Sick as a Parrot (SaaP)

[Neil]

Mac, a couple of questions:

1) I seem to recall in past SaaP games, that when you did poorly you could get sacked, and likewise, of you did well, get an offer from a bigger club. Is that still the case? I think what I recall was when the game was single league?

2) Is it purely a coincedence of my formations that over 2.5 seasons, that nobody other than strikers (with odd exceptions in the first 2 seasons) has scored for me? Other teams seem to get midfielders and the odd defender score.
In my current 3rd season, I have reached the midway point, and all goals have come from strikers.
I play 4-3-3, and my star striker has 29 from 32 games!
For sure, my midfielders have a go, but rarely, it seems, get lucky.
If I look at their history, there seems to be a fair smattering of goals.
Probably just paranoia!

[Mac_Howard]

You can still get sacked or offered another club.

Midfielders can score. Defenfders too. I've had fullbacks score even if rarely. Centre backs don't score because as yet I havent included the corners and set pieces which are usually the source of goals for them.

Whether a player scores or not depends on his finishing ability and, of course, that tends to be better amongst strikers than others. But some midfielders - Lampard, Cahill and Scholes for example - are perfectly capable of scoring though they don't get into scoring positions as often as strikers.

It will depend on your formation as well. The AM in a diamond formation is more likely to score than those further back, if you use the likes of 4-2-3-1 and midfielder/wingers are involved in the three they're likely to score. And so on.

It's all very dependent on positions and finishing ability. Position will determine how often they get a chance and finishing how often they'll take that chance but the balance is probably scewed towards strikers because of the missing corners and freekicks which will have to wait for the coming match changes before being implemented. In the real wold many of the non-striking goals come from the skurmishes around set pieces when they get an opportunity to get into the opposition box.
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