dougdeep
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change the backroom staff !!
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throbinson
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What where booker and white doing when we where getting promotion a few years back
pork pie
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Nope, too bloody right! They would have had to have been up to the job in the first place for that to matter!
pork pie
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Trying to fill Alan Corke's shoes?
kevtherev
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Well Booker wasnt here and White wasnt first team coach, wilkins was....does that answer your question.Unless you going back to Mickys first regin, and that is the point i think, old, stayed and ideas all washed up and outdated.
Two Professors
Two Mad Professors
As a Midlands exile,I don't get to see many live games,unfortunately.But from match stats & highlights,quite a few corners are won but none are converted.Is this myopia (blindbarstard),bad coaching,or crapcornertaker?
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UTARonnie
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Booker and White are good people and Albion through and through, they do a terrific job for this club and I am sure Slade has been suitably impressed by their work to keep them.
Now change the record, this is getting tiresome.
The problem is that they are Sussex County League standard coaches. They are not pushing players to higher standards. Think of all the so called above average players that have joined recently whose performances have dipped. We need a HIGH CLASS Head Coach fully EUFA qualified with new ideas to push the players to the new heights that are required by Bloom, Slade and all the supporters.Just look at the Premier League games and all the Managers have a well known person sitting on their right/left hand side. The decision has to be made now, not in six months when we are still in the bottom 3
Now change the record, this is getting tiresome.
The problem is that they are Sussex County League standard coaches. They are not pushing players to higher standards. Think of all the so called above average players that have joined recently whose performances have dipped. We need a HIGH CLASS Head Coach fully EUFA qualified with new ideas to push the players to the new heights that are required by Bloom, Slade and all the supporters.Just look at the Premier League games and all the Managers have a well known person sitting on their right/left hand side. The decision has to be made now, not in six months when we are still in the bottom 3
The Large One
Who's Next?
Sorry, run that by me again. Booker wasn't here when we won our promotions?
Right you are.
king Wombat
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yeah but you have the vision of a complete fool. other people aren't so lucky.
R. Slicker
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Who decided White & Booker weren't up to the job?
Who has seen 1st hand their coaching methods?
Has any current or ex player complained about their abilities?
Does anyone know that they don't just carry out the managers instructions?
I suspect 1 person posted it on here and hey presto a bandwagon is started.
Bottom line, if the club think they're good enough, they stay.
Who has seen 1st hand their coaching methods?
Has any current or ex player complained about their abilities?
Does anyone know that they don't just carry out the managers instructions?
I suspect 1 person posted it on here and hey presto a bandwagon is started.
Bottom line, if the club think they're good enough, they stay.
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pork pie
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What not so lucky, as in have no vision at all, and go around with their head up their own or Dick Tight's arse like you?
When did booker leave us? Did he leave with MA first time, was he around when Peter Taylor got us promoted? Was he around when McGhee got us promoted?
*Not trying to counter any argument, I genuinely don't remember when he left, and want to have the facts added to the argument
sten_super
Brain Surgeon
I *think* Booker left with McGhee. I'm sure Insider posted on here that had McGhee got the Scotland job he had Booker pencilled in as part of his team, so they definitely worked together.
Ultimately, we were told that Slade was going to review the coaching staff and make changes where appropriate. He hasn't made any, so if he's happy, I'm happy. I simply don't understand the attitude of those who think their opinion is better/more valid than Slade, the players and other professionals involved in football. What do you know that they don't?
The Large One
Who's Next?
Booker joined part way through the 2000/01 season, and worked under Adams, Taylor, Coppell and McGhee (a fairly impressive list, actually) and had a brief stint at manager himself. He left at the same time as McGhee, in September 2006. So Booker was with us through all of the promotions - and the relegations.
Should McGhee have got the Scotland job, he had Booker pencilled in to be part of the coaching set-up.
I am also informed, by the way, from a highly reliable source that Slade and Booker "get on like a house on fire..."
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BensGrandad
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Wasnt there a suggestion that another coach was going to be brought in rather than either one of BB or DW sacked. Sure I read that they had problems getting the man because of his existing contract but I might be dreaming.
king Wombat
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What not so lucky, as in have no vision at all, and go around with their head up their own or Dick Tight's arse like you?
blimey who woke you up. go back to sleep thicko, your medication is due soon.
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booker only worked with those managers becuase knight insisted, they could only have the job IF they worked alongside booker.
mcghee didn't get the scotland job so booker stayed at pease pottage.
king Wombat
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but even if that was true (which i don't believe), it's not the case now.
i'm sure it was the case. none of them brought in their own assistant - i remember knight saying this on more than one occasion.
in fact when was the last time we recruited a new coach? wilkins was from within, MA (first time round) brought in white and comedy bob years ago. outside these poeple and the mangers, who else has been coaching the players over the past ten years?
So it's a relationship that leads to destruction, ruin, displaced families, lost memories, and the threat of death of serious injury....
Ah, thanks.
Personally, I believe the manager should pick his coaching team, not the club. If Slade is genuinely happy with his set up, fine, he lives and dies by it.
I do find it suspicious that we've had so many managers but the coaching staff have stayed the same, but at the same time, don't we need that continuity to preserve the history of the club within the team/management set up? People there to maintain our identity (perhaps not so much a problem here, but I remember a great article by martin samuel about steve clarke's role at Chelsea being something like this, a particular problem in the top teams where a lot of foreign players migrate).
And as I said in an earlier post, that answer I got for the question I posted didn't seem to fit. It looked like Slade had more changes in mind than just the medical line up, and it's as if he already knew what changes he wanted to make, but hasn't been able to. But like insider says, maybe I'm reading too much into it.