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Good game, your team was following us until the end of the third quarter. Good luck in the next games.

Thank you Tarikz. I was surprised by the good performance for the first three quarters, till when your players woke up

Good luck for the tournament, you've pretty good chances.

Great to see you here mate, Good luck :)

Great to see you here mate, Good luck

thanks. Why are you walking in these remote lands?



For all managers: 3 or 4 scouts are identified, vice and analyst are working already, a db is ready to be uploaded, and next 3 matches are under analysis. Not speaking much at this stage, but setting up all the needed things.

Defeat against Ghana was something expected, despite a reasonable GS of our players. Mwathiwa joined the team to slightly expand the roster to 10 players, as Dimi Tsie is still playing 100 mins per week despite several attempts to convince his manager to play smarter (in own interest...).

Maghrib lost against Algeria despite mots vs pic, while Nigeria had to spend a normal vs pic to beat Tounes. Nigeria will be our next opponent.

thx for that summary :)

It's true your game shape was better than ours.
And Sane our SF was in average game shape ;-) That's why Sina has played a lot. I expected that you play with a PF in SF position and that's what you did. Lucky me.

Have a good season with South Africa.

It's true your game shape was better than ours.
And Sane our SF was in average game shape ;-) That's why Sina has played a lot. I expected that you play with a PF in SF position and that's what you did. Lucky me.

Have a good season with South Africa.

unfortunately GS can hard compensate a so big difference in salaries (and underpinning skills). add that I had to call a 33y old player as one of players in roster was 6, and one of top4 guards is looking from far Japan as he plays 100+ mins/week.... :S

gap was big enough to not make me confident about a W, as it actually happened.

have a good season you too, I hope to have an opportunity for a revenge (just to say I will be in top 6)

Ebene, I've just opened a formal thread were players on sale can be advertised. Please post there, thanks.

again 97 mins for Kadzamira, forecasting 5 GS :S

As said at the beginning of this adventure, I have been working by priority. I wish to summarize what was done and what it is going to be done - open to your comments and feedacks.

Roster
Of course, first priority was to set a roster and analyze needs. Roster is very close to last season's as it commonly happen in NT (few changes year over year). The bad news are that Wall (34) and most of players (31) are aged, and by two seasons this team will be blown up. Few talents are growing behind them, and we need to enforce this growth.
The good news are about the opportunity to change. Many players could be replaced in 3-4 seasons max with even better players if well trained: the proof comes from my experience in Italy U21, where you could not find room with several players in this NT range. Scouting, probably not well and consistently performed in last several seasons, is a key success factor, to skyrocket allstars and above into NT by few seasons.

Matches
Two losses, despite a solid performance against Misr. We have to do better, we'll do soon (hopefully). First goal is enter second phase of the tournament.

Players
About 100 players, 22 years or more, are in the brand new DB now. All skills of them have been checked before TS reset deadline. Master training plan was defined and shared with my head of scout. Scouts will be assigned at each single player since next couple of days. All players with NT flag plus few of South African managers will be followed directly by me. All managers will be contacted by scouts - please be kind to support their requests

U21 players
Without solid scouting at U21 level, no chance to grow a decent NT. That is why I have decided to include in the DB all U21 players (starting now, it will take some time) and share my scouts with U21 coach. This NT is the result of a continuous cooperation between NT and U21 coaches, and we must replicate that. My contribution is providing support with my staff.

We have a long way to go together. The alternative is seeing SA NT loosing its future. It will probably take this mandate and the next (whichever the coach), I am planning to execute and ask for your support. Let's roll.