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[jesmith29]

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i have a few questions for your question:

• what is the player's personality?
• have you had any players recently not show up to training/want a new contract/been sent off/been fined/been unhappy about something (like losing captaincy) in the last 3 months
• what is squad harmony like?

He's fairly professional. I did have a player get a straight red about 3 games before he said this. I warned the player as he had 2 yellows in the 2 years I've been playing. The squad harmony is very good.

My guess is it's due to the red card handling.

[ImTellinTim]

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If one of my players gets sent off for violent conduct, I always fine them 2 weeks.

[willyfantastic]

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He's fairly professional. I did have a player get a straight red about 3 games before he said this. I warned the player as he had 2 yellows in the 2 years I've been playing. The squad harmony is very good.

My guess is it's due to the red card handling.

thats strange, i guess he is concerned that you didnt discipline him ENOUGH (i have seen something like this before, but not for ages) does he have any minor concerns or anything in his personal tab? (apart from lack of discipline)
what do you normally do regarding red cards and discipline?

[jmaj315]

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you should have basic knowledge of the language by about the january transfer window and full knowledge between 1-2 full seasons into the job

i cant say that for definite as im pretty sure its not always exact. but that's been around the average for me

Get those guys Rosetta Stone!

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What is the effect of Fluid vs Rigid?
The game makes it sound like strikers will move more into a midfield role while on defense and center backs will do the same while on offense? is that true?

[ImTellinTim]

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Get those guys Rosetta Stone!

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What is the effect of Fluid vs Rigid?
The game makes it sound like strikers will move more into a midfield role while on defense and center backs will do the same while on offense? is that true?

I don't have the game in front of me right now, but set your tactic to fluid, then go look at the individual instructions for various players. Then set your tactic to rigid and check the indivisual instructions again. You'll see changes in the settings.

[Suntan Superman]

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Why can I never win with a straight 4-4-2, I always have to use a funky variety, Trying it various places, in various saves with various personnel, I'm still 0-3-18 when I run a straight 4-4-2.

[HKPound]

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Why can I never win with a straight 4-4-2, I always have to use a funky variety, Trying it various places, in various saves with various personnel, I'm still 0-3-18 when I run a straight 4-4-2.

I can never run it as well. Two striker formations in general are pretty eh for me because one of the strikers always seem to drop in form.

[jesmith29]

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thats strange, i guess he is concerned that you didnt discipline him ENOUGH (i have seen something like this before, but not for ages) does he have any minor concerns or anything in his personal tab? (apart from lack of discipline)
what do you normally do regarding red cards and discipline?

If it's the first red, and the player hasn't had a history, I usually give them a warning. If the player gets a second, I fine them a week, etc.

[ImTellinTim]

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Why can I never win with a straight 4-4-2, I always have to use a funky variety, Trying it various places, in various saves with various personnel, I'm still 0-3-18 when I run a straight 4-4-2.

I ran away with the Championship with Millwall using the 4-4-2. The key to being effective was playing one of the strikers as a DLF with the support role and the other as a poacher. I had one BWM defensive mid and an attacking CM. the wing players were support and either wingers or wide mids depending on who we were playing. In defense, the FBs were set to support wing backs. The CBs where both set to central defenders and cover. At home we pressed and attacked against teams that I thought we could beat. At all other times, we played the counter.

I guess my point is you can make the tactic work with the right players in the right roles. Just like any other system.

[Suntan Superman]

I ran away with the Championship with Millwall using the 4-4-2. The key to being effective was playing one of the strikers as a DLF with the support role and the other as a poacher. I had one BWM defensive mid and an attacking CM. the wing players were support and either wingers or wide mids depending on who we were playing. In defense, the FBs were set to support wing backs. The CBs where both set to central defenders and cover. At home we pressed and attacked against teams that I thought we could beat. At all other times, we played the counter.

I guess my point is you can make the tactic work with the right players in the right roles. Just like any other system.

See I was going full on traditional 4-4-2, I can get the variants to work, but with a straight LB,CB,CB,RB LM,CM,CM,RM ST,ST: I can never, ever win with that. Perhaps if I bought world class players, but I've never gotten it to work.

[rsnomar05]

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I ran away with the Championship with Millwall using the 4-4-2. The key to being effective was playing one of the strikers as a DLF with the support role and the other as a poacher. I had one BWM defensive mid and an attacking CM. the wing players were support and either wingers or wide mids depending on who we were playing. In defense, the FBs were set to support wing backs. The CBs where both set to central defenders and cover. At home we pressed and attacked against teams that I thought we could beat. At all other times, we played the counter.

I guess my point is you can make the tactic work with the right players in the right roles. Just like any other system.

What Tim said. In particular, the part about where he set one CF to poacher and had the other in the support role. I currently run with two strikers. One's an adavanced forward set to attack, the other's a deep lying forward set to support. If both strikers are set in a deep lying support role, they'll both come back to get the ball, leaving nobody further up to score goals. So you need to make sure one striker stays in a more advanced attacking position than the other.

[willyfantastic]

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See I was going full on traditional 4-4-2, I can get the variants to work, but with a straight LB,CB,CB,RB LM,CM,CM,RM ST,ST: I can never, ever win with that. Perhaps if I bought world class players, but I've never gotten it to work.

i spent most of fm13 trying to perfect the 3-5-2, but used the 4-4-2 recently with some success in the mls

with 2 striker its best to have 1 in a support role, either deep lying with suppot or target man with support, just look at the stats of your players and this will dictate what type of supporting forward to be

i try and balance the midfield, playing 2 wingers. then if you have a deep laying playmaker, i set wingers to attack, but if you have an advanced playmaker i put them to support and keep them wide. the other cm should be a BWM or a CM with defensive set

full backs i play with support, so if you play short passing, you'll see some good passing triangles between the winger, cm and FB

also if you play a high defensive line and offside trap, make sure you set your keeper to sweeper keeper in case the defense gets beaten

[ImTellinTim]

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See I was going full on traditional 4-4-2, I can get the variants to work, but with a straight LB,CB,CB,RB LM,CM,CM,RM ST,ST: I can never, ever win with that. Perhaps if I bought world class players, but I've never gotten it to work.

What I described was that. I was just describing the roles that they were all assigned. When I said attacking mid, I meant that it was a CM set to the Central Midfielder role with an Attacking mentality.

[Suntan Superman]

What I described was that. I was just describing the roles that they were all assigned. When I said attacking mid, I meant that it was a CM set to the Central Midfielder role with an Attacking mentality.

Fair enough.

[ronaldo9]

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I just got offered the Holland job...approximately how long do I have in game time to accept or reject it?