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Subject: [NT] punxatowneyphil
no more questions? it seems I've been very clear :D
First of all, thank you for becomimg a candidate. This would definitely make the elections more intersting. I know it is not easy to make such a decision, since I assume you know that some voters will always prefer an Israeli candidate.
Still, I can assure you that there are enough open minded people around to consider voting for you. You have one immediate plus from not reading Hebrew - you cannot run a negative campain against the other candidates
:)
Good luck. I don't know yet if I'll vote for you - it depends on the kind of music you play
:D
Few questions though
1. How would you describe your risk-taking policy? Do you like taking risky moves for getting farer, or do you prefer being on the safe side?
2. would you prefer always the best players or would you prefer sometimes to let better prospects play instead? (in other words - maximal success now, or long-term planning? and please don't say both...)
3. Did you ever run 2 teams, banned from the game for cheating, or have any other history we should know of? (sorry for being blunt, but it is an important question, I need an answer if you want my vote...)
Thank you
Still, I can assure you that there are enough open minded people around to consider voting for you. You have one immediate plus from not reading Hebrew - you cannot run a negative campain against the other candidates
:)
Good luck. I don't know yet if I'll vote for you - it depends on the kind of music you play
:D
Few questions though
1. How would you describe your risk-taking policy? Do you like taking risky moves for getting farer, or do you prefer being on the safe side?
2. would you prefer always the best players or would you prefer sometimes to let better prospects play instead? (in other words - maximal success now, or long-term planning? and please don't say both...)
3. Did you ever run 2 teams, banned from the game for cheating, or have any other history we should know of? (sorry for being blunt, but it is an important question, I need an answer if you want my vote...)
Thank you
I know it is not easy to make such a decision, since I assume you know that some voters will always prefer an Israeli candidate.
I know that well. I'm not here to win at any cost though, if israeli managers will think I'm the right one to lead their NT then I'll win... that's called democracy :)
just think about italians voting for Berlusconi :D :D :D
You have one immediate plus from not reading Hebrew - you cannot run a negative campain against the other candidates :)
why should I do something like that? this is no politics, this is a game and there is nothing personal... still I'd like to read Hebrew so I could understand the positions of all of the other candidates about tactics and objectives to achieve.
Good luck. I don't know yet if I'll vote for you - it depends on the kind of music you play :D
hahahahah, absolutely! you can check it out here but I'm afraid there will be not so many people voting for me after hearing my music :D
1. How would you describe your risk-taking policy? Do you like taking risky moves for getting farer, or do you prefer being on the safe side?
I think that speaking on tactics everything should be measured and ponderated. basically, for a matter of personal behaviour, I like to take risks. life taught me though that risks never pay if there is no possibility it happens :)
I explain myself better: if I ever thought about fielding 4 totally offensive players against Poland in a WC match, that won't be risky. that would be stupid :D
instead, if I'd play against an opponent fielding one wide and high winger, I could even think about fielding 3 central defenders and 1 wingback instead of 3 defs + 2 wingbacks, trying to catch the right side of the winger. that would be risky, but if I'd get the right side it would free one more man in formation for midfield or attack. it would be 50% of percentage risk and maybe that's a move that I could think to use against a very very stronger team.
2. would you prefer always the best players or would you prefer sometimes to let better prospects play instead? (in other words - maximal success now, or long-term planning? and please don't say both...)
no, I won't say both :)
this is actually often matter of discussion between me and others, since I think that fielding young prospects in friendly matches helps the development of the NT database because it motives their owners to train them more and more, and not to sell them to maximize profits to people who won't keep on training them. in fact, this is set at least, a player who has a good number of national caps loses market value very slower with age than others.
you just can't imagine how many absolutely GREAT italian prospects have been lost this way, grown up and then sold when they weren't good enough :|
3. Did you ever run 2 teams, banned from the game for cheating, or have any other history we should know of? (sorry for being blunt, but it is an important question, I need an answer if you want my vote...)
no, and i just can't guess the satisfaction of getting some kicks for your team cheating o_O
I've been a scout for italian NT and I've personally signaled to the italian team a lot of suspicious trades. in real life I often had to work or compete with morally dishonest people and I couldn't do anything about it, now at least in my virtual life I like the idea to kick their asses :D
I know that well. I'm not here to win at any cost though, if israeli managers will think I'm the right one to lead their NT then I'll win... that's called democracy :)
just think about italians voting for Berlusconi :D :D :D
You have one immediate plus from not reading Hebrew - you cannot run a negative campain against the other candidates :)
why should I do something like that? this is no politics, this is a game and there is nothing personal... still I'd like to read Hebrew so I could understand the positions of all of the other candidates about tactics and objectives to achieve.
Good luck. I don't know yet if I'll vote for you - it depends on the kind of music you play :D
hahahahah, absolutely! you can check it out here but I'm afraid there will be not so many people voting for me after hearing my music :D
1. How would you describe your risk-taking policy? Do you like taking risky moves for getting farer, or do you prefer being on the safe side?
I think that speaking on tactics everything should be measured and ponderated. basically, for a matter of personal behaviour, I like to take risks. life taught me though that risks never pay if there is no possibility it happens :)
I explain myself better: if I ever thought about fielding 4 totally offensive players against Poland in a WC match, that won't be risky. that would be stupid :D
instead, if I'd play against an opponent fielding one wide and high winger, I could even think about fielding 3 central defenders and 1 wingback instead of 3 defs + 2 wingbacks, trying to catch the right side of the winger. that would be risky, but if I'd get the right side it would free one more man in formation for midfield or attack. it would be 50% of percentage risk and maybe that's a move that I could think to use against a very very stronger team.
2. would you prefer always the best players or would you prefer sometimes to let better prospects play instead? (in other words - maximal success now, or long-term planning? and please don't say both...)
no, I won't say both :)
this is actually often matter of discussion between me and others, since I think that fielding young prospects in friendly matches helps the development of the NT database because it motives their owners to train them more and more, and not to sell them to maximize profits to people who won't keep on training them. in fact, this is set at least, a player who has a good number of national caps loses market value very slower with age than others.
you just can't imagine how many absolutely GREAT italian prospects have been lost this way, grown up and then sold when they weren't good enough :|
3. Did you ever run 2 teams, banned from the game for cheating, or have any other history we should know of? (sorry for being blunt, but it is an important question, I need an answer if you want my vote...)
no, and i just can't guess the satisfaction of getting some kicks for your team cheating o_O
I've been a scout for italian NT and I've personally signaled to the italian team a lot of suspicious trades. in real life I often had to work or compete with morally dishonest people and I couldn't do anything about it, now at least in my virtual life I like the idea to kick their asses :D
I post to invite everybody who has questions for me to ask now... I've just received the communication I have to go abroad (Nederland) from 23 to 30 of september.
thank you all :)
thank you all :)
posting again to up the thread :)
oh come on guys... don't let me feel so alone :)
That's for bad-talking about Burlesconni! ;-)
you must remember that some of the managers don't feel confident enough to ask in English.
Anyway - here is a question
How far do you believe the Israeli national team can go in the next tournament?
Anyway - here is a question
How far do you believe the Israeli national team can go in the next tournament?
I see your previous staff has done great work selecting good young players to grow up and putting by their side a good group of "veterans"
my hopes are high specially for 22yo DEFs Tubul and Hananshvili, MIDs and ATTs seem to be a little more uncovered but there is good older people to field.
I think Israel has someway lost 5 points to Hellas and Ireland and could have picked the third place.
with evolution I think the team could get nearer to Czech Rep and Argentina very soon, though the number of users is shorter. we have the time and I hope the will too... I truly believe Israel can get to pass the Group selection and go the Finals :)
my hopes are high specially for 22yo DEFs Tubul and Hananshvili, MIDs and ATTs seem to be a little more uncovered but there is good older people to field.
I think Israel has someway lost 5 points to Hellas and Ireland and could have picked the third place.
with evolution I think the team could get nearer to Czech Rep and Argentina very soon, though the number of users is shorter. we have the time and I hope the will too... I truly believe Israel can get to pass the Group selection and go the Finals :)
im looking at your tactic from your last league match and im trying to realize some things
a. why are you playing so defensive against a weaker team?
b. you played 5-3-2 with 2 defenders on the flanks, how come the winger had to do the defensive work every time insted of the right defender?
c. your playing with 4 defenders and one mid who is so close to the defenders that is making your defenders behind him useless and they never attack the ball and your basicly losing at least one player
d.y do you take your defenders so low ? by the time the striker gets the ball the defender should be all over him and not running towored the striker hoping he wont kick the ball before he reaches him
most of the times they do strike the ball before your defender reachs him
e. in throw ins it seems your unaware of the offside your defenders go back allowing the opponent to basically deliver the ball to the middle of your goal with out defender covering him and thats happens every time the other side get a throw in
f. when the ball is on the sides between the corner and the quoter of your defending half side your defender insted of again going to cover the winger he is going to the middle of the area close to the goalkeeper . why?
g. your winger almost never go back in time to help the defense y do you let him go back?
h. your oponent likes to keep his defense up how come you didnt get a mid who will break the offside trap?
i.how come your playing with left defender and right defender and every time your defense is taking the wingers on from the back?
j.you played a team with good defense y did you use 2 strikers on the same plot the chances that a defense like that will wait to long with the ball or let a striker to steal the ball is very low
k. when the ball was in the left side of the attack your winger went all the way up and unless a mid with divine passing would pass him the chances he will get the ball are slim so y did you place him there?
l. your defensive mids dont have the abilty to face his wingers from the back so y dont you place them so they will attack the ball in dignal?
sorry for all the questions hope you will have time to deal with them
gl
a. why are you playing so defensive against a weaker team?
b. you played 5-3-2 with 2 defenders on the flanks, how come the winger had to do the defensive work every time insted of the right defender?
c. your playing with 4 defenders and one mid who is so close to the defenders that is making your defenders behind him useless and they never attack the ball and your basicly losing at least one player
d.y do you take your defenders so low ? by the time the striker gets the ball the defender should be all over him and not running towored the striker hoping he wont kick the ball before he reaches him
most of the times they do strike the ball before your defender reachs him
e. in throw ins it seems your unaware of the offside your defenders go back allowing the opponent to basically deliver the ball to the middle of your goal with out defender covering him and thats happens every time the other side get a throw in
f. when the ball is on the sides between the corner and the quoter of your defending half side your defender insted of again going to cover the winger he is going to the middle of the area close to the goalkeeper . why?
g. your winger almost never go back in time to help the defense y do you let him go back?
h. your oponent likes to keep his defense up how come you didnt get a mid who will break the offside trap?
i.how come your playing with left defender and right defender and every time your defense is taking the wingers on from the back?
j.you played a team with good defense y did you use 2 strikers on the same plot the chances that a defense like that will wait to long with the ball or let a striker to steal the ball is very low
k. when the ball was in the left side of the attack your winger went all the way up and unless a mid with divine passing would pass him the chances he will get the ball are slim so y did you place him there?
l. your defensive mids dont have the abilty to face his wingers from the back so y dont you place them so they will attack the ball in dignal?
sorry for all the questions hope you will have time to deal with them
gl
I'm sorry for delay, but I wasn't able to connect more than 5 minutes long at home and couldn't answer properly
first, if you think spartak is a weak team you're wrong. raven made second place two seasons ago, and this last season he was just unlucky because of form and injuries, but still has a very hard team to match, defensively solid and able to take ball control because of those 3 central midfielders. all of them have good defence skill, so it's basically not wrong to think to play wing-attack.
my goal was to leave him ball possession, contain him and going with quick fastbreaks, with through passes for the winger or the forwards. this was due to the fact my best mids were totally out of condition, bonk was disqualified, tanavots at tragic and szlyko at medium form couldn't keep up with a running game against the spartak 3. so I tried to use them as "cannons" to launch cicaloni and the 2 strikers.
let's now take a look at these positions. you basically point the fact the winger is deep and wide: there is a reason why, of course. he has no defensive job: he is a supertechnic one with good pace and passing but absolutely high playmaking who usually knows if better to run and dribble or pass it. his starting position gives him always a good space from the 4 shortlined defence wingback so he has "time to think".
about him: when the ball was in the left side of the attack your winger went all the way up and unless a mid with divine passing would pass him the chances he will get the ball are slim so y did you place him there?
I don't agree with this sentence, in fact he's been reached more and more even in this game by fast ball circulation, and more than one time in the game you can see cross passes between the 2 laterals even near midfield... and the deep position lets him cross before the defence gets back in place :)
now let's talk about forwards.
you played a team with good defense y did you use 2 strikers on the same plot the chances that a defense like that will wait to long with the ball or let a striker to steal the ball is very low
it's a matter of tactic. they keep up together when they are far from goal, the reason is that I prefer the long pass to be directed on the winger (faster and with great tech, pass and playm) instead. "opening" them far from goal would increase the chances the pass from defensive half to be directed on one of them, instead then to the winger. more, you see with his technique he caused a red card (and the wide position of the other mid caused another similar) because of bad positioning of the defender against him.
so the winger is the ballbringer now, what's the moving? they go straight to the goal, centrally, but one at a time: the first one goes then stops, the other goes over the first and stops and so on. the reason is to cover better an eventual low cross-pass before the area. but when the winger with the ball reaches the side of the area they divide, going to cover first and second pole to cover 2 kind of high cross-passes.
you see the reason is not trying to steal the ball from defenders :)
you played 5-3-2 with 2 defenders on the flanks, how come the winger had to do the defensive work every time insted of the right defender?
I call it 4-4-2 but it's not important, important is the fact he's been following the ballbringer due to bad positioning of my mids and wingbacks instead.
I admit though I didn't prepare this game well, didn't have great goals to achieve and more I thought my opponent would have fielded reserves to prepare the qualification match.
the module I've fielded has given me great satisfaction through games, but when I use it I try to adapt it to the opponent. the regulations this time should have been: detaching more the defensive MID from the defender line and scaling the wingbacks on sides towards mid when not in possession, to stop lateral forwards. these weren't done, though.
the season before this I widely used it and I reached first place in the league, best striker and best assistman (the winger) so I wouldn't say it's defensive at all :)
in throw ins it seems your unaware of the offside your defenders go back allowing the opponent to basically deliver the ball to the middle of your goal with out defender covering him and thats happens every time the other side get a throw in
in the 2 lateral spots beside of the area it actually happens, when a throw-in is done the defence climbs up looking for offside trap. then, I didn't match the position of the ball receiver but that's not easy, since expert managers change it game by game
in the other lateral spots this doesn't happen, but that's because I'd prefer to try to wait the forward gets the ball to tackle him with a defender on regular play than force an all-field offside trap tactic. you see I don't have the right players to do that: they should be all very fast people and of about the same pace skill level.
I agree though this game the defence line is placed too back, maybe just one move up would have suited fine.
last:
your playing with 4 defenders and one mid who is so close to the defenders that is making your defenders behind him useless and they never attack the ball and your basicly losing at least one player
this is not an error if you think of what we've said before about taking defensive line higher. after that the central forward at least would have been surrounded by defenders, and the MID in that position would have stopped the most of the passes from wing to the middle.
more, cipriani (who played that position) was a guy with high incredible defence and pace, a sort of first-tackler near the defence, even if passed just behind him there was a stronger (but slower) defender ready to intervent with the forward still "awakening" from first tackle. on the other hand, his playmaking and passing were just excellent, so I couldn't think about letting him going too far :) his job would have been to recover central balls and to deliver to some of the good-feeted fellows, and he's done it well when positioning was good in the past.
I hope I've answered to all your questions :)
first, if you think spartak is a weak team you're wrong. raven made second place two seasons ago, and this last season he was just unlucky because of form and injuries, but still has a very hard team to match, defensively solid and able to take ball control because of those 3 central midfielders. all of them have good defence skill, so it's basically not wrong to think to play wing-attack.
my goal was to leave him ball possession, contain him and going with quick fastbreaks, with through passes for the winger or the forwards. this was due to the fact my best mids were totally out of condition, bonk was disqualified, tanavots at tragic and szlyko at medium form couldn't keep up with a running game against the spartak 3. so I tried to use them as "cannons" to launch cicaloni and the 2 strikers.
let's now take a look at these positions. you basically point the fact the winger is deep and wide: there is a reason why, of course. he has no defensive job: he is a supertechnic one with good pace and passing but absolutely high playmaking who usually knows if better to run and dribble or pass it. his starting position gives him always a good space from the 4 shortlined defence wingback so he has "time to think".
about him: when the ball was in the left side of the attack your winger went all the way up and unless a mid with divine passing would pass him the chances he will get the ball are slim so y did you place him there?
I don't agree with this sentence, in fact he's been reached more and more even in this game by fast ball circulation, and more than one time in the game you can see cross passes between the 2 laterals even near midfield... and the deep position lets him cross before the defence gets back in place :)
now let's talk about forwards.
you played a team with good defense y did you use 2 strikers on the same plot the chances that a defense like that will wait to long with the ball or let a striker to steal the ball is very low
it's a matter of tactic. they keep up together when they are far from goal, the reason is that I prefer the long pass to be directed on the winger (faster and with great tech, pass and playm) instead. "opening" them far from goal would increase the chances the pass from defensive half to be directed on one of them, instead then to the winger. more, you see with his technique he caused a red card (and the wide position of the other mid caused another similar) because of bad positioning of the defender against him.
so the winger is the ballbringer now, what's the moving? they go straight to the goal, centrally, but one at a time: the first one goes then stops, the other goes over the first and stops and so on. the reason is to cover better an eventual low cross-pass before the area. but when the winger with the ball reaches the side of the area they divide, going to cover first and second pole to cover 2 kind of high cross-passes.
you see the reason is not trying to steal the ball from defenders :)
you played 5-3-2 with 2 defenders on the flanks, how come the winger had to do the defensive work every time insted of the right defender?
I call it 4-4-2 but it's not important, important is the fact he's been following the ballbringer due to bad positioning of my mids and wingbacks instead.
I admit though I didn't prepare this game well, didn't have great goals to achieve and more I thought my opponent would have fielded reserves to prepare the qualification match.
the module I've fielded has given me great satisfaction through games, but when I use it I try to adapt it to the opponent. the regulations this time should have been: detaching more the defensive MID from the defender line and scaling the wingbacks on sides towards mid when not in possession, to stop lateral forwards. these weren't done, though.
the season before this I widely used it and I reached first place in the league, best striker and best assistman (the winger) so I wouldn't say it's defensive at all :)
in throw ins it seems your unaware of the offside your defenders go back allowing the opponent to basically deliver the ball to the middle of your goal with out defender covering him and thats happens every time the other side get a throw in
in the 2 lateral spots beside of the area it actually happens, when a throw-in is done the defence climbs up looking for offside trap. then, I didn't match the position of the ball receiver but that's not easy, since expert managers change it game by game
in the other lateral spots this doesn't happen, but that's because I'd prefer to try to wait the forward gets the ball to tackle him with a defender on regular play than force an all-field offside trap tactic. you see I don't have the right players to do that: they should be all very fast people and of about the same pace skill level.
I agree though this game the defence line is placed too back, maybe just one move up would have suited fine.
last:
your playing with 4 defenders and one mid who is so close to the defenders that is making your defenders behind him useless and they never attack the ball and your basicly losing at least one player
this is not an error if you think of what we've said before about taking defensive line higher. after that the central forward at least would have been surrounded by defenders, and the MID in that position would have stopped the most of the passes from wing to the middle.
more, cipriani (who played that position) was a guy with high incredible defence and pace, a sort of first-tackler near the defence, even if passed just behind him there was a stronger (but slower) defender ready to intervent with the forward still "awakening" from first tackle. on the other hand, his playmaking and passing were just excellent, so I couldn't think about letting him going too far :) his job would have been to recover central balls and to deliver to some of the good-feeted fellows, and he's done it well when positioning was good in the past.
I hope I've answered to all your questions :)