Bilic sacked

[Tigger]

Bring a blue home.

 

[ilikecheese]

Be seeing you Sssssslaven.

 

[goodisonopheliac]

I'm surprised it took them this long to bin Bilic off.

 

[mmmmsnouts]

The problem with modern football is if you lose a game against a really crap side your manager gets fired.

I see what you did there lol

 

[Yarrgh]

Too right - at a time when the club was at a really low ebb and desperate for players to step up and perform, he basically hid and feigned injury.

If my memory serves, it was all to do with not paying him and the insurance doing it. And that it was a bad injury he had that once he recovered from it, it was better to take the money for both of us, and let him go. A murky saga.

Was a good player. But bad health does not combine well with managing football teams. I wish him well. Just not with anything to do with or against us.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

If my memory serves, it was all to do with not paying him and the insurance doing it. And that it was a bad injury he had that once he recovered from it, it was better to take the money for both of us, and let him go. A murky saga.

Was a good player. But bad health does not combine well with managing football teams. I wish him well. Just not with anything to do with or against us.

He started out well but just lost heart - remember the Arsenal game in 98 where we basically needed a result to stay up (and got massacred), he scored an OG and then got hooked at half time. Just dead weight. Was then exposed to global ridicule in the world cup for his shithousery in getting French captain Laurent Blanc sent off and banned for the final. Can't actually recall his games for us the season after.

I guess in hindsight it doesn't seem like much of a big deal the way players behave now - it rankles because he was obviously good, obviously had leadership qualities, so could have made a huge difference to us - but he bottled it.

 

[HongKongToffee]

what is this 'shape' you talk of?

Rigid formation/shape comes from a old coaching manual from Charles Hughes in the 1970's that the generation of Moyes Hodgson Allardyce etc,the usual suspects of failure in british coaches/managers got their coaching badges.Charles Hughes was the man who put English football in the dark ages when he was technical director,he totally destroyed the notion that you need to coach technical skills and brought in a mantra of directness in 3 passes in set zones in the attacking third,keeping a rigid formation and shape and using physical attributes in a player and discarding players with technical attributes,Hodgson Moyes Allardyce Graham Wilkinson are managers who have followed that blueprint throughout their managerial careers,the likes of Bruce Pardew Hughes and the rest of those managers the generation after use some part of it.The FA the last decade or so have moved away from that,the grassroots coaches are being coached under a new directive,you can see the changes are massive this summer which is probably the first generation of English talent to benefit from that new direction at grassroots level coaching.

There is a few videos of Hodgson i've seen of him on Youtube describing his coaching,one in front of a white board where he constantly just rabbits on about the importance of his teams keeping shape and not over committing and just after he was english boss he's taking over a coaching session with some young players,hardly any ball work just shouting and stopping play constantly every minute telling everyone should be in set positions when defending and "attacking"

 

[Walken]

Rigid formation/shape comes from a old coaching manual from Charles Hughes in the 1970's that the generation of Moyes Hodgson Allardyce etc,the usual suspects of failure in british coaches/managers got their coaching badges.Charles Hughes was the man who put English football in the dark ages when he was technical director,he totally destroyed the notion that you need to coach technical skills and brought in a mantra of directness in 3 passes in set zones in the attacking third,keeping a rigid formation and shape and using physical attributes in a player and discarding players with technical attributes,Hodgson Moyes Allardyce Graham Wilkinson are managers who have followed that blueprint throughout their managerial careers,the likes of Bruce Pardew Hughes and the rest of those managers the generation after use some part of it.The FA the last decade or so have moved away from that,the grassroots coaches are being coached under a new directive,you can see the changes are massive this summer which is probably the first generation of English talent to benefit from that new direction at grassroots level coaching.

There is a few videos of Hodgson i've seen of him on Youtube describing his coaching,one in front of a white board where he constantly just rabbits on about the importance of his teams keeping shape and not over committing and just after he was english boss he's taking over a coaching session with some young players,hardly any ball work just shouting and stopping play constantly every minute telling everyone should be in set positions when defending and "attacking"

you should forward this to koeman