Do you think you'd be any good as a professional football manager?

Would you be a good professional football manager?

  • I'd be good. Give me the job

    Votes: 31 38.3%

  • Nah, leave it them with a special certificate

    Votes: 50 61.7%
  • Total voters
    81
td53

td53

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The discussion on here is often bookended by people saying "I think the club/staff/manager probably know better than you, a mere fan"

There are now examples in the game of people who have managed without ever being players.

So, do you think you'd be any good or not?

If not, what part would you struggle with?

I think I'd quite enjoy picking the team and making subs and plotting tactical masterclasses. I wouldn't mind the interviews but I'd be shit at doing the training. It would just be 5aside and headers and volleys and that.

I'd also be crap at bollockings and teamtalks would go on way too long.I'd probably need to appoint Phil or someone to do that bit.
 
td53 said:
The discussion on here is often bookended by people saying "I think the club/staff/manager probably know better than you, a mere fan"

There are now examples in the game of people who have managed without ever being players.

So, do you think you'd be any good or not?

If not, what part would you struggle with?

I think I'd quite enjoy picking the team and making subs and plotting tactical masterclasses. I wouldn't mind the interviews but I'd be shit at doing the training. It would just be 5aside and headers and volleys and that.

I'd also be crap at bollockings and teamtalks would go on way too long.I'd probably need to appoint Phil or someone to do that bit.
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Your last sentence explains why you'd be crap.
 
No, I'd be abysmal. But at least I've enough self-knowledge and humility to be honest with myself and others.
 
See I don't think the team picking and that is the hard bit. I think actually, sometimes people have tactical insights and read a particular game as well or better than a manager.

I think the real work is what we don't see. That's the bit we couldn't do.

We tend to argue about the first bit but have no idea about the second bit. The way you tell a player he's dropped or the way you keep players engaged for a season in the training process or deal with someone who is going through a difficult time or whatever.

I'd be horrific. I'd just try to win every game 5-0 and never adjust my 2-3-5 formation.
 
In my head I'd be ok, but apart from picking players in their correct positions & sides of the pitch & showing them which way we are kicking, what more is there to it, oh almost forgot stop them scoring more than us & FFS don't invite pressure/mistakes by fannying about at the back for about a half of the game. Can you imagine if both teams did that, we'd have to set an alarm to wake us up at full time. Realistically speaking I wouldn't have a clue as I never even played football apart from PE at school. Now team selection would be about my limit. 😂
 
" Whoah.....for missing the target from there you want bloody shooting.......whoah, it's bloody rubbish."

piece of piss, just ask brian.
 
Fuck off, it's much more fun being an unskilled know it all/know fuck all on here saying how it should be done with no experience whatsoever, football supporters have been ever thus since the start of football.

You could ask the same question about being a football club owner, especially owning a club you have loved since a kid, for me it sounds great but from experience, when you change from loving something to owning it and being responsible for it, all the fun goes out of it unless you ae a certain personality, which is why I have always said, Sadler must need his bumps read, buying not only a football club, but the club he supports, what was he thinking? I couldn't own another club either as then it would just be a business and I would have no heart and soul invested unless it was Blackpool.
 
Reckon I could blag it up to the point I was required to control a ball or pick a simple pass on the training ground. All confidence in me and any allusion of knowing what I’m talking about would quickly disappear. Wenger and Mourinho never played professionally but I believe both were fairly talented players and had they played in the UK would have played League football. Even Roy Hosgson can still ping a cross field pass !
 
Once heard at game. 'I have always found Alex Ferguson a bit tactically naive ' We are all great on FPL but really it is like asking could I be a professional writer because I have read lots of books and have English O level.
 
I believe the man management and the ability to select good people to play/work for you is an overlooked skill. Sir Alex Ferguson was the best at man management. He relied on his coaches to do the training day to day. But when it came to inspiring people to perform he was in a league of his own.

I am a long was from Sir Alex but with 27 years of military experience in building teams and getting people to do stuff willingly that would make most freeze on the spot. I believe I would fare better than most as a manager. Not saying I would lead us to glory but I dare say I couldn’t be any worse than Crappleton and dino Mick! 🤷‍♂️
 
hertfordseasider said:
Fuck off, it's much more fun being an unskilled know it all/know fuck all on here saying how it should be done with no experience whatsoever, football supporters have been ever thus since the start of football.

You could ask the same question about being a football club owner, especially owning a club you have loved since a kid, for me it sounds great but from experience, when you change from loving something to owning it and being responsible for it, all the fun goes out of it unless you ae a certain personality, which is why I have always said, Sadler must need his bumps read, buying not only a football club, but the club he supports, what was he thinking? I couldn't own another club either as then it would just be a business and I would have no heart and soul invested unless it was Blackpool.
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I could quite cheerfully run PNE all the way to the Combination League or wherever in the pyramid. Pick myself at centre forward, score an own goal hat trick then show the Pool shirt underneath the despised top layer
 
Listening to some managers I’m not really convinced they are the brightest buttons. Some seem to over complicate things when it’s a fairly simple game. You do however need a couple of creative players who can conjure up something from nothing. It’s not going to happen for me getting a manager’s job at 64 with zero experience 😂
 
I believe the question is too black or white. I have no idea about buying players ,training ,selling or producing players for the future . Yet I believe that I can motivate and make tactical decisions on matchday . So ,no I would not make a good manager ,yet I believe I could do a Dobbie and get the best out of what I have.
 
I never understand why managers dont sit high up,, as I can see a lot better from top of the stands, than anyone on the touchline?

Surely you would see the issues sooner & react?
 
Limechase said:
I never understand why managers dont sit high up,, as I can see a lot better from top of the stands, than anyone on the touchline?

Surely you would see the issues sooner & react?
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Big Sam wired up to Phil Brown.
 
Big difference between a good manager and a good coach. Beyond the basics (sadly lacking on occasion) I'd be a useless coach. I do, however, possess the ability to listen to others (sadly lacking more than occasionally) which would be a proper starting point.
 
Forget tactics lads, just go out and enjoy yourselves, it’s football, not chess, defenders, defend please, midfielders run around a lot, collect the ball from the defenders and pass it to one of our players, oh and tackle their players when they have the ball, strikers, put it in the net.
 
I’d be crap, I’m too bad tempered . I would also like to think I have got some good football knowledge but the frustration would kill me
 
I would pick the best players and play them in their best positions and the law of averages says if those players are good enough you should win more than you lose.

Simples 🧡⚽
 
td53 said:
The discussion on here is often bookended by people saying "I think the club/staff/manager probably know better than you, a mere fan"

There are now examples in the game of people who have managed without ever being players.

So, do you think you'd be any good or not?

If not, what part would you struggle with?

I think I'd quite enjoy picking the team and making subs and plotting tactical masterclasses. I wouldn't mind the interviews but I'd be shit at doing the training. It would just be 5aside and headers and volleys and that.

I'd also be crap at bollockings and teamtalks would go on way too long.I'd probably need to appoint Phil or someone to do that bit.
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Do managers have special certificates?
 
Plenty on here think they are Jose Mourinho.

Personally I'd be useless. "Lads, I want you to get the ball and stick it between the two white posts as many times as you can".
 
Limechase said:
I never understand why managers dont sit high up,, as I can see a lot better from top of the stands, than anyone on the touchline?

Surely you would see the issues sooner & react?
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That's what top level rugby coaches do, and radio to lackeys on the touchline.
 
Have managed a few Sunday teams and always done OK with my philosophy always being stick to the basics and don't upset a winning side.
 
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