Boskovic

Ok, im bored with playing my normal game and have decided to make a new challenge based on players names.

Im sure this has been done before but i cant find another one for FM08.

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THE IDEA
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To gather a team with a first team squad of 21 players with names that can all be linked together and try and win something. For two names to be linked either the first or last name must match. The whole teams names must be able to link to each other.

You must sign one player and try and link the players names all to that one central player.

There are a number of ways to link the players

Method 1 - The line Method

John Smith
John Jones
Daniel Jones
Daniel Holmes
James Holmes
James Davies
Simon Davies
Simon Edwards
Frank Edwards

Method 2 - The Tree Method

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> John Smith | --------------------------- | | John Jones Daniel Smith | | ---------------- -------------------- | | | | John Davies James Jones Daniel Johnson David Smith | | | | --------------- ------------- --------------- ------------------ | | | | | | | | John Edwards Frank Davies James Holmes Ed Jones Daniel Grant Fred Johnson David Jackson Billy Smith</pre>

Method 3 - The Mixed Method

This method would be a mix of the two methods above and probably the most likely to be used.



I very much doubt this challenge will get much attention and its ust for fun and can be done to kill time hen your fed up with your regular game cause your getting beaten all the time.

Please feel free to post your progress here as it would be intresting to see if anybody can manage a successfull team using this method of signing players.

C-Mon

Interesting and highly schizophrenic.

MachinegunHead

Hahahaha! You wouldn't believe it, but I was thinking of something eerily similar to this. Like making a team with only guys called John, or only guys with accented 'e's in their name.

Thank you for making this challenge, because I wasn't game enough :cool:.

Boskovic

to be honest i only started this challenge because i dont want to start a game pre patch.

i did manage to make a team in the conference south full of ust players with double barrelled names in 07 though which was nice

nick...

I did thih in one of the older games, CM00/01, I think.

My entire Man U squad and staff had the surname Jones.

They won he Charity Shield, then lost 14 games on the trot and I was sacked.

Am I the challenge's first loser?

Recury

My idea (which I was never going to do) was to have a team full of Italian guys whose names were cognates with English words like Innocenti, Defendi, etc. Would you mind if I did that instead of the name tree thing for this challenge?

Boskovic

Maybe i could change it to a free name game challenge where you have to build up a squad where in some way or other all the players name must link.

examples-

same first name
same surname
my original idea
double barreled names
all names are van something or other (Van der saar/Van Nistelrooy)


see who can come up with the most original

Recury

The Italian thing I mentioned earlier was way too hard, I could barely find anyone like that (although there is a Serie A keeper named Bizzarri).

But I don't really want to play a game where everyone has really common names either, so I had the idea of only getting players who were the only ones in the database with that first name. It might be a little too easy though, there are lots of good players like that.