***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[The GIGGAS]

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Goodness, when your ship goes down in FM 2015, it goes down. I had a 2014 game recently where I got fired from a few places before finally landing somewhere and having some sustained success (deep in a US fantasy pyramid). When it wasn't going well, the players generally were alright, frustrated but not despondent.

I started a game with Stalybridge in the Vanarama North and it's been hell trying to get these players happy. First, half the team complained when a player wasn't in the starting lineup, then the other half complained about a different player. Now that we're falling down the table like a rock, everyone's pissed off, and it's going to be flames.I have a new player coming to me every few days complaining about how bad we are and wanting off the team.

[kaletore11]

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Ok........................................

[kaletore11]

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Moving up the ranks slowly but surely.

[Joshua1207]

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Do you play all of your games or what? Crazy that you're already that far into your career.

[kaletore11]

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Well, I have about 11days of playing time so I'm really not going THAT fast. I play all my games except friendlies and first few rounds of cups. What I do to make it all faster is I do all my transfers in the first few days of the transfer period and go on holiday until the transfer window closes. Just find it too annoying and repetitive to decline all offers one by one when I've set my roster for the season.

and I started playing on the first day of beta if that means anything.

[NoDakHusker]

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This is the third time a match has been postponed due to snow in a month. This is what I get for managing in Iceland.

[kaletore11]

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WHAT??????????

[rsnomar05]

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WHAT??????????

Holy ****! Your transfer budget for that one year had better be through the roof. Unless, of course, Stan Kroenke bought your club at some point.

[The GIGGAS]

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So I'm abandoning my Stalybridge game and I found a brand new US Pyramid: http://community.sigames.com/showthr...-Needed*/page3

I started in the bottom tier (the USASA, fully amateur... yikes) as Club Lents (which is here in Portland). First game was a 1-0 win.

As a note, here's an image of the second game of the season (away, so don't blame me for all the empty seats, our team had 30 season ticket holders!!!):



Game was 3-1 at half for Lents, ended as a 5-4 barnburner loss.

[Joshua1207]

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That US Pyramid looks interesting. I may join in on that once that guy gets it out of beta.

[The GIGGAS]

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That US Pyramid looks interesting. I may join in on that once that guy gets it out of beta.

I'm finding it really fun so far. There's like a winter break in the USASA, where you play in a World Cup style tournament with all of the different USASA leagues, which is ingenious. There's only 18 matches for USASA, so this definitely pads it quite a bit, with 10 teams per group (16 groups total). 2 teams per group advance.

[Suntan Superman]

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I'm going to test it, as I'm completely frustrated by my board right now.

[rsnomar05]

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Midway through the group stages, and Group E is wide open:

I've been swamped with work recently, so I haven't gotten to play much, but I got in a nice FM session today while I watched NFL action, so I made some great progress in my Roma save.

Last time I posted, I was in my first season at Roma after unjustly getting canned from Arsenal. I was midway through the group stages of the CL, tied with Dortmund and Nice with 6 points apiece.

I went into the final match of the group stages with a massive match against Dortmund. We were both tied for second in the group with 9 points apiece, and thankfully Dortmund decided to turn in an anemic performance.

My team entered that match on a high, as we had just played two equally massive matches (damn you, fixture congestion!) against 4th place Verona and 3rd place Juventus. Both those teams will have wished they stayed home, as I trounced them.

So I sit 2nd in the league through December 9, just 3 points behind 1st place Fiorentina. I've qualified for the knockout stages of the CL, which meets the board's minimum expectations, and morale is sky-high. Things are going great, so I fully expect the FM gods to pull the rug out from under me and make Lyon my CL knockout stages opponent, even though Lyon are in the Europa League.

Finally, Javier Hernandez has 20 goals in 20 apps and it's only December 9. He's a goal-scoring machine right now.

[ImTellinTim]

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First season at Liverpool:



Realize that's hard to read. 72 goals for 40 goals against through 26 matches.

Tactics:







YOLO

Still alive in the FA Cup and Champions League. Away to Swansea in FA Cup 5th round and drew Benfica in the CL round of 16.

[kaletore11]

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It was about damn time!!