New Senior Nats

[allflattious]

Bit confused as to how bidding would work in this case?

One teams bids for the whole tour? I.e every team plays in one nation? Or separate bidding for the three sets of games still?

[Basto111]

Id be keen to see this given a go!

[GM-crowfan65]

Bit confused as to how bidding would work in this case?

One teams bids for the whole tour? I.e every team plays in one nation? Or separate bidding for the three sets of games still?

No bidding

Currently the three tours for youths run at 0 5 and 10, Seniors will get about 2 hrs later than that.
In the 6 game tours you get 3 home matches on 1 pitch that you select then 3 away games on pitches selected by the other teams
Pitches are known at selection

[DEVI]

How about when we keep weekly 3 matches with 1 day break inbetween. So 6 matches run for 2 weeks. So it makes real and fatigue management will be easier .

[MrMoose]

Two weeks of 3 days would only work if players were available for club SOD and cup games. Missing t20 and SOD for two weeks in a row would be too disruptive to clubs in my opinion.

[Madcarrot]

I don't fully understand why you wouldn't just keep it as is with 18 man squads until Nepal and Afghanistan age up.

But if it's going to make it easier for the development team then I'm happy with whatever.

If it means more work for devs for something only temporary, then I would prefer to focus on other things such as changing technique etc.

[GM-crowfan65]

cant split squad sizes so went with 10 for all

Allowing us to move to this as a solution until the new teams age up will help immensely

[WhiteShadow]

How about having the same concept for both NT and U21 but in NT, instead of playing Nepal or Afganistan the team gets BYE...

[boscorp]

How about having the same concept for both NT and U21 but in NT, instead of playing Nepal or Afganistan the team gets BYE...

I liked the idea of a bye also but i'm pretty sure that would muck around a lot with fatigue management.
I think the proposal from crowfan should be passed on to the next stage of introduction for the purpose of moving forward.
It appears to be the best viable proposal without making other further changes. I don't see any obstacles to overcome in bringing it on.
Having 3 divisions in Nats is very soon a thing of the past, All countries will play each other regularly and world cup qualification will be fairer and simpler, just win, loss and RR. No extra points for being in a certain division.

[GM-crowfan65]

Byes do give advantage to teams later in the week so not something we would be keen on

[MightyMasher]

all sounds good to me ....lets give it a try and find out !

[alsybaba]

It's my last hurrah as Scottish/Nat boss for a while.

there is a thought it's a change for change sake - I'm more than happy with the current set up

Also happy and enthusiastic for a bit of a change - champions league style in football.

Whatever you decide my man I am happy with

[berksowl]

Pro-rate squad size for these tours based on size of player pool for each nation. The larger nation's have an unearned advantage. Let's do some math:

Bermuda (smallest senior player pool of current senior NAT nations). If they pick a 20-man squad, that's 2.13% of their player pool.

If Bermuda could pick the top 2.13% of Australia's player pool (2,985 seniors), they could have a squad of 64 for each tour.

Fair is fair.

[Fgrenyu]

Pro-rate squad size for these tours based on size of player pool for each nation. The larger nation's have an unearned advantage. Let's do some math:

Bermuda (smallest senior player pool of current senior NAT nations). If they pick a 20-man squad, that's 2.13% of their player pool.

If Bermuda could pick the top 2.13% of Australia's player pool (2,985 seniors), they could have a squad of 64 for each tour.

Fair is fair.

Sounds good until you compare the 64th best Bermudian to the 20th best Australian

[Collywobbles]

Only just seen this, but definitely feel it’ll favour the larger nations with bigger resources. We’re definitely struggling to find 20 players already at the right level. A league format seems to reduce the achievements we’ve made of making it to div 1 as a small nation. Survival in the top flight and allowing us to compete in the World Cup has been an amazing achievement. It’d be a shame to lose that in some sort of champions league format