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Edited by pippinu: 1/5/2009 04:29:41 PM

I see a red and yellow crest with head and legs.

I dont get direct access either.

Yeh i see the same as avy.

Ok, afro has been busting my balls for screen shots of some of my better regens - here just the start: I've put up Lord again, and then four from my 2012-13 Roar squad.
I'll do the Nix another time (where I have the same number and quality, maybe even better).

The reason for doing it? I'm thinking that I've copped more than my fair share of quality regens simply because I chose the A-League in this particular game - maybe a disproportionate number of regens ended up in Aus and NZ because of that alone???

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/2ZWxfRkLt3d9GHOn8C8Jig?feat=directlink

I hope you enjoy!!



Edited by pippinu: 30/4/2009 10:07:38 PM

Lord is easily the best player there the rest are very so so in my opinion.

Holy fuck i've never seen a 19 year old with a 20 stat.

Francois Soulas afro might have the pics still.

ok Pipp, looking at those regens...Johnston is nothing at all remarkable. Neither is Cole.
Harken is reasonable for the A-League.
Lord and Petkovic are really top notch though.
Imageshack isn't working for me:?...I'll try and upload some of my 09 regens soon.

I said Johnston wasn't the pick of the bunch - but if you have a corner rating of 20 in the A-League - that's worth goals!

A bit tough on Cole - I go through lots and lots of U19/U20 teams in Europe, and it's rare to find 18 year old strikers with a fat polygon like that.

Put it this way: only just picked him up, only 18, and he's pushed Reinaldo out of the first team as the main striker (in a 433) - remembering that Reinaldo is about 30 years old and has a market value of $5.25 mill (please someone, offer me that today!!!)

In the WCC I recently won (my first one ever), he scored two of my three goals against Sao Paulo - now they're not the best team in the world, far from it - but they're not mugs either!!

Also, I ended up buying Petkovic, Harken and Cole for next to nothing - if you tie up players like that for a three or four years, having paid next to nothing - honestly - you can't go wrong!!

In my youth squads at NEC and Livorno, I have nothing that even approach these three.

As I said - my selections from my Nix team, of Jan 2013, is even better!

About 7 of my starting XI are regens, and pretty much my whole bench!!

But that's for another day!!

By the way - I found the photos feature in gmail to be very easy to use - and it's quite a nice presentation - don't you think? :)

The only other one I've seen, and he was a real player, was Costa Barbarouses, as an 18 year old with the Nix in the first season (still have him in 2013), he had determination of 20.

That's the only other one I've come across in the A-League.

But with regens, pretty much anything is possible.

What I find is that there are a stack of good-average players - who will have a ridiculous 18 to 20 rating for one or two things specifically: corners, throws, free kicks, penalties, jumping, work rate, whatever it is.

In these sorts of examples, my eye is always drawn to corners and free kicks - because these inevitably translate directly to good outcomes in games!! (as long as they are good enough in their respective positions)

Image shack is working. So here's a couple of MY regens:
Jose Maria
Tom Stewart
Raul

That's how the good ones should look, age 16.

Very good for 16 year olds - no doubt about it - I'd sign them up If I came across them as well (which reminds me - I haven't looked at my four 16 yo Brazilians for a while that will come over to the Nix shortly - might check them out again).

The keeper is very good for a 16 yo considering they can continue to get better right up to age 30 and even beyond - but I have to admit - a high eccentricity rating always makes me a little bit nervous (surely it's not a good thing!)

But I am surprised you didn't think much of Cole (admittedly he's already 18, but he'll continue to get better).

These are Cole's Key stats again: finishing 16, heading 14, technique 16, compusure 14, determination 14, flair 16, jumping 15, pace 18, strength 16.

The combo of finishing of 16, jumping of 15, pace of 18 and strength of 16 is pretty damn good for an 18 yo striker!!

I just noticed something else - he has 13 youth caps and 11 youth goals!!

Edited by pippinu: 1/5/2009 04:35:03 PM

Simply, if he was that good when he was 16, it would be ok. As a matter of fact, he probably was,a nd hasn't improved at all in two years.

Actually, I should put up my other young keeper for you too...
Thomas Kessler

I'm trying to put together a reserve team that are all of a similar level of ability and all age under 21.
I've also been bringing in a few top youngsters.
Gustavo Luna
Frank McCarthy <-He used to be white :?
Marcelo Velasquez
Cristian Ojeda <-Hoping he'll improve mentally.
In about five years, Argentina is going to have a fucking GUN national team.

Damn. Wish i had some of them.

These all have the sorts of shapes I look for in keepers, AMs, defenders, etc - defintitely perfect shapes for 16 yos (and big enough polygons), meaning a bit of all round improvement is enough to catapult them into the elite level within a couple of years.

That keeper's shape is near perfect for his age (and decent ratings for a 16 yo) - that's precisely the shape I look for in my keepers (young and old).

Ojeda had a funny shape - definitely a few gaps there - but certainly young enough to fill them out.

One of your AMs, was it Luna - that's an absolutely classic shape for a playermaker/AM, with that little chink jutting out to the far bottom right (creativity?) - ditto for one of the wingers you put up.

Definitely looking the goods - I'd sign them all tomorrow if I stumbled across them!!

In terms of first impressions - I put a lot of store in the shape - over time, you almost know a player's position just by the shape of his polygon.

Central defender: look for a big fan shape covering the upper areas (and the wider the better, meaning good aerial skills, pace, strength and mental ratings).
Striker: big V - with a nice point at the bottom (finishing), once again, the wider the better.
Winger: often will look like a bit of an arrow pointing rightwards (pace), but hopefully filling the bottom bits out a bit.
CDM: a fat octagon - your better CDMs can do it all. Some may be a bit more challenged in terms of aerial and pace, so you end up with a long thin diamond or rectangle.
AMC/Playmaker: these come in a few possible shapes, some will have the fat octagon; some will look a bit like the winger shape, but a bit more elongated because of the additional technique and attacking ratings; others again will resemble an almost perfect square, with the points at mental, physical, technique and creativity, and as I said above, the latter will jut out a bit (the more, the better).
Full backs: often you lose the left hand side of the typical fan shape (aerial), and gain on the right hand side, being pace, and perhaps a bit more attacking and technique for the better ones - so you can end up with a long club shape with the pointy tip on the right hand side.

Edited by pippinu: 1/5/2009 05:41:19 PM

Not even. Luna and Velazquez would be pushing first team football with even a slight mental improvement. They're both quality youngsters and very dangerous in the games that I've been watching them in to keep an eye on their development. They're both playing first team football for their respctive clubs already.

I prefer to work around the numbers. Because a player might have good creativity but shit passing and still be an AM, but be the kind of AM that mops up after your target man. Knowing what key stats to look for for different positions is far more bulletproof.

Yeah, I wish there were more of them. That was around ten hours of trawling through the Argentine league youth teams. I'll probably just have another look though the argie NT in a couple of months to see if there's anybody good that I missed...
I hate finding good youth strikers. They're always way overvalued...like 4 or 5 mil and they're only average ability at best most of the time which is a real pain in the arse for trying ot sign them young.

Seeing as it's the style at the moment, Opinions on some of my youth?

Uwe Kenze
Richard Mitchell
Martyn Myren
Marco Bielen

Unfortunately, none of them are products of my youth team. The one thing the tycoon that took over doesn't seem to understand, is good youth policy. As such, we only have 'good' facilities, and no academy. So I've taken to stealing other teams youth, which my scouts have found.

There's also Peter Kiss, one I prepared earlier:p. He's my first team keeper now, and is incredible. Eccentric, but that seems to make him better, he's got the nerve to take on players, and pulls off some brilliant saves.

Kunze's probably a wee bit old for that level. You'd want him to improve a lot soon.
Mitchell is pretty good, but you'd hope he'll improve mentally.
Myron's not bad. Positioning not too good though which could be a downer.
Bielen is reasonable, should grow quite well.

Boardroom > Board request > Improve youth facilities.
Kiss is fucking brilliant through...he could well just be Buffon put back into the game actually :-k

Aye, I have been requesting they be improved, and it's in the middle of it now. Hopefully we get an Academy tacked on.

When i actually find some good youth regens i'll post them...
God not having a different skin annoys me. My one is so boring.

Completely forgot, I won the Copa America with Mexico:d Makes up for the disappointment of the Gold Cup. Beat Argentina in the final, 2-1. The winning goal was scored by my captain, our centre back, headed from a corner at 121:38:shock:

Edited by Funky Munky: 2/5/2009 03:46:00 PM

There's no reason why not at taht level. I don't think I've ever managed a club that didn't have a youth academy actually.

So download a new one, it's not that difficult.
[size=1]Although it was for me because I'm useless with computers when it doesn't involve music[/size]

Well mines on a mac...I tried what funky told me but i didn't work and i've looked around and nothing that says how to do it on a mac.
I'm getting a laptop at the end of the year and its NOT going to be a mac. Then i can put FM10 on it and get skins...yay!

If you really want to be able to do it but have the 'benefits' of running a mac, what I suggest you do is download a program called "boot camp", which enables you to partition the HDD without completely formatting it and removing all the saved data. Then install Windows and FM on the empty half of the HDD and go about things that way. It's what I'd do if I had a mac.

Its not my mac though. My dad got it for himself for work but complained it was too slow, so now me and my sis use it. I cbf to go to all that trouble to get a skin lol.

Woah i found this scout from england who wasn't in a contract and his Judging Ability and Potential were both 20! Has anyone else found that? I signed him. Not that i really need players from england though...

Just because he's English, doesn't mean he can only scout in England. YOu can send scouts anywhere, that's how they widen their knowledge.

Yeh i know that. He just has a lot of knowledge from england so i assumed thats where they are best at so there wouldn't be much point in him scouting aussie players if he doesn't know much about them. But if it widens his knowledge then i'll get him scouting and maybe get a second scout opinion as well.

Just seen the first ever "live" keeper goal.

Basically done a Robinson. Except it didn't bounce.

"That's his first ever goal for Wolves."

#-o :x #-o :x #-o :x #-o :x #-o :x #-o :x

Have no idea what my keeper was doing. It's gone right over his head (the ball is perfectly inside his player circle), he didn't appear to jump at all, he's just stood there watching it. Ball seems to be very high.

At least we managed to pull it back literally seconds later.

Finished 2-2. Wolves scored a 35 yarder in the 88th minute.

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Edited by macktheknife: 3/5/2009 01:14:11 AM