Championship Manager 03/04

[packt up]

Anybody bought this game yet?

I have an although its really really good it just hasn't gripped me like say 01/02. Can't really explain why either everything points to it being superior. :-\ The realism doesn't seem quite as good - Shola Ameobi scoring 5 goals in the Premiership?! OK i'll hold my breath for that one. And Paolo Wanchope scoring 4 goals in two consequtive games amused me too.

Won Premiership in first season as Newcastle and now 3rd or something a third through the second.

Any opinions?

[Cactus Sid]

Yes, bought it :shifty:

Its amazing, ok, the realism leaves a bit to be desired (i.e just signed Saviola for Liverpool :D) but I still love it, and the editor is great.

[born angry]

there's something missing.

i'm still playing the old one but with the add on

[Mr. Monday Morning]

I'm gonna pick it up sooner or later since my CM4 CD snapped in the drive last night :mad: :cry:

[packt up]

:( I destroyed my 01/02 disc when I sneezed on it.

[Paranoid Rattlesnake]

I'm gonna pick it up sooner or later since my CM4 CD snapped in the drive last night :mad: :cry:

I think amazon are selling it new for 19.99 or used for 12.99

[Rob]

It's the sh</>it. Adam - Breaking that CD was the best thing you could have done pal.

[Cactus Sid]

It's the sh</>it. Adam - Breaking that CD was the best thing you could have done pal.

He speaks the truth

[packt up]

I think amazon are selling it new for 19.99 or used for 12.99

Yeah I got mine off amazon its 17.99 plus postage and packaging :y:

Came next day too so I saved like !5 quid.

[Disturbed316]

I haven't played champ since September :o

[Mr. Monday Morning]

But I was doing so well :cry:

http://www.btinternet.com/~adam.kirk/Pics/UnReal.JPG

[Rob]

:rofl:

I tried to sign Alan Smith at the January window and offered up to £20 million and got knocked back. So Leeds went into administration and I took him for £250,000 (and I probably could have got him cheaper!) :D

[packt up]

:rofl:

I tried to sign Alan Smith at the January window and offered up to £20 million and got knocked back. So Leeds went into administration and I took him for £250,000 (and I probably could have got him cheaper!) :D

Ah ha ha yeah I got Smith for free when Leeds when into administration and Robinson for 1mil.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

*Bump*

How's everyone doing then? I picked it up for Christmas and am liking it so far...though Wolves still can't keep a f</>ucking clean sheet :mad: (Camara can't stop scoring though :$ )

Where does the media interaction come in? Cause I haven't seen much so far apart from declaring interest in a player. I did get a pat on the back from the marketing director for signing a Korean player though since it'll boost merch sales in the far east :love:

*Waits for Leeds to go into administration*

[Chyno]

I've been playing the 03-04 much more than the last 1 - Took Everton to the uefa cup final (lost to real madrid 1-0 and didn't play any real big teams be4 that) and I just beat Arsenal 5-0.

[Wengerland]

*bump*

Guess i'll post about my game in 00/01,only i've updated most of the teams.

Currently Villareal for some reason,4th in La Liga at Christmas,though the only big team i've played so far is Deportivo away,where i led 2-0 before falling 3-2 behind and then getting a last minute equaliser.:D

[Mr. Monday Morning]

*Finished 6th in 2nd season* :cool:

Bastard board won't give me any money :mad: :'( so I'm having to rely on freebies and unwanted players :$

Still though, top after 4 games having just tonked Villa 4-1, and into the 1st round of the UEFA cup after knocking Southampton out of the Intertoto :love:

[Cactus Sid]

I should probably continue my amazing Torquay career

[Disturbed316]

lol i still haven't played Champ for bloody ages.

I'm starting to miss it :'(

[Synergy]

Its still quite buggy, not quite as bad as CM4 was but it still aint great in that respect.

All in all though its still a fine game, but personally I prefer 01/02, I can't quite put my finger on why, maybe its just the good memories that came from that game.

If you don't have CM4 and can't be bothered to update your old databases manually CM03/04 is still worth a squirt though.

[Cactus Sid]

No only bad thing I find with the game is occasionally, if you make a subsitution, you end up with the player still on the pitch, but kind of lying on the floor.

Also, just knocked CSKA Sofia out of the Uefa Cup with Torquay :cool:

[Paranoid Rattlesnake]

Yeah i ran away with the division 3 league as hull city. I'm 5th in division 2 now having started off terrible with like no wins in the first 8 games. I'm on the back of a 14 game unbeaten run now though with 6 games of the season left. I'm trailing the leaders walsall by 8 points

[Cactus Sid]

I am the man.

Last season I won the League Cup with Torquay (explained on the old board)

Anyway, this season, 3rd round of the League Cup, away to premiership Wolves, we win 4-1.... even with 10 men. 'Ave It.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Well it is realistic :'(

[Cactus Sid]

Very :shifty:

I just hammered Everton 6-3 at Goodison

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Wait what am I talking about, realistic? Lee Naylor's one of my best players in the game :| :lol: :cry:

Bah, new clinical striker I just bought is flopping badly :mad: At least I got drawn against a team of part-timers in the UEFA Cup :D

[Wengerland]

What division are you in with Torquay Sid?

Anyway,keep on not saving,which looking back was kinda stupid having drew away at Real Madrid,beaten Deportivo at home and then beaten Valencia away.I guess i was so mad after losing to the side second from bottom.

At least now i can choose between signing Guti and Frank Lampard,but i don't know who:( So if anyone responds by the next time i'm on about which one i should get i'll go with their/the majority's opinion.:D

[Cactus Sid]

I'm in Div 2, I've played 1 Full Season, and if I remember correctly its February in my second season. I'm 5th in Div 2 with 4 games in hand, which if I get 10 points from I'll go top, and if I get 6 points I'll go second.

[Cactus Sid]

Actually it's December

[Cactus Sid]

Just knocked Man U out of the League Cup on Pens :cool:

[Mr. Monday Morning]

What division are you in with Torquay Sid?

Anyway,keep on not saving,which looking back was kinda stupid having drew away at Real Madrid,beaten Deportivo at home and then beaten Valencia away.I guess i was so mad after losing to the side second from bottom.

At least now i can choose between signing Guti and Frank Lampard,but i don't know who:( So if anyone responds by the next time i'm on about which one i should get i'll go with their/the majority's opinion.:D

I'd lean towards Lampard, assuming you want him in a 4-4-2

[Wengerland]

Yeah it's a 4-4-2,both are out of favour and interested in moving to me atm.I sort of have one centre midfielder going back to just infront of the back 4 and the other just normal with my 2 wide players,Zenden and this amazing Italian called Di Michele,to go forward,with the Italian sort of going in behind the attack from out wide.

I'll probably go with Lampard,what with him being the man right now and so i wouldn't be the only Englishmen at the club.

[Cactus Sid]

Well Lampard just scored an overhead kick against me, so I would choose him.

But we still beat Newcastle 4-2 in the first leg of the League Cup Semi :D

[The Mask]

RIGHT.

Reccomend me some world class players for if you're a uber team, like united, and some good unknown talent for if you're a jobber conference team, like morecambe :mad:

[Paranoid Rattlesnake]

RIGHT.

Reccomend me some world class players for if you're a uber team, like united, and some good unknown talent for if you're a jobber conference team, like morecambe :mad:
Stuart elliott from hull city, tottenham paid a million for him when i was still in div 3.
Michael Micindoe from doncaster

[Wengerland]

I am currently looking at a pic of Ronaldinho,dunno if he'd say no to United again but he should do ok for Morecambe.

[Cactus Sid]

Drew 0-0 at Newcastle, into the League Cup Final for the 2nd year in a row :D

[Mr. Monday Morning]

RIGHT.

Reccomend me some world class players for if you're a uber team, like united, and some good unknown talent for if you're a jobber conference team, like morecambe :mad:

Any particular positions or just in general?

*Checks game*

Tuncay is an uber-forward for Newcastle in the game I'm playing right now. Lucio (at Leverkusen to start) is a farking great centreback too. Should be able to pick them both up for less than £40m

[Cactus Sid]

Yes, Tuncay is unbelievable. Lucio has a release clause of like 11.5 million or something, and was just voted World Player Of The Year, bloody good prospect.

[Cactus Sid]

I am the man....again.

[Cactus Sid]

2 Successive promotions, Torquay are in Division 1 :D

[Paranoid Rattlesnake]

2 Successive promotions, Torquay are in Division 1 :D
lol, do you play on the game all day and night

[Wengerland]

lol 3 sent off for Arsenal,some things never change.:roll:

[The Mask]

don't feel so proud, I got morecambe up to division 1 once, MORECAMBE

I need to win the champions league with them on my new game. That's like my aim :'(

[Cactus Sid]

lol, do you play on the game all day and night

Not really, I've just played a lot the past few days. I hadn't played in a month until 3 days ago. Also, I've stopped watching highlights, and just do old school text commentary, the seasons go really quickly.

[Paranoid Rattlesnake]

Not really, I've just played a lot the past few days. I hadn't played in a month until 3 days ago. Also, I've stopped watching highlights, and just do old school text commentary, the seasons go really quickly.
I think i'm gonna have to start playing it again

[The Mask]

I'm gonna play it hardcore for a while now. COME ON THE MORECAMBE

[Disturbed316]

OMG my sister bought me this for my birthday :D

Cant play it though as I'm going out, and if I start playing, I wont be :'(

[Mr. Monday Morning]

We're gonna win the UEFA Cup wooooooooooooooooooooooo :cool:

Gonna finish 9th at best in the league :$ but wooooooooooooooo

[Cactus Sid]

Wolves whipped me 4-0 at Plainmoor in Div 1.

Currently 14th after 10 games, so fairly happy.

[The Mask]

one of my players got a 2 on his debut for morecambe :$

[Wengerland]

one of my players got a 2 on his debut for morecambe :$

lol

My keeper has turned in some 4's and 5's recently. :$

[Disturbed316]

OMG JUST GONNA INSTALL IT

BRB

I'm rather excited now :$

[Cactus Sid]

Anyone got any idea how long it takes to train a player to play in another position.

[Skeletor2]

Anyone got any idea how long it takes to train a player to play in another position.

It took me 2 seasons to get Jermaine Wright to fully become an attacking midfielder and Ian Westlake into a defensive midfielder at Ipswich. I think sometimes the players stats don't fit a certain position so they may never change.

Anyone got any ideas what to do if the board won't expand the stadium because of "local residents" opposed to it which stopped them getting building permission?

[Cactus Sid]

Wow, that happened? That's actually pretty cool. But if that's the case, your best to wait a few years I would guess.

Also, the stats are for a central defender who has Finishing, Heading and Long Shots @ 19, the guy is practically begging to be a Striker.

[Skeletor2]

Wow, that happened? That's actually pretty cool. But if that's the case, your best to wait a few years I would guess.

Also, the stats are for a central defender who has Finishing, Heading and Long Shots @ 19, the guy is practically begging to be a Striker.

Yeah but they upgraded my traning ground (big consolation :rant: ).

I think in a case of getting a defender to become a striker, you also have to be playing him up front as well as training him to the new position. If it's a youth player it should be simple enough but it will probably cause you problems in first team matches with experienced players. I believe players over 30 aren't very adaptable either (so I've heard) so there may be no changing someone that age or older.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

I'd sign this guy :shifty:

<img src="http://www.btinternet.com/~adam.kirk/Pics/RBF.JPG">

[Cactus Sid]

He plays for Pompey on mine

[Cactus Sid]

I'm like....6th in Divison 1 after 15 games.

[Disturbed316]

Ok I'm starting to realise again why this game is so damn addictive.

Anyway just finished the pre-season friendly's. Put the database on maximum, should be fun.

Giggs scored directly from a corner and the crowd chanted 'there's only one flukey bastard, one flukeeeeeeeeeeeeeey baaaaaaaaaastard' etc

I think I'm in love again :'(

[Cactus Sid]

Please tell me your not Man U

[Disturbed316]

OK I wont :shifty:

[Cactus Sid]

I should really slow the game down and have full sound, but I can't be arsed. I'm steaming through.

[Cactus Sid]

SO basically in my first season in the 1st Division I'm into the Quarter Finals of the League Cup, and I've drawn..... lemme just do the draw.... LOL of all the people left, I drew Arsenal. Yeah, I'm into the 3rd round of the Uefa Cup and i'm 11th in Div 1 with a game in hand, which if I win will take me 7th. I'll post my team in a mo.

[Cactus Sid]

Robinson and Leigertwood should be the other way.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Oakes :love:

[Cactus Sid]

Outstanding thus far.

[The Mask]

Fredy (1 d) William Thompson is the f</>ucking bomb on this game :cool:

[The Mask]

also, if you're a lower division side, pompey have a 15 year old thai kid, who is amazing... rungratsamee or something

[Cactus Sid]

'AVE IT, 3rd successive League Cup Final

Also, anyone interested in a TPWW Champ Man Network game?

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Yeah I thought about that when I first bought this, it'd be neat to hook everyone up if it was possible.

Does it take much of a toll on 56k (now I'm back on dialup at Uni)? :$

[Rob Ban Fan]

He plays for Pompey on mine

<font face=verdana size=3 color="#ff6600">WHOOOOOOOOOO :love:

Also :cool: @ you signing Jobi McAnuff. I always sign him and Nigel Reo-Coker from Wimbledon as soon as they go into administration.

And that Thai kid, i didnt like much so I dropped him to the reserves :$!!!!</font>

[Cactus Sid]

Check it out, 3 years in a row I've won the League Cup :cool:

[Cactus Sid]

I just beat PSV 3-1 at PSV to qualify for the 4th round of the Uefa Cup.

[The Mask]

<font face=verdana size=3 color="#ff6600">WHOOOOOOOOOO :love:

Also :cool: @ you signing Jobi McAnuff. I always sign him and Nigel Reo-Coker from Wimbledon as soon as they go into administration.

And that Thai kid, i didnt like much so I dropped him to the reserves :$!!!!</font>

he's probably crap for pompey but in the conference he's the man, and he has really good potential apparently

oskarsson is another good player :love:

[Cactus Sid]

Finally got knocked out of the Uefa Cup by Dortmund

[Mike the Metal Ed]

Finally got knocked out of the Uefa Cup by Dortmund

HOW ARE YOU SO GOOD AT THIS GAME??? :mad:

[Cactus Sid]

I really don't know

AND for my doubters. I have not cheated at all.

[Cactus Sid]

Oh yeah forgot to mention

Next match is FA Cup Semi Final vs Leeds :cool:

[Cactus Sid]

Won on Pens, got Man U in the final

[Mr. Monday Morning]

You didn't answer my question about the network game :'(

Oh yeah, won the UEFA Cup last season. Signed Laurent Robert on a free and I *think* I should be able to get Tomasson on a free too. If he stops holding out for more money :mad:

Poached a young kid called Mads Timm from Man U as well, seems pretty promising :y:

[The Mask]

righto, i started a new game, with no dodgy dealing on my behalf this time :$

i'm morecambe again, and when I first got the team I nearly wept, cause all of them bar like 3 people suck insane amounts of balls.

on top of that I had a whopping 12k to spend, which wasn't nice.

I managed to whore some players out by offering them to jobber clubs at knockdown prices though, and I bought a few awesome players and some jobbers who didn't job quite as hard as half of my current team.

my goalkeepers are f</>ucking shite and I can't find a single keeper worth his salt to join me, not even on loan. I can't find any good loan players actually :mad: that want to come to bastard morecambe anyway.

SO ANYWAY

i somehow managed to sign Oskarsson and Porhallsson or however you spell it, both from Por, with the stupid P thing.

Then I hooked up this ukrainian AMC from somewhere or other, and he's the fu</>cking man. my only consistant player really.

Oskarsson started off mad well, average rating of 9.88 something like 20 games into the season, scoring 2-5 goals in most games.

he's having a few quiet spells now though :(

porhallsson has been utter shit for me, so i stuck him on left wing instead of striker for a bit, and he's still doing fu</>ck all, the lazy bastard :mad:

I have a defensive midfielder who's good but knocks every shot into like row Z or something.

My keeper is f</>ucking dire, I haven't seen him dive once yet. I have some swedish guy joining early december though when his contract runs out.

I'm like 1.5k over my wage bill, which while it doesn't sound like much, adds up pretty quick when you're bastard morecambe :'( was like 2.9k though before i flogged half my team and gave the rest of them cut-price contracts :cool:

also, all the bastard jobber fans got behind my keeper when i started criticizing him in the hope he'd f</>ucking save the bastard ball once in a while :rant:

Also, I got knocked out of the vans trophy by oldham after a goal in extra time, up until which point it was 3-3. would've been more if i hadn't had a player sent off and my keeper being generally shit, along with half of my defense :mad:

that said, i'm top of the table with a goal difference 3 times that of any other team :$

also, 2nd round of the FA cup :mad: port vale or some other div 2 team. i've already beat port vale in the vans trophy though :cool: 6-0 or something.

had a fair few 5+ goal matches :$

WOOOO

[Cactus Sid]

You didn't answer my question about the network game :'(

Oh yeah, won the UEFA Cup last season. Signed Laurent Robert on a free and I *think* I should be able to get Tomasson on a free too. If he stops holding out for more money :mad:

Poached a young kid called Mads Timm from Man U as well, seems pretty promising :y:

I wouldn't think it would take a huge toll, the main toll is usually on the hosts machine, so it would be best for someone with broadband.

Also Mads Timm is mad good.... see what I did there.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Also Mads Timm is mad good.... see what I did there.

Your avatar would be proud

[Disturbed316]

OIEHGPIWAHG[PWH[GWEHJ[OGHJW

WHY THE FUC</>K DO THEY ALWAYS PASS BACK TO THE KEEPER!!!???

:rant: :rant: :rant:

Kezman is the man by the way :cool:

Banged 5 past Fulham, who were second :cool:

[The Mask]

i whipped forest green 9-0 :cool:

[Cactus Sid]

Promoted to the Premiership :cool:

[The Mask]

gimme a squad list of something for your team for every division you were in :mad:

[Cactus Sid]

Err...alright, I'll write some definitve history at the end of the season.

[The Mask]

you slag

[Cactus Sid]

CHAMPIONS

[Rob]

Arseholes!!!! Had to vent since I spent about 2 hours updating the game on the editor only to find out that it crashes when you try to updating anything American based. Plus where the hell is Bobby Convay in the game???

[Cactus Sid]

Whooo, beat Man U :D

I just won the treble....kind of.

[Cactus Sid]

I LOVE THIS GAME

My Torquay team is amazing, a mixture of talent bought over the summer and the older guys, its a great squad, and we already won the Charity Shield 2-0 over Man U. My aim is to not get relegated, then build on it.

[Cactus Sid]

Somehow, while winning 2-0 against Southampton, in the 93rd minute, I managed to throw it away to 2-2.

DAMN STEPHEN CARR FOR GETTING SENT OFF :mad:

[The Mask]

fine him two weeks wages :'(

[Mr. Monday Morning]

I usually fine 1 weeks

Last time I fined 2 weeks the player got all aggravated felt I wasn't supporting him then asked for a transfer :|

It was only Silas though :lol:

[Disturbed316]

Anelka keeps scoring these crazy 30 yard banana shots, he had two in this months goal of the month awards :rant:

Lol just got this, he wanted first team footy, I said to wait, this is what the fans thought.

[The Mask]

two weeks is usually fine if they like elbow someone in the face or something.

if it was just for dissent, i dunno.

[Disturbed316]

If its their first offence, then its a warning, second = weeks wage, third = weeks wage, forth = 2 weeks wages and dropped from the team.

I just noticed that the manager stats now go up and down :cool:

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font face=verdana size=3 color="#ff6600">none of my goalkeepers like me. I fined my #1 because he was always putting in shite performances and costing me matches and the other one is mad because ages ago he was whinging that I don't play him. And my best defender got injured :(</font>

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Started a new game on this machine as Chelski (:$ - my Wolves game is on my other machine at home)

Signed Lucio, Thuram and Malbranque...Tuncay chose Newcastle instead :mad: And Arsenal kept bumping their price for Ljungberg :mad:

Couple other suggestions for slightly lesser known players...Joaquin is about the best right winger in the game, although Mancini (Roma) cuts him very close - have to wait a couple years for Mancini though because to start you won't get a work permit for him.

Solari at Real Madrid is class if you can pry him away :y:

[The Mask]

i think warnings are worse than fines.

warnings are like "one more and you're out" and they stress out hardcore over it

[Cactus Sid]

I'm starting a game as Leeds.

[Cactus Sid]

WOW.

I just saw a player say he would play on after announcing retirement.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

I had that in my Wolves game.

I signed a Mexican guy, then after I'd signed him he said he was going to retire (at 31) :|

Then I asked him to reconsider, he said yes, and for some reason his work permit disappeared so I couldn't play him :| :rant:

[Cactus Sid]

HAVE IT, beat Man U 4-1 in my first game as Leeds boss

[Wengerland]

If anyone is still interested in that Online game then i might be able to in about a week or so,just got a new PC so i just have to get the game and then i can.

[Cactus Sid]

I found that I can't :mad:

I've been trying to have an online game with my mate for a while, but it didn't work, so its a no no from me :(

[The Mask]

got knocked out of the FA cup 3rd round by fulham :'(

but i'm morecambe and I got a hot payoff from ticket sales for it, so I'm not too fussed.

Still top of the leeeague.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

I found that I can't :mad:

I've been trying to have an online game with my mate for a while, but it didn't work, so its a no no from me :(

Any idea why not? :-\

[Wengerland]

Lol just got this, he wanted first team footy, I said to wait, this is what the fans thought.

lol just saw this.

[Cactus Sid]

Any idea why not? :-\

Maybe because I didn't actually buy the game :$

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Oh :o

[Disturbed316]

OMG I have to move to Maine Road for a year because they are converting Old Trafford into a covered stadium :'(

Plus due to my extravagant spending last season I only get £17mil to spend this season :'(

[Wengerland]

Maine Road? Isn't the City of Manchester Stadium on there?

Anyway,SSSSSSSSSS just got the game,can't play it till tomorow though as the comp i'm on now won't be good enough for it to run.:(

So yeah i'll be ok to play the online thing with anyone pritty soon.

[Rob]

OMG I have to move to Maine Road for a year because they are converting Old Trafford into a covered stadium :'(

Plus due to my extravagant spending last season I only get £17mil to spend this season :'(

You don't actually move to Maine Road though. I get that every season when I try to build up OT but you end up playing at OT anyways.

City of Manchester is in the game.

[Cactus Sid]

My Leeds team is kicking ass right now, the loan "cheat" thing (which doesn't always work, so I've decided it isn't a cheat, just team stupidity) has given me some quality players, Baros, Carew and Smith are a quality trio of strikers

[Rob]

What loan cheat thing is this then?

[Cactus Sid]

Basically you get someone in on loan, but offer the club £0 to pay at anytime during the loan. Some clubs are stupid enough to accept, and if they wanna sign for you, you get them for nothing

[Wengerland]

Arseholes!!!! Had to vent since I spent about 2 hours updating the game on the editor only to find out that it crashes when you try to updating anything American based. Plus where the hell is Bobby Convay in the game???

Sorry,only just noticed this.:$

But try Convey(unless thats what you meant).I found that Brian McBride isn't on it either,or at least i dont think so. :(

[Disturbed316]

ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss Freddy Adu rules so much :love:

Got him for £2m (fuc</>king rip off) but he scored the winner and got an 8 against Arsenal in the Charity Shield :D

[Cactus Sid]

I love this game

After taking Torquay to the Champions League in my second season in the Premiership, I quit, just wasn't interested in being Torquay anymore

SO, I stayed unemployed for about a year, then the Spurs job was insecure, I immediatly declared my interest, the next day the manager got sacked and they brought me in on the same day :cool:

[Rob]

i found an update patch with a few more American players in it including Mr Bobby Convey so I'm happy now.

[Wengerland]

Chelsea 0 Leicester 1 on the opening day.

Gladly trade it for decent league form.:'(

[Cactus Sid]

Ah sh</>it, I hope mine doesn't crash, I just spent ages updating it, and added McBride and Bocanegra to the game :|

If it works though, I came up with a clever way to give Ferdinand his drugs ban, well not entirely clever, but it might work, so just gotta hope, also if it does work, there is then a chance that people will get drugs bans in the game, but it'll be like difficult, so its realistic

[Razor Rybek]

If it works though, I came up with a clever way to give Ferdinand his drugs ban, well not entirely clever, but it might work, so just gotta hope, also if it does work, there is then a chance that people will get drugs bans in the game, but it'll be like difficult, so its realistic

please explain?

[Cactus Sid]

I'll explain it if it works, the only problem is that for some reason, all the players on my game have the same first names, and really stupid second names now, so I gotta fix it.

[Cactus Sid]

It didn't work, and now my games fu</>cked :mad:

[Dazz]

It didn't work, and now my games fu</>cked :mad:

Yeah often when I edit players to put them at the proper teams it then messes the whole thing up, you get loads of Runtime errors. :mad:

[Cactus Sid]

I can't even download an update, everytime I do it, it just comes up with a little XP error window

[Dazz]

Yeah, the patches on their official site sucks aswell, it corrupted my Millwall game when I was in my 11th season. I was doing so well too. :'(

[Cactus Sid]

I think I'm actually gonna buy the game tomorrow, see if it works with the real version

[Rob]

Just signed Theirry Henry for the massive sum of.... £0! Yep not a penny. He was available on a Bosman and I knew they'd resign him so I bidded for him every single week until Jan 1 and I stole him! Stupid Arsenal. Maybe they should have taken the £226 million package I offered (well they wouldn't have got it since I only had £40 mill but stiil)

[Disturbed316]

Oh my god

Just three games into the season and Freddy Adu scores what is bound to be goal of the season :eek:

Shot from the edge of the center circle, straight in :cool: :cool: :cool:

Adu is da man, and he's only 15. Bless.

[Cactus Sid]

Ha ha, it works now :cool:

[Cactus Sid]

But not the Rio thing, still working on that

[Disturbed316]

Still in shock about Adu's WONDER goal :$

[Cactus Sid]

Just started a new game up with all the updates (but no Ferdinand drugs thing :mad: it might work with other people at some point though)

Anyway, Everton had to mock me by offering Nigel Martyn for one of my players :mad:

[Cactus Sid]

Well, its not perfect, but I have added the drugs ban to the game, Ferdinand doesn't have it, but Dominic Matteo has just been banned for 10 months

[Wengerland]

lol @ Matteo.

[Cactus Sid]

It just comes up like its an internal injury so basically it says he's been diagnosed with an f.a drugs test in which he has been found guilty of an offence

Obviously I'll have to clean up the sentence a little, but its pretty good none the less.

[Cactus Sid]

Yeah, worked it out, in future it'll say, for example

Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand will be out for about 8 months after being diagnosed with failing or refusing to take an F.A drugs test

[Cactus Sid]

LOL

The irony, that on my game.... Titov has been found guilty of a drugs offence

[The Mask]

diagnosied :p

[Cactus Sid]

ah yes..... but you'll find that's an error with the game and not my spelling

When I added the Drugs Ban to the injury list on the editor (I put it over Radiotherapy) the sentence I had was "with an F.A drugs test in which he has been found guilty of an offence" seeing as how putting diagnosed in the sentence makes no sense

[Cactus Sid]

Decided to start a game with Arsenal, seeing as I can't remember doing that since 01/02

[Wengerland]

doing ok as Leicester.12th with about 9 games to go.

Title race is pritty good but then Henry is going to Man Utd,so they'll end up with RvN,Henry,Anelka and Saha(who is currently on loan to me).:drool:

[packt up]

I'm playing two player (same computer) game in Italy at the moment.

My friend is doing way better than me but just a few things to point out.

Diego is amazing for Santos - 15mil but hes amazing and like 18 or something at the start.

Mahdivikia is a worldclass winger available for free after first season.

My friend got Henry free after first season :(.

And also Adu doesn't seem to be about in my game :(.

[The Mask]

I got to the FA cup final while in division 3. I jobbed 2-1 to arsenal, which isn't bad but still :'(

[The Mask]

I got to the FA cup final while in division 3. I jobbed 2-1 to arsenal, which isn't bad but still :'(

Managed to beat sunderland and blackburn amongst others on the way there, although the peak of my season would probably be:

http://www.boomspeed.com/themask/WOOOOOOO.JPG

and I got £1m for losing in the FA cup final, so my balance went from like 100k to 4m with all the competitions :love:

[Cactus Sid]

:clap:

That's pretty damn impressive, although I beat them 2-1 at Plainmoor when I was a division 3 club.

My Arsenal game is beyond sanity, in my first 11 premiership games, I have won 11 and only conceded 1 goal

[Dazz]

Yeah that is impressive. Even just getting to the quarters is hard enough, but just losing in the final, damn thats good.

[Cactus Sid]

Bellamy's been given a drugs ban, he's out for 10 months

[The Mask]

I just scored the two craziest goals ever in one match :| both from deep deep inside my own half.

[The Mask]

http://www.boomspeed.com/themask/DagRedvMorecambe.pkm

if you wanna download it and play it on your version :$

check it out... shitting insane stuff. MY KEEPER SCORED for craps sake. from his area too :cool:

also, it turns out I'm in the UEFA cup what with arsenal being in the champions league and stuff. a division 2 uefa cup team, who'da thunkit.

Against red star :$

[Cactus Sid]

How do you save matches?

[The Mask]

after the match click options

[Cactus Sid]

That is insane

LMAO @ it saying "That's His First Goal For Morecambe"

[Paranoid Rattlesnake]

Right I'M leeds and I need some players suggesting. I'm skint so i'm on frees and loans or lower division greats.

I've offloaded viduka, matteo and some other jabronis. I need some decent defenders as i'm mid table at the moment and I'm starting to leak goals

[Cactus Sid]

Use the loan cheat I suggested at the top of the last page, and if you can, sign Stephen Pearson

[Cactus Sid]

LMFAO on 2 different games Matteo has failed a drugs test

[Mr. Monday Morning]

YES Pearson is the goods, I signed him for Chelsea for like £250,000 and his value went up to £2.something million overnight, and he's dominating the reserves right now.

[Cactus Sid]

I updated my game, and now he plays for Celtic :'(

I was happy, until my game crashed a minute ago, so I dunno where I've got it saved until :mad:

[Mr. Monday Morning]

:(

[The Mask]

alright, i trashed red star, something like 15-3 agg :$

lost 4-3 to anderlecht in the first leg of the second round though. 3 away goals mind :love:

[Cactus Sid]

15-3? WTF

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Red Star of what country :wtf:

[Rob]

In my last 5 games, I've had a 7-0 against Birmingham in the league with my reserve strikers playing (Saha and Forlan) and then a 9-0 next game against Galatasary in the Champions League followedby a 10-0 in the next Champions League game against some Swedish team.

[Cactus Sid]

Red Star of what country :wtf:

Well, I would assume Belgrade (being Serbia and Montenegro)

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Well, I would assume Belgrade (being Serbia and Montenegro)

I could swear there's more than one in the game :-\

[Cactus Sid]

Only took me a season, and I'm now England manager :cool:

[Wengerland]

There's a Red Star from France i should think,not checked but they were on my old version so they should be.I would imagine Mask means the Belgrade one,seeing as the French Red Star are in the lower leagues.

I'm pritty pissed off right now though,i'd just finished my first season on the game with Leicester,finished 7th in the league and made some decent bosman signings,also a good season all round as the premiership title race went down to last day with all of the big 3 being able to win it(Chelsea did in the end) and relegation scrap was amazing as on last day Wolves were gonna survive but then Charlton scored a last minute goal in another game and Wolves conceded one themselves to go down(MMM:().sO,I save the game and everything,and as i'm on my way to my dads(where the game is as other comp isn't good enough to run it) he says he's rebooted the PC cause it wasn't working that well,so now i've lost that game and all the edited stuff.:'(

[Cactus Sid]

:(

[Wengerland]

Thanks for the sympathy all the same.:love:

[Mr. Monday Morning]

There's a Red Star from France i should think,not checked but they were on my old version so they should be.I would imagine Mask means the Belgrade one,seeing as the French Red Star are in the lower leagues.

I'm pritty pissed off right now though,i'd just finished my first season on the game with Leicester,finished 7th in the league and made some decent bosman signings,also a good season all round as the premiership title race went down to last day with all of the big 3 being able to win it(Chelsea did in the end) and relegation scrap was amazing as on last day Wolves were gonna survive but then Charlton scored a last minute goal in another game and Wolves conceded one themselves to go down(MMM:().sO,I save the game and everything,and as i'm on my way to my dads(where the game is as other comp isn't good enough to run it) he says he's rebooted the PC cause it wasn't working that well,so now i've lost that game and all the edited stuff.:'(

Cool, now I know what to do if we go down this season, all I have to do is find God's computer and reboot it :shifty:

[Cactus Sid]

bwhahahahahahahahaha as England boss I have the right, to not pick any Man U players

[Rob]

bwhahahahahahahahaha as England boss I have the right, to not pick any Man U players

I know a guy who did that actually. Then Man U bought a bunch of England internationals :lol:

[The Mask]

yeah, red star belgrade :$

when I go home this weekend, someone remind me and i'll try and save the highlights up again.

For those of you in lower leagues, I reccomend trying to pick up Jamie Mullen from man utd on a free if they let him go. He does this weird thing where he legs it up the flank, until he's almost at the corner flag, then runs up towards the goal, at a tight angle and then smacks it into the roof of the net. Beautiful :'(

[The Mask]

I signed some ecuadoran... cevallos or something in goal. he's about 34 in my game, so he must be about 31 at the beginning, he's class :'(

[Wengerland]

Cool, now I know what to do if we go down this season, all I have to do is find God's computer and reboot it :shifty:

But you'd still go down.:wavesad:

[Mr. Monday Morning]

What :mad:

[Cactus Sid]

I know a guy who did that actually. Then Man U bought a bunch of England internationals :lol:

Ah well, if they do that, I'll just bring in some other players. I've won my 3 games as England boss.

On a side note, Owen's just got a 9 month drugs ban :mad:

[Cactus Sid]

HAHAHA, I got the Arsenal boss fired, and then rejected the job offer.... suckas

[Wengerland]

What :mad:


Wolves were gonna survive but then Charlton scored a last minute goal in another game and Wolves conceded one themselves to go down

[Wengerland]

Anyway my new game was pritty good too,finished 10th this time(Wolves still went down and so did Pompey this time),but title race was poor as Man Utd won it with 5 games to go.I probably prefer this game as Muzzy Izzet signed a new contract :love: .

[Mr. Monday Morning]

:mad:

Do we ever stay up? :mad:

[The Mask]

alright, i beat anderlecht 8-7 on aggregate, after killing hitchin 12-0 in the fa cup followed my molesting charlton 10-1 in the league :D

I'm against chievo in the next round :o

[The Mask]

also, AC milan have won 3 champions leagues in a row, wtf :mad:

[Wengerland]

:mad:

Do we ever stay up? :mad:

(})?

About 10 games into the new season and they're 21st in division 1 now. :$

[Mr. Monday Morning]

:rant:

:'(

*Goes back to managing us in game where we just won UEFA Cup*

[Rob]

also, AC milan have won 3 champions leagues in a row, wtf :mad:

I haven't had a season where I haven't won the Champions League and the Premiership yet.

[The Mask]

alright, man utd won the double this year (premiership and CL :cool:!!!)

I managed to get morcambe promoted to division one, I have a huge amount of awesome youth players and some great older guys too.

Also, the guy I sold at the start of my division 3 campaign for £200,000 or so I managed to buy back for about 50k, which is good cause he's awesome.

I got trounced 6-1 in the FA cup by arsenal though, and I lost in the 3rd or fourth round of the uefa cup to chievo, i forget which.

Oh yeah, I won the FA vans trophy or whatever it's called, and I managed to walk the second division. It never even looked like anyone was gonna come close, which is cool cause i was like 55-1 to gain promotion at the beginning of the season.

RAAR

[The Mask]

oh yeah, forgot to mention, I've just been appointed england manager, whatuuuup

[deathtrap]

I'll post my 00/01 stats.

I have settled in at Chelsea after ruining Man U(yes), and I am starting my second season.
I came runner up in the FA Cup Final AET and runner up in the league, which was between me and Arsenal. I would've won if Arsenal(who I wasn't playing) hadn't scored in extra time:'(
Manager of The Month.
Zola in Team of The Year
Sold Cudicini, babyaro, Knight and Ferrer for £8mil.
Bought Notman, Tudor, Dida, Ronaldinho, Osman for £8mil. Dida, Osman and Ronaldinho were free

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Oh man, soon as I get back home for easter I'm gonna show yous all up :rant:

[Wengerland]

ssssssssss,won the F.A Cup in second season(first Leicester manager to do so:shifty:)

Finished 8th in the league aswell.

Also,if your looking for a good player try Kasey Wehrman from Lillestrom,he's fairly cheap and after 1 season he is out of contract in the January so he would only cost about 350k if you wanted him in teh summer.

[Wengerland]

Ok,Sid how did you get the England manager sacked? The one on my game is now someone called John Carver who was managing West Brom and even they were about 20th in Division 1 and at England under him they didn't even get to the play offs of the world cup qualifying.

Considering they won Euro 2004 i want to take over to restore some pride.:'(

[Cactus Sid]

I didn't get the England manager sacked, the F.A just sacked him after they didn't win a game at Euro 2004.

[Wengerland]

Damn,but why the hell are they not sacking him now.:mad:

[Cactus Sid]

I dunno :-\

[Wengerland]

HAHAHA, I got the Arsenal boss fired, and then rejected the job offer.... suckas

Sorry,this was the post i was thinking of and because you'd said you got the England job i got the two mixed up. :$

How did you get t'Arsenal boss fired then?

[Cactus Sid]

I declared my interest in the job

At the time I was quite a powerful manager in football, and they sacked the coach and immediatly offered me the position

[Wengerland]

k,thanks.I'll have to see if it works with the England job.

[Cactus Sid]

It probably won't, because usually international jobs don't become insecure, the managers just get fired

[Wengerland]

How exactly do you declare your interest in a club job?:$

But you were right as i couldn't seem to for the England job.Doesn't matter now anyway as my comp ****ed up again and so i rebooted it again and lost all my data again.:mad:......:'(

[Cactus Sid]

If you go to Job Information, and a job is Insecure/Very Insecure, click on the team name, and in the bottom right hand corner it should say "Declare Interest In Job"

[Wengerland]

k,thanks.:y:

[Disturbed316]

So I managed to find my United game, just played a couple of months. In the last two games I scored a total of 12 goals and let none in.

6 vs Dortmund in the EC
6 vs Doncaster in the League cup

Adu is on fire

[Cactus Sid]

I've decided to play CM 97/98 for a while, with an update

[packt up]

97/98 :cry: those were good times.

[The Mask]

k, i won the league cup with morecambe, lost in the final of the FA cup to man utd, and came first in div 1 :$

[Mr. Monday Morning]

We should still do a network game sometime. A big one between all of us. That would = rule.

[Disturbed316]

Yeah, that would be pretty sexual

We need to make sure everyone has the same verson of the game (4.0.1 etc) otherwise it wont work :(

[The Mask]

right, I'm top of the league, with the worst defensive record in the league :| go figure.

my defence is shit :mad:

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Yeah, that would be pretty sexual

We need to make sure everyone has the same verson of the game (4.0.1 etc) otherwise it wont work :(

Yeah me and RBF just tried to run a network game with 03/04 and 01/02 and it didn't work :o

So everyone would need to get 03/04 first and then spread around the latest patch (I'm pretty sure they stopped a couple months back so that wouldn't be too much of a problem)

[Disturbed316]

yeah, aparently there was only 3 patches released for 03/04 so it should be quite easy to get it around

[The Mask]

bagsy man utd :shifty:

[Disturbed316]

bagsy chelsea

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Well judging by the people that post in this thread who would be interested I think everyone should be able to play as the team they support;

Mask - Man U
Cactus - Liverpool
Dazz - Chelski
WWEngland - Leicester
RBF - Pompey
MMM - Wolves
Disturbed - ???
deathtrap (if he plays) - Villa

and so on and so forth.

So it could definitely work.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

OH WAY TO COCK EVERYTHING UP :mad:

[The Mask]

RBF doesn't have the new one though :$

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Yeah well at this rate it'd probably be best to start it in the summer - people won't have exams in the way and RBF can get his CD drive fixed, for two things :o

[Disturbed316]

Ok, I'll take over Newcastle then

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Who do you support anyway? :wtf:

[Paranoid Rattlesnake]

Carlos Tevez

IS DA MAN

[Disturbed316]

Brighton/Manchester United

[Dazz]

bagsy chelsea
Good job MMM laid the Smackdown, or I was gunna get mad.

Oh and its Chelsea. :rant:

[packt up]

WTF I SHOULD BE NEWCASTLE :mad:

[Wengerland]

Sounds good,City till i die.:love:

Thing is,i've not bothered with the patches and manually updated and also got a 56k connection on the computer where i can play it.:$

[Cactus Sid]

Yeah, problem is you have to have the same database as well.

So basically if everyone wants to play, you have to have the same patch (I've got 4.1.4) and the ORIGINAL database data

[Paranoid Rattlesnake]

Can I Play???


I'll be leeds

[Cactus Sid]

Right, if someone can find the original database data, that would be cushty

Here are the updates, if we all had this it should be alright, in theory

Patch 4.1.4

http://www.thedugout.net/download.php?cmv=10&cat=1#

Update up to 23rd of February

http://www.thedugout.net/download.php?cmv=10&cat=3#

[The Mask]

Yeah, problem is you have to have the same database as well.

So basically if everyone wants to play, you have to have the same patch (I've got 4.1.4) and the ORIGINAL database data

Yeah I think we should stick with that.

[Cactus Sid]

I'll try and find the original data, but I'll need somewhere to host it, anyone got a clue?

[Cactus Sid]

Also, I'm taking one for the team.....

I'm going to go and buy the game, rather than have the downloaded version

[Cactus Sid]

Ok, I know we're supposed to start this in a while, but just thought I'd say, I'd be more than willing to host the game, as I've got Broadband, I've got the original CD now with the original data, but I am gonna install the 4.1.4 patch, so if we are all gonna do this, we need the same stuff.

[The Mask]

Also, I'm taking one for the team.....

I'm going to go and buy the game, rather than have the downloaded version

there's a downloadable version? :$

[Cactus Sid]

there's a downloadable version? :$

Yeah, you can illegally download it off SuprNova, which I did, but I'm pretty sure is the reason I can't play online games.

So I spent £20 and bought it :mad:

[Disturbed316]

Well done Sid :yes:

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Ok, lemme see if I've got this straight.

-Everyone gets the 4.1.4 update. Shouldn't be a prob (having said that anyone on 56k you might need to use a download manager to grab it :$ )

-For the database, are we saying run with the default database that comes with the game, or everyone use an update manager and synchronise to an updated one? It'd be cool to do the latter but I guess on the other hand there are benefits to the other as well.

-How many leagues would we be running? (It depends on whoever hosts really and what their machine can manage) - I'd guess just run the English leagues?

Premier League teams at the mo:

Arsenal - vacant
Aston Villa - deathtrap?
Birmingham - vacant
Blackburn - vacant
Bolton - vacant
Charlton - vacant
Chelsea - Dazz
Everton - vacant
Fulham - vacant
Leeds - PR
Leicester - WWEngland
Liverpool - Cactus
Man City - vacant
Man U - Mask
Middlesborough - vacant
Newcastle - packt up / Disturbed ?
Portsmouth - RBF
Southampton - vacant
Tottenham - vacant
Wolves - MMM

Is that about right? :o

[Tony Montana]

I only have CM4 , last seasons :(

[Cactus Sid]

Yep, 4.1.4, original database, because some updates screw up the whole server data file, plus getting another update would be another 2 hours of someone on 56k's time.

I think we might as well just do the prem, that way its easier on the person's machine + data will load faster for 56k

[Mr. Monday Morning]

What happens if someone (i.e. Leicester :o ) gets relegated?

[The Mask]

then we all point and laugh.

[Cactus Sid]

They can change sides if they wish.


We will also point and laugh

[Dazz]

Yeah, sounds good.

There are a few minor difficulties.

We wont all be online at the same time, and I dunno bout CM4, but on the red CM the managers status is set to on holiday when the network game is played without them, and then they piss around with the team and sell players, and buy players. And no way will we be online at the same time alot.

Ok, that was the only real issue.

[Cactus Sid]

Well then you simply just play when most people are online, they're will be times when one person is on, and another isn't so it'll be fair

[Dazz]

But, like I said, it will be shit if, for example, everyone but me is online, and you play, and then whilst I'm gone, the manager whilst im on holiday, sells Cudicini and Lampard.