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anything is particular you disagreed with?

Hello, nice that you replied and shared your vision! It’s sad that this discussion only pops up when the elections starts, and not during the season when it is actually most important. At the moment we have 4, maximum 5 active members in our discord (which by the way to create one doesn’t even take more than few minutes), who actively participate in community discussions, not only about NT activities but also about general things. This is the main problem of our whole community — when there is no communication, there is no progress, because we all live in “our own worlds” instead of moving together, towards goals. As long as these things are missing, I can guarantee that we can’t even dream or talk about some serious victories or becoming a strong NT team.

This is a long discussion, so I invite everyone to join our discord and discuss.

Also, it would be really nice to talk deeper about your insights, what exactly mistakes and calling to national team you are talking about.

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By the way, 10 managers expressed their opinion in the popularity voting, those 6 negative voted managers didn’t say their opinion at all, maybe you are scared? There will be no bullying about such topics and no one will laugh at your opinion, we just need to communicate..

First off, thanks for joining the discussion, and your welcome to join the discord community.

I do have a couple of things to comment on what you said.

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Maybe it’s time to shake things up a bit. A bit of fresh blood in the management or a new approach could do the team good. There’s no denying the effort that’s gone into things so far, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take a hard look at what could be improved.

Unfortunately, this can also have a massive negative effect, and this has happened to both NTs very recently, where newer managers took over the NTs and probably got overwhelmed, then just abandoned the team. An NT job is not to be taken lightly, and I would first suggest things to the current NT bosses, either in DMs, the forum, or discord. Each time it happens it sets the NTs back about 6 or 7 seasons, and makes the next 3-5 seasons far more difficult in terms of the the teams they draw the in NT tournaments. I'm very skeptical about managers with little or no experience being put in to the role when we've only really just recovered from the NT being abandoned a few season ago.

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Also, there have been a few strange decisions around the national team squad both in terms of who gets called up and who actually gets minutes.

The first thing to know is that the Irish NT team seems to have a lot of C/PF compared to any other position. The Guard positions are something of a problem for the NT an has been for a while. Again, if you have questions over why a player isn't playing, it can be good to ask the NT. There may be a reason for it, like a weakness in a players game, or the coach using a specific tactic that plays away from a players strengths - there is no point in using them in that situation if they could be exploited or are gonna underperform.

I know the current NT selection is an experimental one to have a look at new players as the NT manager said he was gonna do it on the discord.

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The first thing I recommend to anyone is to join the discord, the more people we can have there, the more ideas we can have to help each other and our NTs.

Where could I find a discord link? I would love to join it

I'll DM you with it.

Edit: The reason we use DMs is to make sure we don't have people impersonating others on the board.

Last edited by Rockets at 7/10/2025 9:02:57 AM