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Who used to be the Under 18 coach? They really are going for this promotion from within, much like a business. I think its a great idea and it gives anybdoy wanting to do coaching as a profession like myself, Caz, Obi, & Andy a great chance in the coming years

It is a joke like. Perhaps they just want coaches who REALLY want it and who want to be a better coach?

What an opportunity.

I was just thinking who the last keeper we had that could kick consistently well was. Shocking that we have to go that far back tbh, cant think any any since. Was at a game at Everton when he was in the team, think we won 2-0 that day, Hooper hit the Everton crossbar from a goal kick!

You could always apply for the Kenya national job. Apparently somebody just randomly applied and listed his FM achievements and got a reply a few weeks later saying that he was on their advanced shortlist He didn't get the job but still... There's every possibility atm that Level 3 coaches can get work with Pro clubs. There's one lad i've spoken to and this is what he emailed me for those interested Hi Chris, Please dont be put off by no hopers as you will meet a lot of them in life. Believe anything is possible! I had a similar dream to yourself and was told the same as you have been by everyone bar two, separate old men. One the best coach I have ever seen who worked with grassroots players and another who was the manager of a few professional clubs. I look my levels 1 and 2 at 16. I worked harder than anyone else of the course and worked for several non league/ grassroots and womens clubs to get the practice time. I passed both first time so studied sports coaching at college and started the UEFA B at 17. Again I worked harder than anybody else on the course and gave up playing to concentrate on coaching. Even helping our college coaches deliver sessions for the team. Whilst at college I volunteered at our local pro clubs Centre of Excellence and worked my way up to head coach of the under 10's. I then went to university to study Sports Science as the Football Association and clubs like Manchester United Academy will rarely employ people without a degree now. I am working towards the UEFA A licence and I have worked as a paid coach at two of the biggest academies in the country. I have spent time abroad observing coaches at places like Barcelona. If I was you I would aim to become a 1st team coach or academy manager and once you are in those positions you may be given a chance to become caretaker. This is becoming more common in England and is already the norm in Europe. As for not playing - It really does not matter, so long as you can make up for this in other areas. I would suggest taking a teaching qualification (Once you have a degree). obtain some sort of sports science qualification as this will be massive in the future and get booked on to the new FA youth coaching awards as these are excellent! Good luck Christ he's done a lot for a young lad.

I assumed he meant Willy was talking of Saylor's contract No Did he not say '5 or 6k'? Like you say he must be talking bollocks there. I dunno, because 2 weeks before he thought he would be on his way out. Then a couple of weeks later he came in and was buzzing and really happy and said because of his new wages he just bought his wife two cars. Forget what they were but easily over £100K. May have been his signing on fee. I don't know. Most probably may have been exagerrated when my mate told me. I did say that must be bollocks though because of our wage cap. And straight away he replied no that's defo what he said... Hmm....

Hope so. I could plan to swoop in on Jose

It must be utter s***e like, but if it is true

I assumed he meant Willy was talking of Saylor's contract No

He should think like that though. His wage cut will probably be more than what other teams would offer him. I.e Everton. Your top 6 sides wouldn't go near him. His best bet is probably here, and becoming a legend.

On a side note my mate's mam cuts Willy's hair and he said his new contract was 56K a week. He does spout bollocks a bit like. But if it is true (most probably not) its madness

Basically. Or AP has offered him more than he's worth

Eh, Krul's kicking is well dodgy. I disagree, he's the most consistently decent kicker we've had, and he can kick it about 8,000 miles. I honestly can't recall a game that I've been to this season where I've been critical of his kicking whereas Harper's kicking from his hands and from the deck is extremely patchy, and Given's was totally awful Sometimes he has a dodgey kick but more or less all the time it's a long direct kick with a good trajectory, which rarely goes out. His reflexes are very good and as already has been said his distribution is fantastic. Particulalry from his hands. To bring Harper back in the team now would be madness and we'd soon realise what we had if Krul was benching again.

I wonder how long he'll bot him for and whether he'll wear a blob. Love it. Or what area of the pitch it will be performed on

Aww man i was in town. Was he pestered?

Soooo last week

1st Year. I'm a mature student. Thought I was going to be the oldest, but this other guy sometimes shows up with his International Football Caps. I don't want to sound like a spaz but are you joking?

Worth 6 million. What we bought him for. He's started to repay that this season IMO

They have everything they want on there messageboard: SAFC threads, a few/load of NUFC threads & few token guests from the NUFC ranks to debate with. No need for them to come across here. Also not being allowed to start threads as a newbie is killer for them as the old saying goes on SMB "Why click reply when a new thread will do". It's annoying isn't it

He signed the contract in March 2009 so it was probably JFK

Indeed. Not fake or owt...

I'd like to think so

I was on it, I normally go on. And it's Simon's bus now man!!! But i was on the minibus. We had to book it last minute because there was a canny few people going

So p***ed off about it. But what can you do? We'd just got to Lichfield, there wasn't even an ich of snow on the ground. Maybe 1cm at most and the games was off. Absolutely fuming. £30 down the drain for somebody who doesn't work around Christmas time isn't an easy bullet to bite like :/ Dunno if i can be arsed to trek down there again on a Wednesday night. Fuck sake man!!!