Season 31 Week 17 processing...

I definitely opened a can of worms there 
good to hear all your views.

Tom@Charlton wrote:

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

Dave has thrown the cat among the ...... normally pigeons but I'm going with clowns in our case.

Point 2 - this was the crux of our discussion. Can a regular for Sheffield United be compared to a regular for Man City? 

Top 5 team in a top league I agree with but I give you the case of France who have about 300 great CBs. Laporte is world class in my opinion BUT has no French caps and he'll be 27 in May so there needs to be some leeway. You get outliers from random countries as well, mostly African and smaller countries where you get a brilliant individuals from a rubbish national team - Weah and Liberia, Aubameyang - Gabon, Gareth McAuley and Northern Ireland ................




First one to call me out on Super G wins. Although his goal against Ukraine in the 2016 Euros was my happiest moment ever at a football match.

Woah, what you bringing my players into it for?

My point is Auba and Laporte disprove rules. They are clearly world class even if they don’t fit exact criteria.

Email turns all sent out...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Email turns all sent out...

Cheers Paul , excellent work this week

Thanks Paul as ever for a great week!

The calm after the storm......everyone must be digesting their turns? 


Seems their was a bit of needle in our game towards Bernardo Ben? Cheers when he went off injured....

Paul , Werner has AWP , can this be removed or do i need to send a scout report in?

Tom@Charlton wrote:

The calm after the storm......everyone must be digesting their turns? 


Seems their was a bit of needle in our game towards Bernardo Ben? Cheers when he went off injured....

Didn’t see that - how harsh of the fans!

gary@chelsea wrote:

Paul , Werner has AWP , can this be removed or do i need to send a scout report in?

I’ve not seen him play in England Gaz, well certainly not well anyway 

Ben@Plymouth wrote:

gary@chelsea wrote:

Paul , Werner has AWP , can this be removed or do i need to send a scout report in?

I’ve not seen him play in England Gaz, well certainly not well anyway 

We’ll you’ve clearly not watched him then, goals aside his work rate and pressing and runs off the ball have been superb..... but I get your bitterness after the Bamford debate 

Think he is on Football Focus on Saturday - good clip on the BBC website tbh.

Lol! Wait till he scores the winner against you next season...

Ben@Plymouth wrote:

Think he is on Football Focus on Saturday - good clip on the BBC website tbh.

Lol! Wait till he scores the winner against you next season...

how is he rated anyway?

Anybody else's lge game report seem quite short? Might explain the lack of chances!

My cup match is twice as long...

Paul?

gary@chelsea wrote:

Paul , Werner has AWP , can this be removed or do i need to send a scout report in?

done.

Andy@Schalke wrote:

Anybody else's lge game report seem quite short? Might explain the lack of chances!

My cup match is twice as long...

Paul?

the SLOW tactic has three "normal" phases
phase 1 = not winning = attacking phase
phase 2 = winning = ball possession phase
phase 3 = winning late on = defensive phase
some players will do their own thing for instance they may still attack during the defensive phase but that depends on the players and the opposition players. this week the side you chose for the game decided to play the 3 phases as described above without any breakouts. cos your players had better skills than Cologne they decided one goal would be enough. If some players are low on stamina during the game then they will "take it easy" and with slow that means keep the ball. You scored very early. Match print program removes a lot of backward passes and repetitive passes.

All these things contributed to produce a shorter league match report than the fast tactic you used for the cup match.

dont forget some systems work slightly differently after week 16 when players get a bit more selfish and do things like
1) conserve stamina ( no more sms bonus after week 16 )
2) protect themselves from injury when club in cup quarter-finals
and other things that make them less likely to get forward as much as normal, using the TRY command can help encourage a player to play his normal game.

thanks P, very interesting!

is that why the tactic ended up being SLV - because I was winning at the end?

possession of 54% - thought it might have been more...

thinking about it, that explanation is a relief, as I was thinking that my players in the creative positions are pretty much the best, and should be creating more!

Can you get building reports, stadium reports and backroom staff for potential feeder clubs?

Andy@Schalke wrote:

thanks P, very interesting!

is that why the tactic ended up being SLV - because I was winning at the end?

possession of 54% - thought it might have been more...

thinking about it, that explanation is a relief, as I was thinking that my players in the creative positions are pretty much the best, and should be creating more!

I've played against SLO and after about 60 minutes, if the team are 1-0 up, they have kept the ball and I have hardly had a touch. The report after that is then like 10 lines long - threw me at first but certainly understood once you hear the explanation.

Dave@Villa wrote:

Can you get building reports, stadium reports and backroom staff for potential feeder clubs?

Too my knowledge/ experience a feeder club starts as a blank slate with no buildings/Staff
And stadiums usually minic real life capacity

Anyone got a non playing staff job list? thought i ordered it this turn but ticked the wrong option.

gary@chelsea wrote:

Anyone got a non playing staff job list? thought i ordered it this turn but ticked the wrong option.

I got one I can post later just on my PC

I play SLO and Ben’s right there are times when the jump from 60mins to the end is really short.

cheers guys - makes me a bit worried that we start playing defensively when only 1 goal up!
i'll see how it all goes...need to play a 'top top' (ie full of 9999s) side, but that won't be until next season.

Andy@Schalke wrote:

cheers guys - makes me a bit worried that we start playing defensively when only 1 goal up!
i'll see how it all goes...need to play a 'top top' (ie full of 9999s) side, but that won't be until next season.

Don't you worry Andy! Leverkusen are on the march!! 

P.s Hannover only 5 points off promotion too eh Rob! 

Phil@Watford wrote:

Andy@Schalke wrote:

cheers guys - makes me a bit worried that we start playing defensively when only 1 goal up!
i'll see how it all goes...need to play a 'top top' (ie full of 9999s) side, but that won't be until next season.

Don't you worry Andy! Leverkusen are on the march!! 

P.s Hannover only 5 points off promotion too eh Rob! 

Actively worried about going up.