Moooaaannn
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I’m completely baffled by this game right now.
I absolutely love FM, have done since back in 2003 when I purchased Championship Manager, so don’t assume I’m whining about not being able to play the game or anything – I consider myself to be adept enough to be competitive with any team I pick.
I chose to be Carlisle, an average team in an average league (npower League 1) and quickly discovered that I needed a couple of players to strengthen my squad. Realistically, I was looking at a mid-table to a top-10 finish considering some of the other teams in the league and the strength of my squad plus the transfer kitty I’d been given. I started off pretty well, getting a string of good results together with the odd loss, most of this down to my two new loan signings fitting well with the team.
The past few games though, I’ve conceded in the 82nd minute, 3 games in a row. I’ve failed to win away from home in about 10 league games, and I’ve been hammered 7-3, and then 5-2 in 2 of my last 3 games. I don’t understand what possibly could have caused my defence to completely crumble? My centre-back pairing is fairly consistent, averaging around a 7.2 game rating, and my full-backs are more than competent to deal with the wingers in this league, yet for some reason my team is completely falling apart. The 5-2 loss was against a team 3rd from bottom that had such a previous bad run of form that my inbox was spammed with articles about the worrying future for their manager, yet they come to my stadium and beat me 5-2? Surely I can’t be as unfortunate that EVERY team ends their losing streak against me? I consistently warn my team against complacency and I don’t go over-the-top with my congratulations when my team perform well. Just simple positive remarks or a word to make sure they pick up their game, so in my mind I’m not doing anything wrong in that department.
As far as tactics go, my team are very comfortable with 2 main tactics, a 4-1-2-1-2 and a more straight-forward 4-4-2, both of which I use depending on what team I’m facing and I may altar the formation in game depending on the current score/performance. My training schedules seem to be working, I have a good relationship with the players, yet I am starting to totally lose my way with the team. I have studied their stats carefully to pick the right starting 11 for the right formation, I have done everything I can think of to influence the result of a game, but I just can’t buy a win at the moment.
Was wondering if anyone else had been in the same situation? I feel like the game is punishing me for looking into the details, something which the game is renowned for. Stuck and confused, would be grateful for some feedback!
Ciao.
I absolutely love FM, have done since back in 2003 when I purchased Championship Manager, so don’t assume I’m whining about not being able to play the game or anything – I consider myself to be adept enough to be competitive with any team I pick.
I chose to be Carlisle, an average team in an average league (npower League 1) and quickly discovered that I needed a couple of players to strengthen my squad. Realistically, I was looking at a mid-table to a top-10 finish considering some of the other teams in the league and the strength of my squad plus the transfer kitty I’d been given. I started off pretty well, getting a string of good results together with the odd loss, most of this down to my two new loan signings fitting well with the team.
The past few games though, I’ve conceded in the 82nd minute, 3 games in a row. I’ve failed to win away from home in about 10 league games, and I’ve been hammered 7-3, and then 5-2 in 2 of my last 3 games. I don’t understand what possibly could have caused my defence to completely crumble? My centre-back pairing is fairly consistent, averaging around a 7.2 game rating, and my full-backs are more than competent to deal with the wingers in this league, yet for some reason my team is completely falling apart. The 5-2 loss was against a team 3rd from bottom that had such a previous bad run of form that my inbox was spammed with articles about the worrying future for their manager, yet they come to my stadium and beat me 5-2? Surely I can’t be as unfortunate that EVERY team ends their losing streak against me? I consistently warn my team against complacency and I don’t go over-the-top with my congratulations when my team perform well. Just simple positive remarks or a word to make sure they pick up their game, so in my mind I’m not doing anything wrong in that department.
As far as tactics go, my team are very comfortable with 2 main tactics, a 4-1-2-1-2 and a more straight-forward 4-4-2, both of which I use depending on what team I’m facing and I may altar the formation in game depending on the current score/performance. My training schedules seem to be working, I have a good relationship with the players, yet I am starting to totally lose my way with the team. I have studied their stats carefully to pick the right starting 11 for the right formation, I have done everything I can think of to influence the result of a game, but I just can’t buy a win at the moment.
Was wondering if anyone else had been in the same situation? I feel like the game is punishing me for looking into the details, something which the game is renowned for. Stuck and confused, would be grateful for some feedback!
Ciao.
However, that just makes it more embarrassing that we lost... That's the only time we've lost this season, we've drawn a few but not lost again, so we're still on top.