Newcastle vs. Spurs gloating thread.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Mike, here you go: Lower League Managers board:

http://community.sigames.com/eve/ubb.x/a/frm/f/54219217

So yeah, they still talk about them .

[C0ckney]

LLM

i've had football manager for a few months, it's great fun, and much, much harder than the previous games. your tactics in this actually matter!

and kropotkin is right, start out with a lower league team. i started with bradford park avenue, got them to the conference, hung around mid table for a couple of seasons, then sheffield wednesday (who had gone down to league 2 ) offered me a job, so i took it, won back to back promotions in 2 years (with a lot of the same players i had in league two ) and have since spent 7 years just falling short of promotion to the premiership! i thought i had it cracked this season, my 'release half the squad and not sign anyone' plan was working well but a new patch has come out meaning i can't play with saved games.

great game though

[Agathon]

£15m?!? Who were you managing, Chelsea?

No. Newcastle. I sold Michael Chopra to the Mackems and bought Jean Alain Boumsong and Dédé. Newcastle start off with about 17 million pounds (the Woodgate money). I managed to get hold of Dédé for about 14 mil or so. If I had the full version, I'd get rid of Robert at the next transfer window.

Another guy to buy (I bought him in another game) is a guy with a name that sounds like "Wesley Snipes" from Ajax. He's a kick ass right winger. Not as good as Dédé, but good.

If you are Chelsea, you could afford both.

My current first team is. (4-4-2)

Shearer - Kluivert

Dédé - Jenas - Butt - Dyer

Babayaro - Boumsong - Bramble - Carr

Given


Subs: Bellamy; Milner; Harper; Hughes; Bowyer

That's a good team which made me top of the PL and manager of the month in the first two months of the season.

[Agathon]

This is why scouts are so useful.

I played a dummy game and just used it to max out scouting.

[Imran Siddiqui]

a new patch has come out meaning i can't play with saved games.

Of course you can. I'm using a saved game with the new patch.

guy with a name that sounds like "Wesley Snipes" from Ajax.

Sneijder?

--

My first 11 right now is (4-1-3-2)

Shearer - Drogba

Downing - Veron - Hasan Sas (or Milner)

--------------- Butt

Hughes - Bramble - Kuffour - Carr

Given

Subs include Rasmussen, Viana, Robert (who I'm selling in a few), Pomali (or something... 19 year old going to be amazing left defender from Inter), Harper, Terrell

I've sold Bowyer, Bellamy, Dyer, and Amoebi... or and Jenas for 15 million pounds.

[Maquiladora]

How did that team finish top of the PL? If theyre all on their game, all season, then perhaps but you have drops in morale, injuries, bad form, not to mention Kluivert upsetting someone eventually. You mustve been lucky. And isnt Bowyer better than Jenas?

All this talk of CM is making me want to play again, even though i despise some of the new features and changes from CM3.

[Imran Siddiqui]

How did that team finish top of the PL?

He didn't. He's only got the demo, so he can't finish the season. That was the problem with me as well. With NUFC, I started off 1 and 2, but then by the end of the year, I faltered and hung onto 3. This year, I'm hanging on to 8.

[alva]

All this talk 'bout CM manager and not a post from either Markos or FP? They must be slipping....

[Maquiladora]

It would be a shame to kill the only football thread.

[Imran Siddiqui]

They just know this is a phantom Football Manager thread .

Perhaps we should create an English Premier League General Discussion Thread or a European Football General Discussion thread. Though we'd get spammed to oblivion.

[Maquiladora]

Or some kind of everything football thread, even call it soccer if we have to

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah, best to call it 'soccer' or else Sava will post pictures of the Chicago Bears, claiming that that is real football.

[Kropotkin]

My current game of CM03/04 is with Torquay. Won the 3rd division the first season, won the 2nd division the second season, won the 1st division the 4th season. Won the league cup the 5th season and both the FA-cup and the League cup the 6th season as well as losing against Juventus in the UEFA-cup final. Is currently in second place in the premier league in the middle of the 7th season. Got about £40m on the bank, but the stadium is a bit small, about 10k at the moment, will be 16k after new years. I'm pretty sure no one here has ever heard of any of my players.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Maquiladora
How did that team finish top of the PL? If theyre all on their game, all season, then perhaps but you have drops in morale, injuries, bad form, not to mention Kluivert upsetting someone eventually. You mustve been lucky. And isnt Bowyer better than Jenas?

All this talk of CM is making me want to play again, even though i despise some of the new features and changes from CM3.

It depends. You just have to be careful with your players and rotate the squad.

The main problem people have is tiring their players out.

Newcastle happen to be pretty well covered for most positions except the wingers (although they have two good kids - Milner and Ambrose). Aaron Hughes is probably the best player in reserve since he can play pretty well at three of the four defensive positions.

[alva]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Yeah, best to call it 'soccer' or else Sava will post pictures of the Chicago Bears, claiming that that is real football.

NO!

/me starts a chant in the european side against those ç#fu@é## 'muricans

We shall not..we shall not be moved!!!


Hey, this could be fun!!!