KaKa Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 “Alan at the time had said that he was the best coach he had ever trained with." Wow ... loving that bit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LV Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Steve Round (on being at Derby) "walking though the door - its good environment, good culture, good people". He won't be coming back here then!! I can't imagine fat boy would want him back given he's already sacked him once before and I'm not sure I'd want to go back and work for the person who sacked me. It's a shame though because it seems he's a good coach. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTOON Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 If he is a great coach then im really excited to see how Abeid, Cabella and Perez progress next year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturla Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Why was Alan training with McClaren? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Why was Alan training with McClaren? Was England assistant for a time before/during Boro wasnt he? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturla Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Why was Alan training with McClaren? Was England assistant for a time before/during Boro wasnt he? (Y) Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EthiGeordie Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 “Alan at the time had said that he was the best coach he had ever trained with." Wow ... loving that bit. I wonder where Alan trained by him though. He retired from England after Euro 2000 and McC didn't start with England until 2002. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 McClaren started coaching with the England team in 2000. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 “Alan at the time had said that he was the best coach he had ever trained with." Wow ... loving that bit. It was 10 years ago though. A decade ago I think Benitez & Mourinho ranked as better managers than they do today. But aye, it is good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Shearer as assistant would be awesome, never happening mind, he has too much self respect to work under these wankers a second time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Appointment to be confirmed this afternoon. No press conference. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 The fucking contempt the club has for everyone and everything is more sickening than the actual results and performances. Why MClaren would want to work for these fuckers I do not know. I guarantee he will resign at some point. Pardew was a slime ball and just as much of a twat as the likes of Ashley so they all got on like a house on fire. McCLaren is a decent bloke. Ah well, good luck to him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Sky saying it will be Simpson. Still need 2/3 more coaches before the squad gets back mind Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 No conference? Was looking forward to listening to what McClaren has to say. I guess he'll release some statement at least. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Sky saying it will be Simpson. Still need 2/3 more coaches before the squad gets back mind Yes! Get in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Appointment to be confirmed this afternoon. No press conference. Love how they really have stuck to their promise of improving communications with the fans by doing things exactly the same as before Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Who's Simpson then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Press conferences cost money to organise you know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Who's Simpson then? Danny Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Who's Simpson then? Played for City & Derby in the 80's/90's and been knocking around as manager/assistant to a few lower league clubs. Might have been at Carlisle with Garde Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueview Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Who's Simpson then? Played for City & Derby in the 80's/90's and been knocking around as manager/assistant to a few lower league clubs. Might have been at Carlisle with Garde Yay! watched him in the 80´s at a lot of games.. He was a total disaster as a lower league manager though so keep him in just a coaching role Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidfieldGeneral Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Who's Simpson then? Played for City & Derby in the 80's/90's and been knocking around as manager/assistant to a few lower league clubs. Might have been at Carlisle with Garde Yay! watched him in the 80´s at a lot of games.. He was a total disaster as a lower league manager though so keep him in just a coaching role He was certainly no disaster at Carlisle, winning promotion 2 seasons in a row. Also found this on wiki "He was also named as the League Two Manager of the Year and in the League Managers Association statistics was the best manager in the country on points per game above Rafael Benítez". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Some saying that Steve Black could come back. Wasnt he here for a spell ages ago via the Falcons? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallace Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Some saying that Steve Black could come back. Wasnt he here for a spell ages ago via the Falcons? Was here during Keegan's time wasn't he? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-can-expect-character-attitude-9424258 Steve McClaren Character, attitude, commitment. Character, attitude, commitment. Character, attitude... There were Saturdays covering Steve McClaren’s Middlesbrough for the Sunday Sun when I actually contemplated copying his post-match quotes and pasting them into the following week’s paper. Win, lose or bore. Character, attitude, commitment. New to management then after forging his reputation as a coach, whether those words came from McClaren’s head, heart or a Pro-Licence manual, they were instant whitewash over the performance just viewed, papered over the dearth of dash and derring-do in his football, repressed on an altar of pragmatism, and came to sum up his five-year spell at the Riverside. The first major trophy in the club’s history. Ergo, their most successful manager ever. Boring, boring Boro. Teesside, still split. It had all begun in a much breezier mood. Presented at the forefront of a backroom staff comprising Bill Beswick – “not a shrink,” the sports psychologist told me, “a stretch” – there was openness and optimism. Later over lunch once, he was engaging, less guarded than he had, by then, become. Told us 6/10 for every defender, every game, made him happy. That was the platform, and the problem. Gareth Southgate was a great, first, marquee signing. Set an example, set standards. Solid and dependable. No frills. So the football followed. McClaren’s first game in management was a 4-0 home defeat to Arsenal, the first of four straight losses culminating in a 4-1 Riverside reverse at the hands of Newcastle United. By then, McClaren had switched from 4-3-3 to 5-3-2 and eventually, patchily, results started to come together. It would almost always remain, in terms of tactics, performance and form, just as inconsistent. Occasional wins against the big boys, including something even of an Indian sign over Manchester United. Then less impressive displays and results against lesser lights. In the former, rigid, well-rehearsed training ground game-plans came off. Often by a single goal. Worthy, laudable. Rarely terrifically exciting. In the latter, slow-starting Boro struggled to seize the early initiative, to be proactive, against clubs on a more familiar footing. So though they reached the FA Cup semi-final, a 12th-place finish told just as much of the tale. Equally tellingly, two 11th places followed (as did a good record over Sunderland, which might help)... But the latter, 2003/04, brought the Carling Cup and made McClaren the first English boss to win major domestic silverware since 1996. It took them into Europe where, the following season, Boro beat Lazio and reached the last 16 of the UEFA Cup. Finished seventh, too, which restored them to Europe’s secondary competition. This was the Boro of Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Mark Viduka, Bolo Zenden and a young Stewart Downing, making the football a touch – just a touch – more entertaining. So it was that in 2006, McClaren’s last at the club, they rode a rollercoaster – via stoppage-time wins, inspired by all-out attack-minded substitutions, over FC Basle and Steaua Bucharest – to the UEFA Cup final. That they lost, therein, convincingly to Sevilla is airbrushed by some. The journey was the thing. The Carling Cup the greatest day. McClaren, their greatest manager. Others remember that during that same season Boro slumped back to 14th, beaten 7-0 at Arsenal and 4-0 at home by Aston Villa, when a supporter threw his season ticket at the manager. That was McClaren, dividing opinion. Successful on paper, dull on the pitch. That was, also, a long, long time ago. Stints of varying success with England, FC Twente, VfL Wolfsburg, Nottingham Forest and Derby County have followed. He will have learned, retained core principles and changed others. So it is difficult to know what to expect. My money’s on character, attitude... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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