FT: SLOVAKIA 4 - 0 WALES. Match thread

[Wales-Bales]

Re: FT: SLOVAKIA 4 - 0 WALES. Match thread

I was coached for 8 years and never once did i walk around a pitch in tactical formation. **** that, i'd have gone home.

These would have been contemporaries of Alex Ferguson and his ilk, from the Jock Stein school of football. Now it's all done on white boards and computer screens.

[Tuerto]

Re: FT: SLOVAKIA 4 - 0 WALES. Match thread

These would have been contemporaries of Alex Ferguson and his ilk, from the Jock Stein school of football. Now it's all done on white boards and computer screens.

Mine was old school. Bob Smith, Jimmy Mullen, Gavin Tait, Frank Burrows, Len Ashurst, Stan Montgomery, Alan Durban. The best coach i had was a bloke named Gary Williams from the Port Talbot area. I think that he was a school teacher by profession. I learnt loads from him.

[splott parker]

Re: FT: SLOVAKIA 4 - 0 WALES. Match thread

Mine was old school. Bob Smith, Jimmy Mullen, Gavin Tait, Frank Burrows, Len Ashurst, Stan Montgomery, Alan Durban. The best coach i had was a bloke named Gary Williams from the Port Talbot area. I think that he was a school teacher by profession. I learnt loads from him.

Yes, Gary was a decent plasterer:hide:

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Re: FT: SLOVAKIA 4 - 0 WALES. Match thread

Mine was old school. Bob Smith, Jimmy Mullen, Gavin Tait, Frank Burrows, Len Ashurst, Stan Montgomery, Alan Durban. The best coach i had was a bloke named Gary Williams from the Port Talbot area. I think that he was a school teacher by profession. I learnt loads from him.

Didn't we have a manager called Graham Williams? I think he might have been a teacher at some point in his career. Didn't last long in the job.

[Tuerto]

Re: FT: SLOVAKIA 4 - 0 WALES. Match thread

Didn't we have a manager called Graham Williams? I think he might have been a teacher at some point in his career. Didn't last long in the job.

We did (i think) although it wasn't him. The bloke i'm talking about ended up running the City academy or whatever it was called back then in Jack land. Great coach and really nice bloke, as was Jimmy Mullen, they both made things fun. They were the only two out of the ones i've named that i wasn't scared of.

[Blooburd]

Re: FT: SLOVAKIA 4 - 0 WALES. Match thread

Rob Page, as nice a bloke as he seems, should have been replaced after the World Cup . We were woeful in that tournament. We had a decent draw for these Euros with an aging Croatia as top seeds and we also had the back up of a guaranteed play off , even though we lost all of our nations league games, yet even with 2 chances we failed to qualify. We were terrible in both games against Armenia , failed against Turkey and were even a little lucky at home against an awful Estonia side. We got one decent performance, home to Croatia ( and stole a point in the away game).

Then we get the most favourable draw we could have wished for in the play offs and also blew that, Poland were there for the taking.

That is when we should have thanked him for his services and got in a new manager who would have been given some slack for these pointless friendlies and could have started afresh in the Nations league games in September

Page did seem very down in the post match interviews, almost as if he knows what should be coming but with the Welsh FA who knows!

i agree. I also think that may want Page the FA to sack him and this is his way to try to give them the nudge to do the right thing. I dont blame him for taking the job or holding out for a relatively small payday. The blame comes down to the welsh FA in that reguard.

However that does not let page off the hook when it comes to tactics. He could stop bashing his head against the same old tactics and actually just go for broke and try something out of his comfort zone. Is he really that one dimensional? it does reek of lack of care for the team

[MacAdder]

Re: FT: SLOVAKIA 4 - 0 WALES. Match thread

Didn't we have a manager called Graham Williams? I think he might have been a teacher at some point in his career. Didn't last long in the job.

Do you mean Dave Williams ex Bristol Rovers player (and Norwich?)?