So, the new FM game....

dulpit

Thought i'd get in on the act...


Started with cork city, got fired half way through season, re-started with cork, got fired in 2nd season, so decided to play properly, so started with Everton...

It's odd with everton, their expectations seem to be very low (which helps me) they only want a top half finish... We got through to the group stages on UEFA cup, but went out, drew with bayern munich (or someone) in our last game, had a goal disallowed near the end of game that would have sent us through. In the league cup, sent out the reserves, we were hammered 3-1 by southampton (woops, the board wanted me to get to quarter finals) and we were also knocked out of FA cup, against west ham i think, in 4th round, final score was 4-2 but their 4th goal came when Howard was up trying to score from a corner..

Currently we're 5th (or 6th) there's like 3 teams around the 4th place at the moment... The board are delighted, as are the fans. Only bought 1 player, Kevin Doyle, he's turned out class, didn't score for his first few games, but he's now our top scorer with Johnson. I was gonna sign some brazilian young fella whose name escapes me, he costs like 60K or something, apparently he'll be the next ronaldhino, but he didn't get a work permit, so i'll try again in june...

Love this game, get sucked into playing it for hours, which is bad when you have college work to do...

delta_bravo

Im getting into it now. I edited the game and put 20 eircom league teams + crumlin united and st james gate into blue square south. its great! managing crumlin. completely amateur team, no wages. surprisingly easy to sign players for no wages. Ive started well, beating james gate and drawing with ucd and bohs.

Mitch Connor

Tauren wrote: »

In my first season, my transfer dealins were the following,

OUT

Fletcher,
O'Shea
Tommy K

IN

Veloso,
Zarate,
Ever Banega (sp)
And a few young player put into the U18s.

In my second season, I sold Saha for 20million (DEAL!!) and brought in David Silva from Valencia for 33million.

General first team is:
.....................Foster
Neville...Ferdinand...Vidic..Evra
....................Hargreaves
............Veloso......Anderson
Ronaldo..........................Silva
.................Rooney

Bench: Tevez, Scholes, Nani, Pique, Brown.

Also, Fabio (brazilian left back that signs in the summer) has played a few games and has done ok, Evans looks decent and Gibson looks like he could be a very good squad player for me.

@Pala! The game seems really quick to load for me, quicker then the last version, if not by much.

Well, after winning everything with United in 2 seasons, and not seeing where i could sign new players for, was offered the Barcelona job and took it. Most of their squad remains in tact, made a few signings for them so far - mascherano, van Persie, Saviet, Martinez, Sunny, Caez, Garay and Fabio - most of them don't start as first choice.

First choice line up is

......................Valdes

Zambrotta...Puyol...Milito...Abidal
....................Mascherano
................Xavi.........Iniesta
Messi...............................Ronaldinho
.......................Henry.

So, as you can see only Mascherano is a new addition to the starting line-up. Rotate the players quite a lot though, and already have suffered from injuries. van Persie is out for a few months, Iniesta and Deco keep injury themselves in training, Abidal missed the first 2 months of the season too. All my players are getting decent run outs.

Started the season a bit jittery, scraping wins by the odd goal, but form really kicked up a notch in late September, with back to back 6-1 away wins at Osasuna in La Liga and Rangers in the CL.

torqdj

majiktripp wrote: »

Am I the only one who likes picking sh!t teams to manage? I find theres no fun in winning with Man United, but getting Scunthorpe up from the Championship, now thats a challenge!
The disallowed goals thing is a bit bogus too, majorly annoying!

i decided last year to start with a **** team, it tkaes ages to get up the leagues tho and i dont have much time in a week to play it,

got a league 2 side to the championship in about 3 or 4 seasons, that was after two years of getting clubs releagated out of league 2

RDConfoosed

playing in Eircom league - poorly researched and whoever is the researcher - well more effort needed. again the financial modelling is not up to scratch - no matter how well ur team does - the potential is never realised and the club rep doesnt improve. enjoying the game but EL could be better set-up

dulpit

RDConfoosed wrote: »

playing in Eircom league - poorly researched and whoever is the researcher - well more effort needed. again the financial modelling is not up to scratch - no matter how well ur team does - the potential is never realised and the club rep doesnt improve. enjoying the game but EL could be better set-up

I agree with that, some of the teams feature old players and stuff... One of the lads' brothers used to play for Cobh ramblers, but he finished with them like 2 years ago, but he's still on the team... Which is odd...

I've been told that the cork city team is slightly wrong too (i don't know myself, don't know enough about the eircom league)

Mr.Nice Guy

Just resigned as Ireland manager. Got us to Euro 2008 and beat the Czechs 3-1 in Prague along the way (you listening Stan? ) then got in a group with France and Portugal so unsurprisingly didn't make it through to the next round.

I then got Ireland to the play-offs of the 2010 WC against Switzerland but after a 2-2 draw away they came to Dublin and won 4-3. Frei is absolutely lightning fast in the game. Dunne was run ragged.

From my experience Doyle is brilliant and Andy Reid is quality too. Stephen Hunt does the biz on the left as well.

Guy:Incognito

Not just the new one, I think I noticed it before. I have one game I mess with the odd time with a cheat database where Cardiff have all td's good players (and John O'Shea). In this and my real game I noticed Liverrpol going well, then dropping off a bit around the 10-15 game mark. When I look at their matches and lok at the tactics for same, they seem to be doing odd things. They drop Carragher completely , Sometimes in favour of Hyypia, other times to play Mertesacker (who they signe) and Hyypia/Agger. Even though Carra is their highest rated defender.

They leave Babel/Kewell/Masch/Alonso on the bench and play a midfield of Voronin - Sissoko - Gerrard - Pennant.

As well as that, I asked my assistant at Cardiff to pick my team, which he does, obviously with all the Utd players I've stolen:). Then to test I go on holiday and look at the team he picks. He dtops players lik eVidic and Ronaldo to play some crap he pulled from the reserves.

Vokes

FM doesn't seem to rate Carragher all that well as a CB. I've seen 'Pool play him mostly as a RB in my game.

Does Finnan play ahead of him in yours?

Guy:Incognito

SofaKing wrote: »

FM doesn't seem to rate Carragher all that well as a CB. I've seen 'Pool play him mostly as a RB in my game.

Does Finnan play ahead of him in yours?

Actually, come to think of it, yeah , he plays at rb a lot.Finnan gets dropped but still rack sup a fair few apps each season through rotation.

Pepe LeFrits

I just lost 4-2 to Tottenham and had 4 (FOUR) goals from corners disallowed for pushing. When asked about the controversy over the first one, I criticised the referee and now the FA have given me a warning. Ridiculous.

dulpit

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

I just lost 4-2 to Tottenham and had 4 (FOUR) goals from corners disallowed for pushing. When asked about the controversy over the first one, I criticised the referee and now the FA have given me a warning. Ridiculous.

I got a touchline ban for criticising too much... Which is kinda cool (in an annoying way)

Pepe LeFrits

Did they playtest this thing at all? The amount of fouls for pushing on corners is absurd, as is the number of goals scored. I just got beaten 5-0 by Arsenal and my keeper got a 9, and my AM suggested I tell all my players I was pleased! (except the keeper, who I should be delighted with).

My results this season as Birmingham:

0-2 Blackburn
5-4 Newcastle
2-3 Reading
2-1 Coventry
5-1 Derby
4-1 Ipswich
2-0 Liverpool
2-0 Wigan
2-4 Tottenham
2-3 Man United
4-3 Chelsea
2-1 Middlesbrough
4-1 Portsmouth
3-0 Sheff Wed
2-0 West Ham
1-5 Everton
3-2 Bolton
0-5 Arsenal

Silly.

kaimera

Ok, so I was a huge CM fan; countless hours lost to them.

Last FM game I played was '05 I believe. Only got 08 yesterday. New UI is taking some time for me to get used too, I still turn off the match graphics; text ftw!.

Having a horrible time in pre.season with Liverpool. Then again last night I didn't have loads of time to put into it to tweak everything. I still haven't patched it either.

DerekD Goldfish

Top of the league with Man City had loads of money to spend and went first 20 games unbeaten in all comps went on a dodgey run in Jan when I had a load of Injury's but still 2 points clear of United. Elano is better than Pele and Maradona combined.
best thing about my season so far is results against the top 4 in 9 games against them in all comps so far I have 6 wins 2 draws and only 1 defeat.
4-2-3-1 is working well but with doyle just signed in playing 2 up front against the weeker teams now disalowed goals are as anoying as hell though

Pepe LeFrits

Steve Harper just kicked off a game for me. He's playing in goal...

Vokes

kaimera wrote: »

Having a horrible time in pre.season with Liverpool. Then again last night I didn't have loads of time to put into it to tweak everything. I still haven't patched it either.

If you turn on the match graphics, you'll probably see that your players let the opposition approach with the ball all the way to your box without closing down at all regardless of your Closing Down setting.

Patch it! Quick