (recently relegated) [[Kram101]]. The first season in III.6 was a hard one where the limitations of training high-waged players became apparent to [[boroie]]. The wage-wall was hit and several players disposed of. This was also the season that FLS made it to round 8 of the Irish Cup for the first time, beating [[Irish Premier]] team [[Top Dogs FC]] along the way, before narrowly being beaten 2-1 by the eventual winners, [[GB Rovers]]. This season was also noticeable for the first ever full international player being seen at Death Star Arena. [[Flip Kibel]] arrived from [[Apoel Cormosia]] for a club record fee €2,071,000. Flip is a full [[Northern Ireland]] international player. FLS finished third in the league, cementing a ranking of 76 in [[Ireland]]. Continuing FLS's strong contribution to the national sides of Ireland, Mitchell Lacey (a purchase from [[The Choccy Digestives]]) obtained a call-up to the Irish u20 squad. 


== Trophies ==
{| style="border-collapse:collapse;" border="1"
|- align=center bgcolor=#eee
!width=50| Season
!width=400| Trophy
|- align=center valign=top
| 20 ||align=left| [[Image:Goldenboot III.gif]] Anthony Redmond {{Flag/IRE}} III.6, 14 goals
|- align=center valign=top
| 19 ||align=left| [[Image:P1 red.gif]] Champion of IV.27
|- align=center valign=top
| 18 ||align=left| [[Image:Goldenboot IV.gif]] Tavo Nomme {{Flag/Eesti}} IV.27, 31 goals
[[Image:P1 red.gif]] Champion of IV.27
|- align=center valign=top
| 15 ||align=left| [[Image:Goldenboot IV.gif]] Osvaldo Milone {{Flag/ITA}} IV.27, 20 goals<BR>
[[Image:P1 red.gif]] Champion of IV.27
|- align=center valign=top
| 11 ||align=left| [[image:p1 orange.gif]] Champion of V.245
|}




[[Category:Irish Clubs]]