Not my name in there? I'm offended!!
Don't understand why you've posted it here though. If you're looking for "amateur FM players" you should be posting this in GQ, or better yet in GPG and T&TT. That's where the "Walk me through FM please" questions are asked.
"When should I start buying regens?"
"What players should I buy with Team X?"
"Is Player X good?"
"How do you train your players?"
etc, etc, etc. Could go on for ever, you get the point.
In here we don't do any of that. We pick a team (or let Frank pick one for us), and start to play the game like it was meant to be played. WITHOUT CHEATING!!
Use of editors, downloading tactics and training schedules is cheating no matter how you look at it. Just as it's cheating to download trainers for Quake or whatever the "kill all you can see in the least amount of time" game you may prefer, that makes you invisible, "God", bottomless ammo and so forth.
There is absolutely no point in playing the game where you are spoon-fed info from above mentioned sections. It's a
game FFS, not a test where you get a bullet between your eyes if you fail to get back-to-back promotions and winning the CL within 8 years.
You are supposed to play the game, like every other game ever made, by trial and error. Hopefully you don't look up on a forum every time you're rounding a corner in some "kill it all" game to find out whether there's some bogeyman round that corner. The whole point with a GAME is to have fun while playing it. I think we all agree it's not fun reading manuals and fat instruction books, and then going through a sequence of actions step by step like some IKEA mounting hell.
Rant over!