I would have probably wanred Weatherson too but like someone had already said, you should have replaced him at half time.

The thing is though, you shouldn't warn players for ONE poor performance, it should be for performing poorly constantly.

Same goes for fining players for getting sent off, I only do that after they have been sent off more than twice that season.

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And according to the commentary, two of the red cards were for two footed lunges!

Couldn't be arsed with St Johnstone so resigned after finishing the season in 3rd place (They were last when i signed for them in January) and this is now the latest from my game 4-0 win over none other than MK Dons

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Never seen this either

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I mean "Who Cares?"

No offence but you can't have played Champ Man or FM for that long then?

I've been playing it for months

PS Why would I take offence

I had a disgusting end to the season with my Spurs team. I was all set up to take my first step into the CL with the club and then after a poor performace against Dortmund in the UEFA Cup my season fell apart. Rafinha was called up for Gold Cup duty so I had to play Cicinho at right back. His stats might look good but he plays like a wee school kid making so many errors it is unreal. However he wasn't the only one. In one of my games, I think v Coventry, Moutinho decided to take a throw in from the half way line and play it back to Robinson who was in his own box. My defenders left it, Robinson ran out but the Coventry striker got to it first and lobbed him

I lost 1 - 0 to Liverpool in the match that saw them win the title and me finish in 5th. For the final 2 weeks of the season I was playing about 4 games a week because I had a backlog due to success in Europe and at Home in the Cup as well.

Now things are getting worse. Tevez ztill won't sign a contract and now Liverpool have made a bid for him. The thought of a front 2 of Tevez and Cisse is frightening. Cisse scored 39 goals in 41 games last season. I think the person who did Liverpool was taking the piss somewhat

So heading out of Spurs this summer are Carrick, Murphy and Tevez (likely) along with some youngsters. Coming in are Kallstrom to replace Carrick and provide competition for Moutinho and Iakavenko in the centre of midfield. Also arriving is Garay from Barca, a cracking centre half. Silva arrives to take up the left midfield role left vacant since Iakavenko moved infield to greater effect. Grohe, a Brazilian keep arrives, to provide backup to Robinson since Cerny had a mental breakdown (). Leighton Baines is coming in from Wigan to give me a solid left back and hopefully link well with Silva.

In theory it will be a very solid squad but they are all very young. My average age I think is round about 23 and I am looking to sign Vanden Borre - a good right sided player apparently - to link with Rafinha on the right. If possible I will go for Fred from Lyon to partner Defoe and the major overhaul will, hopefully, be complete

I negotiated a new 3 year deal with Spurs plus a further ground expansion so they are working on that as we speak

EDIT: Tevez has now agreed a deal with Liverpool. I put him in my Under 18 squad

Twats!

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Through to the Semi of the UEFA Cup after coming back from a 2-1 first leg defeat to beat Schalke 04 4-0 away from home, Vyacheslav Hleb bagging all four. What made it funnier was I had major injury/suspension problems, leaving me with a patchwork back four of:

Stephen Jordan (first choice left back) - Andriy Rusol (recovering from injury) - Nedum Onouha (reserve defender) - whoever the f**k my back-up left back is.

I also had a reserve midfielder playing wide left, and a rejigged frontline. Like Andy's Spurs team, Schalke defenders kept playing the ball back to the keeper, but finding my strikers instead.

Vewy Pwoud though, vewy pwoud

Started a new game with Man Utd. Never been them before in any FM/CM game. Reckon I'll make it a challenge for myself by trying to win CL twice in a row in game within 10 seasons, using only English players.

Just 2 games into the season so far, a 1-1 draw against Charlton at Old Trafford was fairly disappointing but then made up for it with a 5-0 win against Blackburn away.

Would have been more of a challenge doing that with Arsenal. Actually it woulda been more of a challenge finding an Englishman in the Arsenal squad

The sortitoutsi.net site is a joke its been down for a few days now.

I switched West Brom and Raith, and then cleared the Raith squad out and took 18 players from the Prem.

I didn't take any World Class players, really, my best player is Roy Keane, and there isn't really anyone else like him in my team. I also put a wee version of me in tae

My team is a bit too good though, think its a bit better than I hoped it would be. I'm mid-table after a while in the season, and i've drawn 0-0 with Inter and beaten Debrecen 2-1 away in my Champions League group (I stole Villareal's place)

I'm having major injury problems, which is bad news when i've got a maximum of 18, and I think the smallest number of available players i've had on a match day is 12.

http://www.throw-in.com is just as good anyway

Seen this screenie today.

Can just imagine lots of kids running around Port of Spain in their Livvy tops.

Ha ha that's great, Livi wouldn't have even existed when he was a child!

Have started a new game as Milan manager.

Out go Simic, Seedorf, Costacurta and loads of the pther old guys.

In come Messi, Lagos, Aissati, Sneijder, Van Der Vaart, Kallstrom, Vanden Borre, Kompany, Craig Gordon, Maxwell, Tevez, Riordan and Charlie Adam.

Spent nearly all my transfer budget for the season, the above lot cost about £60 million, but I got around £30m for all the players I booted out the door.

I have had a good start to the season, top of the league by 2 points from Inter after 8 games. Also top of my Champions League Group. Had a 3-3 draw with Udinese away in my last game - late goals from Gilardinho and Vieri getting me a point having been 3-1 down with 5 minutes to go.

1andymclaren how did you get your background of the morton stadium and how could i do this with other scottish teams

Made it through to the final on away goals after a 2-1 home win over Newcastle, following a 4-3 defeat at St James Park. More importantly though, I've just won the league! With two games to go I was a point behind Arsenal with Man Utd and mid-table Wolves to play, whereas they had Watford and Aston Villa, both at the arse end of the league.

They cuffed Watford 5-2 after I'd beaten Man Utd 3-1 (van der Sar sent off near the end for a professional foul outside the area after they'd used three subs - Ruud van Nistelrooy had no chance with the free kick ). Then, implausibly, Arsenal got beat 2-1 by Villa thanks to a last minute goal, while I beat Wolves 2-0. Immense end to the season, and still the "EURO Cup" to play, against Sevilla

And a 2-1 win over Sevilla seals the double

I've got four strikers who I rotate in a front two (though they're versatile so sometimes play in midfield too), and the three I play most often have 25, 24 and 23 goals for the season. That's just bloody immense!

Go into

C://Program Files/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2006/data/skins/turnstyle/backgrounds

and put the picture of the Cowshed into there and changed the name to "default.jpg".


REPLACE TURNSTYLE IN THE PATH ABOVE TO WHICHEVER SKIN YOU USE

C'nt

A few screenshots

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I only got it today and only installed it an hour ago so you can all laugh at the default setting being on.
Least I beat the Jags

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In a pre-season friendly? Well done!

Save your screenshots as a JPG/JPEG in the future.

www.fmunderground.net

good site

In August, I have East Stirling to 4th in Division 3.

I'm about to start a new game with a Scottish or English team.....Any suggestions on who I should go?

Bannedchester City?
Bannedchester United?

Have completed my first season as Milan boss. Won the Scuddeto and the Champions League. Only two defeats all season, both to Juventus in the Coppa Italia quarter finals (no excuses, full team both time). The highlight of the season had to be a 7-1 away win over Lokomotiv Moscow in the 1st KO round of the champions league, closely followed by a 5-2 home win against Arsenal in the Semi-Final.

Shevchenko was the main man with 40 goals for the season, closely followed by Tevez and Gilardinho who both got 20+. Not bringing many new faces in for the new season as my squad is already too big, but i have brought in Guarin for £1m and Cassano on a free. Trying to get rid of several of the older players, like Maldini, Vieri and Costacurta, but nobody is interested in them (probably due to the huge wages they are on).

Going to start my 1st new game in months

I think i will go Newcastle as i have an obsession with the intertoto cup

My game doesn't appear to be able to load anymore? It appears in the list of saved games but when I load it up it crashes and I get booted out into Windows - any ideas?

A possibility is that you have saved a game then shut down/reset your PC without exiting FM? I did this once and it cost me my saved game. If you have done this there is no way to get it back I'm afraid.

That's the only thing I can think of.

Anybody wants skins help n that sortitoutsi.net is the best on the scene.

I am currently in the middle of winning the premiership with Southport i am top in my 20th season at new year

i'll get screenys up tomorrow

Wow, I haven't posted on here for some time. I finsihed the 2006-2007 season with my STENHOUSEMUIR team still in the second division after raith Rovers beat me in the playoff final. However, my 2007-2008 season was simply superb, I played the entire season in one night (until 5am! ). I sniffed around Premiership clubs in an attempt to sign any decent young players and brough in Sam Williamson, while also signing Craig Parker from Montrose (he starts off on a free), Billy Brawley, Ross Forsyth, some Swedish goalie from Hearts, Stuart Wall and Nathan D'Laryea on a free from Man City. All have proved to be superb players. I have actually never see so many WTD next to my squad (I reckon only four or five players from the 22 wasn't wanted)!

I romped to the second division title, winning it by ten points. I also had some decent cup tuns, missing out on the Challenge Cup semi final to St Mirren, and was put out of the League Cup and Scottish Cup by Rangers and Livingston respectively. Not bad going.

I even managed to sell Davie Templeton to Man Utd for £5 million () and so have tonnes of money to bring in new players. I'm trying to sign Markus Paatelinaen from Cowden, and despite the fact I'm offering ten times his wages, he won't come! I need two good strikers and fast. Please, help me!

shibazz baidooo from qpr is shit hot

Ian Harty
Alex Williams
Derek Lilley

All good

Adding to that list

Graham Weir
Andy Thomson
Mixu Paatlinen

Kjartan Henry Finnbogason. Celtic.

No idea how willing they'll be to loan him out in 2008/09.

can't get the morton third top to work to work any ides

Been a while since I posted on here, so a quick update is in order....

I fancied setting myself a wee challenge - starting a Scottish season in January 2006, I wanted to see what Bosman signings I could attract to one of the Old Firm clubs, and then see how I could do at home and abroad. I went the bigots in blue, and added the pre-contract signings of Gary McDonald, Ivan Cuadrado, Michael Chopra and Alex Hleb's wee brother to the purchase of Maris Verpakovskis during the transfer window, and went on to win the SPL, get to the semi final of the Scottish Cup and UEFA Cup, and lose the final of the League Cup. In my first full season, I won the league again, got beaten by Celtic in both domestic cup finals, and lost in the final of the Champions League to Chelsea, having knocked out Barcelona, Juventus and Bayern Munich on the way there.

I'm taking a break from that one though, and have re-started at the Strathclyde Homes Standium to see if I'm any better than Paul Martin

Hmmm, well I was saving a game and pressed the Windows key by accident. I wonder if this had a similar effect. FM did manage to shut down as normal in the background as far as I could tell. Doesn't look good - probably a good thing actually. Although I'll have to start again at least I can get on with some work and leave the game tillt he summer when I might get a wee bittie more bored

Have went Southampton and have sold all their players minus 2- a Swedish right back and young Nathan Dyer. I have been buying random mexicans, columbians etc who are class for about 350k each Sold my whole team apart from the 2 and made 10 million.

Played 1 game away to Crewe was 3-0 up at the break by the 65th minute was losing 4-3 Then lost a player to injury and seeing as though i had used all my subs i now had 10 men. Played a 3-2-4. Won 5-4

Now to lead them to the promise land

No, this wont have any effect on it. I use the windows key during playing and saving all the time. That isn't the problem here.

Arse bandits! Not sure why it won't load then

Will visit the SI Forums at some point

Is it just me or is the second season in your FM game the hardest?

Well i finished 1st in Division 1 with a 13 point lead so, not for me it wasn' the hardest

Hardest season is the first time your in the SPL, assuming you start with a lower league team like i started with Morton.



PS - Out of interest which team do you support Cas?

Played a game with Hearts for 2 and a half hours, i was 2 seconds away from finishing saving and the power went off. SO PISSED OFF This was last night like.

I had an immense squad too which took me ages to do

Harchester

edit: I think that the second season is the hardest although others might disagree.