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he should be in a different class of HoF's....

He achieved that ammount of RBs while being 20! as far as i know, all others were 21 when they grabbed that ammount of rebounds.!

Still good win, but the past 4 games were warming up ;) next 3 games are going to be very important. you could end anywhere between 1rst and 5th, depending on the next few games. And the worst part probably, is no matter how many calculations you do, the results of those 3 other teams will be just as important as your own choices. you've got alot of situations to think over, and picking the right one is never easy.

It might be hard to make the right decisions, but that is also the fun part about being U21/NT coach. It gives you a chance to beat all the odds.

Best of luck, would be good to see England's U21 in the European championship again. Belgium lost it's first 3 games and are defo out, but they never had the team to pull it off.

Suomi got HCA and that is a major advantage, but Belarus just managed to beat em, so it's not impossible to do so (tho it's gonna be very hard to get another win, cause they know they can't afford a second loss).

Czechs are always annoying, cause they have the habit of making allround players that can exploit huge mismatches. Their empty line-ups might not be a very popular way to play, but it has alot of advantages and really is a great tactic if you've got 12 players who are more or less equal.

And Bulgaria is the total wildcard. Their GS comes and goes, so they are unpredictable and theirfor make your choice even harder. If they all are in great shape, then they should be able to rival with the other top teams. If they can't get their minutes under control, they'll likely throw a CT at one team and lose the 2 other games, hoping to end 4th or maybe even 3rd on goal average. Problem is, if they can't get their GS under control, who are they going to throw their CT at?

Cause that team will have a major disadvantage...

Best of Luck!

Well... he does have the best manager so what did you expect? I fully expect him to go on to bigger and better things and records!

Hey guys,

As Revo mentioned, the hardest part lies ahead. In order to qualify, we would need a 6-1 record to be sure, since a 5-2 record could land us anywhere up to the 4th spot (or if we are very fortunate, the second spot based on goal average). Therefore, I'm going to have to make some decisions and seeing that Suomi isn't unbeatable despite their HCA, I am thinking that our odds against them might be better than our odds of beating the Czechs. The Czechs have once again shown us that they are extremely powerful, and although our weaknesses have clearly been exposed, those of the Czechs ( if they have any) are yet to be discovered. Not a single one of their games has given us a clue as to what weaknesses their team may posses. The annoying part of all this is that we play Suomi last, meaning that they could CT us in that game which makes winning extremely difficult. However, considering they got HCA, they'll certainly want to get the most out of it at the next stage, which makes me confident that they won't use the CT in their last game, and thus we should have a chance at beating them (we're better than Belarus, and Belarus managed to pull it off, so we should believe in ourselves).

We don't fully control our own fate anymore. If Bulgaria wants to qualify and if you look at their options, they play Suomi - us - Czechs. Suomi has got the HCA, so they'd need to CT them for a victory, forfeiting their last 2 games, which isn't something they will do. Then they play us, after which they go on to play the Czechs. If they Czechs are quallified by game-day 7, they'll have an easy CT-TIE game against them, so their most important match is against us. However, if Bulgaria for a reason decided that qualifying has become an impossible achievement, then they'll cut their losses and just CT us (which is a scenario i need to keep in the back of my mind).

So regardless of the choices I make here, we could end up with 6-1 record or we could end up with a 4-3 record which could mean we could come in 5th if Sakartvelo manages to win their last 3 games and would end up with a better goal average than us. I've got a week to get things right, but as it stands right now, the Czechs team is the lucky ones cause they face 2 teams in succession (us and Suomi) who can't risk playing a CT without forfeiting the game after them...

Either way, you've elected me as U21 coach, and I am going to do what I can to qualify this U21 team for the European Championship. If my plan backfires and we end up lower, then so be it. I rather try to go all out (I'm forced to at least try to qualify as long as we got chance, however small that chance might seem) then play it safe and come in 3rd (and probably regretting later on that I didn't try to make the European Championship).

Finishing in 3rd or 5th place isn't a big difference. You get eliminated from the European tourney and the only difference is that we'd lose a couple of ranks (we'll probably lose about 8 of them if we end 3rd and we'd lose about 15 of them if we end 5th). Each season you don't qualify for the Euro's, you lose rankings to those who did manage to qualify for the next stage. Since Europe has the biggest amount of teams, the other non European teams jump over nearly all the European teams who fail to qualify for the European championship and thus we'll lose rankings if we don't qualify. So i'm going to attempt to qualify, but the Czechs are the toughest team around. Unless something new would pop up, I believe that our odds of getting 2 victories in our last 2 games are better than getting a win against the Czechs and then somehow miraculously get a second win against either Bulgaria or Suomi (at least that's how I see it now).

Continued...

Last edited by SREZ at 6/20/2012 7:34:59 PM

I'll still break down each opponent in the upcoming day's, hoping to find something that could help us to achieve that 6-1 record, but as things stand now, the only possibility of beating the Czech's, would cost us too much to be able to win another game. Thank you.

-SREZ

Huge game against Soumi on Monday! So everyone come on out and support your U21 team.

I'll try to remember to set my alarm clock to get up on time so I can watch too :)

i'll be rooting for ya from the beach, as i'll most likely be surfing ( unless if the ocean decides to be flat that day :P)

Yeah, I won't be able to catch the game either. I can't wait to see the results though. This is the biggest game of my short tenure as U21 coach so far.

Sadly season 20 has ended :( Through many circumstances that were out of our control, we were not able to advance to the second round of the European championship. In the end, Suomi having HCA killed us, and I truly believe that if they did not have HCA we would have pulled off that game and advanced. Of course, that's not what happened and sometimes things just do not work out no matter how hard you try. We did finish in third though, which is actually our 2nd best finish in English U21 Championship tournament history (I know, that may sound a bit embarrassing). I was upset that we were not able to advance once again to the second round, but season 20 is over and now it is time to prepare for next season.

For the rest of this season we will be playing scrimmages to observe and get a better feel for our incoming class of 21 y/o's so we know what to expect come next season. We will try out different tactics and different players, so we can see which situations work out the best. It should be interesting, we have a lot of quality bigs coming up this season!

Lastly, I would like to thank a few people for helping out this season. First off, I would like to thank those who helped out with rookie scouting this season. Without Arrows-King, B.o.B., and Daniel Paton getting through those lists of various prospects would have been a pain. Their desire to help gave me more time to discuss the current U21 team, and help out some managers more closely. Thanks a bunch guys!

I would also like to thank all the managers who trained players who were on the team this season. Without you guys, well we wouldn't have a team :) Special thanks to those who cooperated week after week, and were understanding of our teams needs.

Last but not least, I would like to thank Eminence and GM-Revo for all their help this season. Together they helped to further teach me what it takes to be a U21 coach, and provided me with information I can use probably for the rest of my BB career (BB-career, silly isn't it :D ). I don't know where I would be without 'em.

Oh, and thanks to the the whole English community for supporting me and our team this season. For the most part, you guys were very courteous and a pleasure to work with. I'm excited to spend another great season with you guys!

Thank you

-Sean

Shame not to make it, tough to lose out on pd.

Just to show how tough our draw was both the Czechs and Soumi have advanced to the Semis!

Also I logged on to watch the end of our game today(and while unfortunately it was a walkover) our lucky fans somehow managed to draw at least 69 fouls, is this common in these games or what. We were 14-116 from the free throw line and fouled out 10 of their players, one actually stayed in and got up to 8 fouls.

Yes, I really apologize for the walkover today. I was very busy throughout the weekend and was preparing to set the lineup sometime before 1 o'clock because that has been the time most of our scrimmages had been played. I logged on at 11, and quickly realized the game was being played at that exact time. I apologize for not setting a lineup, but at this point we really have all the information we need. I really should have taken the time to at least look at what time the game was playing, let alone set a default lineup just in case. I guess if I am going to mess up like this I rather it be during a scrimmage then the game. Lesson learned :)

Anyway, I am really looking forward to this upcoming season. We are lacking in certain areas but we are alos very strong in others. Hopefully we will be able to make some more noise in the consolation tournament!

As for Suomi and the Czech's, it's hard to believe we gave both of them a fairly good game. Suomi's HCA is really helping them, and the Czech's LI blank lineup just seems to be too strong for most of the other teams. It will be interesting to see how much longer our opponents will be able to go.