Serious trouble of relegation. really need YOUR help.

[WillBirley123]

Hi guys,
I just recently decided i wanted to have a go at LLM, but i also wanted to use my own created side called Birley United with no players - so i only had game generated rubbish in my squads.
I, of course, tried to sign everyone i could, nobody wanted to join me, i was 5000-1 to win the league which is crazy. Village clubs wouldn't play friendlies against me because it wouldn't benefit them. So yeah, as you can understand, my club was pretty terrible.
I ended up bring something like 30 free transfers in, who were 'decent players for the regional division'. Having a team full of them, is not good enough for the Skrill South as i now know. But i am not one to give up on a career. and i will keep going. I am now in January, bottom of the table - 17 points adrift of safety. But as we are just halfway through the season anything can happen. And we may well beat the drop, of course avoiding the sacking of myself.

I am in serious trouble of going down though, and i really need someones help with advice of how to get out of this awful position. Dont say 'start again' or 'give up' because like i said earlier, i have no intentions of giving up on this save. I'm gonna see the season out, whether i am to be sacked or not. So please, any tactics, players, anything at all that you think will help me, please comment below.

Many Thanks
Will

 

[louiscfc]

SS of your tactics, best players would help us help you.

 

[WillBirley123]

Okay mate, 2 secs cheers

 

[WillBirley123]

Not allowing me to upload the images so going to have to write it all out.
My best players are definately Marcus Duherty. he is a striker. Probably my best player.
Toure Mamadouba who is a cm, he is a bit of a Yaya Toure esc player. An engine in the middle.
Don Thomas, on loan from Bristol Rovers, not a bad young player. not enough experience though.
Andy Smallpiece, another free transfer, he is my goalkeeper. Not a bad one in all fairness.

That is my genuine best players.

A serious issue for my club is simply how much we give the ball away. We seem to make 2-3 mistakes every game that we concede/almost concede from. If we cut this out then we would concede half the goals we have done.

The formation we play is usually 4-1-2-2-1 with 2 cms (both box to box) and two wingers. The one striker is a target man.

The team instructions are:

More direct passing
Work Ball into box
run at defence
hit early crosses
stick to positions
allow wide players to swap
hassle opponents
get stuck in
much higher tempo
be more disciplined


General training - Team Cohesion (very high)
Match training - Teamwork

Hope this helps

 

[WillBirley123]

SS of your tactics, best players would help us help you.

Not allowing me to upload the images so going to have to write it all out.
My best players are definately Marcus Duherty. he is a striker. Probably my best player.
Toure Mamadouba who is a cm, he is a bit of a Yaya Toure esc player. An engine in the middle.
Don Thomas, on loan from Bristol Rovers, not a bad young player. not enough experience though.
Andy Smallpiece, another free transfer, he is my goalkeeper. Not a bad one in all fairness.

That is my genuine best players.

A serious issue for my club is simply how much we give the ball away. We seem to make 2-3 mistakes every game that we concede/almost concede from. If we cut this out then we would concede half the goals we have done.

The formation we play is usually 4-1-2-2-1 with 2 cms (both box to box) and two wingers. The one striker is a target man.

The team instructions are:

More direct passing
Work Ball into box
run at defence
hit early crosses
stick to positions
allow wide players to swap
hassle opponents
get stuck in
much higher tempo
be more disciplined


General training - Team Cohesion (very high)
Match training - Teamwork

Hope this helps

 

[louiscfc]

Take a look at this man A Basic Guide To Lower League Management (LLM)

 

[louiscfc]

I would also say looking at your tactics is:

Lower the amount of team instructions - These players aren't as tactically intelligent as the top players so try and keep it simple for them. Only keep the ones absolutely vital to your game.

Lower the intensity of the training - This is important. Lower league players are no way near as fit as the pro's so by putting training at very high means your putting their body under heavy demand. Let alone the fact you probably dont have a huge squad like a top european side does so you wont be able to rotate tired players.
If your conceding a lot of goals then my advice would be stick it to defending - average intensity and match training to def. set pieces/postitioning. Make your team hard to beat.

Carrying on from the last point maybe set the formation slightly more defensive with 2 dms. You may not score as many but you're making your team hard to beat against better players and will ****** a lot of 1-0s and draws which will help you.

Hope this helps and love your attitude! Hopefully you wont get sacked and go again next year

 

[StevenM92]

Put your tempo lower as well as your players dont really have the mental attributes to do the correct things at full speed, lowering the tempo will give them a few more seconds to think about what they are doing.

 

[WillBirley123]

Thanks for all of you that have commented with advice etc. Will be taking it all into consideration and work out the best way to survive the drop from there.
Will keep you updated.
Cheers