Kazza

Hi

If this has been covered apologies.

As you are all aware you can select your 1st team players to play in reserve matches (up to 5 days before reserve game).

What I do is to make a note at the start of the season to remind me 3 days before each reserve game..copy that note and edit it for the next reserve game and so on. Takes an age.

I know it's not in this game but it would be useful to have a feature that allowed the ass.man to select 1st team players to be included in the reserve match automatically.

As there isn't that facility what do you guys do to make it easier and quicker?

thanks

Kazza

com' :eek:on guys one of you must have an answer..save my fingers from all that typing

rinso

chuck all but me match squad into reserves! and when im picking a match squad, i use the filters so i can selece from senior squad and reserves.. that way ya dont have to remember to send em to reserves, cos theyre already there!

Kazza

How do the 1st team players respond to being demoted?

llama3

tbh mate if i dont get any whiff of an issue about it from bendtner or gilberto then i cant see any of your players kicking up a stink. they get games this way. so i dont tend to get any trouble of them

rinso

doesnt seem to bother them tbh, i tend to rotate the match squad a fair bit so regardless of which squad screentheyre sitting in, they do get a fair amount of first team games... plus im at liverpool, so theyre used to the rotation!

Kazza

Thanks i will try that out. though it sounds like a little bug as most senior players would kick up a stink in rl if that was the case.

But thanks for the idea.

rinso

not really, cos there are far fewer games for the reserves than for the first team, so as i said, they get their fair share of matches for the 1st team whilst being used sparingly in reserves to keep their fitness levels up...

Amaroq

Kazza, you won't like my solution, but I'll give it to you anyways.

I manage the Reserves myself.

I make a list of my upcoming matches, and use a three-letter initial for each of the players I intend to start, so it'll look something like this:

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> GK DL DR DC DC DMC ML MR AMC SC SC1-08 Pre A LIVERPOOL Ben Smi Ale Tay Joh Phi Ham C.R Kel Ric Gal1-12 Cup H Gravesend & N Tho Jon Mat Tay Fer Giv Chr Mil You Gal Bur1-15 Pre H Middlesbrough Ben Smi Ale Joh Fer Phi Ham C.R Kel Ric Bur1-22 Pre A MANCHESTER UTD Ben Smi Ale Tay Joh Phi Ham C.R Kel Ric Gal1-25 Pre H Fulham Ben Jon Mat Tay Fer Phi Ham Mil You Ric Bur</pre>
Now, if I have a Reserve match on the 11th, I can see that I've got an F.A. Cup match against Gravesend the following day, so I don't want to start Thomas, Jones, Matthews, or the other guys listed as starters .. so I don't. I want them fresh for tomorrow's rare senior runout.

When I get a Reserve match on the 18th, though, I know that Thomas has no games coming, while Jones and Matthews haven't played since the 12th and aren't scheduled to play until the 25th .. so they need a match.

Hey, I told you you weren't going to like it!

Kazza

Lol all power to your elbow, a truly dedicated fm'er.

No i will stick to my methods, not as good, but ponderous but works 90% of the time..