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Without turning this post into a pages of rant, Madden has become so shockingly poor. Gameplay-wise it's worse than Madden 08, and much much worse than 2K's All Pro Football 2k8. I mean, the games look good mostly, but they've stripped out all the depth from franchise mode and replaced it with...

I'd love to join you in that. The main ideologies driving this are so pervasive...I get so sick with clients who parrot the "government is always inefficient, private sector is inherently efficient" ********, especially when things are de facto monopolies. Also, having spent this year in...

Kind of. The NFL is such a QB-driven league though, and it distorts the whole thing. A lot of the successful NFL teams in recent years have had strong D and good enough young QBs on first contracts (4-5 seasons), or teams with QBs who will take less money so that the team can spend more on other...

It's not just rugby - Madden may look good now, but the game is ******* dreadful. It has 1/10th of the depth of its heyday (04-08, as well as the 2K series), the gameplay has arguably regressed over the last 10 years; it's stagnated with the same crap - animation bugs and dice-roll outcomes, bad...

#1 thing for rugby games - AI #2 for me would be getting the physics right. Madden's gameplay has totally stagnated in the last 10 years because it depends far too heavily on animations (compare to the the 2k5 / 2k8 games which are much more fluid). I think physics is even more important for...

I dunno. Still think the idea of him as an international is better than the reality. Plus I want to shoot someone every time someone talks about his "mazy" runs .

I dunno, you could definitely find a few Saints fans who'd moan about him not being an EQP.

I agree, but I think the drip feeding should be happening at 19/20/21, and then players establishing themselves and competing for 1st team places at 21/22/23. As I said, Harrison was being drip-fed until he was 23/24. Ludlam is 22 at the end of the year - again, he should already have been...

I honestly do not understand Saints' methods of developing young players. Ludlam should be getting game time, no question, but he's not been in the matchday 23 the last couple of weeks. I remember a couple of years ago when Saints went to Sale with a Dickinson/Clark second row pairing rather...

No, but having two quality scrummies is never a bad thing. I mean, they could have just renewed Kahn's contract, but whatever. And Saints solved their problems by hiring Phil Dowson to coach/play with the guys who aren't getting first team game time. Particularly after claiming to have had...

Love it. Also, from the following DM quote "Underhill's barnstorming performances for the Ospreys...and has been mentored by Kay's World Cup-winning team-mate Richard Hill." So we'll just have to call him Sam Hill in a few years' time, which will be mighty confusing.

I think his acceleration isn't great, but he's got a fair amount of pace once he gets going - he beat Gareth Davies in a footrace last season so he's not a slowpoke by any means. Personally, I think he's best cut out for centre, he has plenty to work on in defence, mind.

As much as I like Luther, he is a liability when off form. To me, it seems like he gets issues with timing when his confidence is knocked and ends up knocking on a lot. And his defence isn't amazing normally, but he *generally* reads the play okay...when he's off, he's really vulnerable...

There's pretty much no point in having Robshaw on the bench though. The only thing that he might add is a bit of stability/leadership off the bench if things are getting disorganised, but he'll never be an impact player. His strongest attributes are that he reliably put in a solid 80-minute...

The annoying thing is that even when he's playing like dog**** he can still create game-winners from almost nothing, and then gets all the praise from the media etc., even though the team probably shouldn't have been in such a precarious place in the first place. Also - new A Level Stats...

Particularly as you have "88" in your screen name.

I was really bored so I created an NFL team on the fanhub. Anyone want to playtest it? I mean, 37 speed Peyton Manning at fly half...what more can you want? Should come up if you type "NFL" into the search.

On some of the videos I've noticed some of the lineouts going to the wrong team which would be pretty annoying, particularly since it doesn't happen in RC1. The Fan Hub uploads can get a bit weird. I just tried uploading my team, but it seems to put the player order out of whack. Not major...

If in doubt, assume that's the case.

Yep. That said, Patterson's been out since the end of Jan or something, so I'm guessing he's not 100 % fit yet. I wonder if Lewis Ludlam can sneak in any game time in the next few weeks considering there are so many players out. I'm guessing Mallinder/West would play Matfield at 7 before giving...