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Rousseau

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  1. Well "fits the bill" only works out with facts and winning games, even Jose doesnt fit Man Utd right now, they expect better.

     

    Dont mention West Ham please :D

     

    Managers can 'fit' a club before they even start, so results don't matter in that regard. It's all about the alignment of style for me; and they have to be hand-picked, not just appointed because they are free.

     

    For me, Mourinho has never fit; he doesn't suit a Man Utd philosophy.

     

    West Ham!

  2. Not true though. That one is the only one that couldnt be planned as Carvalhal was still in a job when Clement left.

     

    Pardew and WBA chairman get on well so that fit.

     

    The two Davids have wanted Moyes for a while - it fits for them - maybe not the fans.

     

    I think we've got a different definition of "fit".

     

    I don't think Carvalhal was planned per se, but I think he was on a list, and when he was available they moved. Just because the Chairman knows the guy doesn't make it a good fit. And West Ham don't have a plan, nor a philosophy, so it's just pick the best that's available; everyone fits, and therefore no one 'fits'. :D

  3. I'm still intrigued by Monk. His overall record is not that great, but he's been really unfortunate to be in charge at some basket-case clubs. He was sacked at Swansea because they were in 15th after one win in eleven, which was poor, but Leeds were taken over by a mental Italian, and then Middlesborough didn't like the football on offer and went for Pulis!

     

    Monk's pulled off some really good tactical displays against big sides -- he beat Arsenal, ran Klopp's Liverpool close, and reached the last-32 of the EL with Swansea. He'd still be at Leeds if it was a more stable club.

  4. I disagree. Those clubs don't know what they are doing, they just appoint on what is available to them. Might work out, might not. Have any of them made appointments that make sense in terms of their footballing philosophy ?

     

    We should still be able to secure 3rd with Murty, so no hurry. My concern is giving him funds in January, if he isn't going to be the long term appointment....

     

    I agree -- Carvalhal to Swansea is perhaps the only one who 'fits'. The rest are just picking whomever is available.

  5. I agree. Pedro needed to go but the only answer we had was McInnes... and when he rejected we were clueless.

     

    All good here mate. Yeah, bought a house in September so am back for festive season. Have a night out in Edinburgh tomorrow with Kevin Thomson (that ones for Rousseau....)

     

    He's just excited because he's finally pulled his man-crush.

     

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  6. It was good under Warburton but under Pedro they were burnt out at half-time and the feeling that was the problem with the players they thought the training was not good enough.

     

    I am not really a dinosaur I just feel a good hard fitness coach is better than a list of charts.

     

    Charts don't implement the fitness regime, charts just help those who do make better decisions by providing more information and data... auld yin. :D

     

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  7. I am a great adversary of doing everything with a ball. No running round a track except a cooper test every so often and just to warm up at the beginning of the training with the normal stretching. I would also have a sprint coach come in for a training a week. I think many players could run a lot faster if they learned how to.

     

    You mean "advocate"? :D

     

    That's a very old, and very new idea when combined with Sports Science. Mourinho had great success with that at Chelsea -- John Terry spoke of how they seemed to do so much more work, because it felt like less than jogging around a track for half an hour! -- but we see even that is not enough as teams move forward, adapting new idea etc.; it's now a rather normal practice. Caixinha thought that way too; everything with the ball.

  8. We have had sports science people at our club for a while but I heard from a couple of players that they were not as fit under the Pedro fitness training than at other times. Clearly the coaches implementing the training and fitness have a much bigger role than the scientists, and the end result of how fit the players are comes more from the trainers / coaches than the analysts. Therefore good training implementations, routines, fitness and gym work are all far more important. There is a role for the analysis that comes from sports science, but it's a much less important role than a lot like to make out.

     

    That does suggest to me like we're not giving enough independence to our Sports Science department. The manager has to make the final decisions of course, and to use the data correctly, but a change in manager shouldn't be able able to decrease our fitness so significantly.

     

    I disagree it's "less important [...] than a lot like to make out". For me, it just means that Caixinha was not using it correctly or efficiently. I'm not saying it's the most important thing, but it is very important. It's all about making better decisions.

     

    This article describes the success that Clubs can achieve: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4544900/How-world-s-best-football-clubs-use-data.html

  9. Remember how Brown and co were blowing out their rectums when we put them out of the cup,

     

    I don't think they were. There were spells where they were running about daft chasing the ball as we passed it around, but I wouldn't equate that with "blowing out their rectums". They were battering our goals for 120 minutes.

  10. We won 54 league titles, or at least most of them, without it so I have no idea why it is now so important. Also it is something that everyone can interpret differently. Look at the difference in fitness to the tims when Rogers took over from Delilah. i take it Delilah also had sport science.

     

    Because everyone else is using it. If you don't move with the times, you get left behind.

     

    I really don't watch them enough to comment on their fitness. I do know "Delilah" was known for his fitness; it's unfortunate -- or fortunate! -- that he was tactically mince, in so many ways.

  11. Whether it's true or it's not, £18 million is an insane some for a player playing in Scotland and that would be a superb piece of business by them. We are so far behind them it's untrue.

     

    I'm not so sure. Alan Hutton went for half that 10 years ago. We've seen a major boom since then. £18 Million doesn't seem "insane" for one of the best players in the league; certainly not when they're touting £40 Million plus!

  12. Sorry but John Brown can't use analytics or math based appraisals. Scolding has never scouted or shows any evidence of Scolding ability or mindset. The scouting department is a sham. It's just a shell so they can point to infrastructure and go "look what we made"

     

    If Derek Mccinnes and Murty were on the managers shortlist then that's all the evidence I need to say Allan needs to go along wih king and Stewart Robertson. Not fit for purpose.

     

    Thank f*** you're not in charge. I would bloody well expect McInnes to be on any list, simply because he's one of the better performing managers in the league -- I am disappointed the board picked him, though. I doubt Murty was on any list.

     

    I don't think Brown is expected to use analytics; he's a scout, the eyes on the ground. To be honest, I was sceptical about his appointment, but many have suggested he does have a good eye for players. And, Scoulding’s background is in analysis, which I would demand in a Head of Scouting. We need a combination of that analysis with eyes on the ground.

     

    I think you're just looking for something to moan about; something that isn't there... IMO, of course. :D

  13. What specifically has illustrated this lack of patience though? Like most Scottish teams I think a fair chunk of our support have a pretty prehistoric view to football, but week in week out the fans turn up regardless of the awful football we've watched for years.

     

    It's worth noting that there were few complains in the early DA years or Warburton's first season, when we played the style of football we should always at least attempt to play.

     

    Again, my comment wasn't really in regards to the football or any specific manager, but the infrastructure.

     

    Allen's been in the job 5 minutes and some are wanting him out because he's "a waste of a wage". If that's not impatience, I don't know what is?

  14. We really aren't that impatient at all. We put up with Big Eck and Ally for long enough. In fact after all the comical nonsense and crap football we have been subjected to in recent years, it's a miracle we get the attendances we do.

     

    As for Pedro, we didn't pluck him from some obscure league because he's the next Mourinho. He was useless. Chop it up to experience and move on.

     

    My impatience comment was more to do with the infrastructure, than any current manager -- we are more patient than most when it comes to managers. We don't have the patience to allow the bedrock to be re-shaped; without that any manager coming in will be hampered, IMO.

  15. I think we're partly to blame. We're impatient, set in our ways, and the majority don't really understand what it takes to make the next step (I'm not suggesting I do).

     

    I think we have to build an infrastructure first, though, before a "proper" manager will take us to the next stage, like Man City; they built a whole new youth structure, employed a former Barcelona DoF etc. years in advance, so Guardiola could step in; they didn't just employ Guardiola and expect him to revolutionise the club the next day.

  16. Mulumbu would do a better job than some of those we've signed. At least he doesn't look past his best.

     

    That's a more accurate statement.

     

    It's just the role making him look good. He's a strong, tough-tackling Defensive-midfielder; he does it well, but that's all he does. Jack does that well too. We seem to expect more from a midfielder, but then praise another team's player for doing a job on us. It's crazy.

     

    Mulumbu would probably do a job for us, then we'd slate him the next moment for not passing forward.

  17. I really can't get myself excited now for the rest of the season with Murty in charge and with most of our players proving they are not good enough.

     

    It looks like another wasted season and not really anything to look forward to, I am usually quite positive about us and hope they prove me wrong but the only positives I see are some good youngsters coming through and I would give more of them a game before some of the so called 'star' players we signed in the summer.

     

    I would love us to get the likes Garry Monk, Paul Clement or even Tony Pulis :) in but as we have committed to Murty it's not going to happen I know :(

     

    I am however looking forward to drinking as much as possible over the next few weeks to drown my sorrows :onetoomany:

     

    *When you see Pulis' name*

     

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  18. Mulumbu's CV is far superior to any of the players we signed who had a connection to MW & Pedro(except maybe Alves).

     

    He really doesn't. He's an average player, made to look like a superstar in this rubbish league.

     

    Senderos, Barton, Kranjcar, Hill, Alves, Dorrans, Pena all have a better CV. Even Jon Toral has a better CV than Mulumbu, IMO.

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