Articles tagged with "fm09"
Help Me Pick a Team to Face Arsenal
By Daryl | July 24th, 2009Big game coming up vs Arsenal at home. We're third, they're second (it's 2012 so Man City have finally spent their way to first place). ...
Alcoyano
By Tom B | July 23rd, 2009Well, I think the pre-match says it all: However, we did manage to give a good account of ourselves, without ever really threatening their control of ...
A Transfer? Why not?
By Tom B | July 21st, 2009December 1: I can register and unregister players on my roster in order to December 2: I deregister the following players; Garcia Ruiz (my least ...
Getting Away With It
By Daryl | July 21st, 2009Based on the responses in the previous post, here's the team that went out to face WBA: Laurito put us 1-0 up after just five minutes ...
2 for the price of 1
By Tom B | July 19th, 2009Terrassa I pissed off my squad before this game, this was a big error. Going into the game, and without an AMC to mark, I reverted ...
4 for the price of 1
By Tom B | July 15th, 2009Well I got a little excited and played four games in a row. They panned out as so: So two wins and two losses: which puts ...
Another One Bites the Dust
By Tom B | July 14th, 2009Before we get to the game, from having zero left sided players, I've now got two, with these two having come back within two days ...
Well we got there in the end
By Tom B | July 13th, 2009But it took a 15 year old penalty taker's cool, calm assured head to slot home in the 89th minute. This kid is a real ...
Five Questions Before We Play WBA
By Daryl | July 13th, 2009After getting some good input before the game against Chelsea, and then getting a good result, I'm looking forward to hearing who everyone thinks should ...
I huffed and I puffed...
By Tom B | July 12th, 2009... and their house stayed intact. For once, I started the match almost as favourites went in with an unchanged team, and was quietly told them ...
Back in Business
By Daryl | July 10th, 2009First of all, big thanks for all the input on the last post. Hearing from all the Newcastle co-managers makes me motivated to keep going. After ...
Priorities
By Tom | July 8th, 2009It's a measure of the progress we've made since last season that I felt comfortable in sending out the youngsters and the fringe players in ...
Wow what a difference a day makes
By Tom B | July 7th, 2009Welcome to another installment of my little world. I'm in a much better mood today, having just witnessed a turn around in my team's fortunes. ...
From bad to...
By Tom B | July 6th, 2009... Worse. Where in the last game I blame entirely the playing group, in this game I blame entirely myself, I should not have had the ...
I'm in some trouble
By Tom B | July 6th, 2009First of all, sorry for the hiatus. I was away for a week, and then I had a week's uni unit of International Commercial Arbitration, needless ...
Help Me Pick a Team to Face Chelsea
By Daryl | July 6th, 2009Apologies for the hiatus folks. I was distracted by the Confederations Cup recently, but now that's over we can get back to work with Newcastle. Must ...
The North-East's Finest
By Tom | July 4th, 2009In the course of this little experiment in Englishness, I've got to thinking about how much I, as an Arsenal fan in real life, actually ...
One More Game...
By Tom | June 15th, 2009The addictive properties of Football Manager are well documented. We all know the “just one more game” syndrome. When you get on a good run ...
Ontinyent - In 18th, predicted 10th... my first victim?
By Tom B | June 15th, 2009I need a first victim, and I need it soon. 0 wins from 5 isn't the way to embark on a great managerial career, and ...
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Agbonlahor?
By Tom | June 12th, 2009At the start of my summer transfer dealings I identified Gabby Agbonlahor as my key target. Here was a pacy young Englishman that I foresaw ...
Our First Stumble
By Daryl | June 10th, 2009It was all going so well under the new democratic regime, but we've officially had our first stumble. So now's the time for some serious debate. But ...
Full time wages... amateur hour
By Tom B | June 10th, 2009In my match against Sabadell, I experimented. I kept the lop sided formation, even with a tired David Gonzales at Left Wing Back, gave the ...
It is appropriate...
By Tom B | June 9th, 2009... in the week that Numbers Offside is released, that I play a game where the numbers well and truly lie. 0-0, the one set ...
Preview - Atletico Baleares
By Tom B | June 8th, 2009In anticipation of the Atletico Baleares match, I thought I should cast a cursory glance over their 1-0 win over Gava. This shed some light ...
Hiatus Over
By Tom B | June 8th, 2009A rather hectic period has occurred, which exams, essay marking etc out of the way, Marseille finishing runners up in France and Australia Qualifying For ...
Captain Fantastic
By Daryl | June 7th, 2009As you know, Fabricio Coloccini is out for two to three months with some sort of old man hip injury. There seemed to be some ...
The Team's All Here
By Tom | June 5th, 2009I promised you an update on my formation and line-up for the coming year, but the prolonged transfer saga of Ashley Young was very dragged ...
Time Travel is Dangerous
By Daryl | June 3rd, 2009Apologies for the delay. But I have a good excuse. I've been travelling through time. It was the strangest thing. I sent the team out to ...
Glorified Friendly
By Tom | June 2nd, 2009In my last post I debated the rights and wrongs of signing a non-English player, thereby going against the spirit, although not the rules, of ...
The start of the new season
By Marco | June 1st, 2009You could say that my season has just started. Since the only work that I have on the radar for the next three to four ...
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