Choosing starters

Which do you think is the most important factor when choosing your starters?

Players who respect me as a manager, so all them rebels who refuse to not argue with officials or dive into tackles are always over looked.

However, if the league is wrapped up with games to spare, I usually just pick my strongest youth

In order.

Fitness level - 95%+

Ability

Ability

Fitness

Form

Coach star ratings are slightly below alphabetic order tbh.

morale definetely, whenever i play players with poor morale they're crap.

There is no one answer you can pick here because it depends how big the differences are.

Tier 1. Attributes/Coach report as they're the same thing. Say I have 4 strikers, one is rubbish, barely functional is desperation in the lower division but he was never the best and I've bought more hes only going to play if he really has to.

Tier 2. Fitness they got to be fit to start but again dependent on how good they are, a 90% top player is still better than a 100% rubbish one but it does increase the chance there will be substitutions.

Tier 3 Form/Morale pretty much the same thing. If I have fit players of similar level it becomes very important and can determine a bit of rotation if I have the luxury of extra players. It would be nice if you could use this to pick your team all the time but my clubs usually have severe deficiencies in player quality at some positions and lack of depth due to having no money like a big team does.

To those who voted form/morale I ask the question;

You have Fernando Torres and Tarmo Kink (Middlesbrough), Kink is in a buoyant mood after scoring last week and Torres is a bit upset and hasn't score for a couple of games. Who do you put on the pitch?

Form - by far the most important aspect.

Fitness

Ability

Morale can be dealt with if you save your private talks until the day before the match and further managed in team pre-match talks.

You have Fernando Torres and Tarmo Kink (Middlesbrough), Kink is in a buoyant mood after scoring last week and Torres is a bit upset and hasn't score for a couple of games. Who do you put on the pitch?

Form is most important but not the only factor to consider.. If it was between Torres and say a striker just a bit below him in ability.. I would go with the in-form player. If it was between Torres and a striker of marginal ability then I would go with Torres and try to deal with his moral issue with private and pre-match talks.

And form and morale are not the same thing. Form is the real deal.. how the player is actually performing on the pitch. As for morale, I have had players that were happy as clams......and they played like one.

Form & Morale.

why isnt fitness on the poll as an option????

for me its fitness 1st and then the quality of the player

Fitness

Ability

Morale

Fitness #1

It depends.

Honestly I generally pcik on fitness but form is a preety close second. Saying that i tend to rotate my sqauds religiously and will very rarely go two games in a row with the same team, I normall make 2 or 3 changes for every game, it keeps players fresh and tkeeps morale of fringe players high aswell.

A combination of form fitness, form, and morale.

nice job... friends...