Steve McClaren For England Manager.....

[desertscouser]

THIS IS NOT A KNEE JERK REACTION....

Mclaren is a f*cking idiot. He will be a complete and utter failure as England manager.

[desertscouser]

An ex England manager whose daughter I went out with for quite a while couldn't/can't stand Mclaren and always said that if he became England manager he would fail. He also said he had by far the biggest ego of any manager around (obviously before Maureen broke on to the scene). One senior player said that he loved himself so much that if he was chocolate he'd eat himself.

I've been drinking but the above is 100% true.

[Morph]

Who was the manager in question then

[Nic83]

Maclaren

I thought the tactics Maclaren used tonight were nothing short of dire. He claimed that he wanted to play "more offensive", yet had five defenders and 2 defensive midfielders on the pitch. That left 3 attacking players with noone able to carry the ball from the midfield.

I have to say, IF you had of gotten Scolari, i think you would soon be battling Argentina for NO. 1 spot in the world and playing brilliant, flowing, attacking football to boot.

Although i'm Irish, i think it's a shame that noone the FA appoints seems to be able to mould the English into a team that produces football that they're no doubt capable of producing.

[Rich]

Did anyone seriously think that McLaren had the footballing ability to make it as England Manager - one of the most high pressured, demanding coaching jobs in the world?

[TheStig]

I have to say, IF you had of gotten Scolari, i think you would soon be battling Argentina for NO. 1 spot in the world and playing brilliant, flowing, attacking football to boot.

Just like Portugal did in the World Cup?

McLaren is ****e though .

[Slim]

Sir Alf!

[Rich]

Merged, I think we only need one "Tosser" thread....

[Resu]

I thought the tactics Maclaren used tonight were nothing short of dire. He claimed that he wanted to play "more offensive", yet had five defenders and 2 defensive midfielders on the pitch. That left 3 attacking players with noone able to carry the ball from the midfield.

I have to say, IF you had of gotten Scolari, i think you would soon be battling Argentina for NO. 1 spot in the world and playing brilliant, flowing, attacking football to boot.

Although i'm Irish, i think it's a shame that noone the FA appoints seems to be able to mould the English into a team that produces football that they're no doubt capable of producing.

Didn`t Scolari turn them down because of the press?
So basically as long as the english reads tabloids they`ll lose out on good people.
Serves them right for having papers like the Sun

[Rich]

I think the press was a part of his decision, but the English FA were at fault, by issuing their ridiculous press statements, that a new manager would be unveiled at such and such date. Rather than going for the best man for the job! (Hiddink!)

[dww]

Scolari would have been horribly ill suited to being England manager. Not only with his off the field attitude but also because his teams have always required neat control and passing. Also as has been pointed out Portugal have not played flowing beautiful football and he used a Figo/Ronaldo front two in one match which I hardly see as the sort of tactical genius which we seem to be demanding.

I have to say I was reasonably positive when McLaren was appointed and particularly after Venables came in to assist him. Unlike some others I thought Englands 3-5-2 bore all the hallmarks of McLarens Middleborough and none of Venables tactical preferences. I think McLaren is a decent manager, his problem as England manager is that he seems to have decided he needs to show he is a change from Eriksson and so has made decisions as far as I can see purely to try and show his strengths as a coach and this has back-fired. I think if he had kept a solid 4-4-2 until we had qualified then he may have been the first manager to introduce some tactical flexibility into the squad - he just went on an ego trip too early in his career.

[Neil Young]

I think he's crap. I thought it before he was appointed, I thought it when he was appointed and funnily enough I still think it now. He got lucky in Middlesbrough's UEFA cup run last year - wholesale changes and playing with four forwards when you're three goals down isn't the sign of a tactical genius, it's the act of a desperate man. When they came up against a decent team, they got hammered.

Sack him now.

[dww]

and appoint who?

[Bob]

You know what bleedin' annoys me? I'll tell yer.

When things are going well, and the team is winning - the manager picks a 4-4-2 formation to which everybody is accustomed.
When things go wrong - the manager changes the tactics to 3-5-2 - a formation which hardly any of the players are accustomed to - and then expects to get a result!! If anybody can explain the logic in that then please do coz it's beyond me. It really is.

No you're absolutely spot on. Experimenting with 352 is always a gamble, don't do it away from home FFS.

Couldn’t believe McClaren was actually gonna go through with it, gutted I didn’t put money on Croatia last night

It was evident from all that I seen that there was little if any retention in midfield, and it was just wave after wave of blue. This effectively left it 532, which is a farce. Should have been spotted earlier and changed i.e. before the second half. Like I said didn’t see the whole game so he may well have done.

[dww]

We haven't retained the ball in midfield for any significant length of time for about a decade.

I think everyone can agree the switch in formation was a totally **** descision.