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Capturing 6th line in the table

Posted: 30 Jan 2013 10:47 PM PST

Hi everybody, Welcome to back to Nottingham Forest story in which I try to become a new Brian Clough. A frontier of the 3rd season's half is passed, and I am happy to share with you good news. Forest is at the sixth line in the table as you see! It's interesting the 6th line was captured almost 10 fixtures ago. So now my target is to hold the position during following months. Matches I

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Morale management in Football Manager 2013

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 10:34 PM PST

Sometimes you may encounter a difficult schedule when your team must play against 4-5 grand clubs in a row. It's a rare case but it happens. If your season task is a league survival and avoiding relegation, then most likely the matches would be lost and players' morale would be decreased to a poor level. As for me the morale is one of the pivotal factors in Football Manager 2013. Any tactics or

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Season 3 start. Optimistically!

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 10:35 PM PST

Hello dear readers, I am ready to present the first results of season 3. It was very expected start because of the amazing transfer campaign made in summer. Rakitskyi, Ademilson, Defoe, Eardley, Hughes, Kameni… I couldn't wait to see them all in action. Forest matches The season began with 2 defeats and no scored goals at all. But then Nottingham Forest showed an excellent performance beating

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How to search Basque players in Football Manager 2013

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 09:51 PM PST

A short hint today. I received the question about Basque players search in FM 13 several times. I feel it's necessary to give an official answer in a distinct post which people will encounter while searching for information via Google. OK, this hint if those who don't afraid to manage good old Athletic. This Spanish club is famous for its transfer policy: the board doesn't allow to buy any

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How I grew Forest wage budget by 60%

Posted: 19 Jan 2013 01:24 AM PST

Hello my dear readers, I've prepared lost of information today. So the post is quite long because it fully describes my transfer campaign before the 3rd season in Nottingham Forest story. That will be my second one in Premier League as you understand. Sometimes it can be harder than the first one, that's why "second season syndrome" term exists. I am kind of wary about it and tried not to be much

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Forest squad analysis after season #2

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 10:51 AM PST

Here is my current squad after the 2nd season, one of the weakest in the Premier League actually. Let's analyse it by areas.   Goalkeepers No changes needed at this position. My goalies are enough for me now. I like reliability of Sifakis and don't believe 6.81 rating because it's due to matches against grand clubs where my whole team wasn't able to oppose anyhow. Pay attention to 18 years

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Football Manager 2013 Best Physios

Posted: 13 Jan 2013 10:06 PM PST

Ok, let's talk about physios. This kind of staff is probably the most simple in Football Manager 2013. Albeit if feel I should tell about them a bit. Physios in FM 2013 are responsible for preventing players' injuries and recovering them in case if injuries happen. They always provide information about injuries in your squad. It's quite obvious. Though it's also interesting to know that better

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Solid finish that I did not expect at the start

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 09:49 PM PST

Hi my dear blog readers, The second season of Forest story is over! Here are the last results of PL fixtures: I don't think I should begin telling you much about the matches because they weren't not really important. I felt secure above the relegation zone in the table. Thus, the last 4 games were played in Key highlights mode. Just wanted to accelerate my story this way because normally I use

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Forest. Two series

Posted: 07 Jan 2013 09:40 PM PST

Today is the day for Nottingham Forest story. I called the post "Two series" because I had very different periods. The first of them lowered my club into Premier League relegation zone. The second one raised Forest quite high making 6 points distance to the 18th position. Here I marked the series of matches with red and green lines:   Forest matches There were 6 matches among those I marked

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FM 2013 Graphics Collection

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:43 PM PST

Hello my dear readers, Currently there are quite many facepacks, logopacks, kits, skins, backgrounds on different Football Manager web sites. I felt a certain need to group them somehow and wrote this post. It contains useful links on any kind of FM 2013 graphics. Following the links below, you find information about every Football Manager 2013 skin, facepack, logopack, kitpack and download it