Attend Press Conference or Send Assistant?
By: Daryl | January 4th, 2009
I’m starting to really hate the media, with their dictaphones and their notebooks and their stupid stupid questions.
In a recent press conference one bum-face from some tabloid rag asked me how my recent slump in form would affect morale. And as usual, there are only the five option to choose from. There wasn’t an option to respond with “Do you mean the slump in form where we’ve won our last three league games by scoring eight and conceding one, you ignorant fool. Give me your editor’s phone number this instant, I’m going to have you fired.”
Actually there is that box for additional comments or whatever, but seems like that doesn’t really have much impact on anything.
I’m actually getting very very bored of the press conferences though, mostly because it’s always the same questions with the same set of multiple choice answers.
And in a way I’m really bored with myself because I can’t help always selecting the most upbeat answer. I respond to more or less everything with “I’m trying to look at things in a positive light,” even when ask how I think the fact that vice captain Steven Taylor thinks I’m useless willl affect morale. A psychiatrist would have be committed immediately for such relentless optimism.
Two or three times I’ve sent equally boring ass man Chris Hughton to face the microphones instead, and he’s never really let me down or done anything controversial. But with my job status hovering between stable and insecure (depending, I’ve noticed, on whether I’m in the top or bottom half of the table) I want to keep the press sweet. I don’t want to be known as the manager who doesn’t like talking to the media. Even though I don’t.
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I feel your pain,
my useless am told an up and comer there was no way hed ever make first team, was unhappy for months and eventually had to sell the bastard.
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This is why the football team is only half of the game. Having good staff is an absolute game winner.
Get the best ass man you can with good skills in pepping up the players and good with the media. The best scouts in the world are never enough, so buy more of them. And the best coaches are more than worht the money.
For example, I bought Damien Le Tallac for 1 mil euro from Le Mans. Three years and 32 goals later at age 20 (with stats of his prime I think) he is sold for 21 million POUND to Arsenal. This is purely due to be able to buy a lowly rated, high potential youngster with my excellent scouts (all six of them are on 10,000/week+), training him rapidly with my brilliant team of coaches and giving him cup games and the odd league game.
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Ooops, I meant to say scouts were 3,000 to 10,000.
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The only time I’ve noticed the write-in comments having any effect is when you choose “Storm Out” and then write-in a Kinnearesque rant. In your inbox then it should say something about you leaving the room in a foul mouthed tirade.
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Damien Le Tallec plays for Rennes. He has tremendous potential if you can figure out where to play him. Anthony Le Tallec plays for Le Mans, and even though he has a fair amount of potential still, he is not a goal scorer. Everyone’s game is different though, so I wouldnt bank on a player one person has found favor with will work in your game.
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Thats one area i think SI has to improvise on. Its the same old crappy questions and not many choices to answer. I would like for them to have a variety of answers for the managers to select. For a cocky manager its lame when he has to say i am looking things in a positive way , just not his personality.
Btw Daryl , I hope u received my email regarding the Fm blog.
Awaiting your response on that one.Cheers
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The ads at the top of my screen are for “Veterinary Assistant” and “Autopsy Assistant Degrees.”
I really hope you’ll weave that into your narrative somehow.
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Corey, yeah that’s correct. I originally typed Stade Rennais, but then something said to me “it’s Le Mans, you idiot”.
Also my point wasn’t that Le Tallac(’s) is a good potential player it was the importance of having good, nay, brilliant staff. I picked up Le Tallac in the first summer after I managed to get my first good scout. Now, owing purely to my scouts, I have four or five youngsters as good as (or better than) Le Tallac, on whom I’ve probably spent less than 3,000,000 pound on.
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i think your assistant generally does a good job but every so often they fuck up and make your team lose morale.
Damien le Tallec is one of the most random players in the game, in one game he was a beast with huge potential and stats to be better then any striker in the world(19/20 for shooting, heading, acc and pace) but in another game he was trash(in a manner of speaking)
The way the game works is that if you know the good players in advance you can get away with having 1 really good scout. And maybe 2 so you can check out under age games in countries. What i do is go to teams with great youth set ups(arsenal, barcelona, atalanta, west ham, sao paulo etc) and do a mass scout of all the regens with one scout. The scouting network is pretty useless if your willing to do the heavy work yourself and is only good for when you want a specific player because the more places you have scouted the more players you see in player search.
Coaches to my understanding dont effect player growth that much. To make a player reach his potential faster you need to give him competitive games. What coaches do is allow the player to shift the “potential” points to areas that you want. Ie with a 7 star coach in shooting a striker with a training regime that has high shooting level will be able to level up that stat much faster then with a 5 star coach.
Physio’s are pretty useless in my understanding because some teams have like 7 of them but just having 1 or 2 seems plenty.
The biggest advice i can give on coaches is aim for the regen ones, plenty of regen’s scouts with 19/19 for CA/PA. The hardest thing to get 7 star on is the offensive stats so i suggest aim for the physical ones first because they very important and then get attacking/tactics cause they just require their respective attributes. 10 coaches is plenty for the entire team.Posted from
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It’s funny, I wonder if you get tougher questions the further up the pyramid you are, as I’m managing my first season with Leeds (got 38 from and 5 points clear of Brighton in L1) and I seem to get nothing but softball questions from the press, even when I lose. I am waiting for the first mardyfaced sack of fail to ask me something challenging so I can puff out my chest and pull a Kinnear and have Ken Bates fire me and have Leeds get relegated by Staunton, though–can’t be anything more glorious than that.
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i think if the press like you they ask really easy questions and if you start storming out and giving no comments and stuff they start highlighting your morale lowering answers
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depends who im playing and if my players need a boost i go.
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Rory- I completely agree with you, good scouts and youth coaches are essential to developing young players. If you buy prospects and dont have the infrastructure (excellent youth facilities, good staff and a penchant for loosing just so you can play them once and while even though they are young) then all is lost on many of the young players. The thing I really like is that Damien Le Tallec really is a great prospect, in real life. He should be a great player one day, and thats reflected in the game which I have always admired about FM. Its much better then say FIFA where you are given a couple young kids with such low ratings that even if you played them every game they would never ascend to the level they needed to be at.
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