Asunto: Season 67

That wasn't the age I was referring to.

Team age not player age.

Older side = more resources to buy better players etc
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Expanding the international competitions will be probably something England would benefit from in the long term. The bar would be raised and teams will try their best to reach it.

I think the problem is the know how about improving the team long-term. If you look at some teams, they are at exactly the same level as 5 seasons ago or worse; they don't make any profit on training and instead of investing into young players, they spend almost everything on older 25+ first team players. And you can't improve this way.

In general I think it's a lot about the fact that there's not many really active users in England. If someone is active and understands the game, he will with time reach at least a 75 rating.
Rating 60-65 you can reach just by spending the sponsors/tickets money over and over.

I made that argument a few months back. I'm fairly sure I was told there's a plan for some kind of shakeup involving more teams.

Development isn't this games strong point for things like that.

Then yeah, obviously the team age makes a difference.

Although we have teams from 2015, 2018 and 2020 in Ekstraklasa now playing for 78-83. Two of them are old users who created new teams so they already had the know-how on fast improving and didn't make early mistakes.

They have LOTS of plans... but don't get your hopes up, they don't have money for big investments anymore.

They want to:

- create a tutorial for new users
- change the youth school system [still no idea how and in what direction]
- creating International league for small [1-xx users] countries, I doubt England would join with 150 though
- creating some kind of International competition for everyone but it's still just an idea and if I had to guess, nothing will happen with it during nearest year

probably some other ideas that are... well they're just ideas, and not even well-thought out ones

I just can't... Honestly, I am risking being banned but... Nah, I give up. I will let others doing the talk. Mind the chip on the shoulder though.

d the decline in the players available to the youth team is sad and you would think that if the game were fairly consistent on this that we should have the same quality of decent trainees as other countries....but I am not sure we do?

youth school in general is a lot simply about luck, but only as long as you do the basics right

you can't really influence the youth school quality positively, but you can influence it negatively - by having too bad coach and by not knowing how to make the proper selection of incoming youths [for example by sacking low level 16yos and keeping high level 18yos]

also, do you have a "program" for top NT prospects? many small countries do and it gives great results... they're basically keeping tabs on every young player that can reach u21/NT level and make sure that such player gets proper training / gets sold to good team etc. They have databases starting with 16yos till 22+, divided by age and position so whenever they get a new youth, they know whether he is #1 or #10 for his position and age group

Ok I'm only skim reading all this.

Growing England? It comes from community engagement. There are too many users here who aren't involved, that leads to a lack of knowledge on training and other systems that helps clubs grow. I do think it's improving, slowly. I've noticed the ratings rising across all of Level 2 and that will continue because of 3 becoming more active.
Engagement though? I don't know how to get people active on here.

You've hit the nail on the head tbh, there are not enough active users on the forum to benefit from others knowledge and advice.

I'm not sure about that. Australian forum has 2 active users, cometer and Achmid. They are very community-active though and try to reach out to new/silent users all the time.
Now even though there's not much of a discussion, suddenly some users I've never seen started posting their youths and asking for advice (sell/keep, train as def/mid/att) etc.

And honestly - many NTs are doing this kind of thing and it brings very good results over time.

There used to be a tutor system if I remember correctly a while ago, wasn't that also a staff member?

Tutors are/were supposed to help new users when they had questions, some of them used to greet new users after they registered with a standard message and some tips on how to start the game.

I'm talking about a user-based project concentrated on maximising the NT potential, a different thing.

That's why I've been tracking new users, I'm hoping someone is going to take the initiative and say hello to them.

If you can get some to the forum it would be brilliant.