It’s not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog. Hands down one of the most stupid sayings ever. It doesn’t matter how angry a Pomeranian gets, an XL Bully can and will eat it without breaking a sweat. I know it’s meant to refer to fighting spirit, passion, being strong-willed […]
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Let’s get the important stuff out the way first for anyone who can’t be bothered to read too much. I have tweeted about my issues with using usage percentages to set priorities and omissions. One of the things I also mentioned was about weight. And I have two issues here. One a little petty and one just practical. Petty – […]
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After a long FM24 hiatus which was spent mainly working, surviving, nappy changing and occasionally playing Star Trek Online, the urge to break legs came back. It peaked when my son came home from pre-school with an enthusiasm for football and explained the most important parts of football to me. In his words: In this list my son gave me, […]
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It has been a while. Many red, yellow and Christmas cards have been received since the last update. But despite work, life and what felt like 4 weeks of the plague, a couple of seasons with plucky rule-bending La Serena have been played. I’m going to cover two seasons here, and then I think move to slightly irregular updates as […]
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I am a big fan of set pieces in Football Manager, but have often looked at the attacking opportunities rather than spending much time on the defensive options. There’s a lot of exceptional guidance on how to get the most out of your attacking set pieces. Whether they are corners, free kicks or the impressively powerful throw in. Like a […]
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Not a fan of PPDA? Even though the base stats are in FM21 are you finding it just too much fuss to extract the numbers at the end of every match to fit into the wondrous spreadsheet? I hear you. I’ve been using PPDA for about three seasons now in my Dafuge save and I’m honestly tiring of entering the […]
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With survival in the bag last year we were able to take all the crazy money, both general prize and TV, and potentially spend big again. Survival was all the board would be asking for again, but with the big bucks in place I felt like we could do more. Another overhaul of the squad would be needed but we […]
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I mentioned in a previous post that one of the things I’m interested in is getting PPDA into the game. I’m not the only one and recently it has been mentioned by Football Manager Therapy in their podcast, and by FMStag in their recent thread on stats in Football Manager. I’m sure there are plenty of other people who want […]
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Choose Life. Choose Long Throws. Choose Hard Tackles. Choose Stats. Choose Directed and Purposeful Violence. Just when you thought football at Scarborough couldn’t get anymore thuggish! We’ve managed to escalate the level of grievous bodily harm found on the pitch, home and away. But it’s not mindless thuggery and violence. Oh no. It’s targeted and informed by statistics. We have […]
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