[Archived] Football Manager 2010

[awhom111]

Haha, I did think that perhaps it was just taking the p*ss it's been a strange game in particular. I just went on a run of 6 games where I gave away 6 penalties (one per match) and had 3 players sent off for the last two seasons we've been the most disciplined team in the league, so no idea what has happened. Experienced players who should know better, as well. Never had my entire team turn against me either, though a few days after they all began to apologise. I forgive, but I won't forget

This is pretty much what happened to me in my 6th season. My defense was giving away too many penalties and I had more red cards than in my first 5 seasons combined. I finally decided to take the Arsenal post after Wenger retired.

How long has Friedel played in your games? Here is his profile right before he retired in mine:

This one is a sad indictment of Bristol City's failed attempts at staying in the Premier League.

[DeadlyDirk]

Just started my 9th season with Rovers after dominating for the last four or 5, moved into a 75000 seater stadium as well! Just got the England job as well after Allardyce was finally sacked/resigned after about 7 seasons in charge. (Strangely enough he got to the world cup final, then won the following european championships but failed to even qualify for the 2018 world cup) Rooney is 6 short of a ton for England, I think I'll drop him on 99

Still have Samba, N'Zonzi, Kalinic, Hoilett Jones, Lindsay, Billington, Potts and Judge playing to some degree. Samba is on his way out now at 34 and the others barring N'Zonzi have become bit part players. Hoilett's just won his place back though after I sold Messi on for 50m (60m loss ouch!, Yes I paid 110m for him, why not!!) Having a little bit of a revolution at the new stadium so I shipped out Messi, Adu and Defour for about 100m combined.

I think this game has taken a little step back in terms of difficulty from previous years. I've won every trophy available for the last 3 seasons, and only missed out on a few cups in the last 5 seasons. Always found it fairly easy to dominate with a decent team after 4 or 5 seasons on most versions but usually I'll slip up in at least a few of the cups regularly even if I have a dominant team, this doesn't seem to be the case with 2010 though.. 4-4-2 seems to be the way formation wise!

[Majiball]

Haha, I did think that perhaps it was just taking the p*ss it's been a strange game in particular. I just went on a run of 6 games where I gave away 6 penalties (one per match) and had 3 players sent off for the last two seasons we've been the most disciplined team in the league, so no idea what has happened. Experienced players who should know better, as well. Never had my entire team turn against me either, though a few days after they all began to apologise. I forgive, but I won't forget

My best FM clitch was a pre-season game arranged by my assistant that for som reason I could not cancel. I didn't want to play it so was trying to just make the game run and hadn't picked any players. For some reason the game let me play without a single player, I lost 33-1 but who cares, there wasn't even a team in the highlights.

I'm probably going to wait until the next patch is out before i buy it, looking at some of the FM forums around there seems to be still quite a lot of bugs in this game. How is everyone on this forum finding the game, is it as buggy as some people make out?

Needs to be made more challenging.

Just started my 9th season with Rovers after dominating for the last four or 5, moved into a 75000 seater stadium as well! Just got the England job as well after Allardyce was finally sacked/resigned after about 7 seasons in charge. (Strangely enough he got to the world cup final, then won the following european championships but failed to even qualify for the 2018 world cup) Rooney is 6 short of a ton for England, I think I'll drop him on 99

Still have Samba, N'Zonzi, Kalinic, Hoilett Jones, Lindsay, Billington, Potts and Judge playing to some degree. Samba is on his way out now at 34 and the others barring N'Zonzi have become bit part players. Hoilett's just won his place back though after I sold Messi on for 50m (60m loss ouch!, Yes I paid 110m for him, why not!!) Having a little bit of a revolution at the new stadium so I shipped out Messi, Adu and Defour for about 100m combined.

I think this game has taken a little step back in terms of difficulty from previous years. I've won every trophy available for the last 3 seasons, and only missed out on a few cups in the last 5 seasons. Always found it fairly easy to dominate with a decent team after 4 or 5 seasons on most versions but usually I'll slip up in at least a few of the cups regularly even if I have a dominant team, this doesn't seem to be the case with 2010 though.. 4-4-2 seems to be the way formation wise!

442 can dominate teams in this version, yours or someone else's tactics?

Games been getting easier for years, its a serious fault as for those who have played for a while just win win win, taking all the fun out of the game. One other issue that seriously screws the game is the effect of team talks, they really do have a serious out come on the result. Once you figure out what to say & when your unbeatable and will win most comps you enter. But the one thing I just can't get my head round is my striker with 19+ for both acc & pac still gets beaten by a 39 year old geriatric with 3 & 5 respectively, baffling. I'm also a huge fan of watching my world class defenders panic with no pressure and boot the ball out for a corner most of the time. The new tactics engine sucks, as long as you get 11 players playing in their preferable role you will do well, regardless of your tactics.

With ref to Rooney drop him and tell him he's rubbish, then bring him back and then dump him and so on????

[RibbleValleyRover]

Still not sure whether i should stick with 09 or not. It looks like 10 has some nice features, i liked the tactics generator in the demo (using it as a base then tweaking it) but at the same time the match engine doesn't sound that great going off reports on here and the SI, Dugout and various other forums.

[brfcshabba]

Its 2014 in my game and the Blackburn captain is Keith Andrews

[Tim Southampton Rover]

But the one thing I just can't get my head round is my striker with 19+ for both acc & pac still gets beaten by a 39 year old geriatric with 3 & 5 respectively, baffling.

I remember when Craig Short outpaced Michael Owen when he was in his prime. So it can happen!

[Hughesy]

Quit Arsenal just before the 1st game of the season in season 3. Decided it was time for a change after winning all trophies and going the full season unbeaten in all comps....took a job with Crystal Palace late October with them 10th in League 1.

Plan on building the team around Moses....& Scannell if I can change his mind and get him to stay...

Played top of the league Brighton in my 1st game and beat them 2-0....Hopefully once January has come il be able to push for a promotion place........

[RoversSG]

Does any of you have problems selling players? I can never seen to be able to sell diouf. He's too inconsistent and on too high a wage for my liking. The only offers i ever get are loans with options which no-one ever seem to take up!

Btw, did anyone here bought Anthony Annan before? I tried buying him in season 2 and it seems he do not qualify for a work permit.

[Hughesy]

Some players dont always sell easily but I just then either offer him out cheap or on loan....anyway to get rid of them off the books.

Ahead of my transfer window in Jan - does anyone know of any potential stars in the lower leagues?

[brfcshabba]

So after leading Whitehaven to Blue Square Division North, it was time to depart. Scunthorpe came in with an offer and so I escaped the 300k debt for a new challenge. I may return to Whitehaven in the future but the focus is now Scunthorpe

[Majiball]

I remember when Craig Short outpaced Michael Owen when he was in his prime. So it can happen!

But my lad gets out paced all the time, its infruriating.

Does any of you have problems selling players? I can never seen to be able to sell diouf. He's too inconsistent and on too high a wage for my liking. The only offers i ever get are loans with options which no-one ever seem to take up!

Btw, did anyone here bought Anthony Annan before? I tried buying him in season 2 and it seems he do not qualify for a work permit.

I loan them out and get them off the wage bill ala hughesy, they should get people interested in them when the return from their loan. You've got a better chance of selling them if they are playing first team football rather than rotting in the reserves.

Annan is my midfield enforcer, he got a work permit for me season 1 so can only assume he's not playing internatioonal football anymore?

Out of curioustity has anyone managed to extend Di Santo's loan??? I'm sitting pretty in second and Di Santo is back up but has done well scoring 6 goals, I'd rather not lose him but alas I have no option to extend the loan?

Anyway back to chasing the red scum for me, I love enforced holidays!!!

[Guest Kamy100]

Patch 10.2 is out now:

Patch 10.2 Details and Download Links

[Hughesy]

Patch 10.2 is out now:

Patch 10.2 Details and Download Links

Whats it include?!

[Guest Kamy100]

Huge amount of fixes:

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Football Manager 2010 v10.2.0

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Crash Fixes

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- Fixed an issue where Barcelona's finance screen would crash

- Fixed a rare crash after a World Cup final

- Reduced the memory usage within the game

- Put fixes in to stop the tactics crash during a match

General

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- Fixed bug where a player who had gained home-grown status for one club, wasn't treated as home-grown in nation for another club in the same nation.

- Set African newgens with second nationalities to use African names only.

- Adjusted second nationalities for English newgens.

- Adjusted attendances for U20 World Cup and other international final tournaments.

- Older extra players created at some amateur clubs now all have amateur contracts rather than part-time.

- Adjusted the CA/PA levels of newgens created at the very small clubs.

- Adjusted the chances of better newgens being created at smaller clubs in big footballing nations.

- Fixed bug where kit pictures in low detail matches didn't match up with the kit colours used for the match.

- Fixed code in a players media history when they have been left out of a squad.

- Added support for multiple team chants in match_sounds.cfg file.

- Adjusted assistant feedback during the match on tackling.

- Fixed bug where returning from holiday on the day of a postponed match would allow the manager to play the postponed match.

- Away teams with the same colour shorts as the home team are now less likely to change to a different kit (Rangers and Celtic now both use first kits when they play each other)

- Players now automatically receive the most basic appropriate injury treatment if they get injured while their club has no physio.

- Added Composure and Concentration to be included in Goalkeeper training.

- Adjusted English cup attendances.

- Fine tuned physical attribute decline on average and below average players.

- The number of database changes made now is shown on the game information screen.

- Fixed a penalty shootout match divergence bug.

- Trial Days are no longer held at stadiums that aren't in use.

- Players now get a reputation boost when they win their first cap.

- Fixed bug where touchline instructions were already set going into a new match.

- Adjusted FA Trophy semi-final and final attendances.

- Fixed problem when more than one achievement was given at the same time, which would sometimes cause an achievement to not be properly registered as achieved.

- Key man watch correctly states that a player went of injured rather than substituted.

- Adjusted quality of newgens available in the MLS draft.

- Stopped the user been able to make lots of money as a small team by arranging lots of friendlies against high reputation opposition.

- Improved selection of organisation of friendlies.

- Fixed international manager getting inundated by scout reports on players who simply aren't good enough.

- Stopped some Irish players taking up British citizenship for no reason.

- Fixed Daniel Carvalho's days to gain nationality for Russia being incorrect (need to start new game)

- Improved World Cup squad selections, making sure teams aren't short on strikers.

- Stopped domestic division record attendance's being set by neutral venues at play-off finals etc.

- Stopped players being able to complete days to gain nationality by going on trial to that nation.

- Improved average ratings for lower leagues in the basic detail match engine.

- Reduced game memory usage.

- Improved squad rotation for basic detail matches, especially with regard to Europa League matches.

- Improved manager of the month selection.

- Fixed "Most Games Without Losing" not being updated for the recent records entry for teams.

- Fixed number of minutes played in player statistics not being recorded for friendly matches.

- Fixed issue with human managers registration of players at clubs with retired squad numbers, sometimes a player would be unregistered.

- Made it easier for players to get onto the icon & legends lists.

- Tweaked assistant feedback during match on players being played out of position.

- Made it easier to get a the feeder club when you get to pick a club yourself.

- Fixed a bug where trying to send a player to a feeder club is cancelled because the team cannot afford the fee.

- Allowed the PPM "Tries to Play Way Out of Trouble" to be removed via preferred move training.

- Made it more difficult for managers to get onto the legend list.

- Stopped some nations from retaining too many players from Africa at the start of the game.

Media

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- Fixed <person#2-> code appearing in inbox item about job interest.

- The media now picks up on the fact if a big player has been left out of the league squad.

- Players now get upset if left out of a clubs league squad.

- Weakest player is displayed on the post match analysis screen again.

- Delaying a transfer in a hot seat game results in 'Delay' action buttons appearing on other user's news screen when nothing to do with him.

- Fixed <team#1> variable occasionally appearing in announcements about stadium improvements.

- Fixed User being told that they need to give a Squad Number to the player who went the other way in a transfer deal.

- Fixed individual player goal tally in match report news item.

- Fixed user getting Promotion Odds news item for the league they have just been promoted from.

- Prevented possibility of duplicate transfer window opening news item appearing in inbox.

- Fixed "has expressed a desire to take the vacant assistant manager post" news when position not currently vacant.

- Fixed news item declaring injury has resulted in player being disappointed to miss crucial game, but player is ineligible anyway.

- Player profile no longer states that the player 'may look to move to a bigger club in the future' and 'wants to move to a bigger club'.

- After signing a youth coach the news item [Assignments] button now takes the user to the youth coaching assignments screen.

- Nation release players news item button now takes you to the correct list of players.

- Declaring interest in a player on trial now mentions their owning club rather than the team they are on trial with.

- Fixed number of 'Goals' and 'Conc' in club mini-profile could become multiplied for teams in leagues with more than one stage.

- Fixed <team#1-> and <media_source#1-> occasionally appearing in national news item about player being suspended for a match in an international tournament.

- Fixed <comp#1-> showing in a news item informing you the most man of the match record has been broken.

- Stopped press conference asking about star player missing for a final when the player is not a first team player.

- Fixed press conference question about bringing a player out of international retirement having a drop-down box instead of a set of answers.

- Fixed news item incorrectly states player failed to make a single appearance during loan spell.

- Fixed "No Shocks" cup round up wording where it picks a match that couldn't have been an upset.

- Fixed issue where previous awol status wasn't being stored which could lead to news items being received about a player being missing from training for the first time.

Subscriptions

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- Fixed players occasionally being removed from subscriptions without user unsubscribing.

- Setting/unsetting active shortlists should subscribe/unsubscribe you as appropriate.

Transfers

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- Adjusted code to allow more clubs to make offers for offered out players.

- Fixed an issue whereby coach/scout would state player would be interested in loan move, but in fact he wasn't.

- Adjusted code to fix a couple of issues regarding players starting squad status.

- Fixed issue whereby some lower league teams starting squad statuses contained too many key players.

- Helped clubs be more responsive to replacing first team players once sold.

- Fixed issue whereby certain teams would not look to renew player loans.

- Fixed issue of missing rejection news item when offering a player for transfer but stating player is unavailable for loan.

- Fixed issue whereby user receives multiple rejection news items when offering a player for transfer but setting player to unavailable for loan.

- Eased problem of trying to offload high earning players via offer to clubs by getting a lot more players ask the selling clubs to contribute towards his new salary.

- Fixed issue whereby player would ask for too much of a wage contribution from selling club.

- Added appeal hearing for Chelsea transfer ban.

- Changed dates for Chelsea's transfer ban.

- Fixed some issues to do with strikers being placed in reserve squads even though are playing first team football and scoring some goals.

- Fixed negotiation issue when player is transfer listed, has a lower asking price than display price and the bid involved monthly instalments, negotiation would be for more than asking price.

- Prevented massive clubs when not part of active division from targeting unusual backup goalkeepers from active divisions.

- Prevented clubs with global transfer bans from being able to 'Match Bid' for players at affiliate clubs.

- Fixed a couple of issues regarding a player not being interested in renewing his loan with his existing loan club.

- Prevented players returning from loan and being listed without human managers consent.

- Made it more likely for a staff member to accept a contract offer from his current club over a deal offered by a different club.

Confidence

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- Fixed issue whereby selling club would overate players when being sold and be too harsh in terms of transfer confidence.

- Fixed issue whereby selling club would place too much emphasis on recent performances, even though they weren't that good and return really low confidence values.

Player Interaction

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- Players can now be given a leave of absence when they are struggling to settle in the area.

- Linked players are now only displayed if there is player interaction that requires a linked player.

Finances

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- Fixed Rangers starting finances.

- Adjusted ticket prices for the lower level English leagues.

- Removed collective win bonuses for Spanish cups as the prize money in these competitions is low and resulted in very low bonus money as well.

- Adjusted Swedish wages.

- Fixed Slovenia clubs don’t offer clean sheet, goal etc bonuses.

- Adjusted Slovenia wages.

- Adjusted South African Wages.

- Adjusted Mexican wages.

- Adjusted Danish national team attendances.

- Adjusted Scottish finances.

- Fixed some away teams not receiving friendly appearance money.

- Adjusted English low league finances.

- Adjusted rich Middle East team wages.

- Fixed budget Wage/Transfer budget discrepancy when transferring between the two.

Backroom Advice

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- Action buttons are now removed if you do the action using the right click menu e.g. setup a scouting assignment on a scouting recommendation piece of advice.

- Youth team goalkeepers ability advice is no longer separate from the youth team player standard advice.

- Stopped second opinion advice contradicting themselves regarding the standard of youth team players.

- Fixed action buttons causing screen over run.

- Improved staff members recommendations on which players deserve to get pro contracts.

- Stop backroom advice meeting reminders if the player has been to the screen since the last news item was sent.

- Made sure the player is taking to their inbox when the backroom advice meeting invites are sent.

- Made sure there is advice generated when the player is invited to a backroom advice meeting.

- Contract renewal advice is no longer generated if the user doesn't handle that players contract renewal.

- Current formation advice no longer suggests the same formation the user is currently using.

- Eligible for a pro contract advice is now offered on players on youth contracts who are not in the youth team squad.

- Withdraw bid advice button now always removes the transfer offer.

- Stopped advice about renewing players on trial contracts.

- Stopped numerous pieces of advice been suggested again after the turn of the month.

- The suggested nation to scout in the nation to scout advice no longer keeps changing.

- Decreased the amount of training advice generated in each meeting.

- Tactical advice no longer recommends formations or team instruction the current formation is using.

- Increased the time between staff advising you to recommend a future role to.

Board Takeovers

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- Added code which prevents non-nationals becoming chairmen if applicable in a given country.

Interface

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- Match formation panel now updates correctly when substitutions are made.

- Added missing space in A Thr® column heading.

- Nationality string on player profile will now display correctly if they are declared for that country.

- Fixed bug where squad number goes missing on pitch panel when a player is swapped for another player on the player list panel.

- Fixed bug where option to create a filter from the Filter drop-down when on player searches was never enabled.

- Removed team facts division column if it is not applicable rather than showing blank data.

- Fixed minor layout issue when creating a new note.

- Live league table on the competition screen now updates properly in network game.

- Contracts section is no longer going to be visible for unattached players.

- Ensured player duty/roles menu can't be selected for an AI tactic when they haven't selected a player for a given position.

- When confirming/cancelling tactics, the user is now always taken back to the previous view correctly.

- If user is on the assistant's feedback page before a highlight starts, he is returned there after it finishes now.

- Fixed problem that caused scrollbar to reset when assigning position to a player on the tactics screen.

- Fixed colour clash problem which sometimes caused the player numbers to be unreadable in the 2d match view.

- Centred the number when dragging a shirt on the tactics pitch.

- Fixed problem with the date panel which caused one of the column headers to appear selected when clicking one of the dates from 1st-7th January.

- Back/Forward buttons no longer changes state for a moment when changing screens.

- Latest Results button will now be disabled if it isn't possible to go backwards or forwards through fixture dates.

- Board confidence snapshot on manager home page will no longer be available for international youth teams.

- Make An Offer option will no longer be available if the user already has an active offer in place for a player.

- Fixed bug where Reports section would be missing from staff employed by a user's national team.

- Calendar timeline will no longer display data from an old save game when returning to the start screen.

- Phil Jagielka now listed as a DC instead of a GK when he is on the bench and the user is using the quick sub dialog.

- Fixed text bleed on holiday options dialog when using French language.

- Re-arranging an international friendly via a friendly rejected news item now shows the correct fixture dates.

- Fixed some minor issues with the match screen split view changing of views.

- Disabled advisor about placing a job advert if the human is unemployed.

- Disabled advisor about adding players to a shortlist if the human does not have a club job.

- Disabled advisor about signing a player when on the player search screen and right clicking on a player.

- Match analysis tab is now disabled for matches that were played without the full match engine.

- Remove picture button when adding a new manager will now only be enabled if the user chooses a picture, rather than whenever they select to add one.

- Last 5 games table for competition split over multiple league stages (Swiss Super, Scottish SPL, etc) now uses the correct fixtures.

- Fixed problem with international scout reports not appearing sometimes on the team squad screen.

- Added information about the current view on the shortlist/player search screens.

- Ensured sorting order of players on quick substitution menu is correct after making substitutions.

- Made sure the news snapshot panel is hidden when there is no extra information to display for the news item.

- Fixed a couple of problems which would cause the calendar bar to no update properly.

- Fixed a slowdown that would sometimes happen on the match preview screen.

- Ensured calendar timeline is cleared down if the player gets kicked out to the join network screen.

- Icons off the pitch will now be drawn on the small match view panel when changing tactics mid match.

- Nationality selection menus when adding a manager will now disable the corresponding selection (eg England will be disabled for second nationality if chosen for first).

- Split view action zones view menu will now always have the current view displayed 'ticked'.

- Match strategy changes on the quick tactics panel will now have "Pending" next to them until they are actually active.

- Removed touchline instructions will now only be removed from the list of touchline instructions when they are no longer active.

- It is now possible to hide the Touchline Instructions panel when waiting for a quick substitution to be carried out.

- Added international qualifiers to screen flow competitions list.

- Team Award and Best Eleven screens remember the year selected when leaving the screen and coming back.

- Fixed bug where user is sometimes taken to classic pitch view instead of the previous TV view after confirming tactics.

- The released players list is now kept on the transfers panel when going back to the panel after viewing a player profile or other screens.

- Fixed problem where recently made touchline instructions are removed if they are made just after making tactical changes.

Network

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- Blank rows no longer appear on the backroom advice screen on the client.

- Forced continue timer now doesn't stop when a user changes screens.

- Fixed some network game issues when using custom editor data.

- Clubs removed from the database when creating a new game now get shown correctly on network clients when viewing staff history.

- Fixed issue where highlights are sometimes set to "Full Match" during network game matches.

Editor

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- Newly created teams and competitions can now be set correctly in playing histories.

- Can now enable the "Capacity for All Seater Competitions" option for stadiums in the editor.

- Added "Cuts Inside" player preferred move to the editor.

- U21 and U19 national manager jobs now show up correctly.

- Adding new award histories now works correctly.

- Club legends added in the editor now show in game.

- Permanent flag can now be set on favourite and disliked person relationships.

- Can now set a stadium for a Super Cup match.

- Sorting players by position now sorts from Gks to Strikers instead of alphabetically.

- Retiring a player in the editor now removes him properly from his club.

- Group stage cups now work if only 1 group is set.

- Club maximum age field can now be edited.

- Future transfers added in the editor are now included in the checks for retaining people at the start of the game.

- Descriptions table now added to the editor.

- Can now set negative non player potential abilities.

- Fixed issue where players with edited history would have their pre-game history cleared after the second time the game is saved then loaded.

- Super cups now start in the second season if no teams are found in competition history for the first season.

- Raised number of database records shown in list boxes from 1000 to 50000.

- Adding a B club to a club now copies the colours over from the main club.

- Minimum Percentage Of Games Played field in an award record can now be enabled correctly.

- Added missing MLS player variables to the editor.

- The editor will automatically use the same user data folder, if this has been changed in the preferences in the game.

- Can now set player homegrown at club/in nation status in editor.

Competitions

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General

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- Fixed league scheduling issue where an Easter Monday matchday is scheduled next to a Tuesday matchday.

International

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- Teams qualifying for the Final of the Caribbean Championship no longer get asked to pick a new squad for the match.

- Fixed U21/U20/U19 international applications.

- Host nation of World Cup now needs to be from a confederation which hasn't hosted it in the last 2 tournaments.

- Fixed international squad announcement news item reporting player as being 'left out of the previous squad' when he was called up to the last squad as a replacement.

- New European Championship 2012 qualifying format and correct seedings implemented.

- Fixed bug where top 6 teams from U19 Euro Champs were sometimes not qualifying for the U20 World Cup.

Asia

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- AFC Cup now uses 7 subs instead of 9.

- Some prize money changes for the Champions League.

Europe

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- Small fix done for calculation of European club/nation coefficients.

- European competition prize money updated.

- Vaduz can now qualify to the Europa League through the Liechtenstein Cup.

Argentina

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- Bottom two Argentine Second Division teams in the average points table are now automatically relegated.

Australia

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- One less round of fixtures used for the Australian youth league.

Belgium

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- Removed rule that Belgian teams in Division 1 and Division 2 need to select 2 U21 players in their matchday squad.

- Added undersoil heating requirement for Belgian Division 1 teams.

Bulgaria

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- Fixed some squad rules issues to do with non EU players.

Chile

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- Fixed incorrect teams taking part in the Chilean First Division Closing Stage Knockout phase.

China

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- China trial day now occurs during the transfer window.

Denmark

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- Players from Cotonou nations now need work permits to play in Denmark.

- Some missing teams added to 2009 Danish Cup.

England

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- Fixed missing prize money for Semi Finalists and Runner Up of English League Cup

Greece

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- Fixed Greek Superleague TV revenue distribution.

Hong Kong

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- Adjusted Hong Kong's continental competition qualifiers (League Winner and Senior Challenge Cup winner qualify).

Norway

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- Stopped friendlies being scheduled after the start of the season.

- Norwegian Premier playoff semi final now is one leg.

- Added Norwegian Super Final

Northern Ireland

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- Fixed Northern Irish Premier Division league match being rearranged due to a Reserve team fixture.

- Fixed Northern Ireland Premier Division number of subs named changing after league split.

- Three from Five subs for Steel & Sons Cup and County Antrim Shield.

Poland

- Trial players are not allowed to play in competitive matches.

Romania

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- Can now arrange friendlies for Romanian teams during the winter break.

Russia

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- Fixed Russian Premier League fixtures and World Cup Qualifying fixture clashing in March 2009

Scotland

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- Both Scottish Cup semi finals are now played at Hampden.

- Correct prize money figures for semi final and final.

South Korea

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- Fixed winning the K-League Championship Playoff not being regarded as winning the title in some places (e.g. board confidence).

Switzerland

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- Fixed Swiss Cup seedings for 1st two rounds.

United States

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- US Development League teams no longer keep hold of too many players.

- US Open Cup winner now qualify for the North American Champions League.

- Replacing a draft allocation with a different draft allocation on the transfer offer screen now correctly sets it as a new proposal.

- The Superdraft and Waiver Draft dates now appear in the league schedule.

- Contracts in the MLS now finish in December.

- Removed budget adjustment from the board room screen as MLS clubs aren't allowed to make any adjustments to their budgets.

- MLS teams can no longer offer loan wages over the maximum non Designated player limit.

- Improved AI squad management in the MLS.

Match Experience

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- Added animation for player placing ball at set piece

- Fixed missing kick animations when players send ball to set piece taker or centre circle for kick off

- Added "Runs Past Opponent" to the match graphical analysis tool.

- Fixed some various small issues with tracking of certain type of passes and crosses.

- Added team talk option to the quick sub dialog.

Match Engine

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Match v814

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- Couple of fixes to make player reactions to certain deflections more realistic

- Change to interpretation of what should be added to the tackle count

- Encourage first time finish when ball comes to player at pace close to opposition goal

- Reworked defensive positioning at direct free kicks to a more zonal based type

- Further fix to prevent rash decisions to leave ball to keeper

- Small fix to make extra sure players look to intercept balls coming towards them

- Tweak to make sure defending team players continue to mark ball player until it is clearly pointless

- Make players get a little tighter to ball player when possible (slightly more so when asked to mark tight )

- Allow players to drop back a little further to mark opponents when required and not logical to push D-line up

- Made more limited players who are playing higher tempo, more direct style a little more simplistic and direct in terms of on ball decisions

- Tweak to willingness to shoot long, try to make poor decision, vision or composure players rush into it more

- Cut down slightly on very wayward but not too difficult passes

- Slight tweak to ad hoarding positions

Match v815

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- Fixed bug where substituted player doesn’t get full condition boost at end of match

- Further tweak to player willingness to make tackle as long as not on easy tackling

- Made players a little tighter still on ball player

- Small tweak to first touch AI

- Slight increase in accuracy of simple passes and shots

Match v816

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- Adjusted tracking of run distance stat

- Fixed players not putting ball out when keeper injured

- Introduced concept of players chasing own header as a means to get ball under control

- Tried to make players quicker to close down pass receiver

- Further tweak to positioning of player marking opponent with ball, including accounting for opponent's pace advantage if applicable

- Slight increase on keepers effectiveness against power shots

- Fixed player set to mark "tall player" at set piece following him out of the danger area

- Fixed players dithering over whether to let ball run out or not

- Minor tweak to accuracy of passes and shots on weak foot

Match v817

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- Reduced lateness of some offside calls

- Fixed linesmen putting flag up for offside way too late

- Fixed end of match commentary "manager never looked losing" being called for losing team

- Made players generally react quicker to ball movement around them

- Fixed another issue with players leaving ball to keeper in error

Match v818

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- Fixed bug causing player to back off opponent if he deflects ball during the course of marking opponent

- Fixed some low shots being underhit slightly in the ball physics engine

- Reduced effect of weaker foot when only slightly changing direction while on the ball

- Fixed player trying slide tackle and being able to jump up and continue within a second or so

- Slightly reduced accuracy of long shots

- Fixed central midfielders getting dragged too close to ball when its with team mate in wide areas and losing attacking shape

- Dropped highest D-line settings back very slightly, leaving deeper lines pretty much unaffected

- Made players a little quicker to get back behind the ball when defending

- Tweaked off ball movement slightly, to encourage players to attack space from deep a little more willingly

- Made players a little quicker still to close down ball receiver

- Fixed instances of players showing ball player onto a particular foot taking up exagerratedly odd positions as a result

Match v819

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- Fixed uneven lateral positioning of 5 man defences

- Made central defender in a 3 less likely to engage opponent with ball until around own area

- General improvements to closing down logic

- Some improvements to marking generally

- Improved defensive play against counter attack

- Improved backline pushing up logic

- Improved compactness of defending team when they lose the ball- Improved player behaviour when letting ball run out of play

- Improved logic of when to leave ball for keeper

- Tried to reduce number of pointless offsides

- Made tricky players more likely to keep hold of ball than pass it off early

- Tweak to general pass choice

- Fixed instance of unrealistic wild clearance

- Reduced instances of very poor first touch

- Make players time runs onto ball over the top a little better

- Improved decision making of player when through on goal

- Reduced instances of unrealistic diving headers

- Try to make certain striker roles look to face own goal more when receiving ball to feet

- Fixed bug where keeper can wrongly let backpass go out of play

- Reduced instances of keepers making very difficult save at point blank range

- Fixed AI bringing on promising young keepers in non friendly matches

- Fixed a case of player running through the goal net

- Fixes to stop ball passing under ad hoardings

Match v820

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- AI managers a little less cautious late in matches when expected to win

- Players a little more likely to use strongest foot where possible

- Attacking players a little more likely to move laterally towards the ball when its wide in order to offer support and options

- Other fine tuning to off ball movement into space, and around opposition D-line

- Fixed keepers holding shots they really shouldnt hold

- Made players a little more determined to intercept dangerous balls into area

- Couple of small fixes to marking around own area

- Try to encourage players to dribble a bit more depending on PPM's and instructions

- Small tuning to what is and isnt a clear cut chance

- Improved effectiveness of headers generally

- Made it harder to pass/shoot accurately when moving at high speed

Match v821

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- Fixed some pass and cross stats and analysis tracking

- Fixed late offside being called when ball gone out for goal kick so no point it being given

- Tweaked number of offsides down by around 30%

- Fixed keepers going to collect ball from near goal and walking it all the way to corner taker, hence risking being caught out

- Fixed bug causing keepers to fail to smother easy ball at feet of oncoming opponent

- Fixed linesmen not keeping offside flag up for long enough

- Tweaked AI manager overall tactical strategies

- Slight tweak to positioning of low attacking mentality players when team attacking

- D-lines pushed back slightly in certain situations

- Tweak to positioning of players at deeper wide attacking free kicks

- Tweak to delivery of free kicks from deeper wide areas

- Fixed examples of players not being dismissed for clear professional fouls

- Slight tweak to keeper shot stopping abilities

- Fixed players stopping when ball kicked out for injury but it doesnt leave the field for some reason

- Some tweaks to make defenders mark attackers a bit tighter

- Tried to make defence cover better when one of them pulled out of position

- Off ball movement a little less frantic around opposition D-line

- Fixed score divergence between certain build configs

- A few more hopeful long shots as the number had gone down a lot in recent builds

- Slight tweak to headed attempts on goal

- Slight tweak down on number of yellow cards

Match v822

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- Rebalanced number of goals slightly

- Fixed keeper sometimes not looking to sweep up through balls

Animations

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- Players now use appropriate animations when lying down injured with arm or upper body injuries

- Players jumping for the ball and losing out will now use the appropriate heading animations

- Improved tackling animations

- Improved falling down animations

- Fixed a bug where the goalkeeper would sometimes use the wrong animation when distributing the ball up field

- Goalkeepers will now sometimes play appropriate animation when attempting to put a player off when taking a penalty

Stadiums

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- Optimised and resized stand textures

- Added some x-ray rendering so that you can see through obscuring stands

Player Models

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- Tweaked the skin tones for a couple of ethnicity types

Other

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- Improved ball to ad hoarding collisions

- Improved night lighting so that the ball is more visible in difficult lighting conditions

- Optimised shaders to help improve performance in both 2D and 3D

- Tweaked outside pitch shadows

- Fixed some front row crowd distribution issues

Mac

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- Added support for animated nets

[Majiball]

Still not sure whether i should stick with 09 or not. It looks like 10 has some nice features, i liked the tactics generator in the demo (using it as a base then tweaking it) but at the same time the match engine doesn't sound that great going off reports on here and the SI, Dugout and various other forums.

I'd get it so we can all compare how we are doing!

My main issues at present are that its bloody slow compared to the other versions, I can no longer run top spec??? In game video needs work, your players do some crazy things. Last night I saw Robbo, score with one of his famous punts hennessey though just stood still and watched it fly in the net??? Players booting the ball into touch and out for corners all the time under no pressure is annoying.

But all the players are updated.

I would however like to ask DD why when I sell the following Roberts, Reid, Pedersen are the fans unhappy??? I'd have thought they would be ecstactic if we really got 7.5M for Ped's and anything for the other two is a bonus!!

Thanks for the link Kamy new game beckons.

Out of curiousity has anyone won the league with rovers first season yet?

[Hughesy]

took a job with Crystal Palace late October with them 10th in League 1.

Plan on building the team around Moses....& Scannell if I can change his mind and get him to stay...

Played top of the league Brighton in my 1st game and beat them 2-0....Hopefully once January has come il be able to push for a promotion place........

Just into the Jan transfer window now. Played 10, won 9, conceded goals in only 1 of the 10 games too - up to 2nd.

My team now has a 4-4-2 formation, with 1 defensive midfielder - its working very well, winning 7 games 1-0 so far. Got 3 good signings in January and my team should start to dominate the league as it goes on....Need 1 more loan signing, however not many clubs are willing to let a player go free & with £0 wage contribution!

[G Somerset Rover]

Maj I'd be amazed if anybody has won the league with Rovers first season, surely even DD didn't manage that? Without any funds it'd be nigh on impossible to wheal and deal your way to the title IMO.

On the past few FM's I've never been able to win the title with Rovers until about 3 seasons in. Going back to Champ 01/02 it was quite feesable given the amount of bargains on the game.

[DE.]

Winning the Premiership with a team like Rovers in 3 or less seasons kinda shows the game still has a long way to go in terms of realism. On the other hand, I think to do so you have to spend a lot of time on the game, analysing the majority of matches... which is something I don't personally do. Still watch commentary probably why I haven't managed to lead Rovers to glory in FM10 yet.

[Hughesy]

NOBODY would win the league with Rovers in season 1 without either cheats or edited databases - no way!

[Eddie]

Yeah not possible, unless of course you were in an entirely, or at least mostly, human league. Even if you sell almost everyone to generate a reasonable transfer budget the game now requires that a side gels a bit. There aren't enough players in the current squad who can play a part in a league winning side.

Top 6 is probably as far as I can see it without any cheating, maybe sneak 4th if they were very, very lucky and found a couple of gems.

[Majiball]

I'm quite surprised no one reckons its doable? The reason I ask is that I did it in the last game quite frequently. Even in the new game with our £0 transfer budget I was able to raise quite a bit of cash, Even got 7.5M off Wolves for Pedersen. Van heerden is quite good on the game and there are some great bargains running around, I have a 250K striker sat on 8 in 9 and a 100K left winger with 6 assists in 10. Samba is an absolute beast on corners and my top scorer.

I reckon we have some good players in the game and you can easily cover our major cracks once you've sold Andrews and Roberts for £6M.

I reckon its doable just have to figure out the tactics again, gonna try out an old favourite and see if its winnable year one!! out of curiosity how do I prove no cheating IE re-loading??

[Eddie]

You can't.

[RoversSG]

Since we're discussing managing Rovers in the first season, lets share tales of how well you did (without cheats or edits) with Rovers in the 1st season in FM10.

For me, it's finishing 6 with 69 points but unfortunately knocked out of both cups very early.

[Majiball]

You can't.

Is that I can't win it first season or its not possible to prove no cheating.

In my current game I'm second behind United at the end of jan, 5 points behind united was level an d 10 ahead of Arsenal having lost 2 drawn 2 and won 21. I've beaten Chelsea 3-0 at the bridge and put 6 past Burnley!!!!

My issue is when you load all the players at the start the game speed is seriously slow, is there a way to get the players loaded and not lose as much game speed?????

[hollowsr]

Since we're discussing managing Rovers in the first season, lets share tales of how well you did (without cheats or edits) with Rovers in the 1st season in FM10.

For me, it's finishing 6 with 69 points but unfortunately knocked out of both cups very early.

I've only done one season with Rovers on FM10 and I finished 10th, I sold Jacobsen and Diouf in January for a combined total of near £7m. And bought Andy Carroll for 3.9m those were my only deals I did. Also got knocked out of cups early but I was playing youngsters mainly in both.

Is that I can't win it first season or its not possible to prove no cheating.

In my current game I'm second behind United at the end of jan, 5 points behind united was level an d 10 ahead of Arsenal having lost 2 drawn 2 and won 21. I've beaten Chelsea 3-0 at the bridge and put 6 past Burnley!!!!

My issue is when you load all the players at the start the game speed is seriously slow, is there a way to get the players loaded and not lose as much game speed?????

Depends on your computer I guess as to how fast it will go, how many leagues do you run? Also what size database do you run? Also have you updated to patch 10.2? This is meant to help run things a bit better!