ant

Test

ant

testing testing

Hartynips

Ok mate stop with the double posting!!!!!!!
The sig will appear on your posts once installed you dont need to keep checking it.

Hows about you ask Ru to make you a special England 66 project Sig?

ant

Could do. It could have the famous image of bobby moore with the world cup and something like "England 1966: Relive the dream". Hows that sound?

ant

Hi guys,
Good news guys! The Antmeister is back in business. After 8 days enjoying the good old British weather I have received my new laptop. This now means that the glorious England 1966 is now full steam ahead. I just need to install fm first but that will be done later on today.

Aarontheblue

Yeahhh lol

Cheers Ru

Hartynips

Sounds great, ant I think that image would be the best!

Glad you got your new computer mate, lets see this project take off!

thedeeb

Just read this thread, and I think it's a great idea. I'm not really up on the design and tech aspects but I'd like to get involved in some way - maybe just with some ideas or at least some encouragement.

For England '66 are you going to have the whole squad? That way, the age-old debate over whether Greaves should've carried played rather than Hurst could worked out in your own game.

Plus, every other international side played with 2 wingers, and what was revolutionary about Ramsey's team was that they didn't, although John Connelly and Ian Callaghan could play there, but generally it was either 4-4-2 or 4-3-3. So this gives a great opportunity to create new tactics for old teams.

Lastly, you could take this even further. I'm a mad Liverpool fan, and there's always a debate about which teams are better. For example, which Liverpool team was the best, ('77, '79, '87-88). Plus, was the great Madrid side of the 50's better? What about Man U in 99, Spurs from the 60's etc.

Am I getting carried away? As I said, I'm useless at the tech side of development, but I'd love to help with guidance and suggestions on players and attributes.

thedeeb

Sorry, but one other thought. Presumably these players are going to be top-drawer, so how do you stop them being poached by bigger clubs as soon as the season starts?

dafudge

I would say lower there reputation ;)

ant

Hey Deeb,
You have some awesome ideas for future projects. I like your idea for Liverpool but as a United fan I am not big on thier history but what i do know is that the side with Keegan and Dalgleish rocked. I'm thinking Bob Paisley era if poss for that so if u could enlighten me on the Kop history that would be much apprciated. Man Utd 1999 would bea peice of cake for me to do as it is only 8 years ago (jeez is it realli 8 yrs?). Cole and Yorke were class up front and who can forget that magical goal from Giggsy in the semi? Spurs 60s is another grey area for me but was that Regis and Ossy Ardilles? Or is that 80s? Way before my time anyroad as I only came into existance in '86. Mid to late 90s and the present are my strongest areas I would say.

Further ideas of my own include merging the Busby Babes 1957 with maybe the pre Munich team (or almagating the 3 great sides all together) and creating a Busby Babes side. There was the first team created in 1946, the Busby Babes of the 50s, which lost 7 of the most gifted and talented footballers of thier day following the Munich air crash and the pre Munich team which included Denis Law, George Best and Sir Bobby Charlton. I have also thought of a Man Utd Legends (Keano, Cantona, Beckam etc) and a Hull City Legends including Billy Whitehurst, Chillo and Waggy. I would appreciate thoughts and comments on that please (Ru would worship me if I did Liverpool lmao). Oh god am I now going to recieve heaps of requests from Chelsea fans asking for a Chelsea Legends? I sincerely hope not!

Also Fudgey is spot on when he says about lowering reputation. I am looking for decent youth players with potential to become world class so kinda wonderkids standard of player.He is correct that big teams like them rich sods at Chelski, Real Madrid, Barca etc would come in offering £40m+ for geoff hurst or something equally ridiculous. Of course ur chairman would accept the offer stating that it was "too good to refuse" resulting in you losing promising talent to football's super clubs. That my friends wuld be a massive blow to any team and turn fans and players alike against you.

Finally, I am absolutely staggered by the amount of interest that England 1966 has generated amongst the FMF ommunity. Whilst I always anticipated a god reception, I never imagined that interest would seemingly reach fever pitch. I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you whether it has being manpower, advice or expertise that you have contributed to helping us all relive the dream and recreate the glory and magical legacy that 1966 produced for English football.

Regards,
Ant

P.S. :Help is still appreciated so anyone like Deeb who wants to contribute you can. All you have to do is check out my profile and MSN me and I will discuss your queries and wrk out what you can help on. Thanks

adamjigey

this is great any way i could help

Big Thanks to Ru for a top sig cheers mate

thedeeb

Ant, me old mucker, thanks for replying to my post. Cole, Yorke, Giggs??? Not sure I remember them I also had to chuckle at the Regis/Ardiles bit, sorry mate but Regis (Big Cyrille) played for West Brom and Coventry during the late 70's and 80's, and Ardiles played for Spurs during the same period. You might be thinking of Villa (Ricky) and Ardiles.

One slight problem with just using a team from a specific year (especially 80's and earlier) is that they didn't use many players. For example, when Villa (Aston not Ricky) won the title in 1981, they only used 14 players. Benitez used more in the first 2 games of this season. So it may be better to consider decades?

As for Hull City, they played in the first football match I went to see. 1975 at Fulham, it was my 8th birthday and my Dad took me to see them. Fulham had Bobby Moore, George Best, Rodney Marsh and Allan Mullery and Hull had Billy Bremner. Game ended 0-0 and I don't really know why I didn't support Fulham but I guess it was because I already had my heart on Liverpool by then.

Even if this idea doesn't quite get off the ground, I'd be interested in knowing more about how you make teams up on this game, so all ideas are welcome.

For us 'old'ns' its a shame you can't make up new competitions as well. I'd like to resurrect the Home International Championships. If anyone knows if it can be done I'd be really interested.

Good luck with the promotion push this season, ant

ant

Hey guys,
A update on progress. I was planning on doing a beta version of England 1966 creating England 1966 and maybe another team and then releasing it for download. Unfortunately pre upload testing by me threw up the same problem that I had experienced before- the db would work fine in the editor but would cause a serious error whenever I tried to load up on FM.

I then struck upon a possible solution involving working on my db but using a working custom db (Liverpool Legends) in a seperate window to guide me and try to replicate the same basis what they did with Liverpool Legends into my own db. Alas that failed to work.

I then thought that FMF Utd V2 works and plus the team setup is what I was looking for (FMF Utd in Blue Square South). The idea I had was to edit over FMF Utd replacing them with England 1966 which would just involve changing club info, staff and player info etc etc. Unfortunately Fed rejected my request (which he was entitled to do and fair dos).

However all may not be lost and this is why. Editing over teams would work as it just involves changing team info, staff, players and so forth. Teams still stay in their respective divisions so no fiddly problems with swapping teams and that. Here is my new plan. I open up 8.02 db in the editor. Open up Blue Square Prem and take a team like Farsley (lowest rep) and just edit Farsley into England 1966 ok. Then do the same thing for any other teams i create. That may cause the problem of country of origin as if I did Brazil 1970s for example they are from Brazil and would they be out of pace in an English league? Although in real life several welsh teams play in the english leagues so I would appreciate your thughts on that please.

Also England 1966 is a definate team I am doing but what other teams did you guys want me to do? Original plan was 4 teams so I need another 3 teams. FIFA Legends and Brazil 1970s proved very popular choices- do I do them? If so I need one more team. Suggestions welcome.

Regards,
Ant

dafudge

How About Wales 1958

that would be good

or even holland in the 70s

Dheano

Sexy football would be the absolute top-dog.

Good shout Fudgey!

FM08 Trophies:
Season 1 (Barça): UEFA Champions League
Season 2 (Barça, Current): UEFA Super Cup, World Club Championship, Spanish Cup, La Liga & Champions League

dafudge

dheano i know its a top shout
cos i said it lmao

dafudge

is this still going ??

ant

Hi guys,
Yes fudgey this is still ongoing. The beta release is in the downloads section featuring just the England 1966 team. Still plodding on with the full release. Need to do brazil 1970s, fifa legends and holland legends teams but need sum1 to do gfx as well.

Regards,
Ant

Aarontheblue

Why not biggest players from english league ever!!
Dixie Dean etc..

Cheers Ru