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Stepping up in Staffs

Stepping up in Staffs: Gone

Genuinely gutted. Football Manager 2024 refused to load. Tried all online help, nothing worked. Uninstalled, reinstalled. Assumed game files were

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Stepping up in Staffs

Stepping up in Staffs: Pivot! Pivot! Pivottttttttt!

10/10 if you can get the reference in the title. Anyway, just a quick update. Yesterday, I was all excited by flipping the tactical approach and mixing up three different shapes and going all Graham Potter. Sod that. That’s way too difficult and I am not that kind of manager. BUT! It did get some creative juices flowing and I’ve actually built something I wanted to try in the real world if I ever get back on the coaching field.

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Stepping up in Staffs

Stepping up in Staffs: What to do when you are getting a bit bored of your team

When I was “creating content” a little more regularly, there was a real sniffiness about using downloaded tactics. I was thinking about that earlier today as I finally reached my boredom threshold with Stafford Town and how we were playing. Don’t get me wrong, we weren’t playing badly as such – not great, football in this division is much harder – but I had seen the moves 1000 times. I had seen us concede from a far post cross and

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Stepping up in Staffs: Season four – it’s definitely season four!

Hello. Here we go again. Season three already! Wait, that’s wrong – it’s season four. What the hell has happened with my numbering system? Balls, haven’t got time to read back over each piece and work out what I have missed. This is definitely season four – we’ve won three promotions. Numbers are scrapped! Anyway, when we left it yesterday it was matchday one in the EvoStick Premier League – basically, Division 7 of English football. Stafford Town have never,

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Stepping up in Staffs: Are we back on track? {S02 P03}

How do. This season got a bit stressful. Remember that two-month period talked about in the last post? Yeah, we need to make sure we don’t revert back to that in the last four games of the season. Promotion was on the table but I didn’t feel overly confident, I have to say. Let’s cut to the chase – what happened? No need to create suspense around here. No big build-ups. Yeah, we did it. The Basford game (they were

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Stepping up in Staffs

Stepping up in Staffs: We prepare for the run-in {S02 P02}

Afternoon. Yeah, that’s another big leap forward in this FM save. We go from the last post where we had six games before Christmas to today where we have four league games left and promotion is very much on the table. Honestly, we’ve disappointed me a bit this season. All the positive tactical tweaks I boasted about in the last post? Well after one player left the wheels fell off! We end the calendar year STRONG! We start 2026 WEAK!

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