Captain Blackadder

Hi guys, Had to get a new laptop last month as old one broke but was on a small budget so didn't get the most high performance laptop but was wondering if my new one is good enough to play FM on. I'm not too tech savvy but reading the opening post and the minimum requirements for what is needed my new one has CPU of 5 GHZ, it has integrated graphics but only has 6BG RAM. If it's not good enough would my laptop be able to competently run any of the last few years versions as i'm happy to play them instead if necessary. Thanks.

Didn't know if this belonged anywhere else and if it does i apologise. I'm looking at maybe starting a save with a clubs B team or reserve team and was wondering is it actually possible to be promoted to the first team position at some point. I know if you pick a team like Espanyol or Villarreal then it would be easier as you don't need a very big reputation to get those jobs. But if i wanted to manage Barcelona B for example is it possible as Barcelona have done it in the past in real life so theoretically it should be possible in the game. Also when clubs like Barcelona sack managers mid season they sometimes promote the B coach temporarily either until they appoint a new manager or until the end of the season. If they sack a manager mid season in the game and i was the B team manager would i get promoted as interim manager or would they choose someone else? Thanks and sorry for the ramble.

Hey everyone, after getting my new laptop i wasn't able to transfer my save from the old one as the old one completely died so wasn't able to use a usb stick and stupidly didn't save to the cloud. It seems this save has run it's course unfortunately, it's a shame since i enjoyed this one massively and thanks to everyone who commented and showed interest in my save. I'll be doing a new save with a new team, it might be another youth challenge or it might not as i haven't decided yet so hopefully i'll see you guys there as well.

Colchester United Anyone that has heard of Colchester United knows of the clubs rich history of being completely average and going long periods of winning absolutely nothing. The clubs best achievements to date have been beating Don Revie's Leeds United in the F.A cup 5th round in 1971 and spending two seasons in the Championship. The only other times you hear of the club is when they get dumped out of the cup by non league opposition which happens more than i'd like to admit. The heights of the Championship It hasn't all been doom and gloom though as the club enjoyed a prosperous time under the ownership of Peter Heard and management of Phil Parkinson. With club in the 2005-06 season achieving a second place finish in League One securing promotion to the second tier of English Football for the first time in the clubs history. The promotion combined with a new 10,000 seater stadium being built and a couple of years from completion gave fans real hope that the club is really heading somewhere. There were early fears though as manager Phil Parkinson left for Hull City and Peter Heard sells the club to local businessman Robbie Cowling. Although Peter Heard does stay on in the role of chairman to oversee the transition for the first year. But those fears were diminished by an exceptional 10th place finish narrowly missing out on the play offs in their first ever season in the Championship. The decline and new ownership Naturally after such a successful season there will be lots of demand for members of such an overachieving team. That proves to be the case as the squad is gutted and the club is unable to replicate previous heroics as they finish 24th getting relegated. Following relegation to League One Peter Heard steps back from his role at the club allowing Mr.Cowling to start implementing his vision at the club. His vision is to become a completely self reliant football club relying on the clubs ability to produce talent that can be developed and sold for significant profit. He has even built a new state of the art (for Colchester's standards) training facility for the first team and youth teams. His footballing philosophy is to have an eye catching passing brand of football and to constantly promote players to the first team. The club also has a set philosophy of promoting coaches from within to the managers job to provide a continuation of said philosophy. Now you may be thinking, hang on that sounds a lot like something that Ajax and Barcelona do. And it does seem that was his original intention, to have a core philosophy run through the whole club from the youth team to the coaches. But there does seem to be a small problem with the plan, we are not dealing with Ajax or Barcelona here. This is Colchester United and the coaches and players are not of the ability of our Spanish and Dutch counterparts. And predictably under his reign Colchester have gone from the Championship to spending the last two seasons fighting relegation to the National League. Challenge and aims The aim is to channel my frustrations with the club in real life to achieve what Mr.Cowling has always wanted. To implement a possession based style of football and have a team full of academy graduates. The goal over the first 2 or 3 seasons is to completely phase out any non academy graduate and to have an entire squad of youth products. I'll be looking to provide updates at the start, middle and end of each season. I'll post the players i'm looking to build my team around long term and provide details of their development. The goal short term is not get relegated to the National League. And hopefully long term the goal is to reach the lofty heights of the Championship using the owners philosophy that isn't working in real life. So you get hopefully an interesting story you can follow and i get catharsis, deal?