Chripper
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Big picture, we'd be where we are today.
Our FA doesn't care about the development of Scottish players, nor do our domestic teams.
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1 hour ago, Bobby Russell's Lovechild said:
The thing with Bilic is, I can see it being another Vogts situation. He had a great record with Croatia, but that was because he had great players to work with. He's been sacked from all his club jobs (as far as I can see). We need someone who can get the best out of average players
Plus apparently he had seven assistant managers at Al-Ittihad.
I think he may be a wee bit precious for the Scotland job. I mean, what where the assistant doing? One to do his laundry, one to drive him, one to fan him as he lays on his hammock? etc.
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11 hours ago, jamboman said:
Having bought ma ticket already.. Whats the crowd going to be???
If we appoint Steve Clarke or someone permanent will it get greater??
Will interim scot gemmil add persons?
Just asking
Let's just say I think they'll be tons of leg room.
I hope it's below 10k. I hope it is. That would be hilarious.
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54 minutes ago, ErsatzThistle said:
He ripped his shirt open, jumped on a table and bellowed "fuck da SFA !!" before brandishing Jim McLean's hammer and challenging everyone to a square go.
A fuss about nothing really.
Is everyone talking about the comments about the ref? I only read about it. Isn't that pretty much what most managers say when they aren't happy with the performance of an official?
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On 4/18/2019 at 5:26 PM, Alan said:
I voted Steve Clarke but he wont make us exciting. We'll be organised, well drilled, more confident and difficult to beat.
No manager would make us exciting. We don't have the players for it. The only team who are exciting when Scotland play are the opposition. If we can make Kazakhstan look exciting then we truly do have a gift.
49 minutes ago, ErsatzThistle said:Any fannies been suggesting their beloved "Walter" as a candidate yet ?
In fairness, the list is that bad that I'd take him over most of the names in the frame.
I mean, Levein?!?!
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3 hours ago, COLT NY said:
Infection character? Not sure that's an asset.
I still think there's a place for Goram though. He could be in charge of what songs the boys have to sing on the team coach.
Of the non STD variety.
Nah. Someone could say that it would be hiring two coaches for the price of one, but mental illness is nothing to be laughed at it... Unless it is...
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7 minutes ago, Texas Pete said:
I’d take that right now. Can’t see Fletcher joining the coaching set up until he retires from playing though. I think he’s 35 so it could very well be in s couple of weeks but he might play on for a year or 2.
He should quit Stoke asap, as he isn't really getting much of a look in.
In the future, though, I can see him being a top coach or a top manager. He has that aura about him that you can't hep but admire him and listen to him. In terms of pundits and commentators, he speaks with more eloquence and more sense than pretty much all of them combined.
Plus he loved playing for Scotland, through wellness and illness.
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2 minutes ago, Texas Pete said:
He’s likely to be at Fulham next year.
Other than that, main reasons I don’t think he’d take the Scotland job are it’s essentially a part time job. He also hates the SFA and (correctly) thinks they are a bunch of amateur buffoons. I think he stated this week that he’d like the Scotland job ‘one day’. That’s the stock response for people that don’t want the job but think it could be a nice little earner when they are too old for club management.
If he doesn’t get the Fulham job and the SFA offer him a shitload more money than he’s on at Killie then he may well be tempted but I just can’t see him in the job. I’d happily be proved wrong though.
You hear manager saying that they have an "itch to scratch" with regards to a league, usually the EPL, but I think the experience with WBA scarred him to such an extent that he would rather have a fulfilling job than a well paying job in an environment with prestige. I remember how he reacted when WBA fired him, he was hurt, and I'm sure the hurt still lays with him.
I might be wrong, but I see him with Kilmarnock next season.
If he joined Fulham he's get promoted to the EPL in his first season, finish 8th in his second season and probably get fired.... it's not a bad assumption, as he got fired from WBA for finished 8th... the morons.
I'd love to see him as the next Scotland manager, with Darren Fletcher beside him. I can't see it, though, it'll probably be Gemmill as manager, flanked with Mark Burchill and Ian Durrant...
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Just now, Texas Pete said:
Goram is a disaster of a man and should be nowhere near the set up. He was an amazing keeper but as I said, that doesn’t make him a good choice for goalkeeping coach. I’d prefer Jim Leighton.
McCoist did fine under Smith so I wouldn’t have a problem with him joining the coaching team again but we could probably do better.
Actually, I agree with Leighton. If there was a choice I'd take Leighton 100 out 100 times.
As a manger McCoist was awful but I think as a specialist striking coach he would definitely bring something... plus he's an infection character, he'd be an asset for sure. Since Smith we've always have a manager flanked by two coaches, so If it were to choose the coaches I'd take Darren Fletcher and Ally McCoist with Steve Clarke as manager.
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29 minutes ago, Texas Pete said:
Andy Goram couldn’t coach his way out of a wet paper bag. McCoist isn’t up to much either. Just because you’re a good player doesn’t automatically mean you’ll be a good coach.
Some unlikely alternatives for me would be Tommy Wright, Colin Calderwood and Alex Neil.
I wouldn't bring them in as general coaches, because they don't have the ability. But as far as specialist coaches, I would.
Who better to coach goalkeepers than one of the finest Scottish goalkeepers? And don't England have a striking coach? I think McCoist knows more about the art of finishing than what's the guys called? Allan Russell?
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39 minutes ago, Texas Pete said:
Clarke won’t want the job. No young(ish) manager who is currently employed as a manager at a decent club would want it.
I think we’re looking at either Scot Gemmill, Malky MacKay or, if the Sun is to be believed, Slaven Bilic.
I think most of us would take Bilic but whether he’s genuinely interested or not is another matter.
I actually think Clarke would take it.
He doesn't have an itch to scratch where it comes to the EPL. WBA treated him abysmally, I think that soured him off the EPL. When he joined Kilmarnock it was because he wanted to do something special, and he has. He's turned a perennial relegation fighting team into a team into a top 4 team and a team that can compete against the Old Firm.
Being the Scotland manager would be equally a big a task. I think he'd be up for it.
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Steve Clarke is too much of a malcontent (In a good way) for the SFA. There's no way that they'd be able to pull his strings.
The SFA won't appoint Steve Clarke for the same reason that the FA didn't appoint Brian Clough.
Also, they probably aren't even aware of him. They're THAT clueless.
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On 4/19/2019 at 4:54 PM, Marty said:
Getting tired of some of the comments about the sfa not being able to afford a decent manager.
Who said this?
The SFA made a turnover of £76m since 2017.
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Ajax
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23 hours ago, wee-toon-red said:It's probably important to realise that the SFA are the clubs, and as such will always act in the best interests of the clubs ahead of anything else. If an SFA president or board suggested any kind of rules that limited the clubs' ability to field whatever line up they wanted in any given game, then the clubs would see to it that the board was dispatched sharpish.
Full scale change is needed and it needs the engagement of supporters at club level every bit as much as internationally to persuade their clubs to get involved. "The blazers" have been getting flak for their self interest for years but it the issues extend beyond them to the blazers in club boardrooms too. Unfortunately, the more the game comes down to money, the less chance of the club chairmen etc acting in the best or long-term interests in the game in general.
A completely separate and independent national body, perhaps with government support or input, is what's needed, charged with creating an environment where our coaching is as good as it can be to ensure our kids are as good as they can be too, maybe with the introduction of a proper national academy. The issue is that the biggest clubs with the most money could try and circumvent that system by poaching the best youngsters and then leaving them to rot if they don't make it.
It's never going to be an easy fix but the danger of allowing the national team to go totally to shit is that any appetite for real change could be lost as club football properly takes over.
Fantastic post.
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53 minutes ago, jamboman said:
Maybe this sounds a bit like "make scotland great again" but fook me we need to do something.
It doesn't.
The EPL have a homegrown rule and look at their youth international sides. They're winning world cups left, right and center.
See? This is yet another idea that we have had and yet the SFA continue to have little ideas.
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Just now, Brummie Hibs said:
And Berra and Soutar demonstrating why they shouldn't be anywhere near the Scotand squad.
Yep.
We're in a mess.
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5 minutes ago, ProudScot said:
I don’t understand hearts & Levein.
last year he had an exciting young team & full of Scots.
this year a terrible team full of journeyman and the young players picked last year aren’t even on the bench normally.
and they’re definitely worse.
Levein is a helmet.
They're definitely worse.
It's like he's new to football entirely. It really is.
McDonald and Cochrane were actually looking like future internationals, and in the recent future.
In fairness, though, those two look like classy footballers who play their football on the deck, whoever watched the game this afternoon (I watched 30 mins of it before I got bored) would see that Levein has one tactic, and that's hitting it up aimlessly to the big striker.
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15 hours ago, Third Lanark said:
???
She's a troll.
She got banned recently and now she's back. Weird, if a forum didn't want me I wouldn't re-register. Pathetic, much, going back to a place where she isn't wanted.
I still remember when she accused me of being a heroin addict.
That's usually the go-to insult of English people to Scots, so I'm guessing she's English.
She's another person who peed their pants whilst butting heads with me.
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1 hour ago, Tartan Chris said:
Berra is fit again I see.
Would have him back in the June squad. Get some more experience and leadership at CB.
Yay! We're saved.
21 minutes ago, jamboman said:Thats very poor. but lots of free transfers and loan players
With every year it's getting worse.
The SFA must put a restriction on how many homegrown players are in a squad and in match-day squads.
*Correction, there was actually four. A Hearts foreigner pulled up in the warm up.
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Three eligible Scots in the Hearts vs Rangers match.
Great.
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1 minute ago, mrniaboc said:
Wait, I thought you've been saying we haven't been trying that since Brown?
All of the former manager have tried to organize us, none have managed it.
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2 minutes ago, N4Footsoldier said:
Separate note - I'm wracking my brains to think of a football pundit/commentator worse to sit and listen to than Willie Miller
Tom Boyd for Celtic TV.
I liked him as a player but I genuinely think that he has mental issues. Every single time I watch Celtic TV he's talking about the refs being against Celtic. I don't know when he got so bitter and paranoid, or why he did. How can Celtic be so successful and win pretty much everything with everyone being against them?
If the officials really were against Celtic they'd get every decision going against them.
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17 minutes ago, daviebee said:
You're not making much sense. Other teams can do it with inferior players if they're organised and play to a system, but we couldn't so we shouldn't even bother?
We've been trying to that for god knows how many years, where has that actually gotten us?
It's time to rip up the tried and failed script.
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Ajax
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40 minutes ago, Baz said:Let’s be honest here, we can’t blame the SFA for everything.
A huge proportion of the blame lies with the clubs. We hold our own at u16-u18 but it goes to shit by 21’s. It’s not the SFA that’s coaching these players it’s the clubs.
Rangers & Celtic should be embarrassed, probably more so Rangers given their previous financial woes by the lack of homegrown talent currently in their first team.
The path from promising youth to first team in Scotland is blocked by foreign journeymen and league 1/2 rejects.
Players at 17/18 need to be involved with the first team to aid their development but how often do we see that?
We need to introduce a way to stop this happening. The old foreigner rule was frustrating but when you look at the demise of the national team and club football in Scotland since it’s been gone their is def an argument for something to be brought in.
The French Football Federation has 12 elite academies located in and around France. Players who are selected to attend Clairefontain stay and train at the facilities from Monday to Friday, they're then given the weekends off to visit family and to train with their parent clubs. They're required to meet educational requirements.
Players aged 13-15 attend a local college.
They work on movement of the players, making it faster and better; linking movement; using the weaker foot; working on general weaknesses; psychological factors; medical factors; technical skills; skill training; tactics, etc.
Clairefontaine has 56 hectares of land, containing 66,000 square metres of turfed grounds.
It was established in 1988, ten years later France win the world cup with a European championships win a couple years later.
Coincidence? I think not.
Meanwhile, 21 years after the French open Clairefontaine we establish a couple of meagre football schools. Great. We'll catch the world up in no time.
I'm not exonerating the Old Firm of any blame, of course I'm not, but at the end of the day the SFA are in charge and they could've implemented rules that required clubs to play the players that they brought through their youth system. They didn't, and they won't.
POLL | Who do you WANT to be appointed the next Scotland manager?
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I wouldn't actually mind if Smith got it. I might be alone in that one.
When we won the Kirin cup in 2006, including a 5:1 win against Bulgaria, it was the best football I've ever seen Scotland play.