Lots of posts on the SI forums, which say that the 2nd season is a lot more difficult so don't be surprised if your first season is relatively easy and it gets more difficult thereafter.
Your tactics, training, coaches and half time team talks of a HUGE impact on your players as does morale, FM06 is quite far removed from the ease of FM05 and previous CM.
I simply let my assistant manage half time team talks - if you don't get them right they can seriously mess up your half time lead - I also found it a bit dull choosing the similar options.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Dewey@Jan 25 2006, 03:27 PM
There is, team wise, drop their creative freedom right down, also to close gap between defence and midfield make sure defensive line is the same as or near attacking.
Obviously individual instructions can also help ie stop forward runs, I forget the option that makes players move to opposition to tackle but you can drop that right down so they stay in position also make sure zonal marking is on.
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Having been a beta tester for both FM2005 and FM2006 and all the patches I can confirm this. Central defenders really need everything 'turning off' so as to speak. No forward run, no run with ball, have them set to Ultra Defensive, also check to see what they are set to do via the Team option. If you change the Team options during a match, you just have to remember it will effect every member of the team that Has that setting for that particular option you changed. You really have to take a very carefull look at how you set up each player, it takes a lot of time, probabkly a full season before you manage to work out the best for each individual, but hey, that's what it's all about, isn't it? :P
Cheers fellas,
I'm still running with a 4-5-1, but the outside 2 of the 5 I nudge forward should I need the attack beefing up. The center drops back to cover the defence in a DM position.
Is working well, not conceeding and winning 1 or 2 nil.
Have turned down the center def's but left my LB and RB with a bit of creative freedom, one of them has a flair of 20 so I figured he could pull a few strings.
Is there a nice way to get my strikers to hit a barn door? I've got a LB on load who doubles as a striker, and he can notch them, but I wanna keep him at LB as I think my forwards have potential, just there finishing lets them down.
caleb Folan from Chesterfield is a decent young striker top scorer and top assister aswell, try loaning him?
i also bang the training right up to the top..'very heavy' then when you look on stats you can see the differnce .. good stuff
I've just been through my first European experience, beat Loko Tbilisi 5-1 on agg. Now got Villareal next.....
I don't think my badly funded Dundee side are quite up to it. And this is the same game where I started with York in the Conference.
ok fellas, I got a formation that is working for me after a bit of tweaking.
I'm using a 4-5-1 with a good striker, center of the 5 pulling back as a DM the rest bombing forward.
I'm getting some good results usually 2 or 3 - 1. Seems to gel better away if I notch it down to defensive and then a quick burst of attacking at half time. The only struggle I have is that the box is a bit empty on the corners.
Anyone know how to change a players position? How do I retrain a AM as a CM etc?
Ta
QuoteOriginally posted by Benny@Jan 30 2006, 02:09 PM
Anyone know how to change a players position? How do I retrain a AM as a CM etc?
Training page player, 2nd or 3rd drop down is new position.
(http://www.bi9fatcat.plus.com/images/train.jpg)
Thanks fella, do they get the hump if you move them about?
I have an abundance of good right wingers, but all too good to get rid of, I'd rather utilise them elsewhere.
Depends how capable they are of playing elsewhere. I converted a central midfielder to a winger, no problems as he got a starting place most times.
And if they get the hump, I can show them where the door is.
QuoteOriginally posted by BigFatCat@Jan 30 2006, 03:44 PM
Depends how capable they are of playing elsewhere. I converted a central midfielder to a winger, no problems as he got a starting place most times.
And if they get the hump, I can show them where the door is.
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you da man!! lol
Cheers for that Cat .. that may come in handy ..
*changes keeper to Striker*
QuoteOriginally posted by Benny@Jan 30 2006, 02:09 PM
The only struggle I have is that the box is a bit empty on the corners.
Ta
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Benny, if you click on an individuals attributes, you can tell them where you want them positioned when corners, free-kicks are taken ie forward on corners and hang around the near side post or flick on headers etc.
I have all my team forward except, my fastest defenders on the half-way line and Rooney on the edge of the box to hit loose balls in.
Oh and yes I'm Man Utd, and if you think its easy, erm it isn't, my board gets annoyed very quickly if I'm out of the top 3 (I was warned for coming 4th last season) and if I win a cup they just say - we expected to win and of course Chelsea/Barcelona/Real/Inter buy all the top players - just like real life. :D
i wish i had money to spend...
i just named my recent game 'injuries O'plenty'
5 of my key players injured, just made it up to 6th.. then we were against NottsF,
we lost 0-6 :( i issued 3 1 week fines .. useless players
Injuries in FM2006 are a common occurence, though I believe the latest patch alleviated some of these concerns.
Obviously your training schedule will impact the number of injuries and if you've got good physios and one assigned to each schedule (if you can afford it).
I also sub my players if I see they have a slight injury (green cross on them).
QuoteOriginally posted by Dewey@Jan 31 2006, 11:46 AM
Injuries in FM2006 are a common occurence, though I believe the latest patch alleviated some of these concerns.
Obviously your training schedule will impact the number of injuries and if you've got good physios and one assigned to each schedule (if you can afford it).
I also sub my players if I see they have a slight injury (green cross on them).
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Aye, I've been subbing the green cross guys.
I'm up to the last game (FA Trophy Final) of my second season. Expected to struggle against relegation, managed a respectable 16th. Quite chuffed.
Now to work on the individuals and get a solid tactic for a good run next year.
Does the computer adapt to the tactics as it reputedly did in the last one? ie; you can't find a winner then stay with it?
I drift it between attack and defence and move my AM's forward and back depending on home or away and the score.
Also got some new coaches in, now I need a couple more and a decent physio and I think I'll be set to go for 8th or 9th.....need some good buys in the close season, my midfield is developing well, o probably a very solid DC..
QuoteOriginally posted by Benny@Jan 31 2006, 01:26 PM
Aye, I've been subbing the green cross guys.
I'm up to the last game (FA Trophy Final) of my second season. Expected to struggle against relegation, managed a respectable 16th. Quite chuffed.
Now to work on the individuals and get a solid tactic for a good run next year.
Does the computer adapt to the tactics as it reputedly did in the last one? ie; you can't find a winner then stay with it?
I drift it between attack and defence and move my AM's forward and back depending on home or away and the score.
Also got some new coaches in, now I need a couple more and a decent physio and I think I'll be set to go for 8th or 9th.....need some good buys in the close season, my midfield is developing well, o probably a very solid DC..
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Sounds like your building up a decent club there. As you've found out the games a lot tougher than previously.
Yes the computer will adapt to your tactics if you don't vary them, the fact your altering tactics mid game depending on home and away should keep the ai on its toes, it sussed out my tactic by the end of last year (I'd become very predictable keeping the same 442 for home and away) and I struggled against lesser teams.
I've still kept a 442 this year but changed my passing from short to mixed and I go from a holding DM player to an attacking one depending on the strength of my opposition. Also if I'm winning and trying to hold out I'll drop closing down to virtually none, increase time wasting, slow the tempo right down (means your more likely to keep posession), and drop my defensive line and attacking down to defensive. This usually kills the game off, however sometimes changing winning tactics backfires and the opposition score.
Obviously I'm using a quality players who can adapt too sudden formation changes and individual instructions easily. If I was playing LLM I'd keep individual instructions to a minimum if possible as they will find it harder to adapt to sudden changes and complex instructions.
In my game I'm currently 1st in February 2008, though Newcastle and liverpool are only 5 points behind. For some reason Chelsea who cruised to an easy victory last year are languishing in 5th place. In the CL I lost my away match 0-2 to Monaco (I should have won), and I've now got to beat them at home to progress through to the next stage. Nail biting stuff :)
I love this game, hard but rewarding.
Oooh, I may even buy it myself, sounds exciting! Although I'm tempted by Rugby Manager as well. TBH I understand way more about rugby than I do football!
aye, tis a cracker twig.
The only pain is the loading time on my laptop, that and the save times....takes bloody ages.
What I need is to retrain a mid into a FC so I can play 442 and drop to my successful 451, that would be me golden...
QuoteOriginally posted by Benny@Jan 31 2006, 04:53 PM
aye, tis a cracker twig.
The only pain is the loading time on my laptop, that and the save times....takes bloody ages.
What I need is to retrain a mid into a FC so I can play 442 and drop to my successful 451, that would be me golden...
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I also play it on a laptop. If you use normal sized Database and don't choose too many leagues (I use English (championship and prem), Italian, (C1,C2) and spanish La Liga(is that right?) and its not too bad. I have a magazine with me to read inbetween FA and CL updates in the early stages as it can take quite a while to update!
One tip is to use small database but load in DDT players once you've accumalated them in a shortlist. You can download these files from various websites.
whats your laptop spec benny?
Tis a Dell D610, work supplied job, hence why I haven't installed anything on it....er....oh..
with 1/2 a gig. It's really not that painfull, just the odd 2/3 minute wait.
And its only £18 on play, inc delivery. Aaaargh, I can see my paycheck vanishing already...
Here a tough one for you guys.
FM Scout is a utilty that reads your game database and allows you search hidden player and staff details.
You need to ask yourselves is this a cheat? I dont care, if the scouts were better you would know most of this stuff anyway. If you play Premiership teams you probably dont really need this. The dilemna is yours the link is mine http://www.fmunderground.net/fmu/index.php?fmu=7_8_209 (http://www.fmunderground.net/fmu/index.php?fmu=7_8_209)
Fmscout = HAXS!! Should come in handy :P I play fm06 online and i can never get a prem team anywhere, even if its chelsea!! Give me the lower teams anyday. So used to buying players in the lower league even in the prem i rebuy the players i would buy at bury. Doh! :frusty:
Ok gents, so I'm running into my second close season, 12 points clear of the conference league which I'm supposed to be fighting against relegation in, having been promoted last year....
Have some screens..
General status,
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Players
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If you need a striker my Danish wonder bloke is great, averaging over a goal a game and always getting good stats. Best buy yet.
Followed by Matty Warner, outstanding, top assists in the league and skins people down the left, plays happily as ML or ML, even as MC if needed.
Jamie Hand and Adilson are turning out well, both DM's but will play well in a 442 in the MC positions which I switch to during matches to keep the oppo guessing.
And my generic tactic. With a good DM it's almost watertight.
(http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/4601/tactic1yb.th.jpg) (http://img146.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tactic1yb.jpg)
Start most matches with defensive outlook, (remebering as Dewey said to keep the line below the defensive setting...just above deep).
Then switch to attacking after the break.
Great to hear about your team Benny. I couldn't believe it when I saw your wage budget 12k!! Mine is *ahem* 1.25 million. Respect is due to your managing prowess and careful budgeting!
Your striker looks awsome 46 goals is some going. Hows the new season going?
My life as Manager of Man U - a short tale of passion, greed and tightness!
I finished last season beating Chelsea in the Champions League final, won the FA cup and the league to do the triple. I won the league on joint 89pts with Arsenal I think, just pipping them on GD. What a thriller!
Pretty unbelievable actually, for the last 3 seasons my board had given me a transfer budget of 2.5 million a season - and I've just done the bl**dy triple and won the CL! You'd have thought with all that prize/tv money they would have let me build on last seasons successful squad but no. My keeper was 36 (the same one as IRL - cant remember his name) so I had to look for a replacement. To raise funds to buy him I then sold my two star strikers RuudVN and Cesar delgardo - Ruud was 31 and someone offered me 7m so he went. I sold Cesar for £13 million (only 26 wanted to keep him but needs must). Then I bought a decent keeper Akineev(sp) from CSKMoscow for 20 million with the proceeds - you wouldn't have thought I'd have to sell players to raise funds at Man U would you? :blink:
I renegotiated my contract with them but they won't give me any more than 40k a week.
Anyway my squads looking smaller, as many of the old guard are no longer any good, so Giggs, Scholes, Neville have all gone.
I'll post screenies of my Man-U side/tactics/etc tomorrow.
Also a number of my staff ie coaches/asst manager/physios and scouts where demanding ridiculous wage increases after our successful season, I don't like money grabbers so I fired the lot of them! Time will tell if that was a good idea but I've bought in cheaper replacements that I hope will be just as good.
I managed to get Kim Kallstrom (excellent left winger) on a free but apart from that no other transfer activity to report at Old Trafford. I'm concerned as Liverpool, Arsenal and particularly Chelsea have been extremely busy in the transfer market. Chelsea in particular have bought in a large number of quality players many of which I had been scouting but with no funds couldn't buy.
So I'm 3 games into my new season. I won 2 at home and lost 2-1 to Leicester (I think) - oh dear. Liverpool, Arsenal, Newcastle and Chelsea are winning all their matches. Its going to be a tough season. After I won the CL league/prem and FA cup last year my boards comments where - We expected you to win! - oh thanks for that!
More exciting footie news as it comes in! :D
Finally!!
just finished my first season with Chetsefield.. we were favourites to go down .. we ended up 9th .. comfotably.. we could have come about 6th but i lost both main keepers having to bring Under 18's GK in.. <_< some help he was..
lost 6 - 1 to oldham who were 23rd at the time... silly GK - issued a weeks wage! :)
then lost 3-1 to 2nd place, we needed those points aswell - 3 injured strikers..
PURCHASED:::
1 new striker..
2 defenders
1 goalkeeper
any tips on second season, eg, chnage formation completly .. change training schedule?
Nice one Doris. Few things you should be looking at, probably obvious:
- improve your staff, sack the rubbish ones if not too expensive to do so, bring in specialists for each training area (ideally each coach coaches on one area)
- transfer list your rubbish players or players who are 31 or over (unless they are amazing)
- look for free transfers, bring in guys on loan from the top clubs
- improve your tactics, set each players instructions to suit their position and attributes
- play at least 3 friendlies against rubbish opposition ie faroe islands, to boost your teams morale, improve fitness and tactics
- choose a tactic around your players, don't make a square peg fit a round hole
- if your going for promotion, make sure you've got adequate cover, bring in a few utility players who can play in a variety of places so your covered
Post your summer signings, tactics etc.
Good luck. :)
I'm continuing with the first (and only) game I started. Now with Dundee in the Scots Prem, finished 4th in successive seasons behind Celtic, Rangers and Dundee Utd. Won the Scots League Cup last season and hope to progress further than last year's UEFA campaign which suffered due to crippling injuries.
Was starting to struggle for cash, even when returning £5-6M of transfer profit per season, until a new board arrived and ploughed over £20M into the club.
I've been linked with some Serie A jobs and I'm wondering where my next step will be after 4-5 years with the Dees.
My tactics centre around a 5-3-2 with the pivotal CB pushing up into DM, MC pushing into AMC and 2 wider MC pushing into the corner channels. Singing a couple of quality fullbacks and centrebacks has helped though I stil prefer a more goal laden game. Ask Celtic about how they threw away a 3 goal lead in the last 5 minutes where I gained a 4-4 draw with 10 men.
I'm in a bit of a dilemma.
Just reading through my club's news and I've been offered the England job.
I've saved it so I can come back to it, that's best I think.
ive signed Daniel Huss.. dutch and hes amazing.. runs and shoots and its a goal.. but only thing stopping him from doing that is we dont have any good providers..
As soonas my first season was over the top scorer (Folan) wanted to go to a bigger club.. so i let him go for £545,000.. yea so i did add 300,000 on. they still purchased him lol.
i bought in some Defenders that are good..and a new defender 19 .. and better than my older bunch, ermm i casnt settle on a tactic at the moment..
ive got too many ACM's not enough MC .. Money is looking good with balance at 1.17M :)
lets see how i get on
Sounds good Doris.
Thats amazing you've been offered the England job, are your club in championship? I would always accept the England job, it will add to your reputation and make more players want to come and play for you. Also allows you to put in some of your own players into the England squad and watch their value rise :whistle:
QuoteOriginally posted by Dewey@Mar 4 2006, 03:58 PM
Thats amazing you've been offered the England job, are your club in championship?
Not the Championship, not even any English league. I've been in the Scots Prem for 5-6 years.
QuoteOriginally posted by BigFatCat@Mar 5 2006, 08:16 AM
Not the Championship, not even any English league. I've been in the Scots Prem for 5-6 years.
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The Scottish what? Oh yeah, they play football too don't they (of a sort) :D So did you take the job?
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So did you take the job?
Yes and no, I've a saved game where I said yes and another with a no. It's part time, so I still manage Dundee as well. Not impressed as there's no extra cash involved nor any agreement to bang all the FA secretarial pool.