Christ got all this money and no-one will come!!

The ironing is delicious....

Humped Partick Thislte 3-0 away from home. Alan Gow hat-trick!!!!

Gow has been a great signing with 12 goals in 10 games

GIRUY, I gubbed them 4-0

And I missed a penalty.

The game's too easy. I'm unbeaten, top of the league and in the Bells Cup final. My Clyde team's decent but my tactics outwit every other manager easily.

David, I used a pre-set tactic and was top of the league with Clyde. It's not too difficult when the players have been over-rated, sorry, rated 100% accurately

Bradley's the only one that's slightly over the top

St Mirren have sold all their good players and signed diddies. Dundee were level with me until Brechin managed to beat them.

anyone know how to speed up a network game it keep stopping every 15 mins or so and it took 1 hour to play a week

Get the host a faster computer.

I tried to host on my shit-heap and it was slow as f'ck, but my pals hosting now and its much faster!

Started a new game as Morton, sold Chris Millar and Jim McAlister to Hibs for £250,000 each and signed Carrigan and McEwan from Accies, Gav Skelton from Gretna, Brighton from Clyde, Strachan from Thistle, Canning and Webb from County. Did ok was 1st for most the first half of the season, then we got to Jan and I sold Templeman for £350,000 to Aberdeen and exchanged Gonet our reserve keeper for Main, Also signed Graham from Gretna and signed the sacked Gus as my new assistant. I did ok and was first untill a lost a vital game v Gretna and Thistle went top with 5 games left, with 2 games to go thistle were top by 2 points in the 89th min of the 2nd last game I was costing to a 2-0 win against Forfar, but Thistile were beating ten man Gretna 3-1 at Home, I was fearing the play offs. When my game had finished it turned out Gretna score twice in injury time to draw and send me top on GD , I won the last game and won the title .

The next season I sold Brighton to Dundee utd for £500,000 after he got 7.85 average, Jason Walker to hibs for £250,000 and Jim McAlister (who got a average of 7.57 that year for me), Webb to St J, Greacan to livy for £250,000. Signed Nish from killie, McInnes, Gow, Smith from St Mirren and a few others, won the league quite easy and the BCC for the 2nd time.

Current season in the Spl, freed a few fringe players, sold Jim McAlister for a million to Celtic then Loaned him back the next week . Sold Carrigan to Clyde, Canning to Raith, Graham to County. Signed Fowler from Killie, Hutton and McCormack from Rangers, Maloney from Celtic, Sicilla from At Madrid and Ollor from Sociedad.

-----------------McEwan---------------
Hutton------Sicilla--------Weatherson------Fowler
A. Walker-------Maloney------McInnes------McAlister
------------Nish--------McCormack---------

I've just finished what you get in the demo as Falkirk, and have done not bad. 8th, 7 points clear of Dunfermline who are bottom,

Can I load this saved demo when I get the full game?

Yes

Yes. Yes you can.

I theng you!

Shall be ordering it tomorrow.

Finished my 1st season with ICT in 6th place, started really well and I was in 4th for most of the season. Only won 1 game in my last 10 though.

Wise choice. Prepare for your social life over the next week or two to slowly get eroded

You gave me an idea with your last post though. Time to try and keep Falkirk up

You want to be signing Steve McManaman on a free, Stephen McManus on loan from Celtic, and starting with a 4-4-2 attacking, with the deadly duo of Moutinho and Duffy up op (24 goals between them in half a season)

Tiago is fucking brilliant too

I know about Moutinho from a previous game (signed him for Saints and he was shit hot). Unfortunately, he's injured at the start.

I've not signed anyone yet, so my current team is...

----------Glennon
Lawrie Tiago Ireland McPherson
Ross Latapy Thomson O'Donnell
---------Gow Duffy

*Using the 4-4-2 Free default tactic BTW

Get Kenny Milne in at left mid, the guy is fuckin immense! his stats the last time I looked were 9-8-8-8-9-8

McManaman in for Ross.

Latapy subbed by Lima after about 60mins as he gets tired.

get McManus in and McPherson out.

Glennon is magic at penalties!

In my mates game Dunfermline have signed: Ugo Ehioug(spelling!), Costacurta and Naybet! Dundee have got Nicky Butt on loan.

I take it you mean saving them? there was meant to be a bug in the demo which meant that basically no one can score from the penalty spot. Supposed to have been fixed for the full release.

Aye, saving them. They must have fixed the bug for the demo, because I've only seen a handful missed. A couple by Duffy and the rest Glennon saved. Duffy and Moutinho have both scored penalties in my demo.

Anyone else been beaten in a penalty shootout only to be awarded a victory? Lost 3-1 in a shootout, but was awarded a 3-0 win?

Yep, I lost, got ripped into the players, and was told I'd won it.

It happened to me in the Bells Cup Final in one of my games. GIRUY Clyde!

Its a bug that should be fixed with the patch

It was. Now I lose penalty shoot-outs fairly

I don;t get as far as shootouts! I just lose!

I made it through two shoot-outs during my victorious Challenge Cup run.

Hinchcliffe is quality at saving them, three in-a-row against Partick!

No I mean the actual in game clock once we have hit continue (takes long enough) it just goes to like 15 minutes in-game time later is there like a option where you can just stop it say once a day for instance.

Whoops! In a PC "spring-cleaning" frenzy, I deleted all but 2 of my FM saved games

Since I'm struggling to get anything out of my St Johnstone game, and the other one is in it's early stages, I'm going to start one as Hibs and see if I can hold onto any of their big assets

Edit - change of plan - the "higher" Scottish leagues are boring me. Time to take up the LLM challenge

This just happened to me - about to start my third season, season one i won the scottish cup with st mirren after an easy route to the final, was then sacked after applying for the valencia job which unsettled my position, despite valencia laughing at my application, went to argentina for a month which i won 1 and lost 4 games, then took over notts county in november who were sitting 11th, and finished 3rd to win automatic promotion.

Close season before season 3, and this has came out of the blue

I cant remember the name of the setting but you can change how "sensitive" it is to interruption while its processing. Look through the settings page of the manual

Congrats. Shall you be changing your name to Berti?

I just won the u19 euro championships without conceding a goal, what a fine bunch of youngsters scotland has - 2 of my players averaged 9 in 6 games

I really want to go back to FM05.

Won Euro2012 as Scotland, got halfway through the next season andFM06 came out, and I've yet to go back.

Well, my LLM adventure has been started with Montrose (totally random choice), and after 11 games I'm sitting 5 points clear at the top of Division 3

I got to the 3rd round of the Challenge Cup as well, beating Stirling and Albion Rovers (both on penalties) to get there, and got knocked out by Partick Thistle in extra time. The final score was 4-3, but I'd went 2-1 and 3-2 ahead in normal time. Stranraer put me out of the League Cup at the first hurdle.

My Network-Mate got beat 11-0 by Caley in the 3rd round of the Scottish Cup.

He beat me 3-1 in a game with fourteen yellows!

I've into the 4th round of the Scottish, away to Celtic

In what I hope is an omen for this weekend, I have just lifted the Bells Challenge Cup with the Saints albeit it was St J we beat in the final and not Accies.

In another case of FM imitating real life, Iain Scott has just been sacked and Alex McLeish is facing the chop as well

LLM is going too well. I'm into February, and have Montrose sitting 17 points clear at the top of the league, having only lost one league game all season. I got to the 3rd round of the Scottish Cup as well, but lost 2-0 to Falkirk in a very even match

On the squad side of things, I've broght Gs MacPherson in as player/coach to replace Jamie MacKenzie, whose loan deal at Hibs ended in January, and I've turned down offers of £250k for Steven McGlinchey, who has scored 35 goals in 27 games. He's out of contract at the end of the season though, so hopefully he'll sign a new deal in the near future.

Christ I must be shit at this game!

Everyone else is doing brilliantly and I am floundering!

I've been telling you to resign...

try the 5-3-2 sweeper formation, thats my formation for scotland and im 1 game away from getting qualification for the euro championships if i can draw with the spaniards

Finished my first season, and won promotion easily with a record of...

Played 36
Won 28
Drawn 7
Lost 1
Goals For 93
Goals Against 26
Goal Difference +67
Points 91

My closest challengers were Arbroath, but they finished 33 points off the pace!

I did help my chances with a run of 30 league games (the last 30) without defeat, and Arbroath were the only Third Division team to beat me over the course of the season.

Unfortunately, I'm losing Steve McGlinchey to Hibs, who are paying £60k compensation, but I'm bringing in Don Cowie and David Graham to strengthen the squad. I've also been rewarded with a 3 year contract at the club, which I intend to see out, reaching the SPL in the process

Mon ra Lichties!

Codfish - what is LLM?

Lower League Management I would presume?

Sacked! Bloody St Mirren board.

Got the Stirling Albion job - in 9th, with 2 games left.

3 points behind 8th, and 6 points behind 5th.

It'll be tough, but i'm aiming at survival in the 2nd.

Yep. Too much time spent on the SI Games forums methinks

Gers offered me 10K for Keano (he was valued at about 22K) and I laughed in their face, said give me 500K and I will maybe think about it.

They then called my bluff and did offer me 500K

So, of course with heavy heart I had to accept it

To make matters worse Keano then says Rangers are "the only club he ever wanted to play for" and his value shot up to 800K

Sometimes I feel like Dougal in Father Ted and struggle to differentiate between Football Manager world and the real football world!

If I end up playing late tomorrow night I'll end up booing Keano by mistake at the final on Sunday

I'm losing it 10 games without a win, my three main strikers, Gow, Peacock & Donnelly are out so I have to make do with Williams & Bradley up front Still 4th however, just passed into December

Not having the best time at the moment. 4th in the league and out of bells cup and league cup. Scottish Cup 4th round tie coming up against Inverness away.

Sold Kirky to Southampton for 700k, McKenna to Northampton for 50k and Lappin to Colchester for 700k but the board still won't give me any transfer funds.