Football Manager 2010

[Samdy Gray]

I started a new game with sugar daddy enabled but still only got £60k and the board wouldn't give any more.

[sonicyouth]

it might be linked to reputation or something.

[Simon Pieman]

What role are people playing Austin in? I'm finding his stats are going up nicely, still on the general training and no good coaches. I'm only allowed a combined total of 5 coaches in the first season so have left it all alone for now. I'm considering making tailored schedules for individual players in the first team though.

[sonicyouth]

austin is very inconsistent for me, seems to only like playing as a poacher (in the wizard tactics thing). one match he'll score a hattrick, the next he'll get subbed off at half-time.

[Simon Pieman]

I play him as a poacher too, but usually run with ball sometimes instead of often. Sears has been keeping him out of the side though.

Think I may need him to stop playing with back to goal, which seems to be a move of his. It kind of counteracts being a poacher and the other moves of beating the offside trap and shooting first time.

[DV]

I find (and have done in all the FM games) that the striker who plays on the left hand side of the front two scores more.

[Simon Pieman]

Has anyone come across a trick to score from corners? I think I may have found a bug in the game.

[sonicyouth]

yeah, there is a bug - it's been well reported/discussed on the official forums.

[axs]

Has anyone come across a trick to score from corners? I think I may have found a bug in the game.

Is it by taking them short? or making sure you hit the first defenders head?

[sonicyouth]

it's the short option, sort of. even though my corners are set up for greer to attack far post, i occasionally see my short option/lurk outside area player bang one in

[sonicyouth]

quite pleased with this result

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[Simon Pieman]

Pack out the 6 yard box but leave one player to lurk outside the area. The kicker should take the corner to that player, if not you can tell him to put it in the 'penalty area'. The computer just doesn't mark this player at all for some reason which usually means a free shot. Given that the computer doesn't learn from the error I think it's a bug.

The other 'bug' I've noticed with corners is that the computer got a few chances by passing it to a player short (in nearest the corner of the 18 yard box) who somehow loses a marker on a regular basis. I seem to have stopped these opportunities by setting a player to close down the corner. Dunno whether it just puts them off but it somehow works.

I only browse the official forum now and again. It's got to so much information overload I tend to ignore it and try my own things now. I've found by implementing changes one at a time you can work out which parts are working and which parts are not.

[sonicyouth]

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used a tactic off the si forums and tweaked it game-by-game. i g

[oxford_fan]

holy moly you scored a lot.

i bought fm10 about a month ago but haven't played it for more than an hour. downloaded tactics suck big hairy dog balls though

[Leggett]

i decided i fancied a game with lots of money and some easy games. so, Notts County, using the 1.02 update!

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my transfers so far.

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and my squad. not too shabby at the moment, ade panicbuy-e is quite good, annoyingly lee hughes isnt too shabby either. he's on the transfer list though, as he's a cunt.

after 4 games i'm top by a point, woop! only scored 5, but i've only conceded twice. However, my main achievement has been first of all, pitching Leicester out of the League cup 3-2 (thanks to a Lee Hughes 94th-minute winner. Then, in the second round, taking Cardiff into extra time at their stadium, where mr Lee Hughes poped up in the 108th minute to score the winner to make it 2-1 to me. lovely!