creative36

Don't think he was referring to scouting back home.
The previous knowledge question is redundant anyway, since anyone likely to sign for a crap Conference N/S team will have had their stats randomised by the game.

retired_rescume72

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by iajafer:
Taking the realism angle again, it's realistic to assume that they haven't employed a brickie to manage the team so it's reasonable to assume that I'd have at least some knowledge of Scottish players. Sending a scout once a season compensates for this...and it's been discussed before and obviously forgotten.

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I reckon old Bertie, would have done a better job of building a house than he did with our national team.

And on the subject of "You wouldn't sign someone without scouting first".
Does anyone actually believe that a Celtic scout watched *The guy whose second name sounds like poo*

KingsbayYHPE

Valid, amusing, but unfortunately player naming too.

retired_jmeshew

I always play as my own nationality, and will do as Iaj does: once a year send a scout from Jockland (where I always manage) to America to have a look. I add the personal restriction of only doing it if I have a healthy balance that can afford a month-long trip.

Dunno why I bother though, as a LL side (just currently in second division, past 3 seasons in Div 3) my scouts don't find anyone- and by that I don't mean anyone good, I mean no one. Just a nice vacation for my hard-working scout. And this is even with the retain USA players enabled from startup.

retired_mekeesha

To be fair, altho' my RL team have risen through the leagues in recent years, when they were a lowly ScotDiv2 outfit they had 2 Canadian internationals. One went on to better tihngs and disappreared, the other wandered about a bit and is back with the original club. So bit-part Canuk internationals at a lower league outfit is not entirely unrealistic.

retired_rescume72

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by iajafer:
Valid, amusing, but unfortunately player naming too. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Sorry, didn't realise that counted as player naming as it was hardly LLM (anyway, he wasn't good enough for the conference N/S)

creative36

No player naming.

Doesn't matter how crap they are.

retired_mrsjb

/me suddenly realizes that with a GBP 2.5million transfer kitty, I can probably afford to send a scout back home to Blighty from Portugal for the first time \o/

Which is lucky. I can't find anyone to buy in Portugal. They're all either too crap or too good for me.

retired_jmeshew

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jcb23:
/me suddenly realizes that with a GBP 2.5million transfer kitty, I can probably afford to send a scout back home to Blighty from Portugal for the first time \o/

Which is lucky. I can't find anyone to buy in Portugal. They're all either too crap or too good for me. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I am having that exact same problem. They're all too crap, and the good ones my scouts don't bother with.

I understand scouting has been "tweaked" for 5.03. Not sure if this will benefit us, but I believe it will.

retired_ngrundman

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> I guess I might have been too busy playing CM01/02! That was my first and only version of the game until FM2005. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

You certainly picked the right 2 versions of the game.

They treat us folk from the other side of the Atlantic pretty well. Good luck wooing those Canadians.