note to self - warning to others
When commenting on penalty decisions, exercise caution.
Although it may endear you to your players to support them, it can lead to a touchline ban. Whilst this will not be news to you, let me tell you a story...
This was the case last night. I was banned for the first game after the mid-season break, an away game to the team who were languishing at the bottom of the table. The team who were giving me a great sense of ease, as, since they had won exactly zero games thus far, they were very likely to take the only relegation slot and thus guarantee my safety...
Anyway, I was due to serve my ban, so I set up my team with a fairly defensive look, but not too defensive. As I said, they didn't seem like too much of a threat.
Kick-off! And 10 minutes in one my strikers picks up a knock. You know, he has a green cross and his fitness has gone down a bit. The commentary says he should be able to run it off.
Now, I dont know about you, but I always take these players off if there's a significant drop in fitness. I am aware, however, that the AI does not follow this policy. Fitness drops to 75% instantly. I'm worried.
We reach half time, and its 0-0. There's been chances on each side, but most interestingly, my injured striker is, in my opinion, failing to run off his 'knock'. His motion is visibly slower as the second half begins. His fitness level? Below 50%...
When we conceded in the 75th minute his fitness was 14% and he was barely moving on the pitch. It was worse than playing with 10 men, because his bloody teammates were still playing through balls for him to run on to. Run? A dead horse could've moved faster...
So we go 1-0 down, but there's plenty of time left. A change in personel could be a good plan here, I'm thinking. Nope AI assistant just plods on, as does my injured striker...
81 minutes gone and we make some changes. Striker finally comes off on 9% fitness. Needless to say, we lost 1-0. And my striker? Out with a thigh strain for 4 months...
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