retired_Green Feather

I started at Northwich in an unemployed start.

At my highest I was in charge of a club who was already all but relegated from the Prem. five seasons in.

Got bored after that.

jmruss22

It would be nice if there was a dedicated thread for talking about this stuff. There is virtually no area for LLM's who don't abide by the rules of the LLM forum to discuss their game and ask for help. That forum needs to be overhauled and a sub forum added for this stuff. At the moment it's full of bullys ready to jump on anyone who admits to buying an extra coach or using the player search.

retired_dego72

Get as many young, quick players (pref with good stamina) as you can on frees.

Then walk through both divisions using either a 442, 4141, 451 or 41221 (433) playing a high tempo, direct, counter attacking game.

Then hit a brick wall in Div 2- although I think this is down to quality of players rather than the tactics as Im hovering around 7-10th which isnt bad considering my average age is 21.

retired_mssa007

Exactly. I'm a Lower League Manager, but I don't want to abide by silly rules. And I don't want to STAY a lower league manager. I want to earn myself a good reputation and get as high as I can. I want to be realistic and start off at the bottom as an unknown, hoping one day to become England manager or something.

jmruss22

BTW, as has been already stated, LOANS are a LLM's best friend. However, the only way I have been able to get some decent higher league loans is through a parent club. I got Leeds and managed to get 4 excellent young midfielders who became the backbone of my Harrogate side. Every other loan i went for was turned down either by the club or more than usually the player.

I disagree that you can't take a lowely conference side to the EPL etc. I've heard of it being done many many times and that is what this game is all about in my opinion. A great long term challenge. Good luck!

retired_mssa007

Oh I know it CAN be done, and has been many times, as we've seen posted on here. But I think it takes away from the realism. You'd take on a job at a bigger club, rather than trying to get a lower team all the way to the Prem. Especially with the wage you'd be on.

jmruss22

Exactly. I'm a Lower League Manager, but I don't want to abide by silly rules. And I don't want to STAY a lower league manager. I want to earn myself a good reputation and get as high as I can. I want to be realistic and start off at the bottom as an unknown, hoping one day to become England manager or something. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Good points. And that to me is more realstic (the word they like to volley at you in the LLM forum) than taking a bottom of the barrel club to the premier league. Few managers stay with the same club until it reaches the big time. I just prefer the challenge. Trust me, its very difficult to say no when the offers start coming in from bigger clubs.

retired_angeliwuoma

I think some people have misunderstood what those of us who frequent the LLM forum are about.

It's not about spending your entire career in the lower leagues or even stubbornly staying with a single club trying to get them to the top, it's all about playing in as realistic a way as the game allows & the forum is the place that we like minded folk congregate to share our views, opinions but not advise & I sincerely hope it stays that way.

In my 07 save I ended my career at Aston Villa who are on the fringes of being a massive club, I want to win as much as the next bloke (I came within a whisker of winning the Brazilian 1st Division title in that save) it's just the way I go about winning is more honest(IMO) & rewarding

As for the OP some of the advice you have been given here is very good, use it, and develop it into your own style of play. If you wish to use shortcuts or cheat then so be it, if you want to play without using any of the known cheats or flaws in the game then all the better just enjoy your game, you bought it after all.

Finally for those you have stated a negative opinion towards the LLM forum all I can say is that it is just like any other social club, if you don't have similar views to the majority of the membership then it goes without saying you’re not going to feel welcome this is not to say myself or anyone else will without reason wish to make someone feel unwelcome, many newbie's are frequenting the forum but if you antagonise people, blatantly ignore the forum rules or just act like a general pratt then you should expect to get flamed by the regulars.

retired_pschnapps13

One-trick ponies all the way. A striker with 17 jumping and 15 heading will beat a striker with 10s across the board any day. Same for one with high acceleration/pace. At low levels, excelling at just one or two attributes can be enough, as the glut of mediocre players just cannot cope.

Pair your attackers up so that their opposite number is weak in whatever they excel in. Play your tall target man against their runtish defender; play your fast striker against their lumbering hulk.

The same applies in defence. Get a couple of defenders with different skills, and scout your opponents manually before the match. Check what their strikers excel in, and choose the corresponding defenders to neutralise them (i.e. the opposite of what you try to do to the AI).

Get a midfielder who can cross to go with your target man, and play them together. Get a midfielder who can pass, and play him with your nippy striker.

In general, physical attributes are much more important, and can allow you to dominate matches. But a couple of players with the odd skill (a winger/striker who can dribble, a midfielder who can tackle or with good decisions) should be high on your list.

Each player should have a task in the team. Make sure they stick to it. Don't try to have your big target man dribble or shoot from distance. Boot the ball to him, have him TTB or hold it up.

Keep players on the bench with very different attributes to those on the pitch so you can deal with unexpected lineups or the AI changing things around; e.g. a good tackling midfielder for when you take the lead or a quicker defender in case the AI brings on a sub.

mezza775995

Here are some valuable tips

1) buy lots of cigarettes and smoke then whilst you watch your games.

People underestimate the value of image in the lower leagues. Don't fall into this trap

2) Have a lucky spot on the screen where you rest the cursor during a match. This tactic becomes null and void in the higher leagues but vital when playing away to Dover.

3) Often judge a player by his picture. If you can, avoid looking at his stats completley and judge the preverbial book by it's colour

Good luck

p.s. Who are vauxhall motors.. a new team or did a previous team change their name??