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With far worse players, both Astra and myself achieved more and had approval ratings in the 60s. You finished on 30something.
Your biggest handicap as a coach is yourself. I have little time for you as a buzzerbeater coach, and that does come through in my posts to the point of rudeness, I acknowledge.

I suspect your motivation for knocking Austin is simply fear of being made to look even worse should the new roster be successful. I have completely reinvented my roster to give Austin a club that can support his salary and still be competitive in the EBBL - because he offers something unique. You now want to slag him off to protect any remains of reputation you have.

The only other motivation I can think of is that you seek to deny a fellow EBBL coach the extra merchandising revenue that an NT starter brings. I'd like to believe you when you claim to merwly provoke debate and have England's best interests at heart, but your track record as coach suggests you have little interest in helping the NT be successful - and think only of your club.

I'd like to believe you when you claim to merwly provoke debate and have England's best interests at heart...

Not true, you would like not to believe me. Typical Brit you are cloaking your insults by saying one thing while meaning the exact opposite.

In any case, I trust our current manager, and time will tell.


Last edited by Mzungu77 at 9/6/2012 2:11:44 AM

Whether Austin should be a regular starter is a matter for the current coach, not England's least popular coach in history, I would respectfully suggest.

now i am not last anymore but second last in the least popular coach contest? this is a useless and worthless title :) please make me last again :)

I don't believe you. That gives me no pleasure.
I'm glad you trust the current NT manager, his record as England U21 is second to none and he's earned the right not to have his selections questioned by his predecessor after one game.

@Astra. You'll always be the least popular, but you got results so you weren't disapproved of ;-)

Last edited by Elmacca at 9/6/2012 1:57:46 PM

Woo guys, it's all good. And a very tough to swallow loss in game 2 as manager. An absolutely epic 4th quarter collapse after a monster 3rd :(

It really brought our 2 biggest weaknesses to light though:1)A lack of defense, our offense was fine all game, but we just couldn't get it done defensively(10/9 defenses are just not going to cut it), and 2)another one that I won't mention here, but I'm sure everyone knows.

And now we have Spain :D

If anybody has any fun ideas to try out on roster/tactics just bbmail them to me.

Nothing to lose, so get wacky!(though make sure to give me a reason it could work.

What he really means is sign up for Englands combined offsite forum and suggest it there. http://w11.zetaboards.com/BB_ECU/index/ once registered BBmail me or SREZ and youll be granted access where youll then need to make an intro and then gain access to all the pluses that the offsite can provide.

Geez Eminence, take advantage of oppurtunities ;)

Last edited by Bballin at 9/14/2012 7:57:25 PM

Or I suppose you could do that ;)

(I needed to meet my monthly bbmail quota!, darn you bballin)

0-3...

I think that it looks worse than it is though, I think we've played reasonably well the past couple of games, we've just had some really tough opponents so far. Hopefully we can start finishing up strong :)

gratz on your first win man! Slovenjia ain't a small nation and have a pretty good NT.

You were extremely close against Bosnia. Spain played an ISO, which was a test. Had they done that one neutral court, you would have won that one. England can once against aim for an ending in the top 4 now. You've got a decent crop of players, your U21 is in good hands ( you started that program btw) and the first generation of U21's from your program should be reaching you by now.

If you can keep this up, you might be able to push on further for the top. With all the nations being forced to think about salaries etc, there isn't such a large difference between the sub-top teams and the rest of the pack any more. Get a good GS update in a couple of key games and you might be able to challenge for more than just a top 4 spot. England still has a way to go, but you can't deny that since Eminence and Srez started up the program for the U21 in season 18, there has been a major improvement overall. First in the U21, making it to the european championship for the first time. And now the NT showing some pretty considerable progress.

I hope you can keep this up. you guy's are doing great. Srez really has had rotten luck this season with the U21. Narrowly missed out on a consecutive trip to the European championship and a truly rotten draw in the consolation tourney...