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From: benwo

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327432.17 in reply to 327432.11
Date: 8/6/2025 11:16:31 AM
Dublin Yetis
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I fully understand the situation and where we are and really it does not matter if we fight against Israel or Latvia, because for now we have no chance against such teams.
This is honestly unbelievable. "We had no chance anyway, so why bother setting a lineup?" We actually did want to get more out of the first two games than our opponents and that effort drained the team. That’s what cost us the Georgia game, we had little left in the tank.
It’s crazy that you don’t see what a series of missteps this was.

About this season. same as you last 3-4 weeks I was super busy and missed chance to prepare the team and rotate it, I admit my mistakes and I don’t pretend it was accidental. It is how it is, now there will be more time and rotation again. By the way sorry for your loss.
I see you were able to set your own club lineup — just like I set mine.
So it clearly wouldn’t have taken much more effort to do the same for the NT, especially considering that’s why you ran in the election in the first place.
But instead, you derailed the whole season right from the start.
This isn’t my loss — it’s the loss of all 38 managers who were expecting you to log into the NT page at least once in over a month.

And I just want to wish you good luck and start looking at things more wide, it’s not only about winning, especially when you cannot win. these elections were my last, you can candidate in next ones and show class how we can beat Latvia and other similar teams with just a couple of player changes and I HOPE IT HAPPENS! About discord link, I will send you in PM.
This is pretty frustrating.
You get elected, then do absolutely nothing and when someone points that out, your first reaction is to take offense and talk about stepping down, right at the beginning of a two-year term. That’s a problem.
You’re misunderstanding the whole point here this isn’t about me. It’s about having the most competent person in charge of the team.
And maybe it’s time to seriously think about what each of us considers a wide range of perspective.

And for the end. As a NT manager I have full rights to choose players I want to play and use, once you will be a NT manager you will be able to do that too :) Ofc, you have right to hate it or to love it :)
You have a pretty strange sense of humor.
The lesser issue would be that you put in whoever you want, but this year you haven’t put anyone in anywhere at all. The game itself automatically sent the team out for the matches. There’s nothing to smile about there, and it’s definitely not why the 4-5 people voted for you.
Obviously, I don’t have full insight into everything, but I think I raised valid questions, and none of them have been meaningfully refuted.
I’ll briefly outline my main problems so the discussion doesn’t get sidetracked by all these Holmes debates:
1. You did absolutely nothing this year and ruined the entire season.
2. There’s no rotation (see above).
3. There’s no vision for the future.
4. You’re missing key players (Kelleher, Fahy, Cooney or even McEvoy, Castle, Magauran).



From: benwo

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327432.18 in reply to 327432.13
Date: 8/6/2025 11:26:18 AM
Dublin Yetis
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You’re in your own world with all respect. O'Rourke is a multi-dimensional player, just like the guys from the top national teams. His IS is low, so he can’t be used in all situations, but in many cases, he can be the playmaker and the heart of the defense. In the NT, none of this is utilized — he’s just randomly thrown in as a PF where he performs poorly. Your own argument proves just how completely lacking in tactics the NT team really is.

So this is how you evaluate players and teams — by how many points someone scores? As far as I know, the match engine generates that randomly based on skills and team tactics. It’s the skills that matter, not how many points someone scores. The score is just the entertaining result of the engine simulation.

As for the "life happens" part,If someone doesn’t have 5 minutes a week, they shouldn’t apply for the role.

From: benwo

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327432.19 in reply to 327432.14
Date: 8/6/2025 11:29:26 AM
Dublin Yetis
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I agree and even though that wasn't the original topic, the biggest issue is that the only person who missed the election was the new coach himself. But I don’t think there’s any need to take offense, the main goal should be to move forward, not backward.