Tom =)

i dont know about you, but whenever i play the first season on my own, or online in a clan i have always found Derby county to, unlike here in the real world they actually play very well. And usually come in the top 15, also they sign players like Bojinov and Bendtner and Benjani, making themselves a very good strike force. Now seriously Fm, is this realistic at all??

glamdring

Top 15 out of 20 is hardly saying a lot. You can't expect FM to exactly mirror real life and have every club that is adrift in every league in real life be bottom in every person's game in FM too.

Ched

It's not like in 07 when west ham regularly challenged for the prem!

top 15 isn't exactly spectacular, and as you've said, they've signed players, so of course they'll perform differently.

AKA

Played a couple of games now and Derby have always hung around the premiership for years doing pretty well.

Remember Man City always storming FM07 when they were doing pish in real life.

IMT

Derby finished 6th in mine.... :eek:

bigdunk

A lot of Derby fans seem to be putting our poor performances down to horrendously bad management by Billy Davies. Obviously if you remove that factor and have Davies behave like a competent manager, then the season could have panned out differently. We certainly shouldn't be finishing 6th though.

IMT

In fairness Jewell isn't doing much better.

Thanks for Big Mo though, putting in some great performances for us... :thup:

bigdunk

The bad management is more in relation to bad signings which Jewell is stuck with. Plus you'll never see a bunch of players so lacking in confidence as our lot at the moment. Performances have certainly picked up under Jewell though, even if results haven't.

Nomis07

Isn't this sort of thing what makes FM so enjoyable anyways.

People criticise the game for having teams like Derby do well and Utd get relegated yet we play it and take teams from Blue Square to CL. If it was truely realistic it would be incredibly difficult and take forever to get anywhere in LLM.

Personally I love the way FM can have teams take a totally different destiny to that of real life. Utd's drop in game is well documented in these forums and i'm currently waiting for them to get relegated before I take over and do another Ferguson.

morgantjg

It needs to be fixed for the next update. They regularly get into Europe in the first season and by the second or third they are usually Champions League regulars. Sure teams can step up in class, but not that quickly and certainly not in the first season. They should struggle to win a game, they have no Premier League quality players at the start of the game.

Where does all their money come from? Are they so mega rich in real life? They have spent £102m in four years on my current game.