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21 hours ago, transfer reader said:

Yes, to varying degrees I think.

If the player is in a league that your club/scouts will have some knowledge of them you might get a range for the stats until you scout them. Not sure exactly how this is determined.

 

The way I play is attribute masking (their term for it) is turned on, and I can only sign players that my scouts/recruitment team show to me.

I do allow myself to sign players from a club I've already managed if I move though. The way some managers have players they'll sign at multiple clubs.

Likewise I can't search for known good quality scouts, but have to hire ones that apply for the position.

Makes it a fair bit more challenging, and certainly slows progress down.

I did get a freak signing on last year's one though, a 37 year old Brazilian who'd spent most of his career in Russia. Signed for about 40k and scored a dozen goals and got a dozen from the wing and the winning goal in a playoff final then retired.

Yeah that's my approach. 

I've not played for ages now. Had a game last year that was where I hopped around clubs. 

Went from Welling United > Southend > FC Utrecht > Bristol City. 

I managed to get Utrecht into Europe regularly, but never managed to win the league. Took over City in the Championship and got them up via the play offs, but I haven't picked it up since. 

I'll have a look at the changes next year with the change over to the Unity engine. 

What is the backstabbing situation with Wilson? I was still in school but my memory of Wilson was that we played good football, but he had four years to get us up and failed despite having a really good budget for the level. If felt the right time for him to go. 

What did Tinnion apparently do to influence it? I'd not really heard this until the recent stuff with NP came out, but again it probably went over my head at the time as I was young. 

Nice picture and write up here. 

https://www.bcfc.co.uk/city-men-news/rest-in-peace-derek-virgin/

29 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Good memories. I remember the Murray and Trundle goals so vividly, both right in front of the away end. 

Last goal Murray scored for us. He was still class in those last couple of years. 

1 hour ago, ThornRed said:

We didn’t lose

We lost 3-0 when I went. 

3 minutes ago, Aaron-Bcfc said:

Lower tier at Loftus Road is great.

I am clearly in the minority, but I really liked my trip to Loftus Road. The atmosphere was good even though we lost and I liked how close it felt to the pitch. Much better than the King Power Stadium. 

2 hours ago, Sir Geoff said:

Anyone else remember seeing them on Top of the Pops. Combine Harvester, iirc.

1 hour ago, RedEd73 said:

Posted here as it's relevant to the Gas rather than in the Barton thread. 

He's so endearing! 

People who love to talk about freedom of speech are always so litigious. 

1 hour ago, RedEd73 said:

Posted here as it's relevant to the Gas rather than in the Barton thread. 

He's so endearing! 

People who love to talk about freedom of speech are always so litigious. 

28 minutes ago, LoyalRed said:

Agree with this,  he loved showing off his skills on Soccer AM, think it was the "showboat".. and he always appeared on this part of the show while playing for Swansea.  Expected that just to continue when he signed for BC and to score loads of goals but he was asked to be a team player when he preferred to be the main man.  Clearly lacking in pace going by his own words and unwilling to take his hat off in training as he never heads the ball?!  It is sad to see that he never did anything after leaving us and ended up moving to Neath.  

I agree with this overall. 

Despite his flaws I liked Trundle when he was here, and he did admit in the interview several times that his attitude was wrong and that Johnson despite his flaws actually achieved a lot. He probably wasn't quite fit enough for this level and the defenders are a lot sharper. He scored a 3 crackers I'll never forget though. 

 I also think people bashing Gary Johnson for his man management would have a very different reaction if Famara  Diedhiou or Nicky Maynard said that they had refused to take off their hats in training as they didn't fancy heading the ball, and also admitted they got pissed up before the start of the new season. 

This thread was such a trip. 

The sun were apparently outraged at this scandal, but rated the 2011 kit as our 5th best ever kit. The article was written only 18 months ago. 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/10338885/best-worst-england-kits/amp/

(Sorry for the sun link....) 

2 hours ago, Monkeh said:

I watched a YouTube video from httc  severns (Alfie potts)

He described the championship as 11 teams fighting for promotion, 11 teams fighting against relegation and then you had Preston and Bristol city

 

Just about sums it up and potts is a massive Hull fan

Alfie does some great videos. His one the other day which on the surface was about a football stadium that's never been built in Lithuania, but in reality the video was about Lithuania's political history for the last 30 years. 

8 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Didn't he suffer a really bad injury for us towards the end of the season? Knee I think? Was never the same after. 

Yeah fairly sure he has serious knee injuries that he never recovered from. 

9 minutes ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

I haven't looked at their forum but I wouldn't be best pleased to read that web site. It does explain where the owners focus has been the last few months.

They aren't very happy. The spelling and design all over the place. Also I'd be concerned that there are no pictures of this academy and no information on the coaches? They do have some good reviews already though at the bottom of the page. The one that says the academy is "top notch" particularly stood out. 

4 hours ago, phantom said:

Another gone

That's shit Nuneaton Borough is a name that feels like it's been around forever. 

I know a couple of Preston fans through work and apparently the football is awful hence the dislike of Lowe. 

They've taken it down now, but what a **** up. 

It would be like giving that lot part of Ashton Gate and decorating it with a Santa's grotto so they feel at home. 

RIP my old man used to wax lyrical about him. 

4 hours ago, 2015 said:

Was actually complimentary about his time at City. Had a lot of respect for Danny Wilson and Tinman.

Genuinely think his most consistent period in his career was with us as well.

Yeah definitely came accross how much he respected Tinnion. Seems like Tinnion had a real aptitude with youngsters all the way through.

Also interesting to see the contrast between professionalism at City compared to Reading. Sounds like they were leagues ahead of us. 

He scored about 20 goals in 50 games for Reading in the Championship and the Premiership so I reckon they got his best period due to the level. He never really hit those scoring heights again and I'm only an hour in. Were there injuries? 

He was amazing for us and seems he has a genuine love for playing now at Nuneaton. 

Did anyone see the Undr the cosh with Westley? Absolute David Brent with his business background and I had to give up on it. 

18 minutes ago, Super said:

strange that the blues fans don't seem that bothered about the sacking. All knew it was coming

Birmingham fans I've seen are to exasperated to really show much emotion. Think it's a stupid decision, but a feeling of "typical Blues" when it looked like things were getting better. 

2 hours ago, Totterdown's Finest said:

I'm sure I'm about to embarrass myself, but this is a joke, yes?

Yes forgot the /s.

3 hours ago, spudski said:

Great post and spot on.

However...what pisses me off the most, is as soon as the ' racist' term is used, it's immediately seen as white being racist against black. 

Imo..it's the other way these days. 

Whites are now constantly questioning what they say etc...

I know I'll get flack for this...but for every ' Black awards ceremonies ' for various Profession's in life...( Google it)...imagine the furore if we had white awards ceremonies.

It's freakin broken...and imo considerably devisive. 

I literally don't see colour like you implied..until it's put in a title and made a point of. 

It's nuts.

It's definitely this way around especially in football.

It's always white people getting abused for the colour of their skin in games, and online. After England went out of the Euros the abuse white players got was shocking compared to our black players. Accross Europe it isn't Black players being racially abused with monkey chants, but white players are always getting racially abused on a daily basis and this is especially true in Eastern Europe. Not enough people talk about this, and I blame the MSM, WEF and Bill Gates for this tragedy. 

It's awful that white people now have to think if they are being racist before they say something that is definitely *not* racist.

I've had it on my list for a while so will give it a read. 

2 hours ago, chinapig said:

Berardi is indeed a hell of a player and won the Euros with Italy of course.

Despite a bizarre period when he was co-owned by Juventus but never played for them he's a one club man, which is admirable as I'm sure he could have got bigger money elsewhere.

I find that co-ownership thing really mind boggling. 

They are definitely doing great. I hope they don't end up like the Flying Donkeys. I used to enjoy watching them growing up and "adopted" them as the underdog. Weirdly in the away around 2009 at QPR there were a few Hellas fans who I had a great chat with. 

Good luck to Sassuolo. 

1 hour ago, daored said:

He’s a really nice bloke , lives in the same village as us and often seen him about. Must admit I thought it was a bit of Billy big bollocks but is actually quite grounded and down to earth 

The finances that are being paid especially at such a young age are killing the game and leading to clubs over committing financially 

Think I've seen him talk about the money he was offered at a young age and how it was mind bending at the time. It was a good insight.

He was very talented and it's a shame injuries really finished him off. 

2 hours ago, Henry said:

Wow. I think you’ve shown your true colours there. Im not sure being involved in a group representing fans views is really for you. I see you’ve already started to backtrack in other posts.
 

@thatcham red @Blagdon Mike is this how board members should interact with supporters? 

Your obsession is getting a bit weird.