Get In

I've got two betfair accounts one for trying to find a system (which I don't think exists but still have fun trying) and one for recreational betting which I hardly ever use.

Anyway I had £11 in the recreational one so I chucked on £11 for the first game of the day Slovenia win at 2.22. Got lucky there, then I was watching the Ghana game and they were at 4.4 to win the game which seemed overpriced to me.

So another £10 on that for a very nice result!

Signed a £2.2 Aq Fee AMC who can't jump in Voller, lol the 17yo's own his arse, he can do everything else mind looks a lovely footballer but of course that has fuck all to do with FML:)

Did ask for my money back on the subs I have left, no luck:(

Anyway looking at tomorrows games, the Dutch are at 1.5 so no value there. Cameroon and Italy look long to me 2.24 and 2.12, think I'll stick to betting in play based on the first 5-10 minutes.

Football Trader Live

Case closed call the jury.

World Cup
I must get this on record as a Welshman I want England to win. I've never really understood my countrymen supporting the likes of France or Argentina or Germany when England play them. Have we really got that much in common with any of those nations? Furthermore what do they care of us.

I'm British and any British nation doing well is good, ok if it was Scotland v England then Scotland I'd support but against the rest England every day of the week.

Tonight England drew with USA and I thought it was a half tidy result. USA are no mugs and in form.

I still can't understand the lack of Joe Cole he's arguably England's most Natural gifted footballer, yes even more so than Rooney.

Pointless

I thought 30yo mature players in the game were like real life. Consistent, mentally strong, overall at the peak of their game.

In FML this isn't the case, 17yo with an Aq Fee of £30k is where it's at. Which is fine it's just my opinion that players of that age are like that.

However if my perception of football is so different from the simulation presented then it ceases to be about football and just another computer game.

A game with not a lot to do and costing £5 a month, I'm still pre paid currently but I'm off once that ends.



It's going to be time to take the gloves off soon, so much rage that it would make even T Bag blush :p

No Moaning!

I've come to the conclusion that SI want to create a game for the casual LLM manager and I'm not one of them. Perhaps that is too exact, lets say whilst it's difficult to put everyone in a box, I'm not really in that box much.

But, it's what FML is so why bother whining about it:)

Anyway with FML on the back burner we're two days away from the World Cup so I'm going to focus on that now.

Chugging

Form has gone from bad to patchy in Voller and pretty much the same in Turk. It's to be expected still have mostly value players throughout. Not really sure how a team of mature players struggles so consistently to overcome a team of youths but that's the current ME for you.

I've kind of ended up where I expected to be flirting with Premier League only and one of the also rans.

That's not too shabby though I was kind of like an Everton / Tottenham club in Shearer and would be pleased if ended up there. I think more likely is a Fulham type.

Not long left on subs though only four seasons after this one.

Been considering extending subs but I don't think it offers value currently. I don't think the game is in that bad shape I know there are a few bugs but I won't be rage quitting.

If your a LLM / Simulation type of manager that only wants to play for a hour or two a week I think the game is A1. Sadly I'm not that type of manager more of a rags to riches chap that would like to play more, c. five hours a week maybe.

Maybe I'll try one of the RS GW's in a few months.

Kind of bored

I'm now at casual manager level activity not because I'm casual or want to be casual but there isn't anything to do.

The squads are fine Voller team rallied to take 3rd in the first stage of the EFA so I now need a 9th and 6th I think to get in the Premier League, maybe that's wrong will have to check.

Turk is doing ok although a 35 game injury to my AMC hurts a little, plenty of depth in that squad though.

Maybe I'm missing something... I'm not spending enough on youths to be challenging for any honours and even if I was their very minor trophies. I suppose I could enter the various senior quickplays and FA leagues but they don't help the cause at all and would drive me nuts with all sorts of weird form.

I could buy another sub but I have two already and I'm not paying another £5 for five minutes of entertainment a day.

The things wrong with the game are worrying, inflation, YA's, youths overpowered, corner exploits and overpowered physicals. These are all fixable but SI just haven't got enough resources to cope and I still come back to the fact that I'm just bored.

I'm really starting to think that FM Live isn't going to make it.

It's the Economy Stupid

Sigh how many times have I raged about Inflation.

It is the cause of so many of FML's woes and literally effects everything.

Case in point Youth Academies, I got the impression that Si didn't really want to do YA's but the community wanted them in, why?

I recall the threads 'omg SI youth wages are stupid fix it with youth academies'.

So now we have a cost based luck system for youths, guess what, they didn't want that, they wanted youth wages to be lower but they didn't want a luck system.

So what caused the high youth wages? High demand and many managers with the resources to buy them or if we want to be succinct, inflation.

Even now we have managers complaining on the forums with proposals for exotic controls on what managers can bid to stop the 'high wages'.