Eh the American game is nothing like the English or the Australian game, and you guys play with a round ball and can only kick it along the ground with your feet, no handballing etc. The Australian game is more of a spectacle, high flying marks (catches) long distance kicking, hand balling. scores from both teams in all games, no riots etc, and all this with not a round ball but with an odd shaped ball, a bit like the shape of the zeppelin, so it takes major skill just to bounce it let alone kick it straight. Our game is totally different to any other football in the world, it did not evolve from the English (European) football. Yes we do play your style football over here as well but we call that 'soccer'. And just to clarify, I am not talking about rugby or gridion. I'm talking Aussie Rules! Aussie Aussie Aussie oiy oiy oiy. :p :D

When will the crack (or mini-image) for this game be released?

Nobody knows. It will be rlsed when someone feels like it.

EDIT

Mini image is on g a m e b u r n w o r l d.

That's actually for Fifa Manager 06 when you unrar it. Anyway, I found how to use Football Manager without the CD:

Right click on the shortcut icon on Desktop.
Click Properties. Go to Compatability tab.
Change the Compatability mode to Windows NT and it should work.

Did not work with RIP version. :(

RIP? As in the compressed downloaded version?

DABhand you can't be serious? That bullcrap eidos is pushing with the name the guys at SI made is hideous. EAs game lacks immersion badly compared to FM05 even, let alone the new version with the team talks and such nice additions.

I don't know if you know this but FM = CM. CM05 is not the real CM and is a load of crap.

eirebhoy you beauty.

I was looking around for ages to fix my poorly made image that comes up with 'insert the correct cdrom' message. I set it to nt compatibility mode like you said and it works a treat.

cheers.

Ill try and make a minidisc for you lads admitly by the time I make it some proffesional group would have made it but... ill try.

Doesnt take a group to make a mini image lol. Just a brain with a higher IQ than George Bush, a computer with Alcohol 120%, and a pair of hands.

this is championship manager buddy!

it is made by sports interactive,the makers of every champ manager game other than champ manager 5.

eidos and sports interactive split up,sports interactive got to keep the game and its database,wheras eidos just got to keep the championship manager name.NOT anything to do with teh game whatsoever,that was all trademarked/copywrited by sports interactive years ago.

this is not a ea game,or anything to do with fifa,this is the real deal,the real championship manager that we all know and love :P

championship manager 5,is not anything to do with any of the older championship manager games,other than eidos release the game,and it has the same name as its predecessors.

very confusing lol!

but championship manager 5 was probaly the worst game ever and they probaly wont be making anymore.

FOOTBALL MANAGER 2005 and 2006 is what we all know as championship manager from a few years back.

With CM you get better matches, not lets just score 12 in one game. Not realistic enough with FM.

And remember CM was around since amiga days, which spawned into Premier Manager, which then spawned into Football Manager.

There was a Football Manager before CM, but it was nothing to do with SI.

So why do you call it football? lol

If most of the game your using your hands, its only after a few steps they kick for some strange reason (perhaps you can only hold the ball after so many steps?)

dude your gettting this so confused with fifa manager.

football manager is the game we all know as cm.

cm 5 is a brand new game with bad ai,and the tendancy to send off 5 of your players in every match.

i lost 23-0 to inter milan with real madrid in cm 5 lol! with 6 men.

maybe it is your personal prefrence tho mate :P

i know that cm5 got reviews of like 30% and 2/10 in most magazines..

wheras football manager got 10/10 and 90% everywhere,and nominated as the british game of the year,and the highest selling pc game of last year also.

sports interactive the makers of football manager 2005,where the makers of every single championship manager that was ever made exept last years,which was entirely new,and they lost a lot of money (even i took my copy back to teh shop,it was pants!,lol)

btw,the zx spectrum,c64,amiga version of football manager has nothing to do with these games,other than this game has aquired the trademark for the name.