How are you dealing with players exhaustion at small clubs?

With players becoming tired (ie.condition falling very quickly) how are you dealing with this?

At bigger clubs you can use squad rotation. Small clubs will not have the numbers.

Fitness training works for me, not in the short term, eventually you will notice a difference between them and many other clubs at the same level as you.

Either what Hacker said or after every game I give the players a 1,2 or 3 daay rest from training depending on when the next match is.

How are you dealing with players exhaustion at small clubs?

Badly.

Actually, just a frantic rotation which a real lower league club couldn't do. Lots of free transfers and loans and way, way over my wage budget.

Badly.

Actually, just a frantic rotation which a real lower league club couldn't do. Lots of free transfers and loans and way, way over my wage budget.

I wonder if someone from SI could tell us why they changed the 'condition' of players in the last patch? Apart from the boost at the end of the game it was working fine.

I'm playing with a lower lower team, with a really small squad and I haven't had any problems with exhaustion.

SiI have said the fitness levels are now realistic where as before they werent. Having players at 100% fitness all the time is not realistic. That is why they made the change

I wonder if someone from SI could tell us why they changed the 'condition' of players in the last patch? Apart from the boost at the end of the game it was working fine.

What Rocky said. Convenient as it was, it was totally unrealistic that amateurs with low stamina could play three high-tempo games a week with no ill effects.

In addition to the above points, at lower league level it is even more important to adapt your tactics according to the capacity of the players. You need to go low tempo and low closing down to conserve their energy. Use the shouts 'keep possession' and 'take a breather' a few times over the 90 minutes.

What Rocky said. Convenient as it was, it was totally unrealistic that amateurs with low stamina could play three high-tempo games a week with no ill effects.

In addition to the above points, at lower league level it is even more important to adapt your tactics according to the capacity of the players. You need to go low tempo and low closing down to conserve their energy. Use the shouts 'keep possession' and 'take a breather' a few times over the 90 minutes.

Lower division teams don't play a slow, continental style.

IRL: They run about and get tired but the other side do too and it evens out.

in game: They get tired and injured.

In my BSP game, I have first team seven players injured after twelve games. One side in my BSP game has 14. That's well over half their squad.

It's a challenge but it isn't realism.

I give them oranges at halftime. Works wonders . . .

I give them oranges at halftime. Works wonders . . .

I see: none, angry, disappointed, encourage, pleased, delighted... oranges.

They all get oranges, hence the 5% condition boost at half-time.

Smaller clubs play less games.

Couple of things I found helping, dropping tempo during matches and reducing the intensity of trg to top of medium as opposed to heavy, plus a little bit of rotation. Can usually get 3 games a week out of most of them. Obviously natural fitness and stamina will have much to do with the recovery rate.

I'm limiting the amount of heavy pressing done during a match to the bare minimum, have to nurture the weaklings in the squad with the odd day off training but really this hasn't been a huge problem. Most players can turn out three games a week for a two or three months before needing a break. Injuries aren't that bad either - two or three players out with minor injuries (less than 10 days to recover usually) at any one time, but nothing to bad.

Smaller clubs play less games.

What complete twaddle, small teams in the lower leagues play more league matches in the top flight plus three cup competitions if in Div 1 or 2.

Smaller clubs play less games.

My Leigh Genesis side play a 42 match schedule and are in 5 Cups.

Follow the example of Roy Hodgson building a squad which can cover a lot of games is more important than a few big name signings.

Also I guess using younger players should allow greater recovery between matches.