Arrivaderci Tony Mowbray!!

[shaunbhoy]

Ally will do fine

<Placeholder> for that coming back to bite you on the arse!!

[Incognito]

Lennon got into grammar school and did quite well in his exams while Mr McCoist left school with nothing.

Did you see Lennon's press conference today. You can keep your grammar school educashun.

<Placeholder> for that coming back to bite you on the arse!!

You trying to say the man doesn't know football? I'd say he's had a great apprenticeship.

Don't forget, this are the team 9 man Rangers beat the other week. Lennon has no money, your 'blue chip' signings are off at the end of the year, what does the future hold?

Maybe you can loan a half decent manager for half of next season.

[shaunbhoy]

You trying to say the man doesn't know football? I'd say he's had a great apprenticeship.

McCoist was a very successful player (well for Rangers anyway).
Alex Ferguson was a fairly mediocre player and I am not even sure Mourinho ever even played at any real level. There are plenty of examples of great players being crap managers and vice versa. McCoist is completely untried and the jury is out on how he will perform once he has the reins at Ibrox. Same applies to Lennon at CP to be fair. The beauty of our position though is that TM is hardly a hard act to follow. When the Cardigan leaves can you really say the same for McCoist?
Paul Le Guen "knew football", and still does. Yet he could not make a silk purse out of the sow's ear at Ibrox. And PLG had money to spend too.
Let's just say that next season could be very interesting.

[minestrone]

Did you see Lennon's press conference today. You can keep your grammar school educashun.

Well at least his schooling was not a tax dodge from an offshore company.

[Incognito]

Well at least his schooling was not a tax dodge from an offshore company.

Sorry, lost me on that one.

[Doggy Styles]

There are plenty of examples of great players being crap managers and vice versa.

Doe-eyed fans lose sight of this truism.

The last time I looked, there were 22 good players with over 50 England caps who have had a go at club management. All poor, with the exception of Keegan at Newcastle first time round.

I give you Barnes, Ball, Bob Charlton, Moore, Shilton, Bryan Robson, Wilkins, Trevor Francis, Adams, Butcher, Platt. They'd have made a fine football team with 900-odd caps between them, but who here would hire any one of them as a manager?

I've just noticed there's no full-backs in my list, so I'll throw in Mills and Pearce.

[shaunbhoy]

Doe-eyed fans lose sight of this truism.

The last time I looked, there were 22 good players with over 50 England caps who have had a go at club management. All poor, with the exception of Keegan at Newcastle first time round.

I give you Barnes, Ball, Bob Charlton, Moore, Shilton, Bryan Robson, Wilkins, Trevor Francis, Adams, Butcher, Platt. They'd have made a fine football team with 900-odd caps between them, but who here would hire any one of them as a manager?

I've just noticed there's no full-backs in my list, so I'll throw in Mills and Pearce.

There is a lot in what you say. If you look at the EPL it holds true as well. Of the 20 managers there how many of them were Top Players?
Ancelotti, Bruce, Zola, O'Neill, and Mancini are about the only ones that get close IMHO.

[Doggy Styles]

Actually, I forgot Hoddle. I looked him up and he got 53 caps. He was a good manager at Swindon and Chelsea. Not bad for England either, but mad as a box of frogs.

[minestrone]

Much better today, players were really up for it, fans were not and the attendance was about 40,000.

[Doggy Styles]

Much better today, players were really up for it, fans were not and the attendance was about 40,000.

Good, but that's the New Manager Syndrome.