The Enforcer

See screenshots below: Cheers, TE

Hi, see screenshot below. I reported this previously in the FM23 bugs forum when managing a team in the Northern Irish leagues.

See screenshot below, should say "....unavailable for selection for Taff Well": Cheers, TE

Hi, In my save in charge of Swansea Uni, I have a Spanish player on an amateur contract. Spanish clubs have made offers for him, but when I go to offer him a new contract in a bid to keep him, these clubs do not appear on the contract screen, instead it says "no other clubs interested". I had the same happen earlier in the save when a Polish player got poached by Polish clubs. Cheers, TE

Hi, This is not the next match though: and player screen says Northern Irish Cup (and other competitions) included in the ban: They both missed tha Queens Univeristy match and were available afterwards. Cheers, TE

Hi, As you can see below, "Faces poor shots; Saves most shots" is green, whereas I think "Faces quality shots; Saves most shots" which is in orange, is an indicator of higher performance and so the two colours should be swapped. Cheers, TE

Hi, Managing Banbridge Town in third tier of Northern Ireland, one of my players has high dirtiness and in one match got booked twice, leading to a red card. I then received two news items on the same day where there are separate bans, but they both cover the same match: On the player screen, it states 2 match ban and highlights the red card and the 42 points: Cheers, TE

Hi, The supporters of Banbridge Town have forgotten they are not the board: Cheers, TE

Hi, I am managing Banbridge Town. We have drawn Glenavon in the second round of the Northern Irish Cup: - Banbridge are tier 3, reputation regional 1/2 star. Glenavon are tier 1, reputation national 1 1/2 stars. - How can Banbridge be the "higher seeded team" and Glenavon "fellow minnows"? Cheers, TE

Hi, I am managing Banbridge in Northern Island third tier. I am semi-professional so can't sign new amateur players, have no transfer or wage budget (raised separately as a bug in the NI league forum), so can only afford free loan signings. I set up recruitment focuses for loan only and the scouts return players that are not only not marked as available for loan, but are on amateur contracts where it is impossible to even attempt to loan them. See screenshot below for an example. At the time of writing I have three recruitment focuses set to loan only with 9/10 recommended players on amateur contracts. The one who is on a part-time contract is a GK, whom his club won't release on loan due to them having a lack of GKs, the irony being they have three GKs, whereas I am now down to one, because my other two were poached from their amateur contracts. Cheers, TE

Hi, I started a new save unemployed where I applied for and was accepted for a job at Banbridge Town in the third tier of Northern Ireland. The existing squad are all on amateur contracts (£0) apart from a part-time player/physio (£40/w), two teenagers on non-contracts (£20/app) and one on a youth contract (£0). The board gave me a wage budget of £54, but this is already wiped out by the small wages/fees from the PC/NC players. I can basically get away with signing one player on NC terms with fees, which typically takes me to around £50-60 over budget, after which the board impose a £1 limit on any appearance fees, effectively shutting down any further NC deals. This wouldn't be a problem if I could continue to sign new/replacement amateur players whom won't command any fees. However, that no longer appears to be possible due to the club's semi professional status. Not only that, but if i try to renew an existing player's amateur deal in order to discourage them from joining another club trying to poach them, I can only offer them non-contract terms, whereby they demand an appearance fee. At best, I can only afford to offer this to one existing player and only if this happens before I sign anyone else. All of the other third tier clubs have mostly amateur players as well. When one of them poached one of my midfielders I saw they had to offer him a NC, so it appears they are all in the same boat. However, I don't know what their budgets are, but if they extend into three figures, this would give them a lot more scope to maintain and improve their squads than I have. As it stands, I am going to periodically lose amateur or NC players from my squad to other clubs and then be unable to replace them, even with inferior players. The only exception to this appears to be loan signings, where it appears I can sign as many as I like, but they can only join in the transfer windows and remain for the whole season. This does seem like a bug to me, where the budget needs to reflect the realistic cost of having most of your players on NCs with appearance fees. Cheers, TE