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Like Baptista said, you have Rice and Phillips as the defensive ones, Bellingham and Henderson as the more box to box, then Foden and Mount as the more attacking options, with them two being able to play wide in an absolute pinch, and Grealish able to play in the middle as well if injuries get bad. Mind you, I think Foden will possibly be playing wide anyway. Dropping any would leave the squad much weaker depth-wise.
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17 minutes ago, Barry Cartman said:
The problem is we're going to be calling up Rice, Phillips, Henderson and Bellingham, when it should just be 2 out of those 4, but pushed to 3 due to the extra space
Genuinely confused by this, you'd only take 2 CMs?
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Surprised Rodrigo's not been called up, seemed to have been a sure thing in their other recent squads, injuries aside, but now he's out despite being in good form.
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Good that this doesn't seem as bad as it looked. Probably miss at least the first group game though.
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1 minute ago, AM99 said:
Don't think i'd have Trent starting but it would be a shocking decision not to have him in the squad.
Yeah, I could totally understand picking Walker in the 11, but to not take TAA at all is just baffling.
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James is a good player, but there's no question he should be behind Walker, TAA, and Trippier for me.
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Why's he only named 24 when you can name 26? Get not filling spots for the sake of it but still seems a bit silly.
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I defended not selecting Trent in March, but not selecting him for the Euros is a proper shambles.
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Seeing as Rob DEMANDED a new thread be made here to take over the one in the football forum...
Who's on the plane? Who's staying home? How many times will we see posts complaining that Grealish isn't starting? Discuss it all here.
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Hope Alioski has a good tournament, been inconsistent at times this season but when he's at his best he's an absolute nightmare for opposition, just constantly attacking.
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Christ, 50p a pack was pretty steep but no way am I paying 90p a pack ffs.
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3 hours ago, bestbrother said:
England fans asked to name the best XI players in the World right now...
Pickford, TAA, Maguire, Stones, Chilwell, Rice, Sterling, Mount, Rashford, Kane, Foden
England fans asked to predict how well they will do in the poxy Euros...
We will be happy to score 1 goal and if we get a point its overachieving. Our squad and players are the best in the World, but we are underdogs.
Not even the most stoned out of their eyeballs, pissed up, biased moron of an England fan would have Pickford as the best keeper in the world
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Golden generation but they're all rubbish by sounds of it
Hopefully it not mentioning CBs or STs means I'll have at least one half decent one of each, they're the two positions I need more depth and quality.
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19 minutes ago, ANGL said:
This has to be the unfairest match I have ever played
Until the other team score and it gets even worse
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Just about to start third season, lower position and less points in second year. Started doing far too much tinkering and think it hurt the performances, just gonna stick with my usual tactic for now especially given the squad is still expecting to fight relegation but I've got to midtable. Couple key players retiring as well so I've not got massively high hopes for this year either.
However, a fortunate cup draw helped with healthy finances as we got to the 3rd round and played Newcastle away, so got to upgrade the junior coaching and youth recruitment again and got a couple of promising players coming through. If they develop exceptionally quickly I might get a bit higher but I think 4th season is more likely.
Season League Position FA Cup FAT/EFL Other Youth Facilities Training Facilities Junior Coaching Youth Recruitment Goals Assists Average Rating 2021-2022 VNL North 13th - 66 points 2nd Rnd FAT 3rd R NA Basic Basic Average Fairly Basic Luke Benbow 27 (20 league) Scott McManus 19 (16 league) William Edjenguele 6.97 2022-2023 VNL North 14th - 60 points 3rd Rnd FAT 4th R NA Basic Basic Adequate Adequate Luke Benbow 23 (18 league) Scott McManus 16 (14 league) Ethan Stewart 7.00 2 -
Started well second season, got excited, and now gone back to midtable obscurity
At a point where I don't know if I need to change tactics or if I'm actually doing decent considering we're predicted relegation.
Just something as well I didn't turn off the editor by mistake so have already broken the rules, I'm invested now though so gonna stick with it, but I know this means I won't have officially done the challenge.
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Cheers for the advice everyone, I've made sure my HOYD is responsible so hopefully next season it is them that does it
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Got my first set of players through who look decent, but sadly some have got some rubbish personalities. I thought it all went through the HOYD but my U18 manager said he had an influence in their personalities? Have I missed something? Either way I've sacked him off and got someone else instead with a perfectionist personality so hopefully either way next year's personalities are better.
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3 hours ago, XaW said:
To be fair, this is probably the hardest challenge you can do in FM, and not many actually succeed. Still, most of us play it because we enjoy the challenge. Also, if you were to manage to get them a single promotion, it still feels like conquering something. That said, this is a challenge for the patient player, so I know that many often take breaks from these, or (myself included) gets bored with a challenge if you feel like you are stalling at a point for too long. But even through that I still can't seem to get myself to play a normal game with a top team anymore, it's just not the same!
Yeah it definitely seems the hardest but I just really like the idea of developing the youth system. I could definitely see myself getting bored if there's ever a period of stagnation but we'll see!
2 hours ago, djsterry said:If it help at all I found that it pays to keep it simple at the lower levels. Obviously we don't get much choice of what type of players we end up with but on both saves I've done I got my teams to the top level playing 442 with high pressing
I just used what was successful in a Darlington save, but I've tweaked it with my players not being as good and it seems to have helped a bit, actually closer to play offs than relegation now but still got no hope of promotion this year.
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Been skim reading this thread and decided to give this a go over last couple of days with Nuneaton. Started off with a 3-0 win, thinking I'm a genius and would easily get play offs but er, yeah, it's not panned out that way
Currently 19th after 17 games, 4 clear of relegation atm, which I would happily take. This squad is pretty dire with some of the better players being in their 30s already, but I've managed to convince the board after whinging at them to increase youth recruitment and youth coaching, getting to the second round of the FA Cup more than likely helping with that after helping financially.
Have a feeling I'll end up breaking the rules out of frustration at some point but for the time being I'm doing my best with making no signings and seeing how long I can last before throwing my laptop out the window!
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I look forward to the piece in the local press if they pick this up, perfect for Look South or whatever they call the local BBC news down there
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20 minutes ago, Jimbokav1971 said:
I'm not a regular in OTF and I'm afraid that even a thread like this probably isn't going to change that but......
Perhaps some of you regulars would consider creating a "Charity" thread and once a [insert time period here] people could submit Charities of their choice and then a vote be run on whichever charity the thread want to support over the next [insert time period here].
Me and my £15.8? whatever it was isn't really big enough to make a difference to any charity, no matter how worthwhile and in need of support it is, but as a group who could band together as we did here, the "power" we have to support a charity really is significant.
I know that SI already do their own charity stuff, (and that's brilliant), but perhaps we could do more as a group? Giving to charity is something that I'm sure many of us do anyway. Pooling our resources together doesn't mean that we give more, (or less), it just means that we have the potential to make a bigger impact on the chosen charity at that time.
Like I said, I'm not a regular in here so I'm not in a position to carry this forward, but if any of you who are, think this is a decent idea, perhaps it's something you might look at?
Good luck and well done to all who donated, (no matter how small and to where).
Thought vaguely about similar earlier actually, would be nice if every so often people grouped together and donated to good causes as in this thread.
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38 minutes ago, darren1983 said:
Can I be a dick and say if I win that the money goes to a different hospice? The one that cared for my mum? @Weezer
I'd be happy to chip in some money to that hospice as well if you post the link
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Please donate £15 to the hospice if my name is drawn @Weezer
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The Jack Grealish (and occasionally England) Thread: It's coming home attempt 5782570
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Calvert-Lewin regularly gets shortened to DCL online tbf