Snapshot of your story - FM 12

Mars Bar · 25-09-2012 03:36PM

The board have decided to expand the stadium by 2,000 extra seats. I didn't even have to ask!

Reganio 2 · 25-09-2012 10:35PM

Didn't qualify with North Ireland for the Euro's Slovakia gone to playoff's and Italy straight through. Lost 3-0 to Estonia with all the injuries and lost 2-1 to Italy. Was a good effort. But I am thinking I now want to take up club managment as well rather than just national so we will see what happens there.

Mars Bar · 26-09-2012 06:21PM

I needed a new scout and had my eye on one particular fella but despite all of the cash I have lying around, I was only allowed offer €250 wage to this scout who wanted €375. I changed the wage budget but still nothing. I googled it and took some advice from another forum. Basically, I extended the years of the contract and he said no. Then I offered him the same €250 wage 5 times consecutively and eventually he accepted!

harpstilidie · 27-09-2012 05:44PM

My best player has been denied a work permit for a new contract

absolutely sickened!

retalivity · 28-09-2012 01:18AM

My Man U takedown continues unabated....offered a 34year old forward (whos pretty crap to be fair) a 160k a week 5 year contract which he recently accepted, the club is now nearly 80mil in the red, and i lost my first 2 matches 7-0. lost the rest by lesser margins to make it look like im trying a little...
Then the solomon islands job came up, so like any other world class manager, I jumped at the chance!

Gonna be dividing my time between manchester & the south pacific now up until united sack me....hope i get another few months out of it yet!

dulpit · 01-10-2012 04:44PM

Well I'm currently getting screwed by the fixture pile-up that results from having a run in Europe while playing as an Irish team.

Matches every 2 games, had to play Shamrock Rovers twice in 3 games, all in the space of a week. We had a grip on 2nd and a (admitadly long) shot at first, now Sligo have one the league and we're 2 points behind Rovers with 2 games left. And I also have 2 Europa League games to fit in too.

Thinking of retiring and moving to the English lower leagues, at least then I'll have promotion to chase each year... Or I might slog it out for one more year, grabbed 3 nice free agents that look promising (gotta love the agents offering their unattached players - haven't paid for a player all season, but have picked up a good number of decent players, including a full international player for Norn Iron).

Which is more fun, LOI or lower English leagues?

Mars Bar · 01-10-2012 04:50PM

dulpit wrote: »

Well I'm currently getting screwed by the fixture pile-up that results from having a run in Europe while playing as an Irish team.

Matches every 2 games, had to play Shamrock Rovers twice in 3 games, all in the space of a week. We had a grip on 2nd and a (admitadly long) shot at first, now Sligo have one the league and we're 2 points behind Rovers with 2 games left. And I also have 2 Europa League games to fit in too.

Thinking of retiring and moving to the English lower leagues, at least then I'll have promotion to chase each year... Or I might slog it out for one more year, grabbed 3 nice free agents that look promising (gotta love the agents offering their unattached players - haven't paid for a player all season, but have picked up a good number of decent players, including a full international player for Norn Iron).

Which is more fun, LOI or lower English leagues?

I've made a mint on those players!

Lower English leagues are more fun I think. Being the top dog in Ireland for years and still not progressing in Europe coz players won't stay is frustrating as hell.

harpstilidie · 01-10-2012 05:43PM

How do you guys conquer Shamrock Rovers? They win everything in my game and I can't get near them. Their annual wage salary is over €1 million while the mines is about €500k.

dulpit · 01-10-2012 05:53PM

harpstilidie wrote: »

How do you guys conquer Shamrock Rovers? They win everything in my game and I can't get near them. Their annual wage salary is over €1 million while the mines is about €500k.

Dunno, Sligo are the team to beat in my game, although Rovers are my bogey team, flattened me 5-1 in the 2nd of our two games in the space of a week, and I was at home too

harpstilidie · 01-10-2012 07:03PM

I've played Shams 12 times now and only won 3

11 games gone in the 2015 season and they are undefeated.

gnfnrhead · 01-10-2012 07:16PM

Those agent offers do be great. I got Raul for QPR in 2012

In another note, FCUK Man United! They robbed me of Champions League last season and now hammered me 8-2 at Old Trafford. They beat me 7-1 in the same fixture last season. Nobody else comes close to those kind of scorelines. My form is really inconsistant this season, 3 games in the Europa League and three wins (two hammerings). But in the League I have one win and three losses putting me 18th with a trip to the Emirates next

Out of the Carling Cup too but that was AET with a weakened team against Wolves who are flying this season.

Mars Bar · 01-10-2012 08:20PM

Rovers held me to a draw in the last game but it has been at least 8 seasons since they won the IPD.

Mars Bar · 01-10-2012 11:16PM

20 Goals, 11 Games. Losing him on a free to Birmingham at the end of the season.

I warned him with transfer list loads of times and he kept saying he really wanted to stay. So then I'd offer a contract and it wouldn't be good enough. Bastard.

harpstilidie · 01-10-2012 11:33PM

harpstilidie wrote: »

I've played Shams 12 times now and only won 3 11 games gone in the 2015 season and they are undefeated.

They are just after beating me 5-2 and are on a 23 match unbeaten run :mad: don't know how I am going to stop them. Have also drawn them in the FAI Cup as well

Mars Bar · 02-10-2012 12:38PM

What a group to get drawn in!

dulpit · 02-10-2012 02:24PM

Ouch, wouldn't envy you there...

Mars Bar · 02-10-2012 07:29PM

Lost to United away but beat Galatasary at home 3-0. Wolfsburg is up next.

Got this message though, have never seen it before!

He isn't even that great a player but I wanted another HG player and he is better than my best keeper.

Mars Bar · 03-10-2012 04:32PM

The club are expanding the seating capacity again!

They have also agreed to improve facilities again.

harpstilidie · 03-10-2012 05:10PM

Mars Bar wrote: »

The club are expanding the seating capacity again!

They have also agreed to improve facilities again.

Hard luck! So close to qualifying. You have the Europa League though

Mars Bar · 03-10-2012 05:11PM

harpstilidie wrote: »

Hard luck! So close to qualifying. You have the Europa League though

Yep! I have a better chance of making it through the Europa League which is actually better for the club reputation.

Although I did draw Shaktar Donetsk.

dulpit · 05-10-2012 08:12AM

Finished the season in 3rd. Had a chance on the last day of season to leapfrog Shamrock Rovers into 2nd, we were 1 point behind them. We led in our game, and they were losing for most of game, but then Bohs (who I was playing) came back and scored to draw game, and Rovers came away with a win anyway, so it didn't matter. 3 points behind 2nd place, like 10 behind first - not great.

Made a tonne of money though thanks to the Europa League, so we've now gone professional. Not sure how this will help us, but we're going to make a big push on league this year, and the free agents are still coming in, so don't need my transfer budget...

Mars Bar · 05-10-2012 10:26AM

The difference is you can finally put players on proper full time training regimes and your pool of players opens up a bit.

dulpit · 05-10-2012 10:58AM

Mars Bar wrote: »

The difference is you can finally put players on proper full time training regimes and your pool of players opens up a bit.

Cheers. Had an agent offer a player to me, some German lad. He wanted like 4K a week, managed to get him down to 2.5K (which is the max I'm allowed), salaries have jumped quickly... Am thinking that if I don't get another European run I could be in trouble... We made profits last year in and around the 400K mark, which was mainly because we took in over €1million for the Europa League...

Mc Love · 05-10-2012 02:45PM

dulpit wrote: »

Cheers. Had an agent offer a player to me, some German lad. He wanted like 4K a week, managed to get him down to 2.5K (which is the max I'm allowed), salaries have jumped quickly... Am thinking that if I don't get another European run I could be in trouble... We made profits last year in and around the 400K mark, which was mainly because we took in over €1million for the Europa League...

Just wait for your best and Key players start moaning to leave the club for a bigger one, the only good thing about it is $$$ after getting them for nothing!

dulpit · 05-10-2012 03:00PM

Fair point, haven't had that happen yet though, I haven't sold one player in my time with St. Pat's (lots of people have been released though).

BTW - time to update the sig I'd say Mc Love :pac:

Mc Love · 05-10-2012 04:55PM

dulpit wrote: »

BTW - time to update the sig I'd say Mc Love :pac:

Was thinking that alright - but its still true

Chavways · 05-10-2012 11:02PM

The season has been going well.Top of the table but now this has happened:

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Going to have to get in some new players.All of the people who are injured are first team players and all are out for at least 2 months each.

Mars Bar · 05-10-2012 11:17PM

Chavways wrote: »

The season has been going well.Top of the table but now this has happened:

Injuries.png

Going to have to get in some new players.All of the people who are injured are first team players and all are out for at least 2 months each.

David Lynch was class for me with Waterford United. Eventually he wasn't good enough but he's still playing in 2024 and I always get asked what's my relationship with him!

Chavways · 05-10-2012 11:19PM

Mars Bar wrote: »

David Lynch was class for me with Waterford United. Eventually he wasn't good enough but he's still playing in 2024 and I always get asked what's my relationship with him!

He's definately one of my better players.Has like 10 or 11 assists from centre mid in around 14 games.

dulpit · 06-10-2012 03:08PM

Keep on having goals disallowed due to offside, very annoying - any ideas on how to stop this?

On a plus, we have 3 full internationals playing for St. Pats now, and have become very diverse, our main 16 players include 5 Irish, 1 Dutch, 3 Northern Irish, 1 Guinean, 2 Algerians, 1 English, 1 Welsh, 1 Turk and 1 Italian. :pac:

Snapshot of your story - FM 12

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