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In a couple of months with all the patches it might be decent but at the moment the only sides with realistic stats are the big 3 and even then their flawed, taking the histories away from players is annoying as well. Got some screenshots from the SI Games forums which should show the problems with the game pre-patch. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y5/Insanemadman/8-1.jpg http://photobucket.com/albums/y45/prawnballs/ Check this from the CM5 website. CM5 Patch Improvements and Bug Fixes Game Data: Includes all major transfers up until Sunday 6th March 2005. Updated managers - Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Improved English staff details. Added missing away colours - Turkey, Portugal & Spain lower leagues. Improvements to missing player position & side. Checked for and removed duplicate players. Improved realism of ticket prices at some clubs. Adjusted attendance details where average or maximum attendance was higher than stadium capacity. Added missing transfer windows. Amended CONCACAF Champions Cup timings. Amended Belgium comp timings. Amended Intertoto Cup timings. Amended WCQ CONCACAF timings. Improvements made to competition structures, rules and scheduling. Match Engine: Improved the overall quality of goals scored. A lot of the goals scored due to errors have been fixed. Fixed Corners being given Offside. Fixed goals being scored direct from Corners. Improved realism of the number of Penalties awarded and scored. Improved player Free-kick Accuracy when shooting. Players will now try and put these either side of the goalkeeper. Improved Player Ratings given for performances in matches. AI teams will try and Push Forward more when game is looking likely to be a draw. Improved the quality of Text Commentary. Fix issues to prevent ball was going through the Net. Increased the Accuracy and Quality of Good Strikers shooting. Decreased Goalkeeper Effectiveness for long diving saves. Decreased the likelihood of Long Shots when long shots instruction is disabled. Fixed Substitution issues with injured players Improvements made to highlights mode include: Improved the time taken for yellow and red cards. Improved the overall quality of highlights shown for fouls and injuries. User will see the tackle for the foul or which caused the injury. Added new 4-1-4-1 formation for the user to select. Transfers and Scouting: Players will now be automatically added to the users Shortlist when making transfer offers. Fixed Bosman Payments where clubs had to pay compensation for players over 24. Improvements made to Players Interested in clubs. Transfer offers can no be made for player who are Retiring. BOS icon will now be added to players who are leaving the club on bosman transfers. Fixed issues where offering a Contract to a Reserve or Youth player would move them into the first team. Improved the realism of Signing-on Fees for contract renewals. Improved the realism of Transfer asking price for players with long term contracts. Fixed Contract renewals where clubs were constantly renewing contracts for players on short term contracts Fixed to prevent clubs offering new contracts to players with Confirmed Transfers. Fixed issue where Contract renewals are subject to transfer windows. Fixed issue where clubs thought they had made transfer offers and never bid again. Reduced the processing times of Transfer Offers andWork Permit approvals. Fixed issues with Transfer Windows. Scouting will no longer report back on Injured Players. Improved user feedback when a player Is Not Interested in signing for the Users club. Loan listed players will now be taken off the list at a suitable time. Club Board Features: Improved Board Veto on Large Transfer fees. Improved Board Requests. These are now more likely to be granted. Board Expectations will now consider previous season performance. Improvements made to the Board Messages sent to the user. Managers now have Realistic Contracts when joining smaller clubs. Fixed blank Board Opinion messages. User will now be Sacked if there are no other staff members. AI clubs will now Retain or Replace Staff Members. Club Finances: Fixed issue with Transfer Budget where season 2 and beyond budgets were only a fraction of the first seasons. A Club will now have a similar transfer budget if they have the money in the bank. Fixed issue where all Non Selected Clubs were goingBankrupt within 5 seasons. Improved realism of the TV revenue given to clubs. News and Media: Changed Font colour to make reading messages easier on the eye. Improved the quality of the Loan new messages. User will no longer see Press Speculation for players who have Agreed Transfers. Fixed incorrect Form team being displayed in the Scout Next Opposition news report. Improved the quality of Qualification and Elimination messages for cup competitions. User will now get messages when Winning competitions. Fans and Board will also comment on Winning important competitions Game User Interface: Added Missing Player Stats onto the Player Search Filters. Added TRN and BID status icons to players. Improved in-game Tool tips. Squad screen now disallows Squad Selection when the Assistant Manager is assigned to select first team. Fixed instances where Menus could appear of the right Hand side of the screen. INT icon no longer appears when viewing an International squad. Fixed issues with Sorting on the user shortlist. Players out of contract now display '-' instead of contract details on squad screen. Fixed overlap when more than 10 players are selected for Tactical duties. Improvements made to the Player Comparison screen. Improvements made to the Submit Offer screens. Made Player Exchange buttons viewable in the submit offer screen. Improvements made to Major Clubs screen and this now displays clubs from all continents. Added Filter to European Squad Registration screen. Improved Average Ratings player screens. Added INF icons to the competition league tables.

Got CM 5 earlier today, after playing it for a few hours I'd say I'm glad I got it for 3 quid(gave 2 ps2 games in) because even though it's fast(up to March already) it's more of a console game(think Premier Manager) than a PC one. Some of the research for the lower league teams is bad, we probably suffer worst. Players like Dinning,Bell,Doherty,Murray,Fortune,Wilkshire and Amankwaah are given wrong posistions, we aren't in debt and we're "looking at Relegation" Some of the values are also weird, You can get Mart Poom for 250k and Julio Arca for just over a million but if you somehow wanted to buy Michael Ricketts you'd need at least 2.2 million. Edit: Found a Derby screenshot, having seen them on SKY a few times I can't really see to much wrong with their research. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y45/prawn.../derbysquad.jpg

What was the deal with Rick Martel from 91-94? He was gone from May 91 until December, left in the spring of 93 until his tv return for the IC Title Battle Royal before leaving again in the Spring of 94.

I felt the exact same when we were away at Luton and Bradford.

Who actually knocked Forest out that year? Edit: Keegan "leaves" City Interesting if true.

Just like the quality of Division 1/Championship has gone down since 99(which was also a good Premiership Season) when a certain club from Bristol got relegated. I'm glad Forest are starting to win, I'd guess you'd be Top 2 in our League while Coventry,Brighton or Plymouth would be Play Offs at best giving us in theory a better chance of being in the Championship in 2006.

Thank god Rovers didn't make the final, we've heard them for weeks talking about Cardiff and they fail when it matters. Edit: Milan,Chelsea and Lyon were all great tonight, Nesta had Rooney in his pocket for 180 minutes.

Big Bubba Rogers was in it as well. Edit: You left out Horace Hogan and the Disciple.

I think he got one of those "next week we'll see in action a newcomer here to the WWF, the Ultimate Warrior" intros at the end of Challenge when they were hyping the show for the next week. His actual debut was on Wrestling Challenge sometime in October. Was that steel chain thing with Hercules his debut? I honestly am fuzzy on the debut of Warrior. -=Mike The Hercules thing was in February, Warrior was mainly involved in squash matches from his debut until then and his only competitive tv matches were a 10 man battle royal on Superstars(won by Bam Bam Bigelow) and the 88 Royal Rumble.

I think he got one of those "next week we'll see in action a newcomer here to the WWF, the Ultimate Warrior" intros at the end of Challenge when they were hyping the show for the next week. His actual debut was on Wrestling Challenge sometime in October.

Today was the worst performance I've seen since the 1-5 against Blackpool in 02, I felt so sorry for Steve Brooker up front, he gave 100 percent as always but was let down by the others. The saddest thing was that a lot of us knew we'd be in for a hiding at Luton if we didn't get in a Centre Back who can actually head a football.

Not during a match, all he did was use his Voodoo Stick to shoot sparks(used on PTW against guys like El Matador,Crush and even Repo Man) despite being able turn off the arena lights(used when his opponent's feet were set on fire) at will and giving opponents stomach cramp(happened to Warrior) which he could have used when in trouble in a match.

I liked it when he'd use the Netherlands Antilles. Edit: I think he had Hyannis Port as well.

Why Papa Shango wouldn't use his "voodoo powers" during a match.

He also paid off Howard Finkel and was the guy who financed the Brother Love show. Edit: He also helped Bossman,Jimmy Hart and Hercules turn Face.

WCW Worldwide in 92 had loads, It's been great watching them recently over here on Sky and you can see the improvement from 90-91. The Kip Frye era was good as the main events usually involved the Dangerous Alliance vs. Windham/Rhodes/Bagwell/Steamboat and once Bill Watts came along you'd get some good tag matches, great interviews with Jake and Cactus and fun 1 minute squashes with Vader,Barbarian and Gordy/Williams. January 26th had Steamboat/Zybszko, Eaton/Bagwell and Young Pistols vs. Z-Man and Pillman February 8th had another Steamboat/Zybszko and Vader/Sting(one of their 1st matches) March 7th had Windham/Austin,Rhodes/Smothers and Z-Man/Taylor Made Man Edit: check Classicwrestlingreports.com(only works on internet Explorer unfortunately) for some recaps of WCW Worldwide from 90-92

Speaking of Rude, his Cage match with Piper is pretty good as well.

On a Bret Hart tape(not sure if it was released in the usa) there's a pretty good match against Fatu(from Raw in 93)

Akinbiyi in the top 20 when he was playing for us 5 years ago would have been a stretch but now it's a joke. Yeovil getting 2 players in is nice recognition for their great season yet they leave out Gavin Williams who was their best player and joined West Ham for 250k a few weeks ago. Trundle isn't even the best player in League 2 yet he's rated higher than Lita,Jevons,Parkin,Furlong,Howard,Huddlestone,Windass,Wellens,Webber and Maclean who are all in a higher division doing well or have scored more than him this season.

Ron Bass used the Pedigree without the underhook in his WWF squashes in 87-88.

Have any of your sides ever been to the Millennium stadium? we've been twice and won 1 lost 1, In hindsight I wish we'd lost the 03 LDV final and won the Play Offs instead. Saw this in Four Four Two and laughed at some of the names included.It's the "50 best players outside the premiership" 1. Steve Sidwell (Reading), 2. Nathan Ellington (Wigan), 3. Darren Bent (Ipswich), 4. Teddy Sheringham (West Ham), 5. Jason Roberts (Wigan), 6. Danny Gabbidon (Cardiff), 7. Jimmy Bullard (Wigan), 8. Julio Arca (Sunderland), 9. Stuart Elliott (Hull), 10. Leighton Baines (Wigan), 11. David Healy (Leeds), 12. Phil Jagielka (Sheff U), 13. Lee Trundle (Swansea), 14. Nigel Reo-Coker (West Ham), 15. Paul McKenna (Preston), 16. Curtis Davies (Luton), 17. Ade Akinbiyi (now Burnley), 18. Andy Longergan (Preston), 19. Aaron Lennon (Leeds), 20. Leroy Lita (Bristol C), 21. Steve Howard (Luton), 22. John Halls (Stoke), 23. Lee Johnson (Yeovil), 24. Nick Barmby (Hull), 25. Sam Parkin (Swindon), 26. Dan Harding (Brighton), 27. Phil Jevons (Yeovil), 28. Tom Huddlestone (Derby), 29. Lee Camp (Derby), 30. Paul Ince (Wolves), 31. Dean Windass (Bradford), 32. Dave Kitson (Reading), 33. Stephen Elliott (Sunderland), 34. Iain Hume (Tranmere), 35. Luke Steele (Coventry), 36. Ryan Taylor (Tranmere), 37. Heidar Helguson (Watford), 38. Leon Knight (Brighton), 39. Steven MacLean (Sheff Wed), 40. Nathan Clarke (Huddersfield), 41. Danny Webber (Watford), 42. Paul Furlong (QPR), 43. Darren Currie (Ipswich), 44. Jamal Campbell-Ryce (Rotherham), 45. Paul Hayes (Scunthorpe), 46. John Ruddy (Cambridge), 47. David Vaughan (Crewe), 48. Richie Wellens (Blackpool), 49. David Noble (Boston), 50. Jamie Brooks (Oxford)

1-1 at home to Blackpool, Phillips cost us the goal by punching a cross straight to Wellens, I'd drop him but we've only got Jonathan Gould(who used to play for Celtic) as reserve and at his age and with him having only joined in midweek it seems that he wouldn't do much better.

I wasn't trying to say you were an Everton, I meant that since he's signed he's got your other forwards scoring and has chipped in with goals himself. Burley has done a great job considering your lack of money, picking up Idiakez and Reich was a good move. Edit: Lee Camp looks promising, last year he looked good playing for QPR against us and I'm surprised they didn't make more of an effort to sign him on a permanent deal.

As a City fan I'd say Derby would have been better than the Forest side(which was still great) had Clough stayed, Clough even admits leaving Derby was a mistake in his 2nd book. Championship Table Derby are doing great, but without Rasiak they'd be midtable. Forest are doing crap but will stay up because of Plymouth,Gillingham and Rotherham being worse.

On Wrestling Challenge whenever Heenan and Monsoon would discuss Race's injury, a picture of Race's face(surrounded by purple clouds) would appear in the bottom corner of the screen.