Advice?

Play easier teams.

I ran a 4-2-2-2 with two wingers my first season. It's rough until you can buy some help in. Make sure you're starting Matt Jarvis because he always seems to outperform his rating and make sure you have Jamie O'Hara on set pieces because he's probably the best free kick and corner man you have. Fletcher makes for a good poacher, and Berra should be able to net you at least 3-4 goals just by heading in O'Hara's corners. Wolves are pretty generous when it comes to $$$ so you should probably make sure to upgrade your defense and roll with Doyle, Fletcher, Jarvis, Knightly, O'Hara, Henry/Foley, Johnson, Berra, Stearman, (whoever at left) until the window hits. Play wide and fast and counter whenever possible. As for shouts, I find that work ball in box and move ball forward seem to work the best.

Try not to get discourged because at best you're going to finish like 13th-15th the first season unless you get really lucky, but if you survive the first season it should be smooth sailing from there. Target good young defenders like Romario.

You have some good strikers so take advantage of them. If your trying to play passing football perhaps switch to a more direct approach, just get the ball forward and try to put it in the net; you've just come back from a 4-4 draw so your players obviously know where the goal is. Have a team meeting and just say what looks the most appropriate, this will give your players a bit of a morale boost. You've played a lot of the hard teams already so if you can string a couple of results together it's likely that you'll end up going on a decent run, and a team with supurb morale on a winning streak is very hard to beat.

Whatever you do don't panic and start changing your formation every match. Look at your players and try to find what they are good at overall then try to play to those strengths. Try an aggressive teamtalk if you feel they should have won (mostly at home) but be sympathetic if it was a tough game. That will keep a good morale. Also, no matter how good a player is, if he's not performing give him a rest.

Also, looking at the teams you played against it doesn't look like anything is wrong, you just had a tough run of games. Games you could have won are Bolton and QPR and even those weren't at home. I'm sure you'll have a nice run now.

Arrange friendlies in between matches to get the morale up.

Terry Connor

Play to your teams strengths. I sucked pretty bad, initially because I tried playing possession soccer (slow tempo, short passes, etc) with a team that was really set up for direct, counter attacking, defensive mindset. When I finally changed my players roles and tactics to benefit my players, I won quite a few games... but there's not much I can help you with tactically until you tell us what your current formations and player roles are.

Thanks for the advice people.

I haven't played in a while but will reload the save and try and stay out of relegation.

When you lose a game, quit without saving. Relaunch, try again.