Recent content by ChippyLowe

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    How to beat 5-3-2 and 5-2-3?

    As the title says, I'm really struggling against teams that play 5-3-2 and 5-2-3. I'm in second season with Aston Villa and had great success in season one using "Legano 4-1-2-3" from the tactics pages here and came 3rd in the league but I've always struggled against, in particular, Wolves and...
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    Aston Villa away tactic

    I'm halfway through my first season with Villa, overachieving in 7th place but I'm yet to win an away match. My home form seems solid enough but I need help and advice to grab some points on the road. That's my current squad, Enda Stevens (left back) is also in the squad but cut off at the...
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    Steam is fail.

    Ok, I'm sat here trying to buy FM 2012 from Steam. Everytime I put my details in to buy from either Paypal or Visa (my card type) I get "There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance." It's...
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    ChippyLowe's 4-2-1-2-1

    Download link: http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/downloads.php?do=file&id=5581 ChippyLowe's 4-2-1-2-1 I have had decent success in my latest save with a tactic I created for my Aston Villa side. I decided that I wanted to really try and make sure that I didn't concede too heavily and still have...
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    Aston Villa 2nd Season

    Ok so i've had FM11 since pretty much release day now but I've never been able to make my own successful tactic, the defence is always shoddy or my attack isn't potent enough. I've just not been able to get a grip on the defensive-normal-attacking slider for player instructions and how to...
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    Leeds - Various Positions

    Hi everyone I started a save with Leeds a few days ago, keen to take them back to their former glory of the bigboys! After a slow start I finally managed to get my tactic working well and secured promotion through the playoffs! Now I need to update my squad to battle for safety on a tight wage...
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    Morale Issues

    Since downloading 11.3 I've found players randomly low on morale, I have conversations with them and they are fine, they sign new contracts and the morale doesn't change. Is anyone else having a similar problem? Currently Marc Albrighton who is a starter in my squad has very poor morale, we are...
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    Home Grown Status - Crash Dumps Help

    I'm England manager and because I am nothing short of an idiot I changed the views to Home Grown Status on my National Pool and it immediately came up with a crash dump and closed the game, whenever I reopen it and go into my national pool now it does the exact same thing because it's stuck on...
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    Help with patch

    Hi guys, in a very large pickle here. I downloaded FM2011 from my pre-order with Game. It worked fine after a couple of issues downloading I installed the patch and now I can't run the game without a disk, I have no disk because I paid for digital download so im completely stuck, any help would...
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