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OK, so all of a sudden, the 'challenge' of leading Liverpool to countless trophies got boring, even doing it without spending a penny on transfers etc etc didnt help.
What to do? Looking at the Conference i spot Accrington 'milk advert' Stanley and thinking hmm they have just won promotion IRL, i'll give myself half a chance for my first LLM attempt i start up a new game.
Half way through my first season i am just about clinging to a playoff spot and am enjoying watch my hapless forwards do brilliantly hitting the target, which for some reason appears to be the corner flag.
Anyways, other than to introduce myself i do have a couple of questions.
Firstly, I have an International in my squad, surprised the hell out of me, he plays for some god forsaken backwater, is it reasonable for me to look at his national squadmates - on the basis he could tell me about them? I dare say they will be as hopeless as he is but you never know. I knw its my game and all that but i wanted to see what the general consensus is.
Second thing is staff. Now i have had a look at a couple of posts regarding hiring them but i am a little unsure on how you guys go about selecting them. I hired a Physio that was obscure rep and unemployed but i had looked through their stats. Is that considered ok? I ask as after i signed him i asked myself how i would have coime across this unheard of workshy bum in the first place and how i would have known he was any good?
Anyway, hopefully my spelling and grammar havent offended anyone too much. I am off to see how many talentless lumps my scout has reccomended as being briliant today, he seems to think anyone that can make contact with the ball without waiting for it to stop is a god amongst men, though to be fair that may at least make them a god amonst my squad.
I sure as hell couldnt justify sending a scout on safari to Africa so i wondered if i could consider my player to have 'scouted' them for me. To be honest its not the end of the world if that is considered to be stretching it, it was just a thought.
Well, there's no way in hell I'd trust even my Ass Man to give me a reasonable evaluation of a player. Considering how dim most players are, I'd rate my chances of getting one of them to give me an accurate judgement of a player to be... pretty low.
If you can justify watching the entire match your International from a godforsaken backwater plays (plus a few more, to get an overview of how good the rest of his squad is) and think that the chairman would stump up the airfare, good luck to you.
When you realise that's not too likely, though, you may have to put up with knowing naff-all about his colleagues. And be the better for it, no doubt.
As for the internationals, bugger that. Despite not spending my budget the balance is into the red. If i asked for a trip to Skegness the Chairman would probably sack me, so forget Africa.
The main one i wanted to know about is staff. How do i go about hiring a not-quite-as-shockingly-bad-as-i-already-have staff guy other than looking at stats which feels like cheating for LLM.
The point is don't even try to encourage foreigners to your conference side. It's absurd. If your scout finds one that has already relocated to sunny old England, then great.
Looking at profiles for staff is ok by LLM ethos, because the job centre is pants. Just choose someone of the same nationality and has obscure or worse rep, and is willing to join.
Cool. So now to find a scout with judging stats better than 8, that will come to me for 50p a weak and a flask of tea.
I think the hardest part of this LLM malarky is going to be wading through the utter dross that my scout thinks are good. Especially as i intend to hire a second scout giving me twice as many hopeless lumps to choose from. eg pre season Mr scout reccomends 'player x' as instantly commanding a first team place blah blah. I buy him for a few £k only for him to turn out to be about as good as me - after an all day session in the pub. Meanwhile the player my assman says has no futeure in football is my top scorer and has most assists.
Think its freebies only for now so i only lose wages. At least until i work out the scoiuts secret code for what is and isnt a decent player.
I can see this LLM ethos having tearing my hair out but it has certainly refreshed my appatite for the game.
Accrington Stanley, Who are they? 
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