Batter down the hatches, this is going to get a bit messy.
Confirmed on SSNHQ apparently.
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Batter down the hatches, this is going to get a bit messy.
Confirmed on SSNHQ apparently.
https://i.imgur.com/dbEmQma.png
The FA need to hurry up and confirm it :drool:
:cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOgToHw7ABI
I fucking love Big Sam.
Lol people up in arms over this. It's almost as if these prize muppets haven't even watched football. Best appointment in a long time.
I dearly hope he turns out to be a legend.
At least we won't get relegated.
It's official. :cool:
I'm chuffed for him. He's a proper manager who actually has grafted around English football for ages and had relative success.
That actually describes Roy.
Shite.
Brilliant.
Quality appointment, that.
LOL a couple of years ago people would be furious at this appointment.
Probably the best appointment we could make right now. The biggest test will be whether he bins people who aren't fit/in-form.
Fucking scenes this.
Fuck yeah.
Yep, we'll know from pretty much his first squad as to whether he's up for the task or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raoul Duke
If Wilshere's anywhere near it, then he's not.
Has there been any betting markets for the Sunderland job?
It doesn't really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kikó
Yeah, Roy had relative success all over the shop.
Is it not nailed on as Moyes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
Yeah.Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
http://www.oddschecker.com/football/...manent-manager
Then he came home and thought his la-di-da foreign shite knew best. No chance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shindig
Hodgson also let Roberto Carlos go to Real Madrid for buttons after telling him he'd never be a left back, so the evidence that he was a clueless shitehawk was there long ago.
This all sounds like pre Euro 16 :drool:
I've said it before, but TTH's reaction here is unbelievable. Maybe he is the best appointment you could make, but you shouldn't be happy about it. His skillset is keeping shit teams from relegation. I don't think England will do any better under him than under Hodgson
If he's shite at least he's our shite, rather than Sweden's, Italy's or Finwitzerland's shite.
Allardyce will at least instil some sort of identity in the team, and it's obvious that he'll fucking love being in the job. Hodgson gave the impression he liked turning up at that expensive new training ground and boring youth players with lectures on the merits of 4-4-2.
If you want an English candidate, you might as well have someone who has at least demonstrated a consistent ability to mould shit players with no confidence into a cohesive unit. He's also worked his way up through the game, so he's not some Schteve type getting it on the back of a couple of good years with Middlesbrough.
'Big Sam' is too good for the England job. He should be aiming higher.
He may well be shit but how would that be any different from what we're used to? If there's even half a chance that he can pick 10 centre backs and Andy Carroll or do hilarious things like drop Rooney then it's absolutely worth it.
Joachim Low's CV was a spell in Turkey and loads of pissing about in Austria. The new Italy manager has managed half the clubs in the country, but it's the bottom half.Quote:
Originally Posted by mokbull
Allardyce's skill set is turning a group of players into more than they are. When he's managing shit that turns into improbable escapes from relegation. When he's got a bit of talent to play with it's getting Bolton into Europe.
:nodd:Quote:
Originally Posted by GS
We need a team with an actual game plan; it doesn't need to be complicated, look at Wales. He is suited to international football. Unless you're Brazil/Spain, it's mostly about doing the basics as a team as well as possible.
The players can't be frightened and neither can the manager. Soon-to-be-overpaid Sam is the man.
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One for Lewis: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/f...-a7016996.html
Also this bit was good from the Guardian:
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https://www.theguardian.com/football...gen-klinnsmann
Arguably the strongest English candidate by some distance. Given the clubs he has managed his record of having never suffered relegation from the Premier League is no mean feat. Performed a minor miracle to keep a very poor Sunderland side out of the Championship last season. Behind the deceptively brash, bruising exterior Allardyce is an intelligent, innovative manager who has helped pioneer the use of, among many other things, sports science, statistics and psychology. A technically skilled tracksuit coach he improved hitherto liabilites such as Younčs Kaboul and Patrick van Aanholt beyond recognition at Sunderland last season. An expert at setting teams up for specific matches he has squeezed the maximum out of some very ordinary players and knows precisely how to play to people’s strengths. Proved he could manage highly tricky egos during his stewardship of such high-maintenance indidivuals as Jay‑Jay Okocha, Youri Djorkaeff and Nicolas Anelka at Bolton. Listens to what people have to say - staff and players report he gives them the invaluable sense of working “with him” rather than “for him.” A wonderful champion of English coaches and managers he grasps the “bigger picture” and would work with the English game’s longer term good very much in mind. On a micro level, knows all about the dark arts of gamesmanship which, while not to be condoned, could come in useful. The health and welfare of individual players are always of paramount concern to this student of physiology and mental health. Infinitely less abrasive and chippy than during his younger days he is much mellowed – something he partly ascribes to regular transendental meditation. Sufficiently tough, battle-hardened and bloody-minded this warhorse will ride out bouts of media criticism and fan unrest. Not to mention boot out any bad, disruptive, locker room apples.
Exactly.Quote:
Originally Posted by John
He'll absolutely shit it, by the way. :)
He's used to working with plodders or low confidence fuckwits. Not WORLD FAMOUS SUPERSTARS with god given talent (let's not say they are shit now). Complete mis-match. Watch them scrape through another shite qualifying group and get knocked out at the group stages.
It would be the greatest thing ever seeing Allardyce laughing in Putin's face when he lifts the world cup. It's on.
You're right. He certainly fluffed his lines with World Cup and European Championship winner Youri Djorkaeff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magic
When he was miles past his best?
When's the last time you ever saw him track back?Quote:
Originally Posted by John
This is quite good on some of Hodgson's other 'ideas' in training. It's also quite good at sticking the boot into Rodgers and his lol-worthy dressing room antics.Quote:
Originally Posted by John
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport...-ugly-11639663
Great hire. I want John Terry regens across the back, Steven Gerrad in a deep-lying playmaker position with direct passing and long shots slider on maximum, and Andy Carrol as target man.
:drool:
Big Sam on the transdental meditation train. :drool:
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cps...allardyce2.jpg
He is Mike Bassett.
They wrote 'transcendental meditation', but it's actually just turning his phone off and crushing a chippy tea in the dark.
A year after he won the Euros.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magic
Years overdue. Let's see what you've got, Sam.
Well if he managed Youri Djorkaeff then he can do anything. What a leader.
http://i65.tinypic.com/2nq6xzr.jpg
Everything about that picture is exactly what we need.
If there's about nine sugars in that tea then we're definitely winning the World Cup.
It's gonna be confusing when Ray Winstone is doing his weird shouty floating head adverts, seeing as he's Big Sam's regen
This is analagous to how Corbyn supporters feel, I reckon.
Maybe the analogy would work if capitalism had failed every single time it had been implemented and he had been elected PM.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy