John Byrnes Mullet
Global Circumnavigator
Relieved that Southgate has decided that.
Got something to say or just want fewer pesky ads? Join us... 😊
Gareth Southgate
- Thread starter AmexRuislip
- Start date
Nathan
Well-known member
- Jan 8, 2010
- 3,788
Would be happy with that. The fact I put a fiver on him to be next England manager at 25/1 also helps my enthusiasm.
Hmmmm I think you have to take what he has achieved with a pinch of salt.
Low was his number 2 whilst at Germany and he apparently did all the tactics, and getting the USA to a World cup is like winning the French league with PSG
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Southgate playing a clever game, won't take the temporary job so the FA will be forced to give him a full contract, put your mortgage on it
Or knows what public opinion will be and protecting himself in his nice kushty job he has now
- Feb 22, 2014
- 2,829
Agree with this. Probably saw the shitstorm that greeted his name being linked to the job so turned it down before it was offered! Always thought he was intelligent.
E
Eric Youngs Contact Lense
Guest
It is a bit of a kick in the teeth for the FA Succession plan though isn't it.. Either Southgate doesn't feel he is ready (If not, why not?), he is looking for the support from the FA to do the job permanently (as per Ernest's earlier quote) and hasn't got it, or it is now such a poisonous job that you only take it as your last pay-cheque rather than as a spring-board to anything else.
Either way, the idea that we were building towards something "special" in 2020/2022 and everything else is just a step on that journey appears to me to have been dropped.. in that context, this tournament should only have ever been about getting experience for players we believe will take us on the journey - anything else, in terms of progress in the tournament should have been a bonus. I am surprised that this has not been at the forefront of communications coming out of the England camp all the way through. Instead, we are yet again blood-letting, over-reacting, and demanding all kinds of rubbish from the manager, the players etc..
I cant believe how much rubbish has been written demanding that the players, manager, FA all apologise... for what exactly? Roy's line of "I don't know what I'm doing here" was right.. what an earth was he going to say in a hastily arranged press-conference to a press that feels it is "entitled" to an apology for a team that played poorly.. The leaping on Glenn's line "I am not a football expert" taken completely out of context to make headlines etc.. We either commit to the plan, although it appears to have been dropped to satisfy the hysteria of our media, or just do something different to give us a different tournament experience whenever that next comes around : send a team of lower league players who will be delighted to be at the tournament and may just play that way, rather than the fear that every time we take the field, the consequences of defeat hamper everything we do. The dropping of the plan is the FAs mistake, and Gareth as part of that plan is right to say no at this stage..
Either way, the idea that we were building towards something "special" in 2020/2022 and everything else is just a step on that journey appears to me to have been dropped.. in that context, this tournament should only have ever been about getting experience for players we believe will take us on the journey - anything else, in terms of progress in the tournament should have been a bonus. I am surprised that this has not been at the forefront of communications coming out of the England camp all the way through. Instead, we are yet again blood-letting, over-reacting, and demanding all kinds of rubbish from the manager, the players etc..
I cant believe how much rubbish has been written demanding that the players, manager, FA all apologise... for what exactly? Roy's line of "I don't know what I'm doing here" was right.. what an earth was he going to say in a hastily arranged press-conference to a press that feels it is "entitled" to an apology for a team that played poorly.. The leaping on Glenn's line "I am not a football expert" taken completely out of context to make headlines etc.. We either commit to the plan, although it appears to have been dropped to satisfy the hysteria of our media, or just do something different to give us a different tournament experience whenever that next comes around : send a team of lower league players who will be delighted to be at the tournament and may just play that way, rather than the fear that every time we take the field, the consequences of defeat hamper everything we do. The dropping of the plan is the FAs mistake, and Gareth as part of that plan is right to say no at this stage..
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Southgate just doesn't have the background, experience, track record or charisma to be England manager. The job would be far too big for him, and he knows it.
We need an experienced manager who can get the best out of the players he has to choose from, give the team an identity, stamp a style of play on it, and not take any shit.
Allardyce.
We need an experienced manager who can get the best out of the players he has to choose from, give the team an identity, stamp a style of play on it, and not take any shit.
Allardyce.
