Yes I am alive.

Been a quiet time patiently waiting for my gw to open. The Tradesmen will be running a mock in gw Toms during the new year. But until that I have I have a side in the Lineker gw. So I decided to try something different in this gw since I knew I wouldn't be in the for a long period.

So I selected a squad and went with a youth policy. I picked my whole squad of players being under 21 players. I managed to pick up a couple of relatively well known players in Danny Welbeck and Kazenga Lua Lua. Now one thing that is has been a debated alot on SI's forums is that people need to be in a gw the minute it launches. Now I picked my side 24 hours after the gw had gone live. I still picked a decent squad of u21s.

The next thing I did was frantically learn as many coaching skills as I could to improve these group of players I had coem rain or shine. Alot of them are progressing nicely according to the mails I get in game.

Your coaching staff have indicated that, aided by your excellent coaching techniques, flamboyant Congolese attacking midfielder has been showing remarkable improvements recently.

They added that they believe the player's exposure to first-team football has definitely been a major factor in his development.

Is an example of mail I received theres several variences of these.

One thing you do find with youth route is that it can be big business to buy and sell youth players its quite another to actually spend your time to improve the players though and if I was in the gw for a longer period I would actually use my cxoaching skills to improve other peoples superstars.