6 games without a win. 2 draws, 4 defeats. Our place in the highest tier of qualifiers in Season 3 is now seriously in doubt - especially since we still have to play some of the division's big boys. I'm normally one of those who thrives in this sort of scenario - I get cross but I enjoy the challenge, I spend lots of time thinking about it, play some practice matches, work on tactics, scour the forums for tactical tips and so on.
But this time I feel strangely disconnected. I'm completely out of ideas and consequently I can't be bothered to log in that much. I've varied my tactics a bit, but I have two main ones that have worked well before under this ME and against the same opposition, and given that changing tactics too much has a negative effect why change all the time? I've rotated the squad and brought in a couple of players who are slightly better than what I had before, but that hasn't helped. I've got players back from injury now but that hasn't helped. So I'm a bit stumped.
I don't want to be one of those who whinges on the forum about how unfair it is, how the ME picks on me etc. I do believe the ME is as good as you'll get, and there probably is something I can do to turn this round. So I'll try to keep this constructive!
The problem I have is that the game doesn't give me much feedback at all on how to do that. There is no method for tactical feedback and the "form" information just gives me statistics I already know. And that's before I get started on "morale" which is probably my biggest bugbear. In the squad screen it only gives me an arrow, and even then it seems that given my team started the season well nothing is now going to shift those arrows out of green so I can't pick up on who is really struggling. In the match I can see slightly more - but what on earth does "player x is looking angry" actually mean?
So there is a real lack of information here. In the ideal world this could come through the community - and there is for example a tactics chat room where I can discuss that element of things. But (a) that's not always very helpful, and (b) it doesn't help with how to deal with the form effect or morale. In FM10 I can get detailed reports on a player's character, I can get backroom coaching advice and I can interact with my players (even if that's sometimes a bit naff). Why can't I do any of these things in FML?
Because right now, I can't figure this out. I'm not a brilliant player and as I say I'm sure there's an answer. But I've been on FML for more than a year now with some success and I have played FM and CM since 1994. What would a new player make of it?
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