Could we make it as managers?

[degsy]

Deleting my joke responses and answering this seriously, none of us would recieve any respect from the players, so no, I can't see us doing a better job than Moyes.

The player respect thing might be a bit of a millstone around your neck but as to doing the actual job. We all know, well I do, that I could do the job, but I have a sneaky feeling that there is a lot more to it than picking the 1st 11 and subbing on and off at the right time and all that would be what sinks you.

Football, simple innit, score more conceed less; job done

Golf, simple innit, hit ball, hit ball, hit ball, hit ball in hole; job done

Downhill skiing, simple innit, just go in an out the flags; job done

Plumbing, simple innit, hit boiler with hammer, 200quid guv.


Guv; for hitting it with a hammer??


Yeah mate 1 pound for hitting it, 5 pound for hammer, 194pound for knowing where to hit and how hard to hit it.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Easy...get all the players back on the ale, team-talk..." Kick the **** out of the opposition" loadsa loud music in the dressing room....champions league here we come

 

[Kurt.]

Yeah I could.

 

[degsy]

There's the man-management side of it too, don't forget. That's probably harder than footballing matters.

Rodney Marsh on man management of footballers...dead easy, don't worry about the 1st 11, they're laughin, they're playing, just keep the guys who aren't playing happy

Degsy's codicil; that's what the 60K+ per week is for.

 

[King Max Old]

With regards to Rafael Benetton though:
"If you analyse all the managers, how many had pre-season here? Not me. How many managers have spent massive money here? Not me, how many managers have played in Japan in the middle of the season with some players injured and they had players in the Africa Cup of Nations? It is just me."

Aw shame bubi, did Roman give you a team oversaturated with talent?...
Competing for the club world cup is SUCH a burden, I know I spent most of December thanking my lucky stars that Everton weren't involved in such a time-wasting exercise...
Add to this the monumental loss of Jon Obi Mikel, duffing penalties for Nigeria in the AFCON...

You're right Rafael, what you deserve is a long term deal..
What does this have to do with the OP? er, um, yeh management right?

 

[WA Toffee]

I don't think many people fully appreciate the extent of a premier league managers knowledge. I know lots of posters regularly complain about Moyes choosing x or not doing y when it seems so obvious, yet fail to realise how many tiny tactical changes are made throughout a game, especially the moves which happen when the ball is in the other side of the pitch.
How many of us can honestly say that they can see those tiny changes such as a full back changing his default position to 2 or 3 yards further infield, centre halfs moving closer together or a yard further apart, the midfielder holding play up for a couple of seconds longer because a team mate has been given a different instruction?
These tiny changes often go unnoticed yet contribute hugely to the swing of the game.

I remember Jock Brown (commentator in Scotland) interviewing his brother Craig Brown after a Scotland game and asking about a decision he felt should have been made in the game. Craig Brown answered back giving details about how that move would have affected every other player on the park and how it would have resulted in the opposition gaining the upper hand.
End of discussion - the layman only thinks about the immediate consequence, a top level manager can see how it affects every other area of the field.

 

[Kevin Mirallas]

I could make it as a manager.

Your fast, run.
Your tall, head it.
God knows how Stoke are so bad. 4 - 3 - 3, Tell your wingers to stay up.

 

[micknick]

ToffeeMourinhoJack where art thou

 

[Blue Wiz]

Heck no. I can't believe that guys think they can manage a real club just because they can do it on a computer.

I teach sports, have been teaching sports for more than a decade and have talked strategy to pupils in various sports. I've seen my pupils develop their skills and become better at various things, but I would NEVER consider myself a good manager. And I've taken clubs from the lowest leagues into the top of the Premier League in 8 years time in managergames.

It's very easy to sit on the stands or in front of the tv and tell the players what to do and shout out what substitutions to make. It's quite harder to do it in real life. As a spectator you've not seen how the players are during practise, you haven't seen how they interact on the trainingfield, you haven't any deep knowledge on what is happening in their privatelife (big impact on players morale and focus), you haven't any first hand knowledge on minor injuries or knocks that irriate the players, and you definately don't have the respect of the players. Sure if you met one and talked he would most likely be polite towards you, but if you started to point out how he should be playing he most likely wouldn't listen to what you say since you are just a fan.

As a manager you get disected on so many levels; manager skills, social skills, media skills, motivation skills, negotation skills, personality... While most people are good at 1, 2 or even 3-4 of these areas a PL manager need to be good within all and then some to become a manager players respect, trusts and want to play for.

 

[Christiffa25]

I'm sure I could pick the team, make the signings and sell the tosh... But tactically there is a lot that goes into games and without learning all that you would be screwed.