Articles tagged with "fm09"
Martins Out, Marquinhos In. But Only Just.
By Daryl | January 18th, 2009Managing: Newcastle Date: 1st Feb, 2010 Progress: 7th in Prem after 23 games, out of every cup except Europa League. Sold Oba Martins for more than his ...
Fine, Go Then
By Daryl | January 17th, 2009After my recent near-death experience I've decided to sieze the day, live life to the max, push the envelope and other such slogans. It's the January ...
Up and Up
By Daryl | January 16th, 2009Managing: Newcastle Date: Tuesday, January 12th Progress: 5th in Prem after 20 games Things are rolling now. First, here are my January transfer window ins and outs so ...
Problems With Steam on Football Manager 2009...
By Daryl | January 15th, 2009Did anyone else use Steam to buy Football Manager 2009? If so, are you ready to commit acts of violence? Because I am. As mentioned previously ...
Keeping a Promise
By Daryl | January 13th, 2009Managing: Newcastle Date: December 31st, 2009 Progress: 6th after 19 games (halfway) To be honest, I wasn't sure I'd make it through this season. I'd given the Newcastle ...
Use Your Wings Wisely
By Daryl | January 11th, 2009Managing: Newcastle Date: 21st December, 2009 Progress: 10th after 16 games. vs West Ham (home) 3-3 This game was in the bag. 3-1 up after 40 minutes, but I ...
Old Men Wanted
By Daryl | January 8th, 2009Things really aren't going too badly, but the winter transfer window is on the way and one thing I'm very convinced about is that the ...
You Can Never Rely on Teenagers
By Daryl | January 7th, 2009Managing: Newcastle Date: December 10th, 2009 Progress: Hogging mid-table at 10th after 14 games. On a cup run though. vs Spurs (home) W 3-2 This is the game that ...
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
By Daryl | January 6th, 2009Managing: Newcastle Date: 23rd November, 2009 Progress: 11th in Prem, but no longer despised by players Carling Cup 4th Rd vs Stoke (home) W 3-1` Could do with ...
Attend Press Conference or Send Assistant?
By Daryl | January 4th, 2009I'm starting to really hate the media, with their dictaphones and their notebooks and their stupid stupid questions. In a recent press conference one bum-face from ...
FM BlogWatch: Jan 1, 2009
By Daryl | January 1st, 2009First of all, Happy New Year everyone. Hope 2009 brings you success both in real life and in FM. Welcome to FM BlogWatch. Haven't done this ...
It's All About Confidence
By Daryl | December 29th, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: November 9th, 2009 Progress: 9th in Prem after 11 games The new tactics are doing the business and I'm back in the top 10. Just ...
"The Save Game Could Not Be Loaded"
By Daryl | December 28th, 2008Aargh! This had never happened to me before. And I'll be honest, I freaked out a bit. First things first, who's to blame? I'm blaming two things: 1) ...
Time For a Rethink?
By Daryl | December 27th, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: 18th October, 2009 Progress: 15th in Prem after 8 games. Starting to sweat. So my tactics of attack, attack, attack were the bees-knees last season, ...
It's All Gone a Bit Wrong
By Daryl | December 26th, 2008Managing: Newcastle (badly, it seems) Date: September 26th, 2009 Progress: Backwards. 17th after six games. Second season syndrome. OK, there's been a bit of an accidental Christmas break ...
Double Man Marking
By Daryl | December 21st, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: September 2nd, 2009 Progress: 13th in Prem after three games The upside of getting mangled by Caley Thistle was that all my first teamers (except ...
I Disrespected Inverness Caledonian Thistle, But Think I Got Away With It
By Daryl | December 20th, 2008So you may recall that I sent my full strength team out to face Caley Thistle in a UEFA Cup qualifying round, even though I ...
Arrange Your Own Friendlies?
By Daryl | December 17th, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: August 25th, 2009 Progress: 12th in Prem after two games (two draws) and through to UEFA Cup group stage (or as good as). When the ...
Reasons To Be Cheerful
By Daryl | December 17th, 2008So my summer shopping wasn't a massive success, but it wasn't bad either. After a couple of games, I'm still confident that Clément Chantôme will ...
Ins and Outs (and Nearly Ins and Nearly Outs)
By Daryl | December 15th, 2008Been doing a lot of wheeling and dealing, Del Boy style. The Newcastle board offered me a paltry £8.5m transfer budget, which felt even more paltry ...
Not For Sale
By Daryl | December 14th, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: Summer 2009 Progress: Trying to build on last season's 6th place/not lose my best players. Good news is that the Newcastle board like my style ...
Summer Shopping List
By Daryl | December 13th, 2008According to Sex and the City, the only known cure for a massive disappointment is some intensive retail therapy. So let's go summer shopping. Right now ...
I Hate Penalty Kicks
By Daryl | December 13th, 2008Damn it. Let's start from the beginning. The 4-5-1 with Martins on the bench worked nicely. With five in midfield we kept Man City locked up, and ...
Pre-Match Nerves...
By Daryl | December 12th, 2008Big big game coming up - FA Cup final vs Man City - and I've got problems. So please excuse the long post where I ...
European Qualification (Not the Good Kind, But Still...)
By Daryl | December 12th, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: 24th May, 2009 Progress: Finished sixth in Prem, FA Cup final still to come. At the end of my first season in charge of The ...
Pavel Pogrebnyak vs Roman Pavlyuchenko
By Daryl | December 11th, 2008Managing: Newcastle (Toon Army! Toon Army!) Date: 9th May, 2009 Progress: 6th in Prem with three games to go. Plus FA Cup final still to come. So... the ...
Have I Qualified for Europe or Not?
By Daryl | December 10th, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: April 26th, 2009 Progress: 5th in Prem after 34 games, off to Wembley for FA Cup Final Is it just me? Or is it really ...
Steve Harper vs Obafemi Martins: Two Men Quarrel, One Man Leaves
By Daryl | December 9th, 2008As mentioned earlier, there's trouble in the Newcastle dressing room. Apparently Steve Harper finds Obafemi Martins "impossible to work with". Basically, the back-up keeper doesn't ...
A New Found Respect for Chris Hughton
By Daryl | December 8th, 2008Time to check in on my fellow Football Manager 2009 bloggers. No progress reports at TTFM so think we can assume they're still bottom of ...
Our Name's On the Cup
By Daryl | December 7th, 2008Managing: Newcastle Date: April 5th, 2009 Progress: 6th in Prem after 31 games (Man City breathing down my neck) and FA Cup semi-final Apologies for the lack of ...
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