Southgate

[Siderite]

Resigns. Probably the best for him and England, especially to announce it quickly and not drag it on. I wish him the best.

[Iron-awe]

Yep best of luck Gareth, eight years is probably about right to be in charge, did not win either of his finals but leaves the England set up in its strongest position for years to kick on with a new manager in charge. Keep it English FA, how about Eddie Howe?, bright young progessive manager likes to play attacking football.

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Just Iron

[Deereyme66]

Time for a change. Amongst the criticisms there has been glowing testimonies. Current rugby player the other day couldn’t speak highly of his skills, particularly developing a better culture and that they’ve learned from him. Maybe that’s where his strengths lie? Less so, attacking football?

Not sure Howe would want it. If it’s going to be another English man I’d put a sneaky bet on Lampard.

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Awaywego

[Siderite]

Lampard? Please no.

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Awaywego

[Deereyme66]

Yeah, don’t know if he’d be any good or not but could see him being announced. Attacking midfielder, ex International, respected by current players etc. Out of work…

[Deereyme66]

Sounds like Howe might be interested. Doubt there’d be many complaints if he got the gig?

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Just Iron, Awaywego

[Iron Age]

Regardless of who’s appointed, he will be hounded remorselessly.
The press even hounded Sir Alf out of the job. They wanted Cloughie, didn’t get him so recommended many others, and in turn hounded each one out.
My vote is for Mike Bassett.

[Iron-awe]

Iron Age wrote:

My vote is for Mike Bassett.

I’d prefer Bertie, his liquorice wheels are to die for.

[Deereyme66]

Fred Bassett; would hound any opposition of the pitch.

[Northumbiron]

Deereyme66 wrote:

If it’s going to be another English man I’d put a sneaky bet on Lampard.

Bloody Hell!

Even Sunderland don’t want Lampard!

[Deereyme66]

Bet he’s put himself forward though.

[ironfromafar]

Excellent news .. hes gone .

[Deereyme66]

Celebrating with a dry stroke of the chin?

[Northumbiron]

When you look back at their records, England managers have been much of a muchness. So maybe our expectations are too high.

Southgate’s win percentage was a tad under 60%. Very similar to the records of Hodgson, Erikson, Hoddle and Greenwood.

I was surprised that the well thought of Sir Bobby Robson and El Tel Venables who both got the team to semifinals scored below 50%. So it would seem that it’s not so much about winning as about performances.

The two managers with Scunny connections were pretty pants. Capello scored highly with 66.7% wins.

Then of course there’s Fat Sam with 100%!

[Deereyme66]

Not just about win percentages for me. It’s as much about the style of play and performances. Robsons win ratio doesn’t surprise me because his sides were not performing fantastically up until Italia 90. Venables had a short tenure so not much to go on there. Also got to take in to account the talent at their disposal. The options in 1990 and 1996 were not as good on various levels IMO.

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Awaywego

[Northumbiron]

Lineker, Barnes, Beardsley, Waddle, Platt, Pearce, Wright, Walker, Campbell, Gascogne, Sheringham, Shearer, Redknapp, McManaman?

Reckon we had comparable talent around then.

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Deereyme66

[Rivers]

Good luck to him. Nice bloke who handled criticism with a huge amount of decorum. Rarely able to get a tune out of an embarrassment of riches though.

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Just Iron

[Rudyboy]

All those critics of Southgate will be wishing for him back when in future we’re down to the level of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland ie either not qualifying for tournaments or going out at the group stage!

[Siderite]

I doubt that, given the increased size of the tournaments. We were qualifying before, mostly, and England were bailed out by moments of player magic this time round.

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Awaywego

[Lord Kitchener]

I wonder what Brian Robson is doing these days? Captain Marvel would certainly have the respect of the players.

[Deereyme66]

They’d have his respect if they spelled his name right.

[Rivers]

Klopp for me, if he’d take the job.

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Just Iron, Deereyme66

[Deereyme66]

According to Harry Redknapp (interview yesterday) it’s an easy job if you’ve got decent players at your disposal. Not sure how he’d know having not done it himself.

[Iron-awe]

Deereyme66 wrote:

According to Harry Redknapp (interview yesterday) it’s an easy job if you’ve got decent players at your disposal. Not sure how he’d know having not done it himself.

Think Harry meant it’s easy money, particularly if it’s paid cash in a large brown envelope.

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MK Iron, Northumbiron

[Awaywego]

Course it’s an easy job, hundreds of players to pick from split the players into their natural positions put the names in a hat pull each position out and there’s your team. Seeded group Qualifying for euros and world cup, no wage contracts to bother about, less than ten games a year on average to turn up for and if you play pretty poorly blame the fans for to big an expectation of the team. Easy peesy.

[MK Iron]

You do have to go to a couple of Premier League games a week to pretend you are checking on players so might struggle to get to so many Iron games.

I’d probably still do it for the £5m though.

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