Football Manager 2014

[stokeriño]

Still not the double hat-trick though!

(I swear I will never get that achievement...)

[Gazz]

Me neither due to my quirk of subbing off a player after the third goal so he gets a standing ovation.

[TCO]

Managed to get the double hat-trick achievement in 2012, think it was Daniel Sturridge who nabbed it for me.

[Baddar]

Still not the double hat-trick though!

(I swear I will never get that achievement...)

PSVita version, RVP had 5 with 37 mins remaining - but still, no trophy for me.

[Whisper]

Yeah I left Welbeck on in the hope that he would get 6, especially after getting 5 before half time.

Think the only double hat trick I've ever had was Ronaldo on like FM05 or something. Back when playing a narrow 4132 and having Ronaldo right of the 3, and Van der Vaart left meant winning everything.

Man those were the days... I remember retraining Alan Smith to play right of the 3 midfielders, and him getting World Player of the Year.

[Whisper]

Back on FM12, Welbeck had one insane year in one save I played where he scored 80 goals in 46 games.

Every game I've played since he's been absolute wank.

On my previous United save on this version (which I ruined by selling everyone off and trying to win the league with an U21 squad), he won me the league in my second season after RVP got injured for like 7 months. Think Welbeck ended up with 32 goals in the league alone. Complete Forward seems to suit him on this version for some reason.

Fucking Carrick.

But fuck Villa in general though. They always do well against me.

Pretty much his first touch too.

Edit - woops, didn't mean to double post.

Edited August 8, 2014 by Whisper in the Wind

[King Ellis]

I think I got a double hat-trick in the old, old days before achievments. I was Crewe and somehow whooped some non-leaguers in the cup 11-0.

To that end, I assume you can't just play a friendly against some Estonian pub team and get it? It has to be competitive?

[Gorka]

Danny Welbeck somehow managed to score ten goals in the 2014 World Cup to get England to the final.

[Baddar]

I think I got a double hat-trick in the old, old days before achievments. I was Crewe and somehow whooped some non-leaguers in the cup 11-0.

To that end, I assume you can't just play a friendly against some Estonian pub team and get it? It has to be competitive?

Yeah, specifies that it has to be competitive.

[Summers]

Just beat Trabzonspor 1 - 9 in a CL group game. Correa with three goals, Paco with four. But one of Paco's was a cheeky Dion Dublin effort.

Brilliant!

[Gazz]

Horrible

[King Ellis]

That wasn't a match engine issue, just bad tactics on their part.

[Gazz]

That wasn't a match engine issue, just bad tactics on their part.

This is correct, if you look closely you can see that Darren Peacock has been selected to play in central defence, a horriffic tactical mistake.

[Baddar]

Didn't have a bad session today, all things considered.

Drew 2-2 at The Emirates, and then scored late to draw with Olympiakos in my first CL group game, away from home. Milan and Wolfsburg also drew, so a decent result.

Then, I was 2-0 down at Goodison because of two Kone headers from corners, but managed to get a 2-2 draw from that.

Then I thumped Huddersfield 5-0, with the help of a Rooney hat-trick, and finally defeated by FM Vita bogey team, Aston Villa, 2-1. Means I've started the season with 4 wins and 2 draws (both at difficult places), and sit level on points with City at the top. Last seasons champions, Chelsea, are only a couple of points behind.

[Gazz]

I am the one behind the fourteen in fourteen and zero.

[Baddar]

Pretty sure in my opening season, Villa beat me at OT and VP. Marc Albrighton scored the winner in both. :/

He didn't play in this seasons match though, so that's obviously why I beat them.

[stokeriño]

Decided I simply cannot wait: had to download a transfer update and start playing as Chelsea (with Costa, Fabregas, etc.).

Sigh.

Edit: ...But doing so has only served to remind me how NEMANJA MATIC IS ONLY RATED AS 0.5 STARS IN CENTRAL MIDFIELD, WHAT THE HELL

[The Lusophone]

I'm kindof hesitant to get the new one just because I feel sorry for Southampton.

[The Lusophone]

Although I'd love to see in the next game the option to find out just who is leaking like every single one of my friggin' transfer offers. >_>

[Gazz]

I actually might not get FM15.

But then again, Blackpool.