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RE: Caldwell gets job - hibeejim21 - 04-11-2018
Heard him on the radio yesterday saying workrate and being good teammates is more important than tactics and skill.
RE: Caldwell gets job - Dancingwilldoit - 04-11-2018
The man is a plank Jim and that really is insulting to the piece of wood. We had 18 months of absolute dross under him and yet he thought his managerial skills were second to none.
Heard he went for the Scotland job, you dont know what you missed.
RE: Caldwell gets job - Devongone - 05-11-2018
(04-11-2018, 14:47)hibeejim21 Wrote: Heard him on the radio yesterday saying workrate and being good teammates is more important than tactics and skill.
And this in itself is hilarious. The first thing Caldwell decided to do with us was play three at the back. He said this was so complex it would take weeks to get the team to understand it. Several games in our experienced centre back turned, raised his hands to the bench and asked what the f they were all supposed to be doin' during one of our many defeats.
I think a content and bonded team will tend to win whatever way the manager decides to play - they'll make the plan work. But if they haven't the skill or disagree over the tactical plan ....... then they won't be content, friendships will fracture and a happy ship will start to sink.
If several of the players are already not good enough, what was the player analysis that Caldwell did that got him the job? He already seems to have discarded that! A strange man.
RE: Caldwell gets job - Dancingwilldoit - 05-11-2018
Particks fans board makes interesting reading. Seems on Sat he made substitutions with a right back playing centre back, a left midfielder playing right back and a midfielder player at left back. Sounds oh so familiar. They are talking about getting rid after 3 games !!!
RE: Caldwell gets job - hibeejim21 - 12-01-2019
Missiles thrown at caldwell in the dugout today from the Patrick thistle fans.
Double relegation could be on the cards.
RE: Caldwell gets job - spireitematt - 12-01-2019
He's crap. Went down from L1 because he was obsessed with his 3-5-2 formation and signed a bunch of youth players from Premier League clubs who were hopeless and looked well out of there depth and then tried the same formation in L2 and first day of the season Grimsby ripped us apart. I remember he signed no Left Back or Right back either.
Newport and Crewe away really hit us hard. He apparently got sacked after the Crewe game but the players rallied round and he was kept on for another 2 matches and was eventually sacked when we got beat by Accrington at home.
3 wins in 29 matches. I can ever name the teams we beat. Swindon, Port Vale and Port Vale.
RE: Caldwell gets job - Dancingwilldoit - 12-01-2019
The SAS training should have taught him how to avoid missiles. Problem is Caldwell just doesn't learn. He's a crap manager end of.
RE: Caldwell gets job - Devongone - 14-01-2019
The most interesting thing about Caldwell is that he has chosen such interesting ways to fail. Look at what he did to us ...... I often complain that football managers tend just to do the same old things, but you could never say that about Caldwell. Who'd have considered taking over a team, deciding radically to change the way they played, training them for ten days to do so during a two-week lull between games and then bring in half a dozen totally inexperienced youth players from decent teams on the Thursday before the match and putting most of them into that game on just one training session ........... ?
If he'd dressed half the team as Harpo Marx and the rest as kippers it could hardly have been less likely to succeed.
He may be Scotland's answer to Salvador Dali.