Kick and rush is certainly still prevalent in the Scottish Football from what I have seen but not in the English game which moved on from that years ago.
The reason for the failure of Solbakken was poor management. Nothing more complex than that. Doyle's opinions are really not relevant cause he is a model professional that has never spoken out against a manager in his life.
The formation that Solbakken played would never work in the German or English Leagues. His rigidity about postions is something most managers dropped 20 years ago. And his lack of any relationship with the players was not going to help him get support as soon as things started going wrong.
Hope he does ok in Scandinavia cause its unlikely he will ever get a football management job anywhere else
I think there is no doubt that players were unsure as to what was being asked.
Doyle himself said this is one interview, effectively saying that some players do not like/won't accept change.
You read more and more into that quote every week Cinci. Strikes me as kind of odd that a manager could watch players be so unsure as to what they were being asked without A. explaining it better or B. Asking them to do something they did understand.
IF Stale was a misunderstood tactical genius (And I personally think he was a misunderstood moron) then why on earth would he have persisted with tactics and a philosophy that were so obviously failing miserably?
You see ulf, immediately you take the stance of "cinci is supporting stale"........which is incorrect, he made plenty of errors, my stance was always that he should not have been sacked when he was, and the result of sacking him resulted in nothing getting better did it?
And yes DJ, Doyle's comments don't reflect anything we have heard or read does it, I guess margos comments are irrelevant too?
I guess if a player says stale was useless that would count though
He made a raft of errors and some silly schoolboy stuff as well.
Either way, the players quit, that is unforgiveable no matter what you goal in life.
What a difference a year makes .......
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posted on 8/10/13
Kick and rush is certainly still prevalent in the Scottish Football from what I have seen but not in the English game which moved on from that years ago.
The reason for the failure of Solbakken was poor management. Nothing more complex than that. Doyle's opinions are really not relevant cause he is a model professional that has never spoken out against a manager in his life.
The formation that Solbakken played would never work in the German or English Leagues. His rigidity about postions is something most managers dropped 20 years ago. And his lack of any relationship with the players was not going to help him get support as soon as things started going wrong.
Hope he does ok in Scandinavia cause its unlikely he will ever get a football management job anywhere else
posted on 8/10/13
I think there is no doubt that players were unsure as to what was being asked.
Doyle himself said this is one interview, effectively saying that some players do not like/won't accept change.
You read more and more into that quote every week Cinci. Strikes me as kind of odd that a manager could watch players be so unsure as to what they were being asked without A. explaining it better or B. Asking them to do something they did understand.
IF Stale was a misunderstood tactical genius (And I personally think he was a misunderstood moron) then why on earth would he have persisted with tactics and a philosophy that were so obviously failing miserably?
posted on 8/10/13
You see ulf, immediately you take the stance of "cinci is supporting stale"........which is incorrect, he made plenty of errors, my stance was always that he should not have been sacked when he was, and the result of sacking him resulted in nothing getting better did it?
And yes DJ, Doyle's comments don't reflect anything we have heard or read does it, I guess margos comments are irrelevant too?
I guess if a player says stale was useless that would count though
He made a raft of errors and some silly schoolboy stuff as well.
Either way, the players quit, that is unforgiveable no matter what you goal in life.
posted on 8/10/13
Agreed Cinci
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