Shall have a look at those when I get home tonight. Hopefully if I have another good season they'll start trusting me with a bit more money. They're giving me around 90/100% of revenue from transfers to spend- but don't really want to sell any of my valuable players. Alan Smiths available for just under 5m- but don't wanna sell one of my stars so I can afford him. Seems silly that I start with the club in 2m of debt- and they give me 3.3m budget, a year later with the club having 14m in the bank- they give me next to nothing. Well at least its a challenge.

Finished my first season last night. Didn't get anywhere in the cup competitions, but managed 6th in the league to get into the UEFA cup. Only a last day 0-0 at home to Liverpool stopped me getting 5th spot. Started quite slowly, but really picked up in second half of season- winning at Anfield and Old Trafford in the same week. Derek Riordan (325k from Hibs) won Rovers player of the year and was 3rd in the overall player of the year. He's been brilliant either behind the strikers or upfront with Stead. Paul Gallagher scored 22 on loan at Leeds- and I was quite amused when his agent sent me a video asking me to make a bid for him. Enckleman became my number one, after Friedel went on International duty- and kept the shirt with a succession of 8/9/10 performances. I usually play 4-1-2-1-2 with the two in Midfield with outward pointing arrows and given a lot of "creative freedom". My first choice XI at the end of the season was- Enckleman - Matteo, Nelsen, Amoruso, Neill - Savage - Pedersen, Thompson - Riordan - L.Mokoena, Stead. Steven Reid becomes good, and I'll look to give him more games this season. The board were delighted at getting into Europe- and have given me a transfer budget of 1.9m . My squad is as follows- and ideas where I should strengthen. GLK: Enckleman Friedel DEF: Matteo Amoruso Nelsen Neill A.Mokoena McEveley Billy Jones Vanden Borre MID: Savage Pedersen Thompson Guarin Bierofka Reid Yakin Douglas Tugay FWD: Riordan Stead L.Mokoena Mathis Dickov Gallagher Crespo and Zola have both turned down moves- and the wage budgets pretty tight. Yakin has been the only addition so far at 240k, but I got slightly more than that for Gresko- so my budgets still 1.9m. Thinking I possibly need a young, quick centre half- but has to be cheap. Don't want my squad to be too big, cause I want players like Guarin and Jones to get some Premiership games this season. I'm thinking one or two additions. Ideas? Also- whats the highest anyone else has finished with Rovers in the first season?

Wouldn't worry too much about the wage bill at Rovers or any Prem club for a few years yet. Best tip I can give anyone sign players on Bosmans they are great you can either sign a superstar for nowt who you intend to play or sign a primadonna who will be out the door by Christmas for a fee (I signed one ended up selling for £34m). As for this on average takes about a week or two for a season to be completed 323559[/snapback] At the moment I'm having to juggle my time between work, girlfriend, football manager and sleep. At the moment its the sleep that I'm cutting down on- but the girlfriend has been warned.

I'm running English league down to National Conference, Italian A + B, and Spanish 1 + 2 on mine (P4 3.0ghz 1024Ram) and it absolutely flys.

I've had to sell quite a few players at the start of the game cause they're earning more than they should be for how good they are. Jansen (25k), Flitcroft (20k), Emerton (20k), Gray (10k), Johansson (10k) and a few of the reserves have been cleared out. Still leaves me a few very high earners (Savage 48k FFS!). Anyone else bought Derek Riordan from Hibs? Can get him for about 325k- and he's looking very good for me.

What does everyone play with then (database size/number of leagues etc)? What spec machine are you running on? I'm going to experiment with a few- but just interested what everyone else used.

Right- my new PC is due tonight- and I'm loading up FM version 5.05. I'm assuming Nelsen, Mokoena and Savage are at Rovers on this version. Is that right? If so- how good are Nelsen and Mokoena? Am I going to have to do the unthinkable and sell my hero Jansen cause he's rubbish on it- and has high wages?

I agree with you. Maybe she's the solution to our left side problem.

My mate who's a North End fan reckons for the Italy and France game the other day they sold 38 tickets before the day of the game- so we've done alright.

I was told it would be 7-10 working days after placing my order that I'd receive my computer. Then when the order was placed- I was told it was going to arrive on the 14th- which would have been 8 working days. They've now told me it is due to be delivered on the 10th- which is just 6 working days. I've been very impressed with Dell so far. Price is good, and they've kept me informed on the progress of my order all the way through. I'd definitely use them again.

I'm getting a new computer in a week or so- but have played one season on the game with Rovers on someone elses computer. I used 3-4-1-2. My starting eleven eventually settled with: Friedel - Matteo, Amoruso, Mark Jones - DePedro, Ferguson, Tugay, Thompson - Pedersen - Chiesa, Stead. I was really good at home- but pretty poor away. Finished 10th- could've been higher- but I rushed the end of the season cause I was running out of time. I found Stead started slowly- but started banging them in eventually. In 20 starts and 16 sub appearances he scored 19 goals. Ferguson was 3rd in player of the year. Think the games excellent.

http://www.teamtalk.com/teamtalk/News/Stor..._507291,00.html Interesting if true. Might prove for certain if there was a rift between Shearer and Sutton.

This is my first youth pull of the season. Very happy- especially as I'm training playmaking. Not had anything that great through for almost 2 months- so nice to get a good one early on in the season. With a bit of luck- he'll be an 18 year old with outstanding playmaking at the end of the season- should be worth a few quid. Arthur Horvath TSI = 1 450 , 18 years, passable form Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities Stamina: weak Keeper: disastrous Playmaking: solid Passing: inadequate Winger: poor Defending: inadequate Scoring: weak Set Pieces: inadequate

Are you calling yourself stupid there? 320505[/snapback] It's means i'm with somebody called stupid! take it you swing on the other side when it comes to womens football puff! 320508[/snapback] Extraodinary

Are you calling yourself stupid there?

My mate is a very low grade ref and he says they haven't changed the law itself, its all about how people interpret it because i said the same thing to him. He says when he is an assistant its alot easier if they jsut give offside when any player is off, as its hard enough as it is judgeing offsides. 320478[/snapback] I've got a mate who's a ref- and he said exactly the same thing to me. Blamed some ref (might have been Poll) for saying there had been a change- when in fact there hadn't.

Foreigners. (and before I'm attacked for being racist- let me explain). When the Premiership first started there were something like 11 foreign players in starting line ups on the opening day of the season. I've nothing against the likes of Henry, Ronaldo and Viera as such- as they are excellent players. What I don't like- is the amount of poor/average foreign players in the english game. I'd rather see more English players playing- and less of the cheap imports coming over. I like to watch the likes of Dunn, Duff, Taylor who've come through the clubs youth team- over any foreign signing.

Cheers mate. I went for the cheapest options in the end. This is what I've ordered- Dimension 8400 P4 530 with HT tech. (3.00ghz, 800fsb, 1mb cache), with windows xp, 1 yr collect and return service, 1024 MB DDR2 Ram, 160gb hard drive, 15" flat panel monitor, cd/dvd drive, speakers, keyboard. and mouse with Works 7.0 and a few bits of other software. Came to £532. You reckon thats an alright deal?

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products...dhs1&l=en&s=dhs I don't understand Dell. That page has a PC at about £449 or something including delivery and VAT. You click customise and buy- and the price becomes from about from £530. So frustrating- it happens with a few of the so called special offers.

Just bringing this up to blame Souness for Steads season. If the nice gentleman had never fallen out with Cole- surely we'd have had a better season out of Stead. I don't know- just blaming Souness for everything seems to make me feel better.

Swines have put the price up by about £140 today. 10% off on tesco ones at the moment, but will wait for more offers from dell I'm thinking.

Been looking on Dell- and found one with the following spec for £521 inc vat and delivery. Intel® Pentium 4 processor with HT technology 630 (3.00GHz, 800FSB, 2MB cache) 1024MB Dual Channel DDR2 400MHz [2x512] Is that quick then? I'd be using it for games/uni work/my own business needs. Also- The 1024 MB Ram is for the price of 512 till tomorrow. Is this an offer that they have often- or should I rush into another impulse buy? All help is much appreciated guys.

Can anyone answer this for me? Which is better? Pentium? Celeron? AMD Athlon? ie. How would a P4 2.8 compare to a Celeron 2.8?

Did anyone notice Nugent kiss his Admiral badge last night? Also thought it was funny what Lucketti yelled in the face of the guy who missed the penalty.

I really must've been watching a diiferent game. Maybe these chaps should see a few games from the Seventies, then they'd know what a kicking was. Foreign poof. 317243[/snapback] I'm certain I was watching a different game- and it wasn't a quarter final as Lauren suggests