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I am running again. It is not time for me to come up with something more eloquent to say than last time. It's your time to right the wrong of two seasons ago and plop one more vote down beside my name this go round to make me your U21 manager.

Hi, I have been Canada's U21 manager for the past few seasons.
I am a Naismith manager with plenty of experience who has been working as hard as I can for Canada
I have had ups and downs as your manager but I have reasons.
I started my first season midway which didn't help me influence my opinion on training.
I have been trying to get into contact with managers who just don't respond.
I know my team hasn't been good but, those teams weren't entirely my teams they were partly nobody's as we waited for what turned out to be very sad news about Kumiko.
I have invited everyone to the offsite and asked your opinion on both roster and tactics.

I try hard to help my team.
I love this job and I hope you vote for me.

Long Live Canada!
Sparky44

Running again as well, after all I was 1 vote away from getting the job last time, and it's a bit blurry now but I think I didn't even cast my vote ^^

Anyway my plan is not to make radical changes to the way all the U21 managers of the past have played. The job requires to contact managers again and again and again to the point they hate you for asking how is training going. Sparky already does that, and everyone before him has too, and I will too. Will it make a difference? Probably not.
But they are other areas where things can be different. I have nothing against Sparky, he's a great manager, but I don't think he plays the U21 "ballsy" enough. We haven't and probably never will have the best roster, so we need to make things differently, use players differently, even train them differently.
I haven't followed the team this season because it seems there was nothing interesting there, but the season before we had a huge center, Arsenault I believe, who had MASSIVE primaries, like massive I, but really pour JS and IS. In other words he could never make a shot. We've discussed it again and again and again that season, I would not have put him in the roster, and at least not a starter, especially because his GS was average at best.
That's what I do with my own team, I constantly search for balanced players, that can play 2 or 3 different positions, and that's what I want for the U21. Will it work? I hope so! It hasn't work for me in the previous season because of bad injuries at the wrong time (both seasons right before the playoffs!).
So anyway that's my plan, take shots at it all you want, I'm not the kind of guy that buldge that easily, I believe in it, so I just ask you to believe in me, and at least let me try :)

Last edited by Fwinns at 1/20/2015 11:43:38 PM

Hi all. i see that you have many good native managers who want to be u21 manager. and all of them have equal chances. so for me, as foreign manager, these chances are smaller )). but it is very interesting for me to try )
so. my name is Tiger. i'm from ukraine. i'm 28 yo. i'm a scientist, physicist )
for some reasons i don't want to be an u21 manager of the native country at this moment. but i want to be an u21 manager )). we (i and my wife) want to move to canada in the near future. so this is a reason why i choose canada. maybe i'll get a couple of friends ))). it will be much easier to try in any small country, but not so interesting )
my team is not very successful but for me the role of the u21 nt manager is much interesting in the game. i have a very big experience as u21 manager. for many years i was one in ukraine and kazakhstan. the best results, as for me, is creating a team in kazakhstan that almost qualify for WC... kazakhstan is a very small country and it was a very difficult to persuade managers to train their players... last season ukraine got the finals at the CT and there were players whom i lead when they were 18-19 yo...
the main problem what i see if i will be canada u21 manager is the time difference. i can't communicate with canada managers in "real time", canada home games take place when in ukraine i a deep night. so i will need an assistant for emergency communication with managers and for posting my preview ). maybe for several other tasks. so i think this problem can be solved
what i can guaranty:
- maximized preview/review. preview will post smbd, review with a delay, but all things will be explain
- various tactics. as players will allow. will play players, of course, only in the shape 8-9
- team work. i will need assistants
- tight monitoring of youth. if you have a system i'll try to improve it, if you don't have one we will try to create it

thank you for attention )

ps: i'll answer all questions in the debate topic

Hello, I'm the Green Machine and I'm interested in running for Canada's U21 coach. I've been playing since season 15 and I think I may be finally at a place where I can help the Canadian U21 program. I'm happy to answer any questions but in brief I would think my strengths are strong analytics, being creative and being polite. I understand that at the U21 level sometimes leagues and long term training take priority and will do my best to balance the interests of the team and managers, while also serving as a training resource with advice on salary, potential caps and training speeds. As a weakness I amy not be the most prolific poster on the forums, but I am a lurker who loves to consume tips, tricks and advice.

I know there is a lot of great managers who also have their hat in the race, so good luck to all and lets hope that no matter who wins its the best for Canada.
Cheers,
Green.