I feel stupid...

retired_erinj · 02-11-2008, 04:58 PM

I've been playing FM not very long, just over a year, and I've been on here a few times, and I've a question....

who's Super Kyle?

beater97 · 02-11-2008, 05:06 PM

I think "Super Kyle" is Kyle Wilson playing in the lower leagues. Jimbokav(iirc) created a challenge to see how much goals he could score in his career or something like that.

Im probably totally wrong about what ive just said

retired_nnifeitak · 02-11-2008, 06:01 PM

He starts at Barrow and is a penalty specialist.

retired_Cliffc · 02-11-2008, 09:20 PM

I feel very stupid.

Having agreed a fee and personal terms with a young Raith Rovers striker, I chose to delay the transfer for a week, as I was still waiting on a scout report on him.

Pretty much immediately after pressing the button, I realised the date was 28th Jan, and my delay would push him outside the transfer window, and I would miss out on him this season.

To make matters worse, I only have one (worse) striker eligible for the Chapions League, and as he was 18 and hadn't played in europe, he would have been eligible, without even needing to be registered.

Now as soon as I get knocked out (probably very soon), I'm going to know that this was the reason I did.

I'm an idiot.

retired_cRankLin · 02-11-2008, 09:36 PM

wouldn't worry, when there is less than a week until the window closes any delay on completing a transfer is only unti deadline day, you will have a chance to finalise the deal on Jan. 31st

retired_helkoussi · 02-11-2008, 09:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by nick...:
I feel very stupid.

Having agreed a fee and personal terms with a young Raith Rovers striker, I chose to delay the transfer for a week, as I was still waiting on a scout report on him.

Pretty much immediately after pressing the button, I realised the date was 28th Jan, and my delay would push him outside the transfer window, and I would miss out on him this season.

To make matters worse, I only have one (worse) striker eligible for the Chapions League, and as he was 18 and hadn't played in europe, he would have been eligible, without even needing to be registered.

Now as soon as I get knocked out (probably very soon), I'm going to know that this was the reason I did.

I'm an idiot.

dont worry yourself too much - its only a game and you have your health

dejasade · 02-11-2008, 09:38 PM

he's no match for super ted

retired_macca1875 · 02-11-2008, 09:47 PM

Here is the story, courtesy of Jimbokav:

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Once upon a time in a forum not dissimilar to this, (but under a different name), a fat manager who had a strange penchant for oval balls, decided to enter into a ridiculous competition called "dafuge's challenge FM06.

He went on holiday for a year while he waited for his team to get promoted from the depths of lower league football, and on 19th June he was rewarded with the Glorious Greenness of..... Hendon.

The fat manager wasn't very good at FM, (and still isn't), so he decided to fill his team with the biggest fattest strongest blokes he could find and bully his way to the top. It worked quite well and he Hendon romped the Conference South with ease.

The only problem was that the old fat bloke that he was playng up front, (who had managed to overcome cancer in real life), (no, not that bloke), was getting really old and really slow so he had to look elsewhere for a finisher.

After a season of fruitless searching, a young striker with N.Irish origins was released on a free by Crewe and became available for fat manager to approach with a not very lucrative contract. The young N.Irish finisher jumped at the chance to play for the fat manager and soon they were inseperable.

The young striker banged in the goals and did all the work, and fat manager signed more big fat blokes to bully the opposition and give young striker more easy chances. It was partnership made in heaven.

The partnership grew and flourished in the depths of Conference National, and it wasn't too long before fat manager and young striker were Champions of all they surveyed.

League 2 proved a harder nut to crack, and although young striker kept banging in the goals, fat manager seemed to have lost his golden touch at bringing in salad dodgers to fill the rest of the team.

The club stagnated and young striker grew restless. He knew he was destined for bigger things and requested a transfer much to the dismay of fat manager. Fat manager didn't wan't him to go, but he wasn't letting some little punk run the show so he quadrupled the value of the player and sat back to wait.

Sure enough, it wasn't long before the slightly bigger, (but still not very big), clubs came knocking on fat mangers door with big old wads of cash spilling out of their pockets.

Fat manager couldn't believe his luck. He already had 1 big fat bloke up front and he had just signed some Swedish striker kid on a free, so this young upstart of a striker could go with his blessing and he would have a bank account full a cash to boot.

So off went the young N.Irish, (club record goal-scoring) striker to pastures new and the fat manager runned his hands with glee at all the lovely wonga he had to spend. He could almost get an entire new team od useless fat blokes with that much cash, and still have some wedge left over for some facilities improvement.

Young striker left when the January transfer window opened and stepped up a league to ply his trade in League 1 while the fat managers Hendon team wallowed pitifully in mid table in League 2. The remainder of that season saw Hendon fire blanks for much of the time as the young Swedish striker just didn't click with whichever fat bloke it was that he was partnered with up front. Young striker on the other hand was on fire. he scored with carefree abandon and dragged his team manfully up the league and into a playoff position. Although their pursuit of promotion via the playoffs proved fruitless, the sterling work done by the young striker did not go un-noticed and he was called into the senior N.Ireland squad for the first time. (He had scored at about a goal a game for the U21's), but this was different, Now he was in with the big boys.

The following season was a season of contrast and change. Young striker broke his leg when one of his fat team-mates collided with him in training and he missed much of the season. Without him, his team plumetted from the playoff hopefulls of last season to relegation certainties of this season.

Fat managfers Hendon had gone from strength to strength to strength however and were themselves now promoton candidates, and eventually secured the step up via the playoffs. 3 weeks earier the young strikers team had been relegated, despite his return to fitness and goal-scoring ways.

This meant that as Hendon got promoted from League 2 to League 1, young strikers team were relegated from League 1 to League 2.

Fat Manager now had a bigger wage budget and a few quid to spend on new players so he chanced his arme and launched a cheeky little bid for the young striker, in an attempt to sign back his young protege for a fraction of the amount he had sold him for.

It worked like a dream and after 18 months apart, Fat manager and young striker were re-united at Hendon in the lofty climbs of league 1.

The step up was handled not so much with ease, as with goals. Young striker seemed to score every time he touched the ball and soon built quite a name for himself and his team. Supported ably by his N.Irish compatriot dead-ball specialist left back, (who had been at Hendon from day 1), they took Hendon from League 1 to the Championship, and from the Championship in to the Premiership, and from the Premiership into Europe.

The aim of the challenge was to win both the Premiership and the Champions League with a team that was not even playable when the game begun. Fat Manager had time on his hands, but time was now running out for an ageing young striker.

All this time, Young Striker was first name on the team-sheet for a N.Irealnd National team managed by some bloke with the strange name of AI. Fat Manager desperately wanted the job, but this was outlawed and he had to watch through gritted teeth as Mr AI led the N.Irish team to unheralded success for a nation so small.

The 2014 World Cup was held in *no idea* and N.Ireland somehow qualified from a group of death consisting of teams that fat manager now cannot remember. Fat manager was overjoyed for young striker and the other N.Irish players in the Hendon squad, but he was stll unable to manage them as the idiot Mr AI kept winning and that nasty Chairman Mr D A Fuge refused to let him take on an International job alongside his club job.

So the N.Ireland team travelled to the 2014 World Cup and were expected to go out in the first round without so much as a whimper. The bookies had reckoned without the form of young striker who led his nation all the way to the Final of the 2014 World Cup, scoring 7(ish) goals along the way. They would meet the Dutch, (I think), in the final.

I would love to say the they stuffed the Dutch, but the simple fact is they just weren't good enough and young striker could not carry them further.

Young striker finished as 2014 World Cup Runner up, (managed by the AI).
World Cup 2014 Top Scorer.
Selected in World Cup 2014 Dream Team.

He wasn't finished though and pushed hard for the success at club level that Fat Manager so craved over the following years.

The Premiership was won, but the Quarter Final of the Champions League was the furthest that they could manage. With an inpending hostile takeover imminent from new software company "FM07", the race was on to see if Fat Manager could complete the challenge that Chairman Mr d A Fuge had set him.

Young striker was playing with a zimmer by this stage but he was still taking penalties and notching the odd goal from open play. Fat manager had a 2nd successive Premiership in the bag with games in hand and the Semi-Final of the Champions League to look forward to. The team of Fat Blokes had tranformed over the years to an elite team of top class professionals and were sure to be a match for........ sorry, (can't remember) in the Semi's.

If this was a made up story I would be able to tell you that Hendon won the Semi and then the Final and young, (now ageing) striker came on in the last minute and scored the winning penalty. Unfortunately, it's not made up, it's true and Hendon lost in the Semi's and the hopes of a generation were dashed forever.

Fat manager took it hard and seemed unable to continue on his own. As a result, he enticed young striker, (who now had a staff profile), to come on board at Hendon as his new Ass Man. Young striker agreed and the the dynasty was complete.

Young striker scored roughly 360(ish) club goals for Hendon, (damn those 2 missed years at the beginning and the 18 months in the middle) .

He scored approx 56 International goals in approx 58 International appearances, (all managed by the AI).

Some of his bigger trophies.

Premiership x2.
FA Cup x3.
League Cup.
Some Sucky Ass Cup thingy in the early years.
World Cup 2014 Runner Up.
World Cup 2014 Golden Boot.
World Cup 2014 Dream Team.

Born Kyle Wilson, to dad Phil Wilson, (now manager of Conference North side Barrow), Super Kyle was born .

retired_sesmith0116 · 02-11-2008, 09:50 PM

I was hoping this would be about Kyle Lightbourne. And I don't know why.

retired_molasman · 02-12-2008, 12:12 AM

This "super Kyle",
is he still great in FM08, or is a golden boy from the older versions?

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