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I sign a 29-year-old striker with 15 Inf, 15 Teamwork, 8 Decisions, and 9 Composure, and name him Captian after he'd been with the club two weeks. Half the squad reacted positively, except for the (re-named) Vice-Captian, who thought he'd be better, and a 30-year-old DR with 3 Inf, 6 TW, 10 Decisions, and 9 Composure who also ... thought he'd have been a better choice.
I think that generally (or at least I've found in two games thus far going beyond two seasons with three different teams) if your captain leaves then the vice captain 'expects' that he would make the step up. It does make sense...he was the second choice beforehand and now that the first choice has left he should make the step up.
This tends to be one train of thought in RL anyway. Stephen McManus was (somewhat unofficially) Celtic's vice-captain last season, deputising for Neil Lennon on numerous occasions. And for that reason he was the the front runner for the captaincy (and was eventually handed the armband) when Lennon left in pre-season.
Of course in other cases I'd imagine this 'rule' does not prevail. But it does make sense to me that the vice captain would be unhappy...although I can't for the life of me think why Pape Seydou Diop would be complaining. PMSing perhaps?
11-09-2007, 04:27 PM
"Not a suitable candidate for captain"??? Post #13
The weirdest part is that this was a restart after my first attempt with the same team failed. In the first attempt I made the same choice of captain to universal acclaim from members of my squad. What on earth is going on? Any ideas?
This is the thing that worries me. Sometimes it seems that these responses/choices have a totally random effect. It's like when a player says he wants to move to a bigger club. You can respnd saying that you want him to stay and then he apologises. Then the SAME player says he wants to move clubs again, usually within a couple of weeks, you say the same thing this time and he has a right moan about it.
Things just seem random sometimes, I've no idea why.
11-09-2007, 04:32 PM
"Not a suitable candidate for captain"??? Post #14
Originally posted by Neji:
<BLOCKQUOTE>The weirdest part is that this was a restart after my first attempt with the same team failed. In the first attempt I made the same choice of captain to universal acclaim from members of my squad. What on earth is going on? Any ideas?
This is the thing that worries me. Sometimes it seems that these responses/choices have a totally random effect. It's like when a player says he wants to move to a bigger club. You can respnd saying that you want him to stay and then he apologises. Then the SAME player says he wants to move clubs again, usually within a couple of weeks, you say the same thing this time and he has a right moan about it.
Things just seem random sometimes, I've no idea why. </BLOCKQUOTE>
Related to morale of the player and of the team overall perhaps? Although for someone to want to move to a bigger club and yet have superb morale seems unlikely. Perhaps in the case of players wanting to move it takes into account things like morale, team performance, your own stats, your own relationship with the player, etc.
As for the captain thing and why it got two opposite reactions...I'm stumped on that one. Guess I don't know everything. Darn.
11-09-2007, 04:40 PM
"Not a suitable candidate for captain"??? Post #15
Originally posted by nyte`:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Ackter:
How long has he been at the club?
should this be a problem though? even if he has all the right attributes to be a good captain
i'm thinking of P. Neville at Everton right now </BLOCKQUOTE>
I would guess it depends on who else is in your team though. If you've got players who have spent their entire career at your club and you sign someone completely new and make him the captain then I can see why that would be a problem. Teams need time to gel after all, time for new players to settle in with the current squad.
11-09-2007, 09:52 PM
"Not a suitable candidate for captain"??? Post #17
Originally posted by alwo:
...But it does make sense to me that the vice captain would be unhappy...although I can't for the life of me think why Pape Seydou Diop would be complaining. PMSing perhaps?
I fully understood the Vice-Captian not being happy. Diop was my issue. He was fourth on the selection list off the news item.
It seems the game thought he would make a good-ish captian solely on the basis of his age and time-of-service. It had my 27-year-old GK with 18 months on-team as number one despite a 10 Inf and 3 TW, and he had no reaction to being passed up.
11-09-2007, 10:00 PM
"Not a suitable candidate for captain"??? Post #18
Just tell them that Paul le Guen doesn't think the Captain is very importain. In France the captain isn't very important so why is he so important in Scotland?
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