Only problem is there is no opportunity to loan any additional players till the 2nd season, rendering any parent club tie up useless.

Has anyone tried playing with Southampton in the Championship??? I expected it to be a walk in the park, ended up finishing 19th - and only down to a strong second half - and getting sacked.

Gutted!

This game is really getting on my tits.I dont know why it dosent work every time i try to play It says it is low on memory im thinking of handing it back in and getting it for the ps2 instead seems a lot less hassle.

Agree with Casper Rose above about cleaning the machine and not running anything else.

How much RAM does your machine have?

How much RAM does your machine have?
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How would i find that out ?

My Computer
On the left somthing should say system tasks
Under system tasks click view system information.

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thats it

Game arrived thru the post today. Going as the Saints first up.

Signed Grady on a free and Stanger, Lawson and Jamie Winter on loan. Tiger has just gone on loan to Clyde for 6 months.

Playing 3-5-2 but still not sure of my best starting XI. Still at the pre-season friendlies stage.

Any advice from anyone who has started as St Mirren in 07?

I always right-click "My Computer" and select properties. same difference though.

Should be down the bottom of the screen that pops up.

This is all if you are using windows XP of course. might be similar in 2000, but after that, you're knacked.

Got him on loan for Queens and he was awesome something like 17 goals in 17 games. That was only in the demo though was marooned in relegation when it ended (the demo only runs til January!) In my proper game I'm in my fourth season as Liverpool! A young Rangers goalie Gerard McNab became a star in my Liverpool game could be worth considering?

He isnt in my game

He'll be a random, they tend to pop up. The 2 Aberdeen games I Started, both times got a random young keeper signing.

i think there is a bug with penaltys as ever penalty iv taken or been against, the kepper has saved them

Nah, just pish poor pen takers

well im in a piss league

Fuckin McMaster accepted a bid for me from Arsenal, i'm heavy pissed aff because its such shite price, £1.7 Million is 10x less than what i want for myself

I'm managing under a pseudonym, btw

Ya dancer! Another last day of the season effort, scraped a 1-0 win at home to Arbroath on the final day to seal it. Going into the playoffs againt my bogey team QoS would not have filled me with much confidence. 2 promotions in 3 seasons, when will the bubble burst?

Was quite pleased considering Stanger and Callaghan, 2 of my first choice picks, started 11 and 18 games between them all season due to injury. Having said that, if Onibuje had got injured I'd have been lucky to stay up, never mind win the thing.

Also in this game, MoN is back at Sellick after Strachan went to Liverpool, and Levein is back at Hearts

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My keeper had a light injury at half-time, and I assumed it was OK to replace him, what with the 3-1 lead!

I'm four seasons into a game and Martin O'Neill has returned to Celtic and since been replaced by Davie Moyes, this is after Rangers winning the league every time! Paul Le Guen is the Real Madrid manager!

I'm within touching distance now of the SPL title after a 4-2 win over Dundee United. Hearts stand in my way and a win against them will seal the SPL title for the Jags!!!

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Chris Dewar scores 4, eh?

Simply superb

Struggling with my first season as St Mirren with 5 defeats on the spin

Have replaced Smith with Bullock in nets and switched from 3-5-2 to 4-4-2 to see if results improve

f**k me I never knew they made it for the Amstrad.

Does anyone know if there's a trigger for your team to become full-time?

Hardly anyone will sign for me on loan and I think it's partly because of the fact my club status is still listed as semi-pro, although I'm in division 1. My entire first team squad are on F/T contracts though.

Obviously IRL there are teams in Div 1 like QoS (and others in the past) who are part-time so it's not unrealistic, just wondering if I can get the board to change it.

Anyway, here's one for crazy matches. League cup tie away to Arbroath, they go down to 10 men early on, I have a man sent off on the hour. I go 1-0 up but lose a 90th minute equaliser.

Into the second half of ET, and they have used all their subs- they get one man injured, so down to 9 men, and play a 4-4-0. Just as I'm about to change my formation, they get another man injured, so it's 10 on 8. I fire 4 up front for the last 10 minutes, hoping to take advantage- then comes this message with 5 to go "Arbroath have changed to an attacking formation". I click on the formation screen and the attached was there.

You'd think that even with 5 to play there would be goals, but despite having 4 absolute sitters in that time it went to penalties. I won 4-2, but as my keeper went up to take the vital kick, it said "Harris feels that was never a penalty"

a just took it oot of my FM story in Microsoft word lol

I seemingly just changed from a 4231 formation to a.........4231 formation. Thanks for that.

I thought they had fixed that in the patch?

Add in the Belarus leagues, there a lot of quite good youngsters there, Alexander Hlebs brother plays for Hearts' feeder club, MTZ and is available for a knockdown price of 250k

Just downloading the current patch, as fed up getting 5/6 injuries every week. However it is saying it takes 2 hours to download. Is this the norm?

Grr 2 hours 4mins to go and only 10% so far. zzzz

Oi!!! Come on monkey's!! Someone reply.

It depends what speed your connection is. I think mine took 40 minutes on broadband...

I'm on broadband. Nothing takes this long. I think I should have maybe re-started my pc. Pc always seems to run slow after I have had football manager on

Has anyone else got sick of playing the FM games due to the amount of bugs there are?

Mine's has lay in the box for months.

My game keeps crashing and seem to have an injury crises nearly every week.

This and pro-evo are the only games I play and pretty much lost interest in both now. Give me poker everyday of the week

I don't think I've ever really enjoyed a CM/FM game since 01/02. The ones since then have been bug-filled inferior versions.

Seems like a bargain.

I've not really had any serious problem with bugs.

The only ones I've had problems with are the not claling back from reserves after injury and the high appearance fees, and they are both easily fixed.

Does anyone know where i could get the french national club kits ?

Indeed, I started a new season with Preston North End in Champ Man 01/02 last night and it is miles better than FM. I actually forgot how good it was!

Started a Game with Raith won promotion through the play-offs.

Players in:

Jamie Mcdonald(Hearts)
Alan Rattray(Forfar)
Charlie King(Brechin)
Tomana(stirling)
gomis(cowdenbeath)
konte(hibs)
templeton(stenny)
michie(peterhead)
Nicholls and Sheilds(gretna)

I Always thought most Falkirk fans were closet Raith fans

Has anyone gone St Mirren from the off and managed to keep them in the SPL? And if so, please tell me how cos it's driving me mad.

I've got about 9 games to go in this season and am rock bottom, about 7 points off safety. I have tried endless systems, changed the players about but to no avail. The constant chain of defeats would be depressing if it wasn't for the fact that it highlights how well the real team has done this year!

How exactly? Have you been through the editor and changed all of the other clubs appearance fees?

It is when you consider on the last version he was woth a lot more than that, and still only 23