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Matthew Le God

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couple of things i find ridiculous -

1st I came second in the manager of the season awards when I took saints to FIRST in the league when they were predicted 19th... the winner was Mark Hughes who took newcastle to second when they were predicted 1st... go figure...

 

Also the second to last game of the season (away to Newcastle) could have been the game we won the league against the team that was second, yet the away end was practically empty, not very realistic, especially for saints, it would be dellhurst all over again!

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i cant find a good strike force that wants to sign for my saints team :(. i'm in my second season in the prem after two back to back promotions. first season in prem i survied with only one game to go.

 

have just been put in charge of england u20 tho by england manager rafa benitez and just beat brazil 3-0 in the u20 world cup finals. makes a nice change from the struggle of premireship.

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i cant find a good strike force that wants to sign for my saints team :(. i'm in my second season in the prem after two back to back promotions. first season in prem i survied with only one game to go.

 

have just been put in charge of england u20 tho by england manager rafa benitez and just beat brazil 3-0 in the u20 world cup finals. makes a nice change from the struggle of premireship.

 

Depends how much moolah you have to spend. Have a look out for transfer listed players, you can quite often get some great players from big European clubs like Real and Bayern on the cheap when they fall out of favour.

Also scout round the U21 teams of the big International teams for strikers, send scouts to International fixtures etc. You can pick up the next big thing for next to nothing that way.

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Right, got this for Christmas and have been playing it since.

 

First season, Saints went up as Champions, Rickie Lambert was shyte but Barnard was amazing.

 

Second season, scraped the play-offs but won the final, Bebe amd Barnard were key players.

 

Now in the Premiership and am bottom after ten games. My partnership up front is Ched Evans and Connor Wickham. I'm getting demoralised but Villa have offered me the managers job. Do I accept?

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Right, got this for Christmas and have been playing it since.

 

First season, Saints went up as Champions, Rickie Lambert was shyte but Barnard was amazing.

 

Second season, scraped the play-offs but won the final, Bebe amd Barnard were key players.

 

Now in the Premiership and am bottom after ten games. My partnership up front is Ched Evans and Connor Wickham. I'm getting demoralised but Villa have offered me the managers job. Do I accept?

 

Judas, For even considering it.

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Right, got this for Christmas and have been playing it since.

 

First season, Saints went up as Champions, Rickie Lambert was shyte but Barnard was amazing.

 

Second season, scraped the play-offs but won the final, Bebe amd Barnard were key players.

 

Now in the Premiership and am bottom after ten games. My partnership up front is Ched Evans and Connor Wickham. I'm getting demoralised but Villa have offered me the managers job. Do I accept?

 

Depends if you are playing it like you would have a career (as i am) or just as a Saints fan. Its a hard slog, i got offered the Manure job after the second season in the prem. I turned them down but then had a few hard seasons with Saints, no big teams want me any more but i managed to hold onto Saints job.

 

Still, you need a goalscorer by the sounds of things mate

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just finished my 4th season 2nd in the prem finished 16th after bombing out ched evans and victor anichebe in january and bought in gary hooper from celtic. was offered blackburn job when they were relgated but gonna stay with saints one more season then try a move abroad. hope cortese backs me with some funds so i can push on fed up with stuggling to survive.

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got relegated in my 3rd season in prem :( but nicola gave me a new 3 year contract 27k per week :) and 20million 600k wage budget to win promotion. i spent only 6mill on 1 new striker although adam rooney and 3 new wingbacks and i loaned in one wingback and 1 dmc. i totally changed my tactics and formation a 2,4,2,2 and at the moment i sit first in league played 13 won 12 drawn 1 lost 0 gf 36 ga 4

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Won the league scoring 110+ goals. 2 strikers i brought in, Leigh Griffiths and Salva both scoring 25+

Championship I haven't started yet but my f#cking transfer budget is 120k. WTF.

 

Oh and chambo, 15 goals and 14 assists from the bench isn't too bad ;)

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I don't know the date yet, but it will be a few weeks after the window closes (possibly even March). The data update will be done relatively soon but the final the patch for FM11 needs to be made and tested with the new data.

 

There are a few unofficial January window data updates you could use until the official one comes out.

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5th season...3rd in the Premiership - finished 5th and 4th last two season.. Have Dzeko and Benzema up front so expect to challenge for the title this year. Somehow managed to pick them both up on frees although both on 80k a week. Really struggle defensively and think my formation isnt good enough to win though. Let in 74 goals in the league last season - although scored well over 110.

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2nd season in, top of the Championship although I really wasn't expecting it. I can't really afford to spend anymore money until i've paid off these stupid 48 month things though, why did I do it?

Had some fantastic free transfer deals.

Anicet Andriantaina (or something) has 24 goals by the 1st of january.

Maximiliano Pelligrino is a rock alongside Goncalves at CB.

Ismail N'Diaye as an anchor man really shores up the defence and allows David Vaughan to roam forward :D

For some reason Puncheon requested a transfer when bottom of the Prem Bolton came calling...shame as he's been banging them in and we score loads from his corners. Nevermind.

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Arghhhhhhh! 4-1 up away to Leeds with 10 minutes left and we draw 4-4.

I went nuts at my team and they all got upset thinking I was being unreasonable - this is something SI really need to change in the next game. Yes, i'd have taken a draw away to Leeds and on the face of it it's a good result. But throwing away a 3 goal lead in the last 10 minutes is justification enough for going mental at my players, and they should accept it.

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5th season...3rd in the Premiership - finished 5th and 4th last two season.. Have Dzeko and Benzema up front so expect to challenge for the title this year. Somehow managed to pick them both up on frees although both on 80k a week. Really struggle defensively and think my formation isnt good enough to win though. Let in 74 goals in the league last season - although scored well over 110.

 

How the hell have you managed to finish 5th in your first prem season?? I survived by 2 pts after successive promotions.

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Just had Dan Seabourne get injured for 9-10 months with a serious viral infection!

 

Not every day you get favours in FM.

 

I have just increased my unbeaten run to 21 games with a 1-6 win away to 4th placed Huddersfield who were on a 5 match winning streak. I am on absolute fire! Scored 73 with only 19 conceded in 24 games, 9 points clear at the top although P'Boro have a game in hand on me. Fabian Brandy has scored 17 in 21 games.

 

All this with Lallana out for the first 3 months of the season. :smug:

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Doing quite well on this at the moment. Playing a 4-3-3 but I still dont seem to score many although I don't concede very many at all.

 

My team is:

 

GK: Carrizo (he is amazing)

DR: Luke Young

DC: Jose Fonte (scores tonnes from corners)

DC: Sotoris Kryiakos (sp)

DL: Wayne Bridge

MC: Charlie Adam

MC: Ivan Rakitic

MC: Morgan Schniederlin

FC: Danny Welbeck

FC: Andy Carroll

FC: Michael Owen

 

Any tips to improve, I'm second season in the Prem by the way.

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Never play with Saints (Am Malaga atm) but looking at some of the stats for our squad, I reckon Lallana should be rated a bit higher in a few areas (Especially dribbling). Some good players who have done well for me:

 

Yaya Sanogo

Alberto Paloschi

Sergio Asenjo

Dodo

Issac Vorsah

Kara

Breno

Anthony Annan

Arthur Maia

Sergio Feghouli

Marco Verratti

Esteban Granero

Mamoudu Diarra

Juan Angel Albin

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What stat changes, if any, have you made MLG?

 

Most significant one is that Chamberlain will be a lot better (both in CA and PA). A few other tweaks here and there for player stats but nothing major.

 

Plus

 

- Forte, N'Guessan (on loan), Guly and Chaplow all Saints players.

- Puncheon and Mills out on loan.

- Forecast, Pulis, Garrod and Dean all are emergency loans so aren't included.

- Lallana on a new deal

- Jim Stannard new goalkeeper coach.

 

I've also added the 6 youngsters that got deals late last year - Jake Sinclair, James Ward-Prowse etc. But I don't think they will be in the patch for legal reasons as they are too young. So you will have to wait until FM 2012.

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In my game Cortese took out an 11 million quid loan which surely goes against their philosophy, not sure if that's something you can change though.

 

The game doesn't really allow you to stop things like this. Would need a lot of tweaking to the financial module. Also not helped by Saints no longer having sugar daddy ticked.

 

Out of interest, is the software you edit with similar to the FM Editor?

 

No, it is a completely different program and allows you to do a lot more.

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The game doesn't really allow you to stop things like this. Would need a lot of tweaking to the financial module. Also not helped by Saints no longer having sugar daddy ticked.
How come that isn't ticked any more by the way? Surely the training ground proves they're here to spend money. I thought he was listed as a background one.
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