Strikerless
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Downloads; Chrissy’s Remix
Let me start off by saying this is NOT my own tactical work, but work by Chriss Ross, who uses the forum-handle Chrissy and whom you can follow on Twitter @Chrissy_Ross_. Chrissy has gratiously revamped my tactic and turned it into a more defensively stable formation, which looks like this. Change-list; – Box-to-box midfielders’s for […]
A Brief Interlude
Dear loyal readers, by now you will have noticed I have not updated in a while. Whilst I am by no means obliged to explain myself, I feel compelled to do so regardless. In my experience, a well-chosen picture is worth a thousand words. You’re about to receive a thousand words in a single picture. […]
Making Even More Money In Pre-Season
In an earlier article I described how you could turn your pre-season friendlies into a way to make some serious money. As I mentioned in the closing paragraph of that article, I was experimenting with earning some serious money. Over the past few seasons in FM14, I have experimented with two tours in various countries, […]
Tactical Fouling; A Side-Effect To Counter-Pressing
One of the downsides of the strikerless style is the amount of space you give away. Because I want the team to play compact, I want them to push forward. Naturally, this means you tend to concede the odd goal when a cross or direct pass finds space behind the defensive line for a forward […]
An In-Depth Analysis Of The Enganche In A Strikerless Formation
A twitter conversation a few days back re-sparked my interest in the enganche role within a strikerless formation. The actual conversation focussed on player roles we wanted in FM15. I opted for the Withdrawn Targetman, which is basically the role I want my Targetganche to fill right now. Basically, we wanted a cross-pollination of the […]
How To Prepare For A World Cup In FM
International management in FM is one of those subjects not many people write about. To be fair, I have always considered it a welcome distraction to get through the summer months in FM, when I was unable to organise friendlies and I had completed my transfer market antics. At best, it was a good way […]
Why Wing-Backs Are Hardly Ideal To Start The Build-Up Play
Part of the aggressive style of pressing I love to use, is the way I make the forward line take to the field. Positioning properly is half the battle after all. What I want to achieve is that the opposition either hoofs the ball forward or plays it out to the wings, to make the […]
The Quest for 129: Creating the Gegenpress in FM
Originally posted on The Coffeehouse: FM Discussion: It’s been a while. I’m still with Wolves. It’s 2036. I guess a good place to start would be to give you the end results on the guys who ‘made it’, from my youth development series. If you haven’t been following it then I recommend you skip the next…
They Fixed The Exploit; Well Done!
In a previous post, I described an exploit that allowed you to spawn top newgens. With the release of the new patch, I wanted to see if the exploit was still in place or if they had actually bothered to fix it. The method still works, the players that are produced are just crap nowadays. […]
The Withdrawn Targetman Saga; The Rise Of The Targetganche™
As I mentioned in a previous post, I was in dire need of a Plan B for my strikerless formations. The idea I had was to mix up Stoke City under Pulis, an aggressive, direct style of play, with the fluid motions of the strikerless style I normally play. With opposing teams ceding their wings to […]
The Withdrawn Targetman Saga; Before Success Comes Some Sort Of Failure Apparently
As I mentioned in a previous post, I was in dire need of a Plan B for my strikerless formations. The idea I had was to mix up Stoke City under Pulis, an aggressive, direct style of play, with the fluid motions of the strikerless style I normally play. With opposing teams ceding their wings […]
Creating A Plan B; The Withdrawn Targetman Saga
Having the strikerless style pretty much tailored to suit the strengths of my team, I have dominated the Dutch league and Europe over the past decade or so. More and more teams are changing their style to try and combat my strikerless formation. On the one hand, that’s a huge compliment to my effective style […]
Just some match clips; because I love the way we can play at times
Because sometimes, a picture (or movie) is worth a thousand words. This is what we want to achieve. The clips just display what I want to see. Aggressive pressing, excellent runs off the ball to create space for others, creating overloads in midfield and on the wings, a cohesive team which operates as a block […]
What the hell is wrong with half-backs?
The term “half-back” fell out of use by the early 1970s and “midfield” was used in naming the positions that play around the middle third as in centre midfield and wide midfield. The centre midfield position has evolved further with the attacking midfield and defensive midfield variants being recognised in their own right. How-ever, the […]
Strikerless; my Magnum Opus
Have any of you perhaps played FM Live? Probably not and the game, despite all of its brilliant potential, is now as dead as Joey Barton’s career prospects for England. During its existence however, I was introduced to the dreaded 4-6-0 tactic, or as it was known in many GameWorlds, “a fucking cheat” or “an […]
Welcome to my blog
I blame FM14 for this blog. Just when I thought I was out, it pulled me back in. FM14 has me hooked, so much even I decided to start blogging about it. I’m not sure if I’ll draw much of a crowd, but it’s good to share my addiction with others. The name is Strikerless, […]