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Honestly, that's what I believe the scoreline will be. Really. Now that Voigts is gone the new manger will be able to turn the team around 180. /wishes SPA and Scottish media were aware of the term 'you can't polish a turd' |
Italy 1 - Scotland 9
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Khanivor 44,800 posts
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Registered 18 years agoSo that'll be Italy 1 - Scotland 0 then? .gif)
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drks 66 posts
Registered 17 years agomedulla_recrudesce wrote:
are the scottish media bigging up the scottish team?
uh oh, tears before bed time.
the scottish media all love walter smith and were insistent he should get the job despite his complete lack of qualfication for it. his failure at everton, the fact no decent young scottish players came through his team while he was rangers manager, his terrible record in europe as rangers manager.
but he's a good rangers man so thay all love him.
Edited by drks at 17:00:59 26-03-2005 -
Hmm... I'll say... Italy 2-0 Scotland.
I never could really realise why Vogts was thrown out. He's won the World Cup as a player and manager and said it would take around 4 years before he turned things round. He was only given 2 before the impatient Scottish public and media hounded him out.
A disgrace, IMO. And I'm Scottish. -
drks 66 posts
Registered 17 years agovogts was clueless. and more importantly, the team played with no passion or effort when he ws manager. it was obvious they didn't have a clue what he wanted them to do tactically - they'd wander around the pitch looking lost. he was used to good players who didn't need much management with germany. with scotland he had limited players with little experience at this level - he wasn't able to organise them.
unfortunately smith isn't much of an upgrade. but we'll be more solid i think at least
Edited by drks at 17:10:51 26-03-2005 -
Well of course he's going to do better when he has good players.
/rolls eyes -
you miss the point
WRT to walter
Curriculum Vitae - Walter Smith
Edited by drks at 17:25:55 26-03-2005
(1966 - 1975) Enjoys a particularly un-noteworthy and mediocre career at Dundee United, the 'highlight' of which was reaching the 1974 Scottish Cup Final at Hampden ............................... where he and the rest of the tangerine tits were on the wrong end of a 3 - 0 skelping by Celtic.
(1975 - 1977) As his career rockets, leaves Tayside for the heady heights of .............................. Dumbarton.
(1977 - 1986) Tiring of the glamour and the high life down Dumbarton way, leaves for a lucrative move..............back to Tayside, to play second fiddle to Jim McLean in the Tannadice dug-out.
(1986 - 1991) Joins Rangers to play second fiddle to Graeme Souness as they establish a quite unique and curiously bizarre blend of chequebook management - i.e. blowing £50m+ on a stream of grossly over-inflated, over-rated duffers when there was no competition to speak of. Rangers would go on to become a European laughing stock, and set a record for being the club most often knocked out of European competition - repeatedly at the first stage. They did however enjoy domestic success - if you consider spending £50m+ on the SPL baubles to be a measure of 'success'.
(1991 - 1997) Inherits an established team at Rangers and carries on the twin mantles of enhancing Rangers growing stature as European football's resident court jesters, and domestic spendthrift, blowing a further £45m despite their still being no domestic competition to speak of. Invokes the confidence of David Murray who, abley assisted by The Daily Ranger, assures everyone "We have to deliver a European trophy within three or four years or be challenging regularly in the Champions League. If we are not doing well in that timescale I will consider my tenure to have been a total failure". Rangers go on to get horsed out of Europe, concede the League title to Celtic, and the Scottish Cup to Hearts.
(1998) Jumping before he was pushed, Smith is last seen speeding out the back door of Legoland and jumping into a taxi bound for Everton.
(2002) Sacked by Everton for using his 'talents' to take them to the heady heights of a 13-game string of Away defeats, the precipice of a relegation dogfight, and blowing an incredible £58m of their hard-earned. In his three seasons at Goodison, Everton finished in 13th, 14th, and 16th places respectively.
In addition his legacy after nearly three seasons in charge reads : “Everton were playing utterly awful football with little spirit or creativity. He failed to play most of the players in their best position. He could not ensure that each player understood the team plan and his particular role within it. The available players appeared to be poorly prepared for each match. The rumours about poor morale, lack of communications, dreadful fitness, diet and conditioning regimes at Everton could not all be dismissed. It was as if he needed the services of a head coach of real subtlety and skill. The 4-5-1 experiment had been a complete disaster. He could not decide on a formation and basic system of playing. The policy of buying ageing injured players had backfired badly. Based on performance, Everton were consistently poor; no defence was possible; there were no excuses – Everton under Walter Smith were simply dreadful”. (Source : ToffeeWeb)
(2002 - 2004) Spends two years on the broo, er 'resting'. Pops up occaisionally on Lodge Sportscene and the like, to cheer on The Sons of William and stick the boot into Celtic whenever the occaision presents itself. It is not known at this stage, wether he has sold his share in The Rosevale Tavern (Partick) - a west end watering hole which displays Loyalist paraphenalia behind the gantry. Orange-clad knuckle-draggers feeling particularly flush can also buy Loyalist CD's, and other assorted Masonic and Loyalist trinkets, should they so be inclined – which they usually are !
(Mar - May 2004) After two years 'resting', manages to cadge a job at Old Trafford, playing second fiddle (he has bags of experience in this role by now) to Alex Ferguson. Lasts three months before being politely moved on.
(July - Nov 2004) Enjoys a further 'rest' period, while his bretheren in the Scottish meeja orchestrate a structured campaign of hate and vitriol against Berti Vogts, with a view to having their brother and loyal friend installed as Worshipful Master over at Lodge Hampden #1.
(Dec 2004) After a successful and particularly biased cheerleading campaign by the heavily agendised Scottish meeja, and despite there being a number of better rated candidates for the post - having a Fenian in the chair is almost as bad as having a German - Watty tries hard to hide his embarassment as he gleefully puts pen to paper on another money-for-nothing, money spinning, lucrative package.
(March 2005) To be continued………………………………..
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