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I've spent all afternoon reinstalling it, re-patching it, downloading the new update, editing our loans in and generally pissing about sorting it out.

now I can't be arsed to play it.

Any tips on formation? 8)

4-5-1  :?

play 4-5-1 away from home.

everyone will love you for it. :D

I edited lots of stuff in my game and now it wouldn't start a new game. Justcuts out. :x

Will lifetime red appear after every match?

4-4-2 with diamond formation in midfield works nicely for me, home or away. Just make sure you buy a ball winning DMC :D

Anything but 4-5-1

Have you got Summerbee in our team :wink:

Oh also......make sure you play it out...

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I've got Buzzer 8)

Knew you would  8)

WIDE it is then

Ah but You might jest but 4-5-1 or 5-4-1 are two of the best formations you can use. I used this formation and won promotion to the premiership with Swindon and then went on to win the premiership and champions league with it. It's a great formation, you're one striker will score 35 goals a season.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v367/2hats/formation.jpg[url]

Most important thing is which players you buy though, Kenny Lunt and Kyle Lapham are class.

you won the premiership with rhys in goal?



maybe there is hope...  :soapy tit wank:

Nah not quite, that was the team I started with in my first premiership season which was mid table.

This is my premiership winning squad. Rhys did play 11 games but mainly in cups.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v367/2hats/premsquad.jpg

yOU SEEM TO HAVE UPSET YOUR PLAYERS.

I did al lthe editing etc, new players etc.., but now can't be arsed. The new one should be out soon and I can't wait!!

just me who has a really slow editor that takes 3 plus hours to load up, then about an hour just to edit one player?!?

that's tiny Ben, can't read it :(

Runs like shit off a stick on my PC 8)

I just sold Rhys for £200k, get in there!

Gay,,,,,

My PC is good but runs FM really slow, my laptop is much crapper but runs it faster but still slow. Id like to download the update patches and what not, but I would need to use my old 56k connection to the laptop, to patch it and update it and edit it, your looking at about 4 days!!!

The morale is good though, the unhappy ones just want a pay rise, Sanchez was only on £3,500 a week.
It should be bigger now, had to resize it 'cos it was huge originally.

Nice squad Ben, no original STFC players though :D

Danny, I'll stick the update on a CD for you if you want? I'll bring it to the Southend game.

Who would be a good replacement for Rhys? I've got £250k to splash.

SY where did you get the update from?

That would be cool.....note I wouldnt just need the update, I'd need all the patches as well. As I havent patched the game once.

If your in Divvy 2 Steve Simonson of Stoke is a good buy, wont cost much either....also Bulman isnt too bad!

www.thedugout.net

it's called FM Finland

I'll stick everything on a CD, I downloaded 'em all today anyway.

with my moving to london my daddy has bought me a new computer...it's twice as fast as this computer..... i'm not sure what i'm more excited about. a new life OR fucking fast fm05 and then 06

 :mrgreen:

That would be very kick ass..... 8)

Well only Rhys, I tend to change the squad completely after the first couple of seasons just bring in a whole new team on free transfers and release most of the old ones but Sean O'Hanlon and Kyle Lapham stayed for a few years.

where do i install this update? Can't find the data folder  :-))(

it's in your FM2005 folder...

fucking lucky cunt. whats your local footie club up there then?

If its like most Londoners then im sure it will be Man Utd. :roll:

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Nah, Chelsea is the new 'in' team to support

And the new Man Utd in terms of hatred.... :beers:

Swindon Town skin
http://www.smithjurdskins.co.uk/index.php?categoryid=8&p13_sectionid=2&p13_limitstart=10&p13_shownum=5

I dont mind them at the minute, because they are new and different. Keep winning and I'll get fed up

Really I want to see Liverpool win the Premiership, because they are such a fantastic club....

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jameswalsh/jesusfuckingchrist.jpg

 :shock:  :soapy tit wank:  :o  :?  :cry:

ended the game with 7 players.

I'm impressed at the attendence, over 10,000 turning up!

not a single red card all season then 4 in one game! fucking crazy

Did Ifil and Fallon fight each other?

Did Ifil and Fallon have a fight or something cause they got sent off at the same time?

Sorry Yeovil, not copying, you just beat me to it.

Sonic out! :x A 3-0 home defeat is unacceptable and your players are undisciplined with that many red cards. They need to be sent to an army training camp to kick them into shape. This would never of happened under Lou Macari.

no, Ifil got his second yellow for a foul (obstruction no less) and got sent off then 'Fallon was furious with the referee' and got sent off :/

Nice choice of captain though  8)

innit 8)

Whalley and Stef are my two best players by far, averaging 7.68 and 7.67 after 27 games, they're absolutely superb.

Salako and Summerbee on the wings pinging in the crosses, Fallon's scored 13  goals in 19 starts, Thorpe's got 9 in 12, Cureton's got 9 in 10 and Roberts has got 5 in 15. I'm rotating my strikers too much though.

Tom Heaton is ace in goal 8)

I'm 9th, had a really poor run following that Huddersfield game :(

that result and players sent off reminds me of a trip up north to that shit hole!

oh and youth out!!

Have you installed any patches to your original game?, cos i havent had that many sent off since the days of 5.0

using the latest patch, 5.0.5.

Thats very weird most ive had sent off in one game is 2!.

When I get home, I'll post the tactic file I used to win League 2 in Season 1 and maybe some screenshots. Try playing Roberts as the central midfielder, he is absolute dynamite there - even gets capped by Wales  :o

What formation did you go for in the end?

Just updated mine and started from scratch - 3-5-2

Heaton
Ifil - collins - ohanlon
shakes migz pook whalley nicolau
cureton heath

So far won 3 friendlies, all away

4-0
6-0
3-2

2 more friendlies then start the season - cureton and heath both on fire

I went 4-4-2 with a few tweaks. I'll upload it in a sec.

Pretty basic, two central midfielders (Whalley and Miglioranzi) sitting a little deeper than the two wingers, who stayed strictly out wide (Salako is a good signing on a free) and Curo bagged 23 goals, Fallon got 22 and I finished 9th after a poor run in March and April :/

Tip with corners. Leave 2 defenders back. Put your best finisher/long shots player outside area/edge of area. Then put everyone else on far post (standing). Tell your corner taker to cross to penalty area. Nicked it from somewhere else but works quite well for scoring from corners.

fook sake, i want to play this game at a decent speed....guess I need a new computer!

Mine's the same DV. There's a way of deleting the old video footage (like highlights), which speeds up the game. Will post how to in a min

Cool. Cheers.  8)

That would help me too Si, cheers.

Ok here goes. Open FM and load your last game. Once loaded open 'my computer'. You will need to show hidden files and folders so do this from the tools>folder options>'view' tab. Now to delete those files...

Go to your c drive. OPen documents and settings. Open the folder that applies to your user name. Then open the local settings folder. Within this is a temp folder - open that then you will see the football manager 2005 folder. Open this to get to the files.

There will be loads in there! Easiest thing to do is to go to the view menu and sort by file type. Delete all the 'pkf' files e.g. ms191.pkf. Once removed from your pc, save your game in fm2005 and then exit. Next time you load it should load/run a little faster. You will have to keep doing this periodically.

Hope all that makes sense! Worked better in cm4 but still improves speed in fm imo.

Cheers mate.  By the way - why no avarter?

Umm i can't be bothered to look for a new one with my current dial up connection. Still waiting for my dad's work to sort his broadband out for him, so i will probably be back at uni before then anyway.

If anyone wants to find me a non-offensive avatar then please do.

here's my tactic

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jameswalsh/sonicyouth4-4-2.tac

My tactic seems to be working well for me now. Any tips on how to tighten the back four. At the moment i'm scoring loads, but i'm leaking goals like a king managed swindon town  :-))(

Who you playing in defence? I concede quite a few (had two 3-3 draws in a row, how King-esque) but I find Nicholas - Ifil - O'Hanlon - Smith quite a solid defence.

Comyn-Platt isn't bad either.

I'm in the prem and have basically the regen players (because i'm in 2010 or something). I will start again, but i just can't seem to win the prem league. I've won everything else loads. What's everyone's closing down/marking settings etc...

Put a sweeper behind them.

When I won the premiership I only conceded 4 goals at home all year, but with a 4-4-2 I was conceding about 3 or 4 a game, just wasn't working in the premiership.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v367/2hats/premtable.jpg

so would 3 at the back with a sweeper work better than flat 4? I was going to try this but then my full backs would surely have to play a lot narrower. Guess i should experiment and watch a few full-match highlights. Once i have tweaked my defence i should have everything perfect i think  :nod:

I always play a 5-3-2 formation.  I find it by far the most solid/balanced formation.

I always tend to go for a flat 4-4-2, wingers pushing on, one CM staying back a bit, and one getting forward.

I sometimes change to a 4-1-4-1 to see a game out, and often nick another goal playing this way.  The extra man in midfield sits just in front of the back four - and the one CM that was inclined to sit back now just sits in CM, with the other three midfielders getting forward to support the lone striker.

I find that FM is not so suited to obscure formations like CM was.

I tend to have decent defences, so I must be doing something right.

Well I used a kind of 1-4-4-1, I guess you could say it is a negative tactic but I was leaking so many goals it was getting ridiculous.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v367/2hats/formation.jpg

Not with those players though, you need to have a decent sweeper to get the best out of it, I had Gabriel Milito and the two wingers playing  like Robben and Duff or Wright-Phillips and Cole do for Chelsea, I had Antonio Di Natale who was the star player and Steed Malbranque with just one class striker (Fabrizio Miccoli for me).

here's my first choice lineup and formation

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jameswalsh/lineup0506.jpg

Over the summer I sold Roberts to Torquay (£12k), Jenkins to Leyton Orient (£3k), Thorpe to Belenenses (free) and released Lee Briscoe and Ben Wells. I've signed Malvin Kamara (free), Tom Heaton (£120k), Anders Ekelund (£8k), Andy Smith (£10k) and Paul Furlong (£1k). I've just tried to strengthen the squad this summer, if I don't get promoted and my wage bill gets cut again I'm going to resign  :x

How do you take screen shots of the game?.

Press print screen.

The only player I've ever sold for money is Parkin I normally just release them or wait till their contracts run out because I can't sell half of them and if they're good I won't sell them at any price.

Im currently Everton in the Championship, ive played about 25 games, won 22,drawn 2 and lost 1. Luckily i picked up a decent squad with alot of good youth players, ive also added alot of 16-18 yr olds to my squad for the future.

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:KxExG9uzXA0J:www.wickedsunshine.com/Images/PNG_Design_400x400/Pie%2BTimeForPie_400x400.png

Sory it's a link and not a picture, it's not saved as a .jpg and I didn't want to save it, basically because I'm at work and couldn't be arsed.   Also it is a half-arsed attempt itself.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b100/landofbo/pieman.jpg

ace! :D

Proper pieman!!

eek, 5 games played, 0 wins, 1 draw, 4 lost :(

help!

Not very good at this are you SY.  Your machine must run it at light speed though if you're already 5 games into the second season. :shock:

I thought that, i takes me lierally weeks to get rhough a season.

I did well last season though, not changed any tactics and I'm crap!

You really should be getting out of League 1 at the first attempt though.  See if you can sign Junior (the striker - he's ace in L1), and if you have a database big enough see if you can find a guy called Gabor (I think) Korolovszky - he was very good (CB).

I started this game on Sunday afternoon, somehow managed 19 hours playtime mind  :shock:

We want Sonic out!, say we want Sonic out!

One point out of 5 games, how've you managed to avoid the sack?

Either you're fussy when it comes to tactics or you fell asleep!?. :mrgreen:

I'm Andy King in disguise 8)

You havent got the transfer budget of Chelsea so dont worry. :roll:

sort of, I usually leave the game running when I go and watch telly and stuff cos I'm lazy.

This season we had 7 points after 5 games and still people wanted King out, I dunno how you've survived.

In championship manager 4 I got Swindon promoted twice in a row then got sacked after 10 games in the premiership when I was bottom by a couple of points. Very harsh. :evil:

I normally get hammered after getting promotion from the Championship the year before.

I've just started a new game as Waterford Utd in the Irish Premier. My wage budget is £4,500 per week :D

Just sorted my tactics  :P  Changed centre backs to tight marking (man) and rest are on zonal. Changed full backs and wide men to play through balls often as well. Not only am I scoring an average of 4 a game, I've only conceded 5 goals in about 15 games  :D

Would upload the tactic, but not on my pc at the moment and dial up :roll:

ps, i like the avatar  8)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jameswalsh/stefusa.jpg

wahey!

wooooooooooahhhhhhhhhh, stefannnnnniiiiiiii!

i resigned from swindon in 2014 after being runners up in the facup and 10th in the premiership. the fans hated me  :(

now attempting to take villa into the top 6

James Walsh, that's that bloke from starsailor innit.

nice first name sonc ;)


and where'd you get that skin, i want it.

heres a Swindon skin, its on page 7.
http://www.smithjurdskins.co.uk/index.php?categoryid=8&p13_sectionid=2&p13_limitstart=10&p13_shownum=5

:oops: i want sonic's one, it looks proper flash  :oops:

The Swindon badge looks a bit shite though.

but the whole set-up and lay-out of it is asthetically pleasing :P

Errrrm yes it does look like that.....http://www.thedugout.tv/community/images/smilies_final/cab.gif

eh?

At least you're now confused instead of me.

aesthetics is a posh way of saying 'the way it looks' basically.

On another note some Welsh cunt is selling bottles of Welsh air for £20!. Just another exclusive from Sky News. :shock:

exclusive, which was covered by the sun 2 weeks ago.

I dont read the fecking Sun!

No, it's me  :x

Leggett - the skin is called wraparound, it's ace. Changes colour depending on the team's colours and logo. Very easy to read as well. I got it from fmbase.co.uk but it's been hacked.

fucksticks

Currently 10th in the league, 3 points off play offs...Cureton just scored a double hat trick  :shock:  :shock:  :shock:  :shock:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b100/landofbo/cureton.gif

thanks for the cd sonic :angry:

PM me your address and I'll post it this week.

Sorry, it's been a busy week.

wahey i just beat walsall 3-1 in the playoff final \o/

Not as good as when i beat City 2-1 with Q.P.R. in the Championship final after being a goal down with 11 minutes left. :wink:

yes well i'm still learning how to play fm2005, i'm pretty chuffed, did it all with my own tactics, signing players only via scouting and stuff, it's ace :D

Same as mate, Q.P.R. were in the lower depths of League One when i took over i had to rebuild which i did with various loans and Scandinavian bargains, 3 years later i got them in the Premiership.

it's dead satisfying isn't it?

with past incarnations of CM, i've always used other peoples tactics (not diablo though) because i couldn't be arsed with making my own, i'd look for cheap world class players on forums etc. i've assembled my squad without any outside help, it's so much more fulfilling :d

Its weird but you're right, promotion on FM5 is quality especially when its all down to you.

mate, with sunderland i won the premiership with a goal scored at 92:52, with 3 added mins due to be played, i went fucking mental.

my title with Betis was the most satisfying, i beat real madrid and barca, with a smaller squad! i did spend £52m on one player though  :| but he did score 26 league goals in 6 months. so was worth it in my eyes!

WHOA! :shock:

26 goals in 6 months was well worth it though.

who the fuck is worth £52m?

Not me i value myself at £51million.

don't sell yourself short spudster.

yea, £37m up front and £15m over 2 seasons, still paying it off. i bought him from Espanyol (my old club) i'd signed him when i was there for £18m, and he was a class act, runs well, dribbles well, finishing is superb, and at the age of 23 is now the first choice spain striker. he linked up well with my other striker i got in last year, from Atalanta, he was the european golden boot winner, he got 23 all season, none too shabby, considering he still doesnt speak spanish, a year and a bit after i signed him!!!

I dont want to get an ego though. :?

£52m is over double the highest price i've ever paid for a player. its just this kid is fucking magic, the season i got him, he scored 26 goals, and we won the league. the season i bought him at Espanyol (for £18m) he scored 21 goals, and he was 22 years old!!!


i dont like to buy players for huge amounts of money. i enjoy bringing players up through the ranks, not spending shitloads of money on other peoples projects. but i uncovered this guy, just i got the sack 14months after doing so, and felt he was exactly what i needed to complete my strikeforce for betis.

The thing i like doing is playing the youngsters and bringing them up through the ranks into eventually gaining a permanent 1st team spot.

:D just had a £100m bid for José, the geezer i bought for £52m. said no :D

You silly boy!

cock off, he's the lynch-pin to my side! plus it was Valencia, if he goes, he goes abroad!!!

ahem


http://www.whits.plus.com/files/league.jpg

http://www.whits.plus.com/files/team.jpg

 8)

Whits for manager!

Super Andy Caton!

parkins record ain't to bad either!

Your sub goalie got a 3 in his last game! I hope you got fired for that!  :-))(

i've got a feeling its because i have a problem with my mouse so it doesn't always click and release therefore he ended up playing left wing  :D

mines forever doing that aswell.
quite annoying if you don't spot it.

Na i think its the game, cos it runs quite slow, it does it wit me, but my mouse is fine..... you need to make sure you hold down the mouse for a while before you move it, iv subbed the wrong person many a time like that  :evil:

:nod:  I gave up on FM05 a while ago really, just does not like my machine - sloooowwwww! :evil:

well i run it on my laptop i think its about a 1.8 GHZ or sumin and its still slow.... hopefully they have sorted 2006, but im kinda used to it now, and its not too bad nemore

My machine is a 2.4 GHZ celeron, so surely it should be fine - I have plenty of memory too I think. :angry:

my home one is a P4 2.8ghz with 1meg ram and it runs sweet.
not as good as my work pc though. P4 3.6ghz 1.5meg ram 8)

it sounds stupid.... but it might be to do wit the graphics card... cos i have a fucking snooker game of all things, and it wont run cos of the graphics  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I unplug my Broadband when i run FM as it does make it go alot quicker.

I have a laptop and 2.2gig celery processor thing with 512mb of memory. I think it is graphics because my laptop has integrated (no seperate graphics card) and fm/cm always seems slow. It's depressing  :|

hope 2006 brings some good updates, i played the demo, but not long enough to see if some had gone.... things like when players are out injured for a while, so u put them in the reserves to get back to fitness they always whine that they are playin reserves.... that really gets on my tits..... also i was predicted for relegation, and i am sitting in 5th in the championship wit bolton, then i played huddersfield and they said it was a key game in the relegation battle.... and also huddersfield were 12th..... it makes no sense  :?

My FM2005 is really fast, but when i installed the updates it slowed it like fuck. Just don't install them and you have no problem.

Yeah i havent bothered with the updates but thats more to do with not restarting my game that ive had going for 10+ seasons, just install the patches.

For some reason my current Everton game wont load!, i press 'load last game' and it shuts down and says 'save game wont load'. Has anybody else ever had this happen?.

Yes I did spuddy. UNfortunately it will never load :(

 :evil: i love wasting 11 seasons worth of FM!

It's shite I know. Now I know why that annoying autosave option is useful

But that wouldnt have solved the problem?, its not going to load the game regardless of how i save it.

I had a great Everton team aswell.... :cry:

There's an option that saves versions of each game each time it autosaves. So you can go back to the save before last. In other words it doesn't save over the game, but create a new copy of it. Therefore you only lose a month and not an entire season or 11

SHITE!  :evil:

Im seriously considering snapping the disc.

So there are no other versions in your save game folder?

BY the way has anyone got the player 'Lebohang Mokoena' from South Efrika. Fucking brilliant in my game  :P

Yes but i dont really want to re-do what ive already done.

Mokoena is alright it depends who you sign him for though.

I always try and get him on FM, he is the mutts nuts :D

Look out for a South African winger called Thando Mnegomeni, signed him for Q.P.R and he had an average rating of 8.78 with plenty of MOM awards,assists and goals.

He doesnt come into the game till a few years in though.

My assisstant manager always tells me not to sign people, but then I sign them for free and they play amazing and are worth millions. That's where the game's shite in my view

Yep my scouts recommend people who sometimes have an average rating of 5.70 at their current club.