Pointless Meeting
Recruitment Meetings are pointless for amateur clubs.
Pointless Meeting
This is going to be more of a rant than a post, so buckle up.
Sports Interactive really needs to do something about amateur club management. I noted that in a post a few days ago:
The one thing that really irks me about amateur club management, though, is the fact that you’ve still got to go through with recruitment meetings. You can’t skip them, they don’t do you any good, and they exist for no apparent reason.
This really should be fixed.
A Good Idea Poorly Executed
Now recruitment meetings are not an awful idea. They’re just not well done.
The theory here is that you sit down with your staff and your ownership, look at the squad’s plans, look at players that are available, review scouting reports, and come up with a course of action.
In reality, all you do is take a glance at your squad planner, look quickly to see if any players are likely to leave, take another look at a few scouting reports that feel like they were randomly selected, and then tell your scouts what kinds of players they should look for.
The worst part is the fact that every one of these steps are things you can do on your own. In fact, if you are an experienced Football Manager player, you probably do these things already without thinking much about them. There’s no real need for the game to force you to take these actions.
It’s another example of Football Manager trying to force you into a meaningless interaction that is supposed to represent some aspect of real life. It would be better if the interaction actually had some meaning within the world of the game itself, something to make you feel like you are now forgetting about the day-to-day rigor of squad management and now ought to focus solely on recruiting for the future.
Pointless for Amateurs
For amateur clubs, however, this activity is completely pointless. There’s simply no other way to say it.
If you run an amateur club, you don’t have to worry at all about player salaries. If every club in your nation is amateur, you probably won’t be able to sell any of your players, either. Players can come and go as they please, making recruitment meetings feel pointless.
In fact, if you have a lot of success in an amateur league, as we have at PanSa East F.C., you’ll find that there’s no need to use any sort of transfer strategy. If a highly rated player is willing to go to your team, you take that player on, no questions asked. If the player winds up not panning out in the end, you can simply release him without any consequences at all.
There’s no point in having these recruitment meetings if you run amateur clubs. They should simply be taken out.