With the talk of setting up Federations for each NT side I believe this would be an error. I believe Federations have a place to be used but we would take out too many managers if we only used Federations for NT info. I believe the manager of each side needs to work to make sure people visit the offsite forum and that it is worth their while. Any changes to this would need for me the support of the wider community. Elected or not I would suggest that each side gets their own thread within The Wombat Federation to use that. But the offsite needs to be used to engage new managers. I for one was a manager for a long time before getting supporter. Until I got to know a few more people and the benefits of supporter I was not willing to pay for it. And some people just can’t afford it. The offsite forum allows newer managers to find out more about the game and how others can help them build their own sides and help the NT.
With day to day running of the team I do not know everything about this game but believe I have a good base and also the ability to not get precious if others have different opinions. I often ask others for input not because I do not have ideas myself but to see if others think differently about it. I love to learn and feel others point of view can improve me weather I agree or not. I have and would continue to speak to the greats of the game and had asked most of them if they would offer advice when I went for the NT role and all were willing to offer it when I asked for it. I assume their offers still stand.
I have recently had a player on the 21 NT side for 2 seasons and helped with training plans for bigs. I have also for 2 seasons been an assistant coach for the NT side working with training plans for bigs. I have been committed for a number of seasons to improve our NT sides and our community in general and honestly believe I would be a great NT coach and be a success on and off the court during and after my tenure.
With my plans for the team. I think we need options for each position. But to have that we need a number of managers to build players to suit roles. This would be done for me with 20 years olds been given how they might be used. In simple turns have 3 players in each position would be great. Each with a focus on how they play. One with more attack, one with more defence and one more balanced. This would mean the team can select players to do different roles as needed. But for this to work we need lots of coaches training guys. I know season before last my guy Harry was the only PF on the squad as a 20 year old. There was not one single 21 year old PF to include in the squad. This is important to encourage managers to train players needed for the side. If all are doing SF we will not have enough Cs as an example. This is a rather important part of the 21 NT roles. I would love to have teams listed with their training plans and am sure some would alter their if they knew the 21 NT side in a couple of season would have no PGs. Then that early we can make sure someone is working towards getting the team what they need. This would also mean the NT side has guys coming through for all positions and not most teams doing the same ones.
To finish I am an active motivated and connected manager who can step in and build on the great work done by Iwen and Leeroy before him. For me this is the most time consuming and important role in our country for BB and would be honoured to do this job.