The Future

So far the only defensive tweaking I've found to work with individual players is setting Opposition Instructions to 'Hard' tackling for any attacking player with a Bravery rating of maybe 13 or lower. Maurtin Laursen was able to completely own Yakubu that way.

I've meddled with the likes of Tight Marking, or bumping the Closing Down up, but I've yet to see these cause a significant difference.

I love terrorizing the keeper, closing him down all the time and marking him then setting King,Faye,Amaya to rough him up during free kicks one of them always ends up scoring a goal

or getting sent off

Gave several youngsters a shot against Hull in the FA Cup, Stephen Hindmarch(sp?)signed from Carlisle nabbed two goals while Tomas Pekhart(touted as the next Jan Koller)thumped in a header. Robben is out of favour at Chelsea and I was very close to grabbing him on a loan but the deadline passed he would have made a brilliant addition.

I just finished reading Firestarter by Stephen King, great book the characters were done nicely especially John Rainbird. I have alot of Stephen King left unread so going to read Cujo next before I finally give into my friends requests and read the Twilight series.

"A Nigerian businessman says he is leading a bid to buy Newcastle United. "The consortium has raised £350m," said the chief executive of NVA Management Chris Nathaniel. (The Times)"

Someone called this earlier.

Damn Zero/Kaney/CSAMH/That Tottenham fan mod

~SCAM.

I mean, we've all got mails from Nigerian princes before, haven't we?

Nigerians use football alot for human trafficking crimes, pretend they are representatives from big teams around the world and convince the parents that they are taking the kids to those clubs.

Back to FM07 I started up a game as Spurs with the aim of breaking the top 4 in the first three seasons, to my amazement it turns out I am going to be able to do it in just one season!. I signed Marcelo, Anthony Vanden Borre, Ivan Amaya(Spanish CB), Sherman Cardenas and Abdoulaye(sp?)Faye to shore up the backline as well as add some attacking flair at the same time. The team was very consistent up to January(Beat Arsenal,Chelsea)and got into the League Cup final defeating Fulham on penalties, Utd are dominating the league and are 16 points in front of me whilst Liverpool and Manchester City are battling it out for second spot. I have been perched within 3rd and 4th almost the entire season.

All sounds good? then the fucking game takes away all my fun and now I have Keane,Defoe,O Hara,Jenas,Robinson,Lennon,Dawson all injured. Plus Ledley King and Berbatov have both come back from injuries are not at the best form. I did manage to loan in Salomon Kalou in January so hopefully he will provide some spark, Joe Hart has been a revelation as a substitute goalkeeper single handedly taking me into the Carling Cup Finals as well as putting in good shifts in some other matches. Hopefully I can win the League Cup and go far in Europe(drew Partizan in the knockout rounds and it's going to be tough with my injury crisis).

Killer Croc looks fucking scary, thank god I saw the screenshot or I probably would have fainted when he showed up out of nowhere in the game.

Looks fantastic, I am going to buy it for sure since I have been on a Batman craze the last few months with TDK and The Animated Series as well.

Did anyone see the Cluj goals though? both of them were great.

Real Madrid vs BATE from Belarus tonight, Madrid's defense has looked shaky I'd go nuts if BATE could pull off a shock.

I just can't explain it. My experiences are utterly different. The goalkeepers are decent but human (ie no stupid mistakes but the odd parried mistake or wrong footing as happens in real life - no running randomly out though).

I never use slide tackle so rarely give away freekicks, especially around the box. However the number of freekicks and corners that are scored against me is pretty constant whether I'm ahead or behind...Even if they built in a mode I've never experienced it...At least not enough for it to stand out.

The defenders are ok but I will quickly switch to them anyway when the computer is attacking. They follow the strikers well enough with a few realistic mistakes here and there.

I guess I've got a lucky copy.

I get where you are coming from, all my friends used to say how goalkeepers on the old PES were rubbish but I found them to be godly, I won so many matches thanks to Paul Robinson. This time around the experience is completely different I can be having loads of fun then it all gets ruined when the goalie messes up.

Um I had this modded version of Pro Evolution Soccer and this song plays in the loading screen it goes like "I know that you know that nothings ever gonna be all right" any ideas on what it is?

Oh, fuck you Terry.

Now we'll have a second-choice central defence for the United game next weekend as well. Oh happiness and joy.

Yeah but United wont have Vidic either so I guess it's even.

Amir Zaki is quality!, a darkhorse for the golden boot this season.

I just dont get the goalkeepers in the game though they seem to do everything they can to make you lose, they'll catch the ball then spill it or punch it into your own net.

doesn't happen for me and i've been playing it all year.

You are very lucky then, Goalkeepers are horrible in the game and despite all the good gameplay end up ruining it I was playing a game with my friend as Liverpool and in extra time Reina grabbed his corner then mysteriously threw it down for his player to tap in and this happens frequently throughout the game.

I just dont get the goalkeepers in the game though they seem to do everything they can to make you lose, they'll catch the ball then spill it or punch it into your own net.

Wow! I was not expecting that at all, jeez is Heskey England's solution after all? he was brilliant against Israel and Russia last time around and worked tirelessly to allow Walcott to have the space. Hopefully England can carry on the form who are their next opponents?

Walcott has made me eat my words, good to see England performing..any news on if Gerrard is going to start against United?.

Croatia have been unbeaten at home for 35 matches, as much as I would love to see it happen I dont see England winning today hopefully they can grab a draw which should help them mentally prepare against Croatia at Wembley.

When does Guitar Hero World Tour come out?

I need a good right winger for Leicester(Board expects a safe midtable position)and I have a transfer budget of 10 Million. I had a young Dutch winger on loan for the first season but failed to get him permanently any suggestions?

A cool bit for me was getting into the police database and seeing me mentioned in the most wanted list.

The Internet in GTA4! I never expected it to be so detailed.

France were shocking against Austria, Mexes pretty much gored their player for the third goal.

*ahem*yes ignore that post bad bad mistake from me

So the team news is in

Theo Walcott and Downing will be on the flanks, Rooney and Defoe as expected up front while Glen Johnson and Lescott are playing in defense with Terry and Cole, Lampard and Barry in the centre of midfield.

England to struggle but come out with a 3-0 win again is my prediction.

This thread reminded me of times when I was obsessed with Batman The Animated Series and the dvd series isn't available where I live so I have gone on a downloading spree and seen some decent episodes, the two in particular that moved me were Heart Of Ice and Mad Love(Harlequin centric)I am pretty sure everyone loved this show so what were your favourite memories of this show?