Asunto: [NT] Le_sorcier

Félicitations old chap !
See you in week 4 ;)

I like your optimism PhiPhi, sadly reality will kick in pretty quick =D

Congrats mate. Welcome.
I look forward to seeing how far you can take our NT.

Thanks :)

I will do my best ;)

mes sincères félicitations:)

nr. 3 foreign coach of Australia...hope you will be the best so far :)

Hi,

I'm not a one season manager, and I want to continue my work and really think that I can do it :)

For next season, I have 3 targets :
- go in top 30 (top 25 will be better)
- prepare the team for World Cup with the best 24-25 and 26 player
- and find 2-3 really good defensive mid (our team big problem).


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I had a few problems with the way this season was handled. Whilst you set matches and tactics every week that was as far as it got.

There was no communication after the first match or so. The database appeared as if it hadn't been updated in ages other than those who were U21 (due to the U21 manager) and from managers who update regularly anyway. We failed to even be competitive in the WCQ's and was the first time we'd been eliminated before the last match.

My question is if you get re-elected should we expect anything different? Why should we re-elect you after a season like we've just had?

The easiest part of managing the NT is setting tactics and whilst setting a good tactic takes time, there are other components that I believe are more important.

My vote isn't decided yet, so you have a chance to get another chance but you will have to answer the above questions and explain to us why we had the season we've just had.

I was France NT coach during 6 seasons and that was really different.

I tryed to open some before and after match thread (for the first 3 matchs) but with a really poor success .... :(

When I was elected I expected that 1 or 2 Australian manager propose to help me, but noone did it, (specially for the players update). And only 2 managers send me some players update by sk-mail (where in France I get minimum 20 sk-mail every thursday).

For the result, we only loose against team who were better (did not think that Danemark was so good), was hopping to get some result against Argentina but tactic was probably sometimes not so good and we never be lucky in the 4 matchs we should ^^ . But we really need some good defensive mid also.

Irl I finish personnaly to built an house and move to my new house last month, and I also change work but I don't need to find some reaons because I did my work.

To catch the backlog with top 20 NT team a little comunity with 100 managers should be interested and motivate for his NT I really dont think that we have at least a group of 20 managers.
The most motivated manager is a stranger (borkos). :D
For example, that was the first time I was NT manager that a receive some sk-mail to ask me not select some important nt players because of important match for the manager team ....

So next season I will reopen games thread and hope to have at least 5 managers to discuuss of the match and not only one who come after the match twhat part of the tactic was not good, because every one can do that ;)

And I still need an assistant to help me, if someone is interested you can send me a sk-mail :)

Why did you not actively seek an assistant? There is more to it than asking something in the forums.

If users are picking at your tactic they are obviously finding holes in it and wanting you do fix them. Why is it that you didnt use these comments to better your tactic and use it as constructive criticism rather than just taking it as an attack on yourself and your tactic?

Yeah all those are issues you will face with smaller userbases and it is something that always needs to be considered when the NT manager. At the end of the day if things aren't going as you'd like them to, you need to at least try and change that otherwise things stay as they are and I've explained the way I see things below with a few of your statements made. I gave up interest for probably the first time because my impression was you didn't care too much about the job outside of setting the match lineup. From this post it shows that my impression may have been the wrong one.

When I was elected I expected that 1 or 2 Australian manager propose to help me, but noone did it, (specially for the players update).

Ok no one helped but it's not like you asked for it either at any stage during the season, so in many ways it's error on both sides.

And only 2 managers send me some players update by sk-mail (where in France I get minimum 20 sk-mail every thursday).

Did you follow up by requesting players update their players? Sometimes you need to remind people and not "expect" them to automatically assume they have to update it. Using myself as an example I don't believe I once got asked to update my players other than from U21's and foreign NT's (which there were a few).

This is why I've always believed the better NT managers are not so much the ones that set up matches/lineup it's the ones that strive to build a community from which results come. We had that once and we still can now, it's just something that appears to have taken a backstage in the last few seasons.


Knowing this now, another question I have is have you learnt anything from this season and how will you approach it in the future?

As I've stressed before, my vote is yet to be made and won't be made until the end of elections. I'm looking at voting for who I think most deserves the chance, so whilst I keep asking questions, my vote hasn't been decided :).

Good luck with re-election.



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ok so as I understand that, your ok to help me next season, I'm really happy to heard that :)

Next season we have to :
- optimize players training (specially for mid def)
- enter in top 30 (for an easier WC quali group)
- play with 24-25-26 players
- ajust 4-5 different tactics
- get more managers interested in NT

Sorry you weren't re-elected. I guess in the end if you take out the 2 or so day difference between being re-elected and not getting the role is that others thought the season you just had wasn't good enough to warrant a 2nd season in charge.

Thanks for applying though and hopefully if you manage another smaller NT again, some of the valuable lessons learnt from last season will make you a better NT manager outside of games/tactics.

In many ways I'm disappointed you didn't get the chance to correct the mistakes that were made last season but the cookie didn't crumble the right way.

All the best for your club side.

Le_sorcier, thanks for your service last season.

A shame for you to miss out by so little, but I hope you enjoyed your time managing the Aussie NT. And I hope you will drop in to our forums and follow the team's progress fondly.

All the best. :)