Thirkwood

Cheers I'll take that and give It a punt, I went back and most of our conceded where back post headers or worldies from 25-40 yards where my keeper has been extremely butter fingered so an extra body in that role may stop those distance shots at least!

Just a story of my day I think I am about to get sacked for the first time this year, started a new save (unemployed) and ended up with Santa Eulalia in the Spanish Segunda Federacion (III) the team was not great but I was determined to try a low tempo system as im normally a scholar of the Klopp school of heavy metal football (a preference from real life not the meta choice) and despite loosing the 1st 3 games I was quite happy the team where playing well but just finding themselves unlucky or straight up out matched but we where getting into a rhythm and we hit a nice Yellow patch finally getting 2 points on the bored with 2 draws in games were we should of won but low moral and cohesion was clearly at play. The date was 18/2/24 and we where at home against top of the table Andratx and the system clicked, with in 15mins we where 3-0 up and finished the game 5-2 our first win and in style, we then had a draw against 4th place Lleida Esportiu and rounded February out with 6 points and only 2 points off getting out of the relegation zone. March has been the counter to this, 3 losses and not even much positive to see, my keepers (all 3) cant seem to save a shot all of them seeming to have hands made of liquid and suddenly my players have stopped marking players in the box the results all losses by 2+ goals, 3-1, 2-0 and finally a 4-1 and my job is Insecure with 6 games left and I don't think the team have another good run in them, Injuries have decided to hit hard and no ability to replace my weak keepers has cost us points but I noticed March has been miserable since about 7 first team players said "hay were going to explore our options at the end of our contract" since them NON of these players have managed over a 6.6, its really left me in the lurch. Our luck and lack of keeper ability has really been shown in the XG table where we are predicted 13th instead of 17th with 4 less goals than expected and a whopping +9 conceded! Despite this I wont be stopping the style of play I made this save for that reason but i am open to advise of feedback from any successful low tempo users, the tactic actually seems quite solid in game i just dont think i have the players

Readying the end of this for the "the game doesn't make it easy to understand what isn't working" made me laugh because it is accurate. I always check the data hub and end up with Too many goals in behind try a low line with Too many goals from distance try high line immediately following 😂

100% just needed the moan. Don't have any friends who play so this was my only outlet

Yeah mine didn't even get a bounce. Some of them where just god awful. Sold them to other teams and checked on later in the save. Still doing dreadful. Restored some confidence knowing it was more them than me 😂

Yeah not into OP tactics. Like to build my own I'd rather fail on my own ground than success off a meta.

I did do this, I'm much calmer now than at post but I think the players who where there when I joined where just not good enough to be in the premier League. Hard bottoming out at least 3 players a game on sub 6.4 even when I catered to the strengths of the team and it was super demoralising as it was every game. The tactic actually was working quite well (contrary to the results) we would have good clear cut chances and most of our shots came from inside the box. The crux was my keeper despite his really high attributes and 140k or so a week wage (was there when I arrived) had a career average of 6.5 and that was buffed by the season with me where he got his highest of a 6.7 and added to this my strikers where averaging a 6.5 themselves. Once I replaced the keeper and brought in a striker things improved significantly. 100% appreciate the time for the feedback and idea I don't mind being told my tactic might of been guff. It happens but I did use the reports, data hub and player preferences while building the tactic just sadly let down by a few weak links

Yep this is fair dinkum. I think i was just feeling very done at that point and seem to be struggling with main game after a successful beta run. Popped it in here in general discussion not for the devs but for maybe ideas and feedback or more just an ear i guess. As the only person in my friends who likes football and simulation games i did not really know where else to turn as an outlet. either way i stuck it out for another season and a half. cant opf been to bad

Moral and Dynamics where pretty good going into the game, not so much after but we bounced back to a lower midtable finish in the end. Genuinely just think i had some bad players and that was hindering the experience.

I appreciate this response, we did end up grinding out some results and i ended up lasting till my contract expired at the end of the next season. May genuinely of been the team. all very overpaid, the keeper was on like 140k and had a career average of 6.5 before i even touched him etc. Think i was just dealing with the frustration from going from a really fun beta save to what was quickly feeling like a rough journeyman. At Strasborg now, keeping my head up

Not true, to go back to my beta save i could get my arse handed to me but still have a good time. i would have something to take from it like we lost this game 3-1 but i can see my CB had a stinker but at least our link up play was good. Im not a player who wants to win everygame at all times. Hell i got through the season from this post and survived and finished 15 (some how) but it was a slog because so often it felt like my striker couldnt score if the ball was on the line and the keeper was haaving a brew. The entire team i had taken over where over paid and underperforming and that probably contributed to the issues but i disagree with the idea that because i was having a bad save im saying its a bad game i even state i had a great time with the beta, just been struggling since the full release.

I have been told this and it just further confused me as to why i had so much fun with the Beta but not since the full release. Im not a new player i do my best to interoperate the im given and use that for the tactics, options. I dont like to plug and play others tactics but coming back to this post 2 seasons later (forgot to tick to follow my own topic) it was honestly just my keepers (yes all 3 of them) seem to have spaghetti fingers, we would concede multiple goals and they where all tanking between 5.8 and 6.2 averages even when my defence would have high 6's but every game the opposition keeper had 7.0+ and thats just leaving me more frustrated.

Just a small one this but when asking the assistant manager for individual training set ups you should be able to ask them to do so based on your primary tactic so theyre not just assigning Libro to a player when you dont use one etc

I know we have work ball into the box and shoot on sight but it feels a specific option for not just smacking the ball from the edge of the area without telling my players to take their time and patiently pass it around. I try to play with pace and through balls so i dont have work ball into the box as it slows that down however due to that everyone is taking rugby style long range shots. Is there a combo of things i can do to get this effect already and ive been daft for the better part of the last like 7 years?

I always imagined this as throwing my water bottle at the floor not a player so im no laughing quite a bit at the idea of the team sitting there after a bad game and having fear in their eyes as the water boy brings me 11 bottles of water

Can we make it so our contracts can expire, it always goes into a rolling contract and i have to resign resulting in me getting the "why have you resigned from so many jobs" question in interviews which really is a minor thing but very annoying on the RP side

Ive just taken over Fulham towards the end of 2028 they had been having a rough season and where 19th, i come in and switch to the back up keeper and we win our first game 1-0 then a really good 3-0 against Brighton followed. My keeper having a 7.7 then a 7.6 and my defenders holding a big improvement between 6.9 and 7.4. Play Everton and had very close XG before they got a pen in the 84th min. i was loosing 5-1. they score the pen and get another and im just again finding myself so done. 7-1. 7-1!!! I just dont know what im doing anymore apparently. I had such a great time with the Beta but since the full release ive downloaded a skin and im simming games because if i Sim the team plays well if i actually try and use the match engine to enjoy the game 8/10 times my team capitulate in the most stupid ways. I was at Hull, checked our strengths and where we played well and built a tactic around it. we would play well loads of the ball, loads of chances, high xg and every game ended in a draw when they scored their only 2 shots. Im watching the A.I play silky smooth one touch football while my players seem to be using rice pudding for boots. People said nothing changed match engine wise since the beta but i find it so hard to stomach as in the beta i had a 5 year save and was Loving almost everything since full release i feel im struggling to get that same enjoyment. Now the moan is out the way does anyone have any ideas, thoughts agreeing or disagreeing I just need some rationalisation that im no going insane that the Beta was great but the release feels worse off. Just anything to keep me going on this game i usually love but am feeling more and more like im falling away from

Yep, someone said this after the post and I responded there. Basic summary not sure why I suddenly have these issues so suddenly in relation to a penalty or two given almost every game now and someone had stated about other changes likely effecting it. Either way it's about feedback and that's where in currently feeling things needed mentioning from my attempts of playing since the full release.

Then i have no ideas why i had 0 issues within the beta and now have penalties given all most every game, teams now engaging differently and not using the space as they where. i even loaded my beta save and found the problems im facing in new saves now happen within there too. I have spoken to others who have felt the same so if they've not changed the match engine at all then i can only imagine there is another contributor

Honest feedback. I miss the Beta, i had very minor issues with the beta excluding a few bugs. match engine felt fresh and exciting yet not always predictable, i didnt mind loosing games because i could see my team where using space or moving to make passing options to go forward as was my tactic by design and if we lost its because we got caught on the break or you could see where where outplayed and that was enjoyable for me, W,L or D it felt like i could see what was happening and why. Since full release my players just kick the ball where ever they want, dont work the space the tactics try to make there is at least a pen a game and it feels like all the player interactions have reverted to FM23 where my goalkeeper gets a 5.6 but having a word and he thinks he played like prime Buffon. Ive not been able to find a list of changes since the full release but if i could roll back the game to the Beta to continue playing i would 100% would. Felt like a much more fun experience

Glad to of read this as it is literally every game for me at this point and its really turning me off to the game. I genuinely miss the Beta build

And it continues, i cant go a game without a penalty at this point, this needs looking into asap. no sense playing a tactical game when every game comes down to whos getting a pen this game

To follow up on this since the full release ive tried a 2 saves as the first one my team conceded a penalty every game so i though it might of been bugged. Started a second save and same issue Opp gets a pen or two almost every game. My tactic does not have tackle harder but its always a random shove in the box