As for the remainder of the season:
Their will be a few tests. First off, their will be 2 Belgium U21 games vs Belgian NT games, where ofcourse, the Belgian NT will be playing with very few of it's real players. Since it is rare for both NT teams to be available for scrimmages, we'll be preforming some tests on specific idea's that have been developped over the past few seasons. If our idea's prove to be correct, then we might have to tweak a few points in the trainings programs that are suggested to those who decided to train belgian players (for those who are training Belgian players, but not for the U21/NT, feel free to ask about the results at the end of the season)
Other than that, their will be other tests, such as the use of certain specific tactics that were impossible to use up till now, since the Belgian NT didn't have the specific players to be able to use this tactic ( i'm talking about Tactics such as Princeton and Isolation tactics)
And their will be one final test, at the end of the season, where i'll be trying to play against a foreign team on a neutral court, where i'll be testing something specific that i picked up from one of the NT opponents.
This means that players will be selected and fired from the NT on a nearly daily basis. I'll be selecting alot of player to update the database ( especially young players) of our young players. For each game, i will try to take the players with the best possible GS for the games. So don't be surprized if your player is in the NT one week, and is dismissed the week after it. possible selections or dismissals of players won't mean anything for next seasons NT squad.
Last, but not least, i'd like to thank some people.
first off, all the guy's in the U21/NT staff, for having lending me a hand through out these 2 past seasons. Of these staffmembers, a special mention should be made for Joe and Angi, for their great work.
I'd also like to thank GM-LoD. Even tho i've played this games for 11 seasons now, i've still picked up a few new things from him this season.
I'd like to thank the managers who have trained the Belgian NT players. these are:
JoeMaverick (Gilmont, Thys, Mees) and By-Soprano(Mees), Sonics (Hupez), cauet (Marchoul), Scotty P(Francaart), Luciro (Luyckx), divan en Baseman (Deseure), Ventola7 ( Lahure), LA-Shawnas (Dorchain), Dunk_forever (De Patoul, Loddo) and GM-Alexfurgeson (Loddo), Mavrik ( Sokmen), Roel_V (Ballaert), NicoNam ( Abu and De Neef) and Zoefkonijn(Waelput).
I'd also like to thank ( and appologize to ) ppmmp, for having sold off a few players, to make room for a belgian player. However, he was very unfortunate since each time, someone else ended up taking his players away. Obira is, because of his will to recrute top belgian players, facing the danger of getting regulated. I hope that he'll be able to stay in the BBBL, because i'd hate to see a manager who has put fourth such a large effort to recrute a belgian player ( with the intension of training him) get regulated.
Futhermore, Ofcourse, i would also like to thank all the mangers who's players weren't on the NT this season, but who have been doing their utmost best to train those players.
And last but not least, i'd like to thank all those who voted for me 2 seasons ago, despited having had 2 very rough seasons with the NT prior to it.
Since July is nearly upon us, all that remains to be said is i wish everyone a nice holiday (and for those who still have exams, good luck with them. It won't be long before holiday will be their for you guy's too!) and ofcourse the best of luck for the remainder of the season.
It was fun leading the Nt these past 2 seasons, and i'm looking forward to season 17, for more than one reason ( and hopefully, i'll be able to continue my work as NT coach, cause i still feel that their are things that i can improve)
regards
LA-Revo