retired_hockeymom2

Christopher Samba is FB !!! :thup:

retired_ssteinfeld

I use andy taylor as cover for warnock

retired_Getn_Fit

Im a Blackburn Fan so they are always the team I play when FM08 comes out (not demo)

Season 07/08

Transfers.

Players Out:

Brett Emerton to Wigan: 1.1 m
Steven Reid to Portsmout: 3 m
Jason Roberts to Derby: 950k
Aaron Mokeana to Derby: 750k
Kizvanishvelli to Fulham: 1.1m
Various reserve players like De vita etc.

Total Income 7.5m

Players In.

Mauro Zarate from Al-Sadd: 3m
Breno from Sao Paulo: 6.5m
Pablo Piatti from Estuendientes: 700k

Total Outcome: 10.25m

I bought Zarate because I play 3 up front and need a lot of strikers. Breno was to cover for Samba and Nelson, because although he is a wonderkid only 17 at start of game.
Piatti was a cheap option to add an attacking dimension to the midfield.

Team

GK. Friedal
DL. Warnock
DR. Oojier
DC. Samba
DC. Nelson
MC. Piatti
MC. Savage
MC. Pederson
FC. Zarate
FC. Santa Cruz
FC. Mccarthey.

Subs: Breno, Bentley, Enklemen, Tugay, Rigters, Derbyshire, Henchoz and Peter.

The Season.

Euro Vase: Knocked out first game against Sloven Liberac after drawing both games 1-1 at home and 0-0 away.

League Cup: Knocked out 4th round at home to Arsenal 1-0

Fa Cup: Knocked out 4th round to Tottenham 3-2 away.

Premier League:
After a slow start and tweaking my tactics, around the Xmas period my team found form and had a 8 game winning streak. This form was to continue, with the odd patch for the remainder of the season. I was in 3rd position for the run in, with a gap between me and league leaders Utd and Arsenal, and Spurs and Man City snapping at my heels. I maintained my form to finish my first season as Manager of Blackburn as 3rd in the Premier League (also my first season in FM 08). Next Season its Europe for the lads!

Best Players

Benni Mcarthey: Finished 2nd highest goalscorer behind Rooney with 21 goals (was injured for a month).
Piatti: This wonderkid finished 2nd in the best signings of the season, A world class player for 700k.
Samba and Ryan Nelson: Great Defensive partnership
Other good players that season were. Savage, Friedal, Oojier.

Dissapointing players

Santa Cruz and Zarate didnt exactly set the league on fire. Santa Cruz only getting 9 goals in 29 appearances. (somehow i still finished the premier leagues top scoring team). David Bentley too proved innefectual, but I realise playing a 4 3 3 with 3 CMs isnt his best position, same with Gamst.
Other players of note were Derbyshire and Rigters who are both very good strikers and cover so consider keeping both.

Coaching and Staff

The whole Blackburn staff need a big overhaul. So I sacked were economical viable and replaced them with quality coaches and scouts. Mark Bowen left half way through the season to go and manage Doncaster?? so was replaced with CSKA Moscow Fitness Coach Paulo Paixeo who in my opinion is of a higher quality.

The board also accepted my requests to enhance both the youth and senior training facilities and at the end of the season agreed to expand the Stadium. Even after my 3rd position finish the board are just satisfied, praising the purchase of Piatti but not pleased with the purchase of Breno who needs to convince the fans.

retired_moralesam

Started a new game with Blackburn. gone with a safe mid table finish but only have 3m to spend hence the lack of transfer activity

Players in:

Aaritilo 60k
Collins John (Season Loan)

Players out:

Loads of reserve players which has only brought me in 245k.

Apart from that it is the same squad.

My best XI is

gk: Friedel
rb: Emerton
lb: Warnock
cb: Nelson
cb: Samba
rm: Bentley/Aaritilo
cm: Mokoena
cm: Savage
AM: Santa Cruz
cf: Mcarthy/Derbyshire

Season so far:
League P7 W4 D2 L1 Poi 14
Uefa: Qualified for group stage
League Cup: Into Rnd 4
FA Cup: Not yet entered


Liverpool (A) drew 1-1 McCarthy

Bolton (H) won 3-1 McCarthy, Cruz & O.G

Wigan (A) won 0-1 Santa cruz

Chelsea (H) Lost 1-2 Mokoena

Birmingham (H) Won 2-1 Pederson, Santa Cruz
McCarthy Injured 3 weeks

Metalist (H) Uefa Won 3-0 Derbyshire 3

Fulham (A) Won 3-4 Derbyshire 2, Pederson & Savage

Fulham (H) League Cup Won 2-0 Pederson, Derbyshire

Villa (A) Drew 0-0

Metalist (A) Uefa cup 2nd leg won 0-2 (0-5agg) Warnock & Roberts

Will keep you updated as to how things progress.

retired_x_tream69

I'm a Dagenham and Redbridge fan but I follow Blackburn in the Premiership for some very odd reason. Blackbrurn are my FM Team. I'm currently just one friendly away from the start of my second season. I finished 11th in my first season. I got knocked out of the Euro Cup in the first knockout round after the group stage against Seville 4-2 on aggregate. I made it to the semis of the League Cup but got knocked out by Man Utd although I did beat Arsenal along the way. Everton beat me 4-3 in the fourth round of the FA Cup.

My Current Starting line up looks like this:
Kuszchek
Marciniak Samba Jones Mattock
Gosling
Bentley M.G.Pedersen
Gomez
Santa Cruz Janczyk

Enkleman
Nelsen
Skjelbred
Torje
Derbyshire/Acuna


Transfers:
In: Price: Current Value:
Bjarne Ingebretsen 16k 1.2m
Maciej Korzym 250k 1.8m
Dan Gosling 1.4m 3m
Tomasz Sokolowski 825k 2.1m
Per Ciljan Skjelbred 1.7m 4.7m
Prudnikov Alexandr 1.7m 2.3m
Daniel Chavez 85k 1.3m
Artur Marciniak 50k 875k
Luis Paez 110k 1.5m
Gabriel Torje 3m 2.8m
Lewis Stevenson 2m 2.3m
Jakob Johansson 50k 50k
Joe Mattock 2.8m 2.8m
Yann Sommer 6k 6k
Javier Acuna 3.7m 3.7m
Tomasz Kuszczak 2.2m 2.2m
Billy Jones 2.5m 2.5m
Dawid Janczyk 4.8m 4.8m
Chrus Maguire 2.9m 2.9m
Alejandro Gomez 1.9m 2.1m

Out: Price
Robbie Savage 950k
Andy Howarth 90k
Brad Friedel 2m
Bryan Hodge 45k
Jason Roberts 2.2m
Tugay 120k
Steven Reid 4.2m
Maceo Rigters 1m
Keith Treacy 700k
Rostyn Griffiths 55k
Martin Olsson 500k
Benni McCarthy 2.7m
Brett Emerton 4.5m
Sergio Peter 900k

Totally changed the team, now all I really want is Igor Akinfeev. I have 17m for transfers at the moment which is at least 10m too little. Even if my bid is accepted he has no interest coming to me so I have just offered him a mother of a contract.

retired_brittany

Im massive BRFC fan and ive just started my career i always seem to do well at first its little hard to find them gems but when you do it pays off here are some of my screenshots:

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...oversSquad.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...nk/Results.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...k/Signings.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...unk/League.jpg

Im using BIGD'S tatic and so far its working a treat for me with a tweak here and there

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...unk/Lineup.jpg

Ill let you know i i get on

retired_x_tream69

PS I also lost 1-0 to Birmingham and my fans were pleased because they are a more reputable team.

retired_dptstudent

I played the six month demo with Blackburn and was suprised with how well I did.

Tactics

I used a Barcelona inspired formation, a flat back four, 2 central midfielders with back arrows to defensive midfielders, 3 attacking central midfielders and a lone frontman.

Team instructions are to play narrow and direct with a quick tempo.

Transfers In

Piatti (100k)
Aaritola (250k)

Transfers Out

Warnock to Everton (5M)

Formation

GK - Friedel
LB - Taylor
RB - Emerton
CB - Nelson
CB - Samba
CM - Savage
CM - Mokoena
AM - Gamst-Pedersen
AM - Piatti
AM - Bentley
CF - Aaritola

Piatti is an absolute god i threw him in right from the start in the central position of the 3 attacking midfielders and he scored 18 goals and 12 assists from 22 starts including hat-tricks against Man U and Everton. Aaritola also played well with 11 goals and 5 assists from 19 starts and also bizarrely coming runner up in the European Striker of the Year award.

McCarthy is a super-sub he scored 14 goals from 5 starts and 11 substitute appearances, all his goals coming as a substitute.

Gamst-Pedersen also played well with 5 goals and 16 assists from 22 appearances, just as the game ended I was negotiating a bid with Arsenal of 5M plus Denilson and Flamini for him.

After 18 games I was 1st in the Premiership with 15 wins and 3 losses scoring 43 and conceding 22. I qualified easily from the UEFA cup group but got Bayern Munich in the first knockout stage in February.

In all competitions I scored 73 and conceded 34.

retired_cloud9er221

Hmmm Don't seem that anyone other than me has completed an entire season as Blackburn manager yet?

EPL: 3th
Liga Cup: Out first round
FA Cup: Out first round
UEFA Cup: Out in the 2nd. knock out round

Started off badly in the EPL with looses against Villa and Arsenal, but then I found a decent run with some victories, some draws and some games lost. After Xmas me team began to play really well beating Benfica in the 1th. knock out round and only going out against Roma in the 2nd. knock out round on penalties after loosing 1-2 in Rome and winning 2-1 at Ewood Park. As the season came to a close I was in a battle with Arsenal and Liverpool for finishing 3th, 4th or 5th in the league. An away win at Old Traffort followed by a home with against Liverpool, left me in 3th. place befor the last game of the season. A game that I would loose 3-1 away to Champions Chelsea (who won the EPL with 17 point down to nr. 2 Man Utd, and 28 points down to me in 3th. place) but as Arsenal lost 1-3 at home to Bolton and Liverpool couldn't catch me, the 3th place was mine

Team (4-5-1):
Friedel
Emerton
Warnock
Nelson
Samba
Addo
Rigters
Savage
Reid
Gamst
McCarthy

Also used (more than 10 matches): Ignashevich, Andreasen, Boateng, Aaritalo and Santa Cruz

Gamst won the Players player of the year, and together with Reid he was included in the Players team of the year with Rigters on the bench
McCarthy was my topscorer with 23 goals in 35 matches we Reid comming 2nd. with 13 goals in 33 matches

Players in:

Addo - PSV - Free
Evans - Man Utd - Loan
Kewell - L'pool - Loan (not used much)
Sapara - Rosenborg - #1.2m (sold on)
Aaritola - Turun - £400k
Ignashevich - CSKA - Free
Boateng - Beitur - £825k
Cardenas - Bucaramanga - £300k (reserves)
Andreasen - Werder - Loan
Piatti - Estudiantes - £875k
Szamotulski - Dun Utd - Free (reserves)

Players out:

Olsson - MK Dons - £1m
Brown - Crystal Palace - £1.3m
Cane - Norwich - £825k
Sapara - Portmouth - £7.5m

Players comming in:

Flamini - Arsenal - Free
Bouma - Aston Villa - Free


Just got a £20m transfer kitty to spend, so there will be more new faces at Ewood Park