Footy Manager 08

[swindonbob]

Unbelievably i have now been promoted to the premier league, i shit you not.

Into the Champ after a season, spent a dodgy season in Champ but managed to stay up, bought some your brazilians who are amazing, and have managed to get promoted to the prem.

Nothing a takeover and bit of cash cant achieve

Any names of these boys???

[tans]

Sonic where do you get the premier league badges on FM08? I am going to buy this today!  

http://www.sortitoutsi.net Gazza

[Chubbs]

Unbelievably i have now been promoted to the premier league, i shit you not.

Into the Champ after a season, spent a dodgy season in Champ but managed to stay up, bought some your brazilians who are amazing, and have managed to get promoted to the prem.

Nothing a takeover and bit of cash cant achieve

Any names of these boys???

im on a different PC but heres some off the top of my head.

Alex
Pedro
Edmundo

Also try and get some of arsenals reserves

vincent Van de berg
nacer brazite (sp)

I'll post some more later

[Simon Pieman]

I must finish re-building my computer this week  :|

[sonic youth]

anyone needing a left-back for £5m-ish, i wholeheartedly recommend christian pander of schalke.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a251/jehst/pander.png

[sonic youth]

Finished my first full season, little disappointed but Chelsea romped away with the title, racking up 100 points in the end so it would have taken a herculean effort to catch them. I managed to beat them 4-1 in the FA Cup final though, so all is not lost

The rebuild begins...

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a251/jehst/season0708.png
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a251/jehst/squad0708.png

my favourite player! Absolutely solid for me, can't recommend him highly enough
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a251/jehst/pander-1.png

[flammableBen]

You have to change his picture so he looks like a panda. It's the law.

[sonic youth]

is anyuone playing this or is it just me?

anyway, i had an "overhaul" this summer at the arse.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a251/jehst/transfers08.png

[yeo]

Jens Lehmann unhappy...surely not

[Chubbs]

Im bored of my swindon game, just trying to find another team to play with

[redbullzeye]

Playing FIFA Manager 2008, Swindon are shite, the County Ground looks nothing like it does in real life but the accounts are in the black

[Simon Pieman]

Is this game any good? I'm tempted to get it tonight, but I barely played 2007.

[redbullzeye]

It's not as in depth or realistic as FM08 but I haven't got the time to spend hours trawling through player stats.  The 3D match engine is along the lines of FIFA 08 and is pretty entertaining although the commentary is dire.  Setting up tactics - players movements, free kicks and corners do make quite a difference to the gameplay, usually for the worse as players get knackered as I have them running too far to get back into position.  I've found the assistants and coaches useful as it leaves me to concentrate on the first team but this will change as I get more used to the game.  If you have played FIFA Manager before you will find the menus and layouts ok but it's not very intuitive.  Haven't really got stuck into the stadium editor yet as I need more money to build a triple decker where the Arkells is.  It's very disappointing that you can't change the backdrop of the stadium although there may be something on the net that allows this. Consequently, Swindon and every other urban ground is hemmed in by skyscrapers and they haven't bothered to model the ground correctly. There are loads of other features such as starting a club from scratch, inventing badges and kit design, creating a family! that are fine but not really central to the game.  The Swindon players stats are pretty good as in the first couple of games Cox has scored 5 times, Ifil is the best defender by miles and the Boob wanders down the left wing but won't bloody cross.

[Simon Pieman]

Haha I meant FM08. Cheers for the review though

[redbullzeye]

You're welcome :scribe: