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About the City, About the Side
By: Tom B |
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Well, in my final post before the season proper commences, I just thought I’d share with you a little about the town I’m plying my trade in, and about the team.
The small town of Santa Eulària des Riu is the largest town in the region which shares the same name. It is located on the [...]
Category: FM09
Training Schedules
By: Tom B | 7 Comments
I have decided that, givin the short period of time available each week for training, I shall try to get each player to train to their strengths, rather than try to make them good all round footballers. If a football team is to some extent the sum of its parts, make a team that is [...]
Category: FM09A Study in Mediocrity
By: Tom B | No Comments
My excellent tactical experiment, playiung lopsided, didn’t work particularly well. But it equally was not as poor as it could have been. The key problem was that no-one was there to get on the end of the crosses. I am comparing these results to my first two friendlies, which were unmitigated successes. Now, results wise, [...]
Category: FM09How do you solve a problem like Gonzales?
By: Tom B | 1 Comment
Hello intrepid followers of my little adventure.
First things first, I’m sorry for the trouble people have been having linking to the full sized pictures. This was a coding error on my part, however with the help of Daryl this has now been addressed and should be fine into the future.
Now a question which has been [...]
Category: FM09Rain From Heaven
By: Tom B | 4 Comments
Hello all,
As some of you may have read, G Hod posted a comment in a previous post about placing higher long shots for all of my players. This seems feasible, I’m trying to hit opponenents on the break, my game is not about holding possession and thus having a pop from distance sounds like an [...]
Category: FM09Against Pro Vercelli, not what I’d hoped.
By: Tom B | 8 Comments
So, my date with destiny with Pro Verceilli, the stage was set for a marvellous game.
We smashed them, 22 shots (10 on target) to 0 (0), we had 61% possession, only 5% of which was in my half. My neutral CM Nieto scored the first two, with assists coming from Manuel (II) with a [...]
Category: FM09
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