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I'm another believer that high HA is important for training OD. Never bothered about driving, as far as I'm concerned it's the Handling that matters.

Thanks gentlemen , all the advice is appreciated , i believe in the elastic effect also, made very good use of it and have trained guards all my years on here , even got one into the serbia u21 team. , i was thinking that the best time to train OD for the big man was in his 18th season because training is fastest then , i felt it wasnt worth sacrificing a large chunk of this possible training to gear up handling for the elastic effect. But now that a few well respected owners have said it im going to follow their advice.

Due to lack of tournament income for the rest of the season, I've had to rejig my big men, acquiring NT centre Gregor Simpson and firing Dylan Kahlon and Stephen Norton, so they are both now listed as free agents at 1mil. I needed someone to buy Norton at 300k before the financial update to avoid firing them both, but it didn't happen, so tough as it they've gone and are now free agents on the transfer market, available for 1mil each.

Norton is a tough sell at 1mil, as the current NT coach doesn't want to play him (so only residual merchandising rates from last season) to help pay his 245k wages. He'll probably go bot, which is a shame for Risk 'n' Reward who trained him up. He's a world-class centre with a good AST-TO ratio despite his lack of handling. He's a rich man's buy though.

Dylan Kahlon. I love Kahlon, I actually bought him as a free agent for 1mil and have never regretted it. He's tremendous value at 106k wages and at 29 will give someone five great seasons of play as an aggressive defensive-minded centre who can also play minutes at PF. I'd hate to see him go bot but had to cut someone to avoid the 500k bankruptcy countdown trigger (my schedule has my home games backloaded in the schedule).

More about Dylan Kahlon - he's a shade off 16 in rebounding and nearer 12 than 11 in shot blocking. I would advise someone who likes English players to invest a million in him and get him off the free agent market, like I did, even though his TPE is half that (as it was when I did). He's very underrated and is capable of stopping star big men getting paid twice his salary and also has a useful habit of injuring the opposition!

Dropping them for Simpson gives me the merchandising revenue I need to be cash positive (especially when I fix his game shape) without tournament income and still field a competitive 7 man roster in B3. Toughest roster decision I've ever made.





Last edited by Elmacca at 1/20/2014 6:35:46 AM

sorry but this is a load off poopoo

you are trying to give us an excuse as to why you "fired" two very good English players.

if it was to avoid immediate bankruptcy, fair enough, but you are saying it was to avoid the TWO WEEKS, first notice email

you do not need to give the English community a reason, you had plenty off time to re list these 2 players at 1$ and sell them this week. could still have fired them.

you did it for your own benefit and yours only, so why you are trying to explain these 2 sackings to the English community and get understanding from them, I have no clue. I am sure if you would have asked the English community for help one or both could have been saved...none off these 2 players are worth it to pay 1 million...

and do not get me wrong, you did what you had to do, and what you felt is best for your team. you even bought a new player on Saturday, so financially, it couldn't have been that bad, but there is really no need to apologize to the English community, or whatever the reason is you are informing us, about the two players you sacked, because you only did this because off self interest...

Last edited by Astragoth at 1/20/2014 7:27:31 AM

Tough decisions have to be made. Ouch, bit of a big hit there for the community though; if i really need to sell a player because I need the salary space and not the cash I list them at 1k. Going for more always risks the cliff edge.

It looks like that move may have lost us an NT player in Norton, although to be fair, he's not the best player in the NT and desperately in need of some secondaries. If they didn't sell for 300k, they certainly won't go for a million and even at EBBL level to hold these salaries, these boys aren't worth 1 mil. That said, I personally don't have the cash nor the need for these two., I won't be able to step in here sorry.

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First of all, I'm not apologising to anyone... just providing an explanation for those who are wondering what the hell I'm doing. I would like to see Kahlon bought, hence the highlighting of what an effective player he is for me, but I know it's unlikely.

When I set the price for Norton, I didn't think I had to sell before Sunday, so I set a 300k price to recoup the 250k I was planning on bidding up to for Simpson. I realised that afterwards that if he didn't sell that I'd miscalculated the wages hit and wouldn't get back above even in the next two weeks without having to sell players I wanted to keep. I hated cutting Kahlon Sunday night to keep me above -500k and avoid that two week countdown. As it is, it's only bought me three weeks to think about what to do next, as I have another week with no home game then.

I do not want to break up my core, but I may still have to sell one more player anyway if I lose a game and my gate receipts drop. At least at that point, I can list at a selling price and hope I can buy him back later

Some times, you just mess up. I really wasn't expecting to lose in the tournament and hadn't properly considered the financial consequences of doing so!

Money money money :) I could do with some too! ;)

Inside Defense: stupendous (low)

ok, that was fricking cool Tuck.

My favourite part was seeing my PF playing 11 min at PG... Lol

So, 8/8 with some tough games...

We'll try to go on this way as much as we can, but we'll have to do this without Sharpling who's injured, and MacKenzie who has became old as hell.

About last game, it was on purpose to put Innes just behind Marshall (he is the closest to Marshall i have ), the tactic was nearly the same than against Slovenia last season, but this time Sharpling high dribbling level did not interfere with Gascoigne taking all the shots. (Last season's game : (25797))

Vecx, i'm gonna send you a BB-mail about Innes & McAusland training.

For all the community who have international players, please keep them sharp !

I apologize for not communicating for a while, but i clearly had no time left for this, i never planned this, and i can tell you that i'm not going to run up for my own succession.

Today, we are the 16th European nation, my last goal would be to end up in the 12 to "hopefully" have a better calendar over next season in European qualifyers.

And that this time, England eventually reach the European championship.