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HIS record? I think Wales did we'll despite him, rather than beacuase of him.
Had a squad full of premier league players, plus Bale, and still couldn't get us out of a mediocre qualifying group.
Imagine if the Irish or Scots had players like Davis, Ramsey and Bale to choose.
43 games since 2015, he’s played more this year because mendy has been our most of the season. It’s beside the point anyway I just picked him as an example. Replace him with any player who’s stepped up like that, they always think they’ll end up playing every week.
Delph has started 4 league games since Christmas btw
For the money plain and simple. He was the poorest paid manager at the Euro's. Even N.I.'s and the Iceland manager were on more than him.
Andorra is good team to pick. We did really well against them (not) compared to the other teams in our group. Records v Andorra -
Bosnia W2 Goals F6 A0 +6
Cyprus W2 Goals F8 A1 +7
Israel W2 Goals F8 A1 +7
Belgium W2 Goals F10 A1 + 9
Wales W2 Goals F4 A1 +3 (and we were lucky in the away game when the ref allowed us a re-take of a free kick which Bale had originally missed)
I don't know why people have to always be so black and white on some things, can't people just say he did an good job for the euros, yes he got lucky but still did a good job. And can't we also say he should really have done better with the world cup qualifying?
I think an outsider might say we were rather fortunate in the Euros, including the Belgium game, when we could have been 3 down in the first 20 mins, only to get 3 goals from very unlikely sources (i.e. Not Bale or Ramsey!).
An OG winner against NI, who were arguably the better team, a scuffed winner against the run of play v Slovakia, an easy win against a demoralised Russia, and a loss against England and Portugal.
I enjoyed every minute of it, and went to every game, but not sure it had anything at all to do with Coleman and his 'tactics'.
As an outsider you could conclude that after two poor draws, an uninspiring late victory against Egypt, an even later win vs Belgium and a couple of penalties vs Cameroon before going out on penalties vs West Germany that Bobby Robson had nothing to do with England reaching the 1990 World Cup semi-finals I suppose.
He is tactically weak. He was totally outfoxed by O’Neill in the WCQ’s. He does speak well and does deserve credit for what he and the players achieved with Wales.
I think the success of Wales was a unique joint effort,in a unique moment in time with all parts connecting and delivering , when some of those components stand on their own ,they don't always succeed .
Coleman will probably stay and bring them back up , with a lot of dosh thrown at him , and old disinterested players leaving,it should give him a platform to prove himself to build from fresh , if he fails, we then know where his skills sets lie .