Subject: National Team U21

I would like that very much

This weekend we play in the Asian Cup semi final.
After a good game against a strong Hayastan, we will be playing South Korea.
South Korea had a break last week so will only have their form from the group stages to go off, but I am expecting a good fight.

The winner of this Semi will then be taking on New Zealand or Japan.

On the team front, our GK's seem to have gone out drinking with both having middling form (an improvement for one and a big decrease for another). Defenders are a bit of a mixed bag but thankfully our strikers are still in ok shape.
Hopefully we can win this one and move on to the final

We won the Semi Final of the Asian cup against South Korea.
We got pretty high ratings at 57, so everyone did their job.

In the other semi final NZ easily beat Japan, so we get to have a classic final of us vs those across the ditch.

Great result

Im on the voting page now, i hope i have your sincere support.... and dont hold back the questions

VOTING PAGE

Will ping those SK mails over coming days. Stamford have been resurrected as I see delta2 logging in.

thx, but remember election close already next weekend :)

I’ve mentioned 16th as key date in my messages.

I just realised this is my last match as u21 Australia coach.

Very fitting way to go out with a match against our long term rivals in the Aus Cup Final

Yes very fitting if you could lift a trophy as last match and then against them.

I look nervous ahead for My future, it will be hard shoes to follow. I will set my goals at maintaining second seed, qualify for the world cup if the squad is just somewhat decent, keep the database updated and keeping the interest in the team alive. But I look very forward to this hard Challenge.

Good luck
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The squad is definitely on par with what I had. I know during the qualification phase, I was using 20yo GK, had at least 1 19yo defender and a couple of 20yo def, the reserves for strikers were 20yos.

We definitely haven't had any big drop off in any single discipline, and I think the defenders at your disposal will be better, and that's not including the absolute star defender you will have.

We have quite a bit of ATT competition coming up but we did have two pretty good ATT this season which was nice.

GK will be 1-2 skills less in GK than I had in qualification but about 4 more levels of pace.

MIDs I don't remember off the top of my head, but I think pretty similar. A little pace heavy but that can easily be worked around

Thanks. I also read you would do final update of database before leaving. Is that done/still a plan?

Waiting until today's training

Cool, thx

Databse is completely up to date now (only took 5hrs lol)
It's late at present so I can't do much more with it just yet

If anyone pulls players from 16-19 who seem decent, please sk-mail me so I can insert them.

I will aim to do some A/B teams for each age group as requested.
I will also aim to contact each active Australian user to let them all know exactly where their u21s sit in the grand scheme of things

Thanks, you serve the start on a plate for me literally :)

So it's not a DB in SA. Update there take up to few minutes (depending on db size)