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117667.4 in reply to 117667.1
Date: 11/4/2009 4:45:57 PM
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Don't sweat it Astra. When you won the position, you got my vote partly because you had quite a realistic, even downbeat, assessment of where England was in terms of U21. I didn't expect the team to do very well early doors, and your predictions for results once you'd taken on the job seemed a little optimistic to me. If you're now not enjoying the job then don't feel you have to do it again, but the crucial stuff for me is not whether your team won or lost particular games, but are you building a squad of potential players. I know you inspired me to buy and train an 18yo England prospect, hopefully others have done the same, and in a couple of years there might be a squad capable of winning some more matches. That's the real test of whether you should run again, not results against Bosnia in a tournament we had no hope in.

Can you post up some kind of assessment of whether you think the U21s of various ages are developing according to your expectations or not? I don't know what view you have as a NAT coach to see the skills of all players, but can you see how fast the English draft picks are being trained this year? If you can, can you summarise that information for the community?

Also, what's the progress on getting a secure forum to discuss tactics? I signed up for the federation, but that's quiet. And the off-site using bbstats doesn't seem to have worked, unless I've missed it. What's the plan?

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117667.5 in reply to 117667.4
Date: 11/7/2009 5:04:19 AM
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Hello Wiggy

I thought I would give you a quick update as to what is happening in the U21 team...

At the start off the season with the help from Elboss and a few others we made a short list off potential future U21 and NT candidates. I have checked on the progress off these players and unfortunately a few quite good players were made retired. It isnt all gloom and doom and I did see that some 18 and 19 year old players are making some great progres. This prompted me in adding Nigel Cubby (9441854) and Garry Guite (6848935) to the U21 team and I will make sure they will both get some playing minutes. Especially Cubby looks like a great prospect and Guite could become a more than decent guard one day. Perhaps he wont play many games for the U21s but if he gets a few more seasons training he could be a good prospect for the NT.

Secondly I contacted the coached for the players that are left over and asked them for a status update. I received quite a lot replies, but in about 6 different languages and I need to sort this out and change it into some raw data. Once I have this information, I will share it with Elboss and discuss the future potential with him.

Thirdly, there is still an issue that I want to discuss soon and I will do so later this week on the federation forum and I hope some people will join in. We need to find a way to locate teams that go into bot mode sooner and we need to find a way to detect which players are assigned new teams. In both cases we might loose out on great prospects, but I would most likely need some help with that. I will post my ideas on this later this week.

The BBstats forum was never set up for us and I only got vague answers. I cant blame the owner because I am sure he is very busy. The federation forum is quiet as never before and I am not sure if we can breath more life into this english community either. We used to have an offsite forum and when i remember correctly we had 3 or 4 regular visitors. No point opening a seperate forum if you ask me. If you and others believe there is a need for an offsite forum, I will do my best to find one...

It is good to know you are training a future prospect. I tried to do the same. but due to the thoughness off my league and the fact that I already had several trainees I didnt have more room for one. After this season I will be training 1 more season Inside skills and after that I will go back to guard training. It seems that inside training is heavily favoured in our community and that has resulted in a lack off good guards. This problem isnt short term, but will be long term. Wre need to either find some feeder teams or someone that is willing to sacrifice his club career for a few seasons and train some great english players instead. I am seriously contemplating doing that, but off course that is a massive decision I wont take easily and need alot off time considering from my side...

TBC

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117667.6 in reply to 117667.5
Date: 3/26/2010 8:50:15 AM
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I know this is an old thread. But I saw this on google results about BB-Stats

There has been a forum for the English team on (http://forum.buzzerbeaterstats.com) since 2008 (it has changed addresses a few times but it has been linked from BB-Stats.org)

I think Moomin set it up as he is the guy who has control over the contributor user group.

If the new U21 coach or the NT coach would like to be in control of the usergroup please BBMail me and I will set it up.

Creator of (http://www.buzzerbeaterstats.com) and (http://www.buzzerbeaternews.com/) -- Ex GM of Australia -- Division 1 winner of Italy Season 1 then moved team to Australia after the country was created by the BBs. Australian team manager for 2 seasons. Won various tournaments and division 1 titles in the following seasons.
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117667.7 in reply to 117667.6
Date: 3/26/2010 9:51:57 AM
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Hi GM-JudgeNik,

I am Mister Q, a candidate currently running for U21 England team. I had no track of any extrenal forums, so i have asked someone to create one for me. The link will be posted in the upcoming hours, as the final check of visibility is being preformed to ensure that nobody who isn't supposed to see the data on the U21 prospects can see it. As it stands now, we don't have any GM/LA's of BB on that forum yet, though we'd be happy to welcome some in order to see to it that there is nothing done on this forum that isn't supposed to be done on the own ingame BB forums.

I hope to see you sign up on the forum soon.

Regards

Mister Q