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Home-Grown Success!

My PG, L.Donoguue (54231906) was selected to join the Ireland U21 NT today! I am slowly turning my Utopian team, Westopian Tigers, into a HG team too.

It was nice to see my young trainee make the U21 NT as a 20 yr old! :-)

...the lord giveth, and the lord take the away...

The coach of the Irish U21 NT sent me a bbmail saying sorry but had to remove your PG from the U21 NT as he found a better guard.

Donoghue didn't even get to play 1 game. The flip-side, I guess is that he is only 20 and would be a certainty for the team next season.

Disappointing. Was looking forward to a small merch bump.

Disappointing. Was looking forward to a small merch bump.

Those are always disappointing moments... I've had similar experience but other way around, with player at 20 getting to play practically (or almost, I can't recall without checking out the records) whole season in NT, and not playing a single game on the season when he was 21 (and yes, he was on my training program continuously, so dropout wasn't due to that but for other reasons).
And it's not only the merch bump (which in itself actually is quite considerable amount for the full season of play), but especially the joy of having an own player playing for NT.
Like you said, fortunately he still has one more year to go after this!

We are back in the swedish top division.
Homegrown for life!

Respect! I started today with my new team to be the first (that I know off) Dutch fully homegrown team. I hope I can stay patient enough 😉

Last edited by Dutch Farmer at 4/14/2025 6:25:31 PM

We are back in the swedish top division.
Homegrown for life!

Congratulations!
Your team seems to be one of those, whose transfer history is totally clean of purchases, which will cause a so called hat off-effect in my case. I hope you would also consider joining newly established Home-Grown League (HGL) one day, for two reasons (at least)... First of all, you would have a very strong team for HGL, and you would be a medal contender (this season) based on your top 8 salaries alone. Second, I wouldn't mind a small Swedish vs. Finnish competition, as we already have two teams from Finland playing in HGL... :)

Respect! I started today with my new team to be the first (that I know off) Dutch fully homegrown team. I hope I can stay patient enough 😉

Well, at least you've made it yourself hard to change playing strategy (being homegrown) with your team name selection, so brilliant choice ;)

It's always great to get managers from completely new countries to join our HGL community!
Actually I was once again taking a look at LOPO_'s list of homegrown teams couple of weeks ago, and then I cast a wish that I hope we'll get managers from completely new countries to join... and here we have you, representing one more HG country. :)

Speaking of joining, like you may have noticed, I already mentioned in my previous message to Hårdboll about Home-Grown League (HGL) that has been established just a while ago. If you have been following this thread for a long time, some aspects of it might be familiar to you already. The Official Thread of HGL, should you be interested in finding more information about it, can be found here: (326589.1). (We also have a separate official HGL Scores Thread, but most essential things have been positioned there on that main thread).
So if you have time, I would also like to ask you to take a look at it, so that you'd see if it would be something you'd be interested in joining in coming seasons! :)

Thanks! I looked at it and I'm interested in joining after a few seasons. Keep up the good work!

Last edited by Dutch Farmer at 4/15/2025 1:05:07 PM

My first game (134074404) with this team is a memorable one with my 18-year old PG having a triple-double 😀

Thanks 😀

We are back in the swedish top division.
Homegrown for life!

Nice 👍