Re: rugby league manager on pc : Fri Sep 09, 2011 6:49 pm  

I don't think you can. It's on the patch plan to have it so that your best goal kicker takes the goals. Patch is in red, so hopefully be out any time now. Hopefully uploading it to a host or something, itching to play this properly

And with that, the patch is out

Re: rugby league manager on pc : Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:26 pm  

Leeds' best kicker is McGuire, only ever seen him kick 1 conversion in his first team career

Re: rugby league manager on pc : Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:56 pm  

Haha I always will remember him missing from in front of the sticks. Was the week before we played Wigan when we beat them 75-0 (:lol: I think you know where this is going). Was sat watching you tonk them, last kick of the game to make it 72-0 and to sort of heal the wounds from you beating us 70-0 the year before , up steps McGuire who hits the post and it bounces back The game finishes 70-0.

Anyway, got a good game started with Saints now, (edited a few speed and kicking stats to make them a bit better). Lost to Manly and Penrith, before beating Melbourne 20-10. First game of the season, Wigan. We go 6-0 up thanks to Roby, before Tomkins tears us a new one and offloads to Charnley who scores, 6-6. Half time. We go 12-6 up thanks to Wellens, before again Tomkins tears us a new one. 12-12. Concede a penalty and we go 14-12 down with 8 mins to go, from the kick off, Wigan drop it, we have a set of 6 on their line, Lomax on the last tackle, kicks it dead. 76mins gone, game is over, put the speed to fastest, hang on, Wigan drop it, go for the speedo and next thing we've got a penalty and Foster's drawn us level. Finishes 14-14, what a game !

Re: rugby league manager on pc : Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:25 pm  

I remember that!

Re: rugby league manager on pc : Sat Sep 10, 2011 1:20 am  

In a bit of a sticky situation. Most of my players have little world things next to them, I can't pick them, I have no reserves to pick from. What the hell am I supposed to do?!

Re: rugby league manager on pc : Sat Sep 10, 2011 10:05 am  

Managed to get some ok Alliance into my acadamy, 2 games in a row with my make shift team and we won both. First against Crusaders, then against Leeds

Re: rugby league manager on pc : Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:12 pm  

Just won the Cup and Grand Final

Had a relatively easy cup run Played Leeds, Cas, Huddersfield and then Bradford in the final, which we won by 6pts or something, not all that easy. Then set our targets on me not getting sacked, entering the playoffs my confidence was 49% because I'd not got the Alliance into the playoffs.

Anyway, first game, we play League Leaders, Wigan. We get off to a good start and are leading 20-14 with 10 mins to go. We lost 21-20 with the last kick of the game, although weirdly I used the drop goal function and Lomax just booted it up towards Charnley which set them up for the win.

Second game we played Huddersfield who we beat 20-8, was a good win which got the wheels in motion. Few good plays from Wello (who seems to have gained some exceptional speed for some reason ), meant that we were home and dry by half time.

Third game was Wire away. Think we won by about 20pts, Foster was clinical with the boot, Gardner even managed to score twice, poor Chris Riley couldn't match him in the air.

Last game was the Grand Final, used the monumental speech before the game. Wow, it worked fine, we were up 18-0 at HT. Managed to keep onto the lead for a good 20 mins before Wigan scored again. With 75mins on the clock, Richards makes a break and goes length of the field, but stays out wide. Finch misses the goal and we're 18-16 up. This time I made sure that we didn't have the drop goal option set up.

Final whistle goes and we're Champions. Shame it won't happen in real life

Re: rugby league manager on pc : Sat Sep 10, 2011 11:23 pm  

Not having the same success as you Saint Ryan, currently on a 4 game losing streak or something! After 8 rounds I was top of the league and now it's fallen to bits after a few injuries to the forwards. Also need to look for a new scrum half for the next season as Burrow is out of contract and I can't renew it for some reason

Re: rugby league manager on pc : Sat Sep 10, 2011 11:50 pm  

Someone has signed Burrow then

Thing is, my first season form was dire. It was only once I started progressing in the cup that we actually started to play well, so don't lose heart, you will come good, I finished 4th in the league with 36pts.

Lost Gardner in my first year, was quite gutted as I chopped and changed him with Makinson and then realised he was OOC, kept him in the team over Makinson. But in the new season Makinson has since found some form and I currently have an International winger in the Academy working his way up. Will be replacing Foster as I forgot to renew his contract. Puletua is going too, stupidity at its finest, I really need to learn to check the contracts

Also, beat Brisbane in the WCC, forgot what score, but pulled off a miracle come back, was Saints-esque if I do say so myself.

Re: rugby league manager on pc : Sun Sep 11, 2011 5:24 pm  

Hemel are currently SL Champions, CC holders and WCC champs to boot. I won the RLC, then CH1, then CCh, and then SL in successive seasons. Two things I've noted :

1) The results are slightly more random this year - if you lose a game you wouldn't expect to, then reload the autosave and try again.
2) There is much more difference between playing the game and results only. By playing some crucial games in slow speed, and timing the coaching calls along the bottom, plus the occasional extra sprint/sidestep option, I beat some teams I had no right to beat. If I'd played them on results only, I'd have lost heavily every time.

It's still down to coaching. Get the right coaching staff, and the results will follow. I've now set in train the international player pathway which will create the England World Cup winning team of the future.