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  1. Oh, hi. 

    With Carson Wells, supporting Rod Jones from Idlewild's band The Birthday Suit at The Woodend Barn in Banchory. 

    Beautiful venue but a bit bleak when 6 people show up (two of which were my Mum and Dad, on one of the only times they saw us). Sound was gash. The house bass amp that Huw was, for some reason, asked to use, kept cutting out, so he kept turning round to it mid-song. Given he was our lead singer at the time, all those 6 lucky individuals really witnessed was scratchy guitar and booming drums (due to the large, empty venue). This was also from our earlier years where our music was pretty rubbish/horrible anyway. It was just a noisy, hot mess that we've since agreed never to talk about that. 

    And I said 'thanks to Rod Gilbert' whose someone else entirely. 

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  2. On 8/23/2016 at 4:01 PM, ca_gere said:

    Picked up Last of Us not knowing anything about it. Floored. Such a great game. Any suggestions of similar games to this? (movie-like plot + awesome action). I've got the uncharteds except the newest one, which i'll pick up when it's cheap.

    I've played Last of Us through 3 times now.  Will probably play it again soon.  I just think its absolutely brilliant.  I mean, its no secret that it is a highly rated game, I just can't quite put my finger on what it is that makes me so captivated by it.  The gameplay is really good, the characters and story are great, but there is a je n'est ce quoi mixed in there somewhere.  10 out of bloody 10.  

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  3. I don't get it.  Surely Glenn Loovens is a bit bummed about being moved from 5-12 too.  And Nuhui fro 9-44?!  What's the thinking behind it all?

    Plus, their new strip is gash.  Sheffield Wednesday should always play in blue and white stripes with BLACK shorts.  Its such a great look, ffs.  All blue is so boring.  

  4. No-one will be particularly prolific.  You'll draw 0-0 a lot but get a few 2-0/1-0.  Most goals from open play will come from the striker though, who'll make late runs into the box, closely followed by the wingers and BBM.  You won't concede often, I can promise that.  Tnh, If you get a good set piece taker and good headers of the ball, that'll help heaps.

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  5. Yes, I've had huge success with a counter attacking 4141.  Its my go to tactic when results aren't going my way.  Relies on an energetic striker, masses of pace on the wing and a good mover of the ball in centre mid.  

    Its incredibly simple:

    GK-d

    FB-s CD-d CD-d FB-s

    A-d

    W-s BBM-s CM-s W-s

    DF - s/d

    Counter mentality and balanced philosophy.  Literally no instructions, although I instruct full backs to sit wider and my forward to hold the ball up.

    You'll have all 11 players in defense, letting your opponent have possession and trying to play between the lines.  Its incredibly difficult for them to do so.  You'll often see one of your back 5 make an interception or tackle and pass the ball to the CM-s, who will wait for the wings and centre midfield partner to get forward a bit.  He then has 4 options in front of him, or can play it back to either full back who are usually in space.  You have Shelvey?  He'll probably be good at this if you train him to not play 'Hollywood' passes.  

    It kept me up in my first Premier League season with Blackburn and then let me build a solid premier league stint before I left. As I got better players, I gradually became more expansive until I was ready to set out and control possession.  This works with fairly ordinary players, in my experience.  

    You do need pace on the wings though (I'm talking >16).  Pace in BBM can't hurt either.  

     

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  6. On 7/13/2016 at 7:29 PM, Soda van Jerk said:

    The metal detector thing was definitely made up, but the two pitches in the country is true.

    Go on. Google Earth over Gibraltar and find more than two football pitches.

     

    Not that I did that. That is saaaad.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    I did it.

    I found two right away and got excited about defying you, but that's all I could find.  Gibraltar is so comically small that you can basically spot them both with a full view of the principality.  

  7. 1 hour ago, Adam Easy Wishes said:

    I wanna see everything.

    I have just won the Championship with Blackburn Rovers, eight points clear and that's after having the league sewn up early and playing weak/young teams in the final four games of the season.

    Basically using my now famous 'diamond' formation (famous in my house anyway - though I can't say Natalie knows what I'm talking about, she sure as hell knows about my 'diamond'). I signed a heap of players on loan - Mats Moller-Daelhi from Freiburg, Samba Diakite from QPR, Harrison Reed from Southampton, Jesse Lingard, Guillermo Varela and Marcus Rashford from senior affiliate Man Utd; Ivan Bolado on a free transfer and three young Scots I know to turn out reasonably well in Jason Cummings, Greg Kiltie and Harry Souttar. At the earliest possible opportunity I sent Danny Graham back to Sunderland, and signed Tony Watt and Jordi Gomes on permanent deals.

    That gave me pretty good squad depth and - playing a possession game - I basically dominated the league from the outset. Wing backs are key in this formation and Adam Henley and Tommy Spurr although both limited in ability have been brilliant. The whole back five actually were excellent, with the Hanley/Duffy partnership probably low-Premier League quality.

    Jason Cummings is, frankly, amazing and scored a bucketload.

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    Now it's time to tool up for the Premier League. Having already sold Ben Marshall (Swansea, £1.5m) and Craig Conway (somewhere, £975k), both of whom are primarily wingers and don't really fit into the system, and with the uplift in cash for the Premier League, I have been given an initial budget of just shy of £20m.

    Goalkeeper, defensive midfielder and deep-lying striker/target man are my key targets, but will also need a replacement for the outgoing loanees (unless I can get them back, certainly will make moves for Lingard and Reed, who was the Championship Young Player of the Year).

    Have signed Asmir Begovic, Cheikhou Kouyate and Erik Pieters (although Tommy Spurr was good he's just not quite at the right level - same goes for Ivan Bolado whose contract was left to expire).

    TIME TO AWAKE THE SLEEPING GIANT. Yeah. That and make sure that the players 'gel' whilst having an actual life that isn't being a virtual football manager on a computer game lol.

    My current game started at Blackburn.  I also came first in the Championship in my first season, but my key players were Ben Marshall and Craig Conway!  Marshall continued to tear shit up in the prem for a good few seasons too.

    I, too, signed Asmir Begovic in my first season in the prem.  I also got Fabian Delph and Lewis Cook - who made my central midfield pretty colossal.  

    We got bought over by a 'rich billionaire' in between my 3rd and 4th season who gave me a transfer budget of >£100m.  I'd be interested to see if the same happens for you; I'm not sure how it works.  

  8. 32 minutes ago, Adam Easy Wishes said:

    After winning the treble, two seasons in a row with Aberdeen - and with offers on the table from Chelsea and Bayern Munich - I decided to pack the game in and start a brand new game as Blackburn.

    After a dodgy pre-season while the players get used to my now trademark 4-4-2 diamond, I'm top-ish (top three, all on similar points) after about eleven games. Building for the future, I signed some young Scottish players (Jason Cummings, Harry Souttar, Greg Kiltie), and a heap of guys on loan. Souttar and Kiltie aren't quite ready, but Cummings is getting plenty of game time.

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    In for a long season, I think...

    The Treble as in both domestic cups and the title?  Jeezo!  How many seasons in did you get?  

    I often start a Blackburn game and its been interesting to play as them over the past couple of seasons as they’re in the shit financially.  I got promoted from the Championship through the playoffs in my first season, after coming 6th, which basically eradicated most of their debt.  I then went on to the Premier League for a further 4 seasons.  In my 3rd season they got taken over by a billionaire who invested stupid amounts of money in the club.  My league form wasn’t great - I came something like 14th, 10th, 8th, 8th – but in my fourth season I won the fucking Champion’s League (beating Real Madrid 3-1 in the final!). 

    I find this game much harder overall, but I couldn’t help thinking my Champion’s League triumph was a bit scripted.  I mean, I had ok players, but they weren’t performing, outside of the Champion’s League.  While possibly being my greatest FM triumph to date it was a bit weird.

    Do you find it a lot harder than before?

  9. I used to updated my squad numbers every season in order to get a 1-11 in my perceived starting 11, but now I apply a much more lax method.  No player on my books will ever lose his number, unless in my head they want a different number.  Therefore, I might break my club transfer record on a new centre forward, but he still might wear #27 until the number of his, or my, choice is freed up. 

    Any of 4, 5 & 6 can be either centre backs or central midfielders.  Stop it. 

    I’m just a much more continental and cool manager than the lot of you. 

  10. Absolutely seshing MGS5.  I got it on release day and only got about half way through, but I've come back to it after a few months and its really a great game, despite its flaws.  I've reached that stage where you get the right weapons and level of skill to become ridiculously deadly; just tearing through enemy bases.  I'd highly recommend it to anyone that is looking for a big game to get their teeth into.  

  11. 17 minutes ago, Soda van Jerk said:

    There's no such thing as the "United Way" anymore. Many forget how awful United's football was for the last 3 or 4 years under Fergie. The last great United team was the 06-09 team, the final season of that was based on defensive solidity and getting the ball to Ronaldo. It was that season they won about 8 games on the bounce 1-0, and had Tevez and Park just pressing and playing as ball winning forwards rather than goalscorers. Fergie gladly sacrificed entertainment for winning. Perhaps he got it from Mourinho, after Mourinho continued to get the better of him everytime they met. There's not been a "United Way" since. Moyes definitely wasn't the man to bring it back. Nor was Van Gaal. Mourinho's style is irrelevant now IMO. Winning is the priority. If Van Gaal's possesion-hogging sleepwalk football was successful and they won every game 1-0, he'd be a hero. There'd be no talk of style, or lack of. If Mourinho wins, he will be the man.

    I don't think there's any doubt Mourinho will get all the resources he needs either. United boasting record breaking revenues and the Premier League TV money coming in to the effect this season, I think they'll spend more than ever. United generate ungodly amounts of cash, but so much of it is reportedly contractually reliant on Champions League qualification. The enormous Adidas deal cuts in half if they fail to qualify for the Champions League two seasons in a row. The Chevy deal takes a hit too, as will many others. No chance the moneymen at United will tell Jose to "make do". The club will be hell bent on making top 4 as an absolute minimum.

    Still, don't like him. And he's going to bring that mother-of-all-gobshites Rui Faria with him. Urgh. Has there ever been a game where Rui Faria hasn't tried to square up to someone? Barking threats at 4th officials whilst everyone holds him back. He's like that kid at school who had a rock-hard older brother who does karate, so he swaggers about the playground thinking he's the hardest kid in the world, knowing his brother would roundhouse the shite out of anyone who picks on him. Fuck Rui Faria.

    I think I come on Ab-Mus now purely for the entertainment of your football posts.  

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  12. I had a rad Sheff Wed game on FM15.  Promotion in first season of Championship then a good few seasons in the prem, a Capital One cup an then I stopped because the new one came out.

     

    I’m on the verge of getting the sack in my current game with Blackburn.  2019/2020 season and I have them in the blooming Champion’s League after a 4th place finish in the previous season.  I’m having a bit of a player’s mutiny and they aint performing.  Some aren’t turning up for training, which has resulted in 2 weeks of wages and a stint with the U21s, much to their team mates’ horror.  I think it’s a lot to do with having an over-inflated squad and lots of people complaining about their match time.  A lot of people seem to want to leave as other clubs are interested and end up having a huge strop when I deny them this. 

     

    I’m at the end of November, so might try and slim down the squad by cutting out the main offenders and use the proceeds to buy a word class centre back, which is much needed to compete.  Otherwise, I think I’ll be out on my arse before long, as I’m sitting 10th after 14 games, with a run of 4 losses.  Hey, perhaps its just my time to move on to something else.  All the other teams in England have improved immensely and have ridiculously good squads, so I don’t think there’s much else I can do with Blackburn. 

     

    I’m also the Poland manager and just qualified for the 2020 Euros, from a group including Portugal and Holland (the latter didn’t make it).  They probably have the least well balanced squad in history and basically no left sided players. 

  13. I had a day off yesterday, recuperating from my stag do, and ended up playing FM for 6 hours straight. 

    Went back to Blackburn game in the 18-19 season.  Finished 6th in the prem on my 17-18 season, and won the shit cup.  I then got bought by some mad billionaire in the summer, so we’re actually in a really good place financially; having been close to administration at the end of my first season (despite being promoted).  I also managed to sign up some chaps at the start of this season, after I was given a £100mm war chest.  My side is absolutely ridiculous and competing for the top 4 and the Europa League, after a dodgy start due to the number of new players I brought in.  Starting 11 as follows:

    Asmir Begovic

    Keiran Trippier – Gary Cahill (c) – Lucas – Aaron Cresswell

    Sami Khedira – Nick Powell – Kevin Strootman

    Gokhan Tore      – Jordan Rhodes –          Ricardo Kishna

    Bench: Jason Steele, Terence Kongolo, Juan Sanchez Mino, Lewis Cook, Fabian Delph, Serge Gnarby, Stevan Jovetic

    Pretty cracking 1st 11…  Nick Powell, Jordan Rhodes and Gary Cahill aren’t particularly highly rated but their form is incredible.  Nick Powell is my top rated player with an average rating of about 7.9!  (He’s that guy Fergie signed from Accrington Stanley, or something, that has barely played for united)

    Playing a fairly standard 4 -3 -3/ 4-2-3-1 (as above) against weaker opponents and a counterattacking 4-1-4-1 against stronger opponents and sitting 4th with about 10 games left.  The biggest thorn in my side is my players like Jordan Rhodes coming to me and claiming Real Madrid want to sign them and then going in a strop when I tell them that’s ridiculous.  Another one is ‘I want to play in the Champion’s League’ when we’re sitting bloody 4th as it is!  I’ve had a number of player mutinies, actually, as they all reckon they’re Billy Big Bollocks.  That’s always the problem with signing big names to a small club, but I’m gonna go all the way with these lads.  They’ll see. 

  14. 16 minutes ago, Teabags said:

    Which game modes you been playing? Playing ranked will match you better with people of similar skill. Though admittedly, I've played 90 hours and am now scoring like in the videos above. For the first 20 or so hours I was a pishflap.

    I think I'm in ranked matches, its just I got to Semi-Pro and then didn't play for months on end, so its maybe a bit skewed.  I basically only play 3v3.  Are there other modes you'd recommend?  

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