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Primaries would almost guarantee a spot when he's 20. Secondaries can be worked on at a later date. The flip side is if you train secondaries he won't be U21 ready till he's 21.

Its up to you.

isnt the normal pattern something like:

age 18 a whole year of primaries - 1/2 a season of id first to get it real high hopefully near sensational, second half of the season doing is, every week where there is only 2 games or in case of a stuff up or in playoffs when you need to be careful with your lineups, then do rebounding - salary wont be crippling, around 10k

age 19 a whole year of secondaries - playing pg is a pain but he can swap in defence, passing is the first one to work on, then you want a bit of od and finally some 1on1 or js - can get some other guys some extra training at this time - this keeps salary still quite modest, maybe around 12k

age 20 another year of primaries - just work on whatever is behind and slam them, hopefully by the end of the season he can be heading for triple tremendous - now his wage will start to explode look for 20k ++

age 21 he is on the u21 team, your merchandising goes through the roof, your arena is full every week, you have more money than you know what to do with, you have a player other coaches would kill for, he smashes his mono-skilled opponents every match, and the u21 coach will give you week by week advice on what the team needs

sound good?

I love secondaries as much as anyone, but the fact is they need primaries too, and international competitions are still dominated by big men with amazing primaries. In the NT this gap is a lot smaller but for U21, trip sensational against Chinese big men with trip prodigious is just too much to handle.

Last edited by iwen at 2/14/2011 2:24:07 AM

and you think three seasons of primaries and one of secondaries isn't enough?

no-one has the steroids and blood doping like the chinese have so there is no point in comparing

they have 1000 farm teams with level 7 trainers whose only job is to train players for their nt, they train other guys too so they can sell them and buy the best chinese prospects and we got lucky this time when jone bogan ended up on one of those teams

those guys get 48+ single pos every week from age 18 even in asw and offseason cause the teams dont care about winning or anything but training

then their u21 team has like 40 x max stat players with minor differences to choose from, remember the team they had rostered earlier this season with all those $120-$180,000 21 year olds? they even have multiple 70k + u21 guards. and dont worry there is row after row of clones coming every year so there is no point even thinking about the chinese team, they are playing a different game, their u21 team could probably give our senior team a good match

No, I think it's fine.

I think he needs to focus on primaries first. We have enough players focusing on secondaries that our primary skills end up lacking.

I have my reasons for this.

One think we all agree on, this season just smash ID and IS in single popsition training with at least 48+ minutes a week and at least a level 4 trainer. In weeks with just two games you can do rebounding. By the end of the season you will already pe in possession of a skilled player who can lead you to victory in division IV.

This guy is a monster... if you don't train him, you'd be wasting a great Australian prospect. Don't do a full year of secondaries btw, just do like up to the ASG in secondaries, or maybe another week or two after that. It's better to have higher primaries going in because it will be easier to train secondaries when he's 21 and already on the team, then it will be to train primaries then.