skintmanblues
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Watch Mclaren get the job at Mboro .**** it up then walk away with millions .just like he did with Derby Twice;Forest,Newcastle .and all those clubrs in Holland forgot England aswell!!!!
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Mclaten to Boro
- Thread starter skintmanblues
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Good call!
Arthritic Toe
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I dont think we'll see Mclaren back for a while. He's now had a seriously poor run of non-achievements. Not that he'll care.
nicko31
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That would be suicide
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Absolutely ZERO chance of this. His stock has fallen through the floor now, too much abject failure on his CV. He's destined for nothing more than a Sky Sports studio for the foreseeable.
I envy you. Worst England manager ever, and the only time I wanted England to lose a game of football (I reasoned that if we lost against Israel, we might be able to get someone else in and qualify).
Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
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Edited for you
On the subject of payoffs, do clubs actually pay up the remainder of contracts in full? If that is the case, then a) that's crazy and b) I bet there are LOADS of managers who basically try and get sacked. I thought of this when I watched McLaren's interview after the game last Friday night (admittedly after he'd gone, so with the benefit of hindsight), but it did make me think that SO many of these guys are onto a winner – if the pay-off situation is true. No wonder (again, if that IS the case) there are so many one-time managers – one bumper pay day and they're set for life, or a good few years at least!
You might be right but I can't help thinking that Derby's mess goes a lot deeper than McClaren and that he is only partly to blame. He joined in October 2016, so wasn't responsible for building a squad full of Billy Big Bollox front players. In fact, he was the only manager who got anything out of Tom Ince. Where he seems to fail (wherever he goes) is his lack of attention to defending - even at Boro where they got to a European final and made Wembley appearances, his sides constantly leaked goals. With a defence, they could have been more like the title winning Blackburn Rovers side. And this season, Derby have conceded more goals from set pieces than anyone in the division. Says it all really.
I don't think he's a really bad coach though. He won the title in Holland with a middling club and his record at Middlesbrough stands up as does his record at Derby first time round. He's also honest and decent, so Derby this time round was probably never going to work until he was able to clear the decks of mercenaries and players who have no idea about what being in a squad should mean (I wouldn't want a single one of their players here).
Jimmy Krankie at Boro was always a tosser. He threw his toys out of the pram when it all started to go wrong, and he's still whinging now. Oh hope he fcks off and is never seen in England again.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
I do agree with you that Derby wasn't his fault. He inherited a dressing room full of egos and a squad full of expensive, overrated misfits, so anyone walking into that was always going to struggle - especially with a bellcheese chairman who has all the patience and restraint of a starving dog in front of a bowl of pork scratchings.
And you rightly highlight their defensive frailties, which we saw in ALL their glory the other night. Starting at our place with 4 strikers (Ince, Vydra, Nugent, Bent) was just BONKERS of the highest order, especially when they were missing both their 1st choice CB's. And Will Hughes on the bench ? Well thank you very much Schteve. By the look of it, they'd packed up playing for him anyway (as they've pretty much been doing for everyone in the dugout over the last 18 months or so).
So no, the problems do indeed run far, far deeper than the managers office at Pride Park, or whatever its called these days. But as a manager, I still think he's a busted flush and would be flabbergasted to see him get a PL job again.
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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He didn't **** up in Holland (won the league) and has won 64 of his 124 games in charge of Derby which is a win percentage of 51%
Chris Hughtons win percentage at Brighton is 49.57%
Just saying....
Chris Hughtons win percentage at Brighton is 49.57%
Just saying....
Exactly. He's really not a terrible manager by any stretch of the imagination.
warmleyseagull
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And he wont need a brolly in there.
Finchley Seagull
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Not sure they'll go for McClaren but no idea who there is they could go for (same applies for Norwich too). Only manager out of a job at the moment is Pardew and not sure he would be right for either of them. Maybe Norwich will go for Karanka now!
Megazone
On his last warning
Why are people going on about McClarens hair?
Since when did we become Bitching and Hove Albion?
Since when did we become Bitching and Hove Albion?
Perkino
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- Dec 11, 2009
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McClaren is decent. He doesn't build his sides from the back so often defending is something that he comes to later. I guess you can coach defending to an extent but talent in front of goal is something harder to instill and more likely to come from buying in players.
If he had been given a summer to clear his squad and build a side he would've been challenging next season, but for some daft reason he got the boot this year but I don't know who Derby expect to bring in as a manager who will do a better job
If he had been given a summer to clear his squad and build a side he would've been challenging next season, but for some daft reason he got the boot this year but I don't know who Derby expect to bring in as a manager who will do a better job
Marshy
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Pearson or Pardew you would think