Comments on: Mid-season negotiations 2012

By: gregdowns

gregdowns — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:32:32 +0000

stinger – It’s a burning issue for me as well. On the one hand I love the idea of the Superleague. On the other hand I don’t want the European side of the Treble to be devalued. I might compromise and put together a Superleague missing a couple of the big clubs.

Of course, I could always play with the Editor for a few hours and make *every* club a Big Club…. That’d probably be overkill though

Like I said, I’ll definitely post a list of clubs here before starting the Superleague, to see what people think of it.

By: gregdowns

gregdowns — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:26:40 +0000

David – that’s a very good point about the drawback of stocking Div2 with loads of Big Clubs. I think it would spoil Div1 for me when I eventually got there. That idea has to be thrown out.

When I start the Superleague I’ll post my club selections here before I start it properly and see what you all think.

Paul – glad you got to try out the PS3 demo. The full game is a little different from the demo, but it’s enough the same for you to have got a good idea of what they’ve tried to do with FIFA this year. I’ll say more about the whole PES/FIFA issue on the blog in due course.

On the topic of House Rules, I could go any way at any time with them. I won’t restrict on nationality, at least to begin with. I also don’t want to get into the situation of chopping and changing them all the time. At the moment I’ll probably go with not allowing myself any players I’ve had before (apart from some players who I’ve only had for one season or less – like Maldini and Beerens, who I’d want to see more of); and I’d limit my squad size to 25 or so players. I might have an under-21 rule as well. I wouldn’t be allowed to buy anyone over 21, but could have them in my squad for all of their careers as they aged. As PES2008 is so pace-oriented, I *might* also ban myself from buying any players with speed/acceleration stats over 80.

We’re looking at probably next Monday now when all this gets going. My current season will be over by Friday at the latest. Then I think instead of a FIFA week I’ll do a FIFA weekend.

By: stinger

stinger — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:13:07 +0000

The European issue has been the big thing holding me back from ever playing a Superleague in the past. The league will be as tough as anything but one you break into Europe you will probably only end up with about 4 sides that are likely to challenge you.

Chances are you would end up with the likes of Spurs, Everton, Lazio etc. who although are good teams are not likely to challenge you given you will be used to playing again the Real Madrid’s and Man United’s of this world

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:33:34 +0000

After your praise of FIFA08 downloaded them demo the other day for my PS3, must say does look alot better. But in all honesty I couldn’t get in to it properly just didn’t ‘feel’ right after played PES for so long.

As for house rules restricting to nationality is quite a good one. I’ve done it with english players before (no pouching signed players nor current internationals). That was hard. Might try doing one with only restricting to 3 countries (one from each continent)

Wish you luck in your challenge though.

By: david

david — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:15:14 +0000

the problem with that, is that once youre promoted, you know it’ll be a diddle to get to the top. once you can top Div2 youll be capable of topping Div1, no?

House rules may not be completely necessary if youre up against barcelona one day, then real madrid, then man u, then chelsea, then arsenal, then liverpool, then lyon, then bayern, then PSV, you get me? throw in the stamina issue, and the fact that if you want a treble youre gonna need to play 12games in 6weeks at one point (did i mention the stamina?).. it could be difficult enough