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As above

On the subject of arena, max boxes is 50, max courtside is 500, I'd probably these days aim for 13k, 7k, 500, 50

In terms of training, yes Allstar or better, from scratch it's only worth putting major effort into training 19 or under until they are 27/28 (players train faster the younger they are and the better coach you have). For starting advice train defenses, defense is critical to carving out a good season position.

Ok Thanks Gullyfoyle that makes sense great help thank you.

Lemonshine thanks for your help. What does massage do for the trainer? does it reduce injury time or produce less injuries?

Again thanks Vecx. Would you go for say a 10k,10k,500,50 seating? Just rechecked some arenas capacity again I take it there is a limit to how many people can attend a game if the top EBBL players are not building 30-40k plus arenas for extra profit. Although having just googled the Chicago bulls arena size that is only around 23kish.

Massage helps with the Game Shape of your players, Taping Injuries gives you a small chance that injured players will heal during the game and start playing again (it does not affect the recovery from injury if the player is still injured at the end of the game). GS is very important.

10 10 should be fine. You are right in saying there seems to be a limit

Most EBBL arenas are too big. 20k is about right.

Just wish they did that seats selloff again so we could redesign

OK thank you everyone

Great win Gully!

Thanks mate. You've even got here before the customary long winded report on the game!

ENGLAND AVOID ROMANIAN BITE
Difficult to know where to start tonight, the game went so well. So I'll do my usual trick of starting before the beginning. I felt we needed a couple of call ups this week to take the place of a couple of players whose game shape had fallen. I wanted to call up one guard and one big, but having looked through my entire list of guards, none had good enough game shape to warrant a place on the squad. Of course the obvious choice, Madelin, is injured. I then looked at SFs, and found only one who had proficient game shape but his D was so low I just couldn't call him up. So we ended up with two more bigs in the squad, and both played tonight. This leaves only four slots open on the squad.

There's not really much I can say about the game. Our team were very very good today. Romania normalled, and gambled with gdp, predicting outside, which was wrong, and playing 3-2, while we were playing an inside offence. I think variation is a key thing with gdp, and I do enjoy punishing teams who get it wrong.

While tonight's performance wasn't perfect, at times Romania scored more freely than I'd like, we were very strong offensively. Facing extra effort isn't always easy, especially when you're not at home, and our big men really delivered in the most outstanding fashion.

Marshall top scored from the SF position with 31 pts, MacAusland was top rebounder with 14, and Marshall and the ever youthful Sharpling had 8 assists. Strangely most of of Marshall's assists were to Luke Innes, which I'd like to think is an indicator of how good our passing is as a team.

One thing I noticed tonight that's slightly unusual is how our offence seemed to focus on two individuals, rather than the usual spread. Marshall took 20 shots, and Innes 19, out of a team total of 91.

Finally, their defence was so stretched early on that their starting PF Alexa fouled out after 9 minutes. Possibly because their 3-2 zone wasn't working for them.

In the other games in the group, all went with seedings. Lithuania looked troubled early, but Finland and Estonia had very comfortable wins.

Its noticeable that we've not faced a team taking it easy yet, whereas the other teams have. I have a feeling we're seen as the weakest of the top 4 teams in the group. I think this is wrong, but I can't stop other people's perceptions of us. It just gives us more reason to be pleased when we win.

I think despite their record, we're facing the strongest team in the first half of our schedule next week. Armenia are a bit stronger than their ranking suggests. Game shape will be one key aspect. Thanks for the excellent job there this week but as always we need it to continue. The other main thing is that I need to make sure I do my job properly and make no mistakes.

I think Romanians were still in the queues to vote for their presidential elections from yesterday. Seen queues going around a few blocks in west London in the evening.

As usual, good win and very nice job!