Yeah, I completely understand why international management isn't an attractive prospect for a manager. And the pool of players they're choosing from with the lesser Home Nations only amplifies that.Bradywasking wrote:Agree with you but think it says more about the International game's standing in relation to the powerful club game than it says about Wales or any other "home" nation. If you take the four nations that make up Great Britain and throw in the Republic of Ireland only Northern Ireland's manager Michael o Neill has not been sacked by a club..(probably because he only managed in the lower Scottish leagues and in Ireland)..The real top managers are not interested in getting into International football, certainly not in this part of the world. Of the four managers (excluding Michael o Neill) that have faced the sack only Hodgson has managed at a perceived top club in England , and he made a right bollix of that. I know he had some success abroad a long time ago. The top managers do not want the International jobs and no matter what spin is put on it the Associations are choosing from a B list of managers.northbank123 wrote:Still, better than this fucking dinosaur getting the contract extension that the senile old fools at the FAW were inevitably going to offer him
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24861522
But the sporadic nature of fixtures and the fact you get a clean slate every 2 years requires a bit more ruthlessness with managers than club football - none of this time to gel bollocks. The COleman situation is particularly infuriating because Wales pissed 6 years up the wall with Toshack on the excuse that we were in 'transition' after a horde of experienced players retired after Hughes went and now after a hopeless qualifying campaign in which we were absolutely demolished twice by a shocking Serbia as well as losing to Macedonia, the FAW are happy to commit to spunking away yet another qualifying campaign because we got two good results when the pressure was off.
All this despite the fact that the 24-team format and Wales actually having one of their strongest squads in the last two decades making Euro 2016 a genuinely possible qualification target.
