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Icon4s:
NAIRALAND NIGERIAN FOOTBALL AWARDS!



A good and blessed Morning House.

We have all analyzed football here for a couple of years now. We have tasted the joys of victory and agonies of defeat from different competitions we have participated in. And each one we have come out better as we have always learnt one, two or more lessons.

Believe it or not we have here in the house some of the best followers and analysts of Nigerian football. Forget that we argue all the time, but these arguments generally have yielded fruits in certain areas and our national teams have gotten better for it.

DON'T WE THINK IT IS TIME WE STARTED ROLLING OUT AWARDS, IN VARIOUS CATEGORIES, TO WELL DESERVING NIGERIAN NATIONAL TEAM FOOTBALLERS?

Now this is just a suggestion.

If a larger part of the house agree, we go ahead and set up a players selection committee which will be saddled with the responsibly of:
1. Coming up with various award categories eg: Most improved player in 2018, best Nigerian goal in 2018, Most impressive new inclusion, Best young player (U20 and U17), Best SE Goal keeper 2018, Nigerian Player of the year, best Super Falcons player etc.
2. Nominating players for the various award categories selected above (Maximum of 3 for each category). Note that criteria for the selection of these players must be spelt out.
3. Collating and announcing of results after the votings.

How do we come up with who and who will make up the Players' Selection committee?
I would suggest a 3 Man (or woman ) Committee. The house will have to suggest monikers. Every member of this thread or even visitors would have to nominate one person he or she feels should be a member of this committee. Note that you cannot nominate your self and you cannot nominate more than 1 person. 3 monikers with the highest number of nominations will form the players selection committee.

If we agree, we can set 1 week period for which we can suggest names for the selection committee and the selection committee will have to start work immediately after the Nigeria vs Uganda friendly. So that the voting process will commence first week in December.

At the end of the exercise a thread will be created to publish the names of awardees and mods called upon to take to front page or we may even take it to the sports sections of major News Papers in Nigeria.

Note again that it is just a suggestion and open to more ideas and suggestions.

The simple thing to do for a start is if you agree you click "like" and if you do not agree you click ''share''.


cc: honeric01, Semid4lyfe, Joseph1013, Terzurum5, M7even, Daninya11, tbaba1234, Michael2, Kog45, Joebie, komekn, andrew444, kentebemoney, BascoVanVeli, rabzy, Nedville, Safarigirl, Taliban, Forgiveness, TheGoodJoe, TheSuperNerd, ChrisKels, Chrisoblog, mujtahida, enomakos, confun, EEGA, COOL10, Earthquake1, elyte89, junnyjake, darkelf, davep, edi287, Sportilitica, Certitude, Chrismario, Danielnino00, Trinity, zayyadidris, Magink, Curtisaxel7, AIG07, Icon79, krattoss, petrobros, Odunayaw, Charlesemeka85, do4luv14, realpoacher, chiscodedon, zoboizee, raindodger13, wayodude, Naijaphobia, Truidstar, oloriooko, maidaboi, Onozboy, jieta, Jihday, Humility017, loogan, Diavolo, gameliel9, cc12, isan, kennysville, busky007, kingphilip, Sadiqali24, Unlimited22, Sainty92, alexie4real, Eseose9, Seunvense, goldfish80, Oasis, KpagoGin, Mazimee, Clementoke, bishop88, Jiday, Soetanoreoluwa, Edopesin, shaveman, signz, DrLikita, Kellycute, bossto, Eawwal, Psittacus, Zicky, HZwriters, YKalhaji, Klexycole, Fabyom, Bibidear and others too numerous to mention.

Thanks to everyone that participated in the nominations for Players Selection Committee.

Total nominations = 68
Total monikers nominated 18

Outcome of nominations:
Tbaba1234: 15
Icon4s: 10
Forgiveness: 7
Komekn: 5
TheSuperNerd: 5
ChrisKels: 4
Joebie: 4
Safarigirl: 4 (opted out)
Bascovanveli: 2
Charlesemeka85: 2
Kog45: 2
TheGoodJoe: 2
Andrew444: 1
edi287: 1
Humility017: 1
Michael2: 1
mujtahida: 1
Sadiqali24: 1


The Players Selection Committee members are therefore: Tbaba1234, Icon4s, Forgiveness, Komekn, TheSuperNerd, Chriskels and Joebie.

The Committee will commence work officially soon after the Uganda friendly and the collation for the Super Falcons category will be done after the AWC which finishes December 1st 2018.

Mode of operation for the committee would be agreed upon by committee members.

Thanks everyone once again.

Icon79:
Oga icon, you know that I have enormous respect for you, right? I have always seen you as one of the most knowledgeable and mature member of the forum. But why do you insist that I apologize when I haven't personally attacked anyone?

My entire post was just to warn us about making this a popularity contest because that might breed nepotism and all what not. Granted that I used the world "mediocrity" but that was not directed toward anyone in particular. It was just another way of saying that I would like us to select the BEST people. Again, I think you guys totally misunderstood the essence of my post.


O pari

Icon79, this is not a popularity contest.

As I said before majority of us nominated objectively and this is already reflecting on the results. There is hardly any perfect system and remember this is our first time of organizing such an event. I expected hitches and objections here and there anyways. But the fact is the nominations have been going quite well.

On the apology issue, let ur conscious be the judge.

ykalhaji:
Why don't you postpone deadlines to Sunday 4th of November ? Saturday and Sunday is when most people will have enough time to review the thread and get abreast of things, Sunday 4th November 2018, 9pm due to the time difference for North American readers.

Hmm. I get ur point. But the thing is most of those here that I know reside in North America have nominated already. And we have observed that rate of nomination has slowed down drastically that no new nomination has been made in the last maybe 10hrs or so which necessitated the deadline placed for tomorrow 6pm.

Well, 6pm Nig time translates to 9am,10, 11, 12noon or 1pm in North America, depending on which time zone u are located.

If we continue to get new nominations up till 3pm tomorrow we may extend the deadline to 9pm tomorrow else we leave it at 6pm tomorrow.

Curtisaxel7:
I think Icon79 the O pari master has a point.

This might sound a bit harsh but the truth is that there are some of us here who are more experienced, exposed and able in the field of football analysis than the others. No disrespect to anybody please.

I think our focus should be on getting the best rather than the most popular or crowd's favorite.

I therefore suggest Oga Icon4s, as the visionary behind this project and a well respected person on this forum picks THE BEST 5 or 7 persons from the top 15 nominees. This way we ensure that we get the best brains as well as show respect for our democratic process.

My ten Kobo.

I am sure u made ur nomination with the mind that the person is very knowledgeable enough and can work effectively in the committee Right? And so have most of us.

The 7 leading candidates are some of the most knowledgeable we have here. Trust me on this.

Icon79:
Oga mi, I think you guys totally 100% misunderstand my post. I wasn't tryna put anyone down or call anybody a mediocre. gosh, I don't even know the folks who have been nominated sef. I might check them out over the weekend but I haven't had time to check yet. Anyway, I was just making a generalized statement ... a general assumption, if you will, that we might end up with square pegs in round holes if we throw the nomination open, as an all comers affair.

If you come down to it, I am NOT asking to be nominated. And if nominated, I might not even have the time to be effective in the committee due to the pressure on my time right now. However, I was just pointing out the need to have the right people in that committee. Not to sound conceited or anything but some of us have played this game to a very decent level. Some of us have the right connections and contacts in high and low places, both at home and abroad (a la Tbaba1234 and Joebie). Some of us have followed this game and even coached this game long enough to understand the game (a la Icon4s etc.).

That's what's driving my recommendation. My intention was never to put anybody down or for a shameless self promotion. Having said that, I formally withdraw my name from the nomination, but let's give the other 5 candidates a very good consideration.

Those are just thoughts but I would implore y'all to give those thoughts a very good consideration if we want to achieve our aim of forming this committee. There's a saying in my village that na "ora adighi atu ero". Even in the Bible, when they were about to replace Judas Iscariot, they established some standards/qualifications for the ideal candidates. They didn't threw the whole thing open for all comers.

Just thoughts ....


O pari

Firstly, I still insist you owe this house an apology.

We are no kids here. I don't think anyone is less than 18 and so we are all full grown adults and should always treat each other with respect. I never expected some of those words to be emanating from a respected member like u. That said.

This nomination system may not be perfect, but I can tell you that most of the nominations were done with objectivity.

I have observed the nomination pattern and done collation up to the last nomination done here. The leading 7 nominees are well grounded and have what it takes to deliver the goods. Trust me in this.

So just relax and participate bro. We are still expecting ur nomination.

daveP:
Whatever the outcome, let the 5 or 7selected persons be selected in one post per voter so it can be easy for you.

It will even be more difficult collating if a person nominates 5 or 7 monikers.

Guess what, the collation of nomination is up to date as we speak and I can even release the list of committee members 1 minute after the close of deadline. So no worries bro. , this system is working just fine.

Kog45:
Chief you dey fall my hand o.

Truly is a faceless forum but chief you need to be brutal in addressing some idiotic posts cos a lot want to see your response.

What a hell of a post,nonsense and highly irritating.

No mediocre here for God sake abi no be super eagles brought us together

Egbon, the thing tire person o.

In a faceless group like this na the kind thing wey we dey see.

Icon79, your post was way way off the mark and shows disrespect for the entirety of this thread.

You need to tender an apology ASAP!

O pari.

Chelsea Manager, Mauricio Sarri has told former Nigerian international, Victor Moses that he is not in his plans and therefore should be ready to leave.


Moses was a super regular in Chelsea’s line up during Antonio Conte’s reign, but since Sarri took over in Stamford Bridge, the Super Eagles former star has made only one appearance on the team.


On Wednesday when Sarri named a largely second team in the Carabao Cup clash with Derby County, Moses was not even in the matchday squad prompting questions on his continued stay with the London side.


Footballlive.ng quotes the Italian as saying last night that Moses has not been in his squad only because he does not know where the 27-year-old Nigerian can fit in.


Dramatically, Chelsea youth team graduates, Calum Hudson Odoi and Ruben Loftus-Cheeks are now ahead of Moses, thereby raising strong permutations that the ex-Super Eagles star is bound to leave Stamford Bridge in January.


Reports rom London said Sarri has already held clear-the-air talks with Moses and told the star he is not in plans for the team, hence his absence on Wednesday.


Moses has made only one start this season and was a surprise omission from the squad against Derby, despite training with the team the previous day.


However, additional information reveals that his former coach at Chelsea, Jose Mourinho, who is now in charge at Manchester United, is on the hunt for Moses.


Mourinho actually needs a new striker, as both Romelu Lukaku and Marcus Rashford have not totally convinced this season with only five goals between them in 24 competitive games, but Moses could fit in.


The three attack-minded players being considered by the old Trafford outfit are Moses, Eintracht Frankfurt’s Croatia star Ante Rebic and AS Roma’s Cengiz ünder.


After joining Chelsea in August 2012, Moses was farmed out on loan to Liverpool, Stoke City and West Ham United before the arrival of The Blues’ former manager, Antonio Conte.


The 27-year-old winger, who has a contract with Chelsea until June 30, 2021, found his range under Conte, but things have gone back to his ugly early days at Stamford Bridge, and he is heading out again.

More below:

https://zenithnaija.com/coach-tells-victor-moses-he-is-not-in-his-plans-and-is-free-to-leave-chelsea/

ChrisKels:
D matter come bad as d guy na real olodo. Before he joined this thread fully, he was bragging to one guy like that, that he was same person as Icon4s. That was in the U17 final thread against Mali. Who is a worse mediocre than an impostor?

Lol! I recall that incident. I had to put up a disclaimer on impersonation.

But we are like brothers now anyways.

Icon79:
Egbon! Kabiyesi o!! Here's my 10 cents worth.

I think you have a very good idea but we may probably need to tweak it a little bit to make it work effectively. In my humble opinion, the purpose of this committee would be defeated if the wrong people were "nominated". I haven't followed this thread or the nomination process closely but, like everything Nigerian, I am quite sure that merit is being sacrificed in place of mediocrity and nepotism. Yes, by the nomination process we can ensure that it is the power of numbers at work, but then that becomes the democratic formula for mediocrity.

Hence, to make sure that the excellent few are not sacrificed for the many mediocre my recommendation is that we select the following 6 members and charge them to get the job done. To me, this proposed committee is too important for us to reduce it to a popularity contest. Anyway, here's my 6 member committee:

1. Icon4s
2. Joebie
3. TBaba1234
4. Safarigirl
5. Supernerd
6. My humble self (Icon79)


O pari

No, no bro.

Nothing wrong with the current nomination system we have adopted. It will ensure full participation and transparency.

Whether 5 or 7 be sure to have an excellent Committee for the job.

Icon4s:
NAIRALAND NIGERIAN FOOTBALL AWARDS!



A good and blessed Morning House.

We have all analyzed football here for a couple of years now. We have tasted the joys of victory and agonies of defeat from different competitions we have participated in. And each one we have come out better as we have always learnt one, two or more lessons.

Believe it or not we have here in the house some of the best followers and analysts of Nigerian football. Forget that we argue all the time, but these arguments generally have yielded fruits in certain areas and our national teams have gotten better for it.

DON'T WE THINK IT IS TIME WE STARTED ROLLING OUT AWARDS, IN VARIOUS CATEGORIES, TO WELL DESERVING NIGERIAN NATIONAL TEAM FOOTBALLERS?

Now this is just a suggestion.

If a larger part of the house agree, we go ahead and set up a players selection committee which will be saddled with the responsibly of:
1. Coming up with various award categories eg: Most improved player in 2018, best Nigerian goal in 2018, Most impressive new inclusion, Best young player (U20 and U17), Best SE Goal keeper 2018, Nigerian Player of the year, best Super Falcons player etc.
2. Nominating players for the various award categories selected above (Maximum of 3 for each category). Note that criteria for the selection of these players must be spelt out.
3. Collating and announcing of results after the votings.

How do we come up with who and who will make up the Players' Selection committee?
I would suggest a 3 Man (or woman ) Committee. The house will have to suggest monikers. Every member of this thread or even visitors would have to nominate one person he or she feels should be a member of this committee. Note that you cannot nominate your self and you cannot nominate more than 1 person. 3 monikers with the highest number of nominations will form the players selection committee.

If we agree, we can set 1 week period for which we can suggest names for the selection committee and the selection committee will have to start work immediately after the Nigeria vs Uganda friendly. So that the voting process will commence first week in December.

At the end of the exercise a thread will be created to publish the names of awardees and mods called upon to take to front page or we may even take it to the sports sections of major News Papers in Nigeria.

Note again that it is just a suggestion and open to more ideas and suggestions.

The simple thing to do for a start is if you agree you click "like" and if you do not agree you click ''share''.


cc: Joseph1013, Terzurum5, M7even, Daninya11, tbaba1234, Michael2, Kog45, Joebie, komekn, andrew444, kentebemoney, BascoVanVeli, rabzy, Nedville, Safarigirl, Taliban, Forgiveness, TheGoodJoe, TheSuperNerd, ChrisKels, Chrisoblog, mujtahida, enomakos, confun, EEGA, COOL10, Earthquake1, elyte89, junnyjake, darkelf, davep, edi287, Sportilitica, Certitude, Chrismario, Danielnino00, Trinity, zayyadidris, Magink, Curtisaxel7, AIG07, Icon79, krattoss, petrobros, Odunayaw, Charlesemeka85, do4luv14, realpoacher, chiscodedon, zoboizee, raindodger13, wayodude, Naijaphobia, Truidstar, oloriooko, maidaboi, Onozboy, jieta, Jihday, Humility017, loogan, Diavolo, gameliel9, cc12, isan, kennysville, busky007, kingphilip, Sadiqali24, Unlimited22, Sainty92, alexie4real, Eseose9, Seunvense, goldfish80,daveP and other too numerous to mention.

Good day house. Thanks to those who have nominated thus far.
A total of 60 Persons have nominated 16 different persons thus far.

As nominations continue to trickle in, we want as many people as possible to be part of this process.
So we extend nominations till Saturday 6pm 3rd November, 2018. Committee members to be announced same day.

But please house we have seen the need to increase the number of committee members from the earlier suggested 3. This increment is so as to accommodate different schools of thought and opinions (just as represented here in the house) in the committee. This is to ensure that at the end of it all the committee will come up with a robust, balanced and well accepted list of nominees to be voted for awards in the various categories.

There are two options of number of Committee members : 5 or 7.

It is left to the generality of the house to decide.

So we simply click "like'' for 5 or ''share'' for 7.
. This particular process will also end at 6pm Saturday, 3rd November, 2018.

joseph1013:
It's Joseph1013

Owk, sorry for the mix up

tbaba1234:
If Samuel Chukwueze keeps his head down and continues working hard, he will be a major player for club and country.

The boy seems focus and down to earth to me.

tbaba1234:
Bayern Munich interested in Onyekuru..

Hmm

Icon79:
Nne, you haven't chatted w poppa in a very looooong tyme. Did I say/do something wrong


O pari

Bros, u have not nominated.

BascoVanVeli:
You know that this is guess work. The club was to make their decision this weekend

Basco who you nominate kwa nu?

tbaba1234:
Well, apparently they already have by the report.

Baba''T'' who you nominate?

Taliban:
Would it still be tiri or five members now based on SAGirl's recommendation.

It may now be 5 or 7 subject to the approval of the house.

TheGoodJoe:
Work has been so hectic. Taking a lot of my time.

Well done bro.

But who you nominate?

krattoss:
players selection committee..

Are we playing any tournament here?

Read the other post in which you were copied bro.

Icon4s:
Thank you everyone that has responded.

With 20likes and 0 shares it means we have a unanimous decision here, so no time to waste.

Next we go ahead and make nominations of Players Selection Committee members.

Please I crave the involvement of everyone in the house, including those on ghost mode.

Remember the three rules for nomination of Players Selection Committee members
1. You are to nominate one person
2. Do not nominate yourself
3. Do not nominate twice.

Ladies and Gentlemen the floor is open.

cc: Krattoss

Icon4s:
NAIRALAND NIGERIAN FOOTBALL AWARDS!



A good and blessed Morning House.

We have all analyzed football here for a couple of years now. We have tasted the joys of victory and agonies of defeat from different competitions we have participated in. And each one we have come out better as we have always learnt one, two or more lessons.

Believe it or not we have here in the house some of the best followers and analysts of Nigerian football. Forget that we argue all the time, but these arguments generally have yielded fruits in certain areas and our national teams have gotten better for it.

DON'T WE THINK IT IS TIME WE STARTED ROLLING OUT AWARDS, IN VARIOUS CATEGORIES, TO WELL DESERVING NIGERIAN NATIONAL TEAM FOOTBALLERS?

Now this is just a suggestion.

If a larger part of the house agree, we go ahead and set up a players selection committee which will be saddled with the responsibly of:
1. Coming up with various award categories eg: Most improved player in 2018, best Nigerian goal in 2018, Most impressive new inclusion, Best young player (U20 and U17), Best SE Goal keeper 2018, Nigerian Player of the year, best Super Falcons player etc.
2. Nominating players for the various award categories selected above (Maximum of 3 for each category). Note that criteria for the selection of these players must be spelt out.
3. Collating and announcing of results after the votings.

How do we come up with who and who will make up the Players' Selection committee?
I would suggest a 3 Man (or woman ) Committee. The house will have to suggest monikers. Every member of this thread or even visitors would have to nominate one person he or she feels should be a member of this committee. Note that you cannot nominate your self and you cannot nominate more than 1 person. 3 monikers with the highest number of nominations will form the players selection committee.

If we agree, we can set 1 week period for which we can suggest names for the selection committee and the selection committee will have to start work immediately after the Nigeria vs Uganda friendly. So that the voting process will commence first week in December.

At the end of the exercise a thread will be created to publish the names of awardees and mods called upon to take to front page or we may even take it to the sports sections of major News Papers in Nigeria.

Note again that it is just a suggestion and open to more ideas and suggestions.

The simple thing to do for a start is if you agree you click "like" and if you do not agree you click ''share''.


cc: Joseph1033, Terzurum5, M7even, Daninya11, tbaba1234, Michael2, Kog45, Joebie, komekn, andrew444, kentebemoney, BascoVanVeli, rabzy, Nedville, Safarigirl, Taliban, Forgiveness, TheGoodJoe, TheSuperNerd, ChrisKels, Chrisoblog, mujtahida, enomakos, confun, EEGA, COOL10, Earthquake1, elyte89, junnyjake, darkelf, davep, edi287, Sportilitica, Certitude, Chrismario, Danielnino00, Trinity, zayyadidris, Magink, Curtisaxel7, AIG07, Icon79, krattoss, petrobros, Odunayaw, Charlesemeka85, do4luv14, realpoacher, chiscodedon, zoboizee, raindodger13, wayodude, Naijaphobia, Truidstar, oloriooko, maidaboi, Onozboy, jieta, Jihday, Humility017, loogan, Diavolo, gameliel9, cc12, isan, kennysville, busky007, kingphilip, Sadiqali24, Unlimited22, Sainty92, alexie4real, Eseose9, Seunvense, goldfish80 and other too numerous to mention.

cc: Krattoss

Voting still in progress.

43 peeps have done nominations thus far.

Joseph1033, Terzurum5, TheGoodJoe, Forgiveness, BascoVanveli, Krattoss,Tbaba1234, Andrew444, Kog45, enomakos, and others, you are yet to nominate. We nova see una hand o.

TheSuperNerd:
**So many mentions** But....

Hahahahahahahahaha.... Chief Icon4s... Abeg ehn... Biko take note of this post... I nominate it for Fun post of the year and post of the year ahead of December as I dont know if I go dey sef for the in-house NL Sports awards for posters here... Hahahahaa. This one got me laughing hard... Mickael is like my antagonist here but we agree on some things very funnily... Looolll....


He is right... Safarigirl and I will make sure Iheanacho wins it all.... ahhh... we go rig the elections and alter the info to ensure his straight A's conquests..... Infact let me break this down...


Best young player of the year (U-17): Kelechi Iheanacho gets my vote ahead of Olakunle Olusegun and Samson Tijani and even Akiwunmi Amoo. I will even show you he is 17...

Best young player of the year (U-20): Kelechi Iheanacho again naa ahead of even Nazifi Yahaya and Ikouwem Udoh... Haba... He is too much.. since he is U-17 so why not?

Best senior player of the year/Naija player of the year (Super Eagles): Even with no goal in 2018 in the GWG and an average WC showing, Kelechi Iheanacho gets my vote ahead of Musa, Iwobi and Ighalo... Habamana... It is not easy.


Best Striker (Forward) of the year (Super Eagles): Iheanacho again ... No questions.

Best Midfielder of the year (Super Eagles): You guessed it again... Iheanacho!!!

Best Defender of the year (Super Eagles): Kelechi Iheanacho... Have you seen him defend? He does it even better than Leon and Troost.. even Omeruo got nothing on him...

Best Goalie of the year (Super Eagles): Who is Uzoho and Afelokhai?? Throway commot... It is Iheanacho again!!!

Best Impact Sub of The year (Super Eagles): Iheanacho... Ahn ahn... E never do?

Best new entrant into the team (year in review): Kelechi Iheanacho till he retires sef... because every year he is a new entrant...

Most improved player of the year: Iheanacho again... Need I say more?

Top scorer of the year (Super Eagles): Even with no goals in 2018... I will definitely give it to Iheanacho... Haba!!! That worldie freekick against Argentina last year and that thunderbolt against Tanzania are worth 20 goals each and have been deposited to cover for the next five years even if he doesn't score anymore in that period... What a lad... So who wins it even with Iggy on 6 goals this year? Iheanacho again!!!

Am I done? Any awards left? Nacho must win all oooo... Wait I dey come...


Ehen.... Best player to watch out for in 2019 (Next rated): Iheanacho again!!! Even tho he is 22 and have been playing for the past 3 years professionally...






Conclusion: I know some of you will get the joke... Including Mickael whom I quoted... Lol but for the sake of those who won't get it... Let me just be clear...

"I may be an analyst who focuses more on the positives when it comes to Nacho and will defend his talents anywhere... But I am no biased fella. I give honor to whom it is due. For this year alone, looking at all the categories I just reeled out added to the ones Chief Icon4s have mentioned... I can easily tell you right now that Kelechi Promise Iheanacho does not deserve a mention in any category for this year. You don't need to be a hater to know the obvious... And I am no pro-Iheanacho... I am "pro-precocious Naija talents" which covers all of them from Iheanacho to Iwobi to Chukwueze to Moses Simon to Billing to Eze to Ndidi and more... Both home and abroad, naija-born or foreign-born... One passport, two passport or ten-passports... I am for the best and the brightest of Naija talents and upcoming talents at any level but what I don't stand for is running down some players especially those of indigenous extraction to promote some foreign borns... And I won't stand for the vice versa also. But it seems the former is what happens here 100% of the time which is why you see me speak up for Iheanacho or Osimhen or even Isaac Success or Awoniyi or Kelechi Nwakali and more....."

I am a good judge of talent. I was right about Mikel Obi even when Nigerians came for him for his lack of commitment bla bla bla... I knew he will go on to become a legend... I was right about sticking with Musa even when he was the most insulted Nigerian player for some years. I am not always wrong when I identify with a potential top GWG player... Many of them are already proving me right like Osimhen and Success (even when Success was involved in such great mess with call girls... I still believed) but a few more still need to come into their own and show I am not wrong to believe in them.

Since 2015, when I walked into NL Sports from the defunct SL10.ng I came with one message... "To sound out the rise of Nigeria's next possible Golden Generation after the first Golden Generation of 1992-1996." That generation ended in the early 2000s to be precise but I refer to her peak years in 94 and 96.

So this is why I am passionate about our young lads both of foreign or Naija extraction that have the true potentials to make our Super Eagles world beaters and close to being world class some day.

So this is me... This is my true picture... It is just that most of you love to have a go at Iheanacho as if your lives depend on it making me come in to correct some of the misleading notions about the kid and his talents. So will Iheanacho stand a chance in any category this year? Let me be the first to sound this out... No way. He should not even be nominated. If it was 2016 or 2017, then yes... But not in 2018 despite his overall goals contribution to the NT since his debut... And even stats wise this year, Nacho has only two Assists and NO GOAL so far in all the games he has played this year so why should he be considered for any category? Lol... This may be just an NL thing but I think doing it right even in the little things show one can do it right possibly in the bigger things... So no big deal... Adios.

So this is my conclusion? Wow.... It is quite long. Well, no apologies all the same... I am who I am and I will never change... I am mr.epistle... so if you cannot read it, then jump it...but I gotta say what I gotta say for clarity sake aiit.. and say it all too... Merci beaucoup....

Meanwhile I nominate Chief Icon4s for the committee... Lol... If it were possible, My next vote would surprisingly be Mickael2 even before Tbaba and others... why? Well, he is an opinion's opposite... and likes to play devil's advocate sometimes even more than My man Marvellous BascoVanVeli used to do back then... Lol... He will attack an opinion differently from how others may attack it... I like that kind of scrutiny for a list like that about players awards or players performances. I read through comments in the aftermath of the Libya games and found that only he and I shared similar strong thoughts on Iwobi's orchestrating abilities in midfield... I was just nodding and laughing. My antagonist agrees with me? Cool... And sadly to disappoint most but I also agree with him on the leanness of our Midfield options against South Africa later this month and thus our chances. And he is right to be concerned because Iwobi vs South Africa will be his biggest test as an AM in the GWG so far..... I only pray Iwobi steps up and deliver the goods cos I believe he can even though I still feel he still has to learn the art of dictating a game's tempo like Mikel does. All in all, I wish us well.



Greetings and Happy New month of November to everyone... Cheers...

Na wa o. Despite your tight schedule you still had time to type this long epistle.

Anyways, I understand. But still find a little time, if you can, to at least say hello and chip in one or two things.

I would sincerely hope and wish you will be available if u emerge as one of the committee members.

elyte89:
I will recommend kog45,tbaba1234,joebie,mujtahilda and drlikita(at least a female member in d committee


On standby


Oasis007

Sir fabyom...in case of injury

Oga, the instruction says u can only nominate one person.

M7even:
I'd nominate Mujtahida but I wonder where he has been, should he come around to acknowledge this fine, but in his absence, komekn

U can only nominate one person.

Nominate who u want. Just by the mention he will be available.

Just like TheSuperNerd has just showed face.

Note that you are still yet to nominate.

suaveman:
I realize the voting process might be over by now, but just in case... I nominate Tbaba

The voting process is still on. No deadline yet.

krattoss:
What is happening here? 2019 election Don start Ayam not understanding

But u are in the copy Sir

ChrisKels:
Like safarigirl opined, it should be about a 6man committee. About the nomination, I have already nominated elder sir Kog45.


I was just teasing d house wt the post u quoted

If the house would agree, we can increase the number to highest 5 or highest 7 votes. This will definitely make for balanced representation. Odd numbers are often better so as to avoid a tie when the committee members need to cast a vote where necessary.

ChrisKels:
If u wan to scatter the committe wt fight, nominate andrew4... Jesu!! Who slap me from behind

Please lets desist from nominating people just to introduce discord in the committee. Make ur nominations as objective as possible.

safarigirl:
lol.....if you want the reports of the committee to be rejected, nominate forgiveness and komekn.

A 3-man committee is too small as far as I am concerned. 5 people would have been more ideal for the sake of equal representation.


As it stands, a 3-man committee would not be ideal, I for one, will not accept anything that has Komekn and forgiveness in it at the same time, except this idea is supposed to be a joke and we're all just playing around. That is like having me and Supernerd in a 3-man committee

Cc icon4s.

Thanks for this feedback.

The 3 man committee was only a suggestion. We pushed forward with it because there was no objection.

The committee can be made up of anybody. That is what democracy is all about.

But if the house so chooses, we can increase the number of committee members. I perfectly understand your call for equal representation. We will try as much as possible to come up with a very workable and acceptable committee representation.