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While I'd love to hear the answers to that question, I don't think it should be the focus of this thread.

Why don't you answer my questions above?

Also, for all of the candidates:

Without goals, your campaign could appear like a ship without a rudder. So, what are your top three goals for the South African NT if you are to be elected? Please explain your reasoning.

Last edited by MagicMan at 5/10/2008 4:41:34 PM

Without goals, your campaign could appear like a ship without a rudder. So, what are your top three goals for the South African NT if you are to be elected? Please explain your reasoning.

I don't understand what want you say with goals..., I don't understand your sentence or question....
Very sorry.

Greetings.

If I will be elected I only promise that work very hard for up the national team to the better level that is possible, I understand that is difficult but maybe can try it.

Raúl.

My top 3 goals are:

1. Set up a thorough scouting system for players and maintain contact with as many owners as possible to set up a development program to keep the team stocked with diverse and complimentary players.

2. Win at least 75% of the games against teams with a lower ranking.

3. Be the best team in Africa.

1. First of all be the best African team, because we need to increase our popularity and our strength step by step. Think to win all of the games it's utopistic.

2. For realize the first point I've just find two italian players who will help me in scouting and maintainig good relations with all the owners of NT's players, with the SA community and with the owner of other SA players.

3. The last but not the least point is try to expand SA community because if we want a strong NT we'll need a larger community.

And, for sure, win all the games we can.

we have 10 candidates running for this seasons elections... thats more people then all the players from our country. Lots of people from lower divisions from other countrys seem to registered for small active player countys such as South Africa these days. Lots of guys all saying how good there gonna make this national team but i hope i'm not going to offend anybody - not doing so great with their own teams eighter... Anyway it's always good to have competition so i wish all other 9 candidates good luck!
Tom

What you've just said it's ridiculous...

I mean who are you to judge other and their work??

Why do you think that a III-IV series may be easier than your I division??

For example I can say your series it's easier than the others because in SA there are only 9 active teams...so you can easily win because you often play against bot or not so competitive teams, when in Italy for example the active teams are 3149...

You can understand that Italian is surely more difficult than SA league...

So how can you say if you are a better player than another ones only looking the series where he plays??'

In conclusion I think it's not right to judge a player only for the series where he plays.

That's not only a referr to my job but also to other players.

Good luck to everybody!

I agree it is great to have competition, may the best man win. As far as lower divisions, you have to also take into consideration the amount of time it takes to make it to a higher division. For example, I was put on a last place D.III team and was relegated so I have essentially accomplished the most I could possible accomplish in 2 seasons. At best it will take me another 2 seasons to make D.I which is not a reflection on my skill level but my placement in the BB world.

I hope that this fact does not escape the eyes of the voters. I also hope people don't buzz off after the election and focus on the title. I am personally in it because I think I can be a good candidate and I want to be more involved in the game. This is the logical next step. I think South Africa, as you mentioned, is a small country userwise and that makes it a great candidate for people to break into the National Team game. In fact your last National Team coach was from the same Division as a lot of the candidates. If you had a bad experience by all means vote for a different type of coach, but don't forget that this is a historical precedence and will surely continue in future elections until the number of active users increases.

And Dlight don't take offense, that message was directed to the group not just you so I don't want it to seem like I am calling you out when in fact I think you made some very valid points.

especialy to marco7 who didnt seem to understand my message... My observation was that there are 10 new candidates more then all the teams from SA. From these guys i wonder if they think they are all so good why didnt they candidated for their own country NT elections? By all means im not saying im better then them! Also i feared that some might understand my message wrong (seems marco did) i didnt sugested lower divisions mean lower quality teams because it sure isnt, there are teams in Italy for example that have 3 seasons ahead of us and im sure a second division team can match our NT, i just took the priviledge of looking at your teams and since the salary of the players wasn't that great naturaly i figured out that they werent doing that good with their teams. Again i'm saying lower division doesnt mean lower quality but lower player salary does.
As for the previos NT manager he is a great guy he really helped us knowing that when the elections took place we were the just getting our teams, he had experience he was the best choice back then. Maybe some of you think they can do better then him, maybe some of you can do better then him thats to never be found out or to prove.
Rambo no offence taken, you were honest when you said that being a small active user country so now lots of guys want to try to see how they can manage a nation. The thing is that being a NT manager is a team work u can do nothing if the teams that have the NT players are not training him or they dont want to talk/update new players and so on. It's just absurd to say that i have some friend from Italy and me and them will make this team better will scout for players and so on, first of all its not polite towards SA users, its like were being left out...
But despite all, I'm glad that the candidates share their opinions and thoughts.
Tom

"You said I'm in the IV league..yes it's correct, it's not one of the best but I think even if it's only a season I've been playing I have the necessary knowledge to be a good coach." - marco 7

I think now i understand why your player salaries are so low...

Well I think it's impossible to judge how can play a person only looking him player's salaries...

But seems you don't understand...

From these guys i wonder if they think they are all so good why didnt they candidated for their own country NT elections?

...

Rambo no offence taken, you were honest when you said that being a small active user country so now lots of guys want to try to see how they can manage a nation. The thing is that being a NT manager is a team work u can do nothing if the teams that have the NT players are not training him or they dont want to talk/update new players and so on. It's just absurd to say that i have some friend from Italy and me and them will make this team better will scout for players and so on, first of all its not polite towards SA users, its like were being left out...
But despite all, I'm glad that the candidates share their opinions and thoughts.
Tom

Obviously for someone from USA or Italy, it is nearly impossible to win the votes for NT coach unless you are in the top league of your country.

I definitely agree with you that it will be about team work and working with the SA active users rather than buddying with more foreigners. I cited this in my opening speech that I think the process will be best if it is a cooperative one with as many people as possible helping out in any way thay can. I don't think two guys from Italy can get it done, although Marco may be a great coach and perhaps this isn't what he meant by his statement. I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he understands people from SA will be the chief builders of the team, not the coach.

I can not reveal too much about my own team but I can say I believe I have had a very successful training strategy in place and I look to implement similar strategies with the National Team players and with the SA users.

thanks!