Football Manager 2006

[fineintent]

Argh. Beat Germany 2-0 with goals from Yapi Yapo and Ne, now I play England in the final.

[Buford Ripley]

Bollocks, Man Utd got their own back. After their 5-0 drubbing at my hands they've ended my Premiership winning streak at five goals by beating me 3-1.

I'm sad now, I think I'll go slit my wrists.

[ONO]

Won the league with Rangers.

Trashed Celtic 6-1 at Celtic Park to lift the SPL.

Brought in Melchiot, Jeffers, Mudingayi, Sutton :@

Yeah, oddly Celtic play great some games, and utter shit in others. Even when you field shitty players like Jeffers, Sutton and Melchiot (and some other guy I don't know). And it seems to have nothing to do with the team, or the manager.

[The Kraig]

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

STEVEN WHITTAKER CAN FUCKING DIE. I brought him on at half time, because my right back was tiring, and Whittaker gives me a FOUR rating?! A FOUR?!

The rest of the team were all on 7, 8 and 9 until he came on. He can fuck off and die, he'll never play in a Scotland shirt ever again.

I've never seen such bullshit in my entire FM life.

[Dan]

Nothing unusual their ¬_¬

[Scott McFly]

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

STEVEN WHITTAKER CAN FUCKING DIE. I brought him on at half time, because my right back was tiring, and Whittaker gives me a FOUR rating?! A FOUR?!

The rest of the team were all on 7, 8 and 9 until he came on. He can fuck off and die, he'll never play in a Scotland shirt ever again.

I've never seen such bullshit in my entire FM life.

[fineintent]

I ended up drawing with England 2-2, then losing 4-3 on penalties. Poor Ivory Coast.

[ONO]

I had a mini clearout:

Melchiot to Udinese for £2m

Sutton to Everton for £1m (he's 33)

Jeffers to Portsmouth for £750,000

Sionka to some team for £1m

Brought in:

Zapata - Free

Mart Poom - Free

Chopra - £1.4m

Adeybayor (sp?) - £3.6m

I got offered the France job going into WC 06. I took it. We drew with Paraguay and Iran, then beat Germany 8-1. We were put out 3-2 by Mexico.

They kept me on, after the horrible tournament.

Edited June 26, 2006 by Lost Soul

[Buford Ripley]

It's 2015/16 and the only 'name' players in my Wolves squad are:

Julio Baptista (experienced backup for youthful squad)

Tim Howard (2nd choice keeper currently first choice due to my superkeeper being injured)

Lee Croft (stuck in reserve team limbo, the overpaid piece of shit)

Nedum Onuoha (First team defender, rotated)

Jonathan Spector (See above)

Hedwiges Maduro (See above, also good option for holding midfield role)

Robert Green (stuck in reserve team limbo due to extreme suckiness).

[Xero Gravity]

When assigning players to train in new positions, roughly how long does it take for them to become accomplished in them? I've brought in a handful of new players to my Sunderland team, and I was just wondering how long it'd take for me to train them up to become useful cover.

[Buford Ripley]

It depends on how effective they already are in the position. I've had some retrained in less than a month and some finally retrained after a season and a half.

[Zaz]

Ended up finishing 6th with Tottenham, which I was pleased at. Got into the final of the FA Cup after beating Man Utd 3-1 in the semi, but then lost to Birmingham 3-2 after their man striker got a hattrick in the first 20 minutes :ohwell:

Defoe ended up with 39 goals from 40 matches and was 2nd in the golden boot, to Crespo.

[Guest Zeokage]

It depends on how effective they already are in the position. I've had some retrained in less than a month and some finally retrained after a season and a half.

[TheArsenal]

I just had the most horrible penalty shoot out ever in a FA Cup 3rd Round Replay against Ipswich. It was 1-1 after normal time. 1-1 at half time in extra time. Then in the 15 minutes of the second half of extra time, I managed to score 2 goals, then conceed 2 and draw 3-3.

Then this penalty shoot-out followed:

(Swansea players in black, Ipswich in blue)

Francis Jeffers scored

Tony Capaldi scored

Teddy Sheringham scored

Fernando Morna scored

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer missed

Madgid Bourgherra missed

Theo Walcott missed

Sam Parkin missed

Guido Virgilio Alvarenga missed

Ali Elkhattabi missed

Score after 5 pens each: Swansea 2 - 2 Ipswich

Andy Johnson scored (the one from West Brom, not Palace)

James Harper scored

Arjan de Zeeuw scored

Gary Breen scored

Nourredine Naybet scored

Moustafa Salifou scored

Joe Keenan missed

Gyorgy Garics missed

Kerrea Gilbert missed

Stuart Ainsley missed

Vito Mannone missed

Shane Supple missed

Score after 11 pens each: Swansea 5 - 5 Ipswich

Francis Jeffers scored

Tony Capaldi scored

Teddy Sheringham missed

Fernando Moran missed

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scored

Madgid Bourgherra missed

Score after 14 pens each: Swansea 7 - 6 Ipswich

[Buford Ripley]

It depends on how effective they already are in the position. I've had some retrained in less than a month and some finally retrained after a season and a half.

They also have to play some games in that position don't they?

[The Kraig]

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

STEVEN WHITTAKER CAN FUCKING DIE. I brought him on at half time, because my right back was tiring, and Whittaker gives me a FOUR rating?! A FOUR?!

The rest of the team were all on 7, 8 and 9 until he came on. He can fuck off and die, he'll never play in a Scotland shirt ever again.

I've never seen such bullshit in my entire FM life.

I think the ref is your problem there.

Edited June 27, 2006 by The Kraig

[Guest Zeokage]

It depends on how effective they already are in the position. I've had some retrained in less than a month and some finally retrained after a season and a half.

They also have to play some games in that position don't they?

[Bigal]

Under the 'positions' thing in their profile, if they're listed as accomplished, they're done.

[Buford Ripley]

A new position will never go past accomplished and will always drop down to unconvincing/orange once you stop training them there, so it disppears. At least this is what happens with me.

[Guest Zeokage]

So even if you get them to accomplished, it's not permanent?

Oh, and how do you find out a club's rivals? Especially lower down the leagues...