True Football Manager

Dear readers,

I continue to make a squad revolution in my Q.P.R. story. Frankly speaking, I had no so many squad changes in all my FM careers. So it takes much time. Especially difficult task is finding new central backs. But you will know the results in the next post. Now I would like to start discussion regarding favourite FM 2012 features.

Here is my rating.

1. 3D Match Engine

Obviously, for me it’s always number one. I see the result of all my previous actions in the game. The game engine is very realistic in spite of several animation bugs. It’s always so entertaining to watch matches and make some changes influencing your team!

2. Shortcuts

I know some of you don’t use keyboard shortcuts at all. I am a software developer. Therefore any working environment is much eased by numerous shortcuts. The same can be said about Football Manager 2012. My most often used shortcuts are:

- Space (Continue Game)

- Backspace, Left/Right arrows (Screen Navigation)

- F3 (First Team Squad)

- F4 (Inbox)

- F6 (Shortlist)

- F10 (First Team Matches)

- Shift+W (Wage Budget)

- Shift+O (Club Finances)

- Ctrl+R (Match Preparation)

3. Team report

Excellent addition to Football Manager 2012! It shows a lot of information about your team totally. You can find out the weakest positions, analytics about goals and tactics, squad comparison with other teams in the league.

4. Customizable views

I merely love using this feature. It’s so convenient when you are dealing with different player lists.

Just create a new view for my shortlist. By the way, you can see my actual shortlist on the screen shot below.

5. Player roles and duties

Want to thank SI Games for adding roles and duties few years ago. They helped to improve our communication because it’s much easier to explain how I use my striker saying ‘Poacher’ instead of long explanation of his player instructions.

6. Attributes history

This is what I had been asking them for many years. Happy to have this information about every player trained in my team!

Now it’s your turn. What your favourite features in FM 2012?

Excited to blog for you,

Vitaliy Mokosiy

Hello all,

great changes in Q.P.R. story are ahead. Today’s post will become a squad revolution launcher with your help. Really, friends, I need your advices.

We will start with QPR players who have already been suddenly sold.

I pre-sold Cosic earlier during the 2nd half because he wasn’t needed anymore and wanted to be in the first eleven. It’s OK.

The loss of Breinburg was caused by my vacation leave for the first half of June. I went on it to get quicker to the season expectations message and transfer budget. Moreover, I didn’t know if I continue the story because of the post written later on. As far as we see, Q.P.R. board didn’t want reject so generous bid from Arsenal. Epic fail! It’s sad to loose one of the best players and get a hole in defence… But anyway I am going to make a squad revolution and adapt a new tactics!

Good news that board is giving a lot of money for a promise to qualify into the next year’s Champions League!

Current Q.P.R. squad

OK, let’s take a look at the current squad. I need to decide regarding players who should leave the team in summer.

Here the team report created by my assistant manager.

I created 4 slideshows with all the first squad players for you convenience. You can investigate any of them just right now.

Goalkeepers ПРОСМОТРЕТЬ ПОКАЗ СЛАЙДОВ ЗАГРУЗИТЬ ВСЕ

Defenders ПРОСМОТРЕТЬ ПОКАЗ СЛАЙДОВ ЗАГРУЗИТЬ ВСЕ

Midfielders ПРОСМОТРЕТЬ ПОКАЗ СЛАЙДОВ ЗАГРУЗИТЬ ВСЕ

Forwards ПРОСМОТРЕТЬ ПОКАЗ СЛАЙДОВ ЗАГРУЗИТЬ ВСЕ

Vadillo, Diame, and Garmash were not shown in the slideshows above because all of them will leave Q.P.R. after loans for future fee. Though as far as I know, clubs that loaned them can reject buying in the end…

Wage budget and player contracts

Wages are always important when you make a squad review.

Who should leave Queens Park Rangers?

First of all it depends on a tactical formation I am going to use. This time I want to experiment with 3-4-3 schemes. Have to confess it’s going to be one of these two:

The most obvious thing we see in a moment - Q.P.R. needs central backs and forwards. But it’s not important right now because the first problem to resolve is:

Whom should I sell?

Well, I have many candidates for that. Don’t really want to share my minds just right now because I feel you can influence them. Therefore I am waiting for your suggestions of player sales to provide an efficient squad revolution.

Excited to blog for you,

Vitaliy Mokosiy

Q.P.R. story is ready to continue. Season 7 will have a long preparation period due to many club changes planned by me. You know soon Q.P.R. will have:

- New tactics

- Absolute squad revolution

Therefore I am announcing the targets of the first 6 seasons as inactive.

New story targets

The follow targets for the next 4 seasons look very ambitious in my opinion:

Season 7. Qualify to Champions League. Very ligwin one of English cups.

Season 8. Win Premier League or Champions League.

Season 9. Win Premier League or Champions League.

Season 10. Win BOTH Premier League and Champions League.

Season 11. Win Premier League or Champions League + 2 English cups.

It’s pretty clear that likely all the season targets won’t be achieved. But I will try to do my best to make Q.P.R. fans celebrating like that…

Dear readers,

thank you very much for participation in the poll. You did help me to understand what I should do in FM 2012 later on. You are merely fantastic! 496 persons managed to vote during 2 days! I didn’t expect so high activity. Moreover, it was really cool to read and answer many comments in the last post where I had announced the poll.

Now about the results. 269 people want me to stay with Q.P.R. versus 227 who wants me to start a new story. Not a large gap but it’s still perceptible. Nearly 10%. Additionally, this difference was underlined by much larger amount of people asking me to continue Q.P.R. story.

So the story is about to continue just right now!

My next actions

1. First of all, I should add more targets for the upcoming seasons here. You know the 7th one is going to be tricky because Q.P.R. didn’t qualify to Europe and will concentrate on the national tournaments.

2. Write a post containing all my players. You’ll be able to advice me whom I should sell.

2. Create completely new formation and tactical approach.

4. Make a squad revolution! Yahoo! :)

That’s what I am going to do!

Oh, and thanks again, all of you are amazing!

Excited to blog for you,

Vitaliy Mokosiy

Dear readers,

it’s a special post for today because I don’t if I will continue Q.P.R. Actually it’s up to you to decide! But let’s examine the latest events in my game step by step.

Champions League fairy tale turns into drama

Q.P.R. got arch-rival Chelsea as an opponent in the CL semi-final. It seemed the awesome 2:0 victory at Stamford Bridge almost made our way to the Final! Almost…

I thought it wouldn’t be too difficult to hold the ball and keep winning score, But hat-trick maker Lukaku and red carded Oscar burried the whole Q.P.R. How could it happen having 2:0 away win before the home match? There was the problem in efficiency of our attacks - the key problem of this season for us. Mexican talent Carlos Fierro failed a lot of chances…

It’s soooo disappointing, I can’t explain…

FA Cup journey stopped at semi-final stage as well

Bernard Holt was sent off at the very early match stage. Nevertheless it was equal game even without one player. But you see Marek Hamsik decided its destiny on the last minute of extra time… I hoped to win in penalties lottery… Another tragic tournament finish for us.

Premier League

Well, it’s the saddest story. I claimed title challenge expectations but failed to qualify into Europa League. It’s the worst season for Q.P.R.

Poor goal chances realization was the main reason of low amount of taken points. Take a look at the following matches which QPR should win.

Q.P.R. - Sunderland 1:1

Blackpool - Q.P.R. 0:0

Q.P.R. players

Don’t want to talk much about the players. Douglas Costa was the best in the 2nd half of the season. I have even devoted the separate post to him as MoM award collector.

The worst players were:

- Central back Gary Cahill and Bernard Holt. Too many mistakes in defence!

- Often injured Sime Vrsaljko.

- Carlos Fierro who failed too many clear cut chances.

- Striker Jay Rodriguez. What the hell is happened with him? Just look at his season history.

Board confidence

They could even sack me because my manager’s position is Insecure but didn’t do that. The board likes Champions League and FA Cup results, at the same time they are very frustrated with the 7th position in Premier League.

The reasons of the failure in season 6

I feel I should enumerate the failure reasons now. This information may help you to decided my destiny in Football Manager 2012. So the reason are:

1. Incautious transfer policy before the season. I shouldn’t make so many squad changes.

2. Patch influence. It seems my Supersonic tactics is not so efficient as it was before the last Football Manager patch.

3. Too much of squad rotation.

4. Bad luck with player injuries and red cards. Most likely it’s the result of hard tackling over-usage.

Should I continue Q.P.R. story?

Let me explain why I decided to set up this question. I had certain targets and expectations for the first 6 seasons announced here:

Q.P.R. story targets and principles

Now the 6th season is over, and we can see the totals of the story at the moment.

The detailed list of Q.P.R. achievements per every season

Please vote and decide my destiny in FM 2012 using the top right corner poll. I give you 2 days for voting!