Hey guys and welcome to our eighth Football Manager Stories Podcast. Are you struggling to get in the festive mood? Well spare an hour and listen to Darren and Jake chat X-mas memories, a little FM and enjoy our hilarious outtakes/bloopers. Whatever you do, don’t miss the end of this podcast, its worth the wait!
This is still of course an ongoing feature for the community and all the FMS Podcast’s will be available in the tab near the top of this site, through iTunes and in each episode post, but we’ll go into more detail in a minute. Let me start by introducing episode eight.
Hosts: Darren Smith and Jake Lenahan.
Duration: 1 hour 5 mins
Content: We’ll be highlighting the best FM13 stories from our Forum, talking about our in game experience and spreading some Christmas vibes. Then it’s quiz time and don’t miss our hilarious outtakes/bloopers, they’re worth the wait!
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As always we are happy to hear your thoughts, so if you have a specific question you’d like answering in the next Podcast, just leave a comment below. Not all the questions can be featured and only a handful will be chosen, we’ll basically pick the ones that we feel the other listeners will find interesting.
Karl Deighton
20 декабря, 2012 at 18:58
Great listen again guys, really funny.
Darren, I know what you’re on about with Crash Bandicoot Racing, it was a class game!
I have a question this time, will hopefully stop Gerald from asking some :D
When do you think you will stop playing FM, and would there be a reason for it?
Darren Smith
20 декабря, 2012 at 20:02
Thanks Karl, Crash Bandicoot Racing was great, happy memories :) We’ll definitely answer your question in the next episode.
Nick Sundin
20 декабря, 2012 at 21:07
Alright then, do you think 4-2-3-1 is overpowered on FM13, and aren’t agents/players greedy bastards on it, they won’t negotiate down a grand?!?
Darren Smith
20 декабря, 2012 at 21:09
Thanks for the questions, we’ll get to them in the next episodes.
Gaurav Chaddah
20 декабря, 2012 at 21:43
Hhahahhaa, I am just in stitches, that was hilarious, the banter is brilliant, best podcast yet to end 2012, thanks for the entertainment over the past few months lads, really good listen. That soccer game you mentioned towards the end Darren, I used to love, in fact still have a copy, might fire it up tomorrow. ;)
I have a question which is:
How do do guys approach a start of a new save, any in particular routine?
Thanks again guys and Merry Christmas, Darren just realiszed your birthday is on Saturday, so is mine! So Happy Birthday!
I look forward to the podcasts in 2013, that is providing the world doesn’t end tomorrow ;)
Darren Smith
21 декабря, 2012 at 11:55
Thanks Gaurav, glad you enjoyed the listen and get that Master System dusted off lol :)
We will address your question in the next episode, until then have a great Bday mate.
Paul Hart
20 декабря, 2012 at 22:16
Hi guys — enjoy listening to the pod!
I’m an old school CM/FM player — who was there from the start (the first game on one blue floppy disc in a cardboard box with a copy of ‘Fever Pitch’ chucked in for free).
Those were the halycon days — about 1992. Not a great d/base of players in modern standards, but in the first game, you could buy (if they’d come to you), 17 year old players like Sol Campbell and Robbie Fowler for £50k. Hardly a foreign transfer market at all — the height of exoticness for me in that first game was buying a left-back from France.
The game peaked for me around ’94/95/96′, when it had a significant revamp and I led the all conquering Boro (featuring Ravinelli, Juninho and 4 other Brazilian stars to a clean sweep of all 7 cups in one season). The stand-out player for me though was a steady Enlish centre-half called Steve Vickers who scored nearly 30 goals that season…
Ah, yes — what prompted me to write — questions!
I’ve only recently come back to the FM fold and wondered if you’d help me with 2 questions?
1. Nature or Nuture? — I normally pick a lower league side using the fictional name d/base. Would you place your limited resources for such a side into scouring the transfer market for the best possible frees and bargains, or would you place emphasis into hiring the best coaches you can and train and train your exisiting players? If it’s the nurture option — is their any chance of listing / linking a good training regime for others to look at?
2. Formations? — I’ve dabbled with a few but am still finding it a ‘black art’. Which formations work best for you guys and can you explain why?
Thanks!
-paul-
Darren Smith
21 декабря, 2012 at 11:57
Thanks for the questions Paul, we’ll definitely answer them in the next episode. Cheers.
Socrates81
21 декабря, 2012 at 09:12
Very funny guys, memorable as ever.
Paul’s post took me on a trip down memory lane. Do you remember the separate editions of CM2 for Spain and Italy? Also there was a flier in the original CM2 box for a legends edition, with classic players, that never actually came to fruition.
My question for the next pod is, would you like to see a special legends edition of FM?
Darren Smith
21 декабря, 2012 at 11:58
Thanks, glad you enjoyed. Not sure I can remember as far back as Paul and yourself TBH but we’ll certainly discuss a legends edition in the next episode.
saltwater
21 декабря, 2012 at 14:24
Trying to wait for Christmas Eve to listen to this but couldn’t resist :). Great Podcast again Jake and Darren, and the bloopers … wow. Just wow — I knew there were more mistakes then you were letting on. You’ve left yourselves with an impossibly high bar for 2013, so good luck!
Darren Smith
21 декабря, 2012 at 18:11
Haha, glad you liked it mate, the outtakes have been gathered over many months and all credit goes to Jake for compiling that into one very funny snippet.
NUFCdan
21 декабря, 2012 at 18:14
I listen to every fms podcast and this one was definately one of the best you youve done if not the best. Loved the chat about retro gaming. My dad told me once about playing Sonic on a megadrive!
I can currently think of a question at the moment I will try and think of one in the next few days so Gerald isnt asking a question!
Merry Christmas!
Darren Smith
21 декабря, 2012 at 21:22
Thanks Dan, we really don’t want to hear from Gerald ;)
Nick Sundin
22 декабря, 2012 at 22:17
Just a quick question, not one for the podcast, but is it just me or do players go on and score from mazy runs too regularly on this latest patch?
Darren Smith
23 декабря, 2012 at 08:54
I think that is fair to say yes, but for me it only tends to be the exceptional players that can do it.
Tony
10 февраля, 2013 at 16:31
Just discovered the podcast and downloaded all the episodes, really good listen!
One problem I’ve had is the volume. One of you sounds very loud while the other is very low, any chance you could adjust your levels? I listen with headphones so it’s a little difficult, especially the loud coughs.
Cheers guys.
Darren Smith
10 февраля, 2013 at 16:41
That’s very weird, we can’t hear that at all, there might be one or two of the early episodes that are like that but shouldn’t be very many TBH.