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Scott the Scout: Hi there Rich Wynne, this is Scott the scout from Scotts scouting scoop here to ask if you would be willing to answer a couple question for my next edition?
For you anything you gorgeous human
Scott the Scout: Excellent! This will be over quicker than a tumbleweed in a twister!
So to start it off, not many players can say that they immediately apply for the role of manager as soon as they join the academy. What made you decide that you were ready to do both?
Honestly, I loaded up the platform after being invited by my good friend Jack Pow who said this would be right up my street and he wasn't wrong and that was it, head gone. One minute I’m having a look around, next thing I know I’m knee deep in rules, threads, and trying to work out how everything ticks.
I just wanted to get stuck in properly, and becoming an Academy Manager felt like the best way to do that. You learn quicker, you’re in the middle of it all, and you actually get to have a say instead of watching from the sidelines.
I like building things as well so spending 4/5 hours putting tactics together to put our team in the best possible position to beat our next opponent is me in my element. No point being here just to exist, I’d rather try and put something together, develop players, and leave the academy hopefully as a round 1 pick!
End of the day, if it all clicks and I end up leaving behind a bit of a legacy as ‘THEE Rookie’… I’ll take that all day long.
Scott the Scout: Amazing! You have certainly brought a certain chutzpah to the league!
Next question: 6 points from 2 games, 7 goals scored, top of the league. Seemingly everything has gone right for Stockholm so far. Without giving away any of your secrets, why do you think you and the team have been able to hit the ground running so much at the start of the season and what will it take to keep it going?
6 points, 7 goals… it looks good, yes. But for me, not a surprise. I see what the players are doing every day, I see the work from the human managed players behind the scenes, the way they are building their players, using their TPE properly, staying active doing articles to earn the max potential and how vocal they are in the locker room. This is not luck, this is preparation. So first, credit to them, because without that, you don’t get these performances.
We have a clear idea, a clear structure. The players understand it, they believe in it, and when you have that, you don’t need magic, you need consistency.
But listen… we are not champions after two games. I’ve been in football long enough to know how quickly things can change. Now people will look at us differently, they will be more motivated to beat us, and this is where the real test starts.
To continue like this, we need the same mentality. No drop in standards, no excuses, no comfort. If we stay humble and keep working, we can be a problem for anyone. If not… we will be just another team with a good start.
So we stay calm… but we know what we are as believe me in tactic testing I have seen first hand how quickly things can turn around, FM loves to throw a 4-0 loss your way when you have 35 shots on target and the opposition have 4 and score all 4!!
Scott the Scout: Not resting on your laurels yet! Smart, alot can happen in the 14 games of an academy season...
Final question: We have to talk about it, your goal from last week. You manage to get the ball on your own half, run the entire length of the pitch and then in front of the goal you hit one of the opposing team with the ball, causing it to deflect into the goal. It almost looked intentional! Was it? Or was it lady luck giving you a helping hand?
I knew this one was coming??… the goal has more attention than my tactics, which is a little bit disrespectful, no???
Listen, I pick the ball up in my own half, I run the length of the pitch… nobody asks about that. No slow motion, no dramatic music. Then I use the defender like a wall on FIFA and suddenly everyone becomes a detective.
Was it intentional? Of course it was intentional. You think I run 70 yards just to panic at the end? I saw the defender, I saw his positioning, I said ‘okay, you will score for me today’.
If it goes wide, you all say ‘bad touch, rookie mistake’. Because it goes in, now it’s ‘genius’, ‘vision’, ‘did he mean it?’… same action, different headline. This is football.
Honestly, I should give him an assist bonus. Without him, maybe I have to actually finish it properly… and who knows what happens then.
So yes… 99% skill, 1% luck… and the 1% is just the defender helping me out. Good teamwork in the end. The only downside is that the lads keep shouting "Run Forest Run" every time I enter the training ground. I had one old chap ask me if I knew where "Jenn-ay" was after the game last night, complete shithousery if you ask me!
Scott the Scout: Bombastic as always Rich! Massive thanks for taking the time to answer my questions and Scott will be watching your career with great interest!
Got to give these lot a smile life's to short to be boring genuinely the real reason I am here is to escape real life. So thank you and all the guys that make this so successful because genuinely i have been through some right shit in the outside world this past few weeks and this has seriously kept me going.
For you anything you gorgeous human
Scott the Scout: Excellent! This will be over quicker than a tumbleweed in a twister!
So to start it off, not many players can say that they immediately apply for the role of manager as soon as they join the academy. What made you decide that you were ready to do both?
Honestly, I loaded up the platform after being invited by my good friend Jack Pow who said this would be right up my street and he wasn't wrong and that was it, head gone. One minute I’m having a look around, next thing I know I’m knee deep in rules, threads, and trying to work out how everything ticks.
I just wanted to get stuck in properly, and becoming an Academy Manager felt like the best way to do that. You learn quicker, you’re in the middle of it all, and you actually get to have a say instead of watching from the sidelines.
I like building things as well so spending 4/5 hours putting tactics together to put our team in the best possible position to beat our next opponent is me in my element. No point being here just to exist, I’d rather try and put something together, develop players, and leave the academy hopefully as a round 1 pick!
End of the day, if it all clicks and I end up leaving behind a bit of a legacy as ‘THEE Rookie’… I’ll take that all day long.
Scott the Scout: Amazing! You have certainly brought a certain chutzpah to the league!
Next question: 6 points from 2 games, 7 goals scored, top of the league. Seemingly everything has gone right for Stockholm so far. Without giving away any of your secrets, why do you think you and the team have been able to hit the ground running so much at the start of the season and what will it take to keep it going?
6 points, 7 goals… it looks good, yes. But for me, not a surprise. I see what the players are doing every day, I see the work from the human managed players behind the scenes, the way they are building their players, using their TPE properly, staying active doing articles to earn the max potential and how vocal they are in the locker room. This is not luck, this is preparation. So first, credit to them, because without that, you don’t get these performances.
We have a clear idea, a clear structure. The players understand it, they believe in it, and when you have that, you don’t need magic, you need consistency.
But listen… we are not champions after two games. I’ve been in football long enough to know how quickly things can change. Now people will look at us differently, they will be more motivated to beat us, and this is where the real test starts.
To continue like this, we need the same mentality. No drop in standards, no excuses, no comfort. If we stay humble and keep working, we can be a problem for anyone. If not… we will be just another team with a good start.
So we stay calm… but we know what we are as believe me in tactic testing I have seen first hand how quickly things can turn around, FM loves to throw a 4-0 loss your way when you have 35 shots on target and the opposition have 4 and score all 4!!
Scott the Scout: Not resting on your laurels yet! Smart, alot can happen in the 14 games of an academy season...
Final question: We have to talk about it, your goal from last week. You manage to get the ball on your own half, run the entire length of the pitch and then in front of the goal you hit one of the opposing team with the ball, causing it to deflect into the goal. It almost looked intentional! Was it? Or was it lady luck giving you a helping hand?
I knew this one was coming??… the goal has more attention than my tactics, which is a little bit disrespectful, no???
Listen, I pick the ball up in my own half, I run the length of the pitch… nobody asks about that. No slow motion, no dramatic music. Then I use the defender like a wall on FIFA and suddenly everyone becomes a detective.
Was it intentional? Of course it was intentional. You think I run 70 yards just to panic at the end? I saw the defender, I saw his positioning, I said ‘okay, you will score for me today’.
If it goes wide, you all say ‘bad touch, rookie mistake’. Because it goes in, now it’s ‘genius’, ‘vision’, ‘did he mean it?’… same action, different headline. This is football.
Honestly, I should give him an assist bonus. Without him, maybe I have to actually finish it properly… and who knows what happens then.
So yes… 99% skill, 1% luck… and the 1% is just the defender helping me out. Good teamwork in the end. The only downside is that the lads keep shouting "Run Forest Run" every time I enter the training ground. I had one old chap ask me if I knew where "Jenn-ay" was after the game last night, complete shithousery if you ask me!
Scott the Scout: Bombastic as always Rich! Massive thanks for taking the time to answer my questions and Scott will be watching your career with great interest!
Got to give these lot a smile life's to short to be boring genuinely the real reason I am here is to escape real life. So thank you and all the guys that make this so successful because genuinely i have been through some right shit in the outside world this past few weeks and this has seriously kept me going.
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