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Red Cards Woe Continues
Well that is three red cards in five league games now. My keeper is my captain and I am happy with his stats for the job plus apart from last season this has never been an issue. So completely baffled why I can no longer keep players on the field. Anyone else having issues with this ?

Have you upped your aggression recently?

I find it to be totally random, my team seems to get more bookings on agg 5 than agg 8, or we get way more bookings than the opponent despite having lower aggression, there doesnt seem to be any sensible explanantion.

Hi Mr C, congrats on your win by the way your team is getting stronger all the time I decide what to put it at based on what refs stats are and how strong opponents are.... but I feel now pressing from 1 to 10 number is just a random number and if you pick the wrong one then it is game over........I checked ref stats for all 3 games , ref in todays game =1 red + 37 yellows in 9 games.......ref in previous game = 1 red + 62 yellows in 10 games and ref from 5 league games ago = 2 red + 16 yellow in 9 matches strictness was 1 in that match and 7 in todays game and 19 in prevvious league game. I think it is just a jamboree bag so will ignore stats from now on.

Another example today of me outbooking the opponent 5-1 despite being having a lower aggression setting.

Tell me about it ......I went random number 4 today and although bookings were lowish the usual sending off arrived that is 4 in 8 league games now.......I think you just have to accept like injuries there is absolutely nothing you can do but carry on regardless, extremely frustrating but hopefully it will go next season.

I think someone suggested tiredness could be a factor but sometimes it is a mystery!

Anyone ever had 2 players sent off in a match before? I've never had it happen before today!

Can't say I've come across it before didn't seem to have too much of an impact on the result though...even though you had a 16-rated player on for 65 minutes!

Tifon C D vs Euro My Way (1-2)

W Omole (13)
E Shane (35)

5-2-3 becoming 3-2-3

Wining 2-1 though also losing a player to injury..,

2 red cards - yeah it happens.

R Hick also had a red card in the game before.

Got only 1 red, but 7 yellow cards today. Getting better.

Being on holiday, I forgot to change aggression in my cup match today and got a sending off, foolish of me.

Cherryred will not be a happy bunny today!!

It's not your fault, it's the system. At the moment I am watching live my league match and up till now [60th minute] playing with aggression 2, I have 1 player sent off in the 1st minute and 3 yellow cards. I don't know what will happen in the last 30 minutes of the game.

This whole card things kinda annoys me at times, I seem to have one player red-carded every single game, I?m down to 16 players at the moment so I really cannot afford any injuries or suspensions.

I fully agree with you. Further to my previous post, the match has ended and had another player yellow carded, and the irony is that I played the whole match with a player less and please don't laugh...I won 4-0 !!!!!!

I love this game, but certain feature annoys me. For instance 1 in a million I win against teams superior than mine in the ranking, but on the other hand I lose quite often against teams inferior than mine.

As regards the distribution of the cards, and even injuries, I think the system is programmed as it is so every manager has to utilize all of the players in his squad.

You've literally had 2 red cards in 37 matches this season. Come on.

You can easily manage your yellow-card suspensions by trying to get the players "n a yellow" booked the match before a game against a weaker opponent, so they take their suspension for a match you don't need them for anyway. Yellow cards were made to occur more frequently in the early seasons of this version of the game and yes it's frustrating but it's entirely manageable.


It's entirely normal for red cards not to affect the result of one-sided matches. It tends to have a larger effect in close games.

If you're losing matches that you shouldn't be losing on a regular basis, maybe there's a good reason for it. Perhaps your players are starting the match too fatigued from training, or maybe your tactics are a bit off. Yes, sometimes the game just throws bad luck at you, but we all have it happen from time to time. That's just football.

If you could just play your first XI every single match of the whole season then you're not exactly managing your club, are you? Squad management is a key attribute of a successful manager.

If you could just play your first XI every single match of the whole season then you're not exactly managing your club, are you? Squad management is a key attribute of a successful manager.[/quote]

Yes, truly so, but even in real football if a manager has a winning first X1 he only make a few changes now and then. As for me, I have 22 players and so far I have utilized 21 of them. Only the third choice goalkeeper has to make his first appearance. But this is due to suspensions and injuries.

Unless he has to, because of injuries and suspensions.

As with everything in the game, it's a balance. You can have a strong squad but you have to pay extra in wages and actually getting that squad in the first place. Or you can risk having a smaller squad to save money, but then you're vulnerable to injuries and suspensions.

If there were no injuries and suspensions everyone would just run a 16-player squad.

You can choose which way to play but regardless of which one you choose you have to deal with some difficulties. As it should be. This game is not £easy mode" on purpose. It's for people that enjoy a challenge.

[quote=Firesilver]You've literally had 2 red cards in 37 matches this season. Come on.

You can easily manage your yellow-card suspensions by trying to get the players "n a yellow" booked the match before a game against a weaker opponent, so they take their suspension for a match you don't need them for anyway. Yellow cards were made to occur more frequently in the early seasons of this version of the game and yes it's frustrating but it's entirely manageable.

Yes, I said that as a joke, I seem to always get red cards in the worst possible situations, I have a player retiring in 5 days which will drop my player count to 15, I?m getting really concerned now, I have no funds to buy more players and I?m purely relying on my youth academy to prevent me from getting sacked over player count.

Very. very few managers succeed at their first club (and they are usually the ones mentored by an experienced player or that read the forums a lot). Whether you succeed at your second depends on whether you learn the lesson from the first or not.