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Lefthook are you taking it seriously or for fun the U21 Coach position. Just curious since no one has even written what they would do if they get the job.

I remember colesy saying that he was interested to coach the U21 team again... Not sure why he hasn't registered for the election yet...

im really interested.... but might have to wait till next season, don't have time from now till next year, will be doing alot of traveling.

To all the candidates,

How will you pick players for U21?.. Salary alone or tactics etc?..

From what i can see there are a few players that will definitely pick themselves that are already in the squad, im pretty sure theres a couple of 60-80K Centres.

Apart from that the rest of the squad needs to made up of mainly the best players who can be used in all situations , which for me are players with the best stats rather than salary.As well as a couple of guys who can fill in in certain situations (e.g at SF i often find it useful to have a more inside focused player to play when looking inside or lowposting).

Obviously when looking at the younger guys who are on the fringe of making the team potential needs and training needs to be looked at, so that we can anticipate who is going likely to get more pops. Also i like to keep at least 2 or 3 spare spaces for players that develop quicker than anticipated.

Cheers,

Colesy

Here are my question for the candidates...

We are a relatively small country, currently with 78 active users... Compared to large countries, we only get few rookies every draft, and much fewer rookies who have the skills and potential to be great players... This, to me, is a crucial disadvantage for us... My questions are:

1. What do you think we can do as a country to offset this disadvantage?

2. Is it advisable to train an 18yo rookie with good potential (perennial allstar up to HOF & ATG) even if he has low main skills to begin with? (awful-inept)

3. Is it advisable to train a 19yo rookie even if he is 1 season short of training when he turns 21?

thanks for the question mpoc,

1. The only thing we can really do is to make sure we are training the fewer players we do get well, although looking at the draft forum it seems like not many people got any! ;)

2. this leads on from the first question in a way. I would never want anyone to feel forced ot train a poor player with good potential to the detrement of their own team. Personally i know myself I wouldnt train a player with main skills of inept or below. On the other hand however it would probably be an option to use these players as a 5th trainee using 2 position training. So in an answer to this question then i would only advise this if it wasn't a detrement to the persons team.

3. I have nothing against training 19 yr olds, of course everyone would prefer an 18 year old, but it doesnt allways work out that way. i definitely wouldnt not train a player just because they were 19 instead of 18.