I, like probably a lot of other players in this game have watched this season degenerate into a bit of a joke in terms of results, tactics, yellow and red cards and once again injuries. I understand this is supposed to imitate real life football management but you cannot account for a game engine that does not distinguish between teams or tactics. I played in the cup and got a creditable away draw with 60-40 possession in my favour. In the return leg I get battered 1-4 using exactly the same team and formation but giving away possession 60-40. I'm at home watching, my opponent is not. Granted he was 2 levels above me but not in terms of quality. His formation and team were exactly the same so can someone explain the inconsistencies???
Next and what I have now got really frustrated with, the old tackles to fouls ratio and the number of yellow and red cards I've been receiving this season. As I ranted earlier one of my players commits 1 foul and is booked, my opponent commits 5 and is just spoken to. I am using easy tackling as I had so many yellows and red cards in the first few games I couldn't risk anymore offences. It didn't matter I was still commiting more fouls than my opponents. 15 tackles 16 fouls??? 12 tackles 14 fouls...... my opponents making 24 tackles with just 3 fouls. Come on, really, are my opponents really that good at tackling. Especially when they are 10-15 quality less than me.
Now the good old injuries conundrum. Do you let a player heal before you bring them back. I thought yes I'll do that. So my star striker from last season gets done by an opponent ( no booking or telling off for them) and I lose him for 15 days. I let him heal by himself and gently re-introduce him as a sub in his first game back. Bad idea he gets done again ( and again no cards for opponent) this time for 10 days. Right I'll let him heal again by himself and introduce him as a sub in his first game back. Might I say he is at full health and morale. You probably feel a "I know what's coming moment". Yes he gets done again and is out for another 8 days. I finally get him through a game and lo and behold I've now lost my other striker. God it doesn't get any better. Also 2 MC's out of 3 injured and AMR and AML both injured so not really a lot of attacking options left!!!! Thank God my defence is standing firm as 3 of them are playing out of postion.
So what do I do now as I watch my team capitulate to teams that last season would get nowhere near me. Think I'll just switch off and let Nordeus decide what happens to my teams this season. I've watched my mates team in the same league as me win game after game even though he has not watched any of them due to being out of the country, scoring for fun, while I struggle to score against a team that is 25 quality and 3 stars less than my team. Get real Nordeus, you are starting to push people away from this game with your greed. If you cannot make the game as fair as possible, give it up and stop wasting peoples time and money!!!!!!
RANT OVER!!!!!!!
BTW MODS please do not edit this as it took me a while to get my points across and wouldn't like it edited!!!!