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Once again thanks to everyone for their congratulations. Particularly Morwood for first putting my name into the NT frame. Then Vecx for reintroducing the idea a few weeks ago.

Had a chance to see the team in action today, but of course, not much to learn from a scrimmage.

I'll be opening a couple of topics on the offsite. As Morwood and Vecx have done with the u21s I'll be looking for anything useful anyone might want to say. And like them I'll be making my own decisions after digesting everything.

I've gone through the fixtures in the group with a view to gauging when our opponents might want to use extra effort against us. This is probably the key to the season. Comments there would be especially welcome.

Congrats.

Forgot to vote again;( but im glad English manager won election .

Thanks. I'm glad too. ;)

Just thought I'd better mention this just in case anyone sees one of their players is no longer part of the National Team, I will be calling players up BEFORE the economy update. I'm aware of how much that would cost everyone.

However, as usual, week one has thrown up some, what you might call, interesting game shape problems. In addition to these expectedl problems, there's an extra one. Two NT players are on the transfer list, and will take a game shape hit before monday's games. Those players will unfortunately probably not make monday's team.

Finally, I will probably only be calling up 12 players over the weekend. As some of you know, I need to leave room on the roster to add players in later weeks, in case of emergency. This means some players will miss out. However, the door doesn't close on players not on the roster. They may still have a part to play in our season.

I think that's all for now. Thanks.

Gully

Just for you to know :
Money given for a player in NT is given if they played a game for the NT the past week.
Meaning that teams will receive on Monday 14th money for game played on Monday 7th.
Knowing this, you can wait for the very last moment to put them in the roster if you're willing to keep your roster secret to your opponent.

Just for you to know :
Money given for a player in NT is given if they played a game for the NT the past week.
Meaning that teams will receive on Monday 14th money for game played on Monday 7th.

Thanks. Of course, reading that, it seems perfectly obvious now.

Still, not my worst mistake of the week. That would be when I let the battery on my laptop run out in the middle of making notes on the squad. Lets hope I can keep the mistakes to those things that don't really matter.

Scotland may have sent proud Edward's army homeward tae think again, but Edward didn't have Alan Sharpling and Connor Marshall on his side.

Things started a little sloppily, turn overs, a lack of rebounding, and a lack of possessions. In fact we started each quarter quite slowly. Finished them well though, by the end of each quarter we looked for more fluent offensively.

The second quarter was key, when we built up our lead. Marshall and Sharpling looked unstoppable at times.

We were called for a lot of fouls, which isn't normal for most of these players, but is entirely normal for teams I send out, so I can only assume BB can hear me shouting for more fire.

Our inability to stop Harkus scoring is a worry going forward but overall a very pleasing display. Really everyone who played contributed in some way, be it steals, rebounds, assists etc.

In the other group games there were some very interesting results, with losses for Italy and Croatia. Actually we'll be top of the Group but its far too early to make any definite judgements about where we can actually end up.

I'm very pleased by the game of Marshall

Good job and good luck for the next

Thanks. I think any NT manager would be pleased to have Marshall. He can do everything.

In other news, we lost 27yo Art Smedley to enforced retirement today. I could perhaps have been more effusive in my ad, but I feel its important to be honest about these things, and apparently no one wanted him at that salary.

Also retiring is England legend Lawrence Mackenzie. We all know he did a fantastic job over the last few seasons for England. He also won an EBBL Championships with Moomins. I know him well from when he single handedly knocked me out of the play offs in division 2, mostly in one amazing quarter.