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New Manager of Wealdstone, 1050 rep and 2000 capaticy, lets get started!
Hassebasse Merthyr Tydfil 2024-2025 CCC
Finished 3rd on goal difference, lost the play off final.
Last league match of the season I needed a draw to go straight up, was down 1-0 and missed a penalty in the 94th. minute. Gutted !
League table
Transfers. Lots of activity this season
Top performer
Goals for the new season:
Well in two seasons of Champions League football we've gone from 4th to 3rd to top seeds... or are the holders automatically top seeded? Either way, our group is pretty easy considering the last couple - Barcelona, Dinamo Zagreb and CSKA Sofia
Bah, around 8 of my players' contracts are expiring at the end of the season but I can't renew them because the board gave me a ridiculously low wage budget at the start of the season that was well below what I was already paying.
fantastic result as Barcelone lost the plot
It ended up as 9 v 9
Am i the only one who thinks the gameplay has become worse this year? I really often see my GK doing ridicouless things which would never happen irl.
i'm on a funny run at the moment, last 4 games 5-0, 0-4 (cup match vs Arsenal), 4-0, 1-4.
In fact when i looked at it i've scored 4+ 3 times this season and conceeded 4+ goals 6 times and im only in jan
I've not quite done as well with Cambridge as Stephanie McMahon\'s Secret Lover has, but i've not done badly at all.
Season 2014-15
My aim for the second season in league two was the play offs after staying in the division comfortably last season. I brought in a fair few new faces either after having them on trail or had been chasing them for a while before they'd eventually come to me. The best coup here was Paul Pogba, who was my driving force in midfield.
An easy F.A cup run took me to round four where I was given a money spinning tie at Old Trafford. After changing from a normal 4-4-2 to a narrow 4-2-1-3 for this tie it completely changed my results around for the better. The replay was a close affair which I got the better of.
On to round five and I was drawn at home to Spurs, again it was a tight game and Pogba's goal was the difference.
I was going really well in the league and looking at a comfortable play off position by the time Man City came to the City Ground in round six. How I ever won this game still baffles me, Robinho and Adebayor could have had a hat trick each on a better day.
On to the semi final and my dreams were crushed after a 4-0 defeat against Villa, my only defeat after the change of tactic. This run meant i'd gone from tenth at christmas to sneaking third place and automatic promotion.
Season 2015-16
My scouting network was expanded to Europe and so came my first cash signing and a number of leading league 1/championship level players. Crnic was probably the star with 22 goals and 18 assists from AM in a season where I blitzed the league No such FA cup run this year with Spurs gaining revenge in round four.
My first season in the championship is going well so far with me not far off the play offs, i'll write a report once i'm done.
Code:Cambridge City2010/11 Blue Square North 9th None 2011/12 Blue Square North 1st Promoted as champions 2012/13 Blue Square Premier 4th Promoted via the play offs 2013/14 Coca Cola League 2 18th None 2014/15 Coca Cola League 2 3rd Promoted via league position 2015/16 Coca Cola League 1 1st Promoted as champions
Annihilator666 - Guiseley - Season 19/20 - Coca-Cola League 1
Table - League Table | Position Graph
Squad - Guiseley Squad
Transfers - Transfers Summary
Finances - Finance Summary
Other Info - Club Information | Manager Information
Top Scorer - Borja Cabrera
Records - Overall Records | Season Records
Best Eleven - Overall | Season
At the 5th attempt, I finally secured promotion from League 1, but I didn't make it easy for myself. A couple of bad results towards the end of the season meant I didn't gain automatic promotion and had to settle for the playoffs. The first leg of the semi-final, I lost 2-0 away to Norwich - disaster, I was now looking at another season in this damn league. However, the second leg was an extraordinary match. I won 2-0 to take the game into extra-time - where I scored another 3 goals to win 5-2 on agg!
Then in the final, I played out a tense 0-0 in the 90 mins against Shrewsbury - only to once again win after extra-time, this time 2-0.
Had my first good run in the FA Cup too this season, making it to the sixth round where I was beaten at White Hart Lane by Spurs. I had a relatively easy run to that point, my only giant-killing against West Brom in the fourth round.
Code:Season League League Finish Achievements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square North 4th Playoff Final Losers 2011/12 Blue Square North 1st Blue Square North Champions 2012/13 Blue Square Premier 6th None 2013/14 Blue Square Premier 1st Blue Square Premier Champions 2014/15 Coca-Cola League 2 5th Playoff Winners 2015/16 Coca-Cola League 1 6th Playoff Semi-Final Losers 2016/17 Coca-Cola League 1 9th None 2017/18 Coca-Cola League 1 11th None 2018/19 Coca-Cola League 1 9th None 2019/20 Coca-Cola League 1 3rd Playoff Winners
Media Prediction - Finally the media realised our potential and instead of predicting us to finish 24th they predicted 23rd.
Championship - Another quality season from the lads although spare a thought for Burnley. They amassed 101 points and scored 107 goals but still finished 2nd. Once again our players were prominant in the player stats and in the Championship's Team of the Year.
League Cup - All was comfortable until we bumped into Aston Villa again in the 4th Round at home and lost 1-0 again.
FA Cup - An amazing campaign this season saw us start off with a 2-0 home win against Leeds followed by a 4-0 win away to fellow Championship side Stoke City. Round 5 was a good 2-0 win at home to Premiership team Everton and Round 6 was a stunning 3-0 win at Blackburn. The semi-final gave us a familiar opponent in WBA who we beat again 4-0. The FA Cup Final was not exactly a classic and unfortunately for the lads they fell to a 1-0 loss against Manchester City. Amazingly just after the defeat we were all smiles as we discovered that Manchester City finished 3rd in the Premiership and that we had earned a place in next season Europa League.
Squad - Worryingly the squad is getting very thin but as long as players such as player of the year Marc Spellman aren't out injured for long it might be good enough to do us proud in next season's Premiership.
Club Facilities
Following our outstanding season I seem to have become a World Class manager!
For the Premiership we were given a sizeable budget of £20m however shockingly I was unable to spend any of it before our first Premiership game because of a transfer embargo imposed due to an impending takeover. Amazingly the new Chairman has ideas about installing Gary Neville as the new manager!!! WTF?!?!?! :confused:
Unbelievabley no-one has ever made an approach for any of our players whatsoever at Cambridge City. Also for the 1st time I've seen my GK give away a free-kick for handball outside his area.
Code:Season League Position Achievements --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square North 1st Champions, Promoted, FA Cup 5th Round, FA Trophy Winners 2011/12 Blue Square Premier 1st Champions, Promoted, FA Cup 4th Round, FA Trophy Winners 2012/13 League Two 1st Champions, Promoted, FA Cup Finalists, League Cup 2nd Round, Johnstone's Paint Trophy Winners 2013/14 League One 1st Champions, Promoted, FA Cup 5th Round, League Cup 3rd Round, Johnstone's Paint Trophy 2nd Round 2014/15 Championship 1st Champions, Promoted, FA Cup Finalists, League Cup 4th Round, Europa League Qualification
Last edited by Stephanie McMahon\'s Secret Lover; 13-12-2009 at 18:42.
I've learned to not gloat on the thread too much when things are going well, always comes back to bite you in the ass
I am getting seriously annoyed at the same coach saying over and over again that he wants a job at Cambridge City!
2010-2011-Kings Lynn-BSN
Quite a poor first half to the season saw us 12 points from the playoff positions. From then we had a great turn around in form and with 5 games left we were 6 points from the playoffs but still in 16th. That is how tight the league was. We then lost and I gave up on the playoff dream and played the reserves for the rest of the games. Cup runs were very poor.
League Position Graph
Manager Overview
The takeover failed as they could not agree a price. So on the 8th September I was told the transfer embargo was lifted.
Gee thanks for nothing!
Well after 2 years apart from FM, Shaggy returns to the fold, hoping to go one better than Whitby Town and Heybridge Swifts had gone, whilst not sure where he was going to reappear, he decided to follow his best mate down south to Horsham
Come on you Hornets! (and as a Luton fan thats a hard thing to shout....)
Dartford - Barclays Premier League - 2020/21
Predicted: 20th
Finished: 8th
League Table
Amazing season for Dartford and it has left me a bit baffled as most of my squad is rated as Championship players.
These results during the season really made it our best ever.
Liverpool Away
Chelsea Away
Chelsea Home
Liverpool Home
Carling Cup Sunderland beat us 3 days after we beat them in the league.
FA Cup Had a decent wee run until Liverpool seen us off after a replay.
Squad Still not able to aquire home-grown talent.
Finances They're okay but we'll need to start pushing these profits up if we want a new stadium eventually.
Key Men
Perego Bought from Frankfurt for just under £3million. He was by far our creativity hub and our engine.
Oueslati Our goalkeeper stood tall and looked firmly like he was in the right place against even the bigger sides in the league.
Guidetti Not as many goals as last season and definitely not as effective in the Premiership but he's doing okay.
Career Overview
Next SeasonCode:Season League Position Achievements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square South 4th Promoted Via Play-Offs 2011/12 Blue Square Premier 5th Defeated in Play-Off Semi-Final 2012/13 Blue Square Premier 1st Promoted as Champions 2013/14 Coca Cola League Two 10th n/a 2014/15 Coca Cola League Two 2nd Promoted 2015/16 Coca Cola League One 6th Defeated in Play-Off Semi-Final 2016/17 Coca Cola League One 9th n/a 2017/18 Coca Cola League One 1st Promoted as Champions 2018/19 Coca Cola Championship 13th n/a 2019/20 Coca Cola Championship 3rd Promoted Via Play-Offs 2020/21 Barclays Premier League 8th n/a
Get a world class striker in if possible. Need a better back-up keeper also. I will probably have to sell my spanish centre back Antonio Torres as he seems to be wanting to fly the coop.
In all honesty, I feel we really overachieved this season and therefore whilst I will be aiming for midtable I would honestly be satisfied with simply remaining in the Premier League.
Last edited by JonnyCurrie; 13-12-2009 at 23:41.
this happens
I watch on extended and their 4th so called shot was a cross which was blocked for a corner so they only actually had 3 shots and scored all of them - both of Medley's goals came 30 yards plus - and he has 3 for long shots
Cambridge City 20/21
Season Review: Very solid season spent all of my transfer budget and I think I got a fairly solid return, have some solid youth in the back that should be very strong going forward. Still looking for another striker to pain with Saavedra, and I need a real talent for the midfield still. Other than that solid squad looking forward to my first time being this close to completing Daf's challenge.
FA Cup FA Cup Final
Carling Cup Carling Cup Final
Cup Review: Winners of the Carling and lost in the Final for the FA, had very strong runs throughout and was focused on doing well since I spent most of the season in the red.
Araujo - DC: Very cheap and good pick up, he should be here for a long time unless the chairman overrules me one day. Possibly the best player on the team, certainly the best defender.
Ashe - MC/R/L: Picked this guy up for his utility, wanted someone to fill the gaps around injuries should that come up, he turned out to be very good.
Hogg - DC/R: One of my youth buys, according the scouts and assman he will be as good as Araujo one day, better be soon because I still feel like I am leaking goals I should not.
Kimble - MR: My one good prospect buy, developed alright his first season here, still wish I have better training grounds, can't seem to get them built fast enough. Going to give him some starts next season since I will be playing so many games.
Next Season: Another star striker, very talented MC and maybe a new GK.Code:Season Division Position Achievements --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 BSN 1st Promotion 2011/12 BSP 13th 2012/13 BSP 1st Promotion/FA T Winner 2013/14 L2 13th 4th Round FA Cup 2014/15 L2 4th Simifinal Playoffs/ 4th Round FA Cup 2015/16 L2 1st Promotion/Paint Trophy Winners 2016/17 L2 1st Promotion/Paint Trophy Winners 2017/18 C 7th 2018/19 C 2nd Promotion 2019/20 EPL 15th 2020/21 EPL 3rd Carling Cup Winners/FA Cup Finals
Yeah its Park Ji-Sung for me.
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After 12 minutes this did not look like a win....
Nottingham Forest vs Merthyr Tydfil
My inability to hold onto the lead is starting to get annoying - Accrington have just made it 2-2 with the last kick of the game
However I've just looked through my games and in four games I've come back from behind to win or draw and in another four games I've drawn or lost after taking the lead so it's all even surprisingly.
He was one of their two strikers and both efforts were first time snap shots when he was being well marked by my centre half
2 days later... stil no Durham whats the longest people have tried to get a team for?
Im getting frustrated looking at the game-play. When i have key on i see lots of ridicouless mistakes, and especially the GK's seem like they are blind, they make stupid moves and sometimes no move at all(mostly when a ball is coming towards the keeper and its easy for the keeper to get to the ball before the opponent striker, but the GK stays put). I really think the game-play have suffered ALOT since 09, i hope this will be looked at in next patch..
And im not just beeing a bad loser
Well I've found out how to attract fans to my games - win them - our average attendance has increased by 700 this season, and we have actually 100% filled the stadium for several games and after 14/15 home games we have the best home record in the league which is rather different than our woeful home form last season.
No playoff for me this year...
Kingstonian (2021/2022)
Championship Prediction - 7
Championship Position - 5
Once again we started out playing badly and i was affraid that we would have another playoff season rather than straight promotion. But we started playing good after 10 games.
And after losing the playoffs the last two years we finally WON the league and got promoted to the Premier league. at last!
Meli Got his big breakthrough this year
Siaravas Our first prospect from our own ranks, did very good in his first couple of games.
Goals for the upcoming season:
Stay up, get a new defender and two midfielders.
Code:League Season Finished Achievements ------------------------------------------------------- Blue Square South 2010/11 4th Playoff Final losers Blue Square South 2011/12 1st Blue Square South Champions Blue Square Premier 2012/13 5th Playoff semi-final losers Blue Square Premier 2013/14 1st Blue Square Premier Champions League Two 2014/15 2nd JPT Winners, Promotion League One 2015/16 13th none League One 2016/17 2nd Promotion Championship 2017/18 14th none Championship 2018/19 12th none Championship 2019/20 5th Playoff semi-final losers Championship 2020/21 5th Playoff final losers Championship 2021/22 1st Championship Champions
Tooting & Mitcham United FC - BSS - 2010/11
League Table
Position Graph
Didnt get any of my transfer targets and had to settle with cheap backup's to fill the gaps as i let a bunch of players 2 stars or below leave, Rough season all in all as reflected by the graph, i gradually brought in players over the season and hopefully they will be my core players to build onto next season.
Transfers -
Few out, More in
Still pretty weak, funnily enough my worst striker was my top scorer, his tally almost convinced me to give him a new contract, but unfortunatly he'll be let go to make room for the new arrivals.
100k in the red
I even had over 1k per week wage budget spare, seems my match day expenses were the main culprit (well it is London after all).
Career Overview
Season League Position Achievements
2010/11 BSS 18th n/a
Next Season
Attempt for a Playoff spot, its a big ask considering my current position but im hoping i can attract some better players.
Last edited by Railz; 14-12-2009 at 21:24.
Grats kaNovi, good luck next season.
Well this is embarrassing we've just been beaten at home by bottom club Yeovil - even worse is it's Yeovils first win of the season and we've played 30 games
Just got revenage on the computer - Grimsby and Italian Striker Trotta (who looks a lot better than when I had him in FM09) have just mauled me for 45 mins not helped by one of my centre-backs being sent off after 30 minutes, but within 10 minutes of the restart we found ourselves 3-2 up from two shots and a pen
Congratulations kaNovi, glad you finally made it
Ouch Michael - always seems to be the way! In many ways I find it tricky to play against the very rubbish teams - I think I dropped points against the bottom club in both of my Premier League winning seasons. I haven't really found the best way to approach these sort of matches yet I don't think.
And yeah you tick each box for each trophy you won for that season.
Thx you guys. Ive been givin a transfer budget of 29m. although i only have 5m in the bank. I think i have to spend it wisely=)
I just realised that i only have 1 english player and 1 wales player.. I have to make some english signings
Last edited by kaNovi; 15-12-2009 at 07:36.
Woot first year in and we are in the champions league final, amazing result in the semis over Fiorentina winning 7-0 on aggregate, crushing them 5-0 in the first leg at home.
Cambridge City 21/22
Season Review: Challenge Completed! Cambirdge City are the proud owners of the EPL title, Champions League Cup and Carling Cup. We got off to a good start in everything but the FA Cup where we lost the first game in the 88th minute on a clear off sides goal...But can't be bitter when we won everything else.
Marks the first time I won the champions league or EPL in any FM game, I always prefer to play in the lower leagues. was a very fun season and I think I am going to go until the new patch hits to see if I can't max the new stadium we got, or even get a new one built since it was full every game. Would also like to see how some of my youth comes along since they made such great strides this season, we had all three spots in the English Young Player of the Year.
FA Cup
Carling Cup Final
Champions League Final
Cup Review:
Araujo - DC: Winner of the English Footballer of the Year award, had a amazing season, clearly the best player on the team now, had so many offers for him I have no idea if one will be to good to pass up for the chairman, I would keep him for as long as possible though. He also missed only 3 games all season.
Ashe - MC/R/L: Really grew into a force this season and is starting to make me wonder if I should keep him over my young MC I was grooming to fill that slot and instead go sign a high quality ML, he got played all over the field but I think I want him at the center of the action at this point.
Hogg - DC/R: As you can see hes coming along well enough, I might end up selling him if I get a good offer since I went a bit overboard in the DC position and hes not much better than the rest.
Kimble - MR: He made some gains and got some goals, I think I am going to make a project out of him until I restart with a new team when the new patch comes out.
Tales - S: One of my biggest buying blunders ever possibly, at least for season 1, spent $30mil, 25 to much for what got. Most of his goals came against cup cake teams, only a couple were in games that mattered. He still looks a good player I just need to find a way to make him shine.
Saavedra - S: Had a real strong season 30 Goals and 11 Assist, could not ask for more, other than the chairman not selling him...
Next Season: Need to replace my left back since he will be getting old next season, going to look for youth. Also need to decide if I want to move Ashe to MC permanently and if so I need a left midfielder who can start now.Code:Season Division Position Achievements --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 BSN 1st Promotion 2011/12 BSP 13th 2012/13 BSP 1st Promotion/FA T Winner 2013/14 L2 13th 4th Round FA Cup 2014/15 L2 4th Simifinal Playoffs/ 4th Round FA Cup 2015/16 L2 1st Promotion/Paint Trophy Winners 2016/17 L1 1st Promotion/Paint Trophy Winners 2017/18 C 7th 2018/19 C 2nd Promotion 2019/20 EPL 15th 2020/21 EPL 3rd Carling Cup Winners/FA Cup Finals 2021/22 EPL 1st Carling Cup Winners/EPL Winners/Champions League Winners
Last edited by Cerneo; 15-12-2009 at 09:11.
Its not that i dont know about the forum course, BUT i feel i wanna share how my FIRST PRL game went on their GK played to an avr of 2.00 :P
This was actually our biggest win ever. Welcome to Premier League =P
And just won our second game - also away - with 5-2 ! lol!
Ok im gonna shut up now, dont want the curse
Congratulations on finishing the challenge Cerneo, very nice season !
Last edited by kaNovi; 15-12-2009 at 10:23.
The own goal at the end of that game is perfect, talk about falling apart.
Also I went out and spent even more money on a new left back and left mid...had a huge 50mil offer to Ashe and I turned it down thinking the chairman would override me, but he did not so my squad is all intact to start the season.
Well done on completing the challenge Cerneo, i can sympathise with Tales, last year i spent £100Million on a 30yo striker in jan, by may he had played 25 games and scored only 5 goals and averaged 6.6
KaNovi, well done on finally getting to the premiership, its really frustrating always getting close and failing, good start to the prem though.
Last edited by Cerneo; 15-12-2009 at 12:16.
I feel that the form had to much to say on FM09 actually, it was very difficult to win a game if you had a form of LLLL. i think that on FM09 it almost entirely depended on form. I like FM10 better that way. So i have to agree with you Cerneo, but i dont think its a bad thing
But here you can be just dominating everything then lose/draw 4 in a row and then go right back to dominating.
And who knows what the new patch will change.
Are people going to keep going with their games or start again when the patch comes out?
My season has 10 games to go and whilst I am in a worse position than last season (league table, as well as performances), my new brazillian striker "Guto" is sitting with just under 40 goals to his name.
Work that out.
What a second season in the Premiership! Made it to the Final of the EURO Cup amazingly, and will battle Roma for the cup. Also my league position is astounding, currently sitting in 5th with a couple of games in hand, with 3rd fully within my reach.
Tooting & Mitcham United FC - BSS - 2011/12
Leauge Table
Position Graph
With a more focused approach to tweaking my tactics to suit my players, things started falling into place winning my first 2 games 4-0 and 3-1, Good results followed up until winter when our form dropped, after a bad 6 game run, we picked up form again only to drop form once again at the end of the season.
Achieved my pre-season aim for a playoff spot and luckily we scrapped through it, winning in the playoff final 2-1 after extra time.
I also got a new chairman to impress.
Knocked early in FAC but made a quater final apperance in the FA Trophy cap.
Released some dead wood, and gradually bought some key players.
A huge improvement from last year's bottom-end squad.
Dipped into the -£200k, then my new chairman took out a £250k loan, which leaves us currently at £50k in the black.
Best Players
Callum Whittaker DC - Was my first ever money purchase at £3.5k, rock at the back all season.
Tyrone Thompson MC - Played great in my deep lying playmaker role.
I usually find good players willing to join just before a season finishes, as they would retire due to having no club all season. And i landed these 2 this time around..
Henrik Ojamma AMR/ST - I was looking to use him to replace my current AMR but he's actually now my best striker. 3 International caps!
Danny Parslow DC - Looks like a solid partner for Whittaker.
Career Overview
Season League Position Achievements
2010/11 BSS 18th n/a
2011/12 BSS 4th Promotion/BSS Playoff Winners
Next Season
Having scraped though the BSS playoff's i think a reasonable target is a mid table position. Few players and a new scout are on my shopping list.
Last edited by Railz; 15-12-2009 at 16:36.
Just into my 14th season and i have finally paid money for a player for the first time. Bought a 16yo spanish player for £850k, rated as leading prem potential.
Congrats on completing the challenge Cerneo
btw I'm still around. Just had loads of things going on.
Chippenham is on the quest for promotion to League 2. With 24 games played, we sit comfortably in 1st place with 57 points, 9 points clear of 2nd.
And with that comes the end of FC United's second season in the Premiership. Sadly we lost it a little at the end, finishing 5th, meaning no Champions League football. The good news? We will be able to defend our Europa League victory! That's right in penalties we defeated Roma to win the Europa League to lift the trophy. With the big cup win, I was made an FC United Legend, which felt rather good.
Season Summary coming tomorrow probably.
CARSHALTON SEASON 2010-2011 Blue Square South
We did it at the first attempt and boy did it go to the wire,we had to win the last game and hope chelmsford lost and it ended that way.I was so happy for the lads as its not the best squad and the defence needs alot of work doing now we are in the blue square prem but the forwards know where the net is. I was tipped for a mid table finish so this was a miracle. I enclose a couple of screenshots for your pleasure whilst I plot my rise into the football league.
Boston United 2019/20 Season - Premiership
League Table - http://img683.imageshack.us/i/fmtable3.jpg/
Well, an improvement on last years 6th, but it still felt like we were second best in most games, grinding out results which we often didnt deserve. Time for a tactical rejig, abandoning the formation which has pulled me up from CCL2. Still, Champions League next season, and the potential to complete the challenge.
FA Cup - http://img46.imageshack.us/i/fmfacup.jpg/ This really made my season. We beat Man Utd in the semis, and, well, a fabulous acheivment.
Transfers - http://img683.imageshack.us/i/fmtransfers3.jpg/ Some fairly big buys, but both Fisher and Doll were disappointing. The big clubs really came sniffing around in January and I had to fight hard to keep hold of my star striker, midfielder. Unfortunately we lost Mach and Perreira, my two best players from last year. EDIT - whoops, seems half the screen has been cut off. Can't be bothered to take another one, just shows that a few players were sold, my total income was 28.5mil, after selling 23.5mil of talent in January.
Code:Season League Position Achievements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square North 8th 2011/12 Blue Square North 2nd Promoted via playoffs 2012/13 Blue Square Premier 15th 2013/14 Blue Square Premier 5th Promoted via playoffs 2014/15 Coca-Cola League 2 16th 2015/16 Coca-Cola League 2 1st Promoted as champions 2016/17 Coca-Cola League 1 1st Promoted as champions 2017/18 Coca-Cola Championship 6th Promoted via playoffs 2018/19 Barclays Premier League 6th League Cup semis 2019/20 Barclays Premier League 3rd Qualified for Champions League, FA Cup winners
Last edited by Willy Wonka; 15-12-2009 at 22:02.
Congrats Cerneo
I'm going to start a new challenge when the patch comes out, it's between this again with a lower starting rep side, Gundo's, and the Big Euro Nation one. Leaning towards Gundo's at the minute (largely due to Nep's epic Knockbreda game I have to say)
Annihilator666 - Guiseley - Season 20/21 - Coca-Cola Championship
Table - League Table | Position Graph
Squad - Guiseley Squad
Transfers - Transfers Summary
Finances - Finance Summary
Other Info - Club Information | Manager Information
Top Scorer - Raffaele Corradini
Records - Overall Records | Season Records
Best Eleven - Overall | Season
A solid first season in the Championship. We were a bit inconsistent at times as you can see by the position graph, though in the end I was never in danger of being relegated, but on the flip-side I was never close to pushing for a playoff place.
As for the cups, I had a decent run in the League Cup, making it to the 4th round before losing to Derby, who are in League 1. Didn't do anything in the FA Cup this year, going out in my first game against Notts County.
The finances are looking good and I stayed around the 4mil mark for the entire season. The board has given me £3.2mil to spend and the wage budget has increased so I'll be going bargain hunting to improve the squad.
Code:Season League League Finish Achievements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2010/11 Blue Square North 4th Playoff Final Losers 2011/12 Blue Square North 1st Blue Square North Champions 2012/13 Blue Square Premier 6th None 2013/14 Blue Square Premier 1st Blue Square Premier Champions 2014/15 Coca-Cola League 2 5th Playoff Winners 2015/16 Coca-Cola League 1 6th Playoff Semi-Final Losers 2016/17 Coca-Cola League 1 9th None 2017/18 Coca-Cola League 1 11th None 2018/19 Coca-Cola League 1 9th None 2019/20 Coca-Cola League 1 3rd Playoff Winners 2020/21 Coca-Cola Champ. 15th None
Last edited by Annihilator666; 15-12-2009 at 22:37.
I've just been told by my board that there isn't enough room to expand my stadium, bare in mind Nantwich's Stadium is in the middle of the countryside and looks like this yes the only stand I have is one that takes up a third of one side of the pitch
Compare this to Marine who in FM08 I got it expanded past 50,000 :confused:
About time to! - 16 hours in which our season has been in serious danger of falling apart!
Last edited by Aario; 15-12-2009 at 23:25. Reason: typo
Whats this all about :confused:
If we loose does it become at lot more than 7 miles
Guess my fans are about to find out 93 mins
Nantwich Town League Two 2015/16 Season 6
So after a woeful season last season I expected better this season.
The board still expected us to Consolidate, the bookies again gave us no chance whilst the media expected us to finish 20th again.
So with no money I went out and broke our transfer records - a record £7K was spent on Irish Right Winger David Byrne whilst £2K was spend on Irish left back Eamonn Mooney, meaning we'd spent a record £9K this season, the rest of my signings were loanees to provide cover which included the returning Thompson, Thomas and McCabe.
So with no money Striker Jutkiewicz and Winger Clarke were sold for free to reduce the wage budget, whilst Captain and left back Grant Basey was released on a free.
In January I solved my money problems for the time being by selling French Striker Agosta to Palace for £230K and Midfielder George Moncur to Blackburn for £400K - I've no idea why Championship sides wanted them both as neither were able to get into my first team and with their wage demands too high I decided to get rid of them, though one thing I forgot was that I'd agreed to give West Ham 25% of Moncur's transfer fee which cost me a £100K and technically makes him my most expensive buy and sale.
So with no real new signings I'd have to rely on my current players actually performing, I also further tweaked my tactics adopting a rigid philosophy now I'd actually read up on what they mean.
The season didn't get off to the best of starts as we lost our opening game to Blackpool 3-2, however we won our next 7 league games to put us firmly into the title race, however Cheltenham brought us back down to earth as we lost 3-2 after blowing a 2-0 lead this result saw our form disappear we also weren't helped by injuries as we fell down the table.
At the turn of the year we recovered our form and again found ourselves in a title race, just for our form to desert us again, but as we entered the final third of the season we yet again found our form and won 7 games in a row which was a new Nantwich record.
In our 38 game with the board setting up a fan day against Kettering we claimed a 1-0 win to go top of the table, though we lost our next game to Bristol Rovers that enabled Shrewsbury to draw level with us and with us facing Shrewsbury next it was likely to be the title decider, that we lost 1-0 in one of the few games we lost despite playing better - we just couldn't beat their keeper.
Next up we faced struggling Wycombe who we smashed 3-0 to keep the pressure up, in the 42nd game we faced 3rd placed Norwich were we managed to hold on for a 1-1 draw. In our next game we had a chance to close the gap as both Shrewsbury and Norwich lost away from home, however we fell apart at home to Chesterfield as they won 2-0, to make matters worse Darlington won to leap frog both us and Norwich and they also had a game in hand.
To make the title race a little more interesting we'd face Darlington in our next match and with both Shrewsbury and Norwich winning we'd need a win - and we duly supplied smashing them 4-2 - so with two games left we were in second a point behind Shrewsbury, one ahead of Darlington, two ahead of Norwich and five ahead of Oxford.
In the 45 game we were away to Brentford and with Darlington, Norwich and Shrewsbury all winning we needed a win - things didn't go well as Brentford took the lead on the half-hour and things got worse on the hour as Fitzharris went off injured and on came Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink who's physical attributes had declined so much he couldn't move around the pitch however give him the ball around the area and he is still deadly and in the 76th minute he broke the offside trap to make it 1-1 and in the 93rd minute he held kept his cool to make it 2-1.
So going into the final weekend Shrewsbury had one promotion, but I could stil catch them for the title, whilst Darlington and Norwich also fought me for the final two promotion spots.
In the final game we faced Oxford and with Shrewsbury and Darlington both losing and Norwich winning we'd be promoted regardless of our result however a win would give us the title - however we struggled to break Oxford down and despite scoring from our two efforts on goal, Oxford pegged us back twice with two off side goals to leave us with a 2-2 draw.
Table - a defeat to bottom of the league Yeovil proved costly.
POS - we spent the season in the top half of the table, however there were some worrying slumps.
Whilst we had success in the League the cups didn't go well:
Carling Cup - we claimed our first win in the Carling beating Forest 1-0 in the First Round, before going out to Championship side Bolton, rather annoying hardly anyone turned so we didn't make any money.
The Paint Trophy started well we took a 2-0 lead over Oldham before throwing it away in the last 10 minutes and then turned in some woeful pens as we went crashing out in the 1st Round again.
The FA Cup didn't go much better we draw Bury away in the First Round and just didn't turn up, and to make matters worse Bury scored in the 92nd minute when it looked like we'd got a reply.
Squad - Though our early cup exits may have been a blessing due to the amount of injuries we picked up this season - we played 50 games this season yet Adam and Brogan were the only ones to make more than 40 appearances.
Grant Adam continued in goal and whilst he did OK he again went missing in several games and is the weakest link in my team the only problem is trying to find a better keeper.
In Defence Yanis Lacombe continued at right back whilst Eamonn Mooney came in on the left with both of them having solid seasons, in the centre of defence Yanis Abbes had a solid season whilst Moussa Toungara had a fine season and surprsingly he was named fans player of the year after taking his chance when Abbes and Ayala were injured which left Daniel Ayala relagated to the bench.
In midfield with Lomana LuaLua struggling to last 90 minutes David Byrne was prefered and did ok though his shooting is poor and he had a habit of disappearing in several matches. Stephen Brogan continued on the left and whilst he started teh season in fine form he was woeful at the end and was a liability.
In the centre of midfield we were blighted by injuries, though when my players were fit they did well Defensively Sam Togwell had a better season, though his understudy Matthew Whyte missed nearly the entire season through an injury picked up in the Paint Trophy. Providing the creativity in midfield was Magnus Eikrem who again was in fine form laying on 14 assists in just 22 games as he missed half of the season due to injury, providing cover after Moncur was sold was Belgian Anton Vandenabeele who covered for Eikrem admirably but if Eikrem was fit for a couple more games the title would have been ours as when he played he lifted the team and made things happen.
Upfront Sean Fitzharris continued as my first choice Poacher and was again in good form finishing with 21 goals from 38 appearances, though again when he got to 15 goals he fell apart it's a shame he just cannot keep his form up all season. Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink started the season as my preferred Target Man however his physical stats have declined to a point were he struggles to move around the pitch - if he comes deep to get the ball he cannot get back in the box in time, however in games where he can stay around the box he is still deadly, this gave young Irish Striker Stephen Keane a chance and he took it grabbing 15 goals in 26 games, however he lost his place after an injury when French Striker Vincent Acapandie came in and was on fire grabbing 22 goals in 27 appearances - averaging a goal every 100 minutes and setting a Nantwich highscoring record.
Confidence - Still Untouchable
Finances - Still not great, it was nice of the board to give me none of the £600K I brought in for transfers.
I did hope the board would use some of that money to ugrade the facilities but they said we couldn't afford to upgrade the training facilities, whilst when I asked about the youth facilities I got told to get lost and even worse apparently we have no room to expand the stadium - which is rather weird considering the only stand with have takes up about a third of one side of the ground and it's also in the middle of the countryside.
And to make matters worse I've just paid out £215K in squad bonuses which puts us back into the red
So I now need to rebuild for League One with no money, so the aim for next season will be to not come straight back down.
Career Overview
Code:Season League League Finish Achievements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2010/11 Blue Square North 1st Promoted - Champions 2011/12 Blue Square Premier 3rd Promoted - Play-offs 2012/13 League Two 8th 2013/14 League Two 11th 2014/15 League Two 15th 2015/16 League Two 3rd Promoted
Hi all,
I want to start this challenge but when i add the DDT file to the path specified by Dafuge in the OP it doenst show up in the preferences when i load the game up, only the team Holland one does. I read through the first 9/10 pages of this thread and saw a couple of players managed to solve this problem, can anyone tell me ho wto fix it as i want to use my own game rather than an uploaded save game.
My OS is Vista 64 bit if that is any help. I am a computer illiterate so it would be appreciated if any explanations were as detailed as possible.
Looks like I'm a little late to the party but ah well, I'm here at long last.
I reloaded a few times but in the end settled for Horsham who have 1050 reputation, so I'm close to being a real man
Here's my profile
This is where it needs to go
Vista - C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2010\data\db\1000\edt
Steam - C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\football manager 2010\data\db\1000\edt
Dartford - Barclays Premier League - 2021/22
Predicted: 15th
Finished: 10th
League Table
Almost forgot to post this so apologies for not having all the usual screenshots.
Basically we suffered from second season syndrome this time around. We lost more games than last season and didn't win as many = a lower final position.
It wasn't a massively disappointing season (in fact we even played a role in the title race by beating "5 in a row" English Champions and Current CL holders Man City) but one thing that did become hugely annoying is that despite my striker Guto being a goal machine, we still ended up shipping so many goals and therefore not benefitting from our star striker up front.
Guto ended up top scorer not only in England but also in Europe taking the Golden Shoe.
Amazingly at the end we managed to get into the Europa League via the fair play thingmebob
Career Overview
Next SeasonCode:Season League Position Achievements -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 Blue Square South 4th Promoted Via Play-Offs 2011/12 Blue Square Premier 5th Defeated in Play-Off Semi-Final 2012/13 Blue Square Premier 1st Promoted as Champions 2013/14 Coca Cola League Two 10th n/a 2014/15 Coca Cola League Two 2nd Promoted 2015/16 Coca Cola League One 6th Defeated in Play-Off Semi-Final 2016/17 Coca Cola League One 9th n/a 2017/18 Coca Cola League One 1st Promoted as Champions 2018/19 Coca Cola Championship 13th n/a 2019/20 Coca Cola Championship 3rd Promoted Via Play-Offs 2020/21 Barclays Premier League 8th n/a 2021/22 Barclays Premier League 10th Qualified for UEFA Europa League via Fair Play League
I got my world class striker last season. Now I need a top, top centre back to plug up our leaky defence. I'd be happy with mid-table again but I feel if we sort out our defence we could be pushing top 6.
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2011-2012 Season Review- Kings Lynn BSN
Last season we weren't great but the second half of the season was a very good one. So I decided to keep my team virtually the same just strengthening with one or two signings. That's exactly what I did.
Nobody predicted me to do very well but I was confident that I would get top half of the table.
The season started well with me and Braintree setting the early pace. Just after the halfway point we went past them and then I hit a bit of bad form it saw us fall to 5th or 6th with a few games to go. However, we fought well and managed to finish 4th starting to get back into form. The only team I feared in the playoffs were Southport. That was the team I got in the semi final. In the home leg I absolutely destroyed them. It was the best performance by my team since I started. In the second leg I drew 0-0 so I was through to the final. Another good performance in the final saw me 3-1 winners so I was promoted.
In the FA cup I got Norwich in the first round. It was a great away tie which got me 300k in the black. We lost the game but the money was useful.
Henry McStay-Av. 7.20
Jared Hodgkiss-Av. 7.19
Steven Springett-Av. 7.18
Sean Fitzharris-Av. 7.17
Nick Main-Av. 7.08
League positions graph
FA Cup-1st round Norwich
FA Trophy-2nd round Macclesfield
Manager Overview
Next Season
I will try to get promoted again but my main target is not to get relegated and maybe get to the 3rd round of the FA cup.
can anyone else confirm that the unique ids appear to have changed in 10.2.0?
On a related topic, going a man/men down doesn't seem to be as much of a disadvantage on FM10 as it should be. Anyone else finding this?
10.2 is now installed and I'm holidaying for Gundo's challenge good luck to everyone with their saves on here, I'm sure I'll pop back in from time to time, and maybe even finish a few more seasons with Merthyr
That's one hell of a match there dafuge! Congrats on getting to the final as well
went ahead and whipped up a new ddt, here's a mediafire link for anyone interested:


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Spiced Crustless Pumpkin Pie RecipeSpiced Crustless Pumpkin Pie
Source: MyFoodDiary.com
You can enjoy the flavors of the season without overloading on unhealthy foods. This crustless pumpkin pie is sweetened with banana to reduce the added sugar. A small amount of whole wheat flour in the pumpkin filling creates a dessert that can be sliced and served like any pie, but without the crust you save calories and saturated fat.
Yield: 8 servings
Preparation: 5 minutes
Baking time: 30 minutes
- 1 can (15 oz.) pumpkin puree
- ½ ripe banana, pureed
- 3 tbsp raw sugar
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 1 large egg white
- 1 cup low-fat evaporated milk
- ¼ cup white whole wheat flour
- ½ tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Spray a 9 inch pie pan with non-stick cooking spray.
- In a medium bowl, stir together the pumpkin, banana, and sugar. Stir in the egg and egg white. Stir well until all ingredients are combined.
- Stir in the milk and flour. Add the vanilla pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, and salt. Stir until all ingredients are mixed well.
- Pour the pumpkin into the prepared pie pan. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes until the pumpkin is set in the center and no longer jiggles when you move the pan.
- Let cool completely (about 1 hour). Use a sharp knife to gently go around the edge of the pie, between the pie and the pie pan to release it. Cut into 8 slices and serve.
Nutrition information for 1 slice: Calories 96; Total Fat 1.5 g; Saturated Fat 0.5 g; Trans Fat 0 g; Cholesterol 25 mg; Sodium 152 mg; Carbohydrate 17.5 g; Fiber 3.1 g; Sugar 11 g; Protein 5.1 g

subset: commoncrawl


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Hi All,
Let us consider a P x Q real matrix (P >= Q). It can be thought of as an element of $\mathbb{R}^{PQ}$. We are considering Lebesgue measure over that space. My question is whether the subspace of matrices with repeated singular values are of measure 0 or not.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Thanks Ashin


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What are the advantages of recursion?
Some programming languages can optimize tail recursion, but, still in general terms, recursion consume more resources than regular loops.
Is it possible to have an iterative version of some recursive function?
What are the advantages of recursion?
Some programming languages can optimize tail recursion, but, still in general terms, recursion consume more resources than regular loops.
Is it possible to have an iterative version of some recursive function?
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There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
Yes, you can code recursive functions as iterations. It basically requires you to maintain the information manually that otherwise would have been taken care of by the method calling code generated by the compiler.
In other words, you need a stack where each entry is a structure containing the passed parameters and all the local variables. You always work on the top-most entry on the stack. If you need to call yourself, create a new entry and put on top of the stack. When done take the topmost entry of the stack exposing the one below, and use the previously topmost entry to extract the return values and update the new topmost entry accordingly.
I suggest you study a compiler book to see how this is usually implemented in machine code.
Recursion is often a more natural way of looking at things than iteration. For example, consider inorder traversal of a binary tree:
As long as you don't go too deep (blowing the stack), the difference in resource use is usually trivial. Don't worry about it in general. Simple code is normally better than hand-optimized code, although there are exceptions. Right is normally better than fast.
Any recursive algorithm can be expressed as an iterative algorithm, but you may need to keep an explicit stack (corresponding to the call stack that's handled implicitly). After all, if you compile a recursive function, you get something that relies on manipulating a stack and looping through the function, and that's iterative.
Tail-recursive functions can be easily translated into loops, and don't need a stack, but that's a special case.
Try solving the Towers of Hanoi problem iteratively. Once you give up, take a look at the iterative solution and compare it to the recursive one. Which one is simpler?
Yes, in principle. However for many problems, including very common tasks, such as tree traversals, the recursive solutions are much simpler and more elegant than the iterative ones.
Simplicity. Without tail-call optimization it of course takes more resources (stack), but how would you implement, say,
I believe that recursion is one of those tools that a programmer must have to live. With recursion you can "think" your algorithms and solve them just the way you thought about it. But, I must warn you, everybody is talking about how pretty recursion is and how much simplicity brings to the code, regarding that I have a few things to say:
Having those things in mind, learn recursion! it's funny, complex and it will smash your brain!, but you'll find yourself loving it.
Best of luck!


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7 Famous Movie Flaws That Were Explained in Deleted Scenes
Even the greatest movies will end up with some scenes on the cutting room floor. For the most part, it's with good reason: As awesome as it was, Darth Vader's wakeboarding montage would really have broken the flow of Empire. But a few of those cut scenes would have absolutely made the movie, and it's a tragedy that we've never seen them... until now. NOTE: Obviously there are spoilers, but don't let that stop you from reading (just from complaining that we didn't warn you.)
Note: We live in confusing times. While movies work overtime to explain more and more things that none of us ever wanted to know, like where the Rescue Rangers and the Smurfs got their convictions, the Internet has gone the opposite direction -- Upworthy refuses to explain what its own articles are even about and that kind of misdirection has broken at least one of our editor's dainty, fragile hearts.
So, we wanted to remind you of this Cracked Classic because it shows that no matter how crazy life gets, there's always an explanation hidden somewhere out there. You just have to go digging through the special features. Or buy the Director's Cut. -Cracked.
#7. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
This whole article, a small novel, two abridged textbooks and an epic poem could be written about the sheer volume of deleted scenes from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but there's one particular cut from The Two Towers that seems particularly important. The flashback scene we're referring to shows Boromir and Faramir having a conversation after stomping some Orc ass--a flashback to before anybody knew that a certain hobbit had found a certain ring. Then their father, Denethor, shows up to kill the moment, because he's just generally not a "party type of dude."
Boromir (Left), Faramir (Middle), Denethor (Right). Because all Gondor boys look alike.
Boromir and his father Denethor discuss the Council at Rivendell, and the fact that "Isildur's Bane" is the One Ring (a fact not presented otherwise). Denethor instructs his son to retrieve the Ring for Gondor.
Which went over well, in case you're wondering.
This actually explains Boromir's entire motivation in the first film, and everything he does. His father, his brother, his people are all depending on him to bring back that goddamned ring. He was never going to let them destroy it. It puts the whole first film in a new light and without that scene, Boromir is just "that shifty dude" that kind of hangs out in the back, making all the hobbits uncomfortable for no reason anybody can place. He might as well have been driving a windowless van.
"Hey guys? Hobbits are technically adults, right?"
#6. Independence Day
Are you kind of a nerd? Have you seen Independence Day? What's the problem we're about to point out here? Exactly. Fully half of you reading this have just screamed to the heavens in futile rage about the probability of the famous Apple OS/advanced alien mothership compatibility issue. Even here at Cracked, we've drawn attention to this once or twice in one of our articles (like this one, this one, this one, this one and, well, this one.)
Nerds are an unforgiving lot.
Essentially, Jeff Goldblum is reminded that the word "virus" exists, which is all the motivation and know-how he needs to hack a completely alien spacecraft with a mid-90s PowerBook. We can't even get our damn Xboxes to play pirated copies of Step Up 2 the Streets from our computer, and they were made specifically to interact with one another, yet the dude from Jurassic Park somehow manages to encode a goddamn .GIF of a laughing skull in there when he takes out the mothership with the cutting edge power of MacOS 7.6.
But in the seven minutes of cut scenes included in the extended release Independence Day DVD, Goldblum is actually shown tinkering with his PowerBook inside the recovered craft from the Roswell crash site, mumbling something about how the spaceship was running off the same programming language he was able to decipher before (when he first uncovered their invasion plans and all that).
He may also have mentioned tachyons.
So, he presumably worked from there and was able to code some disruptive program and translate it into their language or whatever. It's still flimsy as hell, but it at least proves the filmmakers were aware of and willing to address the problem, thus defusing a decade and a half of pent-up nerd-rage.
#5. Aliens
In Aliens, Ellen Ripley, sole survivor of the first movie, is finally rescued after floating in outer space for 57 years. When she wakes up and inquires about her old life, she's informed nonchalantly that her daughter has grown up and died while she was in hypersleep. Wait, really? All in the span of 57 years? Apparently, despite mastering cryogenic freezing, the future has suffered some great steps backward in geriatric care.
There's nothing funny about dead children, so instead we present you with this photo of Sigourney Weaver in her underpants.
But that's OK, because upon hearing this devastating news, Ripley essentially gives the camera a "whattayagonnado" shrug and trots off to kick some xenomorphs in whatever they call groins. Typical action movie fare.
But in this deleted scene, we are explicitly shown Ripley's heartbreak at missing out on her daughter's entire life, despite promising she would be home on her 11th birthday.
Kitty cats and vast, unfathomable emotional trauma.
After seeing the human side of Ripley this early in the film, it makes perfect sense that she rescues and instantly grows so attached to the orphaned girl Newt. It changes the entire dynamic of the film; changing Ripley from a blank-slate Hero character to a grieving mother suffering from emotional transference. Also, it answers all the audience's accusatory screams of "Bitch, leave the girl! You don't even know that girl! They're Aliens! Run, bitch, run!"


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Galactic Map
The Galaxy. This map shows both the Indri VIII highway, which opened in 2340, and the Galactic core highway which no longer exists.
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I built mine from scratch too, and alter them as I progress up the leagues and take part in new competitions. The idea is pretty obvious, but kudos to dafuge if he was first. I basically did copy his style though, with league, cup, key players summary. It's a nice mix between long-winded summaries of each match and brief "Did crap, got relegated"
I just did mine via wikipedia as it is extremely easy to edit the tables or add them to you own page using that site.
Something to share with my FMCU friends.
Teddy Sheringham thinks I'm a fool. Actually, he probably doesn't think anything at all, but I made a right fool of myself when I met him this afternoon. :o
Everything going quite well, managed to get the guts up to go over, asked him to sign my notebook, small talk okay, fine..... moment to walk away now..... and, I find myself stretching out my hand for a handshake. What am I doing?
Now, I'm prone to this. I am a handshaker. I like handshakes. But this is just a bit stupid.......
Teddy isn't paying proper attention anyway. He's got one eye on the football. He doesn't notice. Then I think he does notice. My hand stays there just that little bit too long. Lingers, if you will. Cannot move hand. Rejection by the ex-England international. Now the hand moves. Finally. I quickly pull my hand away, but much too late, and thank him for the autograph with a mumble then leave. Embarrassing. At least I can laugh about it now. Hahaha.
Oh well, I'm sure he won't remember me anyway. Nice that he actually signed my notepad. I've heard he can be a bit of a prat actually from other people, apparently walking into Non-League grounds without paying and being rude to people etc., plus telling people to get lost if they approach him.
The strange thing is that I have no idea why I got his autograph. I don't collect autographs and consider it a kind of thing you do when you're a kid. Seeing someone famous is usually enough for me, to be honest.
I met Robbie Fowler once and that was quality. My friend and I had our photograph taken with him. That was quite cool and I didn't make too much of a plonker of myself that time.
I don't know what it is about meeting famous people that makes me gush and turn into a total fool. I once stood next to Gazza in a pub and nearly turned around and personally thanked him for one of the happiest moments of my England supporting career (that goal versus Scotland). I know I would have gushed and made an idiot of myself though so I'm glad I didn't. I just stood there, watching England on the pub TV, next to this England legend, and that was enough.
I know it's not FM relevant but I thought I would share with you chaps.
He probably plays FM and is on the forum as well, reading your post right now.
You've met quite a few famous players, here in Luxembourg there are... none. Only celebrity player that's been here recently is Pjanic from Lyon who occasionally can be spotted in posh nightclubs.
You got his autograph so it wasn't a total loss, eh? Didn't know he could be a pleb, but then a lot of famous people are idiots. Perhaps especially famous footballers. Did he even notice the hand or did he notice and not want to shake it? Either way, seems like a case of "mouse turned into elephant", if that translates.
I've met some famous people too. Like the entire Man United squad when they visited Norway after the 1999 Treble. But that wasn't personal. Meeting Angus and Malcolm Young of AC/DC, however, was. Talked to them for 5 or so minutes and got their autograph. This was absolutely HUGE for me at the time, because I'm a ridiculously big fan of theirs. And they were clearly no idiots. Turned around their fancy car and came back to me and two Swedes, talked for a bit, and then left. Seemed like very nice people and utterly down to earth. No "holier than thou" attitude there, which was nice and surprising.
Just be glad you saw him and had the courage to walk over. Not all would have done that. And I'm sure you're happy you did, even if it felt a little embarrassing there and then.
Darren Campbel (ex sprinter)l signed for my footy team i **** you not lol
I thought it was funny to share though. Sort of a Mark Corrigan moment from Peep Show!
Sounds good. Robbie Fowler was like that. Totally down to earth and a really nice guy, chatting to two southerners like me and my mate as if we were Liverpudlians and old friends (my mate was at uni in Liverpool and I used to visit him - we met Fowler in town one day).I've met some famous people too. Like the entire Man United squad when they visited Norway after the 1999 Treble. But that wasn't personal. Meeting Angus and Malcolm Young of AC/DC, however, was. Talked to them for 5 or so minutes and got their autograph. This was absolutely HUGE for me at the time, because I'm a ridiculously big fan of theirs. And they were clearly no idiots. Turned around their fancy car and came back to me and two Swedes, talked for a bit, and then left. Seemed like very nice people and utterly down to earth. No "holier than thou" attitude there, which was nice and surprising.
I met the Editors (the band) once and they were really down to earth guys too. I had had a few drinks at the time and I lectured them on English literature. :o Also, Brendan Benson, who was a really cool guy. I think it's nice if someone famous is down to earth like that and will talk to people. If I were famous, I'd like to think that I would give people my time, although I guess it's kind of strange for them to be approached by strangers.
Yes, I'm kind of happy but actually not that bothered. I'd rather have met some St. Albans City player, which is a bit sad!Just be glad you saw him and had the courage to walk over. Not all would have done that. And I'm sure you're happy you did, even if it felt a little embarrassing there and then.
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I met Lionel Blair once!
Seriously though, when I was younger I was fortunate enough to meet the great, late Sir Brian Clough. Now as a Forest fan, this is probably one of the best moments in my life and I have taken and listened to this piece of advice he gave me since .
It was around 1990 and I was 10 years old. It was a time when earings for boys were "in fashion" and of course, wanting to be fashionable, I had one in my left ear. I'd been watching Forest for the past 3 years, since my Uncle used to take me and whilst at a game I approached him and asked him for a photograph; he was more than happy to pose with me. However, after the photo had been taken he turned round to me and said "Hey young man...don't you know earings are for puffs?"
I've never worn one since!
Ha! Awesome, awesome story Raware. Simply awesome.
One person I would just love to meet is Gazza. He was my boyhood idol. If I was stood next to him like you I would probably have gushed and made an idiot of myself too...but I wouldn't care
One true gentlemen that I met was Bobby Robson. I used to work at Forest as a youth development scout so I was priveleged to be able to have a free pass around the ground and training facilities and met him during half time at a Forest game. An incredibly polite and genuine man .
I searched most of the United team on their way back from the Chelsea defeat. Rooney, Evra, Nani to name but a few.
Searched them! :confused:
Airport screening or some such thing? They all got "randomly" selected?
I think you'll find a lot of them are from further south
I've met a few semi-famous bands/musicians (Kill It Kid and the lead singer from Pennywise being two you'll never have heard of!), and Jason Roberts
I also met Darren Campbell when I was much younger, he came and did a talk at my school. We all got photos with him. I said hi when I came for mine and he blanked me
We also had Karl-Oskar Fjørtoft to a football school kinda thing. That was fun. Nobody will probably have known about him, but he was a very good midfield player in the Norwegian top division at the time. Soooooooooo wanted to go to one Solskjær held too, but that could never be arranged. I remember we very naively talked about it "When we come back we'll beat everybody easily!"
Then to something completely different...
Calling Photobucket experts! It's a great site for hosting pics. But do you know if it's possible to get direct links to your picture when using the imagethumb option?
I only get the direct link with the direct link option, otherwise they choose the one with ads and ****, which is also minimized. I don't want that. I've tried to go into the "See more" option where I can choose which ones to display by default. I CAN get it, but then I have to manually alter each picture link and there is no way in hell I'm going to do that.
Hopefully that was understandable :o
Posted this in my thread but thought people who don't follow my career might also be able to help:
Quick question for those of you who have long-term saves on 11.3 - are you also having issues with home-grown classifications? My players (such as Juarez) who have achieved home-grown status since I patched up don't appear to count as such in the squad selection screen for the Champions League. This is really starting to irritate as I've had to leave players like Loureiro, Javier, Pagola and Arguelles out of my latest squad in order to have a balanced squad that the selector will accept. Eventually I'm going to have to start buying under-21 players every season to make up the shortfall!
Perhaps it is something you could edit using one of those real time editors? I think if it is an issue, then this might be a way of solving it.
Not sure whether the third-party live editors are capable of such things though. :confused:
FMRTE can but you have to do it in "Relationships" AFAIK
Just had a check through the Editors Hideaway, looks like if FM11SX is updated for 11.3 then that might be an option. Only issue is, I'm assuming it's the same for the AI as well, so I'd be gaining an advantage. I'd rather it was fixed for every team! Have raised it in the bugs forum and SI are looking at it, so hopefully it'll be included if any hotfix is produced.
Didn't really know anywhere to post this but if you use steam and like to talk about FM or your Career on fm then add me Blue_nightmares
Thinking of doing a Career thread what is the quickest way to do things and what sort of updates should I include?
Exactly what do you mean by the quickest way?
Personally I like end of season updates the best, with small comments or pictures and such now and then about special events. But if you want to do monthly updates or even report about each match, then there is an interest for that too. Have a look at some of the other updates and you'll get some good ideas hopefully.
Not entirely sure how I will do mine yet as I've just written one season, but thinking about writing a bit more about each season instead of fairly brief summaries of each Cup etc. But I'll see how things go and what the reactions are. It takes quite a bit of time to write these things, especially with the pictures, so it's nice to write something people like to read. There are all sorts of update types in here though, so you can't go too wrong really.
I did a career thread a while back but the game crashed and I lost intrest
What do people look for in a scout other than JPA/JPP? Is there anything else to look for? Same goes for physios as well.
Physios, I usually also look at motivating and discipline in addition to the physiotherapy rating. I dunno if those actually have a role, but I like to think it helps encourage your players to put in the work to get healthy and return to action sooner.
Of course, I come from the LLM ethos, so usually the guys who apply for jobs with me have ratings in the single digits across the board.
Last edited by Jason the Yank; 05-04-2011 at 04:29.
I look for Adaptability and Determination for scouts (det is how many they will find )
i go for adaptability and determination for scout, but also tactical knowledge for the one checking out the next oposition
hey guys if your looking for something to do while blastin FM have a watch of this found it really good
Its about Pablo escobar the drg baron who ploughed cash into Colombian football. And Andre Escobar whowas shot after scoring OG in World Cup
its good, if anyone is on cable top tier TV they can find it in the On demand too
I'm currently struggling for a game and no matter what game I have tried to get in too for FM11, I have got bored after two seasons or before. I had a CSE thread in which I holidayed and got challenges from. That's now dead but I still have the save. It's in the year 2022 but I don't know what team to be. Or whether I could continue in a mainly regen filled game. Any tips on playing in regen filled games?
Having just read some of this thread. I do wish I had met Cloughie. Never really got to see him at his best . Just videos. I haven't really met any famous people. I've met a few cricketers and got their autographs. I've spoke to David Lloyd(cricket commentator) in passing. I used to play cricket alot and the side I played for the first team were good and a lot of pros and ex-pros. in the Premier League of the cricket league. I've got a few former Forest players autographs, but no one special.
NF I low down team might be a good Place so you can learn the good regens before you get the pressure of a top side!
Playing with top sides get boring no matter what you do basically, it's just a matter of time. Everything is in place, you got your world class players, and can mostly win without too much effort. When you don't really have a target to gun for things get boring. I therefore suggest you start out with a crap side far down the divisions. There you have plenty of goals to try to achieve. It doesn't have to be a regen game, but that does it more interesting of course since you don't know any of the players. I don't know if you have tried this before or not, but if you haven't it's well worth a shot. Much more fun than starting out with top (or top-ish) clubs. Having a wage budget of perhaps £1000 and no transfer budget make things interesting
I started with Carlisle United. They are in the BSN. I started a thread. It's called Is it grim up north?
i get attached to players when ive led them to the top of the game i also enjoy finding the next world beater and nurturing them into it,
That's what I enjoy about long games too, but I must admit that it gets boring nevertheless when I can basically just hit continue and see the team demolish whatever is in front of them. The best part of such games, by far, is to find and develop good youths - especially those from you own academy. Nothing like getting a player through that can cut it in a side dominating Europe
I haven't really built a team up on FM11 yet. I am simply thinking of my manager and building up reputation until I can cherry pick jobs that I need to win every continents champions league once that is done I am not sure what I will do. I might just wonder around the world or if the job at Crewe is available I might go there and try to build them up. I think it will take me a long time yet to win all the trophies I need for my challenge.
What do you think guys? Shall I break my own rule and do a save in Britain? England and Scotland only? Not feeling my Oviedo save atm, but I don't want to delete it.
What's the anti-Britain rule about anyway Deisler26? :confused:
That's what I like about it!
Could always try Scotland or Wales because I'm guessing you don't know them as well as England, right?
What's not getting you hooked to your Oviedo save?
I always think the key to any good save is some solid goals and objectives in mind. The most thrilling saves always have that but I always find myself struggling if the goals aren't interesting me.
It is a bit tedious too though, because I know it so well. But have never really gotten into saves elsewhere, apart from some brilliant ones in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Spain and Italy just hasn't worked out thus far. Maybe I'm just too much of an Anglophile
Don't get me wrong, I'd like to try some other countries more often but England just seems more 'real' to me. I watch English football week-in, week-out, and I know it inside-out.
When I play the English leagues on FM, I just feel much more immersed in the game. I've been to a fair few of the football grounds, for example, or I've seen quite a few of the players play (I'm talking specifically about Non-League football here) so to call it all into my imagination is so easy.
I do like going to other countries on FM though. Normally after I have been on holiday there or read about the football history of that country. I'm quite Euro-centric though. I guess, ultimately, I quite like to stick to the football I know best.
Last edited by crouchaldinho; 10-04-2011 at 10:07.
Like Iceland? :P
Well, three game months on a Forest Green save and I'm now well up for resuming my Oviedo career! Cheers guys!
when you sell a player how often do you sell them to a club in your division?
since 19/20 (currently in 31/32)
19 players sold to english clubs
51 players sold abroad
I much prefer selling players abroad, just so they don't get the inevitable winner against me next time I play against them.
Currently I try and off load players to clubs in the same division as I am trying to raise the Icelandic rep. I also try and avoid clubs who play in the CL so I don't have to play against my players again
seeing as i have no need for the money i seem to have started favouring foreign clubs more and more
I don't like managing in England either. Probably has something to do with the fact that everyone manages that and I want to be 'different'. Also hate work permits and I can't sign Canadians on lower league clubs because of it.
I also hate Scotland, but that's because of the quality of football there. And players kept moaning about wanting to leave there.
I also like to manage in Asia in every career game. It's a lot of fun there. I personally like to manage in obscure nations, learning something new. Each to their own I guess. I personally won't be completely satisfied with my FM saves unless MLS is fixed and I can enjoy managing in MLS.
This one seems interesting though. I'm testing it out right now. It's still WIP though.
It looks very good,let me know how it goes I have always wanted to have a go in the MLS but it always seems too buggy to play.
Quick question. When managing in Italy, do Bosman signings count towards the foreign signing limit?
i "think" they do,
well FM and the United film from last night
Hmmmmn. Thinking of starting a new FM save and I'm fancying a return to Italy where I did have a fun save going (calcio journeyman) but loaded too many leagues.
This time, I want it to be a one club, small club to big club, kind of save. But I've no idea who to be! Can I get some suggestions from my fellow FMCUers?
I'm kind of tempted to go for any of the following:
- Hellas Verona (I love this club and have unfinished business with them but trouble is they are at C1 level and ideally I would like to start in the bottom league).
- Venezia (Really like the idea of waiting for them to be promoted from Serie D and then taking them over. Only thing putting me off is their yucky colours - black with orange and green, blurgh! Could I maybe get used to them though?)
- Pisa (Again, like the idea of them coming up from Serie D and then taking over a big club that has fallen on hard times. Not feeling too keen on them though for some reason).
- Messina (Another fallen giant type of thing but plenty of others have managed this team already. SnakeXe had a legendary save with them so it puts me off. And, to be honest, I'd prefer a team in the north really).
- Spezia (Look like they could be quite a good club to take over at Serie C2 level but I don't really know anything about them).
- Lucchese (Another decent looking C2 level side. Not keen on the club colours though for some reason).
- Savona (Pretty cool looking Serie D side who I could take over if they came up. I remember Iacovone had an awesome save with them. Definitely tempted by this team).
That's about it off the top of my head. Any help please FMCUers?
I'd go for Pisa, just because I like their logo/colours/kits.
i haate this time of the season as it always makes me want to start at the bottom and work my way up but if i do that ill lose intrest in the sunderland game im enjoying so much still having a bit of a struggle trying to decide new save or current gah.
What about San Marino in C2 Crouchy? maybe throw in the San Marinese leagues with an editor file and try to take on the national team at some point too?
Other than that you could always look in the editor forum for an italian lower leagues file and... Castel di sangro? or perhaps one of the former italian champions who have fallen a long way such as Casale or Novese, or if you prefer no extra files theres always Pro Vercelli I guess.
I'd also say Pro Vercelli C. A massive fallen giant in Italian football; i'm actually tempted to try a save with those myself. Or if it's a club from your list, i'd go with daf and say Pisa...i'm sure you could come up with a witty, pun for a title with Pisa and their tower .
ok i need a hand on team suggestion decided im going to run two managers in my current save, my current sunderland one as im enjoying it too much and also a new one (name undecided) i wont be running a thread for it but will include a little thing in the yearly sunderland update my choices are:
Crawley - bounced between LEague Two and The conference have finally established themselves in league two this season and were safe from relegations with 5 games to go
Yeovil - Recently relegated to League two after finishing second bottom of League one, have spent the majority of thier years in league two
Hartlepool - Losing LEague Two play-off hopefulls from this season only been as high as League one
Newly promoted side from the conference (dont know who these are yet as dont have conference loaded)
come on the great memebers of the careers thread, pick a team for me will be back on between 8 and 9 to add the new manager to this
Well...not Yeovil (nothing to do with them beating us in the League One playoffs a few years ago! ). I'd say Hartlepool but that's only because Jeff Stelling is a fan and it'd be an excuse to play this game!
I'd go for Hartlepool, for Stelling and the monkey hanging incident.
I'm tempted by Pisa but I'm just not sure I'm feeling it with them. Don't know why though!
I'm not really up for doing a San Marino save. The editor idea is a good one though but I have been under the impression in the past that it is very difficult to come up with an accurate representation of the Italian lower leagues with the editor, so this has always put me off.
I should explain that I am trying to recreate a save that I had back on CM03/04. On that edition, I took over Cremonese when they were in Serie C2 and ended up taking them back to Serie A and romping home to the title. I built a really good team too.
I really fancied finding a 'fallen giant' type of team - or maybe fallen giant isn't the right term, but a big team - who have fallen on harder times.
I actually really want to manage Hellas Verona pretty badly but I have this thing about always starting at the lowest possible level.
As for Pisa, I'm leaning more towards Venezia than Pisa. Or maybe Savona. I don't know! Decisions, decisions!
Rodengo Saiano! How can you resist a logo with a panda on it? I couldn't ...
If you really want a fallen giant, Venezia is really the choice, no?
Didn't you play as Hellas Verona on a previous save C.? I agree that if it's a big'ish' club that have fallen on harder times that you want, the obvious choices are Venezia as Makonnen said or Pro Vercelli. Avellino were a decent Serie A side in the 80's if I remember correctly but I wouldn't say, fallen giants. How about Treviso? They were recently a Serie A side but I think they went bankrupt after their involvement in match fixing. You'd obviously have to wait until they were promoted to Serie C2.
Download an Italian league database and try to recreate The Miracle.
If there is a decent database available.
But..... I have reached a different conclusion.........
As it is, I've made a decision. I'm going to....... Venezia!
Thanks for all of the suggestions guys.
On that subject, does anyone know where I can get a decent set of club and competition logos for Italy?
I just realised the pack that I have has an outdated logo for Venezia and no competition logos for Italy at all.
Are the FM11 packs compatible with FM10? I imagine they probably are, aren't they? I'm still playing FM10.
I prefer to use the normal looking logos btw. Thanks for any help in advance.
Does nobody do standard logos any more then? I went to sortitoutsi but couldn't find much.
Italy 2010/11
These are the ones I'm using. The forums have loads more but I think you need to sign up.
Crouchy, if I may. I know you've already chosen Venezia, but this is what I would have said
My thoughts (as you asked ):
Verona - no - you've been there and done it.
Venezia - no - rlipscombe has been there and done it and kit is wrong, and they're not a real small club with great facilities!
Pisa - no - think rlipscombe has been there as well . Either way, they don't do much for me.
Messina - possibly - another fallen 'giant' if I can use that to describe them. I wouldn't go there due to the red kit but I doubt that would put you off. A 'maybe' in my book.
Spezia - yes - here's an interesting option. No-one I can recall has done anything spectacular with them so you could be one of the first. I also know little about them but sometimes that is the intrigue with picking a club!
Lucchese - maybe - agree on the kit, something a bit different. Also an unknown quantity and would appeal to me. My 2nd choice on the list.
Savona - no - as much as I'd love to see them rise once more, it'd hurt to see someone else take them to the heights I once did! Plus you'll never top my achievements
Hope that helps in your quest to find an Italian outfit!
I tried the same link earlier today and it didn't work properly then either.
Any chance of you uploading them for me! I know it's a bit cheeky to ask but that would be excellent.
Last edited by crouchaldinho; 26-04-2011 at 20:11.
How far did Rlipscombe take them? Did he win everything with them?Venezia - no - rlipscombe has been there and done it and kit is wrong, and they're not a real small club with great facilities!
What's wrong with the kit btw?
Their facilities aren't that good either!
Ah, not too sure about the kit though. White and black is a bit boring, no?Spezia - yes - here's an interesting option. No-one I can recall has done anything spectacular with them so you could be one of the first. I also know little about them but sometimes that is the intrigue with picking a club!
Yeah, I thought you might feel like that.Savona - no - as much as I'd love to see them rise once more, it'd hurt to see someone else take them to the heights I once did! Plus you'll never top my achievements
Sort of but actually not much at all.Hope that helps in your quest to find an Italian outfit!
I'm struggling to find a logo pack with the right club logo for Venezia at the moment so might have to reconsider. Daf's one might do the job though!
I've got a kind of OCD thing about picking teams, you may have noticed!
Hahaha oh well! I'll be following you whoever you choose!
After doing a bit of reading about Spezia (who are in Serie C2/A), I've decided to go with them.
They have an interesting quirk: they won an unofficial Italian championship title in 1944 during World War II with Vittorio Pozzo as coach and Silvio Piola as striker. It was not declared as official at the time but, in 2002, the scudetto for Spezia was awarded as a 'decoration'. The club remembers the 1944 triumph by playing with a tricolour badge on the team's official jersey (but different from the Scudetto). The challenge, of course, is to win them their first official Scudetto!
The other thing I like about them is the number of decent rivals they have, which should keep the interest as I (hopefully) go up the leagues. In the lower leagues, they have the likes of Pisa, Lucchese, Livorno, Carrarese etc. In Serie A, they are rivals with Genoa, which could become interesting if I can take them to the top division.
They have a pretty cool club crest as well:
So, I've found my club, I think. Thanks to all who offered advice.
I'll be playing on FM10. Not sure if I will do a career thread but if I get into the save then I'll most likely start one. Fingers crossed.
Last edited by crouchaldinho; 27-04-2011 at 20:56.
good luck
Has the St albans save ground to a halt Crouchy?
I think I'm going to have one more shot at FM11, and then stop playing till FM12, because these crash dumps are driving me crazy.
slightly side tracking this but im now untouchable in my job status first time ive seen this on FM11
I'm making this post into two posts due to the number of images involved.......
Well, I was all set to go with Spezia, for reasons outlined above, but I just wasn't feeling it with them. I think I'm going to go back to my first idea of starting with Venezia. I'm desperate to have an epic save in Italy like SnakeXe's with Messina! I really like the idea of taking over Venezia, especially as I found out that they are one of the only Italian clubs to have an English style Supporters Trust.
Anyway, the problem I have is that I don't have an up-to-date logo for them. So this is where I am humbly requesting the help of the FMCU people. :o
So far, I have these:
Which are perfect. When it comes to making the background left and background right thingys though, I'm totally baffled. It's beyond my computer expertise! :o
I found that someone had made this:
But that doesn't seem to be right. :confused:
I found these instructions on the Skinning forum - http://community.sigames.com/showthr...d-FM2010-Logos - but it's way over my head. I don't know how to do it.
Could anyone help me with getting the transparent right and left logos? I'd really appreciate any help.
I've downloaded loads of them but I've not got a clue when it comes to creating them. I usually just put a request in on another forum (sortitoutsi), I can usually find someone helpful there to do it for me.
Thanks D.
I'll try the sortitoutsi forum then.
I've got GIMP but I cannot work out how to do it. So confused.
If you dont get it sorted by Tuesday ill do it for ya but I'm away from pc till then otherwise ill crack them all out and the config file as got to make someone kits for my save
Got it sorted. Thanks for the help everyone.
After all that with the logos, I've loaded up the Venezia save and been playing it a bit this evening, and I'm just not feeling it again. :o
Maybe I should abandon my 'always start in the lowest league' rule and just start with Hellas in C1! I do really want to do the chasing a repeat of the 1985 miracle, especially since I read about it again in The Blizzard!
I would go back to my calcio journeyman game and continue where I left off there but the pace was too slow on that save due to too many leagues loaded for my poor old laptop.
Don't know what's wrong with me at the moment. I can't seem to get into a save. I know I want an Italian adventure but I can't seem to decide which team!
I can't say I'm a big fan of the Italian leagues, I think I'd prefer to manage in Germany.


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Budget AMC Build Guide - Build an AMCWritten by Douglas Glad on January 6, 2009 Contributors: The Primedia Archives What To Do When You Can't Find An AMX Or SST
We wanted a Javelin bad. So we got all squinty and slack-jawed when we found a bunch of other Javelin guys on eBay bidding our Big Bad Blue '69 1/2 Go Pack dream car to death. Losing that auction got us thinking about the "wrong year" Javs and Ramblers we could buy cheap and plumb with beefed AMC running gear. Since our requisite engine for any AMC street machine is the 401, we went looking for alternative body styles that weren't coveted or even marginally collectible so we wouldn't feel guilty about yanking the stock engine for a big-cube swap-o. We didn't rule out the larger but still kick-butt Ambassador series or the Rebel, the big 'ol Marlin, or even the gas-crunch stuff from the '70s. We looked at models built after 1965, because stuff before that was just weird, and before 1977 when the Concord hustled in the age of the luxury compact that led to the ultimate demise of the auto division. Ugh.
So here's the deal: We dug up some archive photos of the cool musclecar-era body styles and listed some of the parts, tips, and tricks we found in our AMC fervor. There is way more information available than we can put in this story. So consider this a primer on what is possible. We're still trying to decide which one is coolest, so if we score a roller, we'll unite it with a screamin' mill and let you know.
Body Styles
Like we said, the dream was buying a '68-'69 Javelin SST or AMX with a four-speed and either the 343ci or 390ci engine. Great cars, but we couldn't even find a rusty one that would make a good base for a street machine. Everything we found was either restored and expensive or returning to ore. During our search, we did find some Rambler Americans that came equipped with the small V-8s from the 290-360 family. Since the external engine dimensions are the same as the 401, a swap would be easy and their light weight would make them fly. We also found several of the less-coveted '71-'74 Javelins at reasonable prices and a Rambler Rebel SST convertible. Many of these cars were for sale for less than $4,000. Check out the cool bodies and consider the options.
All 290-401 AMC V-8s after 1966 are in the same family. But just because the 390-401s have the same dimensions as the smaller 290-360 engines doesn't mean you can bore and stroke your way to any cubic-inch displacement with any block. There are differences internally. The most notable is the switch from 7/16-inch head bolts to 1/2-inch head bolts and the deck height increase from 9.175 to 9.208 inches in 1970. This is actually OK because most of the aftermarket parts we've found are designed for post-'70 401s found in fullsize AMC passenger cars until 1974 and in fullsize Jeeps through 1978, making them more plentiful than the early engines.
Most of the AMC V-8 cars were saddled with the ill-reputed 8 7/8 Model 20 rearend. The problem has always been that the axle is a separate component from the hub. To make matters worse, the axle uses a Woodruff key instead of splines, creating a potential to spin the axles in the hub and snap the key. Short of changing rearends, the fix we've seen used universally is a Detroit Soft Locker, Auburn differential, or similar design with a Moser one-piece 29-spline axle to put up with the abuse. If you're going racing with 500 hp or more and launching hard on slicks, there are Dana 60 and Ford 9-inch bolt-in housings available. Otherwise, upgrade the 20 and leave it alone.
Early AMCs came equipped with the Borg-Warner Shift Command automatic or the T10 four-speed on the performance models. The T10 has always been a decent piece, but the Shift Command automatic shifts poorly and has little or no aftermarket support for performance use. The reason is that after 1972 you could get the TorqueFlite 727 Chrysler transmission with an AMC bolt pattern from a fullsize Jeep or AMC passenger car. With the door open to all the mainstream Chrysler speed goodies like converters, shift kits, and shifters, it's no wonder the early automatic is more for pleasant street cruising while the 727 is used for Friday night drag racing.
The easy way, of course, would be to pick up a catalog and order the 727 or even a 904, a converter, and a shifter and call it done. But if you're into it, Advance Adapters has an adapter to retrofit any GM trans, including overdrives.
The standard transmission is a bit more straightforward; if you're lucky enough to score a four-speed T10 car, leave it in there. It also should be known that the T5 five-speed from late-model Mustangs and Camaros can be used with the stock bellhousing from the 401 AMC V-8. With a pilot bushing or flywheel swap, both are acceptable for performance applications.
Finally, the dress-up. Unlike Big Three cars, AMC used the 5-on-4.5 bolt pattern on all its musclecar-era cars. This happens to be the same bolt pattern as Ford and Chrysler, so swap meets and any of the huge number of wheel makers can provide rims for an AMC. Also, because of the Jeep guys, you can score about any part for the engine in chrome. All good, just don't overdo it.
Barn Cars
We found several cars hidden in a warehouse right here in Los Angeles. Know what they are? Log on to carcraft.com if you think you do.
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AMC thought of building a sleeper out of a Rambler American in 1966. The company packed in a 290ci V-8 and a four-speed and called it the Rogue. They're rare because only one Rogue was built for each dealer in the country. This would be the car we'd want to duplicate using an American 220 or 440 body. Neat.We can't forget the Rebel. This '67 Rambler Rebel SST was available with a few different V-8 engines and was built to compete in the big-car market. We've seen V-8 convertibles sell for around $2,500. Eventually, AMC created the Rebel Machine in 1970 with a 390 mill and red, white, and blue paint that we would likely skip if we built a replica.The 401 cranks and rods are forged and tough enough for a performance rebuild. Look for the 5.858-inch rods and the forging mark (left) on the crank. Builders have also been turning down the rod journals and using new 2.100 Chevy rods for performance 401s.After 1970, the 390/401 engines had dog-leg exhaust ports. Early text suggests they flowed 50 percent better than the rectangular design. This is more for identification since we would probably use modern aluminum heads.Although these engines are from the same family, they share external dimensions only. Left-to-right are the 390ci, 343ci, and 290ci blocks. A few '69 blocks and all '70-'72 blocks have the cubic inches cast on either side near the motor mount.This is the Model 20 that you get with a V-8 AMC. It's got a bad reputation, but with the right parts it will work in a healthy street machine.Here is the problem with the Model 20. The axle passes through the hub and is attached with a bolt. Fixes include replacing the hub every time the two are separated, following the complicated factory setup procedure, adding extra Woodruff keys, or replacing the axles with a new one-piece set. We fear all but the last fix.The TorqueFlite 727 has an AMC bolt pattern after 1972. These can be rebuilt using the standard Mopar performance goodies. It can be ordered from aftermarket companies as well. They are not rare.


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Romain Grosjean has found the one positive in his US GP grid penalty; he will now be starting the race on the clean side of the grid
The Lotus driver suffered a gearbox problem in final practice which necessitated a change and under F1 rules that means an automatic five-place penalty.
As a result Grosjean, who qualified fourth for Sunday's race, will line-up ninth on the grid.
"I will start P9, but this is racing," said the Frenchman.
"The guys did an awesome job to change the gearbox between FP3 and qualifying - which was a really tight turnaround - but we're still in the top ten even with the penalty so that's a good result.
"Apart from the gearbox problem, it's all gone very well today. We've understood a difficult and evolving circuit and found a good set-up."
And despite the disappointment, Grosjean was even able to find a reason to be "happy" about his new starting position.
"I'm happy to be where I am and at least I will be on the good side of the track for the start tomorrow," he said.
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Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye are charming in this old-fashioned classic from 1954. The actors play World War II vets who fall in love with two sisters; they go on to become an entertainment duo who make it big as producers of a hit Broadway show.
When they find out an old friend is on the verge of bankruptcy, they use their star power to summon help on Christmas Eve—and give their friend what is perhaps the best Christmas present of all.
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