That remindes me - what happened to the pro evo comp we were going to do?

This is REALLY funny - listen all the way through (well it made me laugh anyway) - click

Really, I have had mine on Pre order from play for months now and still dont have confirmation it has been posted I stand corrected, just checked again and it was posted on the 23rd

The thing is mate that its not really just a couple of tweeks in the editor. For example, here is one of the patches from last years one and what it did:- + Fixed problem with portugeause league and foreigner rule, counting any non-portugeuse players as being foreign, instead of non-EU. + Fixed random unregistering of players in leagues which restrict re-registering of players to certain times of the year (Portugal/Spain/Mexico etc) + Fixed potential injury news item crash (trying to display injury league table for a non-existent competition). + Fixed a crash at the end of the season in Belgium when running with top division only. + Added extra sanity checks for manager reputation, to help prevent quick escalation of reputation. Football Manager 2006 v6.0.1 Original General + Tuning of young player physical progression + Spanish regenerated players and virtual players do not get given common names as much. + Goalkeeping coaches now do not have high ratings for other coaching types. + Loan players who have a "cannot play in cup matches" clause, can play in competitions which their main team are not entered for. + Arsenal now use their red and white home top from the 2006 season onwards. + Slovenian wages tuned. + Mental attributes and happiness have more effect on training levels + Ensured team talk slight concerns get cleared down for loan players who have been loaned from non_selected leagues. + Toned down severe post-match player morale changes, this ensures players take at least a couple of good matches to go from poor/very poor morale to very good/superb morale and vice versa + Ensured human managers don't get criticised for not praising thier own players when in fact they have left team-talks to their assistant managers. + Stopped "grey team managers" being given negative attributes and therefore sabotaging their own teams causing some very big defeats. + Teams in the same division should not have the potential for a giant-killing news story even if one is semi-pro and one is pro. + Prevented board/fans/former club favourite/current player congratulations news items from appearing after a team has qualified for the Uefa Cup via the Intertoto Cup + Adjusted the increase / decrease of human manager visible attributes. + Reduced inflation of price clubs are willing to pay for a player based on domestic average rating. + Ensured assistant coach/manager can't give feedback on himself. + Some tweaks to coach and team reports. + Monaco virtual players now have French nationality instead of having Monaco set as their nation. + Fixed stadium expansion bug where team would sometimes not move back to their old stadium once it was finished. + Fixed problem where some players would start the first season with stats from the previous year + Fixed second nationalities for regens - previously weren't getting set properly. + Fixed problem with caretakers manager's hanging around for ages without being offered the job or a replacement being found + Fixed differing time periods for injury between profile and physio report + Fixed players reaction to manager mind-games not showing up on client machines when playing network game. + Fixed receiving news story stating Liverpool fifth times when should be sixth times champions. + Fixed cases of manager being hired from within the club having the wrong 'time in charge' stat + Fixed players on loan at a club who are signing for them at a later date (e.g. Laurent Robert) getting wrong player_bio about them. + Fixed a bug where you can fine a player who is on loan to you and he will get upset with the club that owns the player. Interface + Injury league table not filled in for domestic leagues that had finished. + Squad screen filters now filter WB L/DM © players correctly. + You now have to pick a goalkeeper in quick tactics like you do in detailed tactics. + Added "Help" to the Mac menu bar to follow standard behaviour on the platform. + Help for "offer to clubs" now shows the correct information (instead of the "transfer offer " page). + Pressing the escape key now closes the help dialog. + Training section "attributes" list could display slightly different values than the player profile. + Improved goal net graphics. + 3rd placed Royal League teams displayed the 3rd placed team order instead of the proper group they were in. + Used "Far" as short text for both "attack far post" and "stand on far post". + Squad filters for teams works for b-teams if user is browsing the game without having added a human player. + "Release comment" section disappeared when you clicked on another section of a player (before you had confirmed the comment). + You were able to change some tactical settings from the full time team talks. + If you used quick flicks to go to next team while on your own tactics section you might end up seeing their instructions. + Referees now show a 'Based' city (if city is known) instead of showing an unknown city of birth on their profile. + Clicking 'View Draw' might not take you to the results of the draw if you viewed a different section of the same competition. + Minimum fee release clause was not visible while making a transfer offer for players in countries where this is mandatory (Spain). + Substituting a player at half time would initially leave his overall team talk at "None" until you it again. + Sometimes players were duplicated in part-exchange offers in the "Transfer listed" menu on the "Add" button. + Can now give team talks to players who were substituted. + Added more printing functionality to panels like Match Report, Match Stats, Home + Player instructions "swap player" (outfield) and "distribute to" (goalkeeper) did not remember settings if set outside a match. + In-match tactic panel updates the tactic title on the right panel properly. + If you were in control of both a nation and a club, using the quick flicks did not go anywhere. + If you were controlling a nation and a club, the context of the national FA confidence was the club and not the nation. + Corrected "Upcoming Fixtures" to "Fixtures & Results" on the manager home section. + In rare cases the player profile would display "-" for form even when the player had valid form. + Player histories did not show season year properly for clubs where season overlaps the new year (2004-05 format). + Go On Holiday dialog could have the "reject all offers as well as another item selected (they're mutually exclusive). + Go On Holiday dialog "Return from holiday after:" N days edit box layout fixed. + Inputting extended characters using AltGr (or Alt+Control) did not work. + Pasting a single character from the clipboard to an edit box did not work (multiple characters did). + Continue game timeout does not get used when a manager is making a team talk after the match. + Reset requested scroll position when loading new HTML screen. + Fixed wrong team being used in news item stating reasons for transfer delay being refused. + Fixed exchange players showing up on news item but not on transfer offer screen + Fixed home page snapshot of K-League (displayed opening stage intead of combined league). + Fixed Belgian lower divisions snapshot (displayed opening stage and not combined league). + Fixed possible crash browsing through teams staff list using the Quick Flicks. + Fixed potential crash on European World Cup qualifiers second placed teams table if clicking on team position to see progress. + Fixed some duplicate news items. + Being able to deselect the 'Index' panel in the tutorial by reclicking on the 'Index' button. + Fixed every second seperator line in tree view items being slightly longer than the others Competitions + Scottish league cup ties are now seeded properly. + Fixed some issues with the CONCACAF Champions League when MLS is not a selected league. + Mexican teams now do not register too many foreign players. + Implemented English Conference changes for 2006/07 season. + Mexican First Division groups are now correct for 2005. + Prize money removed from Serbia and Montenegro Cup. + Manager snapshot panel now shows full stage name in the competitions panel. E.g. North Semi Final instead of Semi Final + All-Ireland Cup now stores past years correctly. + Teams from 2006 African World Cup qualifiers do not qualify to the 2008 African Nations Cup any more. + Some English FA Cup prize money amounts fixed. + Hong Kong AFC Playoff now gets scheduled once all of the domestic competitions have finished. + Ramat-Hasharon now deducted 2 points in 2005 Israeli National League. + Spanish teams now start playing friendlies earlier. + All Ireland cup now uses refs from Ireland or N. Ireland. + European player awards tunning + Greek player of the year problem fixed. + Greek foreign player of the year problem fixed + Player winning more than one seasonal award fix + Attacking bias added to seasonal player awards. + Some fixes for managers withdrawing players from international friendlies + Australian players no longer win Asian awards. + Award winner news item appears after player thanks manager news item. + Fixed string error (australian pre match odds news) declaring league as being finished when it hasn't. + Fixed some fixture dates in England for non World Cup/Euro Championship years. Match + When 2 human managers are playing each other in a match, the game now shows both team talk screens at the end of the match instead of just the one. + When a human changed the order of his penalty takers just before a shootout, the score would sometimes not be stored properly when the result gets processed. + Fixed a match screen crash which would sometimes happen after making quick tactic changes. + If a human manager leaves a match (goes on holiday, disconnects from network game, etc), the assistant manager will now make tactical changes in his place. + Fixed bug where the view menu on the tactics screen might be disabled for a second human manager on the same machine. Transfers + Starting foreign loans are now not treated as domestic loans for English teams when counting the number of loans done so far. + Fixed bug where occassionally the game might forget to process a future transfer. + Fixed a bug where national teams would sometimes appoint a director as their new manager. + Players signed after a club has finished its season, now get put on holiday. Mac Specific + Fixed some keyboard shortcuts in the help dialog. + Fixed possible problem with cpu idle when re-activating the application during a match. + Fixed Mac keyboard shortcut for Preferences to conform to standard Mac shortcut. Assets - ADDED Livingston player pictures - Fixed Scott Thomson (Dunfermline) picture mapping to the wrong Scott Thomson - ADDED Nottingham Forest player pictures - Fixed Cardiff pictures (Darren Purse, Jeff Whitley, Joe Ledley and Neal Ardley) - Fixed Stafford Rangers player pictures (Peter Thomson) - Fixed Blackpool badge - Fixed Rotherham kits not displaying - Fixed Daejeon kits not displaying in first season - Fixed Joao Goncalves FaceInTheGame picture Data Editor - Fixed potential crash on the squad screen - Fixed manager preferred formations sometimes defaulting to 442

Yup I am quoting myself I have found a vid for this shoot pad thing - Click

They kind of use their forum for feedback so once they have all the bugs in then they will make a patch.

You get to a machine that has a connection and download the file and save it to a cd. Then you just drop it into your footman folder and double click the icon - it will then install the patch for you (you will really need to start a new game for it to work)

I really like him. I havent seen the Bolton game so cant comment there but the other games I think he has look awsome - most impressed with his movement. Just wish we could get Nonda, Benni and Roberts in the same team

They could be like me Paul who dont get to many games - the first time I saw them I thought we had hired Metal Mickey as a Steward

Yeah, I have just been through the Sigames forum (of which there are going to be 100's of bug fixes by the sounds of things) It turns out if was my fault and it would have come up and said that Mokoena couldnt get a work permit but we could still sign him but send him out on loan till he got one. Just to click happy with my new game I guess Think I will just play through finding all the little nice bits until they release the new patch until I start my real game

--> QUOTE(Ste B @ Oct 23 2006, 08:39 ) 454466[/snapback] Would that be your travel plans that allow you to post from an NTL account in the Brighton area 2.5 hours after the game has finished. Brilliant

If you do manage to get it to go online though it will update ALL the teams

Maybe you should have told Fat Sam before the match so that they could have scoerd a couple of own goals in celebration of your first game

AAAAAAARRRRRRAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bought another player and like Lehbong Mokoena he also canot play for me as he has no work permit so the both of them are just sitting there not playing and I cant do a thing about it - this needs sorting out

Why the hell should neil take the pens? I have no problem with Benni or Roberts taking them - I havent seen the misses but it could be that Jaskerlinen (spelling I know) made two good saves - dosent help I know

Aside from all of the injuries, I have just bought Lebohng Mokoena and got a work permit for him however, now he has signed I cant play him cos it says he hasnt got a work permit - this is really annoying

That is from the comedy programme Mitchell and Webb. I found it quite funny but its now getting a bit tired - they even tried wordwang last week

I can only echo what others have already said about the injuries. I havent kicked a ball yet and already have Ped/Nelson/Bently/Brad/Roberts and Benni out for a couple of months each Can't wait already for the new patch to sort this mess out

If you go online with it then it will update all the players for you (This was the ONLY good thing I had to say about FIFA this year - and I am normally a fan)

Well fear not as I suspect that in a couple of weeks there will be an option file with all the real kits and names winging its way around the net so no more problems

Not had chance to play yet but that is a top idea. I always hated trying to get a player fit and then he would moan about not being in the team.

Should have seen me for the Sav goal. I couldnt work out what was going on. He headed the ball, the ref blew the wistle like it had beenj disalowed and then sav seemed to stop - I couldnt tell what had happend

I have installed it and it might just be me but it does seem faster. Also looks very clean and I do like the 'New Tab' option

You can now download IE7 - Click I havent seen it to download from Microsoft yet