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Posts posted by du Garbandier (Inactive)
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Something I've craved for years is the ability to designate substitute slots so that my AM, when he picks the team, picks someone appropriate to the position. Sorting out the subs, especially during the friendly season, can be an almighty pain. So --
For friendlies, all slots position-specific, plus #12 free for any role
For league & cup, maybe GK + 2 defender + 2 midfield +2 forwards, or something more fine-grained.
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2 minutes ago, FrazT said:
Add this to the Features Requests forum
OK. I thought this thread included FRs...
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5 minutes ago, XaW said:
It's tactical
Uhuh. That's interesting; I've been worrying over that overlap issue on the right, and thought of the IWB option, but there are precious few players who can play the role, so far as my scouts can see. I suppose one option is to set the forward position to IW or IF. I'll look into that some more, because my backs have all been recruited as wing-backs.
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Substitutes: something I've craved for years is the ability to designate substitute slots so that my AM, when he picks the team, picks someone appropriate to the position. Sorting out the subs, especially during the friendly season, can be an almighty pain. So --
For friendlies, all slots position-specific, plus #12 free for any role
For league & cup, maybe GK + 2 defender + 2 midfield +2 forwards, or something more fine-grained.
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9 hours ago, sdx15 said:
Redo the cup draw 50+
Yeah I know. I thought I might go with 10 iterations when the FA cup comes around. It is pretty tedious to do, after all.
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2 hours ago, XaW said:
this is my base tactic
Just wondering why you have LB set as wing-back, and RB set as full-back? Is that owing to available personnel, or for tactical reasons?
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1 hour ago, OxfordUnitedFC said:
Maybe you’ve just been unlucky
Well, odd things happen in FM. One year I won the French cup, drawing every round including the final and going through on penalties.
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I don't normally reload. It's just that I've felt the pattern being there over the last few seasons, so I wanted to investigate.
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Assistant's advice to man-mark someone I always ignore -- to me it seems that by man-marking, you let the opponent drag your defender out of position leaving space for other opponents to exploit.
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Can't say that I've ever noticed a Fitness Coach getting sent on a course. But for us, I think it's because the licensing system doesn't extend to FCs.
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I don't think you can send fitness coaches on courses.
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46 minutes ago, Junkhead said:
20 of the 32 clubs at that stage are Premier League clubs
True, but half or fewer would be tough draws for a top-half team. I'm keeping an eye on it, next round of Carabao if we go through, and the FA cup.
@Dagenham_Dave:
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Reloaded to test the issue. Everyone prefers easier draws, I dare say. What I'm saying is that I feel I'm getting a disproportionate number of difficult draws.
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there's something going on here, so I saved a couple of days before the draw (Carabao cup, 3rd round). Successively, I got Man City, Liverpool, Arsenal... Reading (Championship side in 2029), on the fourth attempt. I'll take that.
But I seem to get top-rated clubs in cup draws more frequently than probability would suggest. When I got OL into the Champions Cup, we got Barcelona and Milan -- and here I am at Newcastle (we finished 3rd last season), and we get Milan AC, Real Madrid and Ajax.
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I'm wondering: what is people's experiences regarding unsuccessful applications. I'm thinking particularly of jobs you fancy, and which you might get later in your career if not now. I can't remember a time when, having applied, been interviewed, and then rejected, that a subsequent opportunity at the same club had a different outcome.
Example: I'm currently at Newcastle, just starting second full season, having started in November, so a year and a half behind me. We've qualified for the Champions cup, and for other reasons I'm in no rush to move on, although the poor youth recruitment seems to be chronic. Anyway, the Barcelona job came up; I applied, was the fan's choice, and got the interview, but they went with someone else.
Question: as I fancy that job one day, would it be better to stay out of it for now, and wait for a future opportunity? Spoiler alert: I didn't get the job.
As an aside, I've noticed that FM seems to have the big clubs go for someone in their 50s or 60s, which seems less like real life than it used to.
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Picking up a couple of these points: my main home & away tactics are positive/balanced. My third is cautious, but that's as low as I'll go. As others say, you're just laying out the welcome mat if you specify defensive. Sometimes, when there's nothing to lose (highly likely to get beat anyway, I mean, not end-of-season mid-table kickabout), I'll go into an away match with the positive tactic, just to keep things interesting. Still, there are rare times in a game when switching to defensive can be the way to go.
AI is doing its best, but the more information you give it, the more it will try to interpret. I play control possession, but I get rid of 'work the ball into the box' because they just dither and faff about when they get there, instead of shooting. I think IRL too, too many instructions leads to confusion.
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You're complaining about Tottenham losing at Anfield? "Here come the Drury Lane Tap Dancers", I think is how Bill Shankly looked forward to Tottenham's visits.
Mind you, I feel your pain. I had two matches there in two weeks, cup and league, with Newcastle (at the time 3rd in the league behind Liverpool & Chelsea), and lost both times.
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Hungary has historic ties to neighbouring Austria, which is German speaking.
My current Swede has Norwegian & Danish as well as English and French. I don't remember what I specified at the outset, but wouldn't have taken up one of those second language slots with Norwegian if I'd been offered the choice
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Leaving aside that I hate the option being available in the first place*, how does it work? Do I have to pay him for the duration of his new contract, his old contract, or the rest of the season in which he's sold?
*He tells me he wants to seek fresh challenges -- fine, but I don't see why I have to pay for his holiday
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5 minutes ago, Rashidi said:
Us older players
lol... don't remember that, so maybe before my time. But yeah, my setup is mostly the same, home and away, just with a couple of tweaks
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2 minutes ago, Rashidi said:
I just have one tactic and a bunch of shouts
ha... but you only get one shout per ten minutes
I have a home & away tactic -- basically AM at home, DM away (control possession) and for occasional variety, a fluid counterattack option again with DM
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That's interesting (in my current save I had Lyon only after starting at Auxerre and moving to Bordeaux).
Generally, I find that this version of FM has improved the tactical briefing, and my AM's advice is usually sound, if often overcautious. I look for high tactical knowledge in an AM -- current on has 15 TK and 16 tactical coaching. It's good to know that small adjustments can make a difference.
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I was wondering to what extent you can really 'take them by surprise' with tactical changes and adjustments? I just played Liverpool at Anfield twice in a fortnight (cup & league), and went with sharply different tactics on the second occasion. Lost both 1-0. (We're currently 3rd or 4th in the league, so its not wildly optimistic to hope for a draw at least)
Press is always asking if they can expect a tactical surprise (has been asking that for as long as I've been playing FM )
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Generally, how does being on the bench figure in keeping happiness levels up? And to what extent does being used during the game or not make a difference?
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Two assistant managers?
in Football Manager General Discussion
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Can FM players use this? I noticed that I had two when I took the Schalke job, but couldn't find one of them (the better one, natch) in the staff role pages, so I ended up sacking one of them. Both show up on the coaching assignment page, though.