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[quote user="Jonnypncfc"] thats barcelona B! by the way! and they have nothing to do with the main team! just thought i would let you know![/quote]Of course they do- they are to Barca what our reserves are to us. The only difference being that ''B'' teams in Spain are allowed to play in the league system.

If you asked me when Gunn was sacked, I would have preferred Boothroyd. But having seen the start Lambert has made, I am more than happy with him.[quote user="Camuldonum"]You are currently happy with yours and Colchester are currently happy with ours. This could change in the future of course[:|] [/quote]This is football; it will change next week

He''s half decent on FM09...

At first glance, I actually thought that was Lambert.Good spot. Made me smile. Good film too.

[quote user="USAcanary"]JFH makes no sense IMHO. He should learn his trade at a smaller club before thinking about coming to a bigger one. [/quote]Unfortunately, nowadays, we are the sort of smaller club who top players such as Hasselbaink would start at.He''s certainly a character and I''d love to see him in management, but NOT at Norwich. No experience of any kind.

Boothroyd has to be the ideal candidate, but he may feel he could do better. Never seen what Tilson has that is so special though.What is wrong with two players for every position though?

He is rapid when he gets to top gear, but aside from that, he is awful, and has no real techinical ability or tactical awareness. Not worthy of a place in the first team.

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[quote user="CANARYCHARGE"]From the pic ithought we had got hartson back![/quote]Quoted in agreement. He definitely needs to lose a bit of weight before we even think about a contract. Not that I would recommend that at all.

[quote user="Hucks is Legend"]where u hear he was 7?[/quote][url=http://www.canaries.co.uk/page/NewsDetails/0,,10355~1693096,00.html]Here[/url]Penultimate paragraph.

[quote user="Sideshow Tim"][quote user="ryan85k"] That he is 110% convinced that we definetly might be buying a striker, cant name names, before the end of the transfer deadline. I cant name the player but he is 99% sure that he will be between 5ft 1 and 6ft 5, is black or white, and scored more than 5 goals in a professional league last season. Rememeber, you heard it here first people ;-) Im going to bookmark this page and remind you all how fantastically great my posts are.   [/quote] Bloody Liar[;)] [/quote]Agreed; someone who can score even three goals in a professional league is out of our reach.

[quote user="ryan85k"]Exactly, I''d never heard of him before this thread, and im sure nobody else had on here either.[/quote]I remember earlier this season there was big piece about his move on Sky Sports News.Basically, it focused on how non-league clubs are not entitled to compensation when their young players are poached by the big boys, and Ramm''s move was the one that was brought to the attention of the public.More on it at the bottom of this article: [url]http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11676_4784007,00.html[/url]

Ward would be a very good choice to mentor and compete with Rudd.

[QUOTE]Maybe it''s only a coincidence that three of the four men battling to save their sides from the Premier League trapdoor this weekend are all first-time managers. Yet one of the messages of the season is that experience matters. The leading contenders for manager of the year will mainly be seasoned, battle-hardened campaigners. Aside from obvious choice Sir Alex Ferguson - whose myriad achievements I don''t need to list here - I''m thinking of the likes of Roy Hodgson, David Moyes and Tony Pulis. Each has exceeded what could reasonably have been expected of them at the start of the season. Take Fulham''s Hodgson, the Phileas Fogg of English bosses. The 61-year-old has worked at 16 clubs in seven different countries during a management career spanning 33 years. All that experience and know-how has been used to guide the Cottagers to the brink of European qualification, when many had tipped them to be battling relegation. In contrast, the bosses who have struggled have tended to be inexperienced. Paul Ince, a manager for only two seasons before he landed the Blackburn job, was the first Premier League boss to get the boot. Rovers then turned to the hugely experienced Sam Allardyce as a replacement and he has steered them to safety. Tony Adams, whose only previous experience as a boss was a short and inglorious spell at Wycombe, was fired by Portsmouth in February. Veteran Paul Hart took over and eased Pompey to safety. Instead, it is Newcastle manager Alan Shearer, Boro boss Gareth Southgate and Sunderland''s Ricky Sbragia who will be battling to save their sides on Sunday. Gianfranco Zola, who has done a sterling job at West Ham in his first stint in management, is a notable exception. But Andy Roxburgh, Uefa''s highly respected technical director, says experience is a big asset. "Fabio Capello summed it up best when he said football was the only profession where you could go from the shop floor to chief executive''s office in one day," Roxburgh told me. "Countries like Italy and Spain regard management as a profession, which has not traditionally been the case in the UK. "You wouldn''t throw a talented youngster straight into a huge game and the same principle applies for coaches." The situation in the Netherlands, where "all top club managers have been assistants", is very different, says Roxburgh. Dennis Bergkamp, arguably the greatest foreign player to grace the Premier League, coaches Ajax''s strikers, while Frank de Boer, who won 112 caps for Holland, is in charge of the Amsterdam club''s academy. The former Scotland boss accepts there are sometimes compelling reasons for appointing an untried man - if he has been a legendary player at that club, for example. If that is the case, it is crucial he is as well prepared as possible, which perhaps was not the case with Shearer, who is yet to start his Uefa Pro Licence, a mandatory qualification for full-time Premier League managers. Ince was given special dispensation to take the job at Blackburn despite not having the licence, while Southgate, who took over at Boro in 2006, is due to finish the course in June. Shearer, Southgate, Ince and Adams were undoubtedly magnificent international players, but research shows that top players don''t enjoy greater success as managers. Research commissioned by the League Manager''s Association found that managers who were former internationals had a win percentage of 35.2%. The figure was 34.5% for those who had played in the Premier League, 34.7% for ex-Football League players and 34.1% for those who had not even played professionally. Roxburgh adds: "Gianluca Vialli went straight from playing for Chelsea to managing them. "After he left his next managerial job, at Watford, he returned to Italy to get his coaching qualifications. That is clearly the wrong way round and Gianluca has told me that he wishes he had been trained before getting those jobs in England." Roxburgh believes the perfect combination for a manager is "talent, experience and preparation". Getting the right formula is crucial, when you consider how little time managers are given to succeed. The four managers who have been sacked this season - Ince, Adams, Luiz Felipe Scolari and Juande Ramos - were in their jobs for an average of only 0.59 years, according to Sue Bridgewater, an associate professor at Warwick Business School. The average for sacked managers in the Premier League and Football League combined was 1.47 years, down from 1.56 last season. Many of these men will not get another chance, as 49% of first-time bosses don''t get another managerial job. The LMA is putting on coaching clinics, emphasising the importance of qualifications and using managers like Hodgson to advise the next generation. Do you think Premier League chairmen should look to experienced campaigners like Hodgson and Pulis when they make their appointments in the future, rather than former star players such as Shearer and Southgate?[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/simonaustin/2009/05/experience_matters_in_manageme.html[/url] This made me think of a certain situation somewhere. But saying that, our experienced manager was shite, as well as the two first-time managers we have had.

At times last season we were a one-man team and that man was Sammy Clingan.

If you have FM09, I suppose you try looking at the latest patch.

My second team is also about to get relegated.I couldn''t be at The Valley to see us go down, so instead, I am going to watch Lecce go down to the Serie B at home to Fiorentina next weekend. Yay!

I just can''t see it happening myself. Instinct says we''ll finish just outside the Playoffs.

This club doesn''t want or need the sort of fans who are not prepared to buy tickets just because the board will lose money. They are cutting off their nose to spite their face, and they should stay away.

[quote user="The Undertaker"][quote user="Canadian Canary"] [quote user="Cobain18"]I can''t believe there is not a resounding yes for Paul Ince on this board. Would be a great great choice and my number one choice! I really hope that you''re right![/quote]   Agreed! [/quote] Completely agree, I think he''d be a fantastic choice for manager. Who exactly has he fallen out with? Lost the dressing room at Blackburn but that was becasue he had a bunch of egotistical, over-paid ''superstars'' who thought they were bigger than him and the club. His record in League 2 and the fact a Premier League club WANTED him should make him a perfect choice for us. However, despite some fans negativity towards him, I still think he''s too good for this job. [/quote]I echo these sentiments. Good record in the lower leagues, and is young, hungry and has a point to prove. My number one choice.

Racist!

Basically, my dad knows someone who works at the club (which is actually true) and apparently Derby want Croft (which has been confirmed in the press) and Palace want Russell, with Lee probably being used in part exchange. Also, there are rumours about Sheffield Utd wanting Hoolahan.

Rudd > experienced number two > Steer.Job done.

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From the BBC website:[quote]England coach Fabio Capello says Sir Alex Ferguson told him he felt "crazy" after paying £27m for Wayne Rooney from Everton in 2004. (Daily Express) Capello also requested that the badge on the new England shirt be put higher than usual to avoid rubbing on players'' nipples. (Daily Star) Tottenham will keep the fans close to the pitch at their proposed new 58,000-seater stadium to replicate the atmosphere of White Hart Lane. (The Sun) Liverpool defender Daniel Agger, a trained tattoo artist, says he will tattoo the whole team if they win the Premier League title. (The Sun) Sir Alan Sugar says he hopes England open up a commanding lead in the first half against Ukraine - so fans watching the game on television will turn over to The Apprentice on BBC1 at half-time. (Daily Mirror) US President Barack Obama will travel to Eastbourne Borough''s Blue Square Premier game against Ebbsfleet on Saturday, in order to watch his cousin Achtog Laprifolo play for Borough. (Eastbourne official website) Port Vale are to change their name to Burslem Port Vale next season, and have unveiled a new badge suspiciously similar in outline to rivals Stoke''s. (Port Vale official website) Several clubs have revealed new shirts today - such as York''s one-off purple shirt to be worn at the FA Trophy final, Lewes''s one-off green and black shirt to mark the announcement of the South Downs as a National Park, a new pink home shirt for Crewe and Wigan''s switch to red and white halves next season to reflect a kit worn in 1932. (Various) Bury are to raise some much-needed revenue by staging a Monster Truck racing weekend on their Gigg Lane pitch, where the trucks will go head-to-head with the groundsman''s tractor. (Bury official website) Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey is in talks to star in the next series of Strictly Come Dancing, alongside Hungarian sensation Lora Pliof. (Wolves official website) Barnsley will pioneer a Football League initiative whereby their players and managers will wear microphones wired up to the Oakwell PA system as part of an anti-swearing campaign. (Barnsley official website) Accrington Stanley have offered former Premier League referee Jeff Winter the role of stadium development manager, after he recently criticised the facilities at their ground. (Accrington official website) Plymouth have unveiled a new club badge paying homage to their Scottish manager Paul Sturrock and their Japanese investors, as designed by French typographer Una Avrille. (Plymouth official website) And finally... injuries, suspensions and illness are causing several managers and coaches to come out of retirement for this weekend''s games - including Swansea manager Roberto Martinez, Walsall assistant manager Martin O''Connor and Barnsley coach Kelham O''Hanlon. (Various) [/quote] So which ones are real and which ones are not? The Eastbourne one cannot be real, and the ones from Wolves, Barnsley and Port Vale are probably false. Some of the kits are looking a bit questionable too.