Broonie gone...
Victoria Barrett
his news conference now. "Team spirit and harmony are fine but when you lose
9 competitive matches...". He'll offer his opinion about his successor but
only if asked (Jack Charlton?).
Shame, he's a good man (former headmaster too). But he's right -- and IMO
his management skills of Scotland during his "reign" have been mistaken. Too
careful, too cautious. Don't win anything playing like that, Broonie.
Paul C
<vbar...@the-beach.net> wrote:
>Craig Brown steps down from the position of Scotland manager. Just hearing
>his news conference now. "Team spirit and harmony are fine but when you lose
>9 competitive matches...".
"*ONLY* 9 competitive matches"
>He'll offer his opinion about his successor but
>only if asked (Jack Charlton?).
Gordon Strachan or Walter Smith.
>
>Shame, he's a good man (former headmaster too). But he's right -- and IMO
>his management skills of Scotland during his "reign" have been mistaken. Too
>careful, too cautious. Don't win anything playing like that, Broonie.
With the raw material he had available he worked miracles.
Like England, Scotland were 30 seconds away from a play-off place.
The last minute goal conceded to Belgium in the home 2-2 draw was
decisisve.
--
Paul
www.footballpyramid.co.uk
Paul C
>On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 14:21:08 -0400, "Victoria Barrett"
><vbar...@the-beach.net> wrote:
>
>>Craig Brown steps down from the position of Scotland manager. Just hearing
>>his news conference now. "Team spirit and harmony are fine but when you lose
>>9 competitive matches...".
>
>"*ONLY* 9 competitive matches"
>
>>He'll offer his opinion about his successor but
>>only if asked (Jack Charlton?).
>
>Gordon Strachan or Walter Smith.
.... or Alex Ferguson.
--
Paul
www.footballpyramid.co.uk
Campbell Forsyth
Scotland) - you heard it here first
where can i listen to the holland game (van gaal to be new ecosse coach?)?
Campbell
Paul C
<afsc1085...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>NEw Coach will be either a foreigner or Ross Mathie (Youth Coach with
>Scotland) - you heard it here first
I can exclusively reveal that Ross Mathie lives just round the corner
from me .... but Scottish manager! His record in youth development
isn't exactly outstanding.
--
Paul
www.footballpyramid.co.uk
Michael Hynes
Paul C wrote:
>
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 14:21:08 -0400, "Victoria Barrett"
> <vbar...@the-beach.net> wrote:
>
> >Craig Brown steps down from the position of Scotland manager. Just hearing
> >his news conference now. "Team spirit and harmony are fine but when you lose
> >9 competitive matches...".
>
> "*ONLY* 9 competitive matches"
True but we also only won 7 competitive matches against decent
opposition -
2 X Finland
1 X England
1 X Switzerland
1 X Greece
1 x Austria
1 X Sweden
With 8 draws
2 x Croatia
2 X Russia
Holland
Norway
Belgium
Austria
So 7 wins 8 draws 9 losses against respectable opposition (and a few
horrendous draws against minnows like Estonia and Faroes :-()) - nothing
to be ashamed of, and certainly not Browns fault given the resources
available, but not good enough.
Only three really good games out of that lot - wins against Switzerland,
Austria and England and even then in two cases spoiled by not scoring
enough goals when dominating the opposition (same could be said of
Norway game at WC). None of them as inpsiring as wins over Russia
(Euro 92) Spain (qualifying for WC 86) and France (for WC 90)
Brown has done about as well as his predecessors, with less to work with.
>
> >He'll offer his opinion about his successor but
> >only if asked (Jack Charlton?).
>
> Gordon Strachan or Walter Smith.
Are they interested ? What about George Graham and G. Burley ?
Tommy Burns ? Tommy Maclean ? Kenny Dalglish (OK that was a joke)
Victoria Barrett
"Campbell Forsyth" <afsc1085...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:7AJv7.9985$II.6...@news1.cableinet.net...
> NEw Coach will be either a foreigner or Ross Mathie (Youth Coach with
> Scotland) - you heard it here first
>
> where can i listen to the holland game (van gaal to be new ecosse coach?)?
Campbell, your name is too impossibly Scottish for words! Until now, my
cousin Fergus Hamilton-Frasier had that palme d'or ecossaise. :)
Sorry, but I haven't been able to find a live link, and I searched all over
with vTuner. Here is the best I can do, with updates:
http://www.rnw.nl/distrib/realaudio/ram/live/dutch_live.ram (Real Player).
Victoria Barrett
news:3bbf67df....@news.cis.dfn.de...
Wait, Paul C...
First working with Nuts the Squirrel, now living next to 'Wee' Ross Mathie?
Victoria, Name-Dropping-Queen-of-RSS STEP THE FREAK ASIDE! :)
Paul C
Can I help it if Barassie's the haunt of the rich and famous? Ross
Mathie has his uses - his son was in my daughter's class at primary
school and daddy persuaded Craig Brown to come along and coach the
school team on one occasion!
Mind you ....Craig Brown doesn't live too far away either!
Did I ever tell you of the time I went to lunch in the Marine Hotel in
Troon (I wasn't paying) and ended up having lunch along with Broonie
and the Scotland squad?
--
Paul
www.footballpyramid.co.uk
Jon Morse
> "Campbell Forsyth" <afsc1085...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:7AJv7.9985$II.6...@news1.cableinet.net...
> > NEw Coach will be either a foreigner or Ross Mathie (Youth Coach with
> > Scotland) - you heard it here first
> >
> > where can i listen to the holland game (van gaal to be new ecosse coach?)?
>
> Campbell, your name is too impossibly Scottish for words! Until now, my
> cousin Fergus Hamilton-Frasier had that palme d'or ecossaise. :)
>
> Sorry, but I haven't been able to find a live link, and I searched all over
> with vTuner. Here is the best I can do, with updates:
Holland game's already over...
~jon
Paul C
It's too late now but uefa.com was doing live 'reports'. A few guys
in a studio watching monitors and reporting intelligently on the
general pattern of all the European games.
--
Paul
www.footballpyramid.co.uk
Victoria Barrett
> It's too late now but uefa.com was doing live 'reports'. A few guys
> in a studio watching monitors and reporting intelligently on the
> general pattern of all the European games.
Christmas. Am I the only person alive that can't get the UEFA "Live
commentary" thingie (whatever, the radio popup I suppose)? I have tried in
the past, even with Benny's help on IRC, with nothing doing. Please help? :)
Paul C
You've probably tried already, but:
1 Go to www.uefa.com
2 Select 'World Cup Qualifying - live match coverage' in the RH column
3 A new window should open. At the moment it shows, on the left,
yesterday's scores as they happened, on the upper right the weekend's
fixtures and results, and on the bottom right the live audio link.
4 Select Real Player if it's your preference and Real Player should
open and the link will be established (at the moment there is no
service and you'll get a 'requested file not found' message!).
It works for Champions'League too.
--
Paul
www.footballpyramid.co.uk
Victoria Barrett
> You've probably tried already, but:
>
> 1 Go to www.uefa.com
>
> 2 Select 'World Cup Qualifying - live match coverage' in the RH column
>
> 3 A new window should open. At the moment it shows, on the left,
> yesterday's scores as they happened, on the upper right the weekend's
> fixtures and results, and on the bottom right the live audio link.
>
> 4 Select Real Player if it's your preference and Real Player should
> open and the link will be established (at the moment there is no
> service and you'll get a 'requested file not found' message!).
>
> It works for Champions'League too.
Oh my goodness. Do you ever post anything that is NOT pithy, logical or
helpful? First your AMAZING Ayr v. Killie one man historical wrap-up, now
this.
What can I say? You're my tutor-hero on RSS. :)
Paul C
Victoria Barrett
Why does "easynet" use a newsreader in Germany? Hmmm. Whichever one Sheridan
uses is simply the best. Seconds after I had responded to AM*R, I closed the
Outlook screen, maximised the IRC one, and there was Sheridan telling
everyone: "Victoria just told him to blow her".
> But does it work?
No. :)
It doesn't load for me (I'm sure you've heard that one before). Although I
did notice that my web browser is acting up today. I did virtually the same
thing you said for WC qualifiers, for the CL matches. Real Audio AND WMP.
None worked. I'll keep trying though, Paul C.