Spleen! Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 My hometown team is Chelmsford, now manageable in the BSS. The town where I live now though isn't big or good enough to even have a non-manageable team on the game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lufc4Lyfe Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 I started as Leeds in 08 but quickly started again as it was a joke. surely this year will be easier to get them out of league 1 but looking forward to the challenge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody2goody Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 I started as Leeds in 08 but quickly started again as it was a joke. surely this year will be easier to get them out of league 1 but looking forward to the challenge. Yeah so did I but the original bug stopped any possible progress. I've just started with Guiseley after holidaying one season. They were promoted at the end of 2007/08. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyKane67 Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 I'm from the West End of Glasgow, so yes (play as Celtic). Although they're technically not my local team, as Partick Thistle and Rangers are closer to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UGOD Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Crawley Town, Brighton and Palace are closest to me. I like to play as the latter 2 as I have quite a few friends coming through their academies so its always cool to try and mould your mate in to the Premierships next best footballer. LOL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mortiis Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 i always play with my hometown club....HNK CIBALIA VINKOVCI Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty1982dec Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 i'm currently playing as lincoln city. do a save with them every season, towards the end of the game's shelf life, it makes it fun again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtik-1 Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 I start as Leicester sometimes but since they are in League One i might start as my nearest Prem team Villa or WBA to get a feel and then go to manage THE MIGHTY FOXES Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gullee Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 I would but Pakistani league is unplayable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
redlion1986 Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 I always start as Middlesbrough so most of the time yeah. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crustyjuggler Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 I always begin one with Swindon Town (not my hometown but I was born there) This year I will start one with Team Bath as my friends brother plays for them and I want to make him into an England player Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deefus Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Depends what you mean as hometown. I always start a game as Chester as they are the nearest football league team to where I live. But I always try and get the Blackburn job a few years in as that's where I was born and raised and are the team that I support. However, in FM08 every time I apply for the Blackburn job I don't get it. Even though I've won the Prem, FA Cup, League Cup and Champions League as well as the Super Cup and World Club Championship numerous times and won the Euros and World Cup as England boss. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHARLIERODD Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 I often play with Eastliegh.. but just get bored! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egon Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 My home town team is Warrington, so they're not available. Closest would be Everton/Liverpool or Wigan, probably. I could manage Worcester, my place of birth, but haven't. I used to live in Sunderland and since then I have an occassional game as them. Everton are the team I support and always the first team I'll play as Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon07 Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Id love to play as my howntown, but Sittingbourne are in an unplayable divsion Closest playable side is Gillingham - But they turned me down when i had a trial with them irl! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtuck01 Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Well I am from Manchester, so I often have a long save with the red half of Manchester. However, I have lived in Leeds since I was 7, and given that on FM08 they started in League 1 with -15 points, I had a game with them.................before the save corrupted after winning League 1 in season one. ;( Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syn13 Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Nearest professional team to me is Leyton Orient. Don't support them but I often enjoy playing as them. I last played with Dagenham & Redbridge too since they're local and my dad played for them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falastur Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 I was born in Hitchin and so, on rare occasions, I have been known to manage the Canaries if they get promoted up after the 1st season. I also am from Hitchin, but as yet I've only seen them promoted once (whereupon I took them over, got promoted and fizzled out in the BSP). I usually play a game or two with Man City, whom I support (local to my parents before they move down south) to see where I can go with them, before giving up and pottering about starting games up to play as any team which takes my interest for more than a few seconds. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aussie King Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 I can't manage my hometown team even through there in the game(Mandurah City) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pompeyfan Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Don't have a home town team in FM, but go as Portsmouth as they're my local team (ground is 11 miles away) and the team I support. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerion Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 I've never lived in a place that had their own professional team until I moved to Heerenveen almost two years ago. I try different teams with every incarnation of FM, and decided on SC Heerenveen with FM2007. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
glamdring Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 I moved Whitley Bay into the Conference North in FM06 so that I could manage them and had great fun, eventually winning almost everything over the course of 20 years (although bizarrely, until the final season when I won a second League Cup, the only trophy we ever won twice was the European Super Cup!). I have briefly managed Bolton (my original home town) in the past, but never in a serious game. Had Horwich RMI remained Horwich RMI then they would have been my home team and I would definitely have had a bash at managing them, but since they decamped to Leigh (and I think have now disappeared completely and been replaced by a new Leigh club...) they no longer felt like my home team since Bolton Wanderers were closer. I moved up to Whitley Bay 3 years ago though so they are now my home town team Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wijnand fens Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 FC Dordrecht (Hometown team) and I have a seasonticket (for 6 years now) Visit the club since 1996 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linfield Fc Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 im playing as my hometown team linfield in norn ireland Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayahr Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Now for the first time I am playing the club I work for (new home town as well of course) and once in the past I also played my real home town club for which I also played myself. Usually however I start playing in England where those are not an option. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMLS Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Always play with Shrewsbury Town (where I was born and whom I support) and Burton Albion (where I live) in my second and third games respectively - I prefer to start as unemployed in my first game and work my way up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
glamdring Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Always play with Shrewsbury Town (where I was born and whom I support) and Burton Albion (where I live) in my second and third games respectively - I prefer to start as unemployed in my first game and work my way up. I'd have thought starying with Burton Albion gives plenty of scope for working your way up, there isn't a whole lot down from there Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMLS Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 It's not at the bottom though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnFKenny Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 My hometown doesn't have a football club, so no. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson993 Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Yeah sometimes i start with Arsenal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sue_donym Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 I always start my first ever game on a new version of FM as my hometown team and the team I support (the two should always be the same thing), Darlington. Its a labour of love dragging them up the divisions time after time. If only we could manage that IRL (seventeen seasons in the fourth tier and counting). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robterrace Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 I could play as Forest, but I find it easier to play in the Blue Square Premier as one of the lower rated teams. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemeures Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 i always do bolton files, cos its the team i support, but at some pint i always go local and do southampton or eastliegh. will do afc totton when they get to bss I always help out Southampton coz thats where Im from, but usually by loaning them players and giving em all Chelseas money! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manumoss Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 I play with Leyton Orient more than any other team and sometimes create teams from other towns local to me to play as Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
watsonsclarets Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 i tend not to even though iam a claret through and through born and bred Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nordmore Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Sometime i play with Molde Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thebaker Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 i always do bolton files, cos its the team i support, but at some pint i always go local and do southampton or eastliegh. will do afc totton when they get to bss I hope to see afc totton next year in fm2010 as its the nearest team to where i grew up. At the moment i always go for eastleigh (currently in championship!), i avoid saints even though i support them IRL, i just prefer to built small clubs up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the--dud Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 My home team is Rosenborg from Norway, but I don't really play them alot... I love them too much, afraid to fail hehe... My really local team is called Kolstad, but it's one division lower than FM08 allows in Norway.. Something I do like however, is to play teams local to where I've been on holiday. Frankfurth, Valencia, Beauvais, etc etc... Anyone else do this? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
av3ry Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 My hometown team is Falmouth Town who are not in the database. The closest team to me in the database is Truro City, but they are un playable because they are too crap. The closest playable team to where I live is Plymouth Argyle, 60 miles away... and I've never played as them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crouchaldinho Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 I abhor the fact that so many people on here are referring to their local non-League team as 'crap'. Some of you ought to go and watch your local club and you would realise that a lot of the players playing at this level are just as passionate (perhaps even more so) than your Football League or Premiership stars. Furthermore, games at non-League level are just as entertaining, tense and enjoyable as games at the top (in fact the case is that they are often more so in my experience). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsson1888 Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Just started a new game with my local team Wick Academy. Although they are in the Highland League I changed them with Annan in the Scottish 3rd division. Weird when you have your mates in the team, and you have to get rid of them as they are hopeless lol. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
london boy Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 my hometeam are Sutton United, who I've managed from time-to-time, but they got relegated from the Blue Square South IRL last season so I won't be able to manage them from the start in FM09. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loath Posted October 28, 2008 Author Share Posted October 28, 2008 Nah I don't think I'm good enough for LLM, I always just start with Newcastle United.Occasionally, I start unemployed. A quick question about the last thing you said, about starting unemployed. Can you get a job in England or Italy if you start unemployed and your nationality is not English or Italian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egon Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 I abhor the fact that so many people on here are referring to their local non-League team as 'crap'. Some of you ought to go and watch your local club and you would realise that a lot of the players playing at this level are just as passionate (perhaps even more so) than your Football League or Premiership stars. Furthermore, games at non-League level are just as entertaining, tense and enjoyable as games at the top (in fact the case is that they are often more so in my experience). I agree with this. I'm a lifelong Everton fan, but tired with Premier LEague football, have experimented with lower league football at Cowdenbeath whenever I'm on holiday in Scotland, my local side Warrington, and the team I now go to the most, Lancaster City. a Lancaster game is just much, much more enjoyable than an Everton one, not to mention thirty quid cheaper. And there's something about drinking in the club bar with the players afterward and discussing the game with the manager (the mighty Barrie Stimpson) that makes it more of a pleasant experience than watching millionaires running around. And non-league players are playing for their careers in a way that Pros aren't, hence the increased passion, but the penalties for defeat and the rewards for victory aren't measured in millions of pounds, helps make it less stressful for a spectator. I woud recommend that anyone with a non-league or lower-league team in their town should go along for the experience. And without Cowdenbeath, I wouldn't have found myself in a crowd of 500 watching a 0-0 draw at a cold, wet Hampden Park Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pr1celess Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 My hometown team, Slough Town aren't available, so I'm always waiting for them to get promoted, never seems to happen though. I dont do too many LLM seasons as i find it gets a bit tedious after a while... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
homerjnick Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Yup, start a game with the mighty Inverness Caley thistle every new game that comes out! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_man Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 I agree with this. I'm a lifelong Everton fan, but tired with Premier LEague football, have experimented with lower league football at Cowdenbeath whenever I'm on holiday in Scotland, my local side Warrington, and the team I now go to the most, Lancaster City. a Lancaster game is just much, much more enjoyable than an Everton one, not to mention thirty quid cheaper. And there's something about drinking in the club bar with the players afterward and discussing the game with the manager (the mighty Barrie Stimpson) that makes it more of a pleasant experience than watching millionaires running around. And non-league players are playing for their careers in a way that Pros aren't, hence the increased passion, but the penalties for defeat and the rewards for victory aren't measured in millions of pounds, helps make it less stressful for a spectator. I woud recommend that anyone with a non-league or lower-league team in their town should go along for the experience. And without Cowdenbeath, I wouldn't have found myself in a crowd of 500 watching a 0-0 draw at a cold, wet Hampden Park Lovely story you got there but that last example is nothing compared to traveling 1 hour 45 minutes from liverpool to manchester (bad traffic) to watch a 1-1 draw between Bury reserves and Accrington stanley reserves with a crowd of under 30 people. Dont ask why but i was really forced into it. But that point of being tired of watching the millionaires of Everton, i have to disagree there i got a season ticket at Everton and go and watch Marine now and again and much rather prefer watching Everton. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scfc4ever Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Always have and always will start with my hometown team swansea city the first time i play. Should be good this time round Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Bodde Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Ah, a fellow Jack bastard Will be good to see how the likes of Serran, Pintado, Fede etc are rated in 09 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldkohmew Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Oh I live in Singapore and to travel from one end to the other take at most hours, but I managed a team Sengkang Ponggol FC before. It is about a 10 minutes walk away from my house! same here,i just can't get them to top the rich club list... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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