Quote Originally Posted by EastsiderSG View Post
There were only 2 ways to respond to post. Either you encourage him and tell him no he is wrong and that he is not a crap manager or be agreeable. Is it wrong to be agreeable and voice the opinion that too many STs is mismanagement. Not everyone is blessed with the ability to be diplomatic. While you say it is low to laugh at others record. Is it not low to criticise tankers like you do and act all superior when you beat them in events? Or are they ok as targets from your perspective.

Yes it doesn't mean good records are good managers and bad records doesn't mean bad managers. It actually points towards activity and how much effort you put in. The Greeks had a good gaming strategy which any of us can do but many preferred to be lazy and just whine instead of selling trained players and training a new one from scratch every season.
Yes, you are right that any could have posted that he was wrong.

The issue is minamino started suggesting any manager who has 5 STs is crap first - you could check back the thread on the sequence of this event first. I surely wasn’t happy at all too - I do have 5 players of 27 having ST role too. You could have a look and see if this is mismanagement or good management.

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With regards to tankers, I always maintain 2 things:
1) Situational tankers, say who have to take time off because of personal life matters (eg. Long vacation) or simply being too busy (eg. work commitments), are always understandable and should not be criticised in any way (if anything, Nordeus should take part of the blame in not having an holiday option for managers);
2) Intentional abusing tankers who aim to win all other trophies (except league) and also abuse events are what most managers despise

I do criticise those intentional abusing tankers who take the fun of game away from many fellow managers. That is my stand and I stand being corrected if it is wrong too.

Cannot speak for others, but I do build my team from only buying players from auctions and then training them with a specific aim to fit them into the style I like to play with. Intentional abusing tankers do the opposite to ruin a fair fighting chance on events for other managers, so personally I take more gratification in beating them with my 15-20% weaker team. I am definitely not superior, but surely enjoy a whole lot more than beating a same-quality manager in those circumstances and will show my joy too.