i'm surprised you guy's care about the approval rating.
No matter how you slice it, you'll always dissapoint someone or piss someone off. I for a fact am not going to hide that i didn't like the message Guiguits has sent me a while back. I'm fairly certain he meant it well, but his phrasing was less than ideal (and i'm not going to discuss it on the fora. i'm not here to create drama). That doesn't mean that i don't see the good work he and his staff (please do not forget the staff, cause a NT or U21 coach are nothing without the support of their staff) are doing a very good job. I consider your vote a reflection, not just on guiguits or Joe, but on the entire staff.
an U21 and NT manager represent the nation, for better or worse. Their job is to select the best possible team, regardless of if the other manager is your friend or not. As a U21 manager, you are more likely to piss off some people because you are asking them to train a player and after 2 or 3 seasons, they might not get picked, despite the best efforts of the manager to train said player. No matter how you slice it, that manager has sacrificed his time and effort to train a player. Sure, the reward for a team is that they'll have a good player, but if you are being told by an U21 manager that you are training a player for the U21, that U21 players get a bonus for merchandise etc, and when push comes to shove, you don't select them because you got better options at your disposal, then i can imagen that a manager is unhappy and will vote you down.
The bigger question for me is who is downvoting our NT manager. He's having a historic season in terms of output. he came in second in the european championship (our best result to date) and is still being downvoted. Futhermore, anyone who has ever had something to do with the Belgian fanion teams, should know that Joe has build a database for the staff to keep everything going and to make the workload of the staff a lot lighter. He's someone who has enabled a small nation to rival other top nations. He has also invested a lot of time into this game and into the belgian community as a whole. While i haven't always shared his views and opinions on the game, i do respect him for all that he has achieved. So to me, the fact that he's being downvoted is more concerning. As an U21 manager, you'll always piss off some people. As a NT manager, you got a realistic idea if a player can make the NT or not, so if he gets downvoted, i'd reckon it's based on not being honest to someone.
And something you got to also point out about Joe: his loyalty. He's stayed in Belgium. If he wanted to win the World cup, he could have gone to France. With his service record, they'd be absolute idiots not to vote him in and he'd probably get them a world cup or get him very very very close to winning it.
Ps: i've forgotten to mention Angi, cause i think her work cannot be ignored either. Unless if things have changed as of late, she's the 3rd person who should be respected more than anything else. She always works in the shadows and never gets the recognition she deserves for her efforts
Last edited by Mahesvara at 10/16/2024 10:30:44 AM