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First game of the season with Beowulf 424. Maybe this is going to be our season and we'll get out of this godforsaken league at last!!!

I will give it a go. The 424 might actually suit my players better though currently in pre season scouring for any signs of talent especially with good work rate and determination.

I'll just keep plodding on then. I'm using your TIME4411 at the mo and one thing that frustrates me is I'm conceding a lot of goals from balls hoofed over my defence due to the high line. Has this been a problem for you and do you think dropping it deeper is the answer? Doing this also seems to invite the pressure on so maybe not the best solution.

Well that's the idea, but so far it's not working out that way! What tactic would you recommend for a lower league team?

Cause I love it......

Thanks very much for your help. I'm playing as Sheffield in the league below Vanarama north. I'm using the TIME 4411 with some tweaks to it lower defensive lines, no offside trap and a couple of others. Here are my recent results since trying your method. First game against Whitby I dropped mentality to cautious and we dominated the game, I thought I was onto something here. The next three games went well or as good as expected. We were unlucky to not beat Matlock and comfortable beat Witton. The game we lost against Workington - they were top of the league to fair enough we put up a good fight but lost by the odd goal. Then the game against Nantwich I lost and it pissed my off as they were bottom of the league so I felt we should be beating them comfortably. I replayed the game again trying different mentalities defence line etc on about the fifth atempt after they kept beating us I went attacking the whole match, although we conceided three goals we managed to outscore them. The next game against Ossett I went back to cautious, we scored then they dominated us and only a heroic performance from my keeper meant we just held on for the win: Now the last three games have been pure frustration fests. I went 2-0 up against Stalybridge only for my team to bottle it and go down 3-2. I put it to attack and managed to scrape an equaliser. The game against Colne was just dire. It felt like we could have played for a week and not scored against them . The painful thing was in the return game earlier in the season we trounced them 7-0. Maybe I am doing as well as can be expected the season preview has us finishing bottom but this is my third season in this division and it doesn't feel like any progress is being made, the inconsistency is pissing me off big time.

Hi optimus, I've been trying to use your 'system' and so far some improvement in results but some games the opposition just hammer us no matter what. You say if the opponent is outshooting you then you need to make 'drastic changes', what sort of thing do you suggest?

I had no idea there is a problem with 'central play' (whatever that is) until I looked on here. I hope I don't start to notice it now...

You could select Northern Irish as your second nationality then be able to choose a birthplace there. This way would be quite accurate would it no?

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The match engine is fine, my strikers are rubbish. Trust me, I have to work with them. The AI strikers can bang them in against me.

Well I think the ME is better now than it was in beta. There were too many goals, games that were like 7-3 were far too common and you could play a season and not have a 0-0. Plenty of 0-0s now. It shouldn't be expected to win so many games 4-1 or 5-1 like it was in the beta. Actually I'm struggling to score goals now, my strikers are rubbish. I love it.

Thanks sic. I still can't get them to change though. I must be doing something wrong.

Would anyone know how to go about changing the colour of the highlight key and preferable attributes?

Could you point me in the direction of where to look to add in the ability to show key and pref?