[Quickfire Questions and Answers Thread (Tactic and Training Questions Only)]

why do i train defend set pieces for over half a season, yet still concede to the same crazy rubbish from set pieces (random player scoring from a header)

and why are my players beahving competly differant away from home. doesnt matter who i play they play terrible.

I can't answer the second question without a lot more detail, I suggest if you want an answer to that you make a separate post giving details of your tactics and formation as per the rules here http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/327822-Asking-For-Help-PLEASE-READ-THIS

As to the first one, the match training only gives a small boost to that area. I'm not expert on set pieces but you need to make sure you have good aerial presence, marking and positioning on your players defending the corners. If your players are good at jumping and strong but with poor heading they'll win the first ball but likely only head it right to the feet of an opposition player on the edge of the box who will then have a good chance to score. That's how I concede most of my set piece goals.

[Quickfire Questions and Answers Thread (Tactic and Training Questions Only)]

I have a question on scouting. I only have the one scout who as JPA 12 and JPP 13 Level of displine 17 determination 15, i Play in the lower leagues, blue square south so the states i think are pretty awsome. I have been looking for players for my first team so my scout has been looking for chaps with current ability ratings.

I signed two guys who the scout had rated 5 stars. lucky for me both was on a free. Once they had joined my club my assistant manager rates them both on 2 and half stars current ability. now im i right in thinking my Assman is a fool, and he is wrong and the scout is right ?

My assman stats are:

Level of displine 10

determination 11

JPA 8

JPP 5

Or is any other reason why the player i signed drop stars when they join.

Thx for the help

I would think you trust the scout's opinion over your AM's given his poor scouting stats. It's one reason I always try and get an AM with scouting stats that are in line with my scouting team as I don't want to have to be second guessing what my AM's reports are saying.

Hi everyone,

Is this setup suits for this guy? Or is it a contradiction CMR wit defend duty because I gave him too much attacking mentality, aim is when in possesion using two MC as much as attacking but while defending his good defensive attributes help to cover middle by giving him Defebd duty. Waiting for your ideas?

By manually changing every setting for this player you've made the role and duty you gave him irrelevant. The only thing that role and duty affects are the players sliders. Override them and they have no effect. I would think with those settings you'll find he's generally too high up the pitch to offer much of a defensive option in front of your back 4. I would have thought he'll end up chasing the opposition's defence and DMC around.

I imagine this has been answered somewhere else, but a quick search didn't find anything particularly useful.

Is there a benefit in having more than one coach training a particular training categeory? For instance, in my current save I have enough coaches so that each category is covered by one coach (Setting aside the GK for now). The star ratings are at either 3 1/2 or 4 stars, which I'm happy with for the time being.

If I then replace a 4* coach with a 5* coach, but have enough coaching 'slots' allowed by the board, is there any benefit in bringing in a second coach? Does it reduce the workload further and provide better player improvements as a result?

(I've been playing FM for years, so I should really know this, so apologies for the silly question).

As far as I know (someone will correct me if I'm wrong, I'm sure) but I think the only reason to have more than one coach in a category is to reduce the workload on them. I'm not sure if the overall coaching rating (when you have multiple coaches in one category) is an average of their ratings or if it just takes the higher. If it's an average then having an inferior coach helping a superior coach is actually a bad thing and should only be done if needed to reduce the workload.