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Interesting comparison given their owner died this year and his son has taken over.

Something very close to this happened to me at Wembley when Heskey equalised against Boro. Probably my first crowd surfing experience. Absolutely yeeted by a couple of blokes behind me (I'd been in tears shortly before and they were being nice in their own way.)

I really don't understand Aaronsons popularity up here. But like is and some players I guess, runs around a lot, we love it. But he's crap.

It also made it very clear that Rudkin was delegating absolutely everything to Rodgers and not really doing much a modern DOF should be doing.

Christ. What a hit that is.

No but it is particularly embarrassing when you build facilities that probably rank in the top 10 in the world to deliberately focus on improving talent and you keep hemorrhaging youngsters that have no interest in staying.

Think I might have explained myself poorly here. I'm not talking about finding the first season annoying because you've got to set everything up the way you want it. I'm saying that at some point over the last five / six years, they definitely changed something in the way cohesion and tactical familiarity works. You used to be able to go in to any club, load up a tactic you'd saved and exported and first game of the season at a new club you'd immediately be flying. At some point they tweaked this slightly. Even if you make yourself a Former International Player and go manage some tinpot club, you'll find the players don't initially listen to your team talks and they play somewhat hesitantly and your formation and tactics don't quite immediately click, even if you've built up some familiarity with it in pre-season. I'm not complaining about that, it's got some realism to it and basis in real life and anything that makes the game a bit more challenging is a positive in my book. But it does make the first few months of any first season a bit tedious, watching your players struggle to get any kind of rhythm before things eventually click and you start snowballing.

Good to hear. They did a major overhaul of the ai a while back to make the later game more challenging but in doing so they broke several factions for a while. The likes of the lizard men would just stand there not moving away from their capital all game it was a bit nuts. Good game though on the whole yeah.

No don't misunderstand, I've won a lot of titles in season one. I'd say I'm nearly always successful first season. But there's definitely an initial bedding in period before everything clicks.

The first season has been pretty rank since about FM19ish. You have to build up tactical familiarity and relationship with you before the players start consistently performing. Which can be fairly realistic, to an extent, I suppose.

Yeah see there you go. If they've got low scores for pressure and you've told them they need to concentrate and be mindful of throwing it away when they're already winning 4-1 you've pretty much just done a Brendan Rodgers and created panic out of nothing

When in doubt, there's nothing wrong with silence. You don't HAVE to give a team talk.

In my experience, Football Manager players tend to greatly over-estimate how advanced the AI is in terms of countering your tactics and greatly under-estimate how much impact the hidden stats of your own players interact with the context of your season and the things you say to them to set the tone. The AI doesn't 'learn' your tactics and the AI doesnt' really do much to counter specific threats your team poses. All it really does is adjust how aggressive it'll be based on your reputation and league position. A lot of the rest of the fluctuation comes from your own players and how they handle pressure, how professional they are, how consistent they are, how ambitious they are, whether they respond well to big matches, etc. The second-half collapse in @Beliall 4-4, for example, has almost certainly come from two things. The AI will have been more aggressive in the second half because it needs to recover so there'll be a tactical change. But there'll also have been two team talks, his and the AI's. If the AI manager has said the right thing and has a team full of determined, hard working, ambitious players they'll see an uptick in performance and if Belilal has mdae the fatal mistake of telling his team he's pleased then depending on their personalities, they might sit back and get complacent and stop concentrating.

There are several threads in the Transfer section discussing this already. https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/forum/6-transfer-talk/

I don't think anyone is seriously judging him before he even starts working. We're just frustrated and disillusioned. That said, the two things I hope McCarron does are get us back to signing young players whose ability and value are only going to improve and to cast a wider net than we've always been stuck with previously. The fact he's worked globally at youth development for City Group should inspire confidence in both those things. So it's just funny to see that he actively targeted the signings of 25-30 year olds (not really the best recruitment strategy for a growing club at all) and that he actively looked to recruit experienced English coaches

As we're back in League One might as well pretend it's the late 00s again. Whose got the nautical themed pashmina afghan?

Are you new to it? If so you might not know the answer to this but either way, is the ai still completely broken with half the factions just standing around doing nothing?

There's definitely something in that, to be fair. The Rodgers relegation season took a lot of my love for football. The last two seasons have absolutely decimated it. I genuinely barely care about this relegation to be honest, I do feel pretty numb and apathetic towards the club in general so maybe that contradicts my overall claim. Although I think a lot of my fatigue is based on just financial nonsense, suffering PSR and it's pitfalls and knowing that there's almost certainly more of it to come next year.

It would have been better to make no statement, or a holding statement along the lines of "I'm very sorry, I know it's not good enough, I'll say more soon" than this. This isn't a statemenet. It's a generic Hallmark card copy and paste job.

Jesus Christ, I'd almost forgotten for a second.

Yeah, yeah, you'll never sing that, etc. But in all seriousness, can any club in the country claim to be as eventful as Leicester City to follow? I'm not even talking just about promotions, relegations and title wins - all of which make for a bonkers rollercoaster btw. But there's been promotion despite administration, La Manga, Dennis Wise, Ostrichgate and the unravelling of Nigel Pearson, our owner dying in a helicopter fireball outside the ground, youth players embroiled in a Thai sextape, our years long battle with the Prem and EFL over points deductions, BC Game. Obviously a fair bit of recency bias, there, I'm sure people can think of countless other incidents and headlines we've made for right or wrong. There's just always a story. I mean, for both our bout of administration and our recent battles with various governing bodies over FFP / PSR we've instigated actual rule changes. Obviously the positives, 5000/1, Vardy's 11, winning the FA Cup after losing a record number of finals, MON turning Wembley in to a second home. There's definitely a certain amount of cognitive bias, right? I'm sure every club has it's news that seems huge to itself and doesn't really register with the outside world. Fans of West Ham, Newcastle, Leeds probably all feel like they've had bumpy rides. Sunderland's dramatic fall and rise, Wrexham's hollywood story, the slow and sad collapse of Sheffield Wednesday. But surely no club at the top end of the game has had such stark highs, such stark lows, such YoYoing between the top two flights and such a plethora of maddening and infuriating off-field drama and chaos as we've had? Even pre-dating King Power. I know it's stark consolation after having our worst ever season on record and I don't mean to be sickeningly chipper but christ, the only time it's ever particularly dull is for 90 odd minutes on some Saturdays. I'm not just soap-boxing for rep, by the way, I'm genuinely asking. Can anyone think of a club with a better claim than us?

It's not like it'll be their decision tbf, it'll be a government directive that in turn has come from pressure from industry lobby groups. @StanSP is right, though. The most effective way to combat piracy has always been to make the initial thing more accessible. Sport is long, long overdue the same sort of live service streaming model that music and TV has. That said, even with a decent streaming service, the protected 3pm kickoffs will still have millions of UK viewers streaming illegaly.

wtf has happened there

https://onefootball.com/en/news/james-mccarron-managers-transfers-and-style-behind-leicester-citys-potential-sporting-director-42432883 Hmmmm.

Absolute poster child for nepo babies. Dad buys a football club that's just been languishing at their lowest point in history and oversees it's rise to the highest point in it's history. Dies. Son takes over, takes it down to an even lower point in it's history breaking records for financial mismanagement along the way. Congratulations, Top