Marc. - Comments

Greetings folks. I'm currently in the midst of doing my own FM14 summer update and one of the things I want to introduce is the 5th tier that's being brought in for this coming season in Scotland.

Wh at's happening is the Lowland and Highland Leagues run in tandem over the season with the winners facing each other over 2 legs and the winner of that facing the bottom side in Scottish League 2 over two legs - the winner either being promoted or remaining in the bottom tier.

How do I go about doing this correctly?

Given what's happened in Scottish football of late it's a miracle Hibee hasn't topped himself yet.

He'll probably not get his contract renewed so can maybe see him going to Gateshead if they get promoted from the Conference.

He did well against Hearts on Wednesday, playing on the right wing. He's strong and quick, very direct too - he might work as a right back but i'm not sure Archie will want to try that out, especially with Jordan McMillan doing so well and Ross Meechan in the wings from the Under 20's.


As for that performance on Wednesday, first and second half were night and day - we didn't look like we were getting anything and were very sloppy defensively, cannot believe we just let Paterson saunter through for the opener, our weakness for set pieces made Wilson's goal all the more inevitable when it came about.

Archie deserves credit for changing the side the way he did, getting no-hopers [although not for the want of trying to fit in] like John Baird and bringing Lyle Taylor and adding Lee Mair have completely rejuvenated the side, that's not including the resurgence in form of Kallum Higginbotham and Kris Doolan.

Then there was Gary Fraser, bit of controversy with him earlier in the season with the nine-game ban but he's a major prospect, tremendous passing range and a stunning equaliser last night, we'll be fending off bids for him if he keeps up his form, luckily we have him contracted to 2016.

Finally won at home in the league for the first time since last April at the weekend there

George Moncur has joined us on loan from West Ham, he any good?

Whoever the Newcastle fan that keeps asking about Christie Elliot is, he bossed it against Celtic yesterday and was very unlucky not to score.

Hugely improved from last season.

Team: Partick Thistle
League Position: 10th

Star Man: Kris Doolan
Most Improved: Jimmy Craigen
Best Youngster: Aaron Taylor-Sinclair
Most Disappointing: Steven Lawless. Though he has had a resurgence in recent weeks.

Best Game: Beating Ross County 3-1 going on six or seven.
Best Goal: Kris Doolan's goal at Inverness, had to be 15-20 pass move before excellent shimmy and finish
Worst Game: Getting horsed at Aberdeen, losing 5-1 to Motherwell was painful but we showed some glimpses of quality in that game, less so about the match at Pittodrie.

How's the manager doing? He's starting to struggle though he went out after the Motherwell game and brought in Lyle Taylor on loan, prone to tactical naiivety at times but we've never played absolutely stinking in many games this season. I'll give him the season and if we stay up, review his position then. It's his first full season as a manager and seemed a bit of a reluctant hero.

What player do you want in January? We've not been scoring many goals so a striker, which we now have, was one priority. We need cover in midfield and defence as well.

Where will you finish? 10th.

Overall Grade: B-

B- because I never expected us to tear up trees this season though we could well have had we taken the chances we've missed. Bar one or two here and there, our entire side has no experience in the top flight.

I'm at my wits fucking end with FM14. The new tactics setup has made it impossible to play..

Markus Henriksen, formerly of Roseborg, just posted this very well made Gingerbread house on twitter

Markus Henriksen, formerly of Roseborg, just posted this very well made Gingerbread house on twitter

Novelty of this Premier League business has worn off a wee bit, let us win please.

Eagerly awaiting this. Beautiful as always Tom.

Bollocks. Thought you could change it like in the previous games.

Is there any way I can change the tactics thing to the old way of doing it? I cannot get used to the new way at all.

Think you'll bounce back next season Franck?

Stromsgodset are on course to win the league and Tromso on course to go down.

Anyone know how to fix the problem where, if you try to download the Dark skin after having subscribed to it via Steam workshop, your game goes into "Not Responding" and ultimately crashes?

Were you not lucky to stay in business the last time you got relegated?

Aye. Former Celtic player Jimmy Johnstone had it as well and seeing his decline was very sad.

Ricksen is just 37 and isn't long retired from football, what a dreadful situation for his family.

Horrible news about Fernando Ricksen.

It's good to see, however, that both halves of the Old Firm have came together for once and actually have been decent over this instead of petty point scoring.

Asking this for a friend, he's ordered the game and it has been dispatched but he wants to know if he can play the game at midnight without the disk on Steam.

Is this possible?

I'll be there anaw.

Not sure whether to be nervous or excited for tomorrow.

Celtic are the biggest and best team in Scotland, defending champions etc. so it'll be a massive test for our players but if we can keep them at bay I think we have every chance of nicking something if Lawless, Doolan or Higgy are able.

That said this is the first time I'll be seeing us play Celtic in a competitive game, around 10,000 at the game will surely be a special day. After all, these are the games you look forward to.

Another away win for us then.

Just need to take Celtic down a few pegs to get that elusive first home win and i'm totally okay with that

Neither did I...

*Apart from my missus obviously

You seem surprised. St. Mirren are fucking rank.

You planning to come through for the game at Firhill?

Is it possible to give a team a points deduction without a real-time editor or using the nation rules?

I've just won promotion to the Adeccoligaen in Norway with Lyn FK, the successor club of Lyn Oslo who played at Bislett Stadion.

My "new" ground is being upgraded with undersoil heating and have been moved to the Voldslokka Stadion for 9 months, having researched it looks abandoned.

How come I've been moved here and not back to Bislett, where the club played before?

He looks like a Scooby Doo villain.