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  • EricBanterna
    EricBanterna Posts: 1,740
    Second season and put up 108 points in League 1, Washington and Clarke-Harris finishing with 20+ goals each but the magic happened in central midfield with the loanee brigade of Tommy Doyle, Billy Gilmour and Tom Davies. Jaiyesimi way-outperformed his attributes with much of the Joe Gomez money going on Siriki Dembele and Luke Woolfenden. Glad to put to bed the 8th the season before and having to beg Sandgaard for my job.

    The reason for posting though is I’ve had a run in the FA cup and have Man Utd in the final (with genuinely no cheating/restarts!) and need to figure out how to play it. The main caveat for the below being that I’ve never had this kind of unexpected FM success before and it’s lockdown, but yeah it’s a bit sad...

    So am pretty sure I’m going to watch the full match, 4:05pm Sunday kick off, submit the team sheet at ~3pm. Prosecco (because I’m not made of money) in the fridge in the unlikely event we win. Any other suggestions to mark the occasion? Don’t have a suit available so I’m thinking my Sunday League initialled tracksuit.

    The cup run from 4th round went Fulham (a) 0-0 / 3-0, Watford 0-0 pens (a), Middlesbrough 1-0 AET (h), Rotherham 1-1 pens (n) by the way - very lucky! 
    Full time score??
    0-3 full time, I also forgot that runner up doesn't get the Europa spot any more which was upsetting.

    Was still in the game at 1-0 down on 57 minutes and then I got thoroughly Mike Dean-ed with a weird kind of glitch red card where I got 2 yellow cards in a minute. I was watching the full game and it just jumped from our attack to Hanson getting a yellow card in the middle of the pitch, then jumped to him walking off.

    4 minutes later he gave a penalty described as "harsh" on commentary but VAR upheld which they scored, then Maatsen and Doyle picked up straight reds in the next 10 mins and and I was down to 8 men with 20mins to go. Martial added a 3rd in injury time to compound the misery.
    Did you dress in the tracksuit  playing national atheme, walk up the stairs to collect your medals, invite 15 random blokes back for a shower? 
    Yes, yes, no (but had to walk up the stairs to put the jug back in the cupboard), yes... like every Sunday.

    I watched the whole game standing as well, which led to some rather managerial hands behind that back pacing. Contemplated using the kitchen bin as Bielsa's little stool.

    My reaction to the 3rd red card probably would have got me sent to the stands, so in hindsight I should really have watched the last 20mins from the landing upstairs.
    There's a clip on YouTube where a fella sits on a ladder and watches his screen after being sent to the stands.
  • Oh and lowlight of my game so far:

    FA Cup semi final v Leicester, go 2-1 up in the 85th minute, still celebrating when Leicester equalise.

    Then lose in extra time.

    Gutting.


  • I imagined this as Joanna Lumley in Ab Fab mode, walking off, drink in one hand, flicking the V's at the fans with the other.
  • Jdredsox
    Jdredsox Posts: 534
    I miss those events from the old game. I once saw a player banned for 6 months for getting in a fight with the ref mid-game.
  • Joe Aribo sold to Bayern Munich from Rangers for 10m , now worth 22 million!
  • Oh_Yoni_Boy
    Oh_Yoni_Boy Posts: 1,762
    Jdredsox said:
    I miss those events from the old game. I once saw a player banned for 6 months for getting in a fight with the ref mid-game.
    Same here when I spent the family silver on Shearer at Leeds, although he got 9 months!

    Regardless of all this FM stuff, CM01/02 will always be my first (managerial simulation) love. Integrating the likes of Taribo West, Mark Kerr and Tonton Zola-Moukoko into...

    Kiely
    Brown Fish Youds Powell
    Kinsella Jensen Parker Robinson
    Euell Bartlett

    If I remember rightly though, Karim Bagheri was worth £3.1m and our most valuable player.
  • Jdredsox said:
    I miss those events from the old game. I once saw a player banned for 6 months for getting in a fight with the ref mid-game.
    Same here when I spent the family silver on Shearer at Leeds, although he got 9 months!

    Regardless of all this FM stuff, CM01/02 will always be my first (managerial simulation) love. Integrating the likes of Taribo West, Mark Kerr and Tonton Zola-Moukoko into...

    Kiely
    Brown Fish Youds Powell
    Kinsella Jensen Parker Robinson
    Euell Bartlett

    If I remember rightly though, Karim Bagheri was worth £3.1m and our most valuable player.
    Those were the days!

    Salakovic, kim kallstrom, alexander farenud.. Love it!
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,381
    ...Kennedy Bakircioglu, Teddy Lucic...
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,349
    Maxim Tsigalko was the one for me. Goal machine 
  • king addick
    king addick Posts: 3,702
    edited March 2021
    Anyone remember Nicolas Milan, was a STC? Biggest wonderkid but never heard of him otherwise!
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  • EricBanterna
    EricBanterna Posts: 1,740
    Anyone remember Nicolas Milan, was a STC? Biggest wonderkid but never heard of him otherwise!
    From cola cola or something? 
  • king addick
    king addick Posts: 3,702
    Anyone remember Nicolas Milan, was a STC? Biggest wonderkid but never heard of him otherwise!
    From cola cola or something? 
    Yeah think thats it! Starts game as a 15 year old but ends up having monster stats and scores goals for fun!
  • EricBanterna
    EricBanterna Posts: 1,740
    Anyone remember Nicolas Milan, was a STC? Biggest wonderkid but never heard of him otherwise!
    From cola cola or something? 
    Yeah think thats it! Starts game as a 15 year old but ends up having monster stats and scores goals for fun!
    Him and sherman cardenes or something 
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    freddy adu, the old classic.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,770
    edited March 2021
    Mika Aaritalo, FM08 legend.


  • CM0102 is free online.  Great nostalgic play.

    https://champman0102.net/

    They also have modern updates & a 93/94 update.
  • Mika Aaritalo, FM08 legend.


    Loved FM08.

    So many good youngsters like Aaritalo, Torje, Stancu, Mihelic, Wijnaldum.

    And was more fun at Charlton starting in Div1 than being straight into the PL like the few versions before.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Mika Aaritalo, FM08 legend.


    Loved FM08.

    So many good youngsters like Aaritalo, Torje, Stancu, Mihelic, Wijnaldum.

    And was more fun at Charlton starting in Div1 than being straight into the PL like the few versions before.
    i remember izale mcloud was freakishly good, could pump in goals even in the prem. 
  • season 3 and I have a youth palyer who is 18 and last season scored 40 goals in 35 games for the u-18's and 23's. I gave him a run out in the first team where he scored 1 in 4 after i had won the championship.  

    He has scored 10 goals in pre season (2 starts, 5 sub) and hasnt played more than 45 mins in a game.  He will be my 5th choice forward this season.  Do I send him to league 1 for first team football or leave him in the u-23's to score goals.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,770
    edited April 2021
    One of the biggest FM YouTubers is doing a Charlton save (with a twist) on a 01/02 database. Thought it might interest a few.

     https://youtu.be/bePBkWdUuMs
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  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    One of the biggest FM YouTubers is doing a Charlton save (with a twist) on a 01/02 database. Thought it might interest a few.

     https://youtu.be/bePBkWdUuMs
    slightly irritating him scoffing at richard rufus' stats saying he's overrated on it and mispronouncing john robinson as "jack robinson". But cool nonetheless. 
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,770
    edited April 2021
    He also says Johnasson at one point & later corrects to Johansson but yeah, just thought it was cool to see a Charlton save on one of these channels.
  • I've been basically spending the last couple of years doing the same, albeit without youtube!

    Currently on the modern update of it.  Charlie Barker is top quality by about 2026.
  • One of the biggest FM YouTubers is doing a Charlton save (with a twist) on a 01/02 database. Thought it might interest a few.

     https://youtu.be/bePBkWdUuMs
    Did we stay up?
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,853
    Currently in 2064, and a lot of the staff that are younger than me are starting to retire... Do I die or do I live forever?
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,381
    Huskaris said:
    Currently in 2064, and a lot of the staff that are younger than me are starting to retire... Do I die or do I live forever?
    You live forever.
  • king addick
    king addick Posts: 3,702
    Huskaris said:
    Currently in 2064, and a lot of the staff that are younger than me are starting to retire... Do I die or do I live forever?
    How are Charlton doing in this distant future? Always curious to see the lay out of things!
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,853
    Scoham said:
    Huskaris said:
    Currently in 2064, and a lot of the staff that are younger than me are starting to retire... Do I die or do I live forever?
    You live forever.
    Found the secret to immortality, brilliant..

    Huskaris said:
    Currently in 2064, and a lot of the staff that are younger than me are starting to retire... Do I die or do I live forever?
    How are Charlton doing in this distant future? Always curious to see the lay out of things!


    Going between L1 and L2 for the past 20 years....

    I will be taking them over once I "complete" the game with Newport. Already done Welling and Leicester so effectively want a prem top 4 of Charlton, Welling, Leicester and Newport.

    Then I will download the extension pack to go allllll the way down the pyramid and hopefully take over Ivybridge or someone like that and do it all again. 
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,381
    Good deal for anyone who hasn't bought FM21.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,381
    edited July 2021
    FM to add women's football in a future version (not this years). You'll be able to move between men and women's
    football in the game.



    Tina Keech the new Head of Research was a coach at Charlton 20/21 years ago https://uk.linkedin.com/in/tina-keech-henderson-99b76a58