Asunto: Australian Training Survey

snappa should be since he's training drum...

I'm firmly entrenched as a mid trainer now and for at least the next 2 seasons as I get Stewart / Villafane / Libbesson to NT levels.

I was a striker trainer (Hirons / Croxall and to a lesser extent O'Neill). Only reason I changed was that I didn't want to sell Hirons and Croxall :P .... of course Stewart coming along certainly helped too.

Wow. Not a lot of variety there. Is this due to the TBF effect?

He probably started it in our country but owning the midfield is often the key to win on sunday.

My view is that unless you have a fast technical skilled striker, your assists are going to come from your midfield and how they have managed to get the ball back or how they got to the position to make the assist in the first place. In my experience (speaking for myself) every time I play a strong midfield I get owned especially more now than in III when I started.

I got sick of forking out 7-8mill per midfielder and defender, needing to buy 8 members of my team and sometimes there were none that I was interested in.

Then everyone was flooding the market with strikers so prices of the average striker fell, despite the fact on an individual level it was still higher, when you factored back into the equation that you still had to buy 8 players instead of say 6 and that you could train 10 instead of 6 increasing your cash balances I decided to switch across.

So TBF had nothing to do with my decision to change in the end but the strength of having a strong midfield, train 10 players instead of 6 and that tactics were somewhat more flexible than striker training.

Defenders - Always have - and probably always will!

King, Mangos, Morton, Neill, Adkins, Yusri etc etc

All have been trained up to play U21/NT

I train my defenders. If I ever change then It will be to train forwards.

What's everyone training at the moment?
I'm about to switch. Want to know if there are any gaps we need to fill.

Barnes (18yo ATT) is my focus at the moment.

Still training midfielders. Have recently finished off some much needed defender training and am now training some random midfielder skills to finish Erdogan and Stathakis off as players. I'm probably not likely to switch anytime soon but if I ever decided to change, I'd certainly go back to strikers.

Defence - as always. But training pace currently

strikers, just switched to tech, focusing on butler/durante

Midfielders, but training pace for 2 seasons. I just finished my rebuild yesterday to get in 11 trainable 1st teamers. Very happy to say I scored my first 60 rating since I started the rebuild today. It has been a very successful exercise I think. This team can hopefully take me to the A-League in 2 seasons.

I have been trying to switch to striker training for a while, but haven't won the bids I've made and am currently stuck training pace whilst I attempt to make purchases.

mids, mainly tech and play

Pace. Getting my U21 Polish keeper buff

Tech (def).

Pretty sure Larrakin is still striker training.