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sgmillerton · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:14 pm Post subject:

so, souey for you as well then?
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Rinty · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:16 pm Post subject:

I think that any manager with a career in front of them will inevitably be a short term appointment. That might not even be a problem, getting a new manager for every tournament. It might have been worse in previous times but I think that we have a core squad of players who will more or less pick themselves for the next few years.

Aitken has a lot of experience and is very much a leader, I hear he would also be a popular choice with the players. He accepted the Birmingham role with McLeish while still making it known to the SFA that he is interested.

Being a good club manager doesnt easily tranlate over to being an international manager as you dont see the players often, have no control over their general caoching and fitness, but are required to get them working and playing as a team in short bursts sopread over a season.

Sometimes countries have been succesful with young relatively inexperienced managers, other times it hasnt worked so I've no real opinion on the type of person we should be looking for.

I do think thought that we have to be realistic as to who would want to manage an international team and who would accept the wages on offer.

Joe Jordan could be another good choice in my opinion, or even Archie Knox.

If we go for Davies or similar we can expect them to go quickly if succesful.

There is no chance of getting Moyes with the money that he is on.

Cymro · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:35 am Post subject:

As a Welshman I wouldn't like to see that cheating bar steward Joe Jordan going anywhere near the Scottish Managment set up.

Of course if Billy Davies (or anyone else) makes a success of things they will more than likely be moving on after relative success, but to be honest I think that's going to happen regardless of who it is, even Roy Aitken. More money and attention for managers with clubs than at International Level unfortunatly for the game. Davies to be fair has said he's give it 5 years.

Souness will send things backwards. He's a crap manager. He's desperate for a job, he's been after the RoI job (interesting given his Rangers connections), suprised he's not pushed himself for the England job.

kevin04 · I Love 'Our Scotland' Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 335

Would fancy Mark McGhee for the vacancy, doing a good job at Well just now and also has done good work before in England with Brighton and Wolves. Davies, Collins and Strachan would be good choices as well but I doubt Strach or Collins will be interested at present.

Mark McGhee for me!

and Souness can get to france, he's a loose cannon. He'd lose the dressing room in 10mins.

Cymro · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:18 pm Post subject:

So, is John Collins a realistic option then?

SLG · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject:

Nope. Or at least he shouldn't be. Seems to be highly regarded down south, so could end up Fulham manager.

The Lithgae Jambo · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject:

Cymro · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:33 am Post subject:

SLG · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject:

And bookies not taking bets on the Fulham job (can still get money on Betfair though). Seems like a done deal.

TLJ, aye, think a lot of folk will have lost a lot of respect for Collins if he has been tapped up by Fulham. More interested in his replacement now though.

Reluctant Hero · Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:14 pm Post subject:

Looks like Collins isn't going to get the Fulham job after all.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/f/fulham/7163374.stm
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