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Same goes for me on the league - 9k crowds are not going to cut it with my wage bill, need to get on a winning run.

I can understand people getting frustrated and leaving because with only 1 promotion spot it's tough to stick it out for promotion as it could take a while, but there's a lot to keep you interested in this game. I haven't remotely had a decent potential trainee and am not prepared to buy one, so I need to rethink my scouting strategy or get lucky. A potential NT player would keep me going through leaner times.

i know what you mean. Hopefuly there will be a time where people aspire to be in division II as well as EBL and i think that is happening more and more as more ambitious managers come from division III.

Training keeps me interested along with interaction with other managers. Ive had one decent draftee and that was fluke. there is no way you can base a strategy on pulling draftees, even if it is only 1 every 2 or 3 seasons... and even if you finish 5th or 6th each season (which is not a position for long term improvement).

So i just accept the fact i will have to buy my trainees and take care in buying english ones on the occasion they come up and sell for a reasonable price. It does happen but i believe it is more for 19, 20 and 21 year olds than 18 year olds.

ultimately i dont need to train to make money any more as ive built an area which is approaching a good size for EBL level. i need to train to get my roster to a strong level to compete for promotion.
In that sense, buying 19+ year old trainees suits me because i can train and compete better.

i hope all the managers in our division expand their arenas because it will also help everyone else to sustain more expensive rosters and bridge the gap with the EBL.

Do you train english trainees? I find it is a lot of fun...

Not really, it's something I want to change, but to date I've bought 20/21 year olds based on value for money & ignored the national team and any crowd benefits of local players.

I have a good 18 year old SF now, who I think I will get to a decent level if I train for a couple of seasons, but he doesn't have enough potential to go much further.

I bought an 18 yr old English Centre, 2 seasons ago now, so he is 20.. You cant train 18 year olds in this division, its just too competetive! What fluff said was dead right! I bought a 23 year old Centre at the start of this season for some training and so i am competetive this year (:

what it starts to boil down to is the teams in lower divisions buy the 18 year olds, and in the higher divisions buy the older trainees.
its in each higher division interest to make sure all the lower levels train younger draftees properly, and reward them for this by buying them at good prices. (in theory the merchandise and chance to train while being competitive should be a big incentive to pay a good price). everyone benefits and the lower division teams get loads more money to buy arena and players etc and so the cycle continues.

Yeah it should work like that, but surely most of the best managers are in the higher divisions?

I think the one draw back about training a number of players is the salary increase they get and I tend to be a bit precious about players I have trained from scratch (havent sold any of them!) the problem is the salary budget keeps on creeping up and you get to the point when you have to think about selling someone to balance the books.

I am going to try and and get a couple of quick pops on some cheap rookies I bought and see if I can turn them round for a profit in a couple of weeks.

I"m greedy, I like training my own draftees! I drafted a pretty good guy this season, but had to sell him as I had no room in my training rotation. It was a good investment though - about 160k in scouting for a 500k rookie.

Also, Los Mosquitos (:P) really made this season academic for me. I'm just going to focus on my training. Trying to get my C - my own personal draftee Don Holm, into the NT in about 2-3 seasons time.

So far, I've gotten 2 bots in the cup, but an evil opening set of games with Mikitos making my fans hate me!

ditto except i had no decent trainees to show for my measly investment!
still bought someone i can give a few pops to and maybe after someone else will find him appetising to train to U21/NT as ill be dealing with his main weakness at JS/JR

i saw your trainee, will be tracking him as he looked pretty good starting out.
id keep an eye on him maybe buy him back one day assuming he gets trained right. Homegrown players should always ha ve a place in your team one day ;o)