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Biography
Devoted husband and father of two (despite what my wife says when I'm playing FM-24), late-comer to the love of the true football faith (grew up watching indoor soccer), great cook and lover of beer, bbq and...okay, beer and bbq.
About Me
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About Me
Wichita KS
Interests
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Interests
Cooking,SciFi, FM, Gardening
Favourite Team
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Favourite Team
Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic
Currently Managing
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Currently Managing
Journeyman, now at Chelsea
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I long ago accepted that I will only acquire about 20% of the players I want, the rest I give them a silly nickname and spend my virtual career making their lives miserable. If you can't accept that, buy the editor, transfer the player against their will to your club (and compensate the losing club adequately) and play on. It's your game, play it the way you want to, whether it's realistic or not.
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Managing Southampton in the Premier, I've only signed 4 U-21 foreign players of the 6 player limit per season. It's June 2032, before the season turns over, and the transfer of a 19-year-old Serbian wonderkid because of the 6-player-per-season limit...but I only signed 6 total players this season, and 2 were 23+. So...why? I realize that if this is a bug, it won't be fixed, but am I missing something?
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Can't Sign Any Staff
podunkboy replied to steve.battisti's topic in Football Manager General Discussion
Ahh, THAT'S the charm of true LLM, even if you have the money, prospective staff won't move to your club because the move will mess up their personal lives. Easiest solutions: poach staff from other teams at or below your level, pick up a free agent who's profile mentions they want to move into Scouting/coaching/physio when they retire, send older players for leadership courses (if you have the money), keep running the ad until someone pops up and just try to hold the team together until then. Bottom level clubs likely don't have a fully-staffed backroom, and even if they do, they're so crap that they're not going to benefit most players in training. I play LLM every year, and it's always a struggle until you get a team promoted to the league system or you manage well enough to get hired away. -
Second team in no competitions
podunkboy replied to MasterF's topic in Football Manager General Discussion
judging from the Bugs forum, this was a problem last year that was never fixed, and apparently won't be fixed this year, either, so I guess I'm just going to have to manually schedule constant friendlies for the U21s. -
I had my club (Greystoke) set my weekly payroll at $1400/week and make us semi-professional when we clinched promotion, and then after the final game of the season, I got a message from the board that the payroll was now set at $400/week. None of the existing players would re-sign for less than the entire weekly payroll and any free agents who were interested in signing wouldn't accept a penny less than everything I had and more. I asked the board for a boost and they told me to quit bothering them...so I resigned and almost immediately got a job with Aveley in the National League South. I don't fight the board when they're determined to send the team into a tailspin, I just move on.
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The board can pound sand
podunkboy replied to ScotchWhisky's topic in Football Manager General Discussion
I had the board sell my top prospect to a rival because of "an offer too good to pass up". Because of where the % of transfer funds available was set (even though we weren't in dire straights), there wasn't enough in the budget for a quality replacement. I was so angry I terminated all the staff contracts and resigned my position. Later ended up at a rival club, started poaching all my old players. -
Football Manager 2024 Official Feedback Thread
podunkboy replied to Kyle Brown's topic in Football Manager General Discussion
VERY hard to believe a world where 6 months into the save entire leagues have no head coaches, my scouting team (admittedly two scouts and a head scout) has found only 3 players, and I have to play with a 6 player squad (the rest grayed out), because no one will sign with us because the team doesn't appear to be strong enough. LLM is absolutely a NO GO in FM 24. -
Football Manager 2024 Official Feedback Thread
podunkboy replied to Kyle Brown's topic in Football Manager General Discussion
Holiday-ed for a year, took over a club where all the players are demanding a better contract and increased status even though 1) they're 2-stars or less 2) they averaged around a 6.0 for the season and 3) only made 3-5 appearances in the preceding season. When I go to negotiate they want 3x what they were making...if you only averaged a 6.0 for the season, I should be CUTTING your wage, not tripling it. They can kick off as much as they like, no one wants them even for free. -
Football Manager 2024 Official Feedback Thread
podunkboy replied to Kyle Brown's topic in Football Manager General Discussion
I gave this every opportunity, but had to give up one save because EVERY player was complaining about playing time, even those who were starting games with limited fitness. Started another save, trying to hire staff that supposedly were interested in the position refusing to then listen to a job offer because the team isn't up to their lofty standards (even though they're unemployed). Posted an ad for the job, every staff member who applied for the job refused to then discuss the position. Eff it, I'm going to go play a game that's not broken sold by a developer who after 25 years consistently is releasing buggy crap. -
Little FM things that annoy you...
podunkboy replied to KingCanary's topic in Football Manager General Discussion
My 19-year-old Columbian wonderkid newgen left back gets his first cap for Columbia, as always I congratulate the player, he pops off with a "well, it SHOULDN'T have taken this long!" Really? I'm managing Denmark's team and you have to be something special to even make the 23-man squad, let alone get capped. But I plow on with the "well, it's great that you've showed your patience and hopefully it's the start of a long and successful run" and here he comes back with "You don't need to be condescending to me, I KNOW how great I am!" and I suddenly realize that he's never going to see the pitch again at FC Koln unless it's a member of the groundskeeping crew, because I must destroy him now. I signed him for $1.2 million, he's worth $20 million now, and quite frankly the first team to offer $20 million+ can have him, if I haven't retrained him as a goalkeeper by then. -
I didn't see anything in that excessively non-specific features video that would make me run for my virtual wallet any time soon. I shall wait until I see something that even remotely intrigues me.
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FC Andorra & Andorran Citizenship
podunkboy replied to angelo994's topic in Football Manager General Discussion
New to FM '24 - force your player into a loveless marriage with an Andorran citizen. Might be easier to get them to marry an Andorian. -
Meh, my cellphone knows when I'm talking about pizza and pops up an ad in Facebook in response, I no longer worry about the constant surveillance.