Subject: [NT] MacLanghe

Hi,

For those who dont know me, here's a small introduction.
My name is Stijn De Langhe, nicknamed MacLanghe (previously known without the Mac part). I'm a 23 yo student bio/genetic engineering. Hobbies are mainly reading fantasy books and playing some football with buddies. Remaining time is usually spent on the web.
I guess most people dont care about the real life stuff when it comes to electing a NT coach, thus I kept that part short and moved on to the 'why vote for me' paragraph.

I started playing sokker back in 2005 in 5th division. A bit more than 5 years later, so last week, I finally reached the Belgian highest league. I got helped by the fact that the qualification game was a bit of a laugh and the fact that in my previous league, most people preferred the cup over the league. So whether I'm good enough to become a stable top league team, is yet to be seen.
As for the NT part, I can say that - without being arrogant - I'm pretty experienced. After a couple of seasons as assistant coach, I started my real NT adventure with Indonesia, a team that I took care of for about 3 seasons if I remember correctly. After a dreadful season of the Belgian NT, I got elected as new Belgian NT coach. I qualified Belgium by taking the first position of the group. In the WC group stage, Belgium ended 2nd with 3 points after Eesti. In the knockout stages, Nederland was slain with 7-3 (and lots of red cards) after which England sent Belgium home. After those 2 seasons I took a break from NT duties. I had the honour of managing 2 other nations' (U21) teams too. Scotland U21 and Cymru. With the latter, I probably had the most surprising results, beating Brasil (report) once and drawing against Suomi (report) once during the WCQ. If the luck we forced against those 2 teams wasnt against Cymru during the 2 matches against BiH (first leg, second leg), a qualification would have been achieved. During the last season, I helped rtg qualify Danmark by helping him pick the players and giving him the tactic for the 2nd Greece game.

As you might have noticed, I'm a fan of playing counterfootball when the opponent has a stronger team. So far it worked pretty well on both NT and club level. Though I sometimes hop to a wingerattack if the other manager is overconfident and doesnt cover his wings. I'm not yet sure how I'd like Ireland to play if I'm elected as I dont have any idea about the amount and the kind of players this nation has as its disposal. I'm not going to promise I dont use 5 defs, as sometimes it simply is needed. Same goes for the strikers: I am a believer when it comes to cooperating strikers, so I try to use 2 (I'm also a believer that 3 is useless and that it's better to use an extra midfielder then), but again, sometimes you only have room for 1 striker.

Cheers,
ML
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Cheers and enjoy the black stuff
Nearly chocked myself laughin for some reason :P

interesting you applying also...
wolverine was a very close contender 2 seasons ago i believe it was.
so should be an interesting election

I guess both me and wolverine would do a great job.

yeah.
lol. cocky much? :P

if youre not confident and sure you are capable of doing a good job, you shouldnt apply for a job :)

how will you find the time to do the irish NT when you are SUPPOSED to be helping me for at least 3 games anyway. Culminate that with your lab time increasing to nearing a full time job (YA LAZY STUDENT) how do you have the time?

p.s. your tactics are pants - i have never used them to beat Eesti or Greece the second time round :)

p.p.s to all of ireland - if this man can take Wales to nearly qualifying im sure he will do ok with your team

yes i realise that also rtg.

how will you find the time to do the irish NT when you are SUPPOSED to be helping me for at least 3 games anyway. Culminate that with your lab time increasing to nearing a full time job (YA LAZY STUDENT) how do you have the time?

it stops after next week ;) Then there are only courses in the lab that I already followed :P
And why help you? I helped you qualify with danmark. Friendlies are your problem ;)

p.s. your tactics are pants - i have never used them to beat Eesti or Greece the second time round :)
I know, those mysterious shades keep reading my mind and somehow they whisper to you ;)

p.p.s to all of ireland - if this man can take Wales to nearly qualifying im sure he will do ok with your team
Dont forget there was some luck involved back then (especially Brazil) though partially that luck was helped a bit with tactics. Oh, and this is a season of friendlies, so I doubt I can qualify this season, even if I get elected ;)

bugger forgot about this is a season of friendlies.

So...Mr Langhe if you get promoted are you up for a UK+Bacon championship just after round 3 of the WC lol

sounds ok to me. Guess the community wouldn't mind either.

First post updated to boring reading stuff, called a speech.

Update requests have just been sent out for every player in the red and despite the clear "Do not reply directly" message my mail is now flashing a manic red like the eyes of an insomniac with a twitch.
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:D

I consider that karma for the stae of my inbox ;)

You got 6 mails. I sent out about 200

you sent them mails in english? Or also in a local language? Sometimes that works for frenchies, spanish (and other spanish speaking nations) and polish ;)
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