Matthew Le God

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I'm not getting involved, have fun...

The year we came 8th we only got 17 points from away games.

How can a ref "clamp down" on players and stop them committing fouls or timewasting? They committed yellow card offences, he gave them yellow cards. Simple.

Yesterday's under 21 game was Shaw's return to football after an illness in which hospitalised him. Reeves being picked over Shaw for the Everton game doesn't mean Adkins prefers Reeves to Shaw.

He didn't lose control, the players were committing tackles that were clear yellow cards and West Ham's players were also time wasting. He had little choice other than to book them.

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Switching back to man marking for corners I agree with, but do you not think the 4231 system worked well in our last home league game vs Villa? The similar 433 system worked well against Man Utd at home and it is these formations they have been working on all pre-season and into the season. Did you not see what happened when we switched to 442 at home vs Wigan, they overran us in midfield.

2002/03 when Saints came 8th in the Premier League... 4 away wins 5 away draws 10 away defeats In 2012/13 lets not write Saints off after away defeats at Arsenal, Man City and Everton!

That is harsh, he had no option with pretty much all of them other than give them a card.

If you have played previous versions of SI's Football Manager or SI's Championship Manager there is a good chance you already dress like Miles and you don't even realise it!

It is the under 16's and under 18's that have the fixtures against the same opponents on the same day. The under 16's, under 18's and under 21's are all in the same league structure as a category one academy. The age groups below under 16's aren't. Generally under 18/under 16 games are on Saturday morning/early afternoon. Saints under 21's play during the week so that players can be used from the first team more easily.

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The development squad and under 21's are the same thing. I think you might be confusing them with the under 18's who played Stoke on Saturday.

When Wilkins, Crosby and the guy in question have a kick-about whilst the players warm up it is clear to see he has far more footballing ability than you would expect from your average translator.

We only have to play Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd and Everton once more this season in the league (with only one of those games being away).

If Schneiderlin is injured it would make more sense to stick with the 4231 system they used in the last two games, then use the 433 which used Schneiderlin as the holding midfielder.

The demo will be one week before release.

The players current ability is based on last season, it doesn't take into account what they have done this season.

Release date information... http://www.sigames.com/news/14162/FM13+Release+Date++Pre-Order+Incentive If you pre-order you get to play it two weeks earlier.

You want them to take time out to improve features over a longer period than the 1 year development cycle, however as I've shown that is exactly what they are doing. The game is coded to be modular and the match AI has been taken out and put under a 2 year overhaul. The same happens for other areas and the game improves year on year. You have also overlooked the changes to... - training - scouting - the transfer system - media - international management - network games - inclusion of challenge mode - inclusion of versus mode - inclusion of FM Classic etc etc in FM13. All that makes it more than a mere "data update". You can buy FM13 for £19.99, is that expensive considering the game time you will get out of it?

You appear to be basing this solely on graphics, which is really the least important thing about the match. - FM11 and FM12 had the same match engine, physics and AI. - FM13's match AI and physics under the hood which have been completely re-written over the past two years. In any case, FM13 graphically has also improved with numerous changes and improvements to the animations, and stadiums etc.