Looks to me like he took on a role at his hometown club after extensive experience at Watford as well as a couple of other Championship clubs TBH.
I don’t think I particularly want us splashing cash on “proven” players who will cost a fortune? I’d prefer us to find hungry young up and coming players who can play their heart out and develop with us and then likely be sold on for a profit as they go onto bigger and better things.
Weird thing to say
Do you think his name was just plucked out of a hat, he will have been known, checked out maybe even before Badland left, maybe why Badland left.
The amazing thing is that the Club didn't reach out and appoint one of the experts on here to the position - given the mind-blowing amount of knowledge and insight shown daily on these pages. A missed opportunity.
Part of the Reading scouting team in 05/06 who brought the likes of Shane Long and Kevin Doyle over from Cork. Will that do you?
I’m not so much interested in which individual players he’s found/developed - that can sometimes just be a product of good fortune. I’m more concerned with his thoughts on data/analytics and foreign markets. There’s so much data available now - what does he prioritise in looking for a player? (Badlan seemed to be pretty strong on this) Which overseas countries are going to give us an edge in this post-Brexit transfer market? (He was pretty crap at this)
Yeah, it’s a great place - used to go and watch St Albans City a bit. The Goat is a decent pub too.
Biamou is fuming you didn’t get the gig Danny. He’s having to take the job at Next over Christmas now
I see they play at the ‘Mozzarella Fellas’ Stadium. A pity they’re two leagues away from the Papa Johns Trophy
Weighted “insanity” too high and “footballing ability” too low?
Guaranteed likes on here to moan about people expressing an opinion.
If you don’t want to hear how people view a situation then sign the fuck off and shut the fuck up.
That's one of the maddest post match interviews I've seen, seething isn't strong enough.
When he says " Good luck them. They ain't gonna get anything out of this lot (the players)" with reference to another manager coming in then it's a poor show. It's not my fault. It's the players. That spoilt what was an interesting post match controlled rant.
Honestly I thought it was incredibly poor from a people management perspective top to bottom!
There's no doubt in my mind that when you effectively say the players are rubbish you should resign. There's no coming back from that. If they're rubbish you make it better as all good managers and coaches do To insinuate they're so bad than no one else would really do anything with them is disrespectful in the extreme. It's throwing in the towel and passing the responsibility to others.
My favourite manager rant of all time, something to aspire to.
That's fucking brilliant... until I'm told otherwise by the circus upstairs is a personal favourite line.
Note him sacking one of the players in the middle of it, too!
He was an excellent coach. One of the first people in this country to have all the relevant coaching badges.
This doc killed his career stone dead... His assistant kept in work... managed Sheff Weds amongst others.
I still want to know how bringing your dinner is helpful to a post-fight wind down, too.
