GW6 on it's last legs

It's surprising how quick a GW goes into decline. Every season so far we've had a fresh influx of managers to replace the idle ones. SI have to get new Gameworlds up and are not bringing in fresh faces this close season. Combine this with five or six previously very active managers leaving, the close season, and the Gameworld feels it's on the floor.

A desperate plea went out on the forums but SI clearly have commitments elsewhere so no real time to address our issues.

In a desperate attempt to inject some life into things the Active FA has been borne. The basic premise is that playing AI games will be punished heavily. How you can accommodate this I have no idea...

I can jump on during the day but really can only say with certainty that I'll be on from around 9pm - Midnight. So if I was 6th and had a six pointer against the guy who was 5th he could easily play a system where he gets AI rights.

In the meantime the once proud NFA has just 30 members underling the Gameworlds collapse.

One of the members that left was Andrew Potter his entire squad of about a million players went in auction. Quite a youth set-up however whilst I have a minor shotgun approach to Youth a U17 level it starts to filter down at U19 / U21 levels.

Andrew Potter's Kingshill Ajax had a totally shotgun approach all over. Regardless of ability, stats, type of player, if the youth had a potential stat he was signed.

Every one of these 100+ players was in £1 auction and it was not a surprise that only one or two produced a flicker of interest. One however was cheap and was actually a 7+ rated player.

Despite Ajax's abundance of talent it was always a team chucked together without any finesse. We had played Ajax a lot and the Manager wasn't around much. So a 7+ rated player in a good side but bad team did suggest that this kid had a little bit of something.

He was a 19 year old left winger I thought had the basics in place (a touch of pace etc) namely Kirov. For a £2 bid he packed his bags and headed for the Jakski.

On handing him his debut I didn't expect much. Well if his debut is anything to go buy it's like I've set him free. Pace, skill, power and a desire to win. We'll see how he plays over a series of games.

Keir Wanderers were another team to have gone and they did have some extremely good players. One of these was Preub a 15 Year Old (well a Peter Pan so could actually be 19) player with a bit of pace and a lot of skill.

He hadn't an amazing goal scoring record but you had to assume that would come eventually. I did have a tickle on him at £4.4m but really knew he'd go for more. I think his final figure was £6.8 not far off Lucho money!

Seems to be the latest 'fashion' in GW6 is going with a youth only policy. I know Martial from Bliss is well into this endeavor and Benchwarmers have spent a lot of cash at this level.

It's a lot easier at Youth level with only 300 active users and around twenty teams actually caring about youth rank it's not exactly hard. So chuck all your resources at that and easy peasy top 3 shouldn't be a problem.

Meanwhile the senior team is on a run of good results but it all feels a bit empty and stale. Still I have enjoyed the Beta and the game will be great when it comes out. Maybe the time has come to move and to revisit FM when it's actually out we'll season how this season pans out