Greetings JamaicaNice to see some movement out in the island nation. Feel free to use the U21 Training Guide that is based off the US21's guide but with a few more details concerning position descriptions and training practices for each position.
http://bit.ly/1csDyFII hope to see a strong draft class from the upcoming season.
A few questions:
1) What are the state of relations with the Senior NT? I was curious because Danielson
(29138784) has yet to be added and is most definitely a worthy addition to a very aged squad.
2) A few players that are behind in training versus their age are Puffitt
(30400642), Brain
(32423480), and Pannell
(31372823). These players should be considered a year advanced of their current age. Brain in particular is not receiving any training at all. He is owned by a manager that is active so there is no chance in saving him to market. He is essentially a 19yo that is far behind at this stage. Cutting all of those players would not weaken the current lineup at all and open up an additional 3 roster spots for saves.
3) I would take the remaining players and begin scrimmaging them against opponents that are outside of the Americas confederation because you will be playing against them next season. Also, it will be good to only scrimmage teams with rosters of mostly 20yo and younger to fairly gauge your team for next season. The more games you can get will build more EX into your current team which is very young. It will help them next season.
4) Romania U21
(1061) would be a good test to your roster. I suggest arranging a scrimmage on a neutral site (no homecourt advantage). It would be advisable to request that they not send their only 21yo player
(29050725) to the game as well.
5) I was the former U21 Bahamas coach from Season 24 to the first game in Season 26. One example of a full season possible for a U21 team is if you pull up season 25 of their schedule
http://www.buzzerbeater.com/country/98/jnt/schedule.aspx . You will see that we played a total of 14 games that season with 5 of those matches taking place after we cut the 21yo's of that season to focus on U20 development.
Best of luck in the draft and upcoming season.
MixLast edited by Mix at 02/21/2014 06:29:38