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Too many repetitive questions every pre-and post match. Then, if you're playing in a top league you have to do it all over again in the interview before kick-off. I agree that they'd be boring IRL as well, but this is a game. Maybe press conferences should be limited to important or 'televised' games - to lessen the monotony. I also feel that the could be improved by being asking more questions relevant to the match/tournament you are about to play. Too many questions about the demands of reserve players - when you really want to be asked about whether you though the second goal was offside, or issues around VAR. My pet hate is press conferences about loanee signings when you're playing in the lower leagues. Is an 8 question interview really necessary when you signed a bit of cover for your injury prone semi-pro right-back?

I think most people want stadiums with more variation, realistic lower league grounds, corner infills that don't look ridiculous (e.g. massive screens in 3k capacity grounds, etc) . A pre-game stadium editor be a step in the right direction.

We have pre-game db editor, why not a pre-game stadium editor?

I seem to be hitting the woodwork quite a lot. 30 in 8 games seem a bit excessive, Here's the EPL figures after 11 games:

I wish my press conferences would disappear! It's not too bad in the lower leagues, where I mainly play. However, in the Premier League, almost every game has a pre-match conference, a tunnel interview and then a post match conference. Around 20 repetitive questions twice a week!

I felt this was the same in FM22 as well.

Just seen one of my players rounding the keeper and slotting into an empty net. Nice

That would make sense. However, there wasn't the option to criticise either. Maybe that has to be below 6.

I'm about four weeks in - just got pre-season out of the way.

Are we no longer able to praise or criticise training performance? In FM22 you could via this screen.

I usually find going back to basics for a few games helps. Try to pick players who have strongest moral/form, and go back to a default 4-4-2. Once you start picking up the points again - you can revert back to your own tactic.

Here's Daventry Town's 3000 capacity stadium in FM. Size just looks totally wrong. Here it is IRL: And here's a lower league offering from FM17. Much better IMO

Team chats still the same. Playing as Bradford (Park Avenue) and expected to finish 23rd - I offended the whole team by suggesting we were good enough to avoid the drop,

Generally no. I mainly use the beta to play around with teams, tactics, skins. This will help give me a feel for the game as well as identify the team/leave I'm going to start in. I always try to do just the one long save over the year, so it's important that everything is as close to 'good' as possible before I start playing properly.

Experience tells me never to start a main save during beta. Play around with it, tweak tactics and upload some kits. Don't rush into a save - you've got next next twelve months to do that.

I’m seeing incremental improvements in the ME, but nothing like what we were promised in the ‘levelling-up’ spiel from the Headline Feature Reveal. Many of the same issues that have been discussed on these forums over the last few years have still not been addressed. I hate to say it, but it just looks and feels like an FM22 update. A slightly better ME with manager-timeline and squad planner bolted on. I'm still only halfway through my first season and it is only beta - hopefully things will look better once released and I've a good career save on the go,

I know it's just cosmetic, but some of the floodlight pylons in the smaller stadiums are a mess. Just the one floodlight at Orient's Brisbane Road.

Surely, the time and effort creating watches, rings and and other knick-knacks for our manager avatars would have been better spent elsewhere. The stadiums corners are crying out for a bit more variety, but instead - we get a scarf that floats above the managers head. Also, and I could be wrong, in previous games, couldn't we select the managers tie colour based on the club we were managing (e.g red/Liverpool, blue/Chelsea)? This option appears to have disappeared. I'm all for cosmetic improvement to enhance the match-day experience, but a watch and earring we're never going to really see outside of the manager set-up screen is not what I expected.

Yay!!!!!! It's been a blast - thanks guys!

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I like the sound of that.

We did it!!!! 69 pages!!!