CM 03/04, nice name for a regen
 

Not hard to sort out which regen he is.

I don't get it.

Wow.

What the heck is a regen?

You tell me, Jeeber. I have no clue.

Regenerated player - when a player retires a young version of him is created by the game engine (with potential instead of actual talent) and given a random name and maybe even added to a random team's youth system - one of the SI guys can tell you better than I can

DOLA - funny bug by the way

So is the funny part the fact that he's been knighted?

he's supposed to be...?

Sir Bobby Charlton - member of England's 1966 world cup winning team and one of the best English strikers ever. It's funny for one reason because a 21 year old Australian has been knighted, and Bobby Charlton is at least 75. Who knew he still had the skills.

He's in the game as he's on the Man United board, which is why it's a bug (I guess) I'd love to hear from Marc whether this is a feature though - if so I can see it leading to a LOT of problems.

The real life "Sir Bobby Charlton" is the England national team's all-time leading scorer, won the World Cup with England, won the European Cup with Man United and survived the Munich air crash which wiped out a generation of Man United players back in '58.

i thought it gave a new name to regens?

I think the only bug is that the first name is "Sir Bobby", else I guess the probability of having Charlton as the last name was very low.

But don't know how the name allocation works.

Thanks for the explanations, Ryan and bhlloy. Guess my general lack of soccer knowledge was holding me back...

I thought CM4 used a player generation algorithm rather than regenerated retired players (a la CM3).

That would make a lot of sense. The last CM I really played was 01/02 as my computer is a piece of crap. I never liked the regen system and I'd be very happy to hear it's gone.

That's what I was hoping for as well.

Bobby Charltons on the board at Man Utd which is why his name is in the game, I've a sneaking suspicion the researcher entered it as 'Sir Bobby' which is why you'll occassionally get such oddities - will be fixed in FM (or you can do it now through editing the data).

Sorry for any inconvenience,

Marc

the thing is that the researcher should have named him Bobby Charlton and put Sir Bobby Charlton as a nickname.

nothing too serious anyway, this is just funny :)

That's ok, I was playing OOTP last week and found a player named "Ted Williams' Frozen Head". Still can't figure that one out.

So basically this is like playing OOTP & getting "Roberto Clemente" as the name of a fictional player & he happens to have a skill set similar to the real Clemente?

I thought we had removed the sir thing already.. obviously not :D
and put Sir Bobby Charlton as a nickname

Nicknames get regend as well so you can't always put the Sir bit in there either

Roughly. :)

i hope he sports the Charlton comb-over.

Sir Bobby will be delighted to be 21 again :D

Incidentally, he was an attack midfield not a striker, which makes his scoring record even more remarkable and the reason why some English fans believe him to have been the best English soccer player ever.

He came on the scene immediately following the Munich air crash - he was on the 'plane but survived the crash - when he became part of the reconstituted Utd team as a teenager.