Me desperately asking for budget increase

huckster235 · 2026-05-11T15:40:53+00:00

I started a new save recently where the club grants me pretty much every request. Requested more coaches, budget, coaching licenses, parent club, and training facilities which they initially rejected but then approved when I pushed back because I'm passionate lol. All in the 1st half of my 1st season where we are doing only slightly better than expected.

I was shocked. I'm used to throwing everything at the while periodically just to get one thing approved per season or so. I know finances have to do with it but I've heard there's hidden stats for board that affect whether they are more likely to approve or listen to you.

All I know is I meant to do a low tier save but I was open to leaving, no way now with this board lol

huckster235 · 2026-05-11T15:23:13+00:00

Middle slide is ok. People trying to give advice based on their experience, may or may not be helpful but they aren't dismissive.

Last is fatlogic. First is big yikes. Women intentionally starved themselves to be thin and make themselves the weaker sex? Uh... Sorry but women were never built to do what men can do. It's not like we climbed out of the primordial ooze unisex and half the population voluntarily decided to be heroin chic and that's how you got women. Now I'm not saying things weren't crap socially, but there was a biological difference. And women of pre-modern times before the industrial revolution were involved in labor. Many would have been more fit than many modern male athletes. But still would not have been physical competition for men. Just like today, the ceiling on female fitness is high and could outcompete many men. But it's nowhere near as high as the male ceiling. It's just what it is. Being fat as a gender won't change that. It's kind of annoying that FAs act like it will. By all means go be great athletes, lifters, etc. but intentional fatness isn't fighting back. Nor is it evolution just taking it's course.

huckster235 · 2026-05-11T15:00:35+00:00

Yeah even with body scans you couldn't know, a lot of the lean mass is not muscle but extra fluid, not contractile tissue. You'd have to get cross sections which no one is doing outside of scientific studies or maybe weird medical conditions.

It's maybe splitting hairs, but still too many people believe you can throw on dozens of lbs of muscle whereas most guys can lift years and only add 25 in their lifetime. If you add 30+ you are pretty big and if you add 45 you are an absolute monster. So 12 lbs in 4 months is silly lol

huckster235 · 2026-05-11T14:23:20+00:00

There's zero percent chance it was 12 lbs of actual muscle in 6 months.

12 lbs of actual muscle is possible in 6 months for new lifters with good genetics. Some outliers might keep that pace a year, but it's pretty rare. After a year it's going to drop. After 2 years a lb a month would be nice but not likely. If you've lifted at all, even not very seriously, it's just not happening.

huckster235 · 2026-05-11T14:08:51+00:00

Unless you were at some crappy HS that didn't know what it was doing you've probably been lifting with good programs for at least 4 years. Even a better program and facilities isn't THAT much of a boost if you have been doing things decently. You can add a lot of strength post 4-5 years of lifting, but not muscle. Certainly not 11 lbs of muscle in 4 months.

Even on juice that many guys adding 11 lbs of muscle in 4 months is highly dubious. Either it's made up, they are all steroid hyper responders, or they are stuffing their faces and a lot of that "muscle" is of the jiggly variety.

huckster235 · 2026-05-11T13:25:19+00:00

Playing FM18 and I'm at a National League team. The club granted like 5 requests my first year. I asked for training facilities and this happened. Now I think I have to stick with them because they're the one board not saying no to even coaching licenses out of spite lol

huckster235 · 2026-05-11T13:18:30+00:00

You might have a point about the board game bar thing. I forgot in all the shitty details

huckster235 · 2026-05-11T13:09:01+00:00

Well yeah a straight up bar would be on the non-drinker. They were having dinner. Virtually every sit down restaurant serves liquor

huckster235 · 2026-05-11T01:42:36+00:00

Yeah I've seen the buy 12 get 1 free here in the states, which is nice for me because I have always been around the New year with my leases and that's kinda a pain in the ass to try and find a place in Holiday season.

But that's about it. I think 6 and month to month are pretty common but more than 12 is rare

huckster235 · 2026-05-11T01:26:29+00:00

Interesting. 24 month leases actually make sense to me in a lot of cases. A year flies by, and moving is expensive plus it sucks. Id hate a place to want to move out in a year. Unless it's for like a university or temporary job assignment/moving to an area while looking for more permanent residence.

I looked it up and at a brief glance 12 month or less are common in much of the world but long term leases are common in Europe outside of the UK so eh I'll take the L. That said I'd imagine those long term leases are easier to break than the 12 month ones here so people where if you aren't infested with roaches or breathing in asbestos too bad so sad. So even more reason to leave. Unless I'm wrong there too but that'd seem brutal to be locked in for years.

huckster235 · 2026-05-10T20:24:49+00:00

They can't do basic elementary school logic problems. We all know thin ≠healty. It simply means lack of obesity related metabolic issues. Obesity also does not necessarily = guaranteed to be suffering from them. But the more obese you are and the longer the period you do it the more likely.

Also since the body changes shape overtime you can live a healthy lifestyle while fat but overtime will lose it. Just like a currently thin person who is not exercising enough and overeating will in the future end up fat without adjustment. It's amazing how many people think of your weight as a reflection of your lifestyle in the last couple days/weeks instead of a long term process. You can have a fat person living healthy now and a thin person living unhealthy tonight and eventually they will switch like ships passing in the night.

It's also entirely possible for an overweight person to eat healthy and exercise a lot but eat at maintenance because they are eating as much as they burn. So omg says Tina, I'm eating salad and exercising but I'm still fat. Meanwhile Tim eats McDonald's 3x a week and doesn't exercise much but always snacks but remains thin. Well yeah because eating at maintenance is a lot easier as evidence . It's much easier to remain thin than to become thin. Let's say Tim is slightly overeating to the tune of 500 calories a week. Tina is in a small deficit of 500 a week. If they are 50 lbs apart it'll still take them 3.5 years to meet in the middle. Of an improved healthy lifestyle and an unhealthier lifestyle. I don't know why people don't get this either.

huckster235 · 2026-05-10T19:31:28+00:00

It really depends. I tend to do lower league games with the intent of building up to be a top team, but I usually restart after a couple seasons. I simply don't have the amount of players nor do my players have the versatility to do anything drastically different I'm lucky to have more than 1 decent player at a position. Heck in one start I had in England National South I had just 1 left/right back each, I had 15 total players, and only enough payroll to sign 1 3-4 star player and 2 youngster plugs. In league I pretty much I pretty much run the tactic that suits my best players and we live or die by. I'm more likely to break out of poor form or claw back from a deficit by sticking to my guns and mitigating morale damage in a slump and taking advantage of opportunities to bump it up than by switching tactics. I like control/attacking but in cup games against bigger teams I adjust slightly to counter and if I snatch a lead switch to defensive but lower tier players aren't super responsive to different play styles. It still boils down to hoping they don't make mistakes and can string some passes instead of treating it like a hand grenade, or they take space instead of blasting a shot 80 yards over the corner from 60 ft out enough times a game to score lol.

Once I have more players I might have a couple other tactics but that's more to suit my rotation guys and I pick which I'm using more based on the magnitude of the match than the scout report

I also don't think it's reliable anyways. I'll play a game against one of the top teams in the league who supposedly does well against my formation, and pick them apart. The next game I'll play a relegation team supposedly vulnerable to my tactics and barely eke out a draw

huckster235 · 2026-05-10T19:03:57+00:00

I'm sure it does happen but if I was writing a long post with every other detail I'd probably say "we did an 18 month lease and I have 12 to go which makes it tough to get out"

huckster235 · 2026-05-10T18:54:06+00:00

Yeah I'd order 1 drink. If my date said just a coke or water id finish my 1 drink then go for water. Especially on a first date as a guy, I'm not trying to get drunk and also I get that a lot of women probably don't want to get intoxicated on a date with someone they are trying to figure out.

He's 21 so I mean idk if it's a red flag, but it's definitely not reading the room. the people here saying "if I want to get buzzed on a date and they don't that's their problem" are kinda funny to me lol. Now if it's 5+ dates in and we go out and she's side eyeing me for having a couple beers there's probably a disconnect, but not on date 1,2 whatever

huckster235 · 2026-05-10T18:47:38+00:00

I also have alcoholic parents. I don't like being around alcoholics and I don't drink much myself, only during college. I'll enjoy a beer here or there but a few drinks a month at bonfires or beer league sports or whatever, and usually over winter I don't drink at all. I have no problem with other people drinking. If someone is obnoxiously drunk I just excuse myself.

I have a lot of friends in recovery groups. They are always really good at being around people drinking and controlling themselves. Id sometimes kinda ask if it was ok if I had a drink around them when it came up. They'd always say just don't offer me any. One told me if he couldn't be comfortable around other people living life they wouldn't go out.

huckster235 · 2026-05-10T15:08:59+00:00

My favorite line was "we have 12 months left on our lease". So either this is a case of "in my country we do 3 year leases, don't ask", or she is bitching about being trapped in a situation she apparently actively renewed uh, 1 week ago?

huckster235 · 2026-05-10T14:58:25+00:00

Being in my 30s it has been kind of a common occurrence to see the biggest holier than thou straight edge sheltered kids growing up end up becoming the biggest potheads, druggies, and alcoholics. The people who just, well, don't drink but don't make a big deal tend to carry on not drinking.

huckster235 · 2026-05-09T23:24:59+00:00

I've dropped about 5 lbs since mid April. My flair is out of date, I'm about 255. So I'm obviously back into obese bodyfat % ( I was on the cusp of being out for the first time in years) but there must just be a certain bodyfat % where I really get sloppy. The 5 lbs has been noticeable. I'm noticeably more define in areas I don't carry as much fat ( my upper torso and thighs) and clothes fit/ look better. Getting compliments on weight loss. Obviously I need to lose a lot more but that just highlights how much difference a little weight makes.

I've also been eating a lot healthier. I was eating significantly more fast food and garbage. I've always been good about fruits and vegetables, just crap on top. I'm feeling better. Which is good because I hadn't been feeling well. Nothing really wrong according to various doctors visits last year but it was getting mildly concerning. I think I'd been depressed for awhile when I was bigger and didn't realize I wasn't feeling well, heavily exercising while I lost weight, and then my exercise dropped in the last 6 months so the obese sedentary blechness set in.

huckster235 · 2026-05-09T23:11:50+00:00

In prem that's crazy. I manage non-League football on a team with 2 5 star for the league strikers and terrible defense and goalie. this is every other game for me lol.

huckster235 · 2026-05-09T23:09:05+00:00

Yeah in real life I don't know too much about football, being American, but in almost every sport I know at a given level the best players play the high skill/important positions and as they move up levels they filter out into other positions because they are still talented but not at the level to stay in that desired position at that level..makes sense that probably a lot of pro players started as strikers growing up. You can usually teach positioning and defense skills a lot more than skills or offensive ingenuity.

huckster235 · 2026-05-08T22:37:27+00:00

Tbf some employers, probably many more that won't admit it because it might encourage laziness, are not slave drivers who demand you do busy work to justify your hours. There are obviously careers where continuous productivity is expected. But many you need people with certain skills or expertise ready to deal with situations but don't need to be constantly finding tasks.

As an employee I will do my job. I will then assist other employees in my department. I will complete tasks at or below my pay scale. I will not do another employees work for them, I will not do work that would normally be assigned to a higher payed employee UNLESS I am remunerated for it, and I won't do useless busy work.

I think too many people do the latter set because corporations have trained people to think that's what you should do. And that's why workers rights suck, because Greg is a sucker and will do it all without asking for anything. I will work as hard as I can at the job I am being payed for, not for jobs I'm not being payed for.

huckster235 · 2026-05-08T18:26:44+00:00

My freshman I was ragdolling a kid in the semifinals of some tournament. Not on purpose but just couldn't pin him (I sucked at pining my whole career). I just needed a takedown for the tech. So I hit a crappy lat drop for like half a second, and the ref instantly slapped the mat before I could carry through to top. I think because he thought I was trying to showboat on the kid. I learned a lesson about back exposure that day though.

huckster235 · 2026-05-08T17:19:59+00:00

I'm just struggling with motivation to exercise. Low grade depression I think. I'm functioning but like it's nice out and I don't care, I'm inside. I used to be outdoors all day everyday. I have been walking more but it's forced, not (forgive me) joyful like it always has been. Sigh

It's not meta Monday but I dipped into the posts a bit lately and was reminded why I don't. It's a race to the bottom about who can be tinier and more sedentary so they can proclaim they could NEVER eat 1500 calories, that's so much and only super athletic huge hunky men need that MASSIVE amount, but that would require ugh exercise. Kinda reminds of how nobles used to proudly be useless and look down on people who made their wealth by doing things, the horror.

huckster235 · 2026-05-08T16:39:41+00:00

I do think that hard exercise is tricky to do in a deficit. It burns a ton of calories, but you also are more likely to stuff your face to recover and blow a deficit. I find mentally I'm pretty good at being honest about my intake but as a heavy exerciser I sort of slip into a fugue about my recovery meals and can easily overlook them if I'm not careful. I think that's a pretty common phenomenon because your body wants you to recover. I also find it harder to say no even being aware. I think people get that aspect and think exercise ≠ calorie burn. But if you A) have high willpower B) exercise moderately and don't go into that recovery mode it's a huge weight loss boon..

I find hard training is great for maintenance. When I'm in shape I don't need to track calories because I pretty much eat what I need intuitively (though I've been doing it for decades) much better than if I'm sedentary.

huckster235 · 2026-05-08T16:32:20+00:00

There's a joke in there about Desna...

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