retired_prusha

I think what he is saying is that some of the Welsh club managers have national reputations for both Wales & Worldwide, whereas they should probably be National for Wales & only local Internationally.

retired_dvrsecuritylab

National reputation: I agree - I'm playing in the Welsh Premier and Caernarfon have hired a Spanish manager. He may turn out to be rubbish, but most if not all Welsh club managers tend to come from Wales or are English, Scots, etc, living in Wales.

Lower level football being easier: I've played or managed with a half-decent bunch of players and with a bunch of absolute ***** pub-heads. It was much harder to manage the pub-heads... The better the players, the better they understand tactical instructions and the worse the players the less likely they are to listen to any manager, let alone a crap one like me.

As for the managers around you being less able... says who? Isn't it just as likely that, as far as your players are concerned, the other managers are probably a lot more able than you?

It's down to you (real life or in-game) to prove to them that you do know what you're talking about and then maybe they'll start actually listening to your instructions.

There is also the team-gelling factor to take into account. Other managers will have had more time to work with their players whereas you need to build up your rapport and team-spirit. I like the fact that SI seem to be taking this into account and, initially at least, this would explain why my team seem so utterly crap...

retired_artest

I took over a Swedish side half way through a season, got relegated & fired, then went on holiday with the instructions to go for anything on offer to pick up a new job and ended up in the German Regional North, which is a bit of a stretch considering my experience was a good-but-not-enough half of a season in the Swedish Second Division North and I'd obviously gone for the lowest starting reputation, surely?

retired_duncan

Yes, but it is a game.

If, IRL, you were a nobody who had a 6 month stint with some crap D2B side in Sweden then got sacked you would never get another job. At least not one with clubs playable in FM.

So it's a game. The idea is for it to be played. You will get unrealistic appointments/happenings from time to time. If it's too realistic for you, then decline the offer.

retired_aprilcox

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(Do you like what I did there?) It is totally unrealistic for you have a job managing a football club anywhere above an u12 level anywhere if you are taking it to the line. At some point you've got to actually play the game.I'd say it is more realistic for the German team to take you on as a manager than it was for the Swedish one to hire you in the first place.

This pretty boils down to a WHS post.

retired_jmathias

Looking at the list, and I admit, I cba to read all replies, it would seem that bugs from first version of 06 returned.

retired_HealthFreak007

My copy should arrive tomorrow - good to hear the new version is 'too hard' for LLM :thup: All this feeder club stuff sounds like nonsense - a lot more for big club managers than LLM.

retired_Lalalalare

WHS

retired_sandra

The database is beginning to annoy me.

I've played two Farsley saves already (one died after just three months!). In the FA Cup I've played Burscough in the original and Ossett Albion in the new, and I've drawn Ossett Town in the Trophy. All three are all grey squads, except for two loan players at Burscough. Not even the Fat Goalie is there any more.

This is on the large database, the largest in the game.

If memory serves Burscough and Ossett Albion are able to be promoted to Conference North in the game, so why oh why on the largest in game database do they have no players?
I thought I would investigate further, and a lot of the Premier League teams have a full youth team but don't have anything near a reserve squad, only the big teams do.

Sort it out SI/Matt!

retired_fitnessconnection

Nobby i also noticed this, the only way to rectify this problem would be to endorse the retain player thing. Although that would mean discarding LLM guidelines