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248009.7 in reply to 248009.2
Date: 9/18/2013 5:19:56 AM
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Obviously Dire answered but he was involved in the training thread offsite a number of season ago. Dire and Iwen helped direct my team to where I am today. I'm not sure if many others used that particular area of the off-site but all I got was useful information.

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Date: 9/18/2013 5:21:58 AM
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What will happen to the current NT players who are over 32?

Jackson Mansfield was cut from the team when he was 34. Funnily enough he did not drop one skill point that season. I'll be expecting some skill drops this season for him though.

I'll get straight to the point. Will you be cutting cutting the 34 yr old Kye Duffil from the NT team if you get the NT gig? My vote and my influence (GM button) will weigh heavily on your response to this question. =P

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Date: 9/18/2013 5:35:49 AM
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lol well obviously any NT players on your roster will remain on the team and get starter minutes for full merch profit ;)

Seriously though, with the apparent lack of scouting the last couple of seasons i don't have a proper grasp of who all of the up and comers are yet. It's likely Duffman will get dropped but i won't know for sure until i've done all the up to date scouting (assuming i get the gig).

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Date: 9/18/2013 6:12:33 AM
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Loved mllamas "Lisa" question. Mine is almost as bad.

As the greatest manager of all time and someone who is currently training some of the best big men the NT has ever seen will you be able to show patience and guidance for those much less experienced managers who only have a fraction of your knowledge? How will you try to guide those players who are not yet on the team but with the correct training could be in a season or two?

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Date: 9/18/2013 6:37:37 AM
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Haha quite the ego boost there yoda! :P

I've done 4 seasons as the NT manager in the past when Australia was a less developed BB country and was also mentoring players back then as well so i know what i'm getting myself in for and wouldn't be putting my hand up if i wasn't ready for that sort of patience and guidance again.

Every player and every manager is different so each has to be handled slightly differently. Generally the ones that are only a season or so away are the easier ones. It's those that stop early and never let their players reach their potential that are the really disappointing ones. Hopefully more involvement as a whole (personal communication and general forum activity) will mean we lose less of those types.

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Date: 9/18/2013 8:17:10 AM
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Can you comment on your opponent's strengths and weaknesses?

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Date: 9/18/2013 8:52:10 AM
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Do you mean election opponents? Well at the moment it's just me and this Melbournelad person who seems to have 2 seasons under his belt. He won div4 then got relegated back to div4 from div3.

Since he hasn't even posted here yet i don't know if there's any more to say.

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Date: 9/18/2013 9:05:07 AM
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Do you mean election opponents? Well at the moment it's just me and this Melbournelad person who seems to have 2 seasons under his belt. He won div4 then got relegated back to div4 from div3.

Since he hasn't even posted here yet i don't know if there's any more to say.


Well Ive already cast my vote.

My 3 trainees are still at least 4 seasons away from the possibility of NT duties and whilst its probable that none of them will ever make the NT team I will keep perservering.

Id sincerely welcome your feedback as to the plans I have for them.

The offsite forum for NT needs a bit of an overhaul, Ive listed their skills in the wrongly worded "Australian National Team" forum under the wronly worded thread called "Future NT players season 23".

Reason being that Bainsy has listed other current SF prospects in that thread and its almost current

Much appreciate if you could post some advise regarding my plans for them on the offsite forum and then forget everything about them for when I play you next Tuesday

Last edited by Sid Vicious at 9/18/2013 9:20:30 AM

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Date: 9/18/2013 12:02:07 PM
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It... it was a tongue in cheek question.

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Date: 9/18/2013 9:44:40 PM
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This seems to be a slow thread.

Dire what level do you think we as a nation should be able to get NT side to? We are larger then a number of nations who seem to be able to perform better then we do. What can we do to address this?
What level do you see our team making it to?

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Date: 9/18/2013 11:03:37 PM
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Dire what level do you think we as a nation should be able to get NT side to? We are larger then a number of nations who seem to be able to perform better then we do. What can we do to address this?
What level do you see our team making it to?


Hard to say without looking at our talent pool.
I think we're a top 10 nation but the problem with us not progressing further than that is that most of the time we have pretty stock standard players. Good primaries but not much focus on secondaries.
We're starting to see more 1 on 1 with some of our bigs but i'd like to see a few key secondaries start to become more prominent in future squads as well.

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