ChangNoi

With FM2008 arriving for Christmas I thought I would have one final FM Handheld Challenge. Can English Non League Team win the Champions League?

I have chosen Crawley Town as they start with -10 points, so this has to be worse team to pick?

As soon as I finish my first season I will report back. :cool:

ridley99

well i did it with FC United as you have seen. Its all about being able to spot the next generation of superstars via the regens and building a strong squad so that if your top players are injured/suspended you have players just as good to step into the team
Thats my advice

bbuullddoogg

Good luck!!!

ChangNoi

Do you have any advice on spotting the regens?

ridley99

after about the 3rd or 4th season do a player search and look at all the players 15-18 years old that play for lower teams you should spot a few as well as players in south america, eastern europe and small european teams.
Try using the expiring contracts to, if you see a player that you want dont offer a contract offer £0 to the club they will accept it and you will get the player asap.
hope this helps you.

bobby T

im trying this as well im grays

ChangNoi

Season One Update.

Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts
1st Crawley 46 36 5 5 119 43 76 103

Used Jambos Tactic and I won the league with two games to although it was very close and I was only 4 points in front of York. I am very happy with that as Crawley start the league on -10 points.

I was given 1K to spend so you have to get the loan players in. My fav team to get my loan players from is Portsmouth as they have lots of youngesters and are very happy for them to go out on loan. The players I got from Pompey are

DC Tom Roberts 18 and my best defender.
AM/F LC Jack Compton 18 great for the middle midfielder in Jambo's tactic or on the left wing.

I was able to buy both these players when their contacts were about to run out. Rather stupidly I offered them a contract instead of offering Pompey 0 for them. So in the end I had to pay a total of 140k for them both.

I did get one other player from Pompey but I have been unable to sign him so far.

AM/F RC Daryl Fordyce 19 year old. A very good player could be better than Compton if he was actually able to play more than one game. Just seem so to get too tried so I have have to rotate him and Compton to stop Fordyce get injured.

On thing I did notice was that I had several players who on returning for injury were never able to get back up to 100% fittness. So I had to play them in the 90% area as they never seemed to go higher. Anyone else had this?

OK season two here I come. Which I am expecting to be a lot tougher do to very little or zero money to be spent. Again it will have to be loan players.

LIVIforLife

im trying to take dumbarton to the spl. top of the league at christmas. challenge cup runners up. super tommy lennox is my heroe at the moment. (also my PE teacher)

Hillbily

can someone please explain the marking in jambo daves tactic

Hillbily

anyone