Hi everyone,
I'm new on this particular forum but I have been registered on a few other FM forums. Because of my studies I'm not the most active member of any forum, but I've been coming on here occasionally and I finally signed up today. Admittedly, the main reason behind my registration was to ask for a player screenshot on FM13, but I'm sure to pop up in the forums here and there. Perhaps when life calms down a bit I'll become more active, who knows.
So yeah, about me. I'm a 21 year old Belgian. I used to play some football myself but a bad leg injury has pretty much put me out of it permanently, so I'm not at a club anymore. On the global scale I'm a Barcelona enthusiast and on the local scale I support Beerschot AC, although I'm not that fanatic. I feel a lot of sympathy for other teams as well and generally I'm just a fan of good, neat, positive football.
Since a future on the pitch wasn't to be for me, I'm considering perhaps going for a role by the sideline, as a coach and hopefully eventually as a manager. But I've got time for that in the future. Right now, I'm studying - hold on to your keyboards - Physics at the University of Antwerp. So I'm focussing on that first. But you can see the appeal of the FM games to me.
I first got in touch with the Football Manager series in 2008 I think... Or 2009. Anyway, I tried the demo of that year's release but wasn't really sold. I think mostly the graphics engine disappointed me, which was a little short-sighted when I look back at it. So I didn't get the full game. However, in 2011 I borrowed my friend's FM10 version ("I'llgive it a second chance, I'm sick of FIFA Manager 2010 anyway") and I got hooked. Honestly, I was pretty rubbish the first season, but I eventually got the hang of it and in the second season I got promoted from the Belgian Third Division B to the Second Division with a team that were predicted to finish mid-table. So I was pretty chuffed. Halfway through the third season we were defying all odds in the Second Division: with some great tactical planning and execution from the players we were in the top 5. By that time I'd also seen some Let's Play FM11 video's on YouTube and then FM12 came out. I was so excited about how things were going on FM10, about the Let's Play videos and about the look of the new release that it was an insta-buy. And there's only one thing I regret about that: my social life and education were hanging in the balance at times and it's been a real test of will-power to stay away from the game long enough to study for my exams and to get my two theses finished. But it's just such a great game! So yeah, I'm a fan and I will be buying FM13. It looks good and let's face it: FM12 is starting to feel old and outdated
So, I've wasted more than enough of your time already. If you read through all of that, I'm deeply sorry to have stretched this out so much and I'm very impressed and flattered that you stuck with me. I can't promise any of my future comments on here will be much shorter, because I think short message can be powerful but never nuanced and well-argued, which is exactly what I'm like. But I'm hoping to have a good time here, learn things, perhaps meet a few kindred spirits and be as involved as time allows me to be, which is the same thing I tell the press every time I sign for a new club
Cheers,
Wouter
I'm new on this particular forum but I have been registered on a few other FM forums. Because of my studies I'm not the most active member of any forum, but I've been coming on here occasionally and I finally signed up today. Admittedly, the main reason behind my registration was to ask for a player screenshot on FM13, but I'm sure to pop up in the forums here and there. Perhaps when life calms down a bit I'll become more active, who knows.
So yeah, about me. I'm a 21 year old Belgian. I used to play some football myself but a bad leg injury has pretty much put me out of it permanently, so I'm not at a club anymore. On the global scale I'm a Barcelona enthusiast and on the local scale I support Beerschot AC, although I'm not that fanatic. I feel a lot of sympathy for other teams as well and generally I'm just a fan of good, neat, positive football.
Since a future on the pitch wasn't to be for me, I'm considering perhaps going for a role by the sideline, as a coach and hopefully eventually as a manager. But I've got time for that in the future. Right now, I'm studying - hold on to your keyboards - Physics at the University of Antwerp. So I'm focussing on that first. But you can see the appeal of the FM games to me.
I first got in touch with the Football Manager series in 2008 I think... Or 2009. Anyway, I tried the demo of that year's release but wasn't really sold. I think mostly the graphics engine disappointed me, which was a little short-sighted when I look back at it. So I didn't get the full game. However, in 2011 I borrowed my friend's FM10 version ("I'llgive it a second chance, I'm sick of FIFA Manager 2010 anyway") and I got hooked. Honestly, I was pretty rubbish the first season, but I eventually got the hang of it and in the second season I got promoted from the Belgian Third Division B to the Second Division with a team that were predicted to finish mid-table. So I was pretty chuffed. Halfway through the third season we were defying all odds in the Second Division: with some great tactical planning and execution from the players we were in the top 5. By that time I'd also seen some Let's Play FM11 video's on YouTube and then FM12 came out. I was so excited about how things were going on FM10, about the Let's Play videos and about the look of the new release that it was an insta-buy. And there's only one thing I regret about that: my social life and education were hanging in the balance at times and it's been a real test of will-power to stay away from the game long enough to study for my exams and to get my two theses finished. But it's just such a great game! So yeah, I'm a fan and I will be buying FM13. It looks good and let's face it: FM12 is starting to feel old and outdated
So, I've wasted more than enough of your time already. If you read through all of that, I'm deeply sorry to have stretched this out so much and I'm very impressed and flattered that you stuck with me. I can't promise any of my future comments on here will be much shorter, because I think short message can be powerful but never nuanced and well-argued, which is exactly what I'm like. But I'm hoping to have a good time here, learn things, perhaps meet a few kindred spirits and be as involved as time allows me to be, which is the same thing I tell the press every time I sign for a new club
Cheers,
Wouter