This would have crippled me in previous seasons and I don’t see how being an aggressive team would make your team lose morale. If I was a squad player in an aggressive team my morale would be higher as I’d have more chance of getting a game of football instead of sitting on the bench for the full season.
Surely if you are injure prone and keep taking small knocks each game this would take your morale down as you would forever be worried about being injured. You wouldn’t want to make tackles and frightened to go into 50/50s so therefore would be a worse player.

We keep hitting the aggressive teams / players – I enjoyed playing my aggressive line-up and gained two promotions with it. Look where my team is now with playing nicely. I wouldn’t be able to kick my way back into the Premier next season if I am relegated under the new morale rules as my morale would never be above 1.

At present it makes very little difference, as very few teams have poor morale, but even now, if you look at a team with 1 morale against a team with 20 morale, he has an improved chance of winning.

Looking at it in simple computer algorythm terms (although I have no idea what the current algorythm does, or how exactly it calculates morale advantages)the computer weighs everything up at the start of the game including morale and each team gets a set amount of posessions. These only change during the game for injuries and red cards. Each possession is a scoring opportunity for team A and team B has several chances to intercept the possession. As I say, I don’t know exactly how the algorythm works nowadays, but back in the day, if team A had 40 possessions and team B had 30 possessions and A had 1 morale and B had 20 morale, they would get plus 4 minus 4 posession, meaning their posessions would be altered to 36 to 34, making it a much closer game (a swing of only 2, instead of a swing of 10).
In simple terms, that’s how morale works and I’m fairly sure that’s roughly the importance it’ll have when it kicks in in the new season. I still don’t think there will be any great advantage with a difference of one or 2 morale – only when there is a difference of 8 or more – but again, I’m guessing, as Rich and I never discuss the algorythm now, as I now play in the game.

Is it more important than skill points, is it more important than formation, is it more important than home advantage – can we know how much of an impact morale has on the game i.e. how important is it in relation to anything else. without knowing it’s relative value compared to other aspects of the game, it will be impossible to know if we won, lost or drew because of morale, or because of something else.

How much should we be concerned about the difference in morale between us and our opponents? Without knowing that, morale is just a number.