Matthew Le God

Potential ability is from 1 being the lowest upto 200 being the best. If Walcott was 175 on FM07 then that means he can potentiallly become very good indeed(he has a higher PA on FM09 now). There is also a - scale for younger players where potential ability is put within a range rather than an exact figure. e.g. -10 means that the PA can be random each time you load a new game from 170-200. A PA of -9 would be 150-180, -8 would be 130-160 etc etc I can suggest new features to the development team, but then so can anyone on the SI forums.

Highest PA possible is 200 and has been like that for years and years

Those that are disagreeing with me. If your boss sacked you and said he would only apoint the best available English candidate and turned down Welsh, Scots, Dutch, French candidates and interviewed 10 English applicants would that be fair? Some of you clearly haven't a clue. Why should we accept this from football clubs when we wouldn't in life? Welsh, Scots, Dutch, French candidates can have experience of managing in the Championship

In my opening post which you have clearly not fully read I said Crouch didn't say English league experience. He just said English manager. Which is discrimination based on nationality. English isn't even a nationality really either.

Basing managerial appointments on nationality rather than ability and limiting the applicant field to just English managers is not a good thing . How can you not agree with that?

I am yes.

Basing managerial appointments on nationality rather than ability and limiting the applicant field to just English managers is not a good thing. Do we really want a man in charge of our club that bases managerial appointments on nationality rather than ability? To make a condition of replacing with a manager with Championship or English lower league experience would be reasonable perhaps in our situation. However to confine the search for a manager to one nationality is a very strange. Would a Welsh, Scotsman or N. Irishman not do Leon? They are all British(same nationality as you). Yet you rule them out. Does it have to be English only? Give Mark Wotte a chance. Not because he is Dutch, not because he is not English. But because at present he is out manager and he hasn't even had one game yet. If your boss sacked you and said he would only apoint the best available English candidate and turned down Welsh, Scots, Dutch, French candidates and interviewed 10 English applicants would that be fair? Why should we accept this from football clubs when we wouldn't in life? Welsh, Scots, Dutch, French candidates can have experience of managing in the Championship

Dave Jones wasn't sacked by Saints

Sell on clauses are quite often a % of the profit. We sold Jones for 6m and the Spurs/Sunderland deal is 6m plus Bent (so no profit) unless the value of Bent is taken into account. So perhaps even if we did have a clause this swap deal would prevent us getting anything.

You didn't trust the official site so you turned to Wikipedia - that reliable fountain of knowledge for football matters

I see they have his age at only 28 Relegation fights take years off

It's not worth much atm to any potential buyers(property developers) as you wouldn't be able to build on it at present

I'm going to have to make Saints even worse than there are currently in the game for the January transfer window update

Yes, but what about it?

For graphics and a guide for how to use them http://www.sortitoutsi.net/2009/graphics Use the super packs. What about the ingame editor do you want to know?

It is interesting how you pick up on his spelling of Thomson yet spell "player" incorrectly

If Football Manager 2009 is anything to go by as normally happens in these threads, he is quite good

use your scouts

Surely you can go 2 hours without one! If not you need more help than an internet forum can give. I never understand why someone would goto the concourse before the halftime whistle has blown for a drink or food let alone a fag. Just eat/drink/smoke before or after the game that you have spent £30 to watch. You won't die of thirst/hunger/cravings in the 2 hours you are watching football.

Pay the tiny amount of £5 then

Neither. His contract was not renewed in the summer.

I'm in the process of putting together a big graphics file. I will link to it when its finished.

yes, you can have team badges, comp logos, player pictures etc etc all added to the unlicensed leagues

Yes, there will be an official data update in Feb 2009 with all the Jan transfers

They were still in the games database even if no link.