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Yes there are a currently a few young bigs still around that will make the current team plus the scoggins who hopefully Isn't left to go into early retirement. There's some fringe guards also. By watching your scouting of drafts and the scouting that all u21 coaches do each season I have noticed this dryness in the draft.
Which means I'd be getting the most put of every player I can.

Your guard are looking awesome. I also think seeing how HA is going with his SF who probably won't make u21 but with continue training as there getting will hopefully be those top class SF we've been looking for the last couple of season.

I would retain assistant coaches and look to establish someone to assist or fulfill the role of performing game and player write ups. I would look for experienced active coaches would can dedicate the time necessary to these tasks. I would also look for a newer but keen player to learn about the National Team. I would like as many keen managers involved as possible

To the two of you - if, hypothetically, an experienced ABBL coach did enter the race - what would you offer, that they would not?

all you require is ABBL experience? vote for me then, i joke, i just like entering my name in the off chance there are enough loonies out there willing to vote for me for the same crazy reasons i entered my name in

At least you can count on your own vote then? ;)
How man more loonies are there?

Of course the best players would be pick. My talk of bring in younger players was if their skills were even but they lack the experience of the older players. How do players get experience? My point on this issue is to make sure we do our best to always make sure we have players with experience within the squad to be key players to make the big plays at important times during game.

I agree recent drafts havent been great that's why I brought my current trainees. Any one know if this has affected other countries? If this continues managers will have less talent to work with but will have to focus on training the best we can get. Time for lunch

dry is an understatement they have been pathetic

has any1 else here ever coached a nt & a u21 team? i have

the u21 team is 5 times the work of the senior team so i think the snr team manager can be the 1 that does a lot 2 get the community involved we did some things in the fishbowl 2 help things so here r some suggestions

weekly mvps 4 the team - only 1 match a week so low burden just 3, 2, 1 votes with reasons
u could couple this with a competition for others to pick the mvp (with pize)
guess the margin game each week people each week could guess if we win or lose & the margin (with prize)
writeups
national caps database wb started
assistant of the year (prize for whoever helped the most)

i have some fun ideas for a prize as well
supporter
get to name the team as "name sponsor" for the next season a few real teams have done this
get to have some nt games played at your arena
or the big prize a free trip 2 be on the team in a scrimmage - seem this done in real life where a fan gets to suit up, do warm ups on court & sit on the bench - so the winning person gets 1 of their players 2 join the nt (at the end of the season when we r just scrimmaging) & be listed 4 a game (on the bench)

Some good ideas there. With a poor draft class it is more vital that we work to make sure those with potential are trained to NT level. I know in my league there was only 2 MVP players and 6 Superstars. Which means none will be good enough for the NT side really.

Those are all the things that I had already thought of implanting to get the community involved and more
Interested.

Never thought of the sponsor one at the bottom that sounds interesting though not sure how we would implement it or choose if more then one person wants to be sponsor

What a brilliant debate. I now feel confident that Australia will be getting a very passionate and comitted future National Team manager.

I love these ideas and would aim to implement them as well as having a thread here where where anyone can ask the national manager anything within reason of course, as I would like to be in touch with as many Aussie managers as possible. I want everyone one to be proud and involved with our national team even if they are just asking questions.

I actually thought about giving out supporter to some of the assistants and those who were deeply involved in discussion during my 2 terms. Just that I have zero dollars in my paypal because I keep purchasing stuff. Haha :p