![]() ![]() I was intrigued, then, to hear that one of FM16's key new features was the incorporation of Prozone analysis - allowing, one would hope, the chance to gain a deeper understanding of where your team might be going wrong (or right). No man should have nightmares about an 8mm Scott Vernon. Turned over again and again, it was the closest I came all year to giving up the game. I even sought advice from a community forum, which suggested I mirrored their formation. In one match I tried to slow things down and flood the midfield, in another I tried to sit back and counter. If ever there was an unbalanced tactic that a seasoned FM manager (ahem) such as myself should be able to exploit, this was it.īut I lost. Two wingers, two strikers, two attacking midfielders. Shrewsbury played with an absurdly lopsided 4-0-6 formation. Curzon Ashton: Britain's favourite non-league-club-slash-upmarket-cinema-chain. Of the 232 hours (gulp) I spent attempting to guide Weston-Super-Mare to the Premier League, the most painful by far were those spent across six encounters with Shrewsbury (two in the playoffs) over two seasons in League Two. One of the biggest problems with Football Manager in recent years is that, when fortunes turn against you, there's no chance to learn, to develop as a manager, and to prevent the same things happening again.Īn example from Football Manager 15. The difference, of course, is that more often than not these real-life oddities can be explained and understood. The inference is clear: Football Manager's match engine might be capricious, infuriating, cruel and, at times, maddeningly unfair. When something really bizarre happens in the real world of football, followers will inform the account, annotating their tweets with a single word: BUG!Ĭhelsea 13 places below Leicester in the table? BUG! Lewandowski scoring five goals in nine minutes? BUG! Liverpool players suffer season-ending ACL injuries on consecutive days. If you follow any of Football Manager's various presences on social media, there's a recurring joke you'll have become familiar with. Despite a couple of neat additions, Football Manager 2016 is an iterative release that's sadly short on big new ideas. ![]()
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