Player of the Season - You May Not Vote for your own player

Anyone play it? I’m starting up now having not played for a couple of years. Basically you can choose a team and buy players and you’re in a division where you manage the club against other online players throughout a 38 game, and 4 or 5 month season.

So kind of like FM.

Would love to start a Ramble one with a few of us in the same division. Loads of class players play at weird clubs. It’s a lot of fun. You feel a real achievement when you win a game. Matches are twice a week.

Join!

Right, ramblers in the division so far are as follows:

Division 2 Ramblers

lawduck - Ipswich
Nickperson - Southampton
JP_Spurs - Rotherham
Michael Mols lovely wife - Crystal Palace
Guillem Bauza’s Gap Year in Hereford - Carlisle
meki_j - MK Dons
Ben Andrew - Scunthorpe
VLobanovskyi - Charlton

Division 4 Ramblers

shandy - Bradford

How to choose a team

Go on ‘Add Club’ and then ‘Search’. You can either put the Game ID in at the top which is ‘19499’ or Go to the bottom and select ‘English Championship’. Then type in ‘2523’. Click on the link that comes up and you can choose what club you want by clicking on ‘Take Control’ when you choose a club to look at.

Yeah, I’ve been playing this for years. Not too much commitment required in terms of time, just check my teams once each morning. I have a crappy team that I’ve been thinking of getting rid of for a while so I’ll join yours. What team have you got?

Warper - 25 January 2012 12:12 PM

Yeah, I’ve been playing this for years. Not too much commitment required in terms of time, just check my teams once each morning. I have a crappy team that I’ve been thinking of getting rid of for a while so I’ll join yours. What team have you got?

I’m just looking at teams now. Would like a league that is pretty empty with other online players.

How about English Championship 3451, Division 2?

Yeah, looks good. Do you want to go ahead and pick a team there so? Let me know when you’re done and I’ll pick then.

Warper - 25 January 2012 12:34 PM

Yeah, looks good. Do you want to go ahead and pick a team there so? Let me know when you’re done and I’ll pick then.

I’ve got a division sorted. It’s English Championship 2523 and Division 2. I’m Reading. The season starts on Saturday and heres friendlys tonight so not long too wait!

Yeah I’ve been on for a few years.

Tried various teams but now I’m exclusively Hearts and Liverpool

It’s not up to much but gives me something to do

szymm - 25 January 2012 12:41 PM

Yeah I’ve been on for a few years.

Tried various teams but now I’m exclusively Hearts and Liverpool

It’s not up to much but gives me something to do

Join the division!

OK, I took Middlesbrough We’ve got Reading at home on the 29th of February.

Warper - 25 January 2012 12:46 PM

OK, I took Middlesbrough We’ve got Reading at home on the 29th of February.

Nice! Use this thread to discuss results and transfers.

Dylstar - 25 January 2012 12:38 PM

Warper - 25 January 2012 12:34 PM

Yeah, looks good. Do you want to go ahead and pick a team there so? Let me know when you’re done and I’ll pick then.

I’ve got a division sorted. It’s English Championship 2523 and Division 2. I’m Reading. The season starts on Saturday and heres friendlys tonight so not long too wait!

How do i find this league?

Runkle - 25 January 2012 01:03 PM

Dylstar - 25 January 2012 12:38 PM

Warper - 25 January 2012 12:34 PM

Yeah, looks good. Do you want to go ahead and pick a team there so? Let me know when you’re done and I’ll pick then.

I’ve got a division sorted. It’s English Championship 2523 and Division 2. I’m Reading. The season starts on Saturday and heres friendlys tonight so not long too wait!

How do i find this league?

http://www.soccermanager.com/select-gameworld.php

Enter English Championship right at the bottom. Then it should come up with a bit where you can enter the number. Entere 2523 and click on it. Then go onto Division 2 and choose a club.

I haven’t played for years, at one stage about half the boys in my year at school played. I managed to put together an amazing Arsenal team which won the league, but the game world was getting emptier and emptier and I eventually lost the team when I went on holiday and because of that lost interest altogether.

Daniel - 25 January 2012 02:07 PM

I haven’t played for years, at one stage about half the boys in my year at school played. I managed to put together an amazing Arsenal team which won the league, but the game world was getting emptier and emptier and I eventually lost the team when I went on holiday and because of that lost interest altogether.

Fancy it?

Dylstar - 25 January 2012 01:08 PM

Runkle - 25 January 2012 01:03 PM

Dylstar - 25 January 2012 12:38 PM

Warper - 25 January 2012 12:34 PM

Yeah, looks good. Do you want to go ahead and pick a team there so? Let me know when you’re done and I’ll pick then.

I’ve got a division sorted. It’s English Championship 2523 and Division 2. I’m Reading. The season starts on Saturday and heres friendlys tonight so not long too wait!

How do i find this league?

http://www.soccermanager.com/select-gameworld.php Enter 2523 in the gameworld ID bit.

You actually need to go to that page, then go to the bottom of the middle column where it says “Game World Name Search” and pick “English Championship” then put in “2523” in the id box.

This game used to suck up my life before I knew what Football Manager was.  I was one of the guys who would have all the up and coming promising players who would be about to get a huge boost.  Doing this I could make huge profits and buy better players.  I took Portsmouth to the Champions League Semi’s in one of the Gold Championships.  I think it was Gold Championship 16 or something which is nuts because now they are on Gold Championship 160+
Gold Championships are the ones you can’t play in unless you buy a subscription.  MUCH more competitive and much more like real life.

I’ll try again but I really don’t want to get sucked in like last time…my life can’t spare that time anymore.

I took Bolton Wanderers in Division 2.  See you guys on Saturday!

Dylstar,
I recommend editing your original post to include the Game World we’ve chosen and how to get to it.

Fuck revision, I’m in. Nottingham Forest.

There is also a new feature (to me) of SM, a Facebook style instant messenger feature to see who is online.  Really cool.

Turns out my first League match is against Dylstar.
Now I’m more pumped.
:P

I’ve been playing this for years as well. I’ve got no empty slots at the moment, and I don’t want to give up any of my teams yet, but when I leave a team I’ll join this game world you guys are in. I have over 200 players in a couple of my teams, and still a few hundred million left-over to spend, the benefit of spotting young talent when they’re still cheap.

Billy Bob - 25 January 2012 02:14 PM

Dylstar,
I recommend editing your original post to include the Game World we’ve chosen and how to get to it.

Nice, got a few people in it now then. Remember to discuss results and transfers here! Friendlies are tonight.

Changed my earlier post so hopefully it’s clearer to get into the game world now.

On Saturday = Bolton vs Reading = Billy Bob vs Dylstar.

Also, use the newspaper feature that is in the gameworld link along the line with ‘club’ and ‘transfer market’. Newspaper is in there. I’ve written an article already sending out a message!

I play it… I will have a look and join your league tonight

I think its my turn to be the Football Ramble village idiot today. i cant find the league thats been set up with the ‘2523’ code. whats the game world ID? 5 digit number. 

Runkle - 25 January 2012 02:36 PM

I think its my turn to be the Football Ramble village idiot today. i cant find the league thats been set up with the ‘2523’ code. whats the game world ID? 5 digit number. 

Gameworld ID: 57668

Decided to quit Forest to take over at Leicester after less than an hour in charge.

Daniel - 25 January 2012 02:18 PM

Fuck revision, I’m in. Nottingham Forest.

THIS JUST IN!  Manager Dan Lloyd has already left Nottingham Forest for Leicester City!
Shocking news after he was appointed to Nottingham Forest just today!
:P

Ramble teams so far:

Dylstar - Reading
Warper - Middlesbrough
Billy Bob - Bolton Wanderers
Daniel - Leicester City
wills.james - Watford
Runkle - Bristol City
Roy Keane’s Mental Face - Sheffield Wednesday

I know there are more than this, so update this list with your own details if I’ve missed you.

EDIT: Just noticed Dylstar is updating above, so I’ll stop now.

wills.james is watford.

Sorted. Manager of Bristol City

Got my tactics set, got my transfer bids in and now it’s time to wait.

Billy Bob - 25 January 2012 03:22 PM

Got my tactics set, got my transfer bids in and now it’s time to wait.

Do you always have to wait 24 hours before an unmanaged club accepts/declines?

Right fuck it, I’ve decided to leave my Milan team to join this league. That Milan side had Iniesta, Messi, Ronaldo, Xavi, Pique, Dani Alves, Sneijder, Alonso and a whole a bunch of other great players, it was getting boring because I was just winning everything every year, so this better be worth it now!
I’m Sheffield Wednesday by the way.

Dylstar - 25 January 2012 03:28 PM

Billy Bob - 25 January 2012 03:22 PM

Got my tactics set, got my transfer bids in and now it’s time to wait.

Do you always have to wait 24 hours before an unmanaged club accepts/declines?

I believe you do, it’s so other people can try to get bids in when a group of friends joins a league together.
:P

Been playing this for a while now. Have fenerbache and borussia dortmund both in world championships so this should be exciting as ive never done an english championship.

Have taken control of Cardiff. Their transfer budget was too tempting.

Roy Keane’s Mental Face - 25 January 2012 03:30 PM

Right fuck it, I’ve decided to leave my Milan team to join this league. That Milan side had Iniesta, Messi, Ronaldo, Xavi, Pique, Dani Alves, Sneijder, Alonso and a whole a bunch of other great players, it was getting boring because I was just winning everything every year, so this better be worth it now!
I’m Sheffield Wednesday by the way.

We’re playing on Saturday then. After seeing your squad I’m not feeling very confident.

Daniel - 25 January 2012 03:48 PM

Roy Keane’s Mental Face - 25 January 2012 03:30 PM

Right fuck it, I’ve decided to leave my Milan team to join this league. That Milan side had Iniesta, Messi, Ronaldo, Xavi, Pique, Dani Alves, Sneijder, Alonso and a whole a bunch of other great players, it was getting boring because I was just winning everything every year, so this better be worth it now!
I’m Sheffield Wednesday by the way.

We’re playing on Saturday then. After seeing your squad I’m not feeling very confident.

You’ve got the same Average Squad Rating so it might come down to tactics!

Me and Cardiff in a bidding war for Wilfried Zaha.

I can’t even sign up. It just tells me my firstname and surname contain invalid characters. I’ve typed and copy pasted both my real name and random words from the dictionary.

MASSIVE QUESTION MARK

Dylstar - 25 January 2012 04:20 PM

Me and Cardiff in a bidding war for Wilfried Zaha.

Haha indeed, I think i will stick to my original bid though

I haveth Wigan

no idea how this works though…

Kano - 25 January 2012 04:45 PM

I haveth Wigan

no idea how this works though…

The big key is tactics.
Set them up, MAKE SURE TO CONFIRM before switching to anything else.
Then set up tactics based on when you are losing or winning (if I’m losing by 3 goals or more 75 minutes in, I just bomb on).
To swap players, you click and drag on their names on the pitch.
When setting up tactics, if you click on a players shirt you will see gray dots around him, clicking one tells you what runs he should make.  This can be used to make a Winger into an Inside Forward or make a CM more defensive.

Also, go put in transfers.
I made this suggestion to James WIllis so I’ll tell you all as well, go look at non human controlled teams, especially ones outside the English League.
Usually in these smaller leagues that only have one country, the big teams just poach the best players across the world, but that still leaves plenty of 88 to 90 rated players in France, Spain, Germany, Italy, etc.
Non-human controlled teams can be pretty generous with their best players.  Sometimes you only have to bid just over their value and you’ll get them.

I’m not giving away any more tips.
:P

Just joined as Preston

If Plymouth are in that division please can I bagsy them?!