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lasko911 said: I holidayed season 1 and then picked one of the teams promoted to VNN/S. I had my board update the facilities as often as possible, but that process took us all the way to PL, it was slow.

I used V7 schedule as pure rest ruins other attributes too much.


Thank you for that. You got any other success stories still been used from the lower leagues (League 1 and 2 maybe?) Would be interested to see how they've grown.

I think its two fold, theres the possibilities for lower leagues making decent players with 13/13 ACC/PAC 16/16 or above quite quickly and also when hitting the top flight I get frustrated when finding a high PA, good personality player with great jumping, strength and every other stat but lacking in speed so now that can be easily fixed, previously I would just discard them as speed has always been the priority for me.
lasko911 said: It works and it works spectacularly.
https://fm-arena.com/find-comment/40252/


Ew nice...would you mind confirming what level they started at for you league wise and if you had decent facilities etc? So you used the all round schedule as opposed to purely rest too?
Well I have three 17 year olds who have grown by 2 on both PAC/ACC (started at 10) from age 17 not quite turned 18 yet, so I don't see why they can't reach 17+ when you consider various reports of others doing that with 100PA players with less than great facilities. I am aware of the prime ages for physical growth but they still continue to grow a fair bit until 21 and even then until 24 at a lesser rate.

(Genuine question) Have you read this whole thread or basing your opinion on what you perceive from your own experiences? I was hoping for answers with actual first hand experience of using these schedules for this type of purpose not what people assume, this thread has shown that what people have assumed for many years is bull. Its been stated opposition doesn't really matter nor the majority of your coaches so the only limiting factor I can see are the facilities but we don't yet have an accurate gauge on how that impacts the growth. Prior to age of 24 and especially 21 most of these external factors (opposition/coaches) make very little difference.
Great work here and backs up what I've felt for sometime that the game is flawed more than we knew. Has anyone experimented with this at the lowest level of English Football, Conference N/S or below?

I am currently in the Conference North and plan to sign 18 and unders, with 10-15 professionalism, facilities are basic, 4 star quickness coaching rest is 1 star. CA will most likely be 40-60 when they join and hoping for PA of 120-150 kids.

I assume the best option to develop is the rest/recovery + Quickness [double intensity] method due to the potentially slower growth and smaller room to grow? I intend on scheduling a Friendly every week we have just one league game so I can rotate two elevens and give everyone a game a week. Obviously we're part time so only get 4-6 training slots.

Thought process was a 17 year old with 8-10 PAC/ACC and 130 PA may reach 17+ PAC/ACC by the Championship aged 21-22 at which point my training may change for the talent I can attract to more rounded anyway and the U18's would become my PAC/ACC farm for younger talent. What has everyones experience been with less than ideal players like this, any screenshots?