New Scotland Manager

[over_the_hill]

Is it time for the SFA to bite the bullet, admit there isn't a Scottish manager who is either available or who is good enough and appoint a none Scot to the job. Even to the extent of considering a Sassenach.
England got the monkey off their back with Eriksson and now Capello seems to be doing more than a half decent job. Ireland have Trapattoni.

[anonymous-user]

i dont think they have the team regardless of who manages them. it would be like getting alex ferguson to manage a sunday league team.

scotland just can not seem to be consistent in qualifying campaigns, much like wales, they have some good games and can pick up points against team they are expected to lose against, but then fail to win the crunch "must win" games against weaker opposition...

i hope they appoint someone based on ability not nationality but craig levene looks the most likely candidate at the moment.

[yellowbentines]

over_the_hill said:

Is it time for the SFA to bite the bullet, admit there isn't a Scottish manager who is either available or who is good enough and appoint a none Scot to the job. Even to the extent of considering a Sassenach.
England got the monkey off their back with Eriksson and now Capello seems to be doing more than a half decent job. Ireland have Trapattoni.

Remember Berti Vogts, he didn't exactly do well did he? Scotland don't have the available players or money to attract a top non-Scottish manager, lets face it, there's nothing much attractive about the job unless you're a patriotic Scot.

We don't have the best players, but what we need is someone who can organise, motivate and inspire the players we do have, Darren Fletcher is the perfect eaxmple of the great club player who is an under-performer on the international stage, we need to get the very best out of every player to have a chance of beating anyone.

I also think we need to concentrate on more Scottish players rather than English players who qualify to play but haven't a hope of getting near the England international stage, so choose us instead - they don't have the same passion or determination to do well for their country and when we don't have the skill or talent passion and determination count for a lot.

I'd love to see Craig Levein or Jim Jeffries get the job, Scots who have done well on next to no budget at club level and have proved that they can get the best out of the players they have at their disposal.