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tithin posted:Would also be interested in this It's not a let's play, just his own game of FM that he occasionally talks about in a discord channel.
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ItohRespectArmy posted:For us however, we are headed to Kidderminster ItohRespectArmy posted:Another minnow of the league, I'm sure this one should be a stomp with the form we're in. ItohRespectArmy posted:should be a stomp  playing with fire.
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karmicknight posted:
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Dan Maguire continuing to be my hero, just like he was in FM '20 with Blyth. Apropos of nothing, here's the MapGoons FM multiplayer league's first season featuring me, Itoh, Karmic and others (names in blue are players, plus Dijon who wasn't here that week):  We're in preseason for season 2 atm, plenty time for you to sneak in. Sole requirement is you know how to press the Continue button and do so like mad.
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Rarity posted:Found the terrace's new chant Perfection. Cha-Cha-Cha CHARMAN Now we just need something for that marvelous oval office, Nicky Hunt. Obliterati posted:Apropos of nothing, here's the MapGoons FM multiplayer league's first season featuring me, Itoh, Karmic and others (names in blue are players, plus Dijon who wasn't here that week): Which FM are we talking?
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TitusGroen posted:Which FM are we talking? We're using FM '21, same as the LP. karmicknight posted:ah, you can see on the league table the exact moment we just decided to stop scoring goals for the entire month of May. (I'm playing AS Monaco until my inevitable firing and fleeing to the balkans/brazil) We've been over this, you're crashing on my couch and managing my golden generation youth team
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Obliterati posted:Dan Maguire continuing to be my hero, just like he was in FM '20 with Blyth. not shown here: adam armstrong 30 goals in a season somehow.
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Obliterati posted:Dan Maguire continuing to be my hero, just like he was in FM '20 with Blyth. Oh, I'm interested.
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Obliterati posted:We're using FM '21, same as the LP. I only have FM20  habeasdorkus posted:It's not a let's play, just his own game of FM that he occasionally talks about in a discord channel. What discord is this? 
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TitusGroen posted:What discord is this?
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Tis true, the Expansion Cup is being run soon. Come join us!
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habeasdorkus posted:Oh, I'm interested. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3973361 the link to the discord we play is in here, just drop a message in the #footballmanagerfarmersleague channel and we'll fill you in.
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 Pretty hard to overlook Tukhachevsky here 9 wins from 9 games will do that sort of thing.  We're probably going to be favourites for every game now or at least until our run ends but Curzon are in 16th so in theory it should be a pretty easy victory for us, even away.  Well everyone who watched this one got their money's worth for sure, Atkinson opened the scoring with a wonderful 25 yard strike, which considering he's been very quiet and solid this season without much praise is very well deserved, then Tony McMahon put a wonderful cross in for Sousa to hit a wicked volley from inside the box and then The Man Himself Nicky Hunt decided he would like to score too from a corner so he did. Curzon in the 81st minute scored and then hit us for two a couple minutes later to make it nervy but Charman secured the points in added time with a nice header.  huh, you do not see that every day. For the unaware a "fans trust" would mean the fans would vote and appoint the board of the team, at a certain point I planned on just editing it in but if the game did it for me that would be great.  Didn't we just play these bastards? Ah, it's the FA Trophy, basically if you're familiar with the capital one, coca cola, carabao, milk cup in the top 4 divisions, this is the non league equivalent, I think we'll be focusing on the league mostly though, so we'll mostly be giving our second string minutes.  Yep, Telford still bad, we played some nice stuff and handed out some debuts to the quiet cover signings I've been making, O'Neill came off injured but it's a minor one, nothing too much to worry about.  Alfreton are up next and they're also going to be our next round in the FA trophy, so lucky us. They're just another mid table side so we should probably be celebrating our run continuing. The real joy of playing our second 11 in the FA trophy is we get another week of our full starting team, so Tony McMahon and Nicky Hunt's old bones can continue to haunt the division nevermore.  Well thank god for Luke Charman and also my own genius. Things were looking rough but in my infinite wisdom I took off Tony McMahon and put on Michael Liddle who immediately assisted our first goal, which was a great Charman volley from the six yard box Liddle's cross was excellent for it. Then about 10 minutes later Charman shot for his brace, hit the post and then it hit the goalkeeper and went in causing an own goal and making me do a big lmao. Alfreton got a goal very late on to make it nervy but our defence held and we closed out the game. See you in the cup you bastards.  Now now now this is a big one. Gateshead are in fourth, it's a local derby AND we just played our first 11 so rotation will be needed. This should be a proper proper test of our credentials. The upside is even if we lost by 100 goals today we still can't drop below first which is the good thing about winning 13 or so games on the bounce.  But first, Maguire wants more game time. I've decided to activate Nicky Hunt in this case to have a "chat" with him to try and resolve his "issues"  yeah, that's what I thought.  oh poo poo  oh gently caress   but we do need to play that game before we can dwell on all this.  Oh god I could kiss Luke Charman, he scored an absolute worldie today that won us the game versus Gateshead, Maguire had a few chances late on to add to the lead but he missed them so only Charman's incredible goal was the difference. We dominated the game in fairness and most importantly we're nine points clear now at the top.  oh and here's the rest of that youth intake  Obviously the golden generation part is great but having home grown fullbacks is a big deal, they're one of the most expensive positions to try and find quality in, so having solidness in them is extremely valuable.  Don't scratch your eyes, we really are playing Alfreton again.  it wasn't a pretty game but Maguire scored the important goal to put us through to the next round, just to heat up our striker competition that bit more Alfreton are still shite, turns out.  We finish up the year playing Chester on boxing day, my personal favourite football day of the year. Chester are deep in the relegation battle this year so unless Father Christmas has sprinkled some magic on them, it should be inevitable what the result is. Everyone is well rested for this one having not played for about a week and a half, which for this league might as well be a month. I just hope the players didn't all indulge in the christmas pud  This game was simply Alex Storey's wild ride, I was cursing his name when he gave away a penalty and before I could even finish the incantations he'd scored at the other end to avenge the mistake. Then Mr Inevitable himself Luke Charman found himself in the six yard box with the ball and finished cooly. Campbell killed off the game after cutting inside from the wind and beating a few players before placing it in the corner. Happy new year, Darlington Sickos.
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Loxbourne posted:What happens when a referee has a bad game? I don't think that one line in the match reports has changed all season. Refs in the game are not infallible and can make mistakes, so if a ref has a good game it just means they didn't give away a terrible penalty or some such. When we get to the higher leagues there will also be VAR which will also make mistakes. If you're watching the games like me commentary will sometimes reference the referee not giving a foul or an offside looking onside, stuff like that
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Loxbourne posted:What happens when a referee has a bad game? I don't think that one line in the match reports has changed all season. Refs technically get match ratings just like players do, on a 0.0 > 10.0 scale. At higher levels of the game there are also match official rankings that determine what level of games one can ref, based on the ref's match ratings. Basically referees have their own secret league, so in the event of a bad game the ref's ranking just drops a bit. At this level it's nearly meaningless, iirc
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ItohRespectArmy posted:Oh and we're 3 points ahead at the top of the league, York still in pursuit. Top of the table, ma! Get wrecked, you bellends! And godbless Luke Charman.
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Tiger Crazy posted:How many seasons to go until we are in league football? A minimum of one more if we're promoted this season. Mokotow posted:To a layman, this feels like Dwarf Fortress, but with sports Yes. PotatoManJack posted:Holy crap, how many wins in a row was that? It's gotta be some kind of record. we're at 17 currently in the league, 19 if you count cups.
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 basically every player we have is up for renewal, I immediately offered contracts to Nicky Hunt and Luke Charman because either of them leaving on a bosman would be a disaster but the rest, we'll look at the budget at the end of the season.  womp womp it won't affect us for a while, but look forward to going lmao when it does.  it's blyth again but they're in poor form and we're doing amazing, not to mention our entire team is fit and feeling good.  oh and people in thread were talking about the winning run, yes it does appear to be a record we're about to shatter any day now.  player of the month? choose your favourite position and then write darlington lads.  Tukhachevsky adds to his list of medals, too.  Ah, I see we're back to creating loads of chances and only scoring from corners. The goal we conceded was really poor, Saltmar came from a ball from a free kick and didn't reach it and so it was an easy goal for Blyth, let's just hope it doesn't knock confidence too much.  that's good at least, Charman and Nicky hunt are now locked down for a while.  oh, well alright then.  Another top of the table clash here with us facing Gloucester who should be an interesting test after our weird Blyth result.  Another frustrating game to say the least as we just don't take our chances. This is pretty typical for this level though, players blow very hot or very cold and sometimes you just don't have the quality. Still at least it's not a loss.  Alright next up is Kettering who are a bang average midtable side to be generous. Let's hope we can actually score some goals today.  well thank god for Nicky Hunt and Tony McMahon. I have to thank Kettering too, for helping me realise what has been happening these games. It's January which means the AI had adjusted its ratings of every team to where they actually are and due to my excellent form and run they have put me firmly in megabastard mode. So I've been trying to counter attack and play direct behind the defence versus packed defences sitting back. Oops! Proof that even a genius such as myself is capable of making mistakes, truly. Good win though.  Next up is the FA Trophy, where we'll be playing Chippenham who play in the national league south We'll still be starting our second 11, if only to keep Nicky Hunt fresh and ready to score all of our future goals.  Well I'm proud to announce we found the goals lads, despite going 2-0 to two very poor goals we rallied behind 18 year old Ethan Hartshorn who channelled his inner Frank Lampard and smashed one in from 25 yards out, Sean Reid then equalised after a lovely bit of play from Maguire to play him 1 on 1 on goal. Maguire himself then slipped in behind the defence for his own goal completing the turnaround. And then Hartshorn and Holmes smashed in 2 more 20+ yard screamers just to put the knife into Chippenham. Cracking result.  Next up is Brackley again, they're still mid table but we really need to find a way to break down teams that are sitting deep, I hope we figure it out today.  There's a certain sixth sense you will develop watching alot of football and I knew what was going to happen in this game after a certain point, Charman misses a sitter, then Campbell does, then Sousa misses his own. Then we miss some free headers at corners and then the game is getting nervy, only 10 minutes left. And then the ball falls to Wes York on the edge of the area and he finds the one bit of quality in the game and we lose. Which also means...   The good thing about football is that there's always another game to make things right.  We need to wake up if we're going to beat Boston. Our points gap is shrinking every single time we fail to win so we NEED a result here or some major changes will need to be made.  Crisis? What Crisis? Once again we find ourselves praying at the altar of Charman as he scores and assists the winner to end our dire run of games. Fylde also got pumped so once again the table looks like this  We're just slightly past halfway through the season, so there is still a long way to go but if we can just maintain our form a little bit more we can run off with this league and start thinking about how we're gona get out of the national league itself.
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Rarity posted:We loving jinxed it lads we did not do the proper rituals.
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Tiger Crazy posted:Are you able to build statues in the game to commemorate players? not yet, sadly but stadiums can be named after players/managers
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