stockwellpete

Have a look at the "Contract Expired" players and offer them a Trial. Plenty of bargains available even for Leagues 1 and 2.

OK, but you don't know exactly what happens in, say, the Vanarama National in real life at present? It seems odd to have loanees still at your club from the previous season when your players are reporting back for pre-season training. And, because the backroom staff meeting continue in the close season, you still get training advice on loanees who will not be with you once the new season starts. As the situation is currently in the game, I think it puts an extra incentive to recruit "no fee" loanees if you are an impoverished part-time club.

Do we know roughly? Has SI any stats on this? From the proportion of online games perhaps? I find it the most interesting level in real life, so I have tended to play at this level in the game also. Aldershot Town in FM22 and now St Albans City in FM23.

I think at the non-league level, many of the clubs in the Vanarama leagues, particularly if they are part-time, will effectively close down for the summer months (mid-May to mid-July approx). Players and staff will not be at the club at all. So backroom staff meetings where training reports and training advice etc is usually given should not really be taking place. I am not sure if players at part-time clubs are paid during the summer break either, although I assume fully professional players are. I am also unsure about the rules concerning loaned players. Should they continue to be paid during the summer break if they are loaned to a part-time club? I have been trying to find out the detail about loans without much success.

Anyone?

Joey Barton losing it again!

Yes, I think they should switch to vegan alternatives for the start of next season. lol

Every hot dog van, in every ground - there's never ever anyone queuing up to buy one. Why is that? Lack of onions, or mustard perhaps? Very weird.

I agree pretty much with every word of this. Yes - turning off the whole system of management/player interactions would be a step forward at present. After a while, it just breaks the game for me because I just cannot be bothered to deal with the ludicrous dialogue and the whole rigmarole that goes with it. For example, during pre-season players get the hump because they are being rotated in friendlies; and then they pull funny faces on the pitch and you are told that "they would have preferred to stay on the bench" when you bring them on as sub late in the game. Players are not stupid, they understand all these things have to happen in successful football clubs and that a strong squad means they are more likely to be successful during the season. You can even end up having a row when you just want to praise a player for his performance in a game! But, by far the worst things are the wretched team meetings. And you have to have them! There is no escape. Can't they at least be optional in FM24? If not, if the assistant manager is so keen on having them then let him take them and leave me out of it completely.

The local reporters just get on the blower, don't they? With an occasional face-to-face interview during the season, I expect. Enduring a season in the Vanarama National with St Albans City where I get either 1 or 2 reporters recycling the same old tired questions.

Brief discussion here . . .

Although "Comprehensive Highlights" would be my preferred option for watching matches, I have now switched to "Extended Highlights" because it does not have many sequences that end with a whistle for offside. "Comprehensive Highlights" has far too many of these and it becomes very irritating after a while.

I am not 100% sure of the answer, but there seems to be. Some of my players will have good spells of form, while others will have two or three very poor games in a row after being OK for ages. I am less certain if there is a direct relationship between poor training performance and form. I find that some of my players will have an isolated poor training performance (which I always talk to them about), but rarely do players have consecutive poor training reports (unless they are on the transfer list and want to leave).

When I sign players on loan they usually stay at my club until the end of June (approx) even though my last fixture might be early, or mid-May. Same for the players I have loaned out. So, it seems that I am still paying wages to these players for no good reason and clubs are still paying me for no good reason as well. Is this in line with the actual "real-life" league regulations on loans, or is it a quirk of the game that might be considered a bug? Anyone know?

OK. I don't have one myself currently because I couldn't make out what was actually happening over a number of screens when I had achieved a play off spot last time. I am in the running for the play offs again this season, so if it happens this time I will save the game and send it to you. I have no idea at all about how computer games are constructed, but I would have thought something like this, which presumably happens to everyone reaching the play-offs in the Vanarama National League, would be easy for you to identify. It is not just specific to my game, is it? Not sure what happens in the Vanarama North and South and whether it is an issue there as well.