Hopefully this doesn't get lost amongst all the patch talk, but I expect maybe a good 5-10 minutes on page 1
Played a few more games, downloaded the patch and then played another.
Been playing around with tactics, trying to watch closely how individual players react in the basic 4-4-2 and then again with a tweak or 2, trying to change only 1 or 2 things to use the base 442 as a control. I understand the situation will be a bit different since I don't replay the same game over and over (I know I should, but at least this way it looks like I'm actually accomplishing something!

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I do, of course, have a few more QUESTIONS (big surprise!):
A player equally adept at playing AMC and MC. Am I better off playing him at MC with a farrow or AMC with a barrow?
Changing tactics. I've read of people having a home and away tactics, but I've also heard that tweaking tactics too often can adversely affect team play. How much tweaking will actually affect team play? If I simply change a few instructions, I'll assume that won't affect anything, that it's more if I keep changing my formation or do major changes that affects things.
I had a scouting report that told me to "defend in depth" in a 442 how would I accomplish this? Would dropping my middle line back with barrows do the trick?
What I did was to change my formation from a 442 with 2 strikers to I guess a 4-4-1-1, replacing one of my strikers with an AMC (played on the left centre) with a barrow to MC and both MCs having barrows as well.
I actually ended up winning 3-1 easily, and despite all the arrows, my teams conditioning was pretty good with only one player falling under 70%.
I gave up some strength in doing so since the ST I replaced was stronger than his AMC replacement, but things worked out so well, that I'm considering keeping this formation against other teams with this scouting report.
Any comments/criticism?
Thanks again!