- 6 October 2001
- Liverpool
A simple enough one for you all. Have the FA made the right choice for the job or gone for the "safe" option?
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You would say that loljoostebrood said:Excellent choice. This is the right guy for the right job
csaunders said:wait a minute, hasnt this guy led the boro from NOTHING to in the European finals, i dont understand you guys, he has done an amazing job at boro, with limited money
csaunders said:wait a minute, hasnt this guy led the boro from NOTHING to in the European finals, i dont understand you guys, he has done an amazing job at boro, with limited money
Well said. I agree!I'm not Fat Sam's biggest fan either, but I do think he is very underrated as a manager.
He is no mug and is certainly not a 'yes man'. He would have done things his way and would not have cared for reputations too much.
People criticise his tactics, but he does what is necassary to win.
Is he going to outplay Arsenal?? No. So he plays long ball and it beats Arsenal and other clubs very often.
When he needs to play football he can. At Upton Park this year, they were one of the better footballing sides and beat us 2-1.
They outplayed Tottenham for much of the game at White Hart Lane the other day and were desperately unlucky to lose!!
He is a lot smarter than people give him credit for and can work with big names and big reputations.
But hey, it's all immaterial now!!
The Cheesy beetroot-faced one is in charge now!!
Dear oh dear.
Indeed. Exactly. Agree fully again and I think this should be the mentality of any real Englishman now with best interests for country. Whether he was your first choice and you rate him or you don't and he wasn't your first pick (in my case he was 2nd last of all the candidates mentioned :p ) like me and Stevo, now it's up to us to be positive and give him our full-backing for the time-being in either case!Indeed. sometimes the biggest names are not the right names for the job.Originally Posted by PLF
But having said all that and how I'm not a fan of him or have much faith in him, who knows maybe he'll be a great England manager! We'll just have to wait and see!
He has my full backing, but he certainly wasn't my 1st hoice.
steevio_uk said:that was typing it.
I ain't got any smilies on the right hand side dude!! Ha Ha
Alucard said:NickCave who is that in your avatar?
im not joking.. i know boro sucks in the league, but they could be the champions of europe.... thats not an easy feat....PLF said:@Csaunders you must be joking :shock: cuz I thought you follow EPL pretty closely at least.
@Stevo, wanted to quote you and say some things regarding your other post about who's next England manager but the other thread was rightfully closed so I'll do it here since it's on same topic.
Well said. I agree!
Indeed. Exactly. Agree fully again and I think this should be the mentality of any real Englishman now with best interests for country. Whether he was your first choice and you rate him or you don't and he wasn't your first pick (in my case he was 2nd last of all the candidates mentioned :p ) like me and Stevo, now it's up to us to be positive and give him our full-backing for the time-being in either case!
Limited money? He hasn't led Boro from nothing to Uefa cup finals on his own dude. The chairman, Steve Gibson is very ambitious and has quite a bit of money and has clearly spent it on this team over the years. With money spent and squad like that any half decent manager would've done made Boro progress in past few years as they have but perhaps even more so than McClaren has.csaunders said:wait a minute, hasnt this guy led the boro from NOTHING to in the European finals, i dont understand you guys, he has done an amazing job at boro, with limited money
ok fair enough, i didnt realize they were a wealthy club...PLF said:Champions of Europe? You mean champions of Uefa cup which is quite different as you don't face the very best in "Europe" in Uefa cup but rather those who got 3rd place in their group stages of CL and get knocked out or teams that finished below top 3 or 4 in big leagues or won a cup!
It's not an easy feat.. nobody said it was but the main goal of any club and the first prioty is domestic league position and that's actually what determines how good of a team you are and how good of a manager you've got since anything can happe in competitions that have "Knock-out" stages in them.
On the other hand the league is played over 38 games.. 19 at home 19 away.. through good form, bad form, injury, full squad available and fit, all sorts of things so it's the best way to determine how consistent and good a team really is and much more clearer picture when you look over after 38 games instead of 10-18 let's say.
Boro's position in table tells you all about how great of a job Steve has done!
Limited money? He hasn't led Boro from nothing to Uefa cup finals on his own dude. The chairman, Steve Gibson is very ambitious and has quite a bit of money and has clearly spent it on this team over the years. With money spent and squad like that any half decent manager would've done made Boro progress in past few years as they have but perhaps even more so than McClaren has.
Milanista said:Maresca - one of Italy's most underrated midfielders.