A Gaming Diary
Mac
Football Manager 2007 (MAC)
Oct 25th
We’re now bottom and the injuries are ridiculous. I was down to ten men after three – three! – players had to go off in my last game.
I don’t honestly think I can turn this around in the time left.
There aren’t any decent players available to loan, my players aren’t performing and all seems completely hopeless right now.
Just when everything needed to go right things got even worse.
If I hadn’t vowed to stay to the end of the season I’d be resigning right now. Mind you, the board are putting out so many press releases saying that my job’s safe that I’ve started to get nervous.
Football Manager 2007 (MAC)
Oct 25th
I’m losing hope at Bishops Stortford. I’m keeping the players’ morale up, but mine’s on the floor. We’re twenty-seven matches in now and sitting firmly in 21st place in the Conference South. Our last match was a real killer – we went 1-0 up, but then our opponents got two penalties and ran away with the points.
Looking at the stats, it seems Jack Midson is the second highest scorer in the league this season, but we’re very high up in the goals conceded list. That’s getting better now I’ve brought in Foster on loan to sit back on the right – he’s only a solid 7, but that’s better than anyone else I’ve got there – but I’m still not doing well enough.
I really, really want to save the club and my job now; if we can just scrape through this season then I can use my experience next season to take us further up the table – and hopefully take me into a better job. I’m aiming to be a Premiership manager within a few seasons, but that’s not looking likely right now.
We’ve just got to improve. Not a lot, but just enough so we edge these close matches. We’ve got to do it for the club, for the 352 people who come to see us play each week and, most of all, for me, so I don’t have to start a new game at the end of this season.
Football Manager 2007 (MAC)
Oct 24th
I’m still struggling with Bishops Stortford in the Conference South. It’s just after Christmas and we’re second from bottom.
It’s depressing, but sometimes we just do well enough to give me hope and keep me from resigning. I’ve loaned a defender worth a mammoth £4,000 from Dagenham & Redbridge and he seems like he’s going to fit in well. I’ve also asked to loan a young striker, just to see if that’ll help. I feel for my striker Essandoh, he’s a decent chap and he puts in good performances, but he just doesn’t score.
Though scoring goals isn’t so much of a problem. We’ve scored 23 this season, which is over one per game on average, I believe. It’s just we’ve let in forty.
You know, I’m really getting in to this now. I so want to pull off a miracle and avoid relegation and then take the club to glory next season.
Football Manager 2007 (MAC)
Oct 22nd
Well, now we’re at -
PLAYED: 14
WON: 3
DRAWN: 2
LOST: 9
We’re out of the relegation zone and morale is soaring.
Three things seem to ahve prompted this small turnaround.
1) My cpatain went out with the flu and his replacement is doing better.
2) I moved to a more attacking 4-4-2.
3) I promoted Anton Innocent from the reserves to the main squad. He’s not fit enough to last a whole match, but he’s great when he’s on.
Football Manager 2007 (MAC)
Oct 22nd
After a 5-1 defeat to non-league Solihull in the FA Cup my finger was hovering the “Resign” button for a while.
But nobody else will give me a job, so that would mean restarting the whole game.
Hmpf.
Football Manager 2007 (MAC)
Oct 22nd
Current record this season -
PLAYED: 8
WON: 1
DRAWN: 0
LOST: 7
Oops.
Football Manager 2007 (MAC)
Oct 21st
I took control of Bishop’s Stortford.
I’ve, er, not been doing so well so far. In the pre-season friendlies I lost all but one match.
Oops.
If the season goes badly I’ll either look for a new job or start a new game at a different club.
Football Manager 2007 Demo (MAC)
Oct 18th
Just playing around with this as Villa while I wait for the full version to arrive.
I’m quite enjoying having money and players I’ve heard of, so I might even do this in the full game, instead of taking a random lower league team on.
