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Well Matt I'm a great believer in giving credit where it is due, and you and your team deserve a lot of praise. You've come to a small, poor, nation and given us the foundations to improve our NT's and our own teams a lot. We can't thank you enough for that in my view.

I tend to read these forums once or twice a week. It's especially great to see you comment after each match as it shows your enthusiasm for the job and the challenge of raising our NT's status in the world. Unfortunately we don't have an active community on these forums. I think many managers just concentrate on their teams and the NT results and don't look at the forums. I think a lot of managers just look at the results of the NT's and don't realise the gravity of the situation we are in and that's why approval ratings aren't as high as I think they should be!

Changing NT managers every election isn't much good (unless the NT manager has no interest any more) as managers can only work with what we, the Irish managers, have given them. They only way we and our NT's can get better is training our promising youth and letting those we can't, or don't train go.

I think as regards U-21 bosses that it has to be a 4 year cycle, rather than just 2. It takes 3 years for 18 yo's to become 21, and that's when we see the true impact of the manager and his staff.

I believe we have a great future because of your efforts, so thanks, and good luck in the friendlies!

it's good to see my post did our NT forum so active:) well.. i agree that U21 and NT are very different things.. you're right guys, both managers does great job and we should to be proud of them both and hope for a bright future for Irish teams :) of course we have to do our best with our young stars as well :)

it's good to see my post did our NT forum so active:)

Yep, you are right.. I have never seen this forum so active :)

Hi guys. Just a quick query... I'm currently training Fallon in hope of him making the U21 team, and was wondering when - if ever - is a good time to train stamina. Is it necessary or more beneficial to just train the primary skills and have players get by without too much stamina? Cheers.

Hi skunk, you are making very good work with Fallon, compliments. For now you can quietly train the primary skill as you are making now. If you want train stamina you could train it only at the end of the season when maybe you have only 2 matches at week ;)

yes, we must say that our two HALL OF FAMER Center are in good hand.

Normally there are two moments of the season during wich we could set a week of Stamina or Free Throw.
The end of the season as matt said, and the All star game week if you have been ejected form the national cup (otherwise you'd have two cup matches and one of regular season).

In these weeks you'll have only 2 games , so normally you can set a team train as stamina or FT.
For now first of all we have to make the primary skills grow and grow ... if some other kind of training will be useful we'll ask you to set it.

:D

BUT let's talk also of the victory with the INDIA U21 TEAM... :D

BUT let's talk also of the victory with the INDIA U21 TEAM... :D

in this match I have tried something new. I wanted to check our PF and C, to do that I have also used Fran Cox like SF, the best PF who can play in that role. As I aspected we suffered at the outside defense, however we have done great controll of rebounds and a strong inside defense.

Unfortunately these are the last matches of Jason Mac Gabhann, Fran Cox and Adam Gray, who were important players for the whole season. They are 21 years old and they will be out of team next season. I'm really waiting the new generation of C and PF :D

other two victories in the last two friendly matches.
we arrive at number 70 in the world rankings.

soon we'll talk about the new draft , scouting of the new 18 y.o. players, requirements etc....
....stay tuned!! :D

As EESS71 said the next draft will be crucial for the future Ireland NT. As all you know the draft is coming, it will be at the end of season. Well, I want to underline that one of the differences between a well developed country to a bad developed one is properly a good base of young players at the season start. For example, at every season start the best players could be 18 years old and with a potential at least all star.

So I want to advise all active managers who read this forum (who are also the better ones :D ), to take particular attention to the draft. It would be a good thing if we waste less great-players as possible.

So, take care about the draft list, the age and the potential!

as I said the draft list has just appeared!

You can just set the draft list by the link "Manage My Team".

It would be better if you select players who are 18 years old and with more " rating balls" as possible ;)

Ehi, I've found this usefull guide which explain in a better english how to train a NT player. I think it could be usefull for new managers :)

GM-Rip has wrote this post (144856.42):

Training a NT player

Training a player for his national team is quite a bit different than training a player to be your team’s backup shooting guard. It’s also important to note that the more users a country has, the more difficult it will be to train a NT player for that country. Here are my general rules for how to train a NT player (from scratch):

- You’re going to need to start off with an eighteen year old prospect.
- The average NT prospect should have at least superstar potential though the potential will vary from country to country. It may be possible to train a NT player with starter potential if it’s for a small country while in one of the larger countries it is possible that a player will need at least MVP potential to cut it.
- Coming out of the draft the player should probably have at least a $3500 salary and a good set of skills to work with.
- Unlike training club players, it is crucial that you train your prospect in single position training whenever possible. The only times it’s acceptable to use two position training is when you need to train a skill that does not offer single position training; jump shot for example.
- It is fairly common for managers to stop training regular players when they are 22 or 23 but in order to train a successful NT player you will need to train your player into their mid twenties.
- Always make sure to consult with your player’s (potential) NT manager to make sure they are being trained on the right path.

Your team makes quite a sacrifice when training a NT player but it can usually be forgiven once you have your final product. I don’t think there’s anything more rewarding in this game than training up a great national team player!