Recent content by NobleMan

Right, yeah. I've done a little experimenting with the tactic through my pre-season and seem to have come to a decent balance now. Decided to switch the attacking FB onto the right side and have my LB defend. Also removed the retain possession instruction after I'd buffed up my midfield with...

Well one would assume it instructs the team that keeping possession is the goal, rather than necessarily doing something with that possession. Backpasses, sideways balls, probing until a clear opportunity for a forward pass presents itself.

Right, I see where you're coming from. I'm looking to utilise my winger's speed to run in behind, so for that reason I've selected pass into space so the midfield will search them out with a diagonal rather than expecting them to take it past their man most of the time. Perhaps shorter passing...

In that screenshot, yes. When playing that away I tend to set one FB to defend and the other to support, depending on which flank I feel the opposition is weaker. I neglected to get a screenshot of that. Right, so let's do that. I've got three games remaining in the season, Chelsea away...

So I'm coming to the end of my first season as West Ham in FM2017, after racking up 400 hours on FM2014 15 and 16. I've always gone down the possession route in FM games and it's working fine at home, but I'm really struggling to find a winning formula for away games, as the results show...

West Ham United fan since I was old enough to hurl bottles. So I've been playing FM since FM2014 which makes me junior compared to most here, my stats are as follows; Hours of life wasted: 455 Win rate: 52% Champions League trophies: 1 EPL Titles: 4 FA Cups: 6 League Cups: 4 Times shouted at...