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Gareth Southgate - The only candidate being interviewed. Stroll on!





















GoldWithFalmer

Seaweed! Seaweed!
Apr 24, 2011
12,687
SouthCoast
Have to be honest, and I REALLY hope i'm wrong, but I DO NOT think GS is the man for the job, far from it in fact.....but time will tell I guess....

I don't know,the job remit merely entails an exit at the group stages.....
 














Sheebo

Well-known member
Jul 13, 2003
29,287
Have to be honest, and I REALLY hope i'm wrong, but I DO NOT think GS is the man for the job, far from it in fact.....but time will tell I guess....

I feel the same. However, the performance vs Spain was very encouraging so hoping I may be proved wrong on some level. Thing is, what constitutes success these days? Last few tournos we've not made the 1/4 finals - would a 1/4 be deemed a successful WC campaign I wonder? Difficult to say. I'd say a 1/4 is upper average for England. Anything else is failure. Anything beyond is great sucess. Just my opinion like - as I always say, only one team can win the WC or Euros every 2 years/4 years depending on how you take that sentance.
 


Kinky Gerbil

Im The Scatman
NSC Patron
Jul 16, 2003
57,881
hassocks
It's not even the biggest/best job in the country - why do people expect we would get the best candidate ?


Add the bizarre want for an Englishman and that leaves very view options
 








Postman Pat

Well-known member
Jul 24, 2007
6,971
Coldean
What are they going to ask him that they don't know already? He has been the U21 manager for ages (which I assume he had an interview to get), and been interim manager for 4 games. Just give him the bloody job and let him get on with it.
 






Statto

007
Nov 11, 2005
4,317
Graceland Memphis
It's not even the biggest/best job in the country - why do people expect we would get the best candidate ?


Add the bizarre want for an Englishman and that leaves very view options

Spot on. I completely agree.To be fair who else is there that it could be? There's not exactly a list of expirenced decent english coaches out there. I can only name about 4 in our top flight! The fa have said (wrongly in my view) that they wont go foriegn. Little option.
 


studio150

Well-known member
Jul 30, 2011
29,607
On the Border
If the FA are only going to interview Southgate, why did they need to build a selection panel which got Howard Wilkinson, Le Saux and others. i would have thought that with a panel at least two other possible options would have been interviewed.
At the very least this would have given the FA a greater insight into possible replacements for Southgate in the future.
 


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