Football Manager 2009

[Clawson]

Alright so how do I transfer my save game from the Football Manager 09 Demo to the Worldwide Soccer Manager 09 full game?

[Matt]

I'm gonna say Man United since Matt is a Leeds fan.

Got it in one. Also Galatasaray. But I generally call them Turkscum or Galascum to differentiate.

[NotoriousGTT]

Cowdenbeath fan?

Yeah, a lifetime of depression.

[Clawson]

Hahahahahaha....I started an unemployed game then signed with H&W Welders in the North Irish Second Division. 21 seconds into my first match as manager we score, shame it's just a friendly.

Edit: Make that 2 in 3. ^_^

Edited November 27, 2008 by Clawson

[-A-]

Apparently there's a bug where the FA Cup draw is regionalised up until the 5th round. Portsmouth get Southampton a lot, Man United and City draw each other a lot (and Burnley) and whatever else. Apparently they just included the fact that preliminary rounds are draw like this and somehow it ended up applying to half the competition.

[Mongrel]

I'm gonna say Man United since Matt is a Leeds fan.

Got it in one. Also Galatasaray. But I generally call them Turkscum or Galascum to differentiate.

What about Scumatasary?

Just got employed by Hyde, and the team sucks and I have no wage budget leftover to start with. Gonna be a long season.

[Sir Alan LCSugar]

That FA Cup bug thing may not just be with the FA Cup. In the League Cup as Luton I've had Watford twice in two years. Whilst me and my housemate both started as Arsenal and both got Tottenham in round three.

[Matt]

Would explain why I'm constantly drawing Bradford, Hull, The Sheffields and Huddersfield.

I love Delph... and Mifsud. But mainly Delph since he was the one who scored the goal that brought us back into it. It was beautiful, a 30 yard screamer.

[Dont Fear The Reaper]

I am absolutely sick to death of all the draws I have in this game. See for yourself

EDIT: Didnt seem to work for some reason

Anyway, out of 20 games played, ive drew 50% of them.

Edited November 28, 2008 by Dont Fear The Reaper

[Zaz]

I stormed out of a press conference for the first time. Was probably cos I'm on a 5 match losing streak, the latest being to Charlton in the League Cup

Nothing is working to fix this either

Edit1: haha, sent my assistant manager along to the next question and he ended up storming out of that one too. Awesome.

Edit2: Something finally may have worked. Did some subtle changes to the team tactics and also had both central mids making lots of forward runs, to support my lone striker (also have AML, AMR and DM). Beat Crystal Palace 4-0 away with 3 goals coming from the CMs (2 to Huddlestone off the bench, one to Ferguson) making a run into the box. Also may have something to do with the fact Palace are rubbish and prior to our match had only scored 1 and conceded 26 in 12. Amazingly, they have a win and a draw out of that >_>

Edited November 28, 2008 by Zaz

[therockbox]

I'm thinking about having a bit of an all nighter with this tonight, never really got into one with 08 because it started to annoy me after a while with the 'random' games where you'd have 25 chances and not score only to lose 1-0 to the oppositions only attack.

Enjoying my Newcastle game at the moment though. Undefeated in my second season with about 13 games gone, third in the league because we've drawn a few games we should've won. Vagner Love has only played a couple of games because of a series of annoying injuries, although Xisco is doing alright alongside Czech wonderkid Tomas Necid.

Mike Ashley's gone as well, sold to local businessman Jordan Spence. When he first came in my positions was under review because he wanted to appoint Alan Curbishley (yeah I know), but decided against it and asked me to stay on. Didn't get any extra money though which is a bit annoying, we've still got nothing in the bank.

UEFA Cup campaign is going well, top of my group with 7 points from 4 games. It's a decent looking group, Valenciennes and Anderlecht are decent whilst Debrecen are the whipping boys.

[Scott McFly]

I swear to fuck if one more team offers me less than 5mil for Elano, I'm gonna stab somebody.

I know, I got that in the demo when I was mucking around with Man United.

Me: "Tevez for £25m, who wants him?"

Real Madrid: "Here's £25m cash all upfront!"

Me: "Accepted! Anyone else?"

Arsenal: "£15m, but only £5m upfront, the rest in instalments."

Me: "No chance, I need it all upfront just like Real."

Arsenal: "OK, how about £20m, but all in instalments."

Me: "...no, I need it all now. And it's £25m."

Arsenal: "OK, how about £17m, all in instalments."

Me: "No chance, that's less than the last one! Refused, I'm not haggling any more."

2 days pass.

Arsenal: "OK, how about £15m..."

Me: "No! Fuck off!"

[METALMAN]

That can be really annoying. On my Kilmarnock game all these teams are trying to buy Ryan O'Leary but I just keep rejecting and it can be quite tiresome. I don't want to set it to auto-reject though in case a really good offer does come through at some point.

[-A-]

Apparently you're better off negotiating an actual price. If you just reject offers and don't have an asking price set, they're even more likely to bombard you with offers.

[Pesci]

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU WIN AWAY ON THIS CUNTING GAME?! :@

[Matt]

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU WIN AWAY ON THIS CUNTING GAME?! :@

Send me your tactics, and I'll send you mine. I've drawn 5 straight games at home.

[Clawson]

I hate how I let my emotions dictate my game. Apparently I have a solid 21 year old defender at H&W Welders but he fucked up three games in a row so I finally decided to sell him to Montrose in Scotland after they asked everyday for 2 weeks.

And can someone please tell me how to transfer games from the demos?

[Matt]

My documents > Sports Interactive > FM 09 > games. Copy and paste into the folder you want, but tbh I thought that was automatic.

[Clawson]

I'm transferring from FM to WSM though so that might have something to do with it. :/

[Pesci]

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU WIN AWAY ON THIS CUNTING GAME?! :@

Send me your tactics, and I'll send you mine. I've drawn 5 straight games at home.

I just won my first away game of the season at Hull, which isn't really saying much. It's a start though.

And I hate having no money for the January window. So boring