Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Back in the big time Middlesbrough FC
Back in the big time Middlesbrough FC
Not going to dance it up with loads of images, press conferences etc. Keep it simple. Im Middlesbrough FC, a team I always start as on FM2013, yet always manage to fail and end up starting another game as Man Utd to make things easy.
I know this game is new, and I played these friendlies before any patches came out but this was quite easily the worst pre-season Ive ever had on any football manager game (and ive played them all since 05, and CMs since 97/98 before that)
My first game was your bog standard friendly against the reserve team. A good game to get a morale boosting victory and a look at any reserves you might have overlooked whilst assessing your squads as you started the game.
After a terrible first half (in which I realised Id left Kevin Thomson, Grant Leadbitter, Luke Williams and Andre Bikey in the reserves) the first thing to happen was a given - Jonathan Woodgate hobbling off with an injury (6 weeks out with a fractured wrist). That was quickly followed by the opening goal, from Rhys Williams 1-0 to the first team squda. At this point I presumed the floodgates were about to open.
How wrong I was! Goals from Jason Steele (og) and Charlie Wyke in the last 10 ish minutes led me to my first defeat of the season (1-2). Heres the lowlights!
What followed in for the rest of pre-season was pretty much a disaster. Inbetween signing a few players I managed to lose 3, draw 2 and win just 1 friendly against Aberdeen (3-2).
