It's definitely not easy... but I think that's the point of a manager game. I feel like I've done a somewhat decent job managing my team after I figured out the ropes of BB a season or so into it. I promoted to D3 once before, lost the first game or two, decided to sell all of my non-trainee players (blew the team up), put it all down on better trainees, and now I feel like I'm in a position to compete in D3 two seasons later.