Football Manager 2008

Nearly ready with the 200 days update - but something else first:

ok - the European Allocation is screwed up

Shamrock Rovers somehow are playing in the Champions League

This may have been due to me starting the game in January 2008 instead of the default January 2007

But their honours don't show up as winning anything in 2007 domestically - in-fact the history section of the Premier Division lists the 2007 finishers as the three clubs which finished in those positions in real life :/

200 days in:

Premier: http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/8...200daysdn2.png

First Div: http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/3130/200firstid0.png

Think the Shelbourne situation is now fixed - they're not walking away with it.

Surprised at Fingal and the Youths - how well they've done

And as for poor old Waterford :D

Harps squad is pretty much up to date but just looked at higgsy's profile and it says...place of birth Donegal and his nationality is Northern Irish! Outrage i tell you! :D

Don't like the look of that table anymore!

Another thing is only 3 of the players in the Harps squad are full time in the game while 16 of them are in real life and Corny Gallagher isn't in it and he is one of the full time players in real life. The team are also due to move into a 4,000 capacity stadium and its supposed to be 6,600! Oh well!

also noticed that the league games are spread over random days - some on a Friday, then about 4 on a Saturday, etc.

That could be fixed by a "Real Fixtures" file - which I'll compile in a while

Last updates will be to do with the run-in for the season - I'll holiday until about 2 series from the end of the season and go from there

OK - into the final bit of the season:

Premier: http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/373/pdrunindn8.png

First Div: http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/4668/1druninzb0.png

Would have to say that looks fairly realistic imo - only standouts would be the Wexford, Fingal and Waterford positions

Relegation Play-Off time:

Monaghan get to play DCU for a place in the First Div

Which Monaghan won 2-1 at Century Homes Park

Final Tables:

Prem: http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/830/elpfinalzd0.png

First: http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/2594/el1finalff8.png

I can confirm that 36 game season for the Premier is in the second season :thup:

We stayed up!! I'll take that this season anyway! Derry 2nd though...never!! :D

tbh - it's fairly on the money imo

certainly better than it was on release

Where do you save this file, and is it going to be a part of the el update on the drop down bar or what, im lost.

probably a stupid question but if i install this update can I still play/resume saved games from before update?

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Originally Posted by bellavistaman

Where do you save this file, and is it going to be a part of the el update on the drop down bar or what, im lost.

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You save it in my documents/sports interactive/football manager 08/db and it wont be part of the el update.

You also might have to extract it using winrar if you downloaded it in a zip file.

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Originally Posted by EAFC_rdfl

probably a stupid question but if i install this update can I still play/resume saved games from before update?

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Afaik you can but i don't know how to. I have read on si forums that it is save game compatible.

this might be a silly question but it's really bugging me!!!

the player attributes in FM08 are displayed by a coloured bar. Is there any way to change these to marks out of 20 like it used to be on FM07?

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Originally Posted by KildareFan

this might be a silly question but it's really bugging me!!!

the player attributes in FM08 are displayed by a coloured bar. Is there any way to change these to marks out of 20 like it used to be on FM07?

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Yeah, go to options/preferences, then appearance and you should see an option to change it.

heh
Just hammered Athlone 7-3 in a friendly with my Bohs side

Nobody wants Neale Fenn either :mad:

JJ O'toole still english on the latest update! And McCarthy's playing for Scotland! :mad:

I'm going to take Fingal to champions league glory though so never mind :cool:

If only FM mirrored real life...

http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/5...ckroverbd3.png

how that happen??

He cheated presumebly.

Someone has discovered an exploit related to the "fitness" stat in the patched 8.0.2 game - if set to a certain value it gives these kind of results (basically you get a "superhuman" team)

Needless to say I played that game - reloaded my save and continued on normally - just wanted to try the thing out :D

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Originally Posted by Réiteoir

If only FM mirrored real life...

http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/5...ckroverbd3.png

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Rovers are rather vulnerable the 45 minutes either side of half time

Ireland defeat Italy in the Euro 2012 qualifiers 6-3.

First attempt, no saving or loading.

http://img145.imageshack.us/my.php?i...irelandke3.png


Another fabulous result with Dean Kiely, Breen and Matt Holland brought back into the fold due to injury crisis during Euro 08 qualifiers.

http://img156.imageshack.us/my.php?image=winpr7.jpg

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Originally Posted by danonion

Ireland defeat Italy in the Euro 2012 qualifiers 6-3.

First attempt, no saving or loading.

http://img145.imageshack.us/my.php?i...irelandke3.png

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Nolan??