ManUtd1 Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Oof...Celtic is a rough draw, man. Sorry to see that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share Posted May 25, 2017 A very even game, but they just about edged it. We're going to need to win in San Marino. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share Posted May 25, 2017 We were on top, but then our keeper let a weak shot squirm under him, and when we pushed desperately for a goal they picked us off on the counter twice. Incredibly frustrating. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share Posted May 25, 2017 Youth Intake Day! We got an Englishman! Unfortunately he's absolutely rubbish. He's got decent physicals, and the ability to play a pass, although not much else. Definitely has some tools to work with as a playmaking type. We've been crying out for a striker who can actually finish, so he might get a chance here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManUtd1 Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 16 finishing, with 11 composure and 10 off the ball? I suspect that's fantastic for San Marino... Got to love the role/duty assessment of him as a Target Man...all 5'7" and 130 pounds of him. Sorry, Michele...5'8" in your boots. That's right. You're a big boy, you are. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share Posted May 25, 2017 18 hours ago, ManUtd1 said: 16 finishing, with 11 composure and 10 off the ball? I suspect that's fantastic for San Marino... Got to love the role/duty assessment of him as a Target Man...all 5'7" and 130 pounds of him. Sorry, Michele...5'8" in your boots. That's right. You're a big boy, you are. Aye, that's basically unheard of for San Marino. We get a few 16's, but only in mentals and physicals, never technicals. Compared to our current Target Man, who's 6'6, 202 pounds, I think our assistant may have slightly misjudged this one. Unless he thinks our current one could eat him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManUtd1 Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 20 minutes ago, Jupjamie said: [...] I think our assistant may have slightly misjudged this one. Unless he thinks our current one could eat him. Thus gaining his strength...?!?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share Posted May 25, 2017 22 minutes ago, ManUtd1 said: Thus gaining his strength...?!?! You're a genius, Watson! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 No, no, you have to cut their head off to gain their power. There can be only one(or eleven, I guess). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share Posted May 25, 2017 16 minutes ago, BoxToBox said: No, no, you have to cut their head off to gain their power. There can be only one(or eleven, I guess). Fine by me. What else are assistant managers for? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 1 minute ago, Jupjamie said: Fine by me. What else are assistant managers for? Assistant, accomplice.... tomayto, tomahto. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 Season Review! League Even when we breeze through the league, we make hard work of the playoffs. We won it (in extra time after diving for a penalty...), but we're going to mess this up soon. Cup Champions.Schedule Squad Other Teams: Fiorentino lost 6-0 to Siroki Brijeg from Bosnia, Faetano lost 7-0 to Danish Brondby and Tre Penne lost 5-1 to Sion from Switzerland. Next year: I want to make it back to the Europa Groups. It's been a while. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 Now that we're 30 years into the save, I thought it would be a good time to take a look under the hood and see how other teams are developing their facilities. The first field (tabs highlighted gold) is the value in 2016, and the second (tabs highlighted green) is the one in 2046. Whew, boy. Remember how Youth Recruitment seemed easier to upgrade for the AI than the human? Yeah. Every other team - bar one - has been able to upgrade their Youth Recruitment from the starting value. We haven't - even though we're doing better than them in every measurable category. By far. On one hand, it's good that they're able to develop this, so that the standard of Sammarinese youngsters they produce increases and the National Team gets more help (as well as us getting more competition and help in Europe from the other teams). In particular, Murata have recently produced one winger who's PA is 111, which as far as I'm aware would be the best player produced at any club in San Marino since the start of the save, including ours. On the other hand... argh. It's so frustrating to still be stuck at 2/20, when if the club was being managed by an AI manager they'd surely be higher - at least at 8/20 and likely even higher. This is clearly a bug/broken mechanic, but AFAIK they haven't found a fix for it yet. I wonder what it's going to take for us to actually be able to upgrade it? On a brighter note, it's nice to see most of the team's upgrading their other facilities, including youth coaching (junior coaching). The AI definitely seem smarter in terms of squad building than on FM 16, and hopefully we actually get teams good enough to challenge us, considering we've won the league 20 times in 30 years and 17 times in the last 18 years. We'll see how that goes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 A free 6.75m? That's tidy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 Should be a relative breeze. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 We've never played the Austrians before, but they've got some very tidy players. It's a better draw than Celtic, though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 An even game that we've somehow lost 4-1. Things aren't going our way right now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 Interesting draw, this one. The Serbians best days are very much behind them. We'll see. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 We deserved to win, but I'll take a 1-1 draw away. We should be winning at home. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 Yeah, I'd leave their player unmarked in the penalty area from 6 yards, too. Superb work, you f***ing morons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keano16 Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 That's frustrating re results and youth recruitment again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Just out of curiosity, why aren't you upgrading your training and youth facilities with all the money you have? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BathCity Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 This is great, keep it going! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 5 hours ago, Keano16 said: That's frustrating re results and youth recruitment again. Tell me about it 3 hours ago, Rikulec said: Just out of curiosity, why aren't you upgrading your training and youth facilities with all the money you have? Good question. We have been upgrading it a fair bit (mainly the training ones), but there's a few reasons why we haven't taken it higher: 1: I'm really not too bothered about upgrading youth facilities right now. Any half decent youth prospect gets chucked straight into our first team squad anyway, so the youth facilities are really only for the second rate prospects who probably aren't going to make it. 2: I'm very paranoid that money can become an issue on these saves. Last year I did this and we ended up in some heavy, heavy financial trouble which really held us back. I'm probably being overcautious, but I'm trying to save a lot of money in the bank for a rainy season or ten. 3: With that said, we don't actually need better training facilities right now. Our problem isn't that players aren't growing to reach their PA - it's that their PAs are so low they pretty much peak when they're 20. It's all about youth recruitment right now (but I will still upgrade our training facilities when we get a bit more cash). 3 hours ago, BathCity said: This is great, keep it going! Cheers Bath! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 Youth Intake Day! Ugh. A 6'5, English/Sammarinese poacher. He's unique, I guess. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Only in San Marino would you get a 5'7 target man and a 6'5 poacher! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kubson Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 53 minutes ago, Jupjamie said: Youth Intake Day! Ugh. A 6'5, English/Sammarinese poacher. He's unique, I guess. 6'5'' with 5 strength and 6 heading Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneronaldo Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 He's 6'5", can't head the ball and is a 163lbs stick insect, has no work ethic and is also a coward. Boy have you got your work cut out with this one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keano16 Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 49 minutes ago, oneronaldo said: He's 6'5", can't head the ball and is a 163lbs stick insect, has no work ethic and is also a coward. Boy have you got your work cut out with this one. Grapefruit has fixed worse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 3 hours ago, BoxToBox said: Only in San Marino would you get a 5'7 target man and a 6'5 poacher! Our scouts try their hearts out, bless them. They're not exactly sure what sport this is, or how you play it, but they do try. 3 hours ago, Kubson said: 6'5'' with 5 strength and 6 heading Yeah... he very much put all his skill points into 'tall'. 2 hours ago, oneronaldo said: He's 6'5", can't head the ball and is a 163lbs stick insect, has no work ethic and is also a coward. Boy have you got your work cut out with this one. No wonder he's come to San Marino. Poor guy was terrified of London. So many people. So much to do. We'll make something of him yet! 1 hour ago, Keano16 said: Grapefruit has fixed worse. I think we may need to place an order for some. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 Season Review! League We made hard work of the final - again - but we held on for the win. Cup Oh well.Schedule Squad Other Teams: Juvenes Dogana lost 3-0 to Lech from Poland, Libertas lost 6-1 to Linfield from Northern Ireland and Murata lost 2-1 to Sparta Prague, which is a damn fine effort. Next year: I want to make it back to the Europa Groups. It's been a while. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 The Slovenians might not be the easiest... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 We nearly messed that up... The best draw possible. Lets go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 We wasted so many chances, but finally got our reward with a last minute goal off a corner. We haven't put ourselves in a great position, but I was about to murder somebody, so I'll take the draw. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 Ugh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 You never know how good teams from the bigger countries will be, but I think it's safe to assume: Better than us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 I... what? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 That's a very respectable draw. I wonder... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 I've stopped wondering. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 26, 2017 Author Share Posted May 26, 2017 Youth Intake Day! He looks okay-ish, maybe. We've got a lot of strikers better right now, though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxToBox Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Least they don't think he's a targetman this time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneronaldo Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Guess you found the 3rd 'Stache Brother. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 27, 2017 Author Share Posted May 27, 2017 On 2017-5-26 at 21:45, BoxToBox said: Least they don't think he's a targetman this time. Must just be a distinction they save for the English. Racists! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 28, 2017 Author Share Posted May 28, 2017 Season Review! League Not all that convincing, but who cares. Championes! Cup Double.Schedule Squad Other Teams: Murata lost 4-1 to Domzale to Slovenia, Fiorentino lost 4-2 to Siroki Brijeg from Bosnia and Libertas lost 4-0 to FC Nordsjaelland from Denmark (that took five minutes to type out and I'm still not sure I spelt it right). Next year: Europa Groups. Please? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 28, 2017 Author Share Posted May 28, 2017 Nothing to worry about with the finances - the big dip is because we're improving our training facilities again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 28, 2017 Author Share Posted May 28, 2017 I'm not happy with this draw. The Norwegians are way too strong for this round. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted May 28, 2017 Author Share Posted May 28, 2017 Our defenders often go unnoticed in this save - and by that I mean even I forget who they are - but Simoncini was a stalwart for us for nearly two decades Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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