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The second guy a bit tall for a Guard. Mayb a SF? But kinda hard to train on his outside skill. But not something impossible.

yea, he's a bit tall, which is why i'll be concentrating on 1on1 and JS training for the whole season. I get to train Gandhi on some complementary skills and yet still get to prepare this 2 guys for full time outside training next season..

Mohd Al-Rifaie bin Mohd Fuad (15028408) Point Guard

he can/should be hard trained as either SG or (probably better) PG in long term. He has just a big problem in driving, the easiest skill to train (1v1 and as secondary), good JS/PA, and more than decent other skills, plus much appreciated IS and ID (training OD you will have one good pop somewhere in ID too).

he needs of course intensive monorole training, 48 minutes per week. Nothing less. Unfortunately his potential will cap him, but believe me, you can create a very good PG out of a star like him (my Lisanti was similar, some more driving, and he is a very good PG now, with some room to be completed before getting the cap)

Shaiful Bahri bin Jaafar (15028400) Shooting Guard

I would definitely train him as secondary trainee after Fuad. In other words, you will arrange weekly monorole training to ensure 48' at least to Fuad, Jafaar will adapt. I would recommend you to train him as SG. His height will make him to grow a bit slowly, but it would be a nonsense to train him as C or PF, too bad to start.

be careful, Because of height you should start with OD/JR first, as with age+height they would become unsustainibly slow. Passing is not good, he will not be a great player, but at least you can make some good money by 2-3 seasons.

by the way, all that means that you should train monorole for all the season and most of next one, decreasing progressively in the other two. so you have additional room for a third trainee.

Our U-21 team finished 84th out of 86 teams in the Consolation Tournament.
Starting with the huge loss to the Austrians due to our U21 manager's difficulties.

It seems the quality of our U21s are deteriorating as seasons pass.

Looking at our remaining games we are playing supposedly lower ranked and inferior opponents. So should we expect to win all these games TerFu?

i feel surprise why 1st game can play only 4 players?
is it new tactic from TerFu? haha.... result showed not...

Dear Phenomenal, i found that quite a long time you never do the translations.

I'm currently doing ***profile***

I'm interested in the gameplan for the U21s, but I think this'll only become a topic during the end of season U21 NT elections. I'm pretty in the dark as to the direction we're headed.

I agree with you to an extent. : (

disappointing to see 3 player or 4 players being played and getting our asses handed to us : (

Actually, if you all want to point fingers around blaming someone for the overall result of our U21, I'm not sure we're able to point at anyone in this country at the moment.

There is no one pointing fingers as of yet, which is a very Malaysian disease I hope to see purged at least in BB. LA-Phenomenal is well within his rights to bring up his concerns with the U21s, and it's great to see his concerns being addressed by the U21 manager.

On the deterioration of the U21s, it has more to do with the improvement of other countries and lack of user base for us. We can go toe to toe with countries with a similar amount of active managers, beat them even, but when it comes to bigger countries the numbers do matter. Look at the Phillipines, they were below us when they started off and now they've gone on from strength to strength. And it is no fault of ours either, they've simply increased their user base while having the active managers play ball with shortlisted trainees. Now, we have around 100 active managers, they have 1,000.

This season alone, we feared a shortage of trainees for the U21s. But it turned out to be a shortage of trainers that threatened to derail our hopes. So, it has to be surmised that we should address the most pressing problem first before moving on to others. Somehow, we have to dig out more trainers to pick up our trainees. And I'm willing to even go foreign to search out trainers who will contribute to our NT. If there are not enough local trainers, I will search out foreign managers in lower leagues to train our trainees, with the promise that they WILL be selected for the U21 squad. At this stage, it is a win-win for us. We get a constant source of trainees and they get a NT flag on their trainees to help boost the price or feel proud of.

Criticism is useless without ideas for improvement, and I hope this is one of many ideas that can take off to turn our fortunes. I do not know who the next U21 manager will be, but I know as much that I for one will not be running for the post. Any contribution I can give, will be as a concerned Malaysian. Anyone else with a gameplan?

hey guyz...
i was checking out hong kong U21 team(like terfu said) and i found out that they have 1000+ active users(some other countrys have more) while Malaysia only have around 100 active users... could it be that because of their large number of active managers that they have higher chance to get better players from drafts which make thier U21 and NT squad stronger???