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I must say i'm really impressed that you achieved to take the Cup this year Joe.
Even in seasons like this, when you're rebuilding a new strong team, you manage to achieve getting trophees, those are qualities of an exceptional manager

Last edited by Eagle at 1/15/2016 2:00:57 PM

Of course it's the same problem for all of us, but that makes impossible for a belgian team to win the B3, except a lot of patience.

And still Joe... we have to believe in it...Yes WE CAN (win the B3)

Because I think that hard work and dedication can make dreams come true...

In fact, not soo long ago, you were extremely close to that dream if i recall correctly.




Last edited by Eagle at 1/16/2016 9:33:34 PM

we're going to be lucky if our NT will be able to keep challenging for the European second round in the futur. I know several managers who are quitting the game, so our 'active' managers will be dropping down to 150... Considering that it takes 16 teams (let's make it 15 for calculations sake) per division, that means 10 drafts... Considering that the BBBL and II rarely yeild good trainable players, that means taht we'll have 5x 18y guy's with MVP or better potential per generation.

If they all get trained, we might be able to keep our NT up, but ofcourse that rarely is the case. So the old model that Joe made his run in the BBBL, with Belgian talent at the core, is about to fall apart.

I've been considering bottoming out for 2 or 3 seasons, get top prospects and sel them afterwards after 1 or 2 seasons of training, to make sure that the talent is somewhat guaranteed, but that is going to be too boring for me.

As it stands now, futur BBBL top teams will be those who get one or 2 good Belgian NT players, combined with great foreign talent... So yh, our nation is in the middle of a very annoying position.

Joe, have you got any idea how the Czechs keep getting decent talent in there system? we might need to try and addapt the Czech model, problem is that multiple teams will have to be willing to make that attempt if it is to work...

Problem is, trying to train more than one player for the NT is pretty annoying when it comes to planning. This is almost no variation from the established model allowed if 3 players are following the same path.

I have my hands full with Frans and Gaethofs, I won't take another player to train on top of those. If I buy another belgian player, that will be one who has reached his potential or is too old to be trained.

Well since a long time I have an idea, but this would need all managers or at least 10 managers to take part at best 20.

I would like to introduce something like an academy for young players.
The idea is quiet simple every team would need to get at least one young national player, this would be coordinated by the national coordinators(=C) (most likely Joe :P). The C would direct players to each team in order that we have at least 2 players by position being trained. Ideally everyone would get 18 year old players so we could advance season by season and having a real competitive U21 roster after 3 seasons, then we would advance in order to train the players to get a competitive NT and maybe make the impossible possible.

Naturally this is easier said as done this would need a lot of players to be motivated and a lot of coordination. Setting this up would even take 1-2 seasons and we would need to get a bit lucky in the draft. For the NT this may become really hard but for U21 this is certainly possible. And what does it really take? Come on guys training 1 player is not asked too much

i think you can bring that problem back to the GM's. back in the day, LoD (and i commend him for that decision) decided to have most communication done in english. because the Flandrians aren't good enough in French and the Walloons generally aren't fluent enough in dutch to be able to fully understand the communications (plz don't feel offended if you are fluent in both languages btw!)

however, many have complained about this because it's not the "nation's" language, which ended up with the walloons joining the french forums & the flandrians going for the forums from the netherlands. Thus our community rarely worked together, except at the BBBL lvl. best example of that is the fora. which fora is the most active one? the BBBL one. BBBL forum is probably responsible for 75% of the use of all the forumposts in Belgium! So that kinda makes it hard to get others interested. It kinda is a shame. and because there is so little interest in the fora, the same goes for the U21/NT. many don't understand the benefits from it or how it works. And in all the other countries, there are many new scouts. here in belgium, we have relied on the same guy's time and time again. I'm surprized you didn't burn out a while ago. i sure did. i probably should help out again, considering that my team won't be doing a lot of stuff for now. i'll be on vacation during the off season, but should i return on time, feel free to ask for some help on the new 18y olds. i guess it's time i started dragging some weight again.