Regarding my experience, I've played for 10 days at most, never played a football manager game before this one, browser games excluded, so yes, I'm fairly new. I now see you did give me a hint, and so did the other guy, so sorry 'bout that one.
I'm reading GPG and T&TT forums as I'm totally new and don't know how tactics or player stats works yet. I'm trying to figure out how the game works so I can make something of my own and know what to look for of skills/stats in a player when starting over. I don't think that deserves a flame, even if it's a mild one =) I have no problems with them anyway, I'm on far worse forums where new people are mentally killed
I've red through the guidelines and such, you haven't seen my posting player tips, have you? I admit tho, I haven't red every word, but I got the point from it.
And for the last piece of text, I'm planning to, but I want to figure out how things works first. I see no point scouting blindly for skills that turns out to be totally useless, or next to anyway. Or making your own tactic by trail and error alone without knowing what say CD does or how it works. When I do know, I can make something from scratch, personalizing it to my own taste and players without getting inspiration from anyone or anything.
As for the post, I believe it's fully answered now and I'll leave starting my army-life on sunday anyway, so won't for a month or so anyway.