Subject: National Team U21

Thanks

well done last two attackers came on strong last few minutes

Thx. They were meant to Come on bit earlier, but the ball didnt go out for long.

Congrats mate, you had a great qualification....now I can come back and have a go at the world cup :P

Just kidding. The real challenge comes this season in an attempt to back up the last qualification. It's never easy but it will be good to have you continue on your work from this season

Good campaign.

On to next season and see if we can get a good group and escape the group again

Superb results, now focus needs to be shifted into WC preparations :)

One the other hand, with age change incoming would we as a coaches who train players receive updates about our trainees and their spots in DB? OFC it's not urgent

As promised i will update "rooster" thread before age update. There you can see their spot in the DB. Regarding sending mails, I did a lot of that early in this season about training plans, to be in advance of the wc, since training is done over time.

After considering it. I wrote advice on all wc players, I will do for the current u19 squad after wc.

Unluckily it doesnt seem like apex will be bot before season break release of nt players xD

Thanks for that.

As a bit of fun, I thought it would be fun to compare the finishing u21s of this season, with the finishing u21s that qualified us to the last world cup group stage.
Keep in mind, this does not count 20yos (and 19yo in the case of Ponting who was part of the team in both seasons).

So this is a comparison between Season 71 and Season 73 21yos only, with the exception of GKs who were both 20yos in both seasons

I have put in numbers who the "12" would be between the two teams (allowing for 1 GK, 5 DEF, 4 MID, 2 ATT)

Season 71 vs Season 73

GK
Kemp vs Blake (1)- Blake takes this one, only 1 level behind where Kemp was at the end of next season. Our GK will be hard to get the ball past next season

DEF
Ho(2) vs Ponting(1)
Hocking(5) vs Baser(3)
Bennett vs Coleman(4)
Haugland vs Glass
Giannopoulos vs Kelly

Very difficult to separate Baser/Coleman/Hocking/Glass/Bennett
Overall though, the Season 73 defender group beats the season 71 defensive group. And that's not even taking into the account how far above Ponting is than anyone else (he has 2 skills above the top 4 I ever got to use in u21s, who for interest sake were Carr(season 65), Kirkpatrick(season 64), Haddrill(season 65), Diggins(season 58)

MID
Lockett(1) vs Sekulovski(2)
Diggins(4) vs Bousianis(3)
Langdon vs Upton
Hocking vs Munn

This was a very even comparison. As a 3 midfield, Season 71 wins, but as a 4 person midfield, Season 73 takes it. Whilst Sekulovski and Lockett are something else, Boutsianis makes up for what he is lacking with some nice defender, and Hocking, is actually a defender, he just has excellent secondaries

ATT
Bonetig(1) vs Pilic
Waite(2) vs Kamara/Mundy

This time season 71 takes the cake. A couple of amazing strikers this season who were very hard to say goodbye to.

So to conclude

GK - Season 73
DEF - Season 73
MID - Draw
ATT - Season 71

It will be interesting to see how they compare at the end of next season, which had our best ever world cup result, with season 72 vs season 74.

Well ill guess 72 will win that comparison... the next season 21 yos are not that good. Our best mid is gonna be a 20, a then 19 yo att is 3rd best so will get 30'ish minutes a game. And in total there Are 8 u20 that will be in consideration each match. But the 75 wcq squad will be nuts.
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Actually upton who isnt with number on your list won this season most assist in our wcq group as center mid. 14 pm can be really useful on u21 level.

Indeed, How you play players is almost as important as their skills

Yes. Much more on u21 level compared to seniors. So I get the reasoning behind wanting to have less maxed out players in the game.

I can't believe it's that long since Carr graduated. Time flies.

I saw the druids cup sign up go on.
With how it is run (ie the rules) I don't think it is a good idea for Australia to be playing in it.
Because our ranking points are so high but with so few managers in Australia, it really highlights our depth issues and we don't get any advantages against the bigger teams.
Completely up to you what you want to do adaca, but that was my thought.

Yes if leagues are made by ranking i wont