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I have been playing this game for a very long and ruined many relationships. I don't have the internet at home so I have to do all my catching up on the website at work, (what a shame!).
Got FM07 Friday night and gave it a whirl. Every time a new series comes out I start with Newcastle, Big club lots of potenial.
With all my money spent on Duff & Martins the defense need need blood, anyway I am going off topic here.
What I really want to know is what on earth are these Farrows, barrows and Sarrows everyone seems to be talking about??? am I being stupid, if so please don't hesitate to slap the computer. If someone could give me some sort of visual explanation, Newcastle FC would be very grateful indeed.
in the good old days of wibble-wobble, it was easier to understand.
as far as i understand, farrow means "go there when we have the ball" and barrow means "fall back here when we lose the ball". But here comes my first question: "what is the difference between a MC barrowed or a DMC farrowed? are they completely same?"
and for sarrow, I have no clue. sarrowed strikers go wide to draw their markers and create open spots in opponent side. defenders sarrowed wide do the same too. FR-FL sarrowed in will come in IMO, so sarrow does not care about who possesses the ball and just edits the players position a little. a darrow (diagonal arrow?) is the combination of a sarrow and either farrow or barrow.
but on second thought, I may be completely out of context here. can somebody enlighten me?
Farrows are used to give a player a positional instruction, in this case he is told to move to that position when the side has the ball. Its usually offensive in nature.
Barrows and Sarrows are more defensive in orientation, they tell a player where to be without the ball. Sarrows on the other hand is more split he is told to cover the ground in the direction he is sarrowed in.
I always assumed that farrows, barrows and sarrows all meant 'go here when we get the ball'. So if a MC had an arrow to the DM spot, he would become a DM when we got the ball. Guess I was wrong.
So what about darrows and sarrows? Do your players move to that position if you don't have possession of the ball or when you do have possession of the ball?
A few years back (in the CM days) I did well with my team using the barrows tactic, however with the new game I tried various arrow formations.
Whether it was the arrows I don't know, but my Liverpool team were aweful, and so after 15-20 games of the first season I got rid of them all, made more detailed team and player instructions, and have improved ever since.
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