bellwix

I had a really torrid time last August/September. My players earned huge amounts of money and theoretically were excellent players in the BPL, i'd finished 5th the 2 years previous yet for some strange reason we found ourselves in the lower half of the table I kept saying that the premier league was rigged because my players shouldn't be playing badly, but they still were. Daniel was having none of it and said it was my tactics.

Yours
Martin Jol </BLOCKQUOTE>

Hilarious

bellwix

I'm asking for advice here, not for insolent attitude.

retired_ehoff15

try a simpler tactic. my experience with FM08 is that players often perform better when i put them in one of the standard tactics with a few minor adjustments.

deantibbetts

Oh for goodness sake, wind your neck in. I was only joking.

I don't agree that the game is rigged and given your achievements with Sampdoria it seems pretty obvious that you are doing something right. I have the same problems when managing an International team, but have had good success with club teams. One tactic that works with one team isn't necessarily going to work with another and I have won leagues and CL's using my tactic, but when I went to Italy my tactic was useless.

It takes time and if you're actually looking for advice then try the tactics forum. It has plenty of in depth interesting threads that might just be the solution to your problems.

TBH saying the game is rigged just because you're losing is always going to meet with a bad response because it's just not true and as WolvesBest says, it's only rigged when it goes agaisnt you. I don't think he was being cheeky, it's just true, we're more like real life managers than you think and ignre the decisions that go for us, but moan about the game when it goes against us.

retired_ericahutch

oh wow! a "This game cheats" thread not seen one of those before.

I cant believe that there are that many people who are naive enough to think that because they have good player the game is cheating because they are not winning. Just accept it sometime a team can play tactics that completely disrupt yours and vice versa.

I bet if you had demolished france six nil and their world class players had been shocking and not been able to string two passes together you wouldn't be on here complaining, you'd have thought yourself a tactical genius.

retired_micahnathan

I'm asking for advice here, not for insolent attitude. </BLOCKQUOTE>

You weren't though. You were moaning about how you think the game is rigged, and asking if anyone shared your view. Go back and read your opening post and tell me where in it you asked for advice.

retired_vashti

I always feel cheated when I lose, but that's just the game.

retired_hilly88

Assuming your tactic is fine then your teamtalk may have been the wrong one. Nothing like a badly judged teamtalk to have a team of world beaters playing like numpties.

retired_aj'smommy

I know how you feel mate, one game a couple of weeks ago my Blackburn side were beating Derby 3-0 with 10 minutes to go, so I decided to and make myself a cuppa safe in the knowledge that the result was in the bag, I come back in the room, look at the screen and lo and behold I had been beaten 5-3.

Needless to say I had to clean the tea up off the floor.

retired_candycorncats

WHS