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Top explanation, appreciate it, and perfectly reasoned out.
RE: Potter, I know he's only 5'6 and doesn't have any 'green' attributes in his physicals, but I'd be more than happy to have him as part of a 2 with that Strength, Fitness & Work Rate even if his Tackling is a bit low.
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18 minutes ago, Hootieleece said:
I never play a player with an orange injury tag. Mostly out of rather having them at near 100% when I use them.
Same, if it leaves a space on the bench so be it, however there's always a kid I can chuck on there to fill it out!
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17 hours ago, Stuniverse said:
According to the rules, as I understood them, we should be able to include an unregistered goalkeeper if two registered goalkeepers are injured...
The game only counts 'red' injuries as injuries, looks like your backup has a minor 'orange' which, for these purposes, doesn't count!
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On 12/04/2024 at 09:47, Jimbokav1971 said:
Challenge Cup, (which is also called the SPFL Trust Trophy). It's the 65th highest ranked Cup competition in Europe, (right behind the EFL Trophy to give that some context). The EFL Trophy by the way is called the Bristol Street Motors Trophy this season and saw Peterborough beat Wycombe in the Final last weekend. So while the BSM Trophy is only open to English League 1 and League 2 sides, it's still a decent rep trophy and that's where the Challenge Cup/SPFL Trust Trophy sits in the pecking order. Having said that, the Scottish Non-League Cup is ranked 55th on the list so...... maybe not so much.
The top 2 in Wales and Northern Ireland also compete in this. It's a fun little cup I've won a couple of times now and gives more games to my second XI (the early rounds are all midweek). A real long-term FM challenge would be try to get into the Scottish Hall of Fame while never managing in Scotland (spoiler: it would take forever as this cup gives very few HoF points).
On 14/04/2024 at 08:04, Jimbokav1971 said:1st Team MLC. (42b) Potter (F.Pro) * SELL
A big turn around for a SELL marked player getting a 1st berth.
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If you have no desire to manage outside the country, I see no reason not to stay at Viking.
- After all these seasons in charge it's now very much 'your' squad.
- You are on an upward trajectory, especially with the Champs League money this season (and potentially next).
- Everything else within the league would be a side-step, at best, seeing as you are currently the team to beat.
- Plus, sticking with the narrative, dropping down the divisions to build up another team doesn't feel realistic for a not so fresh faced 29 year old. Even a change to your favoured club doesn't feel realistic at this point.
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I see Rangers got their promotion.
As for Fraher, I'd loan him out if he doesn't make either of your XI's, no point him sitting on the bench with IR as there's no guarantee that AssMan will bring him on. I take the view that anybody with 2* CA (Good Cymru N/S for me, so a level below my league) should be playing 'proper' games. He'll be 17 early into the new season so his age shouldn't be an issue.
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Brownlie looks like a top prospect for that Libero role, given his personality and the fact I'd expect his strength to increase with age.
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Rangers must be much more confident in their financial future if they're slapping down £8.5m up-front on a player.
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At the risk of sending you back into your old posts/saves and wasting another hour and a half of your life...
41h, the keeper that was your 2nd XI 'keeper last season that you sold to Hull, is listed as (Unamb) in your Goalie Scorers long-list, but is clearly (M.Citizen) when you binned him off.
Is that simply a typo or did his personality/ambition attribute take a massive rise in the years since he came through the YI?
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That guy playing up top for Norway at the World Cup seems alright - you should put in a bid.
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10 hours ago, Jimbokav1971 said:
Galaţi
This triggered a memory; I briefly dated a girl from Galatz - she had nothing positive to say about the place except that it's mentioned in Dracula. It's a shame you lost over there.
I'm interested in your reasoning for never backing down when talking to players. Is this just a personal character thing or have you noticed an adverse affect when doing so? I'll occasionally back down for Team Leaders with good personalities, and I can't think off the top of my head of anything negative stemming from it - in fact the opposite.
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On 22/03/2024 at 12:48, Stuniverse said:
Thanks, @BML
An update on this, I have checked back and the only European media interviews I have done this season were for my Champions League qualifying games. When I bombed out and dropped into the Europa, these stopped entirely, so there is likely something wrong somewhere.
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2 hours ago, Stuniverse said:
Is this normal?
Come to think of it, I don't think I've been doing them this year for my Europa games, but I'm not 100% without checking my save.
Last season, when I made the Champions League League Phase I was definitely doing them but I really don't remember them this season after dropping down.
I'll try and check this weekend.
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It's already been answered, but dropping down the UEFA competitions still exists in the qualifying rounds even though they removed it from the new League Phase - it's why qualifying for the Champions League qualifiers is so important as a 'lesser' team as it gives you three chances at the money/rep European football brings.
Losing in the third qualification round should have dropped you to the Europa Playoff Round however (it happened to me in my save this season). The fact you jumped straight to the Europa League Phase is probably some quirk of the new format I'm not aware of.
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I will always remember the day that I saw a Part Exchange work in Football Manager.
I thought they were a myth.
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Most managers seem to sign long-term deals before working on getting themselves the sack (and the nice big pay-off that comes with it).
Alledgedly
I wonder if your new bumper deal will make it harder for Bayer to bring you in and if you may need to resign in order to 'grease the wheels' as it were.
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On 06/03/2024 at 11:38, Jimbokav1971 said:
No relations at all, (and I think it's a bug). There have been loads and loads and loads of names seen multiple times, but never a family link.
In the most recent intake there was a Tomaszewski, who is either the 3rd or the 4th to come through the Academy, but even with a name like that there has never been a family link shown. I did ask if anyone else had seen family links and the reply I got was that 1 person had, but they were unable to post pictures. I honestly think it's broken in the game because it's ridiculous that I haven't seen any when you consider that until recently all our players were coming from Alloa.
Last night, I checked through the last 3 or 4 classes that have come through my intakes, (most come from a similarly small area (south-west Wales)) and not one had a family member listed in favoured personnel, so I would agree that either this is not working at all or has been set to a similar chance as generating a son (which I'm also surprised I've never seen you do, based on the number of Youth Intakes you generate in your saves).
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I know you turned down the national job of Tajikistan, but would you be against international management?
The Nations League has promotions!
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I see you have a Brass4 and a Brass6, have any of the Brass(es?)(es?) been related? Or just a common name in the area?
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I'm looking forward to seeing what level you are when you are able to sign your first Brazilian - they seem to be one of the most travelled nationalities so I can't imagine it will be long!
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On 29/02/2024 at 20:33, Ceching You Out said:
If I were doing this challenge again, I'd choose a DB that includes lower level leagues. Now that I'm this far in, I think the approach above might be the most conservative way to correct things. Any differing viewpoints out there? Something I'm missing?
No arguments here, I'd definitely give them a leg up as the game isn't going to move them to an active league on it's own.
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Do you not find that the sheer amount of friendlies you play each season contributes to injuries/fatigue of the squad later on in the year?
I'd never consider starting to get players fit in January for the first competitive fixture in April.
Or are these simply trialist friendlies and your actual squad are nowhere near these?
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On 01/03/2024 at 10:14, Jimbokav1971 said:
Reputation. I don't think it's right that a single relegation should immediately so significantly impact a team like it has done to Rangers. Don't get me wrong, (I'm loving it), but I don't think it's right.
The game seems to put a lot of reputation 'stock' into the facilities of the club, we've all seen the conversation option arguing the improvement would increase rep. I'd assume that as part of the administration they had to downgrade or reduce these parts of the club (pretty sure you can still do this) which I would guess explains the larger-than-expected drop to their rep.
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In my save, TNS always seem to struggle domestically when they make the Conference League Stage, so this could be your year!
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[FM24] Tulach Bòide [Scotland Tier 13]
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3 and a half years too! Hopefully he'll be more amenable to your wage structure once he hits 34.