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See, you pretend to be old, but actually I’m genuinely ancient. Far too old to be spending evenings in front of FM23! But I’ve been hooked since the original Kevin Toms Football Manager which I think was a Commodore 64 game. 
 

And anyway, that’s what divorces are for aren’t they? To re-prioritise time-management 😂

Thanks for that sly kick in the balls mate haha!! 🙂 Here's one for you then: (I've asked Miles and he doesn't know), when was the Addictedness Rating introduced? Sometime mid-to-late 90s is the closest I can narrow it down to, so CM something. Did you buy Championship Manager Italy, a completely standalone game? I KNOW I've still got it somewhere. Just so I could be Imola. Gathering dust with Radiohead cassette singles.

(Blue Monday by New Order was released closer to the end of WW2 than to today. 40 years old and still sounds like it could've been recorded yesterday. You're very welcome)

Sorry, I meant to specify I'd deleted the FM22 ones, and add that I'd swapped my fantasy Derby kits from Champ to L1 inc configs.

What I'd forgotten to factor in is that I'm stupid.

I've been here since the ARSE command was a thing and yet manage to forget the basics each year.

Feel free to point, laugh, and make that noise people make when someone does something REALLY stupid. 

Now I have FLUT dark appearing in preferences. Thank you though, I HAVE deleted the FM22 ones in case they were messing with it.

1: Even though I can change the option somewhere so that 'Run as admin' was ticked Yes, it doesn't let me do so. So I don't even reach stage 1.

I've copied the whole graphics folder from C:Users/Blah/Blah manually from /Docs/SI/FM22 to the same except added FM23, but for some reason the skin showing in preferences only shows the default Football Manager skin. Kits, badges, cities, stadiums are all fine. Strange. I know I'm missing something simple, but I'm completely stumped. I've tried in FM23/skins and also FM23/graphics/skins, but still nothing.

Oh my goodness thank you so much! You're a genius

If anyone could possibly put this image (worn in pre-season matches and never sold), on Derby County's kits sometime if they get chance, you can basically have my son and my wife and my house, that's how grateful I'd be. Thanks in advance if anyone can.

I use their Bob Marley kit on FIFA23. Definitely one of the best kits of all time IMO (Although I hate the mainly red away kit)

Thank you so much! They’re fantastic!! It’s 2025 and we’re THAT bad, even Netflix are prepared to spend money to broadcast our public humiliation. And somewhere close by, the spirit of Brian Clough is STILL raging about that one time his defence ‘played out from the back’ 😂

Seriously mate thank you so much

I’m sorry I bumped this. I just realised it’s a month/old request and I didn’t add the picture right. Thanks and apologies 

Mate they’re excellent! I’m not a Man U fan, but I loved the green and yellow one, maybe because of the symbolism behind it, the history. Keep going! I had to have a fire-sale last Christmas and sold all the shirts I’ve ever had for Derby, growing in size as I grew up, along with programmes and newspapers from both our champion wins, but I sold them to a bloke who had a massive tattoo of Clough and Taylor at The Baseball Ground, holding up the trophy.

The fact I knew it was all going to a good home was the ONE good thing about having to resort to selling precious memorabilia, to be able to buy food.  

Derby County new sponsor/charity as from today. Personally hate the green on white (should be black IMO) L-R: Home, away, keeper, 3rd

Is it possible when someone has the time, if someone could add Netflix or even better, somehow, this, to the current derby kits, I have no idea how you manage to do such amazing work.

I can't even crop that big picture, sorry for the mess. Thank you so much

Mate, you're a star, thank you. Just spent half an hour wondering why it wasn't showing before I remembered the golden rule and changed Derby to derby!! Sigh 

Cheers bud

Is there any possible way of making a 3D version of this, or am I better just waiting and borrowing the 3D kit from there? Sorry if my other request (for a sponsor on a 22/23 kit) was put in the right requests thread. I'm really sorry if it is. Anyway, the kit is Derby, this shirt, black shorts, white socks. Thank you so much in advance if anyone is able to help.

Is there any chance of someone making these but sponsored by Netflix please? Thanks in advance for any help. I can wait to get the plain 3D kits that FM23 will have. Thank you so much, if anyone can.

Edit to add: Sorry if I've posted this in the wrong thread. Wasn't sure whether it went here or the Real Kits Request thread.

Do you have a rough timetable for England EPL down to L2? Thank you. Sorry if someone else has already asked

As the title says really. I'm Derby, currently in League One (I have a LOT of leagues running view-only, so it's a loooong-running but slow savegame).

My deal expired: now in the finances bit, front shirt sponsorship just isn't there. Does anyone know how this game mechanic works? (I have replacement shirts someone kindly made for me). Does my director of football sort this? 

Any help gratefully appreciated, or info as to how this works, before I swap the current shirts to the new one. Is it an end of season/database update July thing, done when all teams and divisions are refreshed? I know I could just add one using the ingame editor, but I don't want to do this, I want it to occur naturally. This is my new kit but I don't want to use it until I get a news item regarding it. Hope I've explained this ok.

Thanks

I'm having a complete nightmare trying to get this to work on Gamepass. Nothing is where it is on Steam, and I've watched the video over and over. I'm not even finding the installer.

Mate you’re an absolute legend. Thank you so much. Works perfect

Not much of anything does til people get around to updating their hard work.

Thank you so much! If the stadium pics have to be limited to one, that just alternates between itself, I'd rather use the jpg sunny day one. My pride Park has two, although I'm not sure how to do this. Thank you, you'll add probably 100 hours entertainment for me by fixing this. I've spent more time messing with pics than I have playing! So with what you send me back do I just use the original sortitoutsi config straight from Winrar?

Cheers

Tom

Thanks. Sorry 

I've just that and no joy, to be honest if I keep my copy config separate I can always try and make sure that's deff no duplicates, but I have checked that numerous times. I'm guessing somehow I've duplicated it. It was fine when did Create A Club, then as soon as level 11 was released I went from there. Is there any way of deleting/swapping those COMING SOON photos? I'd use say, I dunno, Brentford, for if I ever make it big, in a decade or whatever. 

Before when I clicked my under 23s it was showing the correct picture but I'm guessing duplications are my issue. I've not really got anything to lose if I re-extract the original .xls file have I? Other than adding the lines as I have them with your corrections?

You know when you've been faffing with something so long you eventually somehow break it? I seem to have done that

Pinxton, using the England tier 11. I’ve got two of my own pics of the ground. I’m fine with using just one if I have to, but I’ve got no idea how to, I’m sure I managed to get one to show up and the ‘coming soon’ which I thought well I'll just have to deal with that, hey ho. (OCD in full effect 🙂 )

What I probably need to do is re-extract the stadiums mega pack config but I don’t ideally want to overwrite my existing one, which has different pictures of various grounds and cities of clubs in likely to use, so if I know exactly what lines I’m supposed to add to the config.xml.

Club ID: 90065338, Stadium ID: 2000147172.

Pinxton, playing in the Central Midland League Premier Division South

At the bottom of the massive config file, I've added the following lines, and pasted those numbered photos into those folders. The kits work fine, logo, city, team city backgrounds all work fine.

               <record from="stadium_backgrounds/90065338" to="graphics/pictures/stadium/20001474721/stadium"/>
               <record from="stadium_insides/90065338" to="graphics/pictures/stadium/20001474721/stadium"/>
               <record from="stadium_backgrounds/90065338" to="graphics/pictures/stadium/20001474721/stadium"/>
               <record from="team_city_backgrounds/8601379" to="graphics/pictures/club/8601379/background"/>     
               <record from="team_city_backgrounds/90065338" to="graphics/pictures/club/90065338/background"/>

Maybe it's the commands above that are somehow wrong, or need changing, something I'm missing. Thank you so much for having a look.

Edit: Ignore the command mentioning 8601379, that's just the next village along, where all my mates live. Team are in the same league

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Can someone possibly help me? I'm using the English level 11 pack, my stadium just shows the `coming soon' logos. I've tried adding them to the existing config.xml, and also tried creating a custom backgrounds folder with it's own config. No matter what I seem to try, the stadium doesn't appear, although it DOES if I click my Development Centre button, there it is, the full page stadium background. Where can I be going wrong?

I've put the right files in stadium_backgrounds' and stadium_insides' but having no joy at all

Can someone possibly help me? I'm using the English level 11 pack, my stadium just shows the `coming soon' logos. I've tried adding them to the existing config.xml, and also tried creating a custom backgrounds folder with it's own config. No matter what I seem to try, the stadium doesn't appear, although it DOES if I click my Development Centre button, there it is, the full page stadium background. Where can I be going wrong?

Oh yeah I remember, he sent someone to watch us train! That’s our one saving grace, our youth academy is a good one.

If we go down, we go down. I’d hope we’d win more than we’d lose

I don’t mind relegation (we’ll know by March 5th whether we’ve got a chance of staying up, football-wise). I’m that desperate I’d even take Mike Ashley’s money rather than disappear forever 

All I know is that hopefully today we’ll be receiving three official bids, which we’re putting to the EFL. 
it’s a loooong way back, I know that. Ask Sunderland, Blackpool, Pompey, Bradford, Forest etc. Our own stupid fault: we did what Leeds did: gambled on a promotion that didn’t happen, like Leeds gambled on a Champions League spot all those years ago now. Til Bielsa turned up and had you playing like Brazil 1970 👏🏻 Fair play to him