I wouldn't care if we had to vote for the players just on the team and let the Bot select who plays. It becomes hard to support local players when it is so much better to invest in players who come from countries with national team coaches who will assist in their development. Countless players from other countries get selected for the Hibury team to the chagrin on the Bermuda public who are desperate to see their country do well.
My country is very small. We have about 60K people here and most of the managers in the league I am acquainted with them. We are at a disadvantage against countries that have a much larger pool for manager selection due to the overwhelmingly large country population base. We can't compete with that and will never be able to compete with that. I understand the concerns of the GKO community who fear that a country like ours will have managers who will use the national team to build their players. As it stands, this situation exists in the larger countries as well. If it is a problem, I think it should be an all or none fix. The current situation insinuates that the Bermuda community is a community of cheaters who won't be responsible with our national team. Let me assure you that the managers of the Bermuda league are honorable and perhaps one of the most active and competitive leagues in GKO.
Consider our position in the World Rankings. This has been accomplished because our league progressively improves and we are producing teams that push towards the highest levels of GKO. We must do this with the constraints we have due to the lack of population in our community. Yet, there is a glass ceiling. It starts with the country being unable to control the fate of the best players in the country and who should be invested in for training. If this doesn't happen, we here in Bermuda, and countless other countries will be crippled by conditions in the community that I feel are unfair and should have long ago been addressed.
