I don't think much of Tonge and Woozley from their descriptions, it also doesn't look like Antoine has much to offer but he is a young player. Are we keeping all of our young players?

Andy, what's your training agenda? We have 7 coaches costing us £17,500 per week but I don't see much evidence of net sessions. For example, we have two bowling coaches and none of our bowlers have received net sessions.

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Good point, could we cut one bowling coach, and one batting coach, and appoint a fielding coach perhaps?

We non't need two Financial Advisors, as more than one is pointless. we would get clearer and quicker decisions with just one.
Also seven coaches is ridiculous and should get rid a batting coach and a keeper coach in my opinion, the money could be better spent elsewhere.

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Coaches - you need one coach for each session - that's how it works. Coaching is invaluable, and you need as much as possible, in this game, your players will NOT IMPROVE without coaching. If this sounds crazy, don't think of the cost as being for seven coaches, rather seven COACHING SESSIONS. And in answer to admin, all the net sessions are being used - if you look in the nets tab, Rob Wright is getting a bowling and batting session, new youth team pull Antoine is now getting a bowling net (under 19s improve a lot quicker than over 19s), Graeme Adu is getting a batting session, as is Tom Fife. Colin Kent as backup keeper is getting two keeping sessions. If we can cut out any coaches, we can probably dump one keeping session.

With financial advisors - the game works on a logarithm here (i.e. diminishing returns). If one financial advisor improves things by 100%, hiring a second will improve things by another 50%, a third by another 33% etc. Therefore, although, logically, a second financial advisor wouldn't help in the real world, in the battrick world, it would!

I looked in the Nets submenu and all 7 coaches are booked for sessions. That's good. Apparently, the coaching session lasts one week so only one player per session per coach is possible. That means we are paying for coaching sessions whether they are used or not. For example, Rob Wright is getting two sessions this week costing us £5,000. We could have up to 10 sessions per week but that would cost an additional £7,500 per week which we can't really afford right now. So, you see why building attendance is important to finance the training sessions and improve our players. Here are the past training sessions of all our players. I got this info by clicking View Nets Info in Player details.

Colin Kent
Tom Fife
Matthew Antoine
Vince Carter
Curtis Castle
Tel Donnelly
Gaz Leader
Mushtaq Macey
Roy Mayo
Andrew Midworth
Arthur Pinnock
Ryan Rafiq
Aaron Ricketts
Matt Stroud
Keith Tonge
Maurice Woozley
There are no details of this player receiving any net sessions.

Rob Wright
This player last recorded net sessions on 21/11/2005 were:
1 batting net session(s)
1 bowling net session(s)

Graeme Adu
This player last recorded net sessions on 21/11/2005 were:
1 batting net session(s)

Richard Binnion
This player last recorded net sessions on 21/11/2005 were:
1 batting net session(s)
2 keeping session(s)

Francis Whittington
This player last recorded net sessions on 21/11/2005 were:
1 bowling net session(s)
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16 players are recorded as not receiving any coaching sessions before this week.

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Andy, how can you tell by looking at a player's skill levels whether they are a bowler, batsman or all-rounder?
When they come out of the academy can you tell if we need to give them bowling or batting coaching sessions?

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Literally, it is a case of looking at their skill attributes and assessing whether they are a better bowler or batsman. If a player only has skills in batting (or bowling), there's no point training them in the discipline they are no good at.

In the case of Matthew Antoine, he has Batting: abysmal Bowling: respectable. Since he is rated higher in bowlng skills he must be a bowler - is that right?

What then does "proficient batting form" mean? He has abysmal batting but also respectable batting form. How is it that he is both abysmal and respectable? I'm a bit confused by that. I know one description refers to skill level and the other to form but it's a bit difficult to judge whether someone is in form if they aren't performing proficiently in that skill.

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Yes, I would call Antoine a bowler.

I think Batting / Bowling form describes how much use they are making of their skill at the moment. Form can improve/get worse week on week depending on how they've played in recent matches. Skills can only be improved using net practise