Subject: [U21] NorwichCityNil

Here is the qualifying group as pinched from toms' thread.

1. England U21 (13th)
2. Schweiz U21 (26th)
3. USA U21 (38th)
4. Moldova U21 0 0 0 0 0-0 0
5. Việt Nam U21 0 0 0 0 0-0 0
6. Lëtzebuerg U21 0 0 0 0 0-0 0

Although the ratings are mainly based on this seasons games and there will be a new intake obviously, I see no reason why we shouldn't qualify from this group in 1st place.
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From what I have seen we lack quality in both defence and do not have a winger of any note, how will you combat this problem?

Those ratings?

is there something wrong with them ?

Yeah sorry, that was my I know something you don't face.

I played mostly U20 matches while wdp did not.

defence : ask everyone in the world if they have english defenders, play the best available defenders against opposing strikers, blame all of england when we lose 32-0 to Moldova.

winger : that's a tricky one, i've played some fairly high wingers in the past to some success, although maybe a normal winger with formations that give wingers a "short option" from midfielders as well as the more obvious longer balls might pay dividends, especially with new engine changes. It'll be an interesting challenge.

The difference in training was minimal but I tried to raise our rankings more. Having studied your side and ours from the week just gone you have one good player. He is not as good as our best mid....sorry thats a fact. :p

that's good news, USA will be easier to scout than we will then.

Just talking about the ratings, and you got those results against some teams playing U20's.

You mean after you scout for your players right?

absolutely :).

ok, I really didn't mean to start anything. :)

Actually just one result was against an u20 side....that was the Chile game. The others were against u21 sides. :p

We have some nice players that will make a good side, we just need some updates on some of our players, you are actuually giving me the incentive to ensure I get them too so that we spank the yanks again. ;)

lol, I'm not worried.

Whoever ends up the English coach will do a good job so I'm not hurtin nothin.

:)

Why are you not standing again for the US role? You did a great job.

@ NCN sorry for spamming the last couple of posts.

I started to run for re election and the public asked me to take over the Nat team. So thats where I'm going.


my 2 cents on U20 matches, they were a lot more fun for me to manage as It gave me incentive keep the 19-20 year olds up to date. I had zero problems with other managers, in fact most seemed to prefer them. There have been several other small benefits to the team and the community.