Well, the problem is we're currently playing with 11 players with next to no skills; things will pick up once we have a few weeks of training under our belts (even if I can't join in with team training).

hmm, it's clear that we cannot "survive" with just Kankkunen on front, so we need either a second striker, or we change tactics to a two AMC's, which could provide more firepower up front. What do you think?

I'd suggest the two amc option first, unless someone volumteers to switch positions..

Actually, I think we should get someone to play as second striker anyway, as it seems the treacherous Finn will be leaving us after next season anyway.

You are correct. Who would like to be the designated striker in GoG FC after the next season? As Zchinque said, Kankkunen will head back to Slovakia, but J.Laakso will come to help the team. But Laakso is no attacker...

What?! Well, why am I wasting interaction points with him, then? XD

I'd like to mention that this change happened with quite some bad timing.
It seems much more likely for everybody to adjust their training to the team schedule if they have at least 24 hours time, so, please change the schedule at least a day in advance next time.

Passing? Short or Long Passes?
And may I request at LEAST an additional two days of Stamina?
Right now that match did drain 11% Fitness for me (and some others). I have no idea how much that value can be lowered through getting a half decent amount of Stamina, but every single percent would be valuable for the future.

As 'organised' as we are, I doubt that you're alone there :p
Would it help you if I provided a little document with screenshots, links and instructions of the most basic functionality (which takes roughly 5 minutes to adjust)?

Edit:
Well, I took a few quick and dirty screenshots and decided to leave the bare bone instructions here. If you need that a bit more in order, I could compile a PDF, a HTML page, or even an interactive introduction movie, depending on your preferences.
For your convenience, the following text contains click-able links that should take you right to the action. Important points are highlighted by red squares in the corresponding screenshot.

Most important is Training (Player -> Training):
There are three training sessions each day Monday through Sunday. Your 'job' is to set them according to what skills you need on your position. Right now you should just set them to match the team training. Take a look at your Fitness value though. Each time you train, this value decreases by 2 and it should not reach less than 80 (never less than 70). Training Fitness once gets you 8 points recovery, twice in a row 18, thrice in a row 30. You can not have more than 100, so try to time the fitness training.
When you're done, hit 'Save'.
(You should adjust this about twice a week)

The next part is your Relationships (Player->Relationships):
People can ask you to become their friend (I've done so with you) and once you accept, you can decide the amount of daily interaction points you want to invest on this friendship. I've set them to 8% for everybody, which leaves me a few points for manual interaction. After you're done, hit 'Send'.
The little 'guy with blub' icon to the right allows you to directly interact with people (unfortunately, I couldn't take a good screenshot of that, because I've used up all my options already for today, so I'll add this part later on). It's not that important though.
(This is a once set and be done, unless you want to take the manual interaction, which can be handled once a day.)

Now you should set your Match Orders (Player -> Match Orders):
Select the 'Yes' radiobox to show your orders to our managers (KneewTheCap/nmillar/Vitek), then hit the 'Send' button'. Now grant these lazy buggers some time to work through your settings and they're going to send you a suggestion (sooner or later). Just adjust the settings to match the Manager Order, hit the 'Modify' button, and you're fine. (It's a one time good for all set-up, so you likely only need to do this once)

This is about all you needed.
News and events can be easily spotted on your Home Page (The little 'house' button the the upper right). the little 'two people' icon right next to the home button blinks once somebody interacts with you.

I hope that was a bit of use to you.
There's certainly more you can do and you should decide on what to train yourself later on, but you can just ask people what they'd recommend.

re : Training.

Its stated that fitness needs to be above 80% for us to get the most out of training, and we should keep to the team schedule to maximise the effects. So should we not have at least two session a week devoted to team fitness to keep us developing properly?

There are actually a couple 'advices', namely 92, 82, 70. Each one has it's advantage and it's drawbacks. I'd say that they are rather personal preference and personally I use what suits my schedule, the team training and the match fitness train best for me.

There's no benefit to team fitness training (as far as I know), unlike with any of the other skills. So, it's better to offer the normal training and just have people individually set fitness sessions whenever they require them.
Then again, I might be horribly wrong, but we could test that quite easy. The normal value for recovery is 8%, we could always set one single team Fitness training and check the recovered fitness.

Edit:
Hmm. Since Joakim Laakso is a dedicated defender, that kind of means one of our defenders would have to move up front and we'd need a second player to get up the front as well.
When does he arrive here? I wonder how we could play before and after he arrived without having to adjust that much later on.
How about if we play 3-4-3 now and switch to 4-4-2 after the substitution?
Both Michael Patton (HomerSimpson) and Henning Mangelsdorff (Fujek ;)) could still switch to front rather easy considering skills. Any preferences on your side HomerSimpson?

If one of our three DMC/AMC goes FC, it would seem to make the most sense to me (preferably not Mr.Stott(stoicsentry) though, since that might be a bit much for him just yet). That'd leave Maurice Payne(Robbeasy) or Henrik Solberg (Zchinque). Any volunteers?

Edit 2:
Stadium capacity: Can we afford to upgrade our stadium? We seem to be stuck with 10000, but could use far more (15000) and likely gain even more once we advance to the C-division. What's the status of our finances?

J.Laakso can play either DC or in midfield, I don't want to rob anyone's place. I agree the timing sucked (changed team training), I apologize. Let's agree the next weeks training in the forums beforehand?

I put the team training the way you guys want it, I don't intend to be a ruler of the team :)

I like to consider it as a community run team :)

@Robbeasy: Fitness is not one of the selectable team trainings. Nor is having fun :)

Ah - thanks Knee and Fujek - I shall adjust my own training as necessary then..

I don't know what you're all complaining about; I have to train by myself since all these team training sessions are useless to me! :P

Oh well, at least I have the bot GK for company.

If you go Midfield, both our current (active) AMC and DMC would have to move forward, so it would sound only fair to 'distribute' the position switch between midfield and defence. At this current stage of the game, I don't mind switching, as I'm not yet fixed skill wise.
I'd say that your dribbling is rather sparse compared to your tackling (while agreeably even your dribbling would likely suffice for most of the midfield opponents in the C-division :p), so DC seems to be the perfect choice for Laakso.
And we could easily switch from DL,DC,DR-(A)ML,MC,MC,(A)MR-FC,FC,FC to DL,DC,DC,DR-(A)ML,MC,MC,(A)MR-FC,FC between seasons.

Since you have more experience, do you have any idea (or even a concrete formula) on how much Stamina influences Fitness loss for matches?

How about everybody states (within the next 2-3 days) what skills s/he considers a 'good to have' for their position and we then count the result, adding the 'most trained' as team training?

Edit:
An extra thousand Euro weekly payment certainly makes up for a sweet goalkeeper consolation, doesn't it? :p

Actually, that's not true at all. Stamina is (very?) useful for a goalkeeper as well, so you can use more than 50% of this week's team training (if you want to, that is).

Just to get a faster response, since we should get this done soon.

Would either Robbeasy or Zchinque be willing to switch to FC?
HomerSimpson, would you want to play as FC (I would, but I'd certainly give you the opportunity if you wanted to)?

Id be willing to change