Football Manager 2015

[Rich]

Wow. Me wanting to play with people and getting shunned.

Its like primary school, secondary school and college all over again

It's called "life"

No need to be arsey. Jesus.

I'm not, in agreeing with you.

This is arsey:

Get over yourself you dullard.

[Ant]

I apologise

[Rich]

And so do I

[Gazz]

Now kiss...

[9 to 5]

Network games to be successful have to be run regularly and for good amounts of time, it is hard to find people with that spare time, willingness and to actually turn up.

The SI boards are probably the best place to find people.

[TCO]

I'd only have the spare time for the next two days anyway, but I would love to do a network game should I have a laptop good enough to run it a great pace in the future!

[Baddar]

There are few things more satisfying on FM than holding on to a 2-1 lead at the Britannia.

[King Ellis]

Doing it on a wet, Wednesday night probably ranks higher?

[Baddar]

It does, but I'll take it!

[JasonM]

Network games to be successful have to be run regularly and for good amounts of time, it is hard to find people with that spare time, willingness and to actually turn up.

The SI boards are probably the best place to find people.

This, if you're gonna do it it you gotta have set moments you're gonna play. Like every weekend or whatnot, and not deviate from it.

[brenchill]

Has anyone ever tried to play with long ball tactics?

[Benji]

Has anyone ever tried to play with long ball tactics?

Pretty much only when playing significantly better opposition and praying for a miracle.

[TCO]

Eww, long ball tactics is wrong!

Against bigger opposition I just stick to my usual formation, go from control to counter and from fluid to structured. If I know I'm going to get smashed I go to defensive instead and set my DM as an anchorman rather than a roaming playmaker.

[stokeriño]

I've occasionally instructed my players to "Go Route One" for the last 5 to 10 minutes of a match. I would presume that this almost necessitates long ball tactics by definition...

[Thrilla]

Blackpool

Litrally nothing appeals to me less.

Except maybe Blackburn...

You had a good run here.

[TCO]

So got to the FA Cup final again and had to face Man United again. The last one was 0-0 and I lost on pens, this one wasn't!

Javier Hernandez is the bane of my life. He's scored a hattrick both times he's played against me this season, he's out of contract soon so I may have to snag him.

Qualified for the Champions League too, just pipped Liverpool to 4th. Was in the Europa League semi and drew 2-2 with PSG at SJP then went and lost 7-2 in Paris.

Haven't been given that much money to build a squad for the Champions League though, so I'll imagine I'll struggle. Badly need a world class striker.

[Gazz]

Yohan Cabaye...

...at Man United.

[stokeriño]

It's a little bit hilarious how fucked Melbourne City's finances are.

In the three years between the game's start and my joining the club (2014-2017), the club's balance steadily decreased from about $7 million to, erm, about $0. This trend has not changed, hence us being about $3.5 million in debt nearly two years later.

Our annual turnover is ranked 10th of 10 in the A-League ($5.75m, most clubs are $8m - $10m).

Both our season tickets ($110) and match tickets ($12.82) are priced at half that that of nearly every other club.

We have a grand total of 7,520 season ticket holders, and a typical home match attendance is 11,000 (in a 30,000 capacity stadium).

None of our players are really wanted by anyone - and most are worth only a couple of $100k anyway.

There is no prize or TV money worth a damn (a televised match will get you about $12k, If you win the AFC Champions League you'll end up with just over $2 million, but if you go out in the semis it'll be more like $400k).

AND YET I'm given a weekly wage budget of $107k per week, of which I'm only spending $71k anyway.

I'm expecting a massive implosion at some point in the coming year.

[Gazz]

Clive Palmer will take over.

What a business portfolio, Melbourne City FC, Titanic II and Palmersaurus Dinosaur Park.

[brenchill]

Managed to land the Chelsea job in 2021 after winning the FA Cup, Europa League and Super Cup with Villa.

They gave me an £160m transfer budget. Just spent £85m on Paul Pogba, which is a record FM transfer for me!