Rab Douglas

[DB11]

Is Rab a goalkeeping coach at Leicester? He always warms Hendo and Logan up and he always brings the balls out too (like a coach should). He always wears different clothes to Hendo and Logan too. Views?

Personally, with his experience, I think he'd make a great coach and if he isn't officially then he definitely should be

[Sods]

Is Rab a goalkeeping coach at Leicester? He always warms Hendo and Logan up and he always brings the balls out too (like a coach should). He always wears different clothes to Hendo and Logan too. Views?

Personally, with his experience, I think he'd make a great coach and if he isn't officially then he definitely should be

the reason why he was probably be doing it under kelly was probably because stowell was trying to warm the other players up, so thats my reason anyway.

[blue blood]

also under kelly we had no GK coach, i dont think we do under wortho too. Would make sense. A proper experienced coach would be better, but something is better than nothing ATM IMO

[Blue Bob]

Is Rab a goalkeeping coach at Leicester? He always warms Hendo and Logan up and he always brings the balls out too (like a coach should). He always wears different clothes to Hendo and Logan too. Views?

Personally, with his experience, I think he'd make a great coach and if he isn't officially then he definitely should be

I thought he had been dropped to be a ball boy

[dandannieldanok]

I think he would be an adequate GK coach, but I don't know whthere he would stay if that was all on offer. I'm sure he believes he has a few years left of playing yet.

[Simi]

I should think he will only be here until the end of season because we lost Stowell.

[Fez of Mahrez]

How the hell can anyone judge whether he'd be a good goalkeeping coach? Or is it just because he's a goalkeeper?

Madness.

[DB11]

I'd want him to stay on as a GK coach. Pass on his experience which he learned from GK coaches who coached him. Rab for GK coach

[Webbo]

I'd want him to stay on as a GK coach. Pass on his experience which he learned from GK coaches who coached him. Rab for GK coach

yeah, how to pick the ball out the back of the net with style.

[Sparky]

How the hell can anyone judge whether he'd be a good goalkeeping coach? Or is it just because he's a goalkeeper?

Madness.

very true , its the same as not all great players make good managers ,

chris waddle , john barnes etc etc

[davieG]

Is Rab a goalkeeping coach at Leicester? He always warms Hendo and Logan up and he always brings the balls out too - I do that for MrsG (like a coach should). He always wears different clothes to Hendo and Logan too So do I .

Views?

Personally, with his experience, I think he'd make a great coach and if he isn't officially then he definitely should be

I think I'll apply to be a coach.

[davieG]

very true , its the same as not all great players make good managers ,

chris waddle , john barnes etc etc

Was he ever a GREAT goalkeeper even?

[Scow]

I thought he had been dropped to be a ball boy

Nah, he'd even struggle with the fundamentals of that job. Rab, catch! Oops.

[Fez of Mahrez]

That signature is pure class Mr G.

[Sparky]

Was he ever a GREAT goalkeeper even?

haha sorry that wasnt what i was implying , more the fact that the transition from player to manager is not always an easy 1

[davieG]

haha sorry that wasnt what i was implying , more the fact that the transition from player to manager is not always an easy 1

Someone ought to tell danny were the joke topic is. :thumbsup:

[davieG]

That signature is pure class Mr G.

Are you referring to the Four Yorkshiremen Sketch?

Monty Python's Flying Circus -

"Four Yorkshiremen"

[ from the album Live At Drury Lane, 1974 ]

The Players: Michael Palin - First Yorkshireman;

Graham Chapman - Second Yorkshireman;

Terry Jones - Third Yorkshireman;

Eric Idle - Fourth Yorkshireman;

The Scene: Four well-dressed men are sitting together at a vacation resort.

'Farewell to Thee' is played in the background on Hawaiian guitar.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of risotto.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Josiah?

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:You're right there, Obadiah.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh?

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:A cup o' cold tea.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:Without milk or sugar.

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:Or tea.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:In a cracked cup, an' all.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son".

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:Aye, 'e was right.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:Aye, 'e was.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:Cardboard box?

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:Aye.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.

ALL:They won't!

[Fez of Mahrez]

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[lee7]

Are you referring to the Four Yorkshiremen Sketch?

Monty Python's Flying Circus -

"Four Yorkshiremen"

[ from the album Live At Drury Lane, 1974 ]

The Players: Michael Palin - First Yorkshireman;

Graham Chapman - Second Yorkshireman;

Terry Jones - Third Yorkshireman;

Eric Idle - Fourth Yorkshireman;

The Scene: Four well-dressed men are sitting together at a vacation resort.

'Farewell to Thee' is played in the background on Hawaiian guitar.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of risotto.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Josiah?

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:You're right there, Obadiah.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh?

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:A cup o' cold tea.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:Without milk or sugar.

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:Or tea.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:In a cracked cup, an' all.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son".

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:Aye, 'e was right.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:Aye, 'e was.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:Cardboard box?

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:Aye.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.

FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.

ALL:They won't!

that was really long

[lee7]

anyway i thought douglas was on his way to gretna at the end of the season

[davieG]

that was really long

No one asked you to read it, it was a private chat between Fez and myself. Having the attention span of a fish doesn't help you either.

[Geo V]

He never seems to be the fittest GK and cant kick the ball and his throwing is average. He hardly plays for us and sits on his backside and picks up top money. Yes I think he`ll be a great example and coach to the youngsters, if we want them all to have the skills of Massimo Taibi and the weight of Kevin Pressman.

[fludie]

im sure Rab is still a gk for leicester as he is still no1 on the squad list, i dont think he is a coach

:)

[syston_fox]

Rab Douglas has actually been injured for most of this season. Got back to near full strength and was about to be sent on loan but injured his shoulder again before the deal could be finalised. Only just got back to full strength so thats one of the reasons why he's started warming up the goalies!

[lookwhaticando]

im sure Rab is still a gk for leicester as he is still no1 on the squad list, i dont think he is a coach

:)

It's not unusual for senior squad players to take up minor coaching duties.

Dion Dublin's extended contract for us last season included some minor coaching responsibilities to keep him interested and to make him useful, didn't it? Alan Shearer's final year at Newcastle also included some coaching in his contract - indeed, he was later assistant manager for a spell. I think Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has some coaching duties in his contract, too.

At least if Rab is doing something useful, his wages aren't entirely wasted. Granted that makes him one hell of an expensive coach, but at least he's not being paid to play with himself, by himself...