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From: Lambaw
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200666.23 in reply to 200666.22
Date: 11/8/2011 3:58:37 PM
Team Fusio
III.3
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2323
I agree the holy grail for most of us is to get a player through to the NT - I have managed one so far who played at both U21 and NT and trained him from scratch so am pleased about that, I have a number of reasonable English players who have been trained up to a good standard but have not had any real draft potential for a few seasons but just trying to balance the books in this division is tough.

See Mikramus was flexing his muscles today against Fluff think we may all need to run for the hills now :-) - glad I only have to play you the once!!


From: Lambaw
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200666.24 in reply to 200666.23
Date: 11/8/2011 4:24:20 PM
Team Fusio
III.3
Overall Posts Rated:
2323
Just to confirm Div II.3's billing as the Division of Death I compiled following stats -

Our Division currently has:-

11 teams in the top 50 in the country and all 16 within the top 100!

Los Mikitos -6,
Team Fusio - 9,
Bethnall Green Erks - 24
FC Warriors - 28
Club Deportivo San Andres - 30
BC Giants - 31
Jelenie - 32
Manchester Giants - 43
Wrose Warriors - 45
J Dogs - 46
Millwall Town - 50
BWIN - 54
A Dogs - 69
Symphonics - 72
Spanby Gaitors - 91
Scot Balls - 93


think that sums up our Division!



From: zander

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200666.25 in reply to 200666.24
Date: 11/8/2011 5:30:57 PM
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Having just been promoted and seeing this post it really freaks me out :P how I'm going to stay up I do not know! But not only will it be interesting to see who goes up and makes the PO, the relegation battle is going to be just as good

From: Lambaw

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200666.26 in reply to 200666.25
Date: 11/8/2011 5:36:34 PM
Team Fusio
III.3
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2323
Hey Zander

Congrats on getting promoted first of all and welcome to Div II.3, the way forward in this division is to look at your winnable games and try and focus on them - you look like you have some useful players on your roster so just try and keep their GS in reasonable shape and go from there.

good luck for the season

Lambaw

From: Fluff

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200666.27 in reply to 200666.25
Date: 11/8/2011 5:58:59 PM
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hey zander hi!
and well done for getting promoted!
this league has just got tougher and tougher. my first season here 3 seasons(?) ago and i only *just* stayed up but have found it easier after that as i built my arena, fan base and upgraded my players.

i stayed up in the first season exactly how lambaw said - i managed my GS, enthusiasm and picked the teams i wanted to finish below me. Its as brutal as that. Things will get ugly, they always do, but the finest minds, the finest managers will win through at the end of the season, and thats what its about :)

just dont finish last, keep enthusiasm and GS high, and even if you are in the relegation play off, you should be in good shape to win over.

Good luck, and make sure you train english guys ;o)


From: Fluff

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200666.28 in reply to 200666.22
Date: 11/8/2011 6:01:09 PM
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The recent appointment of James Gascoigne tothe U21 team is my first ever trainee to make it to U21. I have never trained a player to NT, so this is my target for him.

I have another player who is a late starter, but it is feasible he could make the NT one day. probably not the U21 though.

Will look to get another english guy when a decent one comes up at a fair price... you have a prolific record of training stars. you should b proud mate

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200666.29 in reply to 200666.28
Date: 11/8/2011 10:28:01 PM
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Is gascoigne an sf? I'm trying to guess millar's chances of making the team this year, obviously he is a sg :)

I trained Singh to the u21 team but he never actually started a game

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Date: 11/9/2011 2:39:54 AM
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from what you can tell he is more of an sg than a sf!

all you can do now to maximise his chances of playing is to train him each week (you can ask the u21 manager what, if you have flexibility) and to make sure he plays under 72mins to build up his GS to proficient. This last point is very important as it will make him that much better than other players with lower GS.

Even making the squad is an achievement and with Millar's salary i guess he has some higher more expensive shooting skills. So, provided his OD isnt a let down (check wth U21) you could always keep boosting his JS and maybe HA/DR?


From: Erkboy

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200666.31 in reply to 200666.24
Date: 11/9/2011 4:38:45 AM
Bethnal Green Erks
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It probably is the division of death, but statistically you would expect 8/9 teams in the top 50 and for all the teams to be within the top 100, so it's not massively so. All the Div II's are pretty tough for teams trying to move up.

The killer this season is Mikitos, your cup run skewed your ranking, so realistically you’re probably somewhere in the 14-18 region IMO, I think my 24 is about right maybe a couple high, but once you get outside the top 14, it’s not a huge gap to bridge. Mikitos ranking is 6, and objectively probably somewhere around 10-12. He has the payroll of an established EBBL team, he should be an EBBL team, so that’s too big a gap unless he decides to blow it up.

Therefore I think if ever there is a season to take stock & go backwards to ultimately go forwards, it’s this one.

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