Enjoying playing the demo, as Hull City, struggling a little defensively, especially from crosses down my left. Didn't have any money to sign any players, so have had to use plenty of kids.
Will buy the game on release date still, and will get plenty of hours gametime out of it til about March/April probably.

Only just bought FM2011, lol

There's your problem

I recently borrowed my mates copy of FM2010 and it's excellent. Can't see me wanting another for a long while tbh.

I've downloaded the demo for 12 but I've not managed to get it to work yet. Damn you Steam!!!!

Didn't really enjoy 2011 as much as I did 2010. Will try the demo of 2012 and see what happens.

Does it really change much each year? Last version I bought was 07, and can see a marked difference between that and 11, but is 12 that much different over 11, other than player/team updates??

There are over 800 changes, from playing the demo you definitely notice the changes.

Are they significant changes though, or just positions where the buttons are to click etc? Just asking in terms of justifying forking out £30 each year just for players to be with the right teams as the major thing...

Interacting with players has completely changed, Team meetings are different, you can setup 4 tactics to train and alternate between.

The tones in the team talks are probably the biggest change for me, very useful.

Much easier to score from corners too!

Best offer online is from SimplyGames, £23!

You must be joking, last one was simple to score from corners. Pique or Vidic sort of defender could get 15 a season.

Decent corner taker, cross to the far post, have best header attack far post, next best near post, then decent header or a fox in the box type player challenging the keeper.

Gonna order mine off Amazon when I've got enough survey points to trade in for vouchers.

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I'm using the same corner routine and have 2 defenders with more than 5 goals at the end of the demo.

Started my second save with Huddersfield, it's much easier to loan players in League 1 than the Championship, I've brought in Ravel Morrison and Eric Lijach for the season, not paying the wages for either, when playing as City both clubs wanted a fee and full wages, this has annoyed me a bit!

Downloaded it today so just about to start a season with Wigan. Usually go with a lower league team in the actual game itself but will go with Wigan in the demo.

FM12 is sitting in my disk drive, Tesco are coming later with food and drinks for me, roll on 00:01!

Get a catheter fitted and you won't have to move for days!!

I've started off with Luton in Blue Square Premier.

Always love doing lower league management as I can clear out deadwood and it's a challenge working in the transfer market with no money. Best signing so far is Matteo Alberti from QPR on a season long loan (don't need to pay his wages either).

FM 2012 runs a lot smoother than FM 2011 did on the same computer.

Bought the game today, continuing with my Hull City save from the Demo, 4th in the league in January with no money to spend so I'm having to look for loans since my squad is only 20 players deep.

Anyone got any good signings for champo level?

FYI, if you play as B'pool you get an extra £12mil put into your transfer budget when November comes around.

Started as Rodos Diagoras in the Greek 2nd Division. It's so technical this game, love it!

Didn't sign him, but Matty Fryatt as an AF has got me 23 in 33 so far for Hull City, Chester, Hobbs, Cairney and Evans have all had top class seasons too, but not sure how much they're worth on the game as I'm not interested in selling on my save!

Any real world reason why? That seems a lot for a club like that?

Cos we have about £45mil sat in the bank, but the chairman is too much of a tight wad to spend any of it.