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podunkboy

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    Devoted husband and father of two (despite what my wife says when I'm playing FM-24), late-comer to the love of the true football faith (grew up watching indoor soccer), great cook and lover of beer, bbq and...okay, beer and bbq.

About Me

  • About Me
    Wichita KS

Interests

  • Interests
    Cooking,SciFi, FM, Gardening

Favourite Team

  • Favourite Team
    Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic

Currently Managing

  • Currently Managing
    Salisbury FC (VLS and moving up)

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  1. Ahh, THAT'S the charm of true LLM, even if you have the money, prospective staff won't move to your club because the move will mess up their personal lives. Easiest solutions: poach staff from other teams at or below your level, pick up a free agent who's profile mentions they want to move into Scouting/coaching/physio when they retire, send older players for leadership courses (if you have the money), keep running the ad until someone pops up and just try to hold the team together until then. Bottom level clubs likely don't have a fully-staffed backroom, and even if they do, they're so crap that they're not going to benefit most players in training. I play LLM every year, and it's always a struggle until you get a team promoted to the league system or you manage well enough to get hired away.
  2. judging from the Bugs forum, this was a problem last year that was never fixed, and apparently won't be fixed this year, either, so I guess I'm just going to have to manually schedule constant friendlies for the U21s.
  3. still not working, neither my U-21 team (which doesn't have a league) or my U-18 team schedules a friendly each week when requested. Players won't develop if they don't play...ever.
  4. I had my club (Greystoke) set my weekly payroll at $1400/week and make us semi-professional when we clinched promotion, and then after the final game of the season, I got a message from the board that the payroll was now set at $400/week. None of the existing players would re-sign for less than the entire weekly payroll and any free agents who were interested in signing wouldn't accept a penny less than everything I had and more. I asked the board for a boost and they told me to quit bothering them...so I resigned and almost immediately got a job with Aveley in the National League South. I don't fight the board when they're determined to send the team into a tailspin, I just move on.
  5. I had the board sell my top prospect to a rival because of "an offer too good to pass up". Because of where the % of transfer funds available was set (even though we weren't in dire straights), there wasn't enough in the budget for a quality replacement. I was so angry I terminated all the staff contracts and resigned my position. Later ended up at a rival club, started poaching all my old players.
  6. VERY hard to believe a world where 6 months into the save entire leagues have no head coaches, my scouting team (admittedly two scouts and a head scout) has found only 3 players, and I have to play with a 6 player squad (the rest grayed out), because no one will sign with us because the team doesn't appear to be strong enough. LLM is absolutely a NO GO in FM 24.
  7. Holiday-ed for a year, took over a club where all the players are demanding a better contract and increased status even though 1) they're 2-stars or less 2) they averaged around a 6.0 for the season and 3) only made 3-5 appearances in the preceding season. When I go to negotiate they want 3x what they were making...if you only averaged a 6.0 for the season, I should be CUTTING your wage, not tripling it. They can kick off as much as they like, no one wants them even for free.
  8. I gave this every opportunity, but had to give up one save because EVERY player was complaining about playing time, even those who were starting games with limited fitness. Started another save, trying to hire staff that supposedly were interested in the position refusing to then listen to a job offer because the team isn't up to their lofty standards (even though they're unemployed). Posted an ad for the job, every staff member who applied for the job refused to then discuss the position. Eff it, I'm going to go play a game that's not broken sold by a developer who after 25 years consistently is releasing buggy crap.
  9. Player, Sebastien Lecuyer is on loan at Nancy (I'm managing OM). Player wants to be recalled because he says he's not getting enough playing time, except according to the Form screen at Nancy, he's played 13 of 13 games.
  10. My 19-year-old Columbian wonderkid newgen left back gets his first cap for Columbia, as always I congratulate the player, he pops off with a "well, it SHOULDN'T have taken this long!" Really? I'm managing Denmark's team and you have to be something special to even make the 23-man squad, let alone get capped. But I plow on with the "well, it's great that you've showed your patience and hopefully it's the start of a long and successful run" and here he comes back with "You don't need to be condescending to me, I KNOW how great I am!" and I suddenly realize that he's never going to see the pitch again at FC Koln unless it's a member of the groundskeeping crew, because I must destroy him now. I signed him for $1.2 million, he's worth $20 million now, and quite frankly the first team to offer $20 million+ can have him, if I haven't retrained him as a goalkeeper by then.
  11. I didn't see anything in that excessively non-specific features video that would make me run for my virtual wallet any time soon. I shall wait until I see something that even remotely intrigues me.
  12. New to FM '24 - force your player into a loveless marriage with an Andorran citizen. Might be easier to get them to marry an Andorian.
  13. Meh, my cellphone knows when I'm talking about pizza and pops up an ad in Facebook in response, I no longer worry about the constant surveillance.
  14. Well, fortunately FM's sound is crap, so I can play it silently while watching TV with the wife (although I rarely look up at the TV), but I'm also texting on my phone and playing my mobile game...I have a bit of a problem doing only one thing at a time.
  15. can you not click on the "position/role/duty" column at the top to sort them? Always works for me.
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