For the first team, the coach reports are fine, the report says who's quality and who's not that good (according to the coaches view anyway!).

The problem I have is with the reserves and under 18's. Every single coach report says that i should offload them right away as they're a bit crap. Even the ones with 5+ stars (admittedly silver stars, but they ARE the youngsters).

I understand that they may not be good enough for the first team, but they're definitely good enough for the reserves and the coaches don't seem to recognise this. My top reserve team striker played 41, scored 12, had 12 assists and 2 man of matches with an overall score of 7.10 so he IS good enough! (he's out of his depth in the first team tho unfortunately).

I've given up on the 'next patch'. It'll mainly focus on data update with perhaps one or two changes. If SI were serious about fixing the workings of the game then surely the Spanish registration bug would of been addressed sometime ago.

This isn't a winch as I'm enjoying FM2008 as the leagues I play in arent affected but as an experience FM/CM player I sense that the attitude of SI has changed in this release. In saying that though, I also think the attitude towards the game on these boards has changed considerbly too.

I can understand it for the reserves as essentially the reserves are there to back up the first team so saying they're not good enough when they're not is fair enough but for the youth team it would be better to take into account where they're at in their development.