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Crazy Australian, you havent promoted in 3-4 seasons, you have a team full of muppets, and your training a 25 year old. Why do you think that you are able to manage at U21 NT level?

Dude I'm pretty sure that avoiding personal attacks was one of the things BBcharles said to avoid....How about tying that?

So, I also answer at these questions...

Might be :-) As nobody else seems to have questions, I'd like to ask you:
- What exactly do you plan to do if you get elected?

My first target is training. An U21 national team is strictly connected with it. Better will be trained the players and better will be the team. I would open one or two thread on the forum with my ideas of training and confrontate them with the Scottish community. I would train players as more possible complete and more cheap for the manager but in some case it's better to push on training some particular skill to be competitive so I would a roster with basically at least 8-10 players complete that can adapt themselves at all tactics and the others specialized.
Than for the first season I would create a team suitable for one tactics. I know this is not so good but until I haven't got a total vision on your Scottish players I think this is the best way. But this is not "the law", if I see on your database (did you have one right?) players that can play in different tactics it's better and we have mode to surprise our opposite team.
I'll also try to involve the community, after all Scotland U21 is not mine but it belongs to Scottish :)

- Will you try to keep up the good work Calvin Harris has done in the last 4 seasons?

I have my idea on managing the team, it's based on the Italian model so I think it can work also here in Scotland but I don't want to break and erase what previous coach do; so I will contact Calvin, talk about how he work in all aspects of the management and mix up his method with mine. I trust that this is the best thing to do.

- Would you rather win 2-3 games or try to save as many players as you possibly can for the scottish community?

I think that the priority now is to save players and above all train them. Scotland can't immediatly think to reach a high level but I'll also try to win games, after all this is what we have to improve for.

- Will you work with Calum or do your own thing?

I say this also in my speech: I and my assistants will always be in contact with the NT manager, the cooperation between the two coaches is a fundamental way to grow up and improve both the U21 and NT

- Do you have any staff that will help you with your work?

I have some people from Italy who can help me but I would that someone from Scotland will join us :)

I hope to have been clear and I wait for other question :)



Last edited by Samu13 at 5/16/2012 4:57:34 AM

Hi guys, you can see mu speech and i am open for any questions? ;)

Regards,
gorge

Glad we're getting a debate this time!

For the record I'm not endorsing any particular candidate, I urge the Scottish managers to vote whomever they determine best for the continued development instigated by Calvin. Realistically we need a manager who's willing to engage the community for the long term. Short term success is not on the cards atm. Every player who has U21 or NT potential will need to be continually monitored and we should know (and aid) in the training plan for each player if possible. i.e. a lot of communication!

I'll take anyone who's willing to get heavily involved with this aspect. There are many well run smaller nations in BB, and the way they've achieved this is by engaging the community and properly training their players. This is something we haven't managed yet in Scotland. Scottish managers either sell or mis-train their top NT prospects, we're only now getting a grip on GS, but the NT doesn't even have a player with OD or ID over 16!

Anyway, good luck to all candidates!

You're right, it might seem strange but also in Italy we have this problem on involving the community. That's an aspect that I don't explicate very well in my speech so I use your post to talk about it :) At first I would a local staff especially for starting a collaboration with Scottish managers and I have also other ideas to involve the community. Naturally my principal instrument of communication is the forum: in it I'd like to post my ideas and consideration regarding the two nationals teams and confrontate them with all people who want. Then I would also make a sort of quiz about the U21 matches which continue until the end of the season: it can be a prevision on the MVP of the match or the best scorer, we've done something like this in Italy and we have had a lot of success. At the end there will be a prize for the winner :)
I also would give some basics indications on growing players and these also are not the absolute truth. These are a start to open a debate. I firmly believe that without the help of the community the nationals team can't improve but with constant and appropriate training we can reach to grow players with the skills that you mentioned for the NT and in some cases also for the U21. It's not an utopia, but the application of a planning in training is necessary. On the other end this is not possible if the managers don't collaborate :)
This is my idea and i know that only two seasons aren't enough to reach them but we have to think step by step.
The U21 team has to improve gradually, no one can think that anyone of the candidate can make in these two seasons an enormous improvement but I think we can make better both the actual players and they that will come :)

Luckily ! Losing against Bolivia is not high quality material.

Lol, i thought we did remarkably well to lose by only 10 points! :D

Calum, all you said is correct.

First, however good is coach, can not achieve anything without the support of the owners of the players.
It must also be interested in managers who want to train future players for both youth and the senior team. Whoever wants and is willing to train these players is always welcome, and coach in touch with that managers must find way to proposed players for training.

The problem is that many talented players wait too much time for good training or good manager and the most of them remain without training.

In our community, scouting team found a programe with which can notice the best talents from draft and follow their development from season to season.
This programe works so that all players draft in a row from each league are checked separately by reference in the representation team.
Then, all information is written to gmail document and the coach try to find good managers to train the best talents.
The important thing is that these documents follow the development of young players from season to season so that players have an overview which players are train good and which not.

I will try to find some way to involve that program or way in your community, so I hope with bigger interests from other Scotland manager we can make better results, not only for small period, I hope we can begin to develop this community from beggining.

Thanks for understanding,
VOTE FOR ME - gorge