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Moose

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  1. I'm so rubbish at Rocket League. I got it when it came out and did ok, then didn't play it for a number of months. I've come back to it now and its so hard! I don't understand how people fly about the pitch like they do and my timing of hits are all off.
  2. https://sisportscentre.com/ This has kinda become my 'bible' for all things football manager. Give it a good read and you'll understand player roles and mentalities a lot better.
  3. That is BONKERS. I want to look into some of the smaller leagues (other than the Scottish). My only experience so far is with Netherlands and France, which aren't exactly diddy leagues.
  4. You want them the other way around against inside forwards too (right footer on the left; left footer on the right).
  5. Rafa goes unbeaten for the rest of the season, keeping Newcastle up but then gets offered the Bayern Munich job. Ashley then appoints Paul Jewel. Called it.
  6. I basically use the RTE to bankrupt Rangers every time they look like the might come up. It pleases me. I always choose a youth player at random and give them a potential ability of ~180 at the beginning of the season too, which is sort of cheating, I suppose.
  7. I started playing GTAV online on my PS4 and I'm just kinda wandering around getting killed by other possés. Wtf am I meant to do? How do I join a crew, or something? How do crews even work? Do I have to speak to people, coz I don't want to do that.
  8. They've moved to Crown Street under a new name, which I can't remember or seem to google search. Opens fairly soon, I think.
  9. Kevin de Bruyne is an absolute joy to watch. His first touch is miraculous! Just as good as Ozil IMO.
  10. Let's take a moment to reflect on something: Adam Lallana cost Liverpool £25mm. Utter toilet football, especially after watching the Ross County v Aberdeen game.
  11. Finished my 3rd season at Blackburn with a 0-3 trouncing from Man City. Had I got a point from it, I would have finished 4th - above Liverpool – but as I lost it, Man City leapfrogged my into 4thth and I finished 6th. A fine line indeed. I was all nice, for once, like ‘unlucky lads, it just wasn’t our day’ and it wasn’t. The Venky’s have just sold out to a very rich consortium who gave me a new contract and a £100mm transfer budget. I didn’t really know what to do with it but as a number of my key players are coming to me and moaning that I won’t let them leave to bigger clubs, I’ve spent a bit (Jordan Rhodes was giving me grief for asking AC Milan for £40mm for him. I says to him, £40mm or GTFO). So I brought in a few players to replace my squad players (Kevin Strootman, Aaron Cresswell, Saido Berahino, Ricardo Kishna, Lucas fae Monaco) which gives me a stupid squad. My first big buy was Fabian Delph, a key player in my second season, who’ll barely get a look in now. My Blackburn squad, going into its 4th season, includes: Asmir Begovic, Keiran Trippier, Sami Khedira, Stevan Jovetic, Kevin Strootman, Fabian Delph, Eric Durm, Dani Alves, Gary Cahill and – of course – Ben Marshall. I don’t know how I’ve done it, but I’ll probably now win the Prem, with these guys and my other – lesser known - stars. It gets a bit boring when you are given stupid money, tbh.
  12. I’ve had a huge turnaround in my 3rd season with Blackburn. Just missed relegation from the prem in my second season, coming 17th (albeit 8 points clear of the relegation zone). This season, so far, I’ve already won the shitty cup and look poised to finish in the top 4! I almost can’t believe how well we’ve done and its mostly down to constant tinkering. So far, this season, I’ve played 4-2-3-1, 4-1-4-1, 5-2-3, 2-3-2-1-2 and flat 4-3-3. A lot of them are based around two similar mentalities, on to focus on hitting teams on the counter and another looking to win the ball back, higher up the pitch, and control possession. Players were moved around a formation accordingly to counter specific threats. The board have started showering me in money and I’ve taken in some big names, like Sami Khedira, Stevan Jovetic, Fabian Delph and Dani Alves (at Blackburn Rovers, remember…). Jordan Rhodes is immense and Lewis Cook (£8.5m from Leeds) has been pivotal. I read this blog a lot over Christmas: https://sisportscentre.com/tag/fm16-fm16/page/4/ . It helped me to understand the match engine a lot better and how to utilise it in order to reach what I want. Keeping it simple at the start of each game and changing things to counter/take advantage of specific strengths/weakness in the opponent. I’m still getting totally ruined at set pieces , however.
  13. It was actually fairly effective in getting draws or 1-0 victories over bigger teams, but I was oddly getting humped by the teams around me. I tried changing the bbm to a cm-d and replacing the anchor man with another striker, but it didn't really work out. The general ethos was to make it as basic as possible, total anti football, but I'm really struggling to come up with interesting and effective tactics in this game. I've barely touched team instructions as the negatives of any change seem to outweigh the positives. It worked fine in the Championship, but I can't find anything that works in the prem. ...mind you, it was maybe more to do with my central midfield of jason lowe and danny guthrie...
  14. Can I have a look at your tactic. I kept my head above water with Blackburn by utilising fast as fuck players in a very simple counter attacking 4-1-4-1, but it was far from devastating. Signed some quality players so I want to try something more adventurous. My tactic was counter attacking, structured, as so: df-s wm-s cm-s bbm-s wm-s a-d fb-s cd-d cd-d fb-s gk-d
  15. Has anyone played much of the new game? It's hard, you can't rest on any one tactics and have to tinker a lot more to get the wins, which I kinda like. Playing a game with Blackburn: £130mm debt and a transfer embargo. Actually ended up winning the Championship in my first season, whcih I've never done before in any fm. Currently sitting 18th in the prem after 34 games though, so my future aint looking so bright...
  16. FM alternative universe: this season, in my game, Leicester finished bottom and Chelsea won the title.
  17. I might go as Villa in the new FM. Make them likeable again. They are a pretty massive club, in terms of following and history, but they have been dogshit ever since O'Neill left.
  18. That goal was a pure bastard. Coley was a great player to watch in his day and had top bantz with the lads.
  19. I did the Aviemore half marathon a couple of weeks ago. I'm not really as runner, I just keep fit playing football and other sports, so just gave it my best shot. Finished in 1.43 which is probably around what I was hoping for. Makes me want to get back into 10ks and get my time down; I just worry I'm not the right sort of build for it, or something. I seem far more injury prone from running than playing footy or tennis, which is pretty odd. Really enjoyed the sense of occasion and camaraderie at the event, plus its a bloody beautiful track.
  20. TBF, his record in Netherlands and Germany is pretty special. Its just so strange that his good spell at Twente and Wolfsburg is surrounded by so much terribleness.
  21. This is possibly just beyond being enjoyable for me. Just a bit too bonkers. I have had similar experiences, however.
  22. So Glen Johnson will wear the number 8 this season, at Stoke. There are some unorthadox squad numbers I can handle, as long as they're in keeping with a national tradition somewhere. A Brazilian CB wearing 3, fine; an Argentinian RB wearing 4, fine; I'm happy for a CM to wear anything from 4 - 11 (apart from 9). William Gallas wore 10 though and he must burn in fire for this. Check this out: https://squadnumbers.wordpress.com
  23. A goalkeeper who wears the number 2! Absolutely abhorrent behaviour.
  24. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiliano_Viviano This guy will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
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