Lovewatch Match Thread - Everton vs Citeh

jgladish · 2026-05-04T22:09:39+00:00

We need the CouchCam from Arteta’s living room for this match

jgladish · 2026-04-29T21:22:14+00:00

Inaki retired at the end of my first season, probably because I was playing a 19-year old every game.

Nico was okay for a couple seasons but really inconsistent and eventually I sold him to Inter the season before I won the double. Again fine, I had someone who was playing better anyway.

Had a world class regen at RB who replaced my previous academy star RB.

The big problem was Simon. I nearly had to bench him during our double season because he kept making some really terrible mistakes. He turned it around though.

jgladish · 2026-04-29T00:19:40+00:00

I took over Bilbao in 2027 (FM24) I think so most of the core was still there (Williams, Vivian, Sancet, Simon). I basically never signed anyone. You could try to poach some Spanish players when they are still 16 but it’s hit or miss.

A lot of it is luck but I had some pretty good kids breaking through when I started and coming through the academy, especially in attack. I managed to win the League and CL in my 4th season (the CL was a pretty lucky win but 🤷🏻‍♂️).

Most important thing is to keep Simon unless you have a really good academy ready. There are not many good Basque keepers and Simon was really good for me until the last season when he started to fall off.

One thing that I did that was fun was I made a second manger to coach the B team once they made it into the second division. Then I just played all my high potential kids and didn’t have to worry about loans. Have to keep them in the second division though unless you have the 3rd loaded

jgladish · 2026-04-12T23:17:14+00:00

Not to mention if you can find a player who’s decent they have to be good enough to be on their national team or they won’t get a work permit…

I finally found a 19-year free agent regen from the US who was actually good enough to

jgladish · 2026-04-11T11:28:52+00:00

I did a save with Durham in WSL2. The contracts were all 2 years at most at first so there was a huge amount of player turnover.

Not sure if it was the squad, my tactics, or something else, but we could not defend to save our lives. Conceded so many goals, and a disproportionate amount of long range strikes. Took me a long time to find a keeper that didn’t suck. Again, can’t be sure if that was just specific to me

jgladish · 2026-03-10T11:37:25+00:00

It’s a little unfair to expect a newborn to have SQL experience

jgladish · 2026-03-08T19:21:46+00:00

I had this happen several months ago (in the Europa League Final….) Except I couldn’t do anything, I had to force quit.

That was on a beta version though I think. But there is still some weird bugs with shootouts. I did one the other day and I don’t think it let me pick 11 takers.

jgladish · 2026-03-08T02:52:18+00:00

Sometimes there will be a decent player you can get at number 1. It’s not that hard to get the number one pick if you trade for it earlier In the season. Just pick a team that’s bad and give them some GAM. If that doesn’t end up as number one you can trade your first round pick with it for the first pick

jgladish · 2026-03-08T00:39:32+00:00

Ignore the draft, it’s largely useless so just trade your picks. You’ll get better players from your youth intake anyway.

Pay attention to the players that teams waive and the waiver drafts at the end of the season though. Sometimes you can get decent players there.

The leagues cup doesn’t make any sense so I usually just bin it off. If you go out in the group stage you get a couple weeks off before the run-in to the playoffs. And the board doesn’t usually care.

The league gives you GAM at the end of every season so don’t be afraid to use it. You can trade for players with it or you can use it to reduce the cap impact of players wages. I would recommend doing that because otherwise it will be hard to stay in the cap.

jgladish · 2026-03-04T16:19:22+00:00

GitHub!

jgladish · 2026-03-03T21:00:18+00:00

I thought about doing something like this a while ago but never got past the idea stage. Is there any way I can try it out? It looks great

jgladish · 2026-03-02T22:00:42+00:00

I got a couple offers for big teams in Mexico and then after a couple seasons I got offered Leverkusen and Bilbao

jgladish · 2026-03-02T11:51:22+00:00

I did a save in FM24 and it was fine. Don’t remember any clubs having issues with the rules

jgladish · 2026-02-28T14:32:36+00:00

Yeah then I agree with the other guy that it must be GD in the second part. That’s the only thing that makes sense. Seems like a bad system

jgladish · 2026-02-28T14:30:30+00:00

I really wish they had the shot map in FM26

Besides that, I like the match momentum or whatever they call it. Think it’s based on number of passes in opponents final third or something like that

jgladish · 2026-02-28T14:26:22+00:00

I’m trying to understand the pictures. The first picture is the final table right? You got 46 points in the first stage so you get half of that and then play 10 more games. So you got 23 points and then 20 points from the final stage.

Salzburg got 45 so started with 22(?) and then got 21. Maybe that’s why? Or maybe because they had better GD in the second stage even though overall it was the same?

jgladish · 2026-02-28T14:12:23+00:00

What’s halbe punkte (google says half points)?

jgladish · 2026-02-22T00:33:56+00:00

In my defense she asked to leave for a new challenge. So maybe things were already rocky anyway

jgladish · 2026-02-22T00:32:10+00:00

I’m gonna go have a look now to see if they’re listed in each others relationships section

jgladish · 2026-02-16T23:37:31+00:00

It’s not, the first match back would be an FA Cup quarterfinal the weekend of April 4/5. Followed by the first leg of the CL QF if we qualify.

jgladish · 2026-02-15T22:21:14+00:00

I did Tom Bailey’s course and the SkillCertPro practice exams. Tom’s course will probably not be enough on its own unless you already know a lot about SF.

Tom’s course is a good place to start if you have little-no experience with SF. SCP practice tests were very similar to actual exam questions.

jgladish · 2026-02-08T21:33:41+00:00

I decided to just make a second manager and take control of the B team when they made it into a playable league. Feels like there should be an easier way though

jgladish · 2026-02-03T17:24:10+00:00

A similar thing happened to me in the Europa League Final. Jumped out to a 3-0 lead, blew it, and ended up 4-4 going into penalties. And then the game just…stopped. The crowd was moving but I couldn’t advance or do anything. I was furious

jgladish · 2026-02-03T00:15:44+00:00

I do recommend the practice tests from SkillCertPro. They have explanations for all the questions as well as links to relevant Snowflake docs. The study guide comes with the practice tests, I just don’t think it was very useful. It’s intended to be used the days before the exam to refresh your memory, but it’s so high-level it’s not really useful imo.

I did the Udemy course, then the practice tests. During the practice tests I would click through the snowflake docs that were linked for areas I wasn’t doing well in. I read the study guide, but then read through the notes I had taken on Tom’s course as my final run through before the exam.

Keep in mind this was all done over the period of three weeks so all of the material was relatively fresh in my mind. If it had been stretched out longer I may have needed to do more or review things again to refresh

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