I have said for a few seasons now that the English forums are too quiet. I have tried using match reports for both NT teams to try and improve forum activity. It doesn’t appear to have worked much as the Nt forum was still very quiet last season. I will continue with the match reports again this season but maybe creating a poll for the players of the game would work better than me choosing. That way the community decides the MVP of the season. And that way they will get to know the players better and be more involved/interested in the games?
As for u21 staff, I think the past couple of seasons working between me and js8 has worked well, although js8 did most of the scouting work, training plans etc, I was more helping with tactics. Js8 has offered to help me again next season if I do win the election, but likely with roles reversed. However I do think if we have the right managers, adding more staff to the u21 set up would be helpful. As Watson said, 1 person shouldn’t be dealing with contacting every 18,19,20 and 21 year old. I would enjoy help in that regard.
We have had 2 really good seasons to build from, quarterfinal’s last season and only 2 points away from beating Lithuania and qualifying the season before. Honestly the team this season isn’t looking as strong, but looking at the draw I’m not ruling out qualification just yet. But to build on the recent success I am looking to be in contact with managers of every player with 7 or higher potential to try and build as many good u21 players as possible. However balancing that with creating high quality senior NT players is another goal. The top nations at u21 level in BB have managers that train players specially for u21 level, hence why you will see bigs aged 21 at 100k salary. I would like to try and get more managers doing this. I do this already with my Utopia team, as do you Zeus, and I’m hoping more can do the same. Take my player Goodhew for example, 21 this year, I paid 3k for him when he was drafted, trained IS/ID/RB and now he’s a really strong u21 player, and as he only has 8 potential I will probably sell him at the end of the season for a decent profit and start training the next u21 players. To have a successful NT system the u21 needs to build players for both the u21s and senior team and I will be looking at aiding in building monster players for both.