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It’s All About Confidence
By: Daryl |
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Managing: Newcastle
Date: November 9th, 2009
Progress: 9th in Prem after 11 games
The new tactics are doing the business and I’m back in the top 10. Just in time too, as my job status was briefly rated as “insecure” (back to “stable” now). I can’t afford to lose this job with the credit crunch on.
Category: FM09“The Save Game Could Not Be Loaded”
By: Daryl | 13 Comments
Aargh!
This had never happened to me before. And I’ll be honest, I freaked out a bit.
Category: FM09Time For a Rethink?
By: Daryl | 11 Comments
Managing: Newcastle
Date: 18th October, 2009
Progress: 15th in Prem after 8 games. Starting to sweat.
So my tactics of attack, attack, attack were the bees-knees last season, but not so much for 2009/10. We’re struggling to score goals and my defence isn’t as solid as it used to be. Doesn’t take a genius to realize that isn’t [...]
Category: FM09It’s All Gone a Bit Wrong
By: Daryl | 3 Comments
Managing: Newcastle (badly, it seems)
Date: September 26th, 2009
Progress: Backwards. 17th after six games. Second season syndrome.
OK, there’s been a bit of an accidental Christmas break here on FM Offside. But I have been playing. And it hasn’t been going well.
I’ve played eight games recently, and it hasn’t been pretty. It all started badly when Habib [...]
Category: FM09Double Man Marking
By: Daryl | 11 Comments
Managing: Newcastle
Date: September 2nd, 2009
Progress: 13th in Prem after three games
The upside of getting mangled by Caley Thistle was that all my first teamers (except the injured Jonas) were fit to face Man Utd. And I had a plan to deal with Cristiano Ronaldo. A plan I call double lock down.
CR7 played on the right [...]
Category: FM09I Disrespected Inverness Caledonian Thistle, But Think I Got Away With It
By: Daryl | 8 Comments
So you may recall that I sent my full strength team out to face Caley Thistle in a UEFA Cup qualifying round, even though I played Liverpool three days later. I won that leg 3-0 and then got a 1-1 draw out of Rafa’s men. Could be worse, but I clearly showed them too much [...]
Category: FM09Arrange Your Own Friendlies?
By: Daryl | 16 Comments
Managing: Newcastle
Date: August 25th, 2009
Progress: 12th in Prem after two games (two draws) and through to UEFA Cup group stage (or as good as).
When the Premier League fixtures were announced, it was clear that someone (namely the Premier League fixture computer) didn’t like me. My first four games were vs Liverpool, Villa, Man Utd and [...]
Category: FM09Reasons To Be Cheerful
By: Daryl | 2 Comments
So my summer shopping wasn’t a massive success, but it wasn’t bad either. After a couple of games, I’m still confident that Clément Chantôme will turn out be a good buy. Maybe overpriced at £12m, especially given my Scrooge-like chairman David Williamson, but after two games he’s looking like exactly what I wanted: An all [...]
Category: FM09Ins and Outs (and Nearly Ins and Nearly Outs)
By: Daryl | 24 Comments
Been doing a lot of wheeling and dealing, Del Boy style.
The Newcastle board offered me a paltry £8.5m transfer budget, which felt even more paltry when I found out how much some of my summer transfer targets actually cost.
Not only do I have a lot less cash than expected, but players are a lot more [...]
Category: FM09
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By: Daryl | 12 Comments
Managing: Newcastle
Date: Summer 2009
Progress: Trying to build on last season’s 6th place/not lose my best players.
Good news is that the Newcastle board like my style and offered me a new deal. A respectable £29,000 per week until 2011. But I wanted to flex my manager power muscles a little bit. No point in asking for [...]
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