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Seeing as how he had made it to D.III in one of the largest nations I would say he probably can handle him self.

Speculations. Besides it's fairly easy to check how he handles himself. His 11 rotation players are all above 33 and mostly 34-35yo. Out of 13 players he fielded last week, he had exactly 3 with over 50 and less than 72 minutes. He also crunched a team in the first week whose most expensive player had a 2.1k salary (I daresay bots would provide a better challenge than that).

Can we say we're respectful, but unimpressed?

Now, if he had any argument to bring to the table, we'd all be interested to hear him out. I haven't seen many reasoned arguments in his posts, mostly attacks on other people opinions which were just dismissive (without a shred of evidence or argumentation) and in no way constructive.

Seriously an, noobs like you need help. I don7t want to argue with you. I am not a humble guy, I am not nice all th time. Its not good, I know it. I react to jerks by being a jerk and I just blame everyone else. So I am trying to not be a jerk to you.

I kinda feel as if you failed big time in not trying to be the last thing you write in the first sentance of this quote. Luckily it was way down in that long post so maybe he didnt even get there before he stopped reading.

Manon, you just hit the nail on the head.

If your looking to get new managers sticking to this game i suggest a better approach then what you have got here.
I find the word noob to be a rather harsh word as a starter. Then throwing on a know it all besserwisser attitude sure doesnt help either.
If your gonna react like this to people that you think have the wrong idea i think you better change the way your answering back to them or stop from doing so entirely. Cause that attitude of yours sure scares people away more then anything that this game has to throw at new managers.

Well stated. It doesn't bother me that I have crossed swords with trainerman or his type, and occasionally he is good for a terrific belly-laugh. If he ever figures out that he would get further by addressing matters on their merits the forums would benefit, and if he has any good ideas amidst all that smoke and hellfire the game might benefit, too.

Edit: the expert from England, who originated in England III and spent four seasons there before promoting, isn't nearly as funny, so don't discourage trainerman too much, we need his humor.

Last edited by Mike Franks at 11/10/2014 10:21:27 AM

I have this information from jonas in HT, letter he send after they took over again. I tried to find it but I couldn´t so may be it´s misunderstanding. If so, sorry for that but I´m pretty sure I remember it right.

About transfer strategy we use obviously the same strategy. I try to play I would play in RL to have it more realistic. For example I tried in 3 months to find a SF which had the minimum skill I was looking at (which are high) but without success. As I was in big problem with only one SF good enough I finish my search last week with buying overpriced but I can use in long time for squad dept so it was ok.

In sokker.org they have tax for selling players. I seen there one problem. Clubs with less money suffer for it because some times it takes time to sell player, special if you are selling on not a good time (there come autobid strong in) but clubs with a lot of money don´t find it on the budgets.

ps. It would be good if men see if someone reply to them in the forum

Way too rational a post. How do you expect to get a reply? ;)

The point about a listing tax hurting people that should not necessarily be considered a problem is a good point. If you buy an 18 year old trainee, give him seven seasons of training and turn him into a superb player, and then list him at a fair price but don't get bites for a while, the listing tax would be hurting a person for a behavior that one presumes should be encouraged.

I think it was Hattrick (though I might be wrong here) that had a rule that you could only list non-homegrown players a number of times equal to the number of times they've played for you (so you buy a player and he can't be relisted until he appears in a game). Something like that concept applied to listing tax and a maximum initial bid price might be a decent solution - if a guy has only played 10 minutes in your club, for example, you might only be able to list him for sale at 1k for free, or up to his initial purchase price with a listing tax. If he's played for you 2000 minutes, conversely, you might be able to list him up to a $2M initial bid price with no listing tax.

Those are all just rough numbers, of course, just thrown together as the idea struck me from reading your post.

Edit: the expert from England, who originated in England III and spent four seasons there before promoting, isn't nearly as funny, so don't discourage trainerman too much, we need his humor.

I'm not a math graduate but...
a) I made the playoffs (13 Human Teams) the first 2 seasons and promoted on the third. That'd be 2+1=3
b) I made the playoffs in my first run in D2. I went to the finals (and lost) in my second run.
c) I suggest you check the payroll expenditure as when I promoted from D3 I was bottom half in the league. Last season I had the 4th lowest payroll in my league.

I must say I'm even more unimpressed by bot-crunchers, running high payroll geriatrics teams who evidently are not math graduates either.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 11/10/2014 1:16:11 PM

Edit: the expert from England, who originated in England III and spent four seasons there before promoting ... I'm not a math graduate but...
a) I made the playoffs (13 Human Teams) the first 2 seasons and promoted on the third. That'd be 2+1=3
b) I made the playoffs in my first run in D2. I went to the finals (and lost) in my second run.
c) I suggest you check the payroll expenditure as when I promoted from D3 I was bottom half in the league. Last season I had the 4th lowest payroll in my league.

Good thing you're not a math student.

"In season 26, Stinkilemons were crowned champions of league England III.2
In season 26, Stinkilemons were one of the final 128 teams in the England Tournament
In season 25, Stinkilemons made the playoffs in league England III.2
In season 25, Stinkilemons were one of the final 64 teams in the England Tournament
In season 24, Stinkilemons made the playoffs in league England III.2
In season 24, Stinkilemons were one of the final 512 teams in the England Tournament
In season 23, Stinkilemons won the relegation series to stay in league England III.2"

23 ... 24 ... 25 ... 26 ... in most developed countries, probably even in England, that is four seasons ... or maybe they publish your record incorrectly.

I feel for you about low payroll, though. I have made it so far with an arena that is far, far smaller than any in the league I am in now. Most of the arenas are at least double the size of ours, so we are in effect a small market team making our way among much larger market teams. This season will be arena-season, not championship-season. TTFN.

Last edited by Mike Franks at 11/10/2014 10:57:27 AM