if i look back at the season, i'm pretty satisfied.
I got 2 OT wins under my belt, which is great for extra XP on players, since Ot minutes count for alot more when it comes to XP. Considering that i wasn't able to set up lines up unless well in advance, i'd dare say that i've done more than just good.
If i had had more time, i probably would have gone for the win against Joe, but though luck their. As for sonics, if he trains all those SF/PF type of players he has, and sells 2 of them or so, then he's going to have a major cash in right their, to buy him pieces that could set him up for multiple championships...
And concerning my economy, it's not that bad. I'm more or less break even over the whole season. However, the problem is that i've got a pretty old roster, and that i can't get any decent value selling off a player to replace him with a decent young player, without giving up everything. Moreover, I've been trying hard to get the players that i want in my team, but the players that i'm looking for just don't exist on the TL ( or they do exit, but don't have the belgian Nationlity)
So that is why i've decided to go down, back to II. That way, i can train the players i want, shape them into what i really want, and come back with team that will contain several problematic match-ups for alot of teams. I think being in II is much more boring than being in the BBBL, so i hope i won't regret my decision ( i'll also be stepping back on NT duties, since it's time someone else got a shot at that job... The only reason i might be candidate again in season 21, is because their isn't any decent candidate to take over, because i'd hate to see all those hard efforts go to waste. But that is stuff for some other time...)
I've got a few projects ( ammongst which a redesign of the forum, which was put on halt due to exams, and has remained on halted afterwards due to severals things, ammongst which my health issues) that i'd like to take care off, in an effort to get more Belgian managers involved in this game. It's pretty depressing to be in the mibbit chat, seeing only 2 to 4 other managers during gametime or when NT/U21 plays their games...
If you look at the other fora ( The Netherlands, France and even England) then their is more forum activity their than their is here. An external forum isn't an option, since we've got to many languages and i know that since in Belgium, we all speak french or dutch, communicating isn't that easy (and for that reason, alot of us use english to overcome that problem) but their has to be a way to get more people involved within our community than that their are now. In other countries (Netherlands, France, just to name those again) people follow the NT, discuss their results, etc etc... In Belgium, except for the BBBL forum, nearly all other fora are dead. The Belgian big forum is hardly ever used, and other than Joe, LoD, myself or the exceptional comment from a BBBL manager, nobody even seems to care about NT ( for U21, it's GM-Arsji, Angi, Joe, LoD, myself and thats more or less everyone who ever posted on the U21 forum lately.
This community seems to rely on the efforts of a few people who are working hard for it ( excluding the former and current BB staff members, that would be Joe, Sum, Polle, Nico, Sonics, Jona and that is about it. the former manager of Shasta should maybe be put their in that list of names aswell). Very soon, one of our most oldest and hardest contribuating Belgian manager will be leaving the game, and most likely, 90% of all belgian BB managers won't even have known his name or what he did for the community...