Katon Wrote:What length turnsets should we be aiming for? I'd vote for three months long at the most - make sure everyone gets the squad for at least part of every season. If more discussion is a goal anyway, there's less need to make sure everyone gets control of a transfer window, and more need to make sure everyone's recently used a squad at least vaguely related to the current one; a lot can change in a two-year gap between turns.
I think two to three months with the person at the end of the season just blasting through to July the 1st (stopping if they see any good prospects).
Discussion would probably be better at the start of the season when we really need to be making plans wrt to what's going on for the season. Christmas discussion can be just looking for free transfers, looking for injury cover or trying to dig ourselves out of a hole (thought that kind of thing should happen asap).
Katon Wrote:(and Brian, what on earth were you doing to avoid seeing the sun for a month?)
I'm Irish the sun is basically this giant bedtime story like the tooth fairy, or Hansel and Gretel, right?
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Brian Shanahan Wrote:I think two to three months with the person at the end of the season just blasting through to July the 1st (stopping if they see any good prospects).
Discussion would probably be better at the start of the season when we really need to be making plans wrt to what's going on for the season. Christmas discussion can be just looking for free transfers, looking for injury cover or trying to dig ourselves out of a hole (thought that kind of thing should happen asap).
Makes sense to me. If we want two-or-three-month sets, then something like:
Apr-June, July-Sept, Oct-Nov, Dec-Jan, Feb-Mar
?
That's a horrible schedule for international management (let's hand over in the middle of the World Cup! That won't confuse the players at all! ), but for club management it gives everyone a decent number of matches, and having five sets per season means that people won't always wind up playing the same part of the season every single time.
Katon Wrote:Makes sense to me. If we want two-or-three-month sets, then something like:
Apr-June, July-Sept, Oct-Nov, Dec-Jan, Feb-Mar
?
That's a horrible schedule for international management (let's hand over in the middle of the World Cup! That won't confuse the players at all! ), but for club management it gives everyone a decent number of matches, and having five sets per season means that people won't always wind up playing the same part of the season every single time.
Yeah, that looks good. A solution with International management could be something similar to the 2 player games I played with my friend, where if one of us got a national job (on top of the club one) we'd run the national team jointly. So we could all have a look in and see what's around when coming up to big tournaments, or at regen dates, and generally decide on what to do before hand.
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Question: why did we resign from the Algeria job? It wasn't at a good time, and the extra reputation from international wins (I'd consider the team at least good enough for CAF semis and WC qualification) would have allowed us to go for a really big job quicker. Plus it would have not been much by way of time spent.
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Brian Shanahan Wrote:Question: why did we resign from the Algeria job? It wasn't at a good time, and the extra reputation from international wins (I'd consider the team at least good enough for CAF semis and WC qualification) would have allowed us to go for a really big job quicker. Plus it would have not been much by way of time spent.
Sorry, that was me.
I thought we had already got what we wanted from the job (the switch from Wimbledon) and I wanted to keep the focus on the problems of our club.
Really should have asked you guys about it, but I was kind of annoyed with the bad QPR results.
Yeah resigning from Algeria was a big mistake i'm afraid, but we'll have to live with it now.
I think we need to get to the end of the season (for completedness) and then have a serious discussion about what we do next. I don't want us ending up in the same situation a season or two down the road if results turn bad again.
I'm starting to wonder whether a journeyman save is best for a SG or whether we should look at something more like a legacy challenge would work better.
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Twinkletoes89 Wrote:Yeah resigning from Algeria was a big mistake i'm afraid, but we'll have to live with it now.
I think we need to get to the end of the season (for completedness) and then have a serious discussion about what we do next. I don't want us ending up in the same situation a season or two down the road if results turn bad again.
I'm starting to wonder whether a journeyman save is best for a SG or whether we should look at something more like a legacy challenge would work better.
I think the QPR job has a lot of potential, so we shouldn't leave as soon as possible. I rather try to get some results first.
Just played out the four games and well I have to say I am very disappointed about it all:
We only managed to finish second. A huge disappointment, I couldn't see the Blades winning any of their games but they did, and so won the title, despite us winning all ours.
[SPOILER]But seriously it was a great result in the end. 4 wins out of four, despite being down to 10 min in the first half of the first two games, and playing a severley weakened team the last game (already promoted) was a fine way to round out the season. I'll give fleshed out match reports and some thoughts on next season, either tonight or tomorrow and will have the save up with them.
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The Premier League spot will do wonders for our finances and the team (the real life team - we, the, players) morale.
This pre season will be very important for the team. We need to reevaluate the squad, the staff, almost everything. There are a lot of conflicts in the squad, like Mist pointed out, and they ought to be solved. And we have to decide a tactic too, one that we will use for the season (it wont work if we change the tactic every three months).
What was Wimbledon position on the league? I'm pretty sure they weren't relegated.
), but for club management it gives everyone a decent number of matches, and having five sets per season means that people won't always wind up playing the same part of the season every single time.
