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I think the former coach did an outstanding job and I both like and admire him. However he and I have slightly different aims which are products of the teams we have inherited. He had some fantastic players who at age 22 are now playing on the senior team, whoever wins next season has no-one like them. So he took the team far winning great games and improving its ranking.

I instead will be losing games and lowering it's ranking. Sounds bad right? But it is part of the plan to make the team great, not in season 16 and maybe not even in season 17 but for the long term and also for the benefit of the senior team.

I hope to have the brilliant former coach Hof as one of may assistants, I also hope a certain Samuari will be one of my assistants, I also believe that I will be working closely with #23 and once his senior term is up he may be an assistant also. I would love to also have perhaps two more locals to make a total of six.

As for the new tactics the defensive ones are rubbish, I have looked at them many times in league games (I am the commisioner of a private league now involving 36 teams including most of the best in Australia) and I have to study those games to determine the MVPs. The defences give bad results. However the new isolation offences seem to work well for teams that have one or two dominant players so I am not against using them at all.

I may not win even if I answer all the questions. But I hope so. Thank you for your question and I am glad it wasn't a Dorothy Dix question.

If elected, how involved will you be with the Australian U21 team?

Excellent question ;)

It is an excellent question. If I fail to be elected I will probably be one of the two main assistants of Iwen (who is a virtual lock to win and who I have already discussed this with) and so I will continue my general scouting job, keep on mentoring the ten or so players I have been looking after as well as probably becomming one of the named people on the official Aussie message that will appear on the prospects.

If I am elected to the Indian position I will give all of that up. You cannot serve two masters and while I don't think there would be huge conflicts of interest (no matter what I did to help either side it wouldn't change any result if India and Australia were to play) I would need to spend all my National Team focus time on the Indian team not the Aussie team. Naturally I would continue to train my Aussie players, although I may replace one with an Indian one if I can find one with enough potential, but that would be the limit.

So my involvement with the Australian team would be limited to, "Go Aussie" and the occasional forum/in game chat.

I disown you.

But really guys, yodabig has my tick of approval. I think he'd do a fantastic job.

I think he'd do a fantastic job.

No doubt about that. That's why I'm going to help him as much as I can :) (I'd help any manager, yes, but yodabig is giving a lot of effort and I'd like to respond to his enthusiasm by helping him xD).

But who did you root for in the World Cup? Ashes is immaterial.

In the World Cup and Ashes naturally I support Australia which also I guess influences my IPL team - Rajasthan Royals led by our cricketing legend Warnie. Once Australia was out of the World cup I followed Ghana a bit.

Now we see the schedule what do you think we can get out of it? how many W?

and thanks for the response earlier, You spend a lot of time on BB and if you will get the job you can spend even more time :)

http://www.buzzerbeater.com/country/49/jnt/overview.aspx also, this will be the first match for the new U21 manager of India.

Well they have a roster of 0 players at the moment so we should be able to win that one even without Jack Platts and Vaitheeswarlingan Srivastava. Actually the draw looks very kind to us and if we had a better team we could expect to go something like 4-3 or even 5-2 if everything went right. However I have to warn everyone the team we have next season could easily go 0-7 unless there is a secret big man hiding somewhere overseas we somehow don't know about.