Matthew Le God

I know, and that is how I entered it. You won't have to pay it off.

The accounts for DMWSL 613 Limited show £20.4m in new loans from the shareholder. I made it non-repayable ( until shown to be otherwise) so it doesn't make a lot of difference.

What do you mean "why"? The Championship is a 24 team league, by making Saints have to overtake that of the 2nd place team rather than replacing them it makes it a 25 team league.

Because it is a 24 team league, not a 25 team league. One team is replaced by Saints and that team is the one that comes 2nd in this example.

He isn't a striker, so those are strange comparisons.

Why doesn't it? What happens? Does anything here help?... http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/276641-Football-Manager-2012-Demo-FAQ-Technical-and-STEAM-Issues

I asked the head of English research what would be the best option and that is what we decided.

- FM has 400,000+ staff in the database, FIFA doesn't even come remotely close to that. - My Saints FM file for example has around 90 different people in it, FIFA's Saints file is tiny in comparison. - FM also has many more leagues and teams than FIFA, even if they aren't playable, it is still possible to play against them. Even teams like Sholing are on FM. - FM also creates players in future seasons all over the world and these names would need to be included.

SI did have commentary for CM2 back in the mid 1990's. But it is unlikely to happen again anytime soon (if ever). Not really needed in a management game and extremely difficult to implement well. Even with the huge budgets EA give FIFA, the commentary still isn't great. Plus given FM has far more players and teams than FIFA, it would be a nightmare to implement.

Are you insane? Do you seriously think the average ticket for Fratton Park is £26? The 9,000 season ticket holders don't pay anywhere near £26 per match. Nor do many of the concessions pay £26 in the walkup (particularly the children). So when you get gates of 12,000 vs Peterborough, match-day income is tiny. Did you go to the Peter Storrie school of accounting?

Because as it is a serious long term injury not sustained in a football match and happened early in the season, it was included.

So what about Jos Hooiveld? So what about a £3.2 million bid accepted for Billy Sharp and confirmed by Adkins? So what about Steve De Ridder signing for Saints and being used mostly upfront so far? So what about Jack Cork signing for £1m and Danny Fox for £1.8m? So what about Lambert, Guly Do Prado, Connolly all in good form and Barnard close to a return? So what about a bid for Jay Rodriguez confirmed by Burnley on their website? So what about Saints scoring 25 Championship goals in 10 games and being top of the league having scored 7 more than anyone else?

He joined aged 18.

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I don't know what happened there. SEGA/SI require the Football League to send them the kits in order to create them for the game. Either the Football League haven't sent it or SEGA/SI have left it out by mistake. I will try and find out what happened, but it won't be changed until a data update now as the game has gone gold.

"Positioning" is a defensive attribute. "Off the ball" is for attacking movement.

The game starts in July 2011, so the player ratings reflect the players in July 2011 i.e. the Championship hadn't started and Saints hadn't stormed to the top of it. That doesn't mean to say players won't improve as you play out your first season, give them games and good training and they will improve, many have good potential ratings. The January 2012 data update will reflect the squad as it is in January, if we still sit top of the league, lots of players will be getting boosts!

He has a high flair, two footedness, dribbling and creativity rating which should make him play as he does in real life.

In order to give him the kind of attributes some of you are talking about, I'd have to make him a 140+ CA player, and I could never justify that at the moment to SI and the other researchers would crucify me!

As I said earlier, should the club maintain current form until January you will see improvements for many Saints players. In any case Lallana is one of the best Championship players in FM12 in terms of CA, certainly one of the best for his position, plus he has a good potetial ability rating so will improve as the game progresses through the first season. I've also made him more two footed than he was in FM11, which takes a large weighting.

Remember this is 1-20 on a world scale. I have to remove my rose tinted Saints glasses for this. The database needs to be balanced and can't have the many researchers working for SI/SEGA overrating all of their own players. We work to guidelines in order to achieve this, and being guidelines they still do allow for some flexibility.

What do you mean by "clunky"? Give it time and I think you will get used to it. I think it is easier to navigate than before. In any case if you still don't like the GUI there will be lots of user created skins to use available soon. His value may be higher, but he doesn't have a current ability rating anywhere near Lallana, Fox, Fonte, Cork or indeed the vast majority of the Saints 1st team squad. That value is largely meaningless and always has been in FM. What stats are you unhappy about?

Yes, if Saints continue as they are until January you will see big improvements for that data update. They needed to prove it before I can justify to SI that they can have higher ratings. In any case many of them already have good ratings for Championship level.

Those values mean very little, it will cost a lot more than that to buy them. Both of them have high CA's for Championship players. I have asked about this so it may change, but bear in mind there are generic kit styles used for every team in the game and many teams even if they have patterned fronts, have plain backs to make numbers easier to read.

Then why does Derby chairman, Tom Glick think otherwise? What counts as "football income" anyway? And where did you read this?