Simpson Sacked, Mr Kelly?

[lookwhaticando]

Anyone that gets replaced by a manager we've sacked is a definite no no.

[DB11]

No cos he'd bring Kelly!!!

[MC Prussian]

Watch now as they charge up the table while playing electrifyingly good football with passion never before seen in this division.

Your sense of irony is almost killing me.

As if LCFC heart attacks weren't enough.

[Raj]

Feel sorry for Simpson in a way.

After losing Nugent they were always going to strugle abit.

It's like City losing Fryatt and all his goals!!!!

[BigGibbo]

Its just pathetic these money grabbing twats panicking because there not close enough to the money whens someone gonna realise there are hardly any good managers available especially not for shit championship teams & we should know!

[Thracian]

Forgive me if I'm wrong but I wonder if football is snookering itself.

Presumably it is governed by the same employment laws as everyone else.

Everyone has to get their paper qualifications and the clubs are supposed to appoint the applicants with the best qualifications/credentials for the job, depending, of course on any pressure they might be getting from the PC enforcers about quotas in one area or another.

So all the retired and retiring pro's get their badges from the same basic source with the same brainwashing input and what you get is a treadmill delivering matchstick managers who all do the same, think the same and act the same, even to the point of how they sidestep the media.

I don't know if that really is the way it is but that's the way it's starting to seem - at least in England.

Has anyone not wondered how sodding ridiculous that is.

No wonder so much colour has gone out of our game to be replaced by shades of grey.

I remember the coaching courses I went on. They should have had a Government warning for the way they dulled the senses. The coaching was even worse.

And if that really is how it works it does, of course, limit the club's choice.

Management to me is about communication as much as anything but how many ex-footballers would you say can genuinely communicate.

Okay, there's Peter Reid.

But Rob Kelly was supposed to be a trainee journalist and all I ever heard from him were the same few monotonous phrases rearranged for every interview. Talk about the definition of dull.

We've even had those phrases parodied on here tonight. They'll be remembered long after he will. But surely he must have been taught that. Not the words themelves but the proverbial straight bat to the questioner. Don't be lured into a trap and all that....

The irony is that if you were a football club chairman and Bill Shankly walked in and brightened your life with his matchless anecdotal wisdom about the football game he knew so well, it's doubtful anyone could give him a job without he got himself a badge.

And the groundwork for the badge would be layed by someone who probably couldn't wash his feet in football terms.

Funny world.

I'd love to hear someone trying to teach Shankly communication skills.

The man was so naturally funny he even shit wit.

If only his like would knock on City's door tomorrow. Someone would surely find him a badge.

[Fat Ron]

Forgive me if I'm wrong but I wonder if football is snookering itself.

Presumably it is governed by the same employment laws as everyone else.

Everyone has to get their paper qualifications and the clubs are supposed to appoint the applicants with the best qualifications/credentials for the job, depending, of course on any pressure they might be getting from the PC enforcers about quotas in one area or another.

So all the retired and retiring pro's get their badges from the same basic source with the same brainwashing input and what you get is a treadmill delivering matchstick managers who all do the same, think the same and act the same, even to the point of how they sidestep the media.

I don't know if that really is the way it is but that's the way it's starting to seem - at least in England.

Has anyone not wondered how sodding ridiculous that is.

No wonder so much colour has gone out of our game to be replaced by shades of grey.

I remember the coaching courses I went on. They should have had a Government warning for the way they dulled the senses. The coaching was even worse.

And if that really is how it works it does, of course, limit the club's choice.

Management to me is about communication as much as anything but how many ex-footballers would you say can genuinely communicate.

Okay, there's Peter Reid.

But Rob Kelly was supposed to be a trainee journalist and all I ever heard from him were the same few monotonous phrases rearranged for every interview. Talk about the definition of dull.

We've even had those phrases parodied on here tonight. They'll be remembered long after he will. But surely he must have been taught that. Not the words themelves but the proverbial straight bat to the questioner. Don't be lured into a trap and all that....

The irony is that if you were a football club chairman and Bill Shankly walked in and brightened your life with his matchless anecdotal wisdom about the football game he knew so well, it's doubtful anyone could give him a job without he got himself a badge.

And the groundwork for the badge would be layed by someone who probably couldn't wash his feet in football terms.

Funny world.

I'd love to hear someone trying to teach Shankly communication skills.

The man was so naturally funny he even shit wit.

If only his like would knock on City's door tomorrow. Someone would surely find him a badge.

I think your close to something there Thrac..

Football is a simple game and I feel that the FA, not wanting to lose its "Supiriorty" complicates things with the badges syndrome.

I am a Qualified coach and have to admit that whilst on my course(s) I disagreed with the majority of what was being taught. I found the "Tactics" side very negative and not enough emphesis on individual player Flair. I am of the old school thought that you can work with what you have got but need to motivate players to get the best out of them. This seems to be a concept that is lost in English Football now.. Its all too Tactical/Boreing, Fitness based training that ensures the survival of the fittest..

Jan Molby, John Barnes, Paul Gascoigne, Vinny Jones and our very own Steve Walsh were not the model athlete yet forged a career in the beautiful game through sheer hard work, determination and with Managers that knew how to get the best from them. Im pretty sure that in todays style and environment these players would not have made the grade which is a complete farse.