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HullMy first team in FM 2009 - Hull City
I want to introduce my new football club - Hull City. I'm a new manager of "The Tigers"! After some doubts I decided to start the brand new game in Football Manager 2009 demo with the team that you, my dear readers, selected for me in the poll. The doubts were actually linked with size of database in the demo. It's pretty small if you use quickstart. But anyway I don't want you to wait for my new story, and that's why I'm writing this first post. 
Hull Info
Hull had never played in the Premier League and has no rivals in it therefore.
By the way, pay attention to the new fields in clubs information screen: Average Ticket Price and Average Season Ticket Price. Just some small but nice new FM 2009 features.
Though the most interesting information on the screen shot is, of course, Media Prediction of taking 20th position in the end of the season. Well, seems like I have the weakest team by squad in the Premier League. 
But I didn't choose 'Try to avoid relegation' and assured the board that Hull must avoid returning into the Coca-Cola Championship. Quite brave. For that I have $7.25M for transfer due to this claim:
Using new Football Manager 2009 features
Assistant gives advices about squad
In the very start of the season I was reported by Hull assistant of strength of players I have:
The most useful thing here is that assistant determined the most problematic position and even gave some pieces of advice about it. There are 3 goalkeepers adviced by him: Ian Walker, Joe Murphy, Paul Smith. What I can say! He is right about the problem: Hull has quite weak goalie Boaz Myhill. I will certainly work in this direction during transfers period.
My first press conference
It was pretty interesting to answer those questions. I was optimistic about the debut of my Hull in the Premier League. Comparing different areas of the team I singled out the midfield admitting that I have the rather good halfbacks in the squad:
What's interesting - the reaction of one of the midfielders Halmosi on my thoughts told on the press conference (new features as well):
So that's was my first experience with Football Manager 2009. Frankly speaking, I'm playing it not too much due to numerous bugs. But I don't stop the process of managing Hull, just doing it pretty slowly looking forward to release of FM 2009 and the first patch for it.
good luck vitaley! Will follow your story as always, aswell as getting my own blog going agian nov 14th!
Vincent, thanks!
Keep up writing to your blog!
Yeh good luck mate loved following your progress with Southampton and Hull will be a massive challenge so good luck.
I'll follow your story too... it's really wonderful to know a true football manager out there..!
man making a team in Football manager seems like a lot of work, but they that is why i skip all that and go to http://www.umbla.com to play football team rather than build one.
anyone found any great young players yet?
I follow you since last year. A FM fan from Spain! :)
What about your last year at Southampton with FM 08?
Did you finish it?
jus coz im gettin the game on thursday (H)
Payne,
I didn't manage to finish the last season with Southampton because of FM 2009 demo release.
I stopped playing the game when Southampton was on the 2nd after 25 matches. 6 points after Chelsea and 5 points before Manchester City
Great blog, good luck with new season I will be following it again as I did with your Southampton, game. Ive just started a football manager blog myself after being inspired by yours & paines blog. Keep up the good work.
I have started my first game with Stoke City - for a challenge You can discuss FM2009 on this forum.
http://premier-league.110mb.com/forum/
good luck with Hull,
i got f.m yesteday, after all the mix ups with the product keys, i finally started as QPR, they gave me 11.5 mil for saying i will finish in the top half :). so i brought Thomas Graverson on a free (i recemend for Hull) also Fabian Delph (Leeds Youngest), Kevin Doyle, Robbie Savage, Jermain Easter and a left back called Fox, anyway i started the season well 2 wins, 2 draws, then a concisdent run of injerys with Doyle out for 4 months, then i was 2-0 up 2 games in a row and draw both 2-2, i consede many goals by long shots. in this case i cant help but thinking the 'bugs' in the game affects the game enjoyablty heavly. so i'd like to ask yu, have you exprienced any upseting 'bugs' yet? and do you agree that youngsters are geting harder to spot early ?
Good luck on your Hull Story vitaliy! Here some players you may want to sign or loan:
Ümit Korkmaz from Frankfurt
Mahir Saglık from Wolfsburg
Shannon Cole from Sydney FC
Alan Dzagoev from CSKA Moskva
Fabian Delph from Leeds
Jonathan Urretavizcaya from Benfica
Evan Berger from Mel. Victories
Alexander Baumjohann from Gladbach
Ruslan Kambolov from Loko. Moskva
Jude Nworuh from FC Midtjylland
first of all good luck with playing as hull =]
i am newcastle, team i support and am having a tough time. losing quite a few matches and scoring is a problem =[ any suggestions or advice welcome =] hope everyone is enjoying the game
Good Luck with you Hull game Vitaliy. Not Brave enough to start as a weaker team till i've sussed the game and tactics.I opted for Barcelona and have started brilliantly with a record of p15 W14 L1 and found some excellent young players. Will defo keep up to date with blog. Good luck
People,
thanks I will try to do my best with Hull. Finding good tactics for the team is my first priority task now.
I am Luton, its soooo hard - no money and no body wants to join! any idea's for some players? been trying to get Ronaldo (the fat one) on a free transfer....
hi vitaliy..
is there any relationship between good coach n players?
asada,
every player has Favoured Personnel record on "Personal screen". Coaches can be reminded there. If any coach is reminded then interaction between him and player is better and more effective
Hi Vitaly. I am new here and I have a problem. When I start a new game on a huge database and when I have to attend the first press conference I can t see the questions and answers and I can t continue before finishing that conference. I even tryed to send assistant, but I don t have that option in huge database.
Hi Vitaliy !
your my teacher and when you open a new blog i want to start a new game with the same team.
soory if my english not so good becuse i am fron isreal :).
look at my season on the fnisreal site :
http://www.fmisrael.com/Blog.aspx?id=1435
bey bey and good luck !
Thanks, man! Good luck with your blog! :)
great start
try out my story aswell
MY FM STORY
http://www.fmstyle.co.uk/fm09-storie...land-1300.html
Hey, I loved your Southamton and Arsenal stories and I will follow this one with keen interest.
By the way check out my Halifax Town story, I am aiming to get them in the Premier League from the Blue Square Premier! Wish me luck!
http://football-manager-08-story.blogspot.com/
Im in 2017 with hull i won nothing for 5 years finishing 15th 14th 10th 8th and 6th and now i have won euro cup 2 years on the trot and the super cup 2 years aswell, havnt finished any higher than 6th!!! hull are the hrdest team iv managed, my star buys have beenn Thiago Luis, Willians Santana, and Leo. all brazilians all class. i know habe Akinfeev and Veloso and then computer generated players all great, unbeleavale team! Best signings i made in year 1 were binya from benfica 160k, ljundberg from seattle 12k. Gravesen free agent, i swapped Turner for Mido, had no goals n Boro wanted turner. Boaz Myhill was great for me for 2 years i would have been relegated if it wasn't for him, Zayatte turns out to be great and he can play anywhere. Zayatte was the only real hull player i had left in my squad after 3 years cus they are shit, and it is very hard to keep em up, me n my m8 tried alot n kept getin rlegated then i started ne day whilst he started as man city and it just clicked, o yeah and keep an eye on Jack Wilshere, on mine he went free transfer 2nd season to Boro and i signed him for 15 mil, he is now england captain, and on my m8s game he went on free transfer didnt get a club and retired at 21!!!! shocker!!!!
do u have panels.fmf for patch 9.3??
sorry....i mean panels.fmf to make huge database
I have but when I started the game using FM 2009 demo version, it was large database
for the luton guy,
i managed luton for one season, i had joined villa (aston) after that. i finished just one point out of the play offs.
some players i reccomend are
must have all good nations selected and large database.
diego ribiera
dani (almost impossible to find again)
get parent club loan lot's of reserves.
recall matthew spring
chris perry
gk-brill
rb-gnapka cb-ejfollson(loan from west ham[sp])cb-chris perry lb-? rm-keith keane lm- emmanuel cm-nichollson[sp] cm-springs st-dani / parkin st- diego ribiera
good luck