Assistant manager’s in-game comments : Truth or Troll ?

[Tactician]

From my experience, I would say it is probably like what Nik said - the A.M is like someone peeking into the opponents orders and so on, and giving you hints. During a period (early times of the assistant manager), the advice were more reliable - reliable in terms of positive effect in the match. A.M gives you an advice, you follow and you are rewarded. Another advice, you follow, and you are rewarded. Nowadays, it seems that the effect is less, and also many changes done in respect to the A.M advice go like unnoticeable and some even make things worst. In the case fixed results or pre-determined results, whatever you will be doing according to the assistant advice would be like pressing on the keys on a keyboard of which the cable has not been plugged.

There are some things that are really annoying though. For example, the A.M tells you to do A, and then the very next advice is to remove A. Examples are as follows. An advice in the game, is not to tackle hard, and then later tells you to tackle hard. First advice of a match, the opponent knows how to stop our counter-attacks, and then the very next advice: our fast players could break down the opponent's defence if we use counter-attacks. It is understandable that some instructions change as a game proceeds and may be the opposite of what was appropriate early in a match, but it cannot change that quick (between one advice and another - few minutes), and that too when you are playing against a team whose manager is not present (unless something else is changing the orders of the opposing team).

Another annoying thing is when you have a plan, and started the game with the plan, and you have to go completely against the plan because of the A.M and that only resulted to an undesirable match result.