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I have been following both the NT and u21 NT for the last couple of seasons and I honestly believe that being manager of the NT is not the best way for NZ managers to gain experience. Maybe in a few seasons SammyD might be able to do a good job for us but at the moment the most effective way of developing NZ players and moving the team up the rankings is to have an experienced quality coach like namssor at the helm. To be fair about the issue aswell i think SammyD is extremely under qualified and if we were to go for a Kiwi as a coach this should be someone of far more experience thats played a few seasons in a higher division.

I appreciate the good words from all of you, I really do. It means a lot to me.

Buttsy, I understand your concerns about not having a Kiwi run the team. But BELIEVE ME, I am not shutting you guys out at all. I will be extremely transparent with my decisions so that you all can understand what it takes to do the job and how it works. And hopefully you can learn from my experiences for the future so that in the future when the community grows, you can have a native running the show.

And if you're worried about long-term success, I am more qualified because I have much more experience training players, especially to the NT level. I will assist everyone who wants help on how to make their players more effective for their club and (hopefully) the NT. Someone who has never trained a player has no experience with training throughout an entire season.

On another (more important) note, just a reminder that voting ends on Tuesday, so make sure you vote! Maybe we'll get more than 6 votes like last season! And maybe I'll get at least 1 this time!

I'm also in a good mood because I beat a former 3-time NBBA runner-up in my club match today (and I was on the road and TIE'd against their Normal!)

Good Luck everyone :)

Honestly i'm not too worried who wins, just wanted to stir up the debate a bit :P

I'm not against an overseas manager if it gets us some wins, we will soon see the results.

I know i'm EXCITED :)

Absolutely! Hopefully this raised awareness of the NT at the very least. Was a very active forum thread, I'm impressed.

Yeah over 30 posts in a country where there are only 49 active teams :) Quite good really lol