Craig Shakespeare & Mike Stowell

[CrispinLA in Texas]

Just read this interesting article by ex fox Mark Schwarzer implying that Craig Shakespeare and Mike Stowell were behind Leicester winning the Title https://sport.optus.com.au/articles/os32621/best-of-gegenpod-ranieri-watford-analysis-jersey-swap-schwarzer

Edited 7 October 2021 by CrispinLA in Texas

[HybridFox]

Thought he was the new Newcastle boss 

[Hitesh]

He's probably spot on. We saw in the 2nd season he struggled when changing the way we'd played. What Ranieri did well exactly what he mentions and played up to the press and outside audience.

[winteriscoming]

Looking at how tactically naive Shakespeare was when he replaced Ranieri the following season it’s a no he wasn’t from me. Great new manager bounce when he took over but completely out of his depth the next  season. 

[Webbo]

I don't want to hear negatives about Claudio, I love the man.

[Ric Flair]

19 minutes ago, Hitesh said:

He's probably spot on. We saw in the 2nd season he struggled when changing the way we'd played. What Ranieri did well exactly what he mentions and played up to the press and outside audience.

Watford are a weird club though, wouldn't surprise me if The Don somehow got them taking bodies. A top 10 finish would be obscene.

 

Still love the man.

[Gazza M]

Just remember the dross he turned out at Hull away first game of 16-17. Really set the tone for the rest of his league tenure. 

[Crazy Kop Corner]

7 hours ago, CrispinLA in Texas said:

Just read this interesting article by ex fox Mark Schwarzer implying that Craig Shakespeare and Mike Stowell were behind Leicester winning the Title https://sport.optus.com.au/articles/os32621/best-of-gegenpod-ranieri-watford-analysis-jersey-swap-schwarzer

I've met Mike Stowell and there's no way he was the mastermind behind our Premier League Win. You'd not want him in your pub quiz team 

[EastAnglianFox]

2 minutes ago, Crazy Kop Corner said:

I've met Mike Stowell and there's no way he was the mastermind behind our Premier League Win. You'd not want him in your pub quiz team 

 

 I can confirm this is true having spent many a night in Whitwick as part of his pub quiz team

 

Lovely guy though and hands the size of dinner plates. 

[ARM1968]

It was Cambiasso and you all know it you sick sons of bitches. 
 

He left a note outlining the whole thing after engineering the great escape. Checked in every week via the force. Simple. 

[CosbehFox]

There’s a podcast with Paul Balsom where he states that Claudio needed some major convincing about the clubs existing training patterns, sports science and fitness work at the time. If we hadn’t made a good start, he would have change it. Claudio came in mid pre season, so all of the organisation and planning for that was already done 

[Sharpe's Fox]

Everything we have heard from outside the cub confirms what Mark says. I'm sure its nice to live in fantasy world where Nonno Ranieri fondled the players with his magic feather duster and made their dreams come true but he was at his mams in Italy half the time and calling himself a bellend in press conferences the other half.

 

Edited 8 October 2021 by Sharpe's Fox

[danny.]

So Claudio is Ted Lasso

[Lako42]

1 hour ago, EastAnglianFox said:

 

 I can confirm this is true having spent many a night in Whitwick as part of his pub quiz team

 

Lovely guy though and hands the size of dinner plates. 

Which pub? 

 

He doesn't liver here though does he? 

[yorkie1999]

Everyone knows our title win was directly attributed to Pearson's son getting a rim job in one of the owners hotels in Bangkok.

[gerblod]

Makes complete sense to me

Pearson wasn't sacked for anything other than having a stupid son. He'd transformed the spirit of the team and it was bolstered by some incredibly fortuitous signings. Ranieri took the media pressure in the charming way he has and essentially it was a self motivating team which the coaching staff were able to work with.

Shakespeare isn't a manager but a damned good right-hand man. Schwarzer makes a damn good case for the version I have always taken as the truth behind that season

 

 

[hackenbacker]

24 minutes ago, Sharpe's Fox said:

Nonno Ranieri fondled the players with his magic feather duster

may be that's why we won the league

[Ricey]

I think it was the crossover of Pearson and Ranieri that worked so well. Having the infrastructure, culture, staff, recruitment and momentum from the Pearson era added to Ranieri's superior media handling style and ability to tweak things in-match to get results created a perfect hybrid. Pearson's weaknesses were Ranieri's strengths.

 

It was never going to work for long though.

[Webbo]

Shakespeare and Stowell were there when Pearson there and he's failed miserably everywhere since, it explains it. 

[TAFKA Castroneves]

Doesn’t surprise me, I was impressed by Shakeys short time at the helm, his place in the social/squad hierarchy was always going to be the challenge for him which sadly didn’t quite work out.

 

My main Shakey memory was that second half against Athletico at home in the Champs League where he switched up the system at half time and we begun absolutely battering their goal. Gotta give him credit for that as we didn’t go down with no effort, he found a way to really put the pressure on one of the best defensive units in the whole of Europe.

 

Pearson was the perfect front man overall to it though, had a bit of the Clough/Taylor vibe to them.

[Stuntman_Mike]

1 hour ago, Lako42 said:

Which pub? 

 

He doesn't liver here though does he? 

Not sure he'd stomach it 

[MattFox]

We had a completely different tactical setup under Claudio from almost word go though.

 

We never played 4-4-2 in the great escape run and Vardy wasn’t really an out and out striker.

 

Unless that was Shakespeare’s doing too?

[TAFKA Castroneves]

6 minutes ago, MattFox said:

We had a completely different tactical setup under Claudio from almost word go though.

 

We never played 4-4-2 in the great escape run and Vardy wasn’t really an out and out striker.

 

Unless that was Shakespeare’s doing too?

 

True but didn’t we play 4-4-2 throughout the Championship season previously? Which was under Pearson and Shakey, a lot of that squad became Prem winners with us 🤷‍♂️ 

[Sharpe's Fox]

16 minutes ago, pmcla26 said:

We saw some Atletico fans in the dry dock after the game and they said "you made us suffer.. no one does that to our defence!" - I really thought Ben Chilwell was gonna be the new Gareth Bale after that night  

Diego Godin in that game was the best centre half I had ever seen in the flesh.

[TJB-fox]

1 hour ago, Lako42 said:

Which pub? 

 

He doesn't liver here though does he? 

He used to live/have a house in Mangotsfield, Bristol. Often got same train as him up to Leicester on a Saturday morning