5 Star Potential | A Football Manager Podcast

We are joined on the pod by Tony and Dan, both halves of fellow FM podcast Grass 'n Gear. With both being veterans of the FM community we discuss their saves new and old as well as their approach to content. This was really fun to record and should be a great listen. Enjoy. P.s. Soz about giving you false hope re: the quiz in the intro... 5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast brought to y...

Now that FM20 has reached full release, we talk about how that went from an outsider's perspective. We talk more in more depth about how our saves have gone so far and Doop fills the quizmaster void with a slight caveat... 5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast brought to you by #WeStreamFM! If you've enjoyed the podcast why don't you click the follow button on Soundcloud or leave a 5 star...

This week... THE QUIZ IS BACK! We also have a big ol' update of all of everyone's saves so that you're all well up to speed before the full release of FM20. Oh, did we mention the quiz is back? 5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast brought to you by #WeStreamFM! If you've enjoyed the podcast why don't you click the follow button on Soundcloud or leave a 5 star review on iTunes if that tic...

This week's pod brings you the third and final exclusive interview that we recorded at SI Towers during the capture event back in October. This time round we speak to Nic Madden, Match Lead at SI, about his role and his favourite Football Manager moments and his less than ordinary path to a career at SI. This is an absolutely fascinating listen. 5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast broug...

Following on from last week's pod, we have the second of three interviews with Sports Interactive staff. This time we speak to Seb Wassell about his role as Features Designer, how his role has changed since he started working on Football Manager and about some of his more memorable Football Manager saves. If you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of those features meetings, this is the p...

This week features the first of three interviews with members of staff from Sports Interactive. Our interview with Neil gives You an exclusive peek behind the inner workings of the Sports Interactive forums, a career in QA and how much he loves FM too. This interview was recorded at the capture event which we were privileged enough to be invited to by Sports Interactive.    5 Star Potent...

As FM19 draws nearer to a close, we asked our wives and partners questions relating to FM and our content before guessing what they said. It gets messy, very quickly.   5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast brought to you by #WeStreamFM! If you've enjoyed the podcast why don't you click the follow button on Soundcloud or leave a 5 star review on iTunes if that tickles your pickle! Pl...

This week we blur the lines of real football and Football Manager by discussing what each of us would do were in we Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's position at Manchester United. It's also Doop's turn to fill in for Curty, hopefully it's better than the past couple of quizzes...   5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast brought to you by #WeStreamFM! If you've enjoyed the podcast why don't you...

This week we talk about how we think the Development Centre might change the way we play Football Manager and whether we will adapt our approach to youth development because of it. There's no Curty this week, which means there's a quiz. Sort of.   5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast brought to you by #WeStreamFM! If you've enjoyed the podcast why don't you click the follow button o...

This week we discuss some more of the new features FM have dropped for us this week. We're also joined by special guest FoxInTheBox as we give our thoughts on our favourite FM19 bits.  5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast brought to you by #WeStreamFM! If you've enjoyed the podcast why don't you click the follow button on Soundcloud or leave a 5 star review on iTunes if that tickles...

This week we have a rather large treat for you all, we had the pleasure of being joined by Tom Davidson & Dom Baker from Sports Interactive to discuss the headline features for FM20 that were announced on Thursday last week. We had a bit of fun, mainly at Dom's expense as well as a quiz from Curtdizz too in a podcast absolutely brimming with the usual nonsense. As promised, here are the links that...

EXCLUSIVE NEWS! STOP THE PRESSES! On this week's pod we reveal our save plans for #FM20... sort of. Some of us have settled ideas that have been in the works for a while, others are a little less committed & there's always the question that everyone wants to know the answer to... will Dave be doing (yet) another Wolves save? We review some of your save plans & we still squeeze in a humdinger of a...

Real life club football is having a break this week so we thought we'd talk about international management in FM19, our experiences on managing a nation and what SI can do to improve the experience. As always, we'll have the usual save updates with another attribute based quiz. 5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast brought to you by #WeStreamFM! If you've enjoyed the podcast why don't you...

It's all about cup competitions in this week's pod! The lads discuss how they set up for cup competitions, if they practice penalties or if it's just another reason to rotate. 5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast brought to you by #WeStreamFM! If you've enjoyed the podcast why don't you click the follow button on Soundcloud or leave a 5 star review on iTunes if that tickles your pickle!...

This week's pod sees the discussion of set pieces. Do we run special tactics to score goals, do we stick with an exploit and who should take the set pieces? Curty aka Honest Chris also gives us a FM set piece themed quiz! 5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast brought to you by #WeStreamFM! If you've enjoyed the podcast why don't you click the follow button on Soundcloud or leave a 5 star...

Following on from last week's discussion about last minute transfer dealings, we chat about how we'd react to a 4-0 drubbing on the opening day of the season in Football Manager 2019. We just about squeeze in a Curtdizzle quizzle too, we ran out of time for your questions this week because tangents. Sorry about that! 5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast brought to you by #WeStreamFM! If...

As the transfer window closed just before the season started, we decided to talk about our approaches to transfer windows in Football Manager, whether we do our business early doors or if we cannot resist the temptation of a deadline day bargain. There's also a 'controversial' quiz from Curty too... 5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast brought to you by #WeStreamFM! If you've enjoyed the...

Welcome to the Proudie disasterclass, where we get a chance to catch up with the man, the myth and legend of one of the hottest saves current available for Football Manager community consumption! We also feature some listener questions & a quiz from Curtdizz! 5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast brought to you by #WeStreamFM! If you've enjoyed the podcast why don't you click the follow b...

As we move into the next century of podcasts in the midst of a UK heatwave, we have a tactical focus on Carlo Ancellotti's Milan side that had great success on the European stage during the early 2000s. Curty is all quizzed out from last week so Dave steps in to give his take on what is current day-time TV quiz... 5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast brought to you by #WeStreamFM! If you...

To celebrate our 100th episode we some Football Manager content creation stalwarts to take on a rag-tag 5 Star Pod team in a quiz where the rules are not entirely set in stone, despite Curty's best efforts. This is not one to be missed, drinks were flowing, children were crying. On to the next 100! 5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast brought to you by #WeStreamFM! If you've enjoyed the...

This week we focus on the Steam achievements that are available in Football Manager, by featuring a bit of top trumps that we may or not make up the rules for as we go along... Doop steps in as quizmaster and we answer some of your questions too! 5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast brought to you by #WeStreamFM! If you've enjoyed the podcast why don't you click the follow button on Soun...

This week we discuss going back to clubs & players that you've previously had success with on Football Manager, whether this ever actually works out or is destined to fail to live up to what you achieved in the past. We also answer some questions and there's time for a quiz too! 5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast brought to you by #WeStreamFM! If you've enjoyed the podcast why don't yo...

Imagine what you'd do if you were Miles Jacobson for a day and could ANYTHING you wanted to Football Manager... That's what we discuss this week. We also have yet another great quiz for Curtdizzle and Herb makes his third appearance on the pod, but no hat trick balls were available at the time of recording... 5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast brought to you by #WeStreamFM! If you've e...

We're joined by Herb this week as we peel back that illusive fourth wall. Letting you all in behind the scenes of the 5 Star Potential podcast, we discuss where we take things after nearly 2 years of the same format. We'd also love to hear your thoughts on what you'd like to see us do in the future so please do get in touch! We still have plenty of time for a fantastic quiz for Curty too. 5 Star P...

This week Dave takes over hosting duties as Matt is on hiatus. The lads talk about the news that Football Manager will be available on Xbox Game Pass and via Google Stadia, there's a short Q&A, the usual save updates and of course, Curty's quiz. 5 Star Potential is a Football Manager podcast brought to you by #WeStreamFM! If you've enjoyed the podcast why don't you click the follow button on Sound...