Punishing the manager who doesn't attend 50% of his games

[John Grant]

why don't you like the concept of punishing the absent managers ? in real football, the team who fails to show up lose 3-0 ...

the current situation of playing between online vs offline manager is not exciting / boring / sometimes unfair ... depends on ...

What do you suggest to reward the manager who attends his game ? I hope you have something interesting

So you want to punish someone who cant/wont attend games..............have you really thought this idea through? I think you havent.
Consider the time zones for a start. Now I dont know if the situation I am in is normal or am I just unlucky .......I live in eastern Australia which is UTC 10 zone and most of my League opponents seem to be from UTC 2,3,4 and 5 which makes it very hard to attend every match. FFS I am not getting out of bed at 3.30am to attend an away match just because my opponent lives on the other side of the world and I wouldnt expect the other bloke to do it either. You want to punish people because of geography , are you really serious. There are much bigger issues in this game than not attending every match.

I throw this idea in the same box as loaning players ,,,,,,,,,,,,the silly box which is full of half thought out ideas.

[USARABAT]

I suggested some drastic measures but throughout the discussion I realized that it's unfair to punish managers who are busy sometimes or have a valid excuse not to attend certain games at certain times but no body can convince me that a manager have so many valid excuses not to watch more than 50 % of their games !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

T.E. is encouraged to improve the timing of matches and allow managers to chose the best timing for their local match like they do in association which would give them no more excuses for being absent.
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So instead of being narrow minded to criticize the idea of punishing an inactive manager or a manager who fails to attend 50% of his league matches, you should request from T.E. to improve the draw by making it relevant to geographic location of managers and their time zone and ask T.E. to give managers certain choices about the best time for them to play their home game.

[John Grant]

I suggested some drastic measures but throughout the discussion I realized that it's unfair to punish managers who are busy sometimes or have a valid excuse not to attend certain games at certain times but no body can convince me that a manager have so many valid excuses not to watch more than 50 % of their games !!!!!!!!!!!!!! .

The simple answer to this is..........get a life away from your phone/computer , maybe you will find out that real life consumes a decent proportion of a persons day and there are certain things in a day that cant/shouldnt be shifted to accommodate a freaking game and I make no excuses for that to you or anyone else for that matter. Why do managers need VALID excuses that meet your standards and criteria before they are able to miss a match ? At the end of the day this is just a GAME used to fill in spare time and be enjoyed and if this GAME has become something else for you , like a WAY OF LIFE, then I would suggest you need to take a break buddy , go outside and kick a ball maybe. I know for me this is just a GAME and doesnt dominate my life and nor should it.

No , upon reflection I still feel this whole idea, original and amended , still belongs in the silly box and no one has so far shown me any VALID reasons to change that opinion.