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El Classico is on this weekend.

Madrid are at home and are leading, favourites for the first time, but this is Barca we are talking about.

barca 7/4 all talk about madrid playing into peps hands

Man City
3 league titles in a row
3 Community Shields
2 League Cups
1 F.A Cup

Best Signings
1) Cavani
2) Di Maria
3) Jagelika

Anyone got any good tactics/formations?

Also anyone know of good youngsters or other decent players?

munian from bilbao 23 mill release clause,trying get llorente but they want 33 million.  have just added gary cahill to spurs squad.  england won the euros lol

[Brunt]

Anyone have any problems when they were installing this? I waited until now to get it.

Got it Friday and have activated the game on Steam, downloaded all the files but when I click to start the game it says 'launching FM2012' and then nothing happens.

Had that problem myself. I contacted Steam and they re-activated the game for me. Ring their helpline.

Just after getting OWC to the Semi Finals of Euro 2016. Qualified in second from a group containing Germany, Hungary, Denmark and Luxembourg. Then progressed to the Euro's were I got beat 1-0 by Spain before beating Montenegro 1-0 and Greece 2-1 in the group stages. Then beat Switzerland on penalties after extra time in the round of 16. Had a shock 1-0 victory over Croatia in the Quarter Finals before I came undone against England in the Semis.

Camp, Dudgeon, Cathcart, J.Evans, Hodson, Brunt, C.Evans, Davis, Carson, Lafferty and McQuoid - Starting XI

Addicted.

is very good player in it. 

Did a season with liverpool came 4th narrowly missed out on 3rd, won league cup and got the sack!  Would be delighted with doing that this year.  Henderson was very good for me. 

Current league with spurs 9 points behind utd 3 games in hand with better goal difference lost one of them at anfield so had to take a break!  Adebayor is a class act over 30 goals, but trying sign him for £10 million and hes awful gready.  Beat by bilbao in semi of europa league and out of leagure/fa cup early enough on pens. 

normal side

friedel
walker gallas dawson baines(14 million)
lennon/johnson(15 million) sandro/parker/huddlestone modric bale
vdv
adebayor

sold Krancjaer for 10 million to milan to get johnson. 

bale and vdv get serious amount of assists i have scored over 100 goals in league, leaky at the back. got a few young lads in jack butland goalkeeper and nathan redmond winger who will be good in few years I think.  Need a keeper and centre half in summer maybe a rb too.  Looking at Lloris but £20 million bid rejected.  Anty good cb about?

Think Malaga would be a good challenge so may go there when get the sack!

agree italy are no great shakes i would fancy croatia to finish second in the group.  if ireland get to last game with chance of qualifying they have a chance as trap will know italy inside out.  in theory, spain last would have been good because i would imagine they would have qualified but who knows. 

Of the rest of the groups, A should be boring and all the teams will be delighted to get this group.  expect russia and anoter to come through.  b is the group of death some great games to look forward too! the germans v dutch be tasty and the potugeuse are capable of great stuff.  handy enough draw for england, though the form of darren bent or whoever up front will need to be good to get them out of group. 

think spain v germany final with the germans to win!

tones promoted to top tier after shanes lost to madden by 2.  eire og won junior 3-6 to 1-7 i think score was.  trouble in crowd after game sad to hear, great day for football in north armagh!

Armagh team will look something like this:

1 Paul Hearty
2 Andy Mallon
3 Brendan Donaghy
4 Paul Duffy
5 Aaron Kernan
6 Kevin Dyas
7 Finian Moriarity
8 James Lavery
9 Charlie Vernon
10 Tony Kernan
11 Stevie Mc Donnell
12 Billy Joe Padden
13 Jamie Clarke
14 Malachy Mackin
15 Micael O Rourke

They may not all play in them positions but i dont think them players will be far away

I'd imagine a place will be found for Hanratty. Padden on a Tyrone wing back is not an appealing prospect.

Agree AFS.  Hanratty started the last day and did well again.  Brings a physicality and workrate we could certainly do with Saturday, right type of man for a derby, if can ensure he used controlled aggression.  Imagine that will be the team that starts.  2 hard working whf to do the defensive bit against tyrones halfbacks.  Lavery may struggle in the middle v tyrones mobility, though did well last 15 last week.  I am a huge ball duffy fan but he doesnt look fit to me at min, hopefully last weeks run out do him the world of good.  If mckeever out, Dyas for me will have to try and influence the game more from chb than he did last week.  Talented player though we will need more from him if we are to leave omagh still in championship.

Think it could be closer than some are saying, Tyrone are obviously clear favourites but there can't be a lot of harmony in the squad with Mugsy coming and going as he pleases.

With the form of Mackin, MOR and Jamie Clarke I wouldn't rule Armagh out completely...

hope he doesn't take out his anger at cookstown's poor form out on us..

[Does anyone in Tyrone envy McGeeney]

To end comparisons between mc geeney and dooher. Dooher has 3 celtic crosses whilst mc geeney has one.  Mc geeney ran off into management of anmother county  when he had another year in him, whereas doohers committment is unflinching total

But as a player McGeeney never feigned injury, never dived, never through himself to the ground to get an opponent sent off. Nobody could ever call McGeeney a cheat.

Threw. How's your summer holidays? No, you cannot call McGeeney a cheat, but does McGeeney envy Dooher-most definitely. Does anyone in Tyrone envy McGeeney, his bald patch and his sad act personality-no.

I would imagine alot of people do envy mcgeeney, i know, i would regardless of the county he is from.  fantastic footballer, great leader and credit to himself and his county.  Some very bitter and silly posts going on here i must be said. 

[Also heard Mugsy didn't turn up to training last week because he was on the sauce most of the week. Dooher held talks with him on Thursday in a cookstown cafe and treated him to lunch.]

I reckon there will be no changes to the line up that started against Longford.

Also heard Mugsy didn't turn up to training last week because he was on the sauce most of the week. Dooher held talks with him on Thursday in a cookstown cafe and treated him to lunch. 

well for some does he not work?

[I believe our forward line is as good as Kerry's (]

Firstly, thanks for the concern about the Ford CD/Radio front- turned up safe and well.
I think we can beat Cork although Martin Carney has a point about our lethargy.
Starting at the back- our FB line has come on leaps and bounds and if Dee Rafferty is available, we probably are stronger than last year.
The HBs have been criticised but they are likely to suit the Cork challenge better than the teams we've faced to date. I'm assuming it will be the same personnel as last year's AI final.
Midfield is an issue but Kalum is arguably better than last September while Pete Fitz needs to focus on his strengths, not his deficits .Tyrone won 3 All-Irelands with average midfields so it can be done. Ambrose is a loss but he should have 20 minutes if needed.
The forward line is really where the improvement can come. The Down tradition of sevens football is particularly strong in Longstone and Kilcoo- Poly and Lavertys' goals were like something from Kilmacud. Add in 3 Allstars ( they had none in the forward line but we know all about Goulding's free-taking so defence needs discipline), and anyone from Mc Comiskey ( our best forward against them last September),Murtagh and the new kid on the block Mooney and we can cause them problems. Their defence had no answer to Kerry when they ran at them and I believe our forward line is as good as Kerry's ( agree Kerry Mike ? )So a bit of belief and ,most of all, confidence and we can score goals. Cork are a good side - fit, strong and mobile- but I'm not convinced they are a great side.This is the cross-roads for Down football and I believe we have the men on the field and on the sideline to take the right road to show that we are red, we are black, we are Down and we are back

tinted glasses perhaps??coulter,clarke and hughes could well start for a kerry team, others wouldnt be close

[Paul Duffy should be off the panel and kevin dyice]

I went to Armagh/Wicklow last night and Dublin/Wexford today.I enjoyed today game more than i did last night.Paul Duffy should be off the panel and kevin dyice 2.Any word were it is gonna be played ?? I heard that it could be in Parnell Park. Is this true ?

Dont know who this dyice character is, but dyas and duffy are both well worth a place on the panel, with one or the other starting  on the opposite wing to ak.  as a poster previously stated, duff has been excellent for armagh previously and to me is still carrying an injury.  Dyas was one of few positives to come out of the league!

[Downing deal goes through he is well capable of playing that role too. I]

That is a lot of central midfielders but surely Aqualani and Poulsen are first out the door. Mereiles is a good player so he stays. I would get rid of Lucas ahead of him.

there is no way they will get rid of lucas.
hes the only proper defensive midfielder in the squad and was player of the year last year. one of the least likely to leave anfield

Thats for sure. If he continues to grow and improve he'll be a real key player.

Move for Downing been pushed on by all accounts and Kenny wants him on plane to Asia. Also talk of Enrique been strongly linked again.

This from strong ITK's who have been spot on recently.

Definitely see the Downing deal being pushed through this week but not so sure about the Enrique deal.  Insua is back training and he has Tweeted or Facebooked that he is happy to be back and getting the chance to prove himself at Liverpool.  If he shows up well I can see the push for a left back dropping off.  You will have Johnson, Kelly, Carra and Flanagan all capable of playing RB, Aurelio, Insua, Johnson and Robinson all there for LB.  I can see KK playing a back 3 quite a lot with attacking wing backs so if the Downing deal goes through he is well capable of playing that role too.  I would be far happier to get a CB and at least 1 winger and keep the FBs that are there.

would have to disagree BC.  I think downing at wing back would be a liability defensively and havent to my knowledge saw him play in this role previously.  With the amount of good cm on board at min i can see it being a 4-3-3 with lucas/spearing the anchor and rotation between gerrard/raul/adam/henderson and suarez and downing in wide areas with andy up top. 

Next season Fergie could select this team DeGea Rafael,Fabio,Smalling,Jones,Anderson,Nani,Young,Valencia,Rooney,Hernández

Average age 22 

get your point highly unlikely 3 wingers play in mf though

its on espn

says he will be back on tuesday if possibly dair play, shameless act