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Hey....since it looks like I will be the next manager of the U-21...send me his skills via BB mail...If he has the goods he will be on the team for sure..

Sorry if I upset you I didn't mean to (but wait until you read the smack thread I have a zinger coming for you).

I know that from time to time you have to have crap players on the team to save them from teams going bot. If that is why those guys are on the team then my humble apologies. I was wrong.

And as far as the guys I mentioned, yes they are crap, I wouldn't train them. But as far as I can see the U21 team has a great lack of talent. Isn't it true that we only have 2 decent big men next season? Couldn't even a starter potential make the team if properly trained? Doesn't the rest of the world have a fascination with Nippon players? I think it is unlikely that those crap players would get trained. But if they aren't saved it is a certainty. I just thought a low chance was better than no chance.

I am very sorry that my attempt to help find some (very marginal) talent for the team has made you so angry. I again humbly apologise. You know I think you have done a great job and I wanted you back next season as the coach (although YC will be great too).

You know I am on your side but I just like a rigorous debate for the good of the team. You know one of the differences between Churchill and Hitler?

Churchill surrounded himself with his critics and people that liked to argue with every idea and point out every flaw like Frederick Lindemann. Churchill himself had a famous quote which said, "Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." If he could see an answer to all the flaws his critics proposed and could even convince some of them them it was usually a good plan.

On the other hand we all know what happened to anyone that disagreed with Hitler. In the end he was so surounded by "yes men" that he made numerous hideous blunders.

"Invade Poland."
"Great idea Adolf."
"Lets have a Holocaust."
"Sounds good!"
"Invade Russia starting a second front and with a no retreat policy."
"Brilliant!"

The reality is that with smaller nations, you sometimes have no choice. You have to weigh the balance between rostering players who have sucky-ass potential, but are the best available... and developing guys with potential. However, sometimes even weaker guys with potential simply don't exist.

Hell, in Wales? I've 3 guys (outta 14) with only 'starter' potential. Dearth of bigs.

Mainly for YC...
Matsumoto is on the TL, and I think I'll probably try get him. He has some major holes, but I've been talking a while about getting a local big. Maybe it's time.

Hey....that would be cool...I'm not big on the 1 OD but that can be fixed later on...now his handling is what worries me...if you get him and could give him maybe 4 weeks of 1 on 1 F's, that should give almost 2 pops of handling and a pop of IS and JS....but yeah...He would and and should start...

As long as bidding doesn't go hogwild on him, I'll be trying to get him.
And I already have some fairly specific ideas on what needs to be worked on with regards to his training.