Recent content by mightytigers

Good suggestion, but when I went to explore the rest option, it only offered me a month-long break, which is too long at a critical time of the season with Champions League games coming up. Also, I'd have to give that break to two of them, and I don't reckon there are many sqauds that could cope...

Got this message for my TWO new Brazilian forwards, Fred and Neymar, and wondered if it will go away if I simply ignore it? I'm surprised, given that they're now playing for Hull City, that they can't see any similarities between the Copacobana and Spurn Point. Also, apparently, the dockers in...

Ah, wondered if that might be a good role for him. Think I'll give that a go for a couple of games, maybe in the centre of attack in a 4-3-3, and see how he gets on. Thanks.

Hmm, hadn't thought of AML. We're a bit overstocked in that department, with Tom Cairney, Thomas Rosicky, Freddy Adu and an excellent regen, so I'll probably give that one a miss. Thanks for the pointer though.

Just broke the bank to sign the young Brazilian forward, and wondered if anyone had any tips on how best to play him. We usually play 4-3-1-2, in which case he'd be one of the front two or the man 'in the hole', or a 4-3-3, when I was thinking of playing him in the middle in a deep-lying forward...

I've just won the Premier League by 16 points in my second season as Hull City boss (on FM2010), so you'd expect us to have been looking pretty good on the highlights. But, time after time, if you tried to judge the game from the extended highlights, you'd think we were on the end of a hiding...

I know it sounds sensible to keep the number of purchases down in the name of squad unity and possible 'blending' problems, but this last mid-season I bought in 26 at Hull City and shipped out 27, and we're now top after 11 games. We've just been flying, so maybe the theory and practice are...

Try offering him an all-expenses-paid knee-trembler with an old cumbucket slapper.

It's not a good reflection in my experience, which is of managing the team I've supported for 34 years. FM's versions of Hull City players Paul McShane and former stars Jozy Altidore and Dean Marney are substantially different to the real-life versions in many ways, including pace, finishing and...

Hmm, and where did you get that little nugget of information from? I'd be interested in whether you could back that up with any independent facts. You're seriously saying Ian Holloway spends all his working life as a football manager, then comes home and in his spare time plays, er, football...

Having your strategy as "rigid" but combined with "more roaming" and "more expressive" is contradictory. I think, with the sort of players you're likely to have at AC Milan, a rigid philosophy could be counter-productive, and certainly when combined with those other two commands. I use rigid...

Have the same thing with Stoke - they're basically dirty b***ards and you just have to hope you're allocated a strong ref. I think the advice to field a weaker team just plays into their hands and is faintly ridiculous. And the advice on training regimes, while good generally, is irrelevant...

As your tactics have been serving you so well for three-quarters of the season, the trick is not to panic. It hasn't suddenly become a bad tactic, and maybe it's a case of the game testing your resolve. Call its bluff rather than making knee-jerk changes. I say that in the hope that you haven't...

You'll probably be able to get it to work but not get the skins to upload so that bits of your screen are missing. That will be quite frustrating.

Ah, thanks, that's what I thought. No quick-fixes there then. Can't see us getting top four this season, so I'll aim for Europa League and then take that seriously if I get there.