- Oct 17, 2008
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It's that time again folks! After the success of last year's thread it's time to see what we can do in 2011 - starting right now in the demo..
OPTIONS:
Player masking enabled with real players on England quickstart
Starting as :albion1::albion1::albion1: again and set as "Automatic" on past experience.
PRESEASON:
Doncaster (H) 1-1
Sevenoaks (A) 4-0
Rotherham (A) 3-0
Glenavon (A) 7-1
Ipswich (H) 0-0
Used these to get my entire squad fit, use trialists and mess with what tactics I was going to use - and hope that key players find form - luckily this happened in the Glenavon game. Some thoughts; the refs are still VERY card-happy in pre-season (where hardly anyone gets booked ever) which is a little frustrating, as a precaution I always take a player off who has been booked or got any kind of a knock at any point in the game.
Big improvement on last year I think demo-wise, not as many glaring bugs but these are the main ones;
Choosing a parent club twice in a row - wait a few days and then they'll reply twice and you won't be able to progress without going "on holiday" for a day.
Stupid amount of own goals and penalties - which is at least better than last year where two/three players got injured a WEEK
TRANSFERS
All the players who were released were the results of transfer listing them, offering them to anybody for free and then them getting upset. Unwavering in my hard line approach
lolol they agreed to then leave with no termination fee in order to 'further their career'. Really, Gary Hart? I ask you. He's happy to leave for nothing as all that was stopping him from his dream move to Real Madrid was his one year deal with Brighton? Riiiight. All the loan deals are 6 month deals with 100% of wages paid by them.
Omar Korona and Sam Sodje were signed after trials and other trialists Davide Somma, Pele and Jay DeMerit came and went.
Strongest Team:
I started my first game like this:
A modification of my FM2009 home tactic, but I frequently change it if getting outplayed. This was the outcome;
Muzza won the game for us with two second half goals after we went down to ten men and I changed to a defensive 4-4-1 with Murray on his own.
Will update again at the end of the demo. It's fun playing without knowing who all the best players to buy are, having to experiment with trialists etc. Haven't spent anything yet either!
Would love to see how everyone else gets on?
OPTIONS:
Player masking enabled with real players on England quickstart
Starting as :albion1::albion1::albion1: again and set as "Automatic" on past experience.
PRESEASON:
Doncaster (H) 1-1
Sevenoaks (A) 4-0
Rotherham (A) 3-0
Glenavon (A) 7-1
Ipswich (H) 0-0
Used these to get my entire squad fit, use trialists and mess with what tactics I was going to use - and hope that key players find form - luckily this happened in the Glenavon game. Some thoughts; the refs are still VERY card-happy in pre-season (where hardly anyone gets booked ever) which is a little frustrating, as a precaution I always take a player off who has been booked or got any kind of a knock at any point in the game.
Big improvement on last year I think demo-wise, not as many glaring bugs but these are the main ones;
Choosing a parent club twice in a row - wait a few days and then they'll reply twice and you won't be able to progress without going "on holiday" for a day.
Stupid amount of own goals and penalties - which is at least better than last year where two/three players got injured a WEEK
TRANSFERS
All the players who were released were the results of transfer listing them, offering them to anybody for free and then them getting upset. Unwavering in my hard line approach
lolol they agreed to then leave with no termination fee in order to 'further their career'. Really, Gary Hart? I ask you. He's happy to leave for nothing as all that was stopping him from his dream move to Real Madrid was his one year deal with Brighton? Riiiight. All the loan deals are 6 month deals with 100% of wages paid by them.Omar Korona and Sam Sodje were signed after trials and other trialists Davide Somma, Pele and Jay DeMerit came and went.
Strongest Team:
I started my first game like this:
A modification of my FM2009 home tactic, but I frequently change it if getting outplayed. This was the outcome;
Muzza won the game for us with two second half goals after we went down to ten men and I changed to a defensive 4-4-1 with Murray on his own.
Will update again at the end of the demo. It's fun playing without knowing who all the best players to buy are, having to experiment with trialists etc. Haven't spent anything yet either!
Would love to see how everyone else gets on?
LuaLua magic!