England Manager: A New Approach

[The Cowboy]

Why do we need a single England manager?

Why don't we have a board of selectors, who regularly go out and watch league games, come back and confer, and thrash out the best, most valid squad, rather than just the whimsy of one guy? This could even include top football analysts, bods from OPTA, you name it, but it's clear for way too long that the England manager is an overpaid Yes Man who is thoroughly fearful of the big teams, and just picks squads based on who they play for.

Then have a coach for the general stuff on match day who works on formation etc.

Works ok for cricket.

 

[RaleighBlue]

I think England need better players.

 

[ijjysmith]

I think England need better players.

This.

I also hate that I can't think of a different option to Roy Hodgson as manager.

 

[blue61]

This.

I also hate that I can't think of a different option to Roy Hodgson as manager.

Mat Le Tissier could do the job with his eyes shut.

 

[The Cowboy]

This.

I also hate that I can't think of a different option to Roy Hodgson as manager.

Because you're trying to think of another England manager. Perhaps it's the role that needs changing, not the person description.

 

[ijjysmith]

Because you're trying to think of another England manager. Perhaps it's the role that needs changing, not the person description.

Possible. But they won't do that.

 

[Woolly Blue]

Then have a coach for the general stuff on match day who works on formation etc.

To be honest, that's pretty much what happens at the moment.

You'll always get some argument about 4 or 5 places in a squad of 20+ players, but, on the whole, 16 or 17 players pretty much pick themselves and then it's down to the coach to get them playing as a team to get more than the sum of the parts and all that.

There's an argument for appointing a part-time coach though who's also involved in club football.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Fat Sam or no one. He can crush these 10 men behind the ball negative minnows.

 

[Ashtonian]

England need to pick a team rather than handpicked the flavours of the month to have any sort of success.

Especially when you consider rose dier Ali all weren't in the squad for the qualifiers. There is a difference in picking the likes of Vardy and throwing all the new up comers together and hoping for the best. Or throwing as many Liverpool players in and hoping they can emulate a one player team. Same story every tournament and yet no one bats an eyelid. Is this 11 the strongest or best 11 we have or perhaps dropping a few darlings and picking a team that has chemistry will be the answer.

Hell Rooney can't perform in the team and nor can kane yet no one in the set up tries to find out why.

 

[The Cowboy]

England need to pick a team rather than handpicked the flavours of the month to have any sort of success.

Especially when you consider rose dier Ali all weren't in the squad for the qualifiers. There is a difference in picking the likes of Vardy and throwing all the new up comers together and hoping for the best. Or throwing as many Liverpool players in and hoping they can emulate a one player team. Same story every tournament and yet no one bats an eyelid. Is this 11 the strongest or best 11 we have or perhaps dropping a few darlings and picking a team that has chemistry will be the answer.

Hell Rooney can't perform in the team and nor can kane yet no one in the set up tries to find out why.

Actually, Rooney played remarkably well in the first two games. Then he dropped him.

Today's selections was literally like an international friendly week, where he plays all the ones who didn't get a run out last time. Except this is the bloody Euro finals for heaven's sake.

 

[tsubaki]

Why do we need a single England manager?

Why don't we have a board of selectors, who regularly go out and watch league games, come back and confer, and thrash out the best, most valid squad, rather than just the whimsy of one guy? This could even include top football analysts, bods from OPTA, you name it, but it's clear for way too long that the England manager is an overpaid Yes Man who is thoroughly fearful of the big teams, and just picks squads based on who they play for.

Then have a coach for the general stuff on match day who works on formation etc.

Works ok for cricket.

It doesn't work OK for cricket, though. For a start, at least if we are talking about England they don't have that system (at present it is a mix of a manager and a much more powerful captain than anything football has, with the selectors firmly in the background) and haven't had it for about the last twenty years. Secondly when they did have that system (where selection was by committee and the Chairman of Selectors was the most powerful man in the setup) England were largely dreadful.

If cricket can teach us anything, its that there is very little chance of success unless you identify what the problems are, fix them, and then get the best people in that you can.

 

[Ashtonian]

Actually, Rooney played remarkably well in the first two games. Then he dropped him.

Today's selections was literally like an international friendly week, where he plays all the ones who didn't get a run out last time. Except this is the bloody Euro finals for heaven's sake.

Aye. But considering we make wholesale changes and the team don't necessarily know how to play with each other it reflects how bad the squad is formed. Again not just this one but for a long time now.

Take Spain or Germany or Croatia or Wales or even France for that matter. Take the team apart and they know how to play. Swap out key players for others and they know how to play together and still get results. That is the point I'm trying to make. Throw a few different players into England's starting 11 and they struggle badly. Considering how new this team was when we began the tournament it is not a surprise that we are stumbling through the games and we can't seem to have a coherent side . Hell we can field 5 of the spurs team that had a great season yet no chemistry in there.

For a long time the side has been about individuals rather than a team ethos. Where the likes of Rooney can adapt to that rather well considering his experience the rest still don't. You might be able to look at individual moments and praise them but ultimately the team does not work as a unit hence why it has struggled to be successful. Nothing to do with quality of players when Greece can prove team spirit works.

And even now we have a attacking squad with an attacking team that is struggling to score goals. We are playing with 3 forwards yet struggle in front of goal. It is just poor coaching and replacing Hodgson is not the answer because they are already preparing one to replace him to carry on suit.

 

[tim gabbott]

This.

I also hate that I can't think of a different option to Roy Hodgson as manager.

Mike Bassett

 

[tim gabbott]

Aye. But considering we make wholesale changes and the team don't necessarily know how to play with each other it reflects how bad the squad is formed. Again not just this one but for a long time now.

Take Spain or Germany or Croatia or Wales or even France for that matter. Take the team apart and they know how to play. Swap out key players for others and they know how to play together and still get results. That is the point I'm trying to make. Throw a few different players into England's starting 11 and they struggle badly. Considering how new this team was when we began the tournament it is not a surprise that we are stumbling through the games and we can't seem to have a coherent side . Hell we can field 5 of the spurs team that had a great season yet no chemistry in there.

For a long time the side has been about individuals rather than a team ethos. Where the likes of Rooney can adapt to that rather well considering his experience the rest still don't. You might be able to look at individual moments and praise them but ultimately the team does not work as a unit hence why it has struggled to be successful. Nothing to do with quality of players when Greece can prove team spirit works.

And even now we have a attacking squad with an attacking team that is struggling to score goals. We are playing with 3 forwards yet struggle in front of goal. It is just poor coaching and replacing Hodgson is not the answer because they are already preparing one to replace him to carry on suit.

Spot on . The players are too frightened to make mistakes who come in . You need to play 20 good games for England to settle yourself before you feel comfortable, which is holding us back