retired_crazybonejr

To steal from iajafer, in the game, when you ask for expansion of the stadium, or improved facilities, your board will tell you to concentrate on the football side of things, and let them handle the rest.

Why then, should that not be the case all the time?

retired_davisn13

Because, as manager, I thought I was charged with at least some of the media and financial responsibility. There's at least one board comment (somewhere) that charges me with improving the club's financial situation.

I agree that the specific things you cited are not my direct responsibility. But they are related to either finance or winning, respectively. And, for that matter, all I can do is request, not decide.

Being a blissfully ignorant Yank, I don't know how similar a footie club manager is to an NFL head coach or general manager in the States. But, here, even a mere head coach cannot entirely ignore either the the financial aspects of the team or the media (especially, the media).

If, as a rule, English managers play no part whatever in media relations and club finance, then I stand (gratefully) corrected and educated.

retired_julir321

I think some of the comments here are not typical of English/UK football and their managers, rather the managerial style of some people who play a game.

I don't mean that disrespectfully, or say it to belittle anyone as I too myself have a mangerial style. The point is, FM is not advanced enough to cope with each players (us) managerial style.

For example. I'm the manager, I lay down the rule for each player in my team that their first red card is an instant warning. Successive red cards result in fines. I will not tolerate dirty play (on the field ). There is no way I can express this in FM, other than to just dish out fines only to be disliked by the players and then get a slap from the board.

In a similar vein, I don't think FM handles media comments properly yet. Don't get me wrong, it does an awful lot more that any other game on the market in terms in interacting with that many Non-Player-Characters, but still has someway to go with perfecting the players personalities.

So where am I going with this?
Basically people play around the game, whether it's knowing which pre-match interview response will get your players fired up every time and picking it, even tho you don't really feel that, or doing exactly what you feel like doing, knowing it won't have the effect on the game you want it to have.

I would imagine for most of the guys in here, they probably pick the choices they want to pick, not the ones that the game is programmed to like. You gotta ask yourself which you want to do. Play the game to make the best use of the buttons presented to us on screen, or play the game as though you really are the manager.


Note:
This post is not a dig at SI or the current state of FM, I fully understand the complexities involved in making a computer do what I'm talking about here.

retired_davisn13

Thanks, that clears it up considerably. I was getting the impression that the complete eschewage of some aspects of the game was Llama management, not a personal preference. Sorry, kids, my bad.

[Did he say eschewage?]

KingsbayYHPE

The bottom line is, while the Media interaction and player talk function is a good idea in practice it's a pile of horse manure.

It's far too limited to do anything other than irritate or inflate a player's already "to-the-limit" ego.

It's similar with the pre-game, halftime and fulltime talks. I don't know about the rest of you but when I ask the AssMan for feedback the huge majority of the time the players "didn't seem to be listening"...so what's the bloody point?

Nope...for the foreseeable future I'll be concentrating on game results in the league (you know that cups suck @ss, reggie) and media, player talks and any other superfluous crap can vegetate.

If I fail with the team...P45 me.

KingsbayYHPE

Incidentally, because of the wonderful Blues Scene in Austin I won't titter at "eschewage" or blow a gasket at "my bad" on this occasion

retired_davisn13

I do know that cups suck because I hear it all over the place but I don't know why. Because they don't bring in money? Injuries?

And, by the way, if you don't like "my bad", wait 'til I get to "major bueno". For the record, I was raised by armadillos.

KingsbayYHPE

Not the Pink Fairy Armadillo?

retired_ironmaden

Yes, that's the two main reasons. And cup defeats can harm team morale too.

Only good thing a cup brought to me in my current save (which is in the 7th season) was a match vs AIK, and because the ticket income is shared in the Swedish Cup that meant 102K :thup:

And a 0-6 defeat :thdn:

Actually I think it's a personal preference as well. I guess most board regulars give the league the priority.

retired_davisn13

I don't think so but then I was very young at the time.