Why not allow those communities with low active members to manage the national team, but not select players for the team. The team players can be selected just as they would if there was no manager. The manager's would just be involved in team selection on the field and tactics. 
I think many would be satisfied with that.
Now we are talking a similar language!!!!!!
Drifter, i do understand that you feel that your country deserves something better than a bot manager, playing 4-4-2 and setting everything at "default", i do understand that you want Bermuda winning matches, but i also know that, if the "available to be user controlled" status becomes absolutely free, we will have far bigger issues to deal with than now.
In all these seasons, i were involved in Argentina NT duties in many different ways (manager, assistant manager, scout), i have seen many things:
* England U21 used to have a manager that used 10 players from his own squad, that last more than a season until the GM removed him from his position.
* France U21 used to have a manager (wasn't french actually) that used the NT to place his own players in NT, increasing their value, just to sell them, when he used to get the money from his players, those players never returned to the NT.
* Russia NT used to have a manager using many players from his own squad, playing official matches, just for training purposes, he used to play with a CA2 keeper (LA5) a whole qualifying (14 NT matches in a season), i reported him to GM many times, and i always got the same answer "I will warn him"
* China U21 used to have a manager that used to place his friend's players in NT when the competition was over, the "U21 player for sale" message was everywhere, and those players weren't U21 players actually.
And surely, there are many more out there that we never knew....
As you can see, we had many illegal (or unproper) behavior so far, all of them never happened twice because those countries have the ability to vote and don't give him that power again, small countries have a big problem: elections can be manipulated.
I understand that Bermuda is a low populated country, that getting 50 active managers is a really complicated issue, i know few managers from there and i know that people from there didn't cheat, but you must understand that there are many countries in similar situation like yours, and some of them have even less active managers than Bermuda, some of these countries are used to create satellite teams or just to farm squads faster, if we allow that a community with only 10 active users become absolutelly user-controlled, that user might take control of NT with only few votes (not to menction that, if he is a multiaccount user, he can easily control 3 or 4 teams).
That's the main reason because i said that a bigger number should be needed, 30 users seemed a reasonable number, if that community has a manager fit for the job, he's got more chances to control the NT than a manager that wins an election with 4 or 6 votes.
Drifter, it was never against you, i have nothing personal against you or your people, i know that sometimes i sound arrogant, but i don't come here to fight against other users, it's just that i have seen many weird things, and i don't want to deal with more and more cheaters, your solution can be reasonable, it might be worth a shot.
