Review my scouting setup, what is the current level? In Rangers case, this is threadbare, and Frank McPartland pretty much leaves straight away.Do I have at least one dedicated fitness coach and do I have space for two to split strength and aerobic assignments? I tend to want as many views as possible from my staff as this fits into a Moneyball-style approach to player recruitment. Particularly my assistant manager, does he have good ability judgement. Review coaching staff, highlight gaps in coaching capability.Usually, I go about my business in a set order when I get my feet under the desk. We will see how many Celtic beat us by!Īs a Rangers Fan, I normally have a long term save with them on the go. Philip Senderos showed the match engine and stats are accurate as he had a horrible debut against Basel, he will not feature unless necessary. One thing to note I went overload to try and get back on level terms against Motherwell and the Hearts equaliser was offside. I like to think that I have expanded on his ideas slightly and hope to underpin this with robust recruitment and management which I will expand on further in another post.Īs you can see a decidedly mixed bag that has highlighted that the defence is in need of investment.
This is based on the current crop of players at the club, the basis of this tactic has a nod to FM legend Gareth Millward and his blog on keeping it simple over on . This is going to be a challenge if you are familiar with the current Rangers squad. I want to make sure that we maximise the number of clean sheets. This brings us to rule number one: a clean sheet on average produces almost 2.5 points per match. Since as I have already alluded to, I like to take theories from real life I have decided to go with a simple pragmatic system. Over the past few FM’s I have come to an epiphany that football in general and the FM match engine its self can be as simple and as complicated as you choose to make it. I thought I would start part 1 by looking at my tactical setup, apologies, by the way, this is a self-inflicted delay brought to you by work, a puppy and man chores.