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#122196 The Dafuge Challenge
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I think I'm going to get in on this now after my African save went tits up. dong my holiday for a season now.
#122192 Regrets and Redemption
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Looks like this save is over. FM keeps crashing on the same day, I have tried holidaying past it but to no avail.
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As it keeps happening on the same day I guess it's proberly down to the editor data I'm using. so annoyng as I was only a few games off my 100th match.
#122182 Regrets and Redemption
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June 2015


An unbeaten month, although we are still dropping points in games we should be winning. still we are only six points off the top at this point s the teams above us must also be suffering with the same inconsistncies we are, we are far from out the title race yet as we edge over the half way point of the season.
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Despite our unpredictable league form, we are still making headway in the Challenge cup, advancing through to the last eight and in with good shout of landing some silverware in my opinion;
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I'm hoping to meet Kwara in the final!

An injury to top scorer Bello Korfamata has ruled him out until the end of the season so I have swooped for Tranmere Rovers's Ivorian forward Jean-Louie Akpa-Akrpo to fill his boots, costing us a cool £87k, Strong and hard working, hopefully he will provide all the fire-power we need to get back on track in the league.
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#122030 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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Why women shouldn't play Xbox
If my wife did that she would go the same way as the console.
#122016 The Dafuge Challenge
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Love the family guy kits.
#121872 The Pentagon Challenge
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Continuing our series showcasing the many challenges available on FM to keep you amused and hopefully boosting the FM sections of Susie busy too should you decide to share your progress with us.

The Pentagon
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The pentagon challenge has been around a long time now, but only those with the patience of a saint and the managerial skill of a god have managed to complete it.
All you have to do is collect all five champions league trophy’s in one save after beginning unemployed with a Sunday league reputation, this may sound straight forward and in theory it is, but in practice it could take 20+ years to check off all five.
It's up to you where you start off, I recommend downloading plenty of additional leagues and loading as many as your computer can handle to give yourself as many options as possible as you go along.

For masochists out there, you can make the pentagon even more difficult by extending it to a Hexagon, you will need to find editor data for it somewhere but it's possible to also compete in the OFC Champions League if you download New Zealand or any other Oceania nation.
You might also consider an international Hexagon by collecting all six continental championships, or even a double Hexagon with both club and international titles on your radar!
#121860 Regrets and Redemption
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May 2015


As with last month, we accumulated a set of results that most sides within the NPL would be happy with, however the pressure is starting to build from an impatient board and fan base as we suffered a heavy defeat to fellow title competitors Dolphins, making it two defeats out of two in meetings with the other two thirds of the 'big three'
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My job status in now set to insecure so I need to get us winning consistently again or my time at the Sani Abacha stadium is going to be short lived, all of June's games are against sides in the bottom half of the table so it is imperative that we pick up as many points as possible next month.

Away from the league we have been drawn to face the Warri Wolves in the last sixteen of the challenge cup, a tough game but I feel confident we can advance into the quarter finals from and from there who knows? collecting some silverware is obviously a major ambition of mine, and the cup would ensure that we qualify for the Confederations cup next year at the very least, but of course our sights are really set on the Champions League.

The Musa Buhari situation has now been resolved with the want away winger set to join Serbian outfit Rad Beograd for a cool £425k which will give our bank balance a nice boost;
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I've already re-invested some of that money to snare his replacement from Egyptian side Wadia Degla;
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Emmanuel is actually re-signing for Kano after departing for the Egyptian league three years ago on free transfer, he made 43 appearances and scored seven times for us in his previous spell.
#121600 The Dafuge Challenge
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Gonna give it a whack then Dan?
#121590 Shedender's Journeyman Career
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Good luck with with Wednesday matey.
#121588 Regrets and Redemption
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April 2015


April proved a rather frustrating month after our flawless start to the season as we only managed two wins from seven league games, although there was only the one defeat in there which was to champions Heartland, had I still been Kwara boss this would have been a very good month, however now 'm expected to be pushing for the title and we simply cannot afford so many dropped points even at this early stage.
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As a result our league position has taken a bit of a tumble;
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Heartland are almost certainly going to overtake us, however I can't see the form of the top two lasting for too much longer, which should set us up in a three horse race with Heartland and Dolphins over the remainder of the campaign.

I'm having to deal with a rumble of discontent within the camp at the moment, winger Musa Buhari is unhappy that I rebuffed the advances of Egyptian side Al-Ahly for his services, after a heated face to face meeting he has decided he can no longer work with me and is seeking a move away. I won't tolerate any BS from my players and he is free to leave, as long as his new suiters are willing to meet my valuation of the 21 year old. otherwise he can damn well keep doing what he's paid to do for us and be grateful for it, or else rot in the reserves.
#121587 The Career Of Kevin Hancock
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Good luck Kev, I always enjoy your careers so I'll be reading.
#121586 The Dafuge Challenge
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This challenge is a perennial favourite on most other FM community’s, however I don't recall ever seeing anybody undertaking it on Susie and thought it might be a good source of inspiration to anyone who is struggling to get into FM this year.

Heres the challenge;

Quote: Dafuge - SI Games Forum

The Aim
To take a small club who were previously unplayable in an unedited game from the Skrill N/S to Premier League and Champions League glory.

The Rules
Load a game with the English leagues only, with the Skrill N/S selected. All of the boxed should be left unticked. It should look like this.

Just like previous years, the players for the newly playable clubs need to be added which can be done using a custom database. The players from the three feeder league have to be added, which looks like this. If people wish to add extra players, any players from continents may be loaded, but not from individual countries. This is hopefully to provide a challenging game later on, without making the lower leagues too easy with too many cheap talented players available.

The extra levels of detail that you can change while in the game are up to you, as they shouldn't make a difference.

Add yourself as an unemployed manager, the details are not important at all. I like to call mine 'Holiday Man'.

Go on holiday until 25th June, this shouldn't take too long, perhaps about an hour. Saving on 24th June may give you a better choice of teams by reloading the game then going on holiday for one day, I would strongly recommend trying this.

Retire your 'Holiday Man' manager, allowing him to sail off into the sunset.

Add a new manager, the options are up to you but 'past experience' must be set to the lowest possible which is 'Sunday league footballer'. I understand that choosing different nationalities may have an effect later on, but I trust people will be sensible with this. I would expect people to use their own true nationalities.

When adding a new manager, choose one of the new clubs promoted to the Skrill North or South to manage. A quick way to check the new teams is to find the 'England Overview' team, then the 'season summary'. Just above the FA Cup summary you should find a list of six new teams.

They should appear in this list which shows the reputation of the possible clubs. The reputation should act as a difficulty level. The lower the reputation, the harder your game should be.

Ryman Football League Premier Division
AFC Hornchurch     1700
Billericay         1700
Bognor Regis       1500
Bury Town          1750
Canvey Island      1600
Carshalton         1500
Cray               1300
Dulwich Hamlet     1350
East Thurrock      1400
Enfield Town       1200
Grays              1450
Hampton & Richmond 1650
Harrow             1300
Hendon             1450
Kingstonian        N/A
Leiston            1250
Lewes              1550
Lowestoft          1750
Maidstone          1500
Margate            1550
Met Police         1350
Thamesmead         1400
Wealdstone         1700
Wingate & Finchley 1250
Calor Gas League Southern Premier Division
Arlesey            1200
Banbury            1450
Bashley            1350
Bedford            1500
Bideford           1100
Biggleswade Town   1150
Burnham            1150
Cambridge City     1600
Chesham            1450
Chippenham         1450
Corby              1800
Frome              1100
Hemel Hempstead    1300
Hinckley           1600
Hitchin            1500
Hungerford         1000
Poole Town         1050
Redditch           1650
St. Albans         1750
St. Neots          1500
Stourbridge        1250
Totton             1150
Truro              1500
Weymouth           1600
Evo-Stik League Northern Premier Division
AFC Fylde          1750
Ashton Utd         1550
Barwell            1400
Blyth              1550
Buxton             1600
Chorley            1700
Droylsden          1500
FC United          1900
Frickley           1450
Grantham           1450
Ilkeston           1500
King's Lynn        1550
Marine             1650
Matlock            1500
Nantwich           1550
Rushall            1650
Skelmersdale       1450
Stafford           1500
Stamford           1400
Stocksbridge       1400
Trafford           1350
Whitby             1550
Witton             1650
Worksop            1600
It is now up to you to manage this club all the way to the Premier League title and UEFA Champions League crown.

You may not move clubs unless you are sacked.

If you get sacked, you can either take over a newly promoted club that satisfies the original criteria (check the club's league history), or just start again.

Any form of international management is not allowed, until you have completed the challenge.

Assigning parent clubs and loaning players is completely up to the player, although it should be noted that on occasions a parent club can lend players which will make the first season or two slightly less of a challenge. It is completely up to you how you play this one, but everyone knows real men don't use parent club loans. Personally, I like to assign a parent club for financial benefits but never take any players on loan from them.

To sign a player, you must be able to scout them, this doesn't mean you have to, just he must be accessible to your scouts. If you have a foreign player on a free transfer who is willing to come on trial, you do not need to be able to scout them, as long as you have them at the club on trial so you can get a coach report on him. If an agent offers you a player, you can sign him without scouting him.

No external utilities such as scouting programs should be used and the database should be unedited (with the exception of cosmetic changes which cannot be discussed here). Should SI release a data update, this would be allowed but any other data updates are not.

Just as always, no extra leagues can be loaded, this includes extra leagues being added during a game.

Use of save game editors is strictly banned, whatever the reason.

Rules for this Thread

Player naming is allowed.

General discussion on tactics is allowed, although people should not refer to downloaded tactics. They are not banned, but I would expect the majority of people to avoid them.

When you join the challenge, could you post a screenshot of your manager's profile on the 25th June.

Progress of your club should be documented using this thread, we want to hear the story of your club all the way through. Please keep us updated, even if you are doing really badly.

At the end of every season, could everyone post some kind of season review, including at least a screenshot of a league table and the clubs transfer page. If you give this a title in bold it makes it a bit easier to pick out.
#121514 The England National Team
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I can't remember the last time I managed to stay awake all the way through an England match.
#121337 #TheSpanishRevolution
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Goo on me ol' son!
#121303 Regrets and Redemption
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February-March 2015


My first month in charge of Kano could not have gone any better, five wins out of five, including two games where we hit the opposition for six, although it's early days at the moment we look as if we could be serious title contenders if the team mantains it's current momentum.
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As you can see, I enjoyed my return to Kwara immensley as we thumped my former emloyers 6-0 away from home, It's hard to beleive now that less than six months ago I lead Kwara to a shock 3-2 victory against Kano!

If not for Enugu being even more emphatic in the goalscoring department we would be top, however I don't expect them to stay in the ttle race long, they are a mid table club at best.
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Our main title rivals will be Dolphins and Heartland, Dolphins have already suffered a couple of defeats but champions Heartland have a 100% record and have two games in hand so they could well be rght up there with us soon.

Pre-season went well with only our own under-20's side able to resist our awesome attacking power, which I take as a sign of great encouragement for the future!
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In other news, we have announced a partnership with Norwegian giants Rosenborg which is worth a cool £1.28M per season, securing our finacial future for years to come!
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#121299 The Global Hero Challenge
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In theory this is a very straight forward challenge, simply you have to unlock the six national hero achievements on steam, to do this you must guide a team from the bottom division of Brazil, England, France, Italy, Scotland and Spain, all the way to the top tier.

You can use any reputation you like (although real men use Sunday league of course!) and begin with any club in the bottom division of these countries, if you want to make things even more challenging you could adopt a nationalist approach and only sign players from the country you are currently working in.

Good luck and enjoy!

P.S - As the French CFA isn't playable from the start you have two options, either leave it as the game will still give you the achievement for taking a club from the National division to Ligue1, or if you are a masochist you can enable play in the CFA by being relegated into it, as a short-cut you could holiday to the final day of season and take control of a side about to be relegated from the National which will allow you to go down without being sacked as the board won't judge you on that seasons performance.
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#121280 The Lower League Thread
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We beat Peterbrough 2-0 last night which was a great result and keeps us withn touching distance of the play-off places in seventh.
#121153 Still fucking facebook
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I'd love that bow and arrow set. My cats however, would not.

#121149 Skin help!
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It's your graphics that are your problem, re-nameyour graphics folder to something else temporarily , then try again.
#120904 Skin help!
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It's on the home screen of FM itself or on the FM dropdown menu.
#120823 Skin help!
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The new way of doing stuff in FM mate. To save me explaining just check this link - mypassion4footballmanager
#120806 Skin help!
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Have you tried doing it through the steam workshop mate?
#120662 Regrets and Redemption
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Kano Pillars FC 2015/16
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As I embark upon my third season in the Nigerian Premier League I wanted to take a while to look over my new charges. The Kano Pillars are Nigeria's top side having won the NPL three times in the last eight years and are also ranked in the top twenty of the CAF club rankings. they possess a healthy fan base, averaging attendances of over 16,000 at the Sani Abacha stadium, a bit of a step up from 300 people at Kwara!
Kano are also Nigeria's wealthiest club with a valuation of over half a billion Nigerian Naira (£2M) which will enable me to build a squad of my own design for the coming seasons.
Last year the club suffered a poor season and finished well below expectations in seventh place, meaning they are not qualified for continental competition in 2015/16, the board however does expect us to challenge for the championship, in order to facilitate this I have already brought in a few new faces;
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John, Segun and Philemon all follow me from Kwara to form the heart of the Kano midfield for a combined total of £71k, it certainly helps settle to a club if you already have some players your familiar with.
Also joining the Kwara trio are;
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Promise was a transfer arranged by the previous manager from Niger Tornadoes, however he does look a decent ball winner, Efe, who joins from Danish club Aalesund, will hopefully breath some creativity into the side with his passing and dribbling ability’s.
And here's a look at the squad as a whole;

Goalkeepers
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Possibly the weakest area of the squad Oladele Ajiboye is a decent shot stopper and Adebayo Nnanna will likely become our #1 eventually, Yusuf however is nothing more than a back-up for Ajiboye.

Defence
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A good blend of experience and youth here, Ado Ali and Uche Oguchi will be my initial pairing in the heart of the defence, however talented youngsters Sunday Ajala and Adebayo Sani will no doubt push them hard for a place as time goes on.

Midfield
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The scene of great upheaval this summer with four new signings in the middle of the park, but again there is a nice mix of young and experienced players here. My former Kwara pairing of Philemon Daniel and John Junior will act as box to box midfielders with Promise Onuh protecting the defence in the holding role.

Wingers
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Unlike at Kwara where I employed wing-backs, I now have some decent attacking wingers to work with and as such will be utilising 4-5-1 in order to make the most of them, in games where we are heavy favourites I may change them to inside forwards in order to increase our attacking threat.

Strikers
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With 4-5-1 only needing one striker I decided I only need three forwards on the books, which could possibly be a mistake should be suffer with injury’s and suspensions, time will tell. All three are proven goal scorers, however Bello Korfmata who scored 26 times last season will lead the line to begin with.

So that's the team, the season kicks off at home to the newly promoted Bendel Insurance FC before the daunting prospect of returning to Kwara four days later! The target is to qualify for the African Champions League, preferably as Champions!
#120490 The English Rangers...A Berwick Rangers Story
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Technology blows at times.
#120444 Regrets and Redemption
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Good luck at Kano, Rick.

Cheers dude.
Good luck at your new club. You think you can push for a top place finish?

Hopefully, although for my first season I'm just aiming for the top four in order to qualify for continental football and take it from there.
#120309 Regrets and Redemption
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August-November 2014


So my eighteen months in charge of Kwara is at an end as we finish tenth for the second consecutive season, a run of three defeats in August scuppered any faint hope we were clinging to of sneaking into the continental places, although I'm reasonably happy with how my time with United has gone, I gt them playing some nice football with one of the youngest squads in the NPL and brought in a few good signings to bolster the ranks which should set them in good stead in the coming seasons as I head to Kano.
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Baba Sule continued to be immesnse throughout, netting 25 goals during the campaign and I may well try and take him with me to Kano as well as one or two others, my assistant Paul Ashworth has already agreed to accompany me on the 400 mile journey eastwards to what is one of Nigeria's biggest clubs, three times champions Kano who had a bad season this year, missing out n their minimum expectation of qualifying for the Champions League, my target is to return them to that cmpetitin at the first time of asking.
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#120019 Off the post!
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Is it just me or does everybody else have an extraordinary number of shots hit the post and bar? I average around four a game that come back of the woodwork.
I realise that every so often teams do get unlucky like that but this happens in every single match.
#120018 The Lower League Thread
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Most supporters will still call it Pride Park anyway so I don't see why it's such a big deal. I don't think I've ever heard a fan reffer to our ground s the Banks's stadium, it's always the Bescot.
#120015 Shedender's Journeyman Career
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Excellent season mate, will you hve some money to speand to avoid second season syndrome?`
#120010 Regrets and Redemption
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22nd August 2014
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The Sani Abacha stadium awaits for Kwara United manager Richard Beale


Kwara United were today rocked by the news that manager Richard Beale has agreed to take charge of Globacom Premier League rival Kano Pillars for next season.
Beale, 27 has been at the helm at the Kwara State stadium for less than eighteen months after taking charge of the Afonja Warriors in July last year, the Englishman however has been on the radar of Sunshine Stars as well as the Pillars in the last few months with the Akure side making an approach for Beale last month which was rebuffed by the Birmingham born manager who has been widly praised for establishing an attractive possesion based style of play in Kwara as well as earning plaudits for allowing younger players to shine in a league that is dominated by the 30+

Kano currently sit fourth in the NPL, fourteen points behind leaders Heatland FC despite pre-season hopes of mounting a title challenege, leading to the dismisal of Solomon Ogbeide last week wheras Beale's United side are tenth, riding the wave of an impressive run of results.
It is beleived that Beale is keen to take his compatriot assistant Paul Ashworth with him to his new job, it is thus far unclear as to whether fomer Skonto Riga manager and Kwara academy director Ashworth is intrested in following to Kano.