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Comfy said:
He's useless mate and has bottled the last 2 competitions, that's enough for me to believe he's ****e and shouldn't be anywhere near the england job but because the FA are weak and cowards then he'll probably be there for a while
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He's a back foot manager. Compared with, say, Klopp, who's a front foot manager.

Back foot managers rarely win anything. Hold what we have versus go out and win it.
 
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Smug in Boots said:
Bit puzzled with this one Bob, don't understand why he'd be there tbh. He can't be assessing the players in an end of season nothing match.
It can't be a club scout, they wouldn't allow it.

Any idea what he was doing?
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I may be wrong but someone (possibly scout73) mentioned this and was told they were looking at Chris Rigg. I might have dreamt this mind.
 
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The Norton Cat said:
I'm not angry in the slightest. You asked what he'd won with arguably the best set of players around. I put forward some other questions to illustrate the point that winning international tournaments is an impossibly high bench mark against which to judge a coach's ability. One chance very two years.

I don't think he bottled anything. He's stuck to his guns throughout, despite public criticism that he should be more attacking against the lesser teams, and he's got us further in more tournaments than any other manager. There's a reasonable argument that he's not tactically flexible enough.
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England have done very little in major tournaments for decades and have had better players than they have now. They got a world cup semi with loftus cheek, lingard, ashley young under southgate. The tournament prior to that got knocked out by iceland and got knocked out in the group stages the one before that.They have some very good attacking players but massively short at back, c and pickford isn't an elite goalkeeper. Southgate has done well overall, you could pick faults in his tactics but at end of.day they were a penalty kick away from beating Italy and taking France to extra time..small.margins
 
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The Norton Cat said:
I think the key thing here is giving the manager, the DoF, and the board time. Anything good and long-lasting takes time to put together. The club has been too trigger-happy but elements of the fanbase are incapable of showing patience.

I think you're right. I think the club do have someone lined up and I think it will be someone to satisfy the quick to complain element. The club will know they need to give the new man time and so the appointment will be designed, as far as possible, to limit that kind of disruption.

As for signing better players, if you want to win things you have to have the best players you can get hold of. That's standard, no matter what kind of model you're operating to.
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You also need strength in depth, we had no depth when they took over but we have built that somewhat we now need to add some more strength.
 
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LD19SAFC said:
Based on what? We didn’t improve the squad last summer. What makes you so confident we will this year?
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Because the club have been trying to build foundations after they were destroyed by the chancers. And our foundations now look good, we have some very good young players and have signed some potentially good players along with developing our own young players all in the space of 3 years. The first team has probably suffered from this rebuild a little bit but bear in mind we have had a promotion and a cracking at the play offs in that time so some of what is being done is very good. There have been problems which we all know about, in the end though I choose to stand back and take stock. There was any number of fans who were screaming for the club to have a plan, we now have one that is moving us forward just maybe not as quickly as some would like. We are/have built up some strong foundations and I belive we are in a position to strengthen the team over the next year or so and I also believe we may well add that little bit of experience to the squad that everybody knows we need as we now have the foundations in place to allow for it.
Strong foundations equals a strong club they just need time.
 
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Monkey69 said:
Because the club have been trying to build foundations after they were destroyed by the chancers. And our foundations now look good, we have some very good young players and have signed some potentially good players along with developing our own young players all in the space of 3 years. The first team has probably suffered from this rebuild a little bit but bear in mind we have had a promotion and a cracking at the play offs in that time so some of what is being done is very good. There have been problems which we all know about, in the end though I choose to stand back and take stock. There was any number of fans who were screaming for the club to have a plan, we now have one that is moving us forward just maybe not as quickly as some would like. We are/have built up some strong foundations and I belive we are in a position to strengthen the team over the next year or so and I also believe we may well add that little bit of experience to the squad that everybody knows we need as we now have the foundations in place to allow for it.
Strong foundations equals a strong club they just need time.
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Great post
 
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Pure River Slut said:
Rubberface on RTG saying we’ve been interviewing overseas this week with Barry Maric and Still mentioned. Anyone else heard owt?
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What’s the hype with Maric? Seems limited info on him looks like his main experience is in youth football
 
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