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outside still is our best weapon, congratz on your second win, be carefoul Nigeria is a top team...and other countries from Africa have streghten alot... it will be a challenge for you :P

Thanks, Yes is going to be tough against Nigeria, I am realist and dont think that a win is on the cards 10% chance of that , but you never know. Its good to see that a few new managers have joined the SA league. I am going to test a new stratergie in the test game and see what happens.

greetings vik

10% for us to win? I hope you are not serious... In the last two games SA defeated Nigeria and it was home and away... You know that only the first two teams qualify in the WC and loking at the other oponents I believe you should pay alot more atention to Tounes or even Al Maghrib to some point. When it comes to dealing with good teams like Nigeria testing strategies is more likely to backfire then to happen a lucky win.
Good luck in your next game, as from now on the true test of your NT coach will begin - wining against good teams or even better then yours -
All the best,
Tom

I give South Africa 65% chances to win :D
After the game against U21 China in case of a lost then all is over for the U21 South Africa and I will send you the players I think are good enough for the big team.
Good luk

Not a good result against Nigeria, But all is not lost NT must win the next two games. Lets hope for the best.

Yes we lost to Nigeria still, the outside offence was great, to bad FCP wasnt the best defend tactic as we had only 9 steals.. I can almost bet that if we have played 2-3 zone the score might have looked a lot differit... I am sorry now SirJaws that FCP didnt worked as we predicted but there are lots of matches ahead of us and I'm sure we can challenge the 1st and the 2nd places :)
Good luck!

Oh what a big win today , we really needed that. I was really nerves about the tatic i chose but it work if only just. know next week Tounes , another must win game. I also want to thank boosman for letting me use his power foward from the u21 as my main center is injured for 2 weeks.

Ohhh, I believe we can all agree that our chances to enter WC are preaty much over..
Nontheless I believe SirJaws did his best and one thing is for sure that running a NT is alot more demanding then running your own club and one of the reasons is that you know what you need to train to improve and have direct control over your players when it comes to the club but on the NT others help you train them and you can do what best you can with what you have.
Though SirJaws has alot more to improve and Im sure he will and I want to ask of him to be more participative - if he doesnt involve more with the NT who will?
First of all send guidlines and ask players that own SA players to do that try that because I can tell you that it is a huge motivation to others to see that you really care what happens to their guys, our guys. If you dont keep communicating with them they will forget about the bigger picture and thus concentrate on building their team allaround rather then helping a guy two and thus helping SA.
I have old guys in my team that are in the NT and it isnt very good for me to keep them because they train alot slower they almost reached their potential, still I keep them and train them until I squeese every drop of training left in them to help our NT...
I hope you understand what I wanted to say and a good manager should know how to take praise or critics alike.
Maybe its better to not qualify in the WC were Im sure we would get beaten by the other worlds strogest teams for sure, and win some scrimmages and help building a better SA NT.

All the best, South Africa for ever
Tom

Next game tonight, I hope that we can get a win tonight, Its been a difficult season and very dissapionting , This is not what i hope for as SA deserves better. I hope we can win the last two games and then we will see what happens next.I would like to thank all the SA coaches for the good trainings work they are doing. It would be great if as many coaches as possible would train centers and power fowards. Please if you jave any players you think could help the NT let me know


yours truely SirJaws

You guys need to pick it up. You're the second best African nation, but you're definitely not showing it.

Next season will be South Africa's "Road to Redemption".

Good luck.

South Africa National team is going in the wrong direction...
It is very sad as we used to be one of the top teams in Africa now I think we are at the bottom...
Hope things will improve in the future and I hope with the help of the youngsters it will be better. :/