at managing the team after the game has kicked off. Did him and Shuker have a gentlemens agreement going on that nobody else knew about because the entire stadium knew he should have been taken off but Andy 'crossed arms' Ritchie was too busy doing **** all.</p> He only ever makes like for like subs. We were losing out in midfield AGAIN so what subs des he make? takes two strikers off and replaces them with two strikers. Well thats no feckin use to anyone is it. </p> He needs to buck his ideas up quickly, learn a different tactic or basically he should go.</p>
Although I find your remarks treasonous about our soldiers, your comments on our naff manager I agree with entirely. What a wonderful thing dialogue is.
the annoying thing about ritchie is that he looks tohavea good eye for a player, seems to be good at coaching them, keeping them happy and motivating them (in general anyway) but as soon as the game kicks off he is lost.</p> I think that an experienced assistant would do him the world of good and I would love to see eric winstanley come back as assistant manager allowing rick holden to concentrate on what he does best. being a physio.</p>
RE: the annoying thing about ritchie I think Eric would make a better manager than Richie full stop.</p> We don't seem to have a game plan. It seems to me that we are playing off the cuff all the time. They don't look like a team who knows what each of them should be doing. </p> </p>
RE: the annoying thing about ritchie This is great to hear!!! The guy can't manage the team but knows a decent player and Winstanley would be a miles better manager than Mr Ritchie!!!
RE: the annoying thing about ritchie Yep,</p> I was coached by him and even at my old age he improved my defending.</p> He did 2 full day sessions for FACA and another couple of session for the Sheff & Hallam CA. </p> I even went down to Rushden & Diamonds just to seem him on another FA coach education day. Ask him a question and you got a very good answer unlike some of our ex-academy coaches who talked ********.</p> Did you know that a previous youth coach told me that he had never coached defending to our academy lads untill Mark joined the club. It was the same coach who told me he thought sweepers went to sleep when I asked why the reds at the time were playing with a flat back 3 and not with 2 man markers and a sweeper which is how the 3 man defence was developed in Europe. </p> I always found Mark a very aproachable guy and he even use to acknowledge me when he saw me.</p> A top coach and a top man. </p> </p> </p>
If that is true then I find it proposterous...... when Barnsley Football Club got promoted with a sweeper.......step forward Matty Applebly. When we played 3 at the back for 4-5 years consecutively all the coaches used sweepers from the First team through to the U16s. If any of the coaches since have stopped coaching defending during that time then they don't deserve to be coaching Womens teams.........</p> I'll get mi coat.....</p>
RE: If that is true then I find it proposterous...... Well the coach in question has long since gone and I don't know where he is now but the 1st time I meet him he was introduced to me as one of Englands top youth coaches.</p> </p> He wasn't actually that bad a coach but he wasn't a good communicator.Didn't explain tactics well enough. </p>
If he's gone and you don't know where he is now........ he's hardly going to find little old you is he? Who is it?</p> This is a name and shame board!! Come on, name the undefensive Barsteward that was in our ranks?</p>
RE: the annoying thing about ritchie Do you mean Karl Rappan's "verrou" system or catenaccio? Has there ever been a "3 man" defence?