2014 - 2015 Football Thread - Page 272

On October 10 2014 05:29 Pandemona wrote:
Id rather just give it someone who has passion and not over think things. I don't think anyone can fuck up a national team (apart from Quieroz and whoever else Portugal has had lol). Southgate id pick right now at least his philosophy is about right. Hell im sure you could find some manager somewhere who would take it.

On October 10 2014 05:31 Jockmcplop wrote:


Give it to Pardew lololol

Get rid of Gary Neville and get me in instead. I've done all the badges. I'm doing my coaching badges with the Welsh FA. I am on the last year of the pro licence.

Whether I'm going to use it straight away I'm not too sure. Whether I can use it here I don't know.

The career I have had should warrant me getting a job.

On October 09 2014 22:20 Stratos_speAr wrote:


They go hand-in-hand most of the time. It's not like you have all kinds of teams competing and then the same few teams just happen to pull it out every year. When you look at the PL, 15 teams have absolutely 0 chance to win it as of match day one, year in and year out, and the 5 teams that do have a chance to win it are always the same. The Bundesliga is marginally better (aside from this year and last), as there are different teams that can come up and be competitive (with a huge amount of luck), but it's still a couple powerhouses vying for the title every year, and MAYBE a random dark horse or two. La Liga just tends to be two competitors, maybe three on a good year.

I don't think that you can just introduce things that Americans do to suddenly fix the problem, but there's definitely something that should be done, because it's pretty boring to see that 90% of football clubs have absolutely no chance of ever actually winning anything due to the system working against them.



A lot of people want more parity.

It's not like American sports are just a random roll of the dice to see who wins. You have to make good draft picks, you have to make quality free agent signings, you have to have the right coaching staff to properly coach and put in the right system, and finally you have to have the players perform. Representing American sports as a crap shoot like that is, at best, misleading and, at worst, blatantly lying. American sports have dynasties, they have story lines, they have power teams and perpetually awful teams and all of this. However, the difference is that, should the franchise get its shit back together and do really well in rebuilding the team, my Minnesota Timberwolves (NBA), have a legitimate shot at winning a title some day (they haven't even seen the playoffs in over a decade). Contrast that to Europe, where, unless Hell freezes over, we know that teams like Freiburg or QPR have 0% chance to ever win their respective leagues.

Again, a draft wouldn't work at all and a salary cap American-style wouldn't just magically fix things, but there are some things that can be done beyond the joke that is FFP.