Football Manager 2008

[estebanmon]

After losing some more games at Torino, Sven got fired from Man City, and lucky me got offered the job. I inmediately jumped ship, leaving Torino with something like 6 points from 14 games and jumping to a City in 17th place. With the awesomeness of the team I won 4 in a row, moving me up to 9th, then Arsenal gave me my first loss. A draw at Villa and a lucky win over Liverpool leave me 6th behind the top 4 and West Ham. During January I got De Sanctis(great keeper) and Luis Fabiano from Sevilla, both of them were transfer listed. I also got some West Ham reserve for cheap to cover for the injured Petrov.

But I must say Elano is a god.

[Cadj]

Eddie Johnson is a cheat buy.

[ONO]

Part and parcel of the fun. I'm gonna load up my FM 07 game again, which is easily the best I've ever played.

So, don't mind me. >_>

[Summers]

Finished 11th in my second season with Derby, got offered the Newcastle job. Took it. Bigger club, big aspirations. Signed McEvely to take with me as LB, also signing Foster - to succeed Given - from United (he was on loan at Derby last season.) Would have gone for Barnes, but Man City put forward a 20m bid. Not gonna compete with them.

They want me to be challenging for the title in two years. Possible, but hard.

[Guest Kou]

You should sign Tony Hibbert. Then fire him the next day, he loves that.

Edited December 3, 2007 by Kou

[King Ellis]

But that's true, you just leave the game running in the background and then go live your life.

[Guest Kou]

But it's not on holiday. THE GAME IS WRONG.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Gillingham are brilliant now.

After my first four games we'd won two and drawn two. Then after ten league games we were five losses, three draws, two wins.

Now we're 6 wins in a row league and cup and have 10 wins overall. Genius.

We've also scored an average of 4 a game for the last 6 games. Cruised to the FA Cup third round too. Everything is happiness.

[ONO]

Southampton =

Signed Messi for £44m. Top of the league by 6 points, with a game in hand as well. It is only January.

[The Kraig]

I prefer a more challenging game.

Started at Wexford Youths in the Eircom First Division (Irish Republic 2nd tier) and they're amateurs. And because I started the game at July 2007, it's mid-season and we're rock bottom of the table.

I don't think I can be relegated, but it's amazing managing an amateur team. All my staff (who are awesome and free) and players are paid fuck all and can beat pro teams, I love it.

I'm hoping we can establish ourselves quickly into semi-pros before we go into administration, because for some reason we're half a million in debt (even though we don't really pay for anything). But yeah, having fun with it, it's a whole new FM experience.

The team was all Irish youngsters, but now my first team is ONE young Irish player, two over-30s Irish players, a bunch of Northern Irish players, a Welsh goalkeeper, Damien Cornelli who's South African/English, Brian Iman Abdullah who's Australian/English/Bruneian (whose real name is Brian Bothwell), Jamaican-born Irishman Bruce Pulloch and 45 year old Barbadian-born Northern Irishman Peter Hinds. And that's just my first team.

I also have 15 year old Aljame Zuill from Bermuda (valued at an impressive-for-us £1k), Barbadian/Irish Ramuel Miller, Ghanaian/Irish Baba Issaka, South African/English Daniel Guselli, Scottish youngster Jamie Brough (who I've actually met in person) and Scottish/Nigerian Danny Ogunmade.

So basically, I have the most black team in Ireland. For free. *insert African slave joke*

[Timmoru Suzuki]

Well, cock. I finally get FM2008, Install and start a new game fine. I get to my first match, click on 'Proceed to match' or whatever the button is, and the game freezes. I re-load, try again, and this time get to the screen where you pick your oppoistion instructions, and it freezes again. I download the patch, install that, start a new game, and it freezes at the same point again.

Looks like no new FM for me.

I can only assume its my soundcard that sucks, as the game only uses basic sound to that point, and the demo, that worked a charm didn't have any sound.

Edited December 7, 2007 by James timMAYy

[The Kraig]

You can turn sound completely off. I never have the sound on, it's fucking annoying.

[Guest Kou]

Turn all sound off in the settings, that may work for you.

[9 to 5]

So, FM08, yay or nay overall?

[Timmoru Suzuki]

Bah, taking the sound off didn't work either.

[stokeriño]

So, FM08, yay or nay overall?

Yay? I'm having no desire to go back to FM07 or anything like that.

Except for a passing thought earlier today about what it might be like to dig out the original CM3 and play as Chelsea pre-money. Clearly my memory has smudged over just how huge the loading times truly were.

Edit: Ugh, a France 1-0 Italy Euro 2008 final. How tediously dull can it possibly get.

Edited December 8, 2007 by stokeriño

[Timmoru Suzuki]

WOO! I installed some updated graphics drivers, and I got a match played fine. I'm out all tomorrow, so I hope to have managed to sim a whole TWO matches by Sunday!

[Crybaby Bunting]

Ok as England manager I come first in our group, we're qualified then arent we?

Actually no, the European Championship has started and not a single team who qualified is playing

Thats one fucked up bug

[therockbox]

Buy it then you cheapskate.

[Gazz]

Ok as England manager I come first in our group, we're qualified then arent we?

Actually no, the European Championship has started and not a single team who qualified is playing

Thats one fucked up bug

I don't get that bug, you know why?

Cos I BOUGHT the game, pirate!!