Boavista drew 1-1 with Valencia!

EASY EASY!

I'm into the quarter finals of the champions league without Kevin McGlinchey! - that boy has got to stop getting injured

2nd round
Clyde 1-3 Lyon
Clyde 4-1 Lyon (AET Clyde win on silver goals rule) :thumpsup2

Quarter Final
FC Bayern 1-5 Clyde

How can I lose

Finally remembered to take my copy of FM 2006 back to Aberdeen so I can actually contribute to this thread! Well, let everyone know who shite I am at this game.

Decided on making a new Super League tonight on the Editor. I had one on FM2005, but I hadn't really thought it out too well and so I deleted it. Hopefully this weill be better.

I've replaced the English Leagues with it, but couldn't be bothered tinkering about with European football, as it will become nothing but a distraction now.

To create a bit of fairness and a LOT of transfer activity, I have given each club in the leagues a revised equal transfer balance and repuation depending on the league, and cleared all debts within each club. I have also turned off the EU rulings for the sake of non-EU sides plaing in the English league. The bank balances are as follows:

Premiership clubs have a bank balance of £300m, every Championship Club: £250m, League One: £250m, League Two: £200m, Conference National: £150m, Conference North and South: £150m

They are pretty European Heavy until you move futher down the leauges, I have also given Scotland and England more than their fair balance of clubs and have also put St. Mirren and Morton in the Conference North for my own pleasure!

Here's the leagues:

Premiership:

Arsenal
Chelsea
Liverpool
Man Utd
AC Milan
Juventus
Inter Milan
Real Madrid
Barcelona
Valencia
Villareal
Lyon
Bayern Munich
Werder Bremen
Schalke
Ajax
PSV
Olympiakos
Benfica
Celtic ( )

Championship:

Tottenham
Everton
Newcastle
Rangers
Sevilla
Deportivo
R. Betis
Dortmund
Marseille
Monaco
Roma
Lazio
Fiorentina
Parma
Feyenoord
CSKA Moscow
River Plate
Boca
Sao Paulo
Fenerbahce
Anderlecht
Sparta Prague
Rosenborg
Porto

League One:
Sp. Lisbon
At. Madrid
Real Zaragoza
D. Kiev
Galatasaray
Besiktas
Palermo
Udinese
Chievo
Santos
Newells
Std. Liege
Club Brugge
Dinamo (Cro)
Spartak Moscow
FC Copenhagen
AZ Alkmaar
Middlesborough
Bolton
West Ham
Hertha Berlin
Stuttgart
Panathinaikos
Brondby

League 2:
Leverkusen
PSG
Kaiser Chiefs
Shakthar Donetsk
Real Mallorca
Rapid Vienna
Hajduk Split
Lokomotiv Moscow
Aston Villa
Charlton
Birmingham
Man City
Wigan
Hearts
Hibs
Corinthians
Sampdoria
Legia Warsaw
Dinamo Moscow
Red Star Belgrade
Basel
FC Thun
Vasco Da Gama
B. Monchengladbach

Conference NAtional:
Fulham
Portsmouth
Blackburn
Aberdeen
Dundee Utd
Orlando Pirates
Velez Sarsfield
Sigma Olumuc
AEK Athens
IFK Goteburg
M. Haifa
America (MEX)
Cruz Azul
Steaua Bucharest
Zenit St. Petersburg
Austria Vienna
Young Boys
DC United
Athletic Bilbao
SV Hamburg
PAOK Salonica
Suwon

Conference North:

St. Mirren
Morton
Inverness Caley Thistle
Supersport Utd
Slavia Prague
Rennes
Hammarby
M. Tel Aviv
Nantes
Hearts of Oak
Raja Casablanca
Valerenga
Partizan Belgrade
Elfsborg
Trabzonspor
NY/NJ Metrostars
Levski Sofia
Shelbourne
Linfield
Glentoran
Ulsan
Artmedia Bratislava

Conference South:

West Brom
Sunderland
Motherwell
Kilmarnock
Atalanta
Mamelodi Sundowns
San Lorenzo
Dalian Shide
Heerenveen
Malmo
Lens
Wisla Krakow
Dinamo Bucharest
Leeds Utd
Al-Ahly
Ismaily
T.N.S
AaB Aarhaus
HJK Helsinki
Nacional (Uruguay)
Lokomotiv Plovdiv
FBK Kaunas



Phew! Anyhoo, after I've done the whole file (probably finish it tomorrow), and if it is smallenough to send (probably not), just let me know and ill email you the new database!

Heh heh, sorry FF. My sex life is not a problem at the moment for once in my life. Just doing this between projects and whilst recovering.

Hmmm, I can't seem to load the game up anymore. Keep getting something about Access out of array bounds or something.

Bit annoying especially after starting a network game with Dave and also getting my own one with Tottenham underway.

RiG, find your saved games folder, copy the files (and any tactics you've created etc) to another location then uninstall the game and try again

Means you can still play the saved games

Also delete the registry entry for the game before you reinstall, or the error stays.

I expect 7.5 from a centre half.

The problem appeared to be me deleting some rather important files that I thought I could get rid of. I installed FM on drive D: but some other stuff appeared in My Documents (drive C:) which I assumed was old Demo stuff so I got rid of it. That was the problem.

how do you get the skin that u are using. do u have 2 download it from somewhere or what. Help appreciated

Download it here:

Clicky

thanks but how do i know get it onto fm 2006. My mate told me but it is different because he has an apple computer and i have windows xp

- Open the folder you have just downloaded
- down the left hand side there should be an option to "extract"
- click this and an extraction wizard will open, click next
- then on the 2nd part, click browse and go to
My Computer, Local disk c://, then Program Files, then Sports Interactive, then Football Manager 2006, then data, then skins so you have chosen

[attachmentid=7145]

- Hit ok
- Hit next
- If fm is opened, close it and re-open it and youre new skin should be selectable, it is called Turnstyle06

In your preferences USE SKIN CACHE must be unticked and NOT selected

Thanks

No problem.

I take it you have got it working then ?

Great username, by the way!

Having a break from my Porto game to try another single nationality challenge, albeit this time it's forced upon me. I've taken charge at Athletic Bilbao, where I can only sign Basque players and staff. Started with a transfer budget of £1 million, but due to the lack of affordable quality available, I didn't sign anyone.

I started the season well, by beating Smederevo of Serbia and Montenegro, Borussia Dortmund of Germany, St Etienne of France and Deportivo La Coruna in an all-Spanish tie on the way to winning the Intertoto Cup. Continuing on the European side of things, I made the group stages after disposing of BATE in the first round, and have already beaten Dnipro and Grasshoppers - I still have Galatasaray and Panathinaikos to face in the group.

On the domestic front, I've played 9 league games, winning 6, drawing 2 and losing 1, which has put me top of the Primera Liga, and I've drawn Real Madrid at home in teh Copa del Rey.

Very rarely do you get as much as an average rating of 7.5 on FM, especially when your team are doing well because the defenders get shit ratings as they have very little to do.

relegated 3 years on the trot

taken middlesborough from Europe to League 2

Why do you still have a job?!

Got AFC to finish 3rd in their first season in the SPL!

Got 15mil in the bank as well, hopefully they'll upgrade the stadium again soon, and I can spend more on wages.

That is a shit hot skin for FF - what is it called?

FF - FireFox
FM - Football Manager

Clicky

That is disappointing - I had that for a bit and hated it! I thought it was something else!

I use Noia

Turnstyle 06 is fantastic it is much better than the standard ones u get when you start the game.

I'm still hanging in at the top with Alloa, well Morton are top on goal difference. I just drew 2 each with Stirling after playing with 10 men from the 1st minute. My first sending off of the season in all competitions as of the 4th of February.

See the above post as to what skin I was referring to - it wasn't an FM one

Just won league 2 with Middlesborough

my rise through the leagues begins now

I began a new game with my beloved Arsenal. I still have myself playing (as expressed in an earlier post) but I'm doing far better. In came Vincent Kompany, Yeste, Messi (!!!) and Tuncay, out went Cygan and Pires.

I lost the Charity Shield, but went on to top the Premiership (I'm in January just now) and since P+B is a bit waash tonight, I'm going to resume my hostilities with Eck Ferguson, especially after I horsed him 6-2

Continuing my Man City game, sitting top of the Premiership in the January transfer window, out of nowhere Ruud Gullit was sacked by Celtic, and despite a host of high profile managers being linked with the post, they head-hunted me.

So I had a quick glance at their team (shite) and their league position (2nd behind Hearts) before deciding there was a job to be done. Fortunately, there were a some funds available, so in came Hakon Opdal and Stephen Kelly from Spurs, Marco Navas on a free transfer, Zat Knight from Fulham, Clint Dempsey from Club Brugge, Jay-Jay Okocha (just cause!), and the jewel in the crown Peter Crouch.

A stunning second half of the season ensued. The club were already out of the Scottish Cup, but won the League Cup against Dundee United, and despite a rather poor Old Firm debut (erm, 5-0 defeat ), I won the league with three games remaining, ironically at home to Rangers!

So not only do you want to work for them in real life, but you take over the top job in a computer game as well?

I have my doubts about you......

Never played Football Manager. Was never good at the new editions of Champ after CM01/02 and gave up.

CM01/02 was the dug's baws though.

It was amazing - I had a 10 year career with Man Utd on the go in that in which I'd won everything except the League Cup!

I almost got the Chelsea job just not, but they inexplicably went for Rafa Benitez

I have however, just taken on another role, as manager of the Danish National Team! And I've just appointed Gordon Strachan as my Assistant

Things are going well for me at Bilbao

I'm into February now, and have been hit with an injury crisis that's seen me lose 6 of my first team squad all at once. However in the two games they missed, I've won 7-0 at home to Getafe and 4-0 away at Malaga. I'm now 2 points clear of Villarreal and Real Madrid at the top of the table after 22 games, and although I'm out of the Copa del Rey, I'm still in the UEFA Cup, and will face Bolton in the first knockout round.

On the signings front, I was handed an extra £7 million over the transfer window because of the increased revenue I'd brought in through the gate, and spent it on Asier del Horno from Chelsea and Gari Uranga from Real Sociadad.

The season is drawing to a close and things are now looking a bit of a disaster.

My inabilty o beat Chelsea has seen me submit my lead at the top of the table and fall to second, 6 points behind Chelsea, but with a game in hand.

Even worse though, a real sickener was my exit from the Champion's League. I had Milan in the quarter finals and beat them 3-1 in at home in the first leg. In the second leg, things were looking tasty, I was winning 1-2 at half time, but they staged a come back and I shipped 4 goals in the second half, two of them in injury time.

For a moment I was like that German lad.

running away with League 1

if it wasnt for Colchesters excellant form i would have won the game already(on 32 games)

88 points

30 clear of 3rd

My CM00/01 game spanned an incredible 23 seasons as St. Mirren and Scotland.

In the end up I had won 7-in-a-row (a real challenge as it took me 14 seasons to finally win the SPL), about 8 Scottish Cups, 6 league cups and got to the 2010 Champions league final only to lose 1-0 to Lazio.

God, there were some good times in that game. Probl;em was, the old CM game engine had a shitey bug where after about 20 seasons the goals would dry up for every club BIG TIME, and the majority of games were either 0-0, 1-1 or 1-0 either way. It was really annoying knowing that if you conceeded in the first 10 minutes you were destined to lose, so I got fed up and quit.

Strange, never seen that before.

I had a game with Real Madrid in Championship Manager 2000-2001 that spanned until the year 2034. All the players had retired and had become regenerated with different names. I had a 40-odd year old Raul as an assisstant manager.

I had won every cup available, except the UEFA Cup, and, incredibly, I had over £1 billion to spend on transfers, and that's without cheating! Amazing.

I had to stop the game when we replaced our PC. I was gutted.

And so we begin the 2006-2007 season with lower expectations than the last, from expecting to winning the league to challenging for the league. Things have started off well, I beat Chelsea 2-0 in the first game of the season, goals from Fabregas and Messi at the very begining and very end of the game sorting that out. I then lost two consecutive games against Blackburn and Aston Villa, but crunched Liverpool 3-1, goals from Craig G Telfer (2) and Henry.

I sold Lauren because his indisciplne was a joke (4 red cards last season) and bought in Jonaton Zebina from Juventus, the only player I could afford to sign (although more funds have been made available and a bid for Lyon's Karim Benzema has been made). Incredibly, Vincent Kompany recived three red cards in the space of 7 games

The team lines up thus:

--------------Henry-----------------Telfer----------------

---Tuncay-------------Messi--------------------Hleb-----

------------------Junihno Perumbucano-----------------

------------------------------------------------------------

--Cole-----Campbell--------Kompany-------Zebina----

---------------------Craig Gordon------------------------

With Lehmann, Eboue, Gonzalo, Toure, Cliche, Fabregas, Yeste, Reyes, Ljungberg and van Persie on the bench.

whats the furthest season people have made it onto?

Kevin Thomson

Kevin Thomson is superb in FM. He and Stilian Petrov are my midfield lynchpins at Celtic

I'm in 2013 right now.