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Hello,
so I'm not an active member on the forums (I'm quite lazy, but I'll try and change!) and I have the feeling that the English community isn't really involved in the development of the U21 team.
My question is, what are you concrete ideas to involve managers like me? And also, what is the role your scouts are going to have in this?

The reason I decided to run for the English U21 is that England is an uprising community on the brink of what it takes to become "an active and self organized" nation. I don´t want to be offensive towards former U21 coaches, but I think the influence of foreign dominated coaches who seemed not to be focused on the community was too strong, so I tried to get involved with a uniting approach.

That brings me to another question raised later:

I am not only proposing that the UK users get involved, my whole plan doesn´t work if there´s no support from the local managers. The success of any NT and U21 team is based on multiple coaches participating - some by scouting, some by training, others by giving insight in tactics, opponents and others, and ALL contributing in making it a great experience for the whole community.

There´s nothing worse than an NT coach running his own campaign without getting "his country involved".

In this aspect, it seems that my opponent Morwood is taking a very similar approach and will fulfill the need for communication and - key to any forum - entertainment as well as you can wish. It´s highly entertaining following his posts, and I´m sure he will be a great communicator.

Talking about my planned use of scouts and inexperienced coaches who want to contribute:

Scouts can be helpful in numerous ways - scouting players first, then beeing an advisor to the coaches who own them and try to train them to further glory, scouting opponents and keeping an eye on tactics and players used and of course mapping the transfer activity and making sure that coaches who might be interested in training UK U21 and NT prospects get their hands on those instead of bored newbies or "foreigners" who don´t see the necessity to train a player at all or at least useful.

If you want to get involved, there´s always a way to get things going - and like I tried to clear up before, it´s my aim to make the UK coaches take over soon, so the more they get involved from the start, the better it is.

Last edited by LA-seelenjaeger at 11/29/2012 3:57:59 PM

it looks to me that we have two very interested and capable candidates, but we can only have 1 winner.

would you both be willing to work together as a team???

Well, there´s not much to add to Morwood.

I´m willing to work with everyone, but if you choose Morwood, I don´t think he would -need- me to help him. I would just be taking a place in the coaching or scouting staff that an English Coach could fill, so I think it would be better not to stand in the way.

Last edited by LA-seelenjaeger at 11/30/2012 8:53:09 AM

Hey

I've messaged the previous u21 manager a numerous times during the whole of last season without response to try and get some sort of input with regard to exactly what you are looking for to support the u21 team - brick wall.

I've trained pure single positions last season dedicated to 2 players, thrown my place in the EBBL to train and build an all English team...

http://www.buzzerbeater.com/player/26431689/overview.aspx

http://www.buzzerbeater.com/player/26431468/overview.aspx

It would be nice to have some contact ;)

Question: How will you support a manager like me who has sacrificed everything for the benefit of the NT?

Blessings... G

I think I can answer this one for both Morwood and me.

In a community based NT or U21 campaign, there´s scouts who will (1) find players who might be interesting for the national teams and (2) in close cooperation with the teams manager will guide you in what to train and who.

The situation of non-communication is unbearable and one of the reasons for the two of us to run for the job.

I know my one 19 year old ATG should be close after this season, so they should atleast talk to me about what the may wan tme to train or expectations. And don't get me wrong The people that run Canada U21 are great, maybe some of the scouts just arent on teh same page.

No, its no the scouts fault. It is more of a case of, "Mod-Bballin get really lazy last season."

Anyways, Morwood is a splendid candidate and a very dependable manager who is true to his word and has improved greatly since he started. I think he will do an awesome job for England and I urge you to vote for him. I mean he is Canadian so he DOES have bacon.. what does Germany have? ;)

Here is a question:

One that I took from a Canadian manager, but gives a good outlook on what every manager values in a player. If you had 95 skill points to use(not including FT or STA), what would your perfect player look like?