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[U21] Season 12 - Balance sheet

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147958.2 in reply to 147958.1
Date: 6/25/2010 5:30:29 PM
MightyMice
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Second post is about the players that will leave us. Some of them will be never be part of U21 (but few could dress the NT jersey in the future). Let me do in the order of South Africa roster page.

Thabo Sehularo (21): I wish him a great future. I already stated that I love this player and how he was trained. Although a very low potential, he has a good skill balance, and moreover regularly performed well. With him in good shape (damn injury!), may be I would have played with double PG in our semifinal. I hope he will be a key performer in his teams in the future - not in a BBB chaser, but in many teams I know he could.

Zilindlova Teka (21): he is one of bloodiest missed opportunities of this season. He started with a promising skillset...and went nowhere. May be he had one pop. May be. How not to train a player. If you don't want to train a player, buy somebody 5 years older with no potential. If reasonably trained, even birole, today he would have been player instead of Magubane.

Liod Grumede (21): I didn't like this player. He has two "1" in two skills that have a certain effect on performances. At the end, in SF spot in external attacks he gave more than acceptable contributions, also because he recorded some pops. Good. Keep on training, he can be a good player in many circumstances.

Sizwe Mofokeng (21): I will miss him. I remember he was my first scouted, and I have to thank his manager dankino's CB for having so well trained him. When sold, his training suddenly stopped and Kolane gained positions. He has plenty of room to grow, and could be an NT player, one day or the other.

Will Burr (21): my staff knows that I have always been worried by him. Not much training since beginning of May, than finally traded and started to grow. His impressive performance in semifinal reconciled the two of us. Thank you Will!

Sifiye Neimand (20): he his the only 20 in this "exclusion list". I do hope this is just temporary, but his manager has to decide to focus his training. In average, he would be a quite good player, but so average that his performance will always be mediocre. His potential is not so high to be wasted training sparsely many skills, while he could be a very good player (look at Sehularo example).

Floris Jan Collombon (21): in the first hectic days after vote I have to say that I just decided to keep him as he was one of few in herited roster. Then I found him not so interesting, and decided to use it not much. His potential is very low, so no room to grow. At the end, he had some opportunities and used them well. With different tactics, he would have been part of today's team in semifinal.

Nani Kxao Magubane (21): his characteristics made him potentially our Bari al Hana (see Misr). He was almost perfect for that. And he failed. He must improve FT's (his manager knows why). He inexplicably did an awful performance in semifinal (or at least I have my opinion about why, and would be keen on discussing it with his manager). He perfectly defended for 47 minutes against Ekuru, but 5 final points of Nigeria SF wrote "the end" on the match. I would recommend him to be developed as PF.

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Date: 6/25/2010 5:40:30 PM
MightyMice
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Last but not least, what will happen next season?

Well, there is a consolation tournament that will assign home field to next African cup. This is our very tough goal for next season. Very tough as we will have to do better than Misr and Nigeria in a tournament with complex rules and indirect comparison. But we have to point there. We have a decent roster basis, we have a proven match preparation process, so this is where we will start from.

More important, we will have to improve our talents' growth. This season we concentrated to have a team first (we started with several problems), than to expand it (see Mtolo and Rabutla). The db is built and regularly updated. Many players are growing quite well. This is what should be improved.

I don't give you details right now, as I am discussing it with my staff first. Let me just point out few things:
1) more players will be directly followed by me. It was not possible this season because of priorities, but I will do it next one
2) I am rediscussing scout assignment. I renew my invitation to join the team to anybody with a) commitment b) some experience c) willingness to help South Africa. You will cooperate with senior people and myself, and - I can assure you, I did it! - you will take a lot of experience out of it.
3) the goal is to set the basis for S14 onwards, bringing the talent growth process up to cruise speed.

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Date: 6/25/2010 5:40:53 PM
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Of course, any comment and/or contribution will be welcome!

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147958.5 in reply to 147958.4
Date: 6/28/2010 4:59:59 AM
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The first trophy for Sa's U 21!Congratulations!