Started with Stevenage in the conference.

Pl 5 W4 D1 L0

Following on from my last post..

4-4-2 attacking seems to work well with the squad I have. Got a good home run going but away, I suck, can't seem to win away at all.

Got Bradford promoted and told the board I'd achieve a mid table finish in League One. I'm currently 12th and aiming for promotion next season.

I'm going to go 4-1-2-1-2 for my first game Vs Boro. Koumas, Camara and Kilbane have looked good in pre season.

I've done some experimenting on FM and a 4-3-2-1 Works well for me, with 3 Centre Midfielders, the outer 2 staying back and the middle one running forward, and 2 Attacking Wingers who run forward, it cuts thropugh defences rather well. Another formation i've used i've called the Crazy 8, because of the shape, 2 DCs, 2 WBs, 2 MCs, 2 Wingers, 2 Strikers. It worked very well as a slightly more attacking variant of a 4-4-2.

As far as I'm concerned, wing play is the key to FM.

I am currently Valencia and Spain manager, I played a 4-2-3-1 with Valencia, with attacking wingers, and we are now by far the best on the game.

However, with Spain, I decided to play a 4-1-2-1-2, all central players, two centre mids, one holding, on attacking, two strikers, it was garbage and easily stopped, so I changed it to a 4-2-3-1, and I've just beat Holland and Brazil in the confederations cup.

My best players at Valencia have always been my wide/attacking midfielders, Buonanotte, Silva, Ribery, Obertan, Marquinhos and Wilshere have all been quality on the wings, and more often than not make the difference.

WAYYY won championship with Leeds. In prem next season

**FM09 Update**

Leeds game got stupid, had the problems which think few of you guys have / had. Seem to get promoted, then it all goes seriously belly up no matter what tactic you try or what players you sign just seem to loose / draw every game.

Currently on with Barnet, got beaten by Grimsby in the play offs 1st season. Doing well at moment 2nd and seem to of found a tactic / tactics that work

Few tips which may help people :-

Load all players from places such as Poland / France / Spain / Romania / Ireland (if in lower division).

Try to get through the 1st season as come the close season and pleanty of players become available / released.

Have two tactics, I play wide 442 at home and playing more central 442 / defensive for away games. Though both are similar the slight tweaks do make world of differences.

When I next play my game I will post some decent lower division players.

I dont believe in going to Chelsea / Man United / Liverpool / Real Madrid or Barca. Dont see the point myself.

Do You Have A Screenshot Of Your Tactics?

I Started With Liverpool (As Per usual, then i change after about 1 season unless im doing very well) Sitting 5th In The League after 4 Games (W2 D1 L1).

The Champions League Draw put me with Villareal, Wien and Panathanikos, in that i have won 1 and drawn 1, Sitting 2nd Behind Villareal.

Out of the Carling cup after fielding the following team against Hull:

Cavalieri

Arbeloa
Skrtel
Hyypia
Dossena

El Zhar
Juninho Pernambucano (Signed for £1.1m - Promising)
Plessis
Flynn

Ngog
Nemeth

Subs:
Itandje
Darby
Gerrard
Pennant
Benayoun
Keane
Kuyt

Lost 1-0 AET which is very dissapointing, because it doesnt look like i have much Depth in my team...

Roll On The FA Cup

I'll do one later, love.

Started A Very Enjoyable Game With FC Zenit Saint Petersburg Battling With FC Spartak Moscow For The Russian Title I Was About 28 Games In To My First Season But Then My Hard Drive Went...

Just started as Leeds manager and got 100k transfer kitty to spend.

Jeeesus wept, dig deep, Kenneth.

Just A Quick Question...

Right I Had Football Manager 2009 Installed On My Previous Hard-Drive Which Then Broke Beyond Repair, So I Tried Installing On My New Hard-Drive Via Steam, I Thought Everything Had Gone Well It All Installed And Then The Updates Installed Automatically, But When I Tried To Launch The Game Nothing Happened The Option Was There I Pressed It And It Give Me The Indication That Everything Was Fine But Nothing Happened...


So Then I Tried The Other Way To Install It But It Never Told Me To Activate It, It Installed The Data Then When I Tried To Click On The Shortcut To Start The Game It Brought This Up...

The top screenshot... you have to wait for it to load. It might be a while.. usually depends on how fast your pc is.

Yeah I Keep Trying Mate From The Steam Screen And From The Desktop Shortcut But Nothing...
I've Put It To The Si Team So I'll See If They Have The Answer, Cheers Anyway...