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Thanks! In the preseason odds for winning the league, Barnet is last at 750-1. I would put a fiver on that just for grins.
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The next season is going to be tough. We do not belong on League One yet. Our roster is not competitive for that level. I predict a struggle to avoid relegation.
The board has raised my salary budget by 1 million pounds, to more than 3 million. But it initially is giving me 35,000 pounds for transfers. Blerg. I am requesting that be raised to 350,000 pounds.
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I play FM Touch. It simplifies many of the options available for FM. It has fewer staff positions. I imagine a General Manager is like a Director of Football Operations?
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Halofon: What is missing from the game, though, are the hours and hours of practice that a manager would have watched. I think a manager WOULD know the abilities of his players. He has watched their passing, finishing, tackling drills, etc. He has watched them in jumping drills, and he knows which players can get airborne. Etc. He would be less familiar with the attributes of his opponents, but I think he would be very familiar with his own players.
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GK Cousins wants to renew his contract for next year, but only if he is a player/scout. (In FM 19 Touch, there is just staff member for scouting, Chief Scout.)
Why would I hire someone as chief scout when I cannot see any of their scouting attributes? Barnet seems to be headed to League One, and that makes hiring a rookie scout even less likely.
Does anyone have experience hiring former players as scouts?
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An intriguing premise and specific goals for an FM career. Like others, I hope Fabian escapes Greenland soon, or settles down and starts a family there.
Practical question: Do you play all games with the ME? If you sim games, what is the percentage of sim games to ME games?
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Hired a new GM.
I will need help restocking the team in the off-season. I have pissed off a bunch of players by not playing them enough, and they need replacing because they are not very good. Especially if we get promoted.
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What led you to manage a team in Brazil? (I chose Ross County from Scotland for my first because I was playing as the Staggies in FIFA on the PS4, and I was doing that because the Scottish side of my ancestry comes out of Ross County).
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Hootie: My current assistant coach makes no tactical suggestions before the game starts. He offers a little at half time. His JPA and JPP seem really low, although they have gone up a point since the season began. I am stuck with him for now, as Hughes decided to stay with Halifax Town.
Jim: Cool that you are a Barnet fan IRL. The Hive looks like a nice place to watch a game. Jack Taylor plays very well for me. His brother is stuck on the reserve squad. Injuries? This roster is riddled with injury-prone players! Santos looks good "on paper," but he has played horribly for me. And now he is complaining about not starting. I don't put up with that for long; I send whiners out on loan or sell them. Cousins has been replaced as my starting GK with Alex Palmer. I have been giving Rihard Matrevics some time as the backup GK.
The injury parade that I mentioned has started. Perhaps that is a good thing. Perhaps I can drop in the standings. I fear that if I get promoted this season, I will get eaten alive in League One and immediately relegated. My goal was to avoid relegation. Then in the second season of League Two finish in the top half. Then in the third season make the playoffs. (I have been smashed by the League One teams I have played in cup competitions.)
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I made an offer to the Halifax assistant coach. He is rated 3 stars vs my current AC at 2. Too many times the game time advice from my current AC is absent.... Also, made an error earlier. I have Tutonda as my first LB, then Williams and Hernandez.
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In the off season, I sold Johnson for 50,000 pounds. I have Jack Williams on a free transfer from QPR, and then Loic Hernandez as a backup. I signed Gold Omotayo (free transfer from Bury) as a striker partner/backup for Shaquile Coulthirst. He has worked very well so far. He and Shaq are the leading scorers for the league.
I am about a quarter way through my first season in League Two. Everything is going well so far, but the season is really long and I am waiting for the injury parade start. My roster is not very deep, and I expect to start having trouble soon.
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Good suggestion, Hootieleece. I had not thought about making a fullback for myself.
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Thanks, Carambau! Did you have a big roster change from season 2 to 3? The fullbacks that you and I started with are good for the National League, but not League Two. I know that I will need new fullbacks on both sides if I get promoted. (I am about 10 games into my first League Two season and I am in third place.) We also inherited no depth for attacking midfielders.
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I wanted to manage a team in London, but I also wanted a humble team to see what I could do with it. So I started a career save with Barnet, who was demoted to the Vanarama National League just before FM 19 came out.
The challenges for the first season were many.
1. I inherited a roster filled with injured veteran players. Some of them never saw the pitch with the first team because they kept getting re-injured during their rehabilitation.
2. Many players were in the last year of their contracts, so I was going to be trying to re-sign a bunch of players on a limited budget.
3. My transfer budget was 10,000 pounds. So essentially zero. Any new players were going to be loans or free agents. Loans were challenging because Premier teams didn't want to send their players to my level.
4. The average attendance was perhaps 1,500, so my ticket sales were not going to generate much money.
There also was the challenge of getting to know a team and learning the best tactics and rotations for them -- when I could keep them healthy. I eventually found that liquid counter attack in 4-4-2, 4-1-4-1 and a custom 4-2-4 worked best. By the end of the season, I was playing Control Possession about half the time. I have found that an aggressive offense is the best defense. I alternate between "Positive" and "Attacking" most of the time. I switch to "Defensive" only when I have a lead and there are fewer than 10 minutes left in the game.
I had very little depth on my roster -- perhaps that is common at this level -- so my starters played LOTS of games, and that increased the chances of injury.
My first-team striker, Shaquile Coulthirst, ended the season with 28 goals and a Golden Boot for the National League. I managed to re-sign him, thank goodness. I assume his nickname is Cool Thirsty. I like that. He was thirsty for goals.
I inherited one loaned player who was a regular starter. He was from West Brom. Late in the season I grabbed another loan from West Brom, a goalkeeper -- but I grabbed him mostly to keep a competitor from getting his loan, and it turned out well for us. He was a regular starter and we signed him when his contract ended at the end of the season.
We won automatic promotion, ending the season more than 10 points clear of Leyton Orient, which won the promotion playoff.
I started with a salary of 46,000 pounds an a one-year contract. IRL I snooped around on a real estate website and found a studio apartment I could afford in Edgware, the neighborhood where Barnet is located. I could walk to the stadium, so I wouldn't need to buy the car I could not afford. (Do other people do this? Do you imagine the life of your in-game persona?) Before the season was over, the board offered me a contract renewal for 49,000 pounds, but I walked away from negotiations. I was going to see what they offered once I secured promotion. When that happened, they came back to me and offered a one-year contract for 76,000 pounds. I figure I can afford a one-bedroom apartment now. But I still plan on walking to the stadium.
Off season: I re-signed the players I wanted, thanks to a doubled salary budget for Barnet's return to League Two. My transfer budget remained 10,000 pounds, though. I released a bunch of older players and always-injured players. I transfer-listed others, but I have had no takers. My youth intake signed one potential star, a striker. And I signed a youth player released by West Brom (they should make our relationship official) who has the potential to be a four-star player. I have tried to improve my staff. My assistant coach is not very useful. My scout is not very skilled. But I cannot find anyone willing to work for my lowly team. Perhaps after I have increased Barnet's reputation.
In 18 seasons of a Ross County (Scotland) save, I managed to win promotion and eventually take the team to the European Champions League finals a few times (winning once). I started with a stadium seating about 6,000 and eventually had a new stadium that seats 46,000. I started with a salary budget of about 1 million pounds and grew that to 62 million pounds. I am curious to see how far up Barnet can climb the football ladder in England. The stadium seats about 6,000 now. Can I make the team profitable enough and popular enough to get a new stadium in suburban London?
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1. Fix the Match Engine dynamics for crossing. As has been stated many times elsewhere, too often players seem to wait until a defender has them completely blocked and THEN attempt their cross so that the ball ricochets out of bounds for a corner kick. If that is the only thing that changes between FM 19 and FM 20, I would be happy.
2. I agree that offsides seems kind of screwy in the game. Fix that?
3. Is the Match Engine screwy also with throw-ins? There seems to be a nearly constant pattern -- the player throws the ball in to a marked man or straight to an opponent; the ball gets kicked out of that and back to throw-in team. Throw-ins frequently do not go to the open man. This seems true for my team and the AI team. Fix that?
3. NO ADDITIONAL player interaction. That stuff gets tedious really fast. Even in Touch I ignore much player interaction. I avoid the full version of FM because of that aspect.
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Barnet: How High Can They Go?
in FM Career Updates
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The first transfer window is about to close, we lost our opener against Wimbledon AFC (another promoted team) 1-0, and I have bought, borrowed, or sold 12 players. My starting roster has an average value of 89K pounds. Meanwhile, a team such as Shrewsbury Town has a first 11 worth 184K pounds each. I have a couple more deals to make. I may get my starter average above 90K. Maybe.
My board’s expectation is to “bravely fight against relegation.” I don’t like the sound of that.