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Probably already mentioned but Adam Bartlett has found out via twitter he wont be coaching here next season. Good to see we learnt from the Jonas backlash.....

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Malcolm Crosby was saying one of the reasons he was released from the Heed was to pursue a career in coaching too...

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Probably already mentioned but Adam Bartlett has found out via twitter he wont be coaching here next season. Good to see we learnt from the Jonas backlash.....

 

He's been released by Gateshead as a player hasn't he? Isn't that what he's referring to?

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Guest Roger Kint

Probably already mentioned but Adam Bartlett has found out via twitter he wont be coaching here next season. Good to see we learnt from the Jonas backlash.....

 

He's been released by Gateshead as a player hasn't he? Isn't that what he's referring to?

 

Dont know, assumed he meant from the coaching he did here too considering Gateshead released list was a few days ago wasnt it?

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Just been chatting to a mate at work, season ticket holder at Boro when McClaren was there. He cited his main strength as game management, which gives me a bit of positivity after 5 years of the worst game management possible.

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I'd say it was knowing when to make the right subs, change tactics in order to exploit a particular weakness in an opponent, know when to attack / defend, press / drop off etc etc. Basically Jose Mourinho is the best at it.

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I don't think Mourinho is great at it but he is very decisive. If it's going wrong in 30 mins. he'll make a change.

 

Yea, so often managers dither on changes or do them at sort of pre-alloted times in the game, i can understand not wanting to make a substitution to hurt a players confidence before half time though, and I guess managers want to make their system work and not adapt to the other teams game. However I do remember Mourinho's Madrid subbing on Modric as soon as Man U went down to 10 men to spread the ball and make most of extra possession and almost immediately Modric scored. I hate it when managers take ages to make calls like that

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Bobby was a very good in-game manager. Made a lot of substitutions that changed games.

 

I think we were playing Watford at home and he brought on LuaLua, Stepehn Glass and Wayne Quinn (maybe). Our equalising goal ended up being crossed in by Quinn, LuaLua miskicked it and then Stephen Glass scored. Don't think I've ever seen that before or since

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Bobby was a very good in-game manager. Made a lot of substitutions that changed games.

 

I think we were playing Watford at home and he brought on LuaLua, Stepehn Glass and Wayne Quinn (maybe). Our equalising goal ended up being crossed in by Quinn, LuaLua miskicked it and then Stephen Glass scored. Don't think I've ever seen that before or since

 

Nah, that was home to Man U. Cordone crossed it, Lua Lua sliced it and Glass finished. You're right though, 2 or 3 of them had just been subbed on.

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I don't think Mourinho is great at it but he is very decisive. If it's going wrong in 30 mins. he'll make a change.

 

Didn't he use all three subs against us around half time, getting the inevitable injury after that in the FA Cup one year.  Still, chalk one up on the lessons learned board.

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