So far from what I have seen I am happy with the improvements...

In the demo I'm playing now I got Mark Viduka on a free. His stats are seriously great for the A-League. Better than Robbie Fowler. He's 33 which is alright. I'm gonna sign Vidosic lol
And Shannon Cole is transfer listes, I'm gonna try sell him anyway because he's only a WB and for some reason can't play a defender R/L and I don't use WB's.

Who are the wonder kids in the new game or is it too early to tell?

Afro's probably played a couple years already so he'll be able to tell you :lol:

I can tell you in the Sydney FC team Joal Chianese, Rhyan Grant and a few others in the youth team are heaps gun. Some are 16/17 and have better stats than Musialik and Prentice :lol:

I haven't even played the full game yet. My copy is sitting at EB and I haven't had a chance to go pick it up. I'll do that tomorrow at some stage.

Ok...im still a FM09 n00b.

I just decided to start with Melbourne Victory.

Typical newbie question....decent guys to sign for HAL?

If you're using the latest patch, sign Josh Rose, Russel Woodruffe, Radulovic, Issy Erdogan. Wesolowski and Wehrman if you can get them are fantastic too. As is Chris James.

After deciding that I would hold off getting FM10 I am now craving it after reading some manchester United stories on the net and I wnat to see how I can adapt without Ronaldo and Tevez who with Fletcher were my best in 09. I also want to see what I would do with the transfer kitty. Im thinking new forward Aguero, Benzema, Balotelli, Dzeko, Gignac etc. New winger Silva or Mata and maybe Veloso

It's the 2015/16 season in my FM09 game, and this is the Premiership:

1. Liverpool
2. Peterborough United
3. Cardiff City
4. Arsenal
5. Manchester City
6. Oxford United
7. Tottenham Hotspur
8. Wigan Athletic
9. Fulham
10. Southampton
11. Queens Park Rangers
12. Sheffield Wednesday
13. Chelsea
14. Sunderland
15. Blackburn
16. West Ham
17. Aston Villa
18. Coventry City
19. Nottingham Forest
20. Bolton Wanderers

Man United are a mid-table league one side after going into administration, and Everton are top of the Championship

Thats very strange, im in the same year and bar a few exceptions its all the usual teams in the EPL

My team in England is obviously Oxford United, and I took over first Real Madrid and Barca and tapped up all Man U's players, haha.

Edited by scouse_roar: 1/11/2009 06:27:12 PM

Just reached the cut off date in the FM10 demo, shattered. Was doing really well with the Celtic too. Topped our Europa League group, unbeaten. We were on top of the SPL, and 5 points clear after 17 games, having won 12, drawn 4 and lost just 1. Those results included a 4-2 win over Rangers at Ibrox. All of that was done with just one transfer in, loving the way my tactic works. Shattered I won't be able to pick up FM10 for a while.

What's the exact date it stops? I'm close to six months with Sydney FC. I think we're on second just behind Gold Coast. I'll probably resume it when I get FM10...Not for long though with only one league open.

Well I was talking to Afro, and he said his stopped on the 3rd of Jan, but mine stopped on the 27th of Dec. He was in the EPL, I was in the SPL, maybe that had something to do with it.

Edited by Funky Munky: 2/11/2009 04:13:06 PM

Ah ok. I have no idea when it will be for the A-League then.

My magazine just arrived so will install the demo later tonight and see how it goes :)

Its 6 months worth of league play - so from the league start date to 6 months later apparently...

Im 9 games into my first season with Barent (league 2 England), current sitting top with 8 wins and 1 draw, my "star" striker has scored 13 goals, got him on a free :)

SPL stops earlier because a) season starts earlier and b) they have a week's New Year break.

EPL stops Jan 3rd.

I'll be picking up my copy of FM10 tomorrow and I'll tell you all about it :lol:

To the guys who have already picked it up: Did you have any trouble installing it a'la last year?

I got mine via Steam... no issues what so ever...

I had no problems whatsoever with installing. A mate was installing it the morning it came out and he said Steam was going really slowly and it took a while for him but it only took a couple of minutes to do for me, i think that includes the release patch they install with it.

Im mainly getting into my game with Brondby. Ive got them 4 points off top spot about 20 games in, they look set to qualify out of their Euro Cup group and are in the semis of the Danish Cup, so far so good. Ive been using a 4-1-2-2-1 formation and the defence has been rock solid, only conceded 7 league goals. Theyve pretty much been 1-0 specialists. Noone has been really outstanding for me in attack.

I don't have the downloads for Steam. And I hate the thing.

I'll see how I go installing off the CD tomorrow.

I originally set it up off the cd, without steam, on a different computer. There was no difference really but Steam makes it more convenient with the patch done automatically and not having to have the disc in the drive whenever you play. But if you dont have the downloads and hate it, it should still install without a hitch off the cd.

I do like not needing to use the disk.

Is the new FM any good?

Download the demo and see for yourself.

Picked it up today but I'm far too invested in my 09 game to bother installing yet

Also, I have 09 and installed it from the CD, but don't need to have it in every time to play it? Possibly just me.

I installed 09 using he disk key, but used steam anyway. Is taht what you did? I don't need the disk.

Nah, everyone who bought FM09 didn't need the disk to play, it was one of the features on it. That's why they had the 'seats' so people could only install it on 5 systems at any one time. It's different for FM10 now.

Each year they make it more and more fail to cut out bootlegging.

On Mac you need the disc every time :lol: