Having had a spin on my cousin's laptop & his copy of CH4 (the season 03/04 update) I decided that this has to be my next addiction, remembering the fun I had with the now neolithic Premier Manager series. However, I'm not sure whether it'd worth shelling out for this newest version or if I'd be more intelligent to go for CM 01/02 for £5. I heard that CM4, which I can get for a tenner, was so buggy it wasn't worth wasting a perfectly good barge pole on, so I realy have no idea what to spend my cash on. Any advice would be reet good like. Only YOU can save St Johnstone FC! I downloaded (uh. Legally, I think - it is seven million years old) Championship Manager 2 recently, which was quite fun.

Slightly bizarre too, because it seems to be missing a few things you might think were vital (like training and stuff). Anyway, having narrowly missed out on the playoffs with Darlington I'm now in relegation freefall.

Bottom of the league. And my 20-goal-a-season man has decided he can't be arsed to play well anymore. Krutikov exercises in modern english grammar otveti. And the board hate me. And my job is under threat. Right, is 03/04 a standalone game?

Question for Championship Manager 03/04. Any good training schedules out there? I've got everything sorted in the game except for training. Save to this directory: C: Program Files Eidos CM 03-04 user data training. Then open a game, go into your team training. Team trainer for Championship Manager 03/04. Team trainer for Championship Manager 03/04. Ultimate Training Regime. Team trainer for Championship Manager 03/04. Direct download.

Or do you need something called Championship Manager 4 before you can update it to 03/04, or what? Because I feel like I need a version of this game that's newer than 95/96.

Originally posted by krummi This is most simple. Did you play differently like as in you had a defensive mentality and the new dude attacked manically or vice versa? Seems to make a surprisingly big difference. Well, I did pretty much suck. But the new bloke should've been crap too; he was using IDENTICAL tactics (such as the 'tactics' are in Champ Man 2) to me. 4-4-2 and 'direct' football.

So that left me doubting how exactly one influences things in this game. How intuitive is it? I mean, I play my pacey players down the wing. And they do bugger all. Does it recognise stuff like that? How about sticking a defender who's good at heading in the heart of defence if they're playing long-ball. Or pushing a quick striker up against a slow back 4?

This stuff should surely have some effect, but it doesn't seem to at all. My strikers NEVER score. Defenders seem to have more shots than anyone else. People with 'shooting 2/3/some crap score' tend to score far more than they ought to. MADNESS I TELL YOU! Well i was managing Inverness Caley Thistle for about 3 years (a Scottish Div 1 team) - i managed to get them into the Scottish PremierLeague, and then we qualified for the Uefa Cup.