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Lower League Management
By: Daryl |
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Once again, the FM Offside network has expanded. Our newest blog is Football Manager – Lower League Management, written by Dave.
LLM isn’t just about managing down in the depths, it’s about playing by a set of rules to make FM as realistic as possible. That means things like not using real players (so you don’t [...]
Category: FM09
Taking it One Game at a Time
By: Daryl | 7 Comments
Just one game played recently. And that’s no accident.
Plan is to slow down the FM gaming a little and fulfill the ultimate managerial cliche: taking it one game at a time. Meaning I’ll try and play just one game a day, and then report back here.
On one hand that’s a bad thing for this blog, [...]
Category: FM09The Official Hassle Daryl Thread
By: Daryl | 16 Comments
OK, so here’s the deal:
I’ve got no problem with the occasional comments reminding me about emails and new FM Offside blogs and such, and wouldn’t disagree that a quick friendly hassle is usually the best (maybe only?) way to get a timely response.
But it is sort of ruining the flow of comments with all the [...]
Category: FM09Tactical Theorems & Frameworks: Football Manager 2009
By: Daryl | 18 Comments
Have you ever heard of the Tactical Theorems and Frameworks? It’s a strategy guide developed by the FM enthusiasts at FM-Britain, which I found yesterday while searching for other FM blogs.
It’s basically a massive guide – written every year since FM ‘06 – explaining exactly how tactics and other aspects of the game work.
Is it [...]
Category: FM09Things Are About to Get Serious
By: Daryl | 11 Comments
Managing: Newcastle
Date: Feb 27th, 2011
Progress: 4th in Prem (yes!) after 27 games, one hand on the Carling Cup
You can tell things are about to gets serious because Wil Smith is wearing his “things are about to get serious” face.
Category: FM09Stan Collymore Syndrome?
By: Daryl | 5 Comments
Managing: Newcastle
Date: Feb 18th, 2011
Progress: 5th in Prem after 26 games, 1 point behind 4th place Man City.
OK, so the post transfer window drama era begins. And I’m defining success like this. Either:
a) Qualify for Champions League, or
b) Win a trophy (any trophy)
Otherwise I’m going to seriously consider drafting a resignation letter. This is my [...]
Category: FM09FM BlogWatch: Feb 21, 2009
By: Daryl | 3 Comments
And the FM Offside network keeps growing….
The two newest blogs on the block are:
FM Offside Lyon, where so far Corey has got us up to speed on digital Corey’s life in the gastronomic capital of the world, and his damn exciting transfer activity which involves selling big names like Govou, Kallstrom and Fred and investing [...]
Category: FM09Leave Your Pink Boots in London
By: Daryl | 12 Comments
Quick recap: Just one day after deciding to buy Diego (attacking mid) over Foti (target man striker), I lost The Pog (my current target man striker) to a freak calf muscle explosion.
Such is life as a pretend football manager.
With the transfer deadline looming, I had to choose between signing Nicklas Bendtner, Roman Pavlyuchenko, Franco di [...]
Category: FM09Transfer Deadline Day
By: Daryl | 13 Comments
It’s transfer deadline day 2011, and after The Pog’s horrific injury (his calf muscle looks like sliced bacon) I’m one striker short, with not much money to spend and just one FM09 day to decide.
Category: FM09Either Fate or Football Manager 2009 Has a Sick Sense of Humour
By: Daryl | 13 Comments
Managing: Newcastle
Date: January 27th, 2011
Progress: 6th in Prem after 22 games
Either fate or Football Manager 2009 has a sick sense of humour. And I suspect it’s the latter.
Because after I finally resolved the Diego vs Foti dilemma by signing Diego and saying I’m fine barring serious injury to my strikers, this happened:
Category: FM09
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