How's yer (FM08) game goin'?

¡Punk! · 18th October 2007, 5:01am

Started afresh with San Marino in Serie C2/B. Board want to be challenging for promotion but you start off already over yer wage bill. Brought in a few experienced frees (Paul Bosvelt) the San Marino national keeper, top striker in the U-21s and best midfielder and look good for it after a few games. Already beat Reggiana in the league and a C1 team in the cup.

Also: although the majority of the players are shite there are about half a dozen players of lower SPL quality in the San Marino national team still playing in San Marino and all but two of the San Marinese league teams are amateur so you can just nick their players a lá Queen's Park.

Semprini · 18th October 2007, 5:26am

The Celtic board are apparently furious with me, since I keep picking up touchline bans for criticising referees.

AWESOMEUS MAXIMUS · 18th October 2007, 9:12am

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Originally Posted by ¡Punk!

Started afresh with San Marino in Serie C2/B. Board want to be challenging for promotion but you start off already over yer wage bill. Brought in a few experienced frees (Paul Bosvelt) the San Marino national keeper, top striker in the U-21s and best midfielder and look good for it after a few games. Already beat Reggiana in the league and a C1 team in the cup.

Also: although the majority of the players are shite there are about half a dozen players of lower SPL quality in the San Marino national team still playing in San Marino and all but two of the San Marinese league teams are amateur so you can just nick their players a lá Queen's Park.

Whats the sketch with that again?
Is there a club team called San Marino, aswell as a national team?
Are the San Marino club team players eligible to all play for San Marino, or Italy?
or is it the same team?

Always wondered.

¡Punk! · 18th October 2007, 11:05am

There's a team who play in the Italian League called San Marino Calcio (hereafter referred to as S.M. Calcio) who play their home games in the state of San Marino. Although there is a San Marinese league S.M. Calcio do not play in it. There is a similair thing going on with the club side Andorra in the Spanish league. The club players are available to play for whatever country they come from. If they are San Marinese they play for San Marino, if they are Italian they play for Italy, if they are Welsh they play for Wales. It's exactly the same dilly-o as Derry City, Berwick Rangers, Cardiff and so forth have.

There is also team that plays in the San Marinese leagues who also play within the Italian pyramid (although at a very low level). Dunno their name tho'. However they are allowed to qualify for Europe through the San Marinese league and cup competitions (unlike the Welsh teams in England)

Zippy · 18th October 2007, 7:39pm

Went Celtic and blew the majority of my £8m budget on Alex from Fenerbahce, I only play 1 up front so having a good AMC behind my lone striker is important. Alex has scored something like 8 in 10 from midfield so it's a good signing but unfortunately he got injured for 2 months and my team doesn't seem to like scoring - sitting 3rd in the league after October, still unbeaten but I've drew 3 or 4 games which hasn't helped. My fan confidence says that they're unhappy we don't convert chances and that I should thinking about dropping big McManus.

¡Punk! · 18th October 2007, 10:16pm

Wouldn't Naka be a good choice for behind the strikers? He's quite creative and has a good peg on him.

But, lets be honest, you should be playing Paul McGowan :P

Zippy · 18th October 2007, 10:40pm

Aye, you're right - fucking Alex just got crocked.

Stew · 18th October 2007, 11:32pm

Did you change the pitch size at the start of the season?

I started a game as Arsenal just to see the difference in the EPL and you can say to the board you're going to go for winning the league rather than aiming to qualify for the CL and they give you an extra £19m on top of your £25m budget!

¡Punk! · 19th October 2007, 1:14am

You get £2,200,000 to spend with Morton if you lower the wage budget enough in this

Stew · 19th October 2007, 6:06pm

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Originally Posted by ¡Punk!

You get £2,200,000 to spend with Morton if you lower the wage budget enough in this

It's additional to altering the wage budget.

The season's expectations popped up and the board stated that they expected Champions League qualification this season, but there was a drop-down allowing me to change that to 'Win the league' which when selected gave me extra money!

Amazing.

Zippy · 26th October 2007, 8:43pm

Just led the mighty Oxford from the Blue Square Premier into League Two, won the FA Trophy along the way. Reading are my parent club and the 4 youngsters they gave me on loan were fucking gems.

Stew · 27th October 2007, 1:37pm

I'm currently Peterborough who start off in Coca Cola League 2. In my first season I quickly set up a parent club system and chose Chelsea from the options and they loaned me out two central midfielders and a young centre back. I then went back and requested to loan one of their young strikers and they accepted. All of them were amazing players and I got promoted in my first season by finishing second in the league to Lincon.

Turn up of the century was singing Matt Janson on a free transfer and expecting him to be the next Emile Hesky and score sod all, for him to end the season having played 25 and scored 23.

Zippy · 27th October 2007, 1:43pm

I hate the constant 'you're linked with 'x', have you any plans to sign him' for anyone you've got on your shortlist - hopefully they'll get that sorted.

Stew · 27th October 2007, 1:47pm

You can unselect your short list as 'active' which means that doesn't happen. Well, you could in the last one at least, I haven't tried it in this one.

Zippy · 27th October 2007, 1:52pm

Ahh, I didn't realise that - cheers.