Speaking sense *shock* *horror*

I have seen a few posts recently where sense is being spoken on the forums. Where the comments made are no vaccuous hyperbole or hysterical ramblings. I know, I can hardly believe it either !!

Without wanting to copy Martin here , but there does seem to be a raft of people that expect and demand the ME is exactly like real life. Chances of this ever being achieved = 0%. No issue with striving to make it better, but if people want a completely exact representation of real life, try real life.

WWfan has made a very welcome return to the forums with an analytical mind and offering insights and reasonings as to why people are getting certain results. This has blown a lot of theories out of the water, seems to have given some managers food for thought (perhaps showing they aren't as tactically adept as they might have assumed), and alligned more managers with Bobby Ball rather than Bobby Robson.

This thread in #150/164/175/178 etc, WWfan gives valid opinions on the ME and tactics. Now, this isn't to say he will always be right- Football is opinion after all- but solid argument and meaty reasoning are more often a more convincing post over 'This ME is shit etc etc'.

The amount of people that I see moaning about the ME ingame when they lose is laughable. Especially when many play at 2.5 speed, MP's making the decisions for them, stealing redballs and then moaning about strength of AI's, playing the same formation and tactics for home/away and regardless of opposition, not looking at the Oppositions formation, not looking at where they are being exploited or where they can exploit.

Football might be full of opinions, but even the FML managers that crawled out the shallowest of gene pools must realise that playing in the above manner is not conducive to permament winning.

18Rabbit makes a solid analysis here (#3) on why a team didn't win its game. The OP (sorry for choosing you, it could have been any number of posters) hysterically saying it might make him quit. Football IS a game of opinions and, quite frankly, unusual results. If it wasn't we would all win at the Bookies each Saturday when we bet on the results of games. But at least look at some of the reasoning first.

The analysis tools I metioned in the last post might help people see some of the faults in their tactics more clearly- this in turn would (possibly) reduce some of the complaining.

We all want to believe we are great tacticians but this ME (where there is no killer formation, no killer instruction or way of getting goals, no way so far (it may be found yet) or manipulating wins) is possibly showing that some managers used the cracks in old ME's as a crutch more than they might like others to think....

I will reitterate. The ME isn't perfect, but it is the best anywhere. People that see faults in it are either part of the solution (by adding contructive and informative posts) or part of the problem.